With a foreword by Carolyn Steel of Hungry City, Wayne Roberts' new book will do for for city-food connections what Raj Patel's Stuffed and Starved did to link hunger and obesity, what Marion Nestle's Food Politics did to tie together government agencies and food monopolies and what Michael Pollan did to connect corn and porkbarrel politics. "The most original, thought-provoking contribution to local food policy in more than a decade." Michael Shuman, The Small-Mart Revolution You don't ha...

The so-called "New Perspective on Paul" has become a provocative way of understanding Judaism as a pattern of religion characterized by "covenantal nomism," which stands in contrast to the traditional, Lutheran position that argues that the Judaism against which Paul responded was "legalistic." This "new perspective" of first-century Judaism has remarkably changed the landscape of Pauline studies, but it has done so in relative isolation from the Pastoral Epistles, which are considered by ...

You preach…But you probably wish you could be better. How many Sunday nights have you sat and wished you were a better preacher? How many Friday afternoons have you spent wishing you had crafted a better message for Sunday? You know you'll never be the best preacher in the church, but you sure wish you could be better. You attend seminars, lectureships, conferences, workshops, and summits. You read books and listen to others, but it seems no one ever says, "This is...

There are over seven-million Americans living in foreign lands. My wife, Estée, and I are two of these expats. We moved to south-central Ecuador, but not near any headhunters or active volcanoes. We don’t think we are loco, but we might be wrong about that. Most of our friends in the U.S. think we are loco. We might need medical help. We moved for the climate and the adventure. We got both a great climate and some incredible and funny adventures. This book describes those adventures as we ...

The Art of Riding Stress Waves: Self-help psychology for an anxious ageHow are we to live happy, healthy and satisfying lives in this anxious age? On top of life's usual challenges, we now face cascading social, political, economic and environmental crises the likes of which humanity has never seen before. And the stress waves keep rolling in.Like ocean swells, as one stress wave crashes over us, the next forms. Psychologists can no longer provide enough ...

Song of Solomon 1:4 says, "Come, let us run away together." That's what we what to encourage you to do as you go through this material--run away together and to do so in each other's shoes. As the old adage goes, "If you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, you have a better understanding of them." We want you to finish this book with a greater appreciation for your spouse and the role that he or she has in your marriage. It won't fix all of your problems. You've ...

In this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and from economic disaster. He shows how a world food system based on supermarkets and agribusiness corporations is unsustainable and looks at new models of producing healthy food from all over the world.

We were promised freedom. Instead, we live in a cage.Capitalism, socialism, communism—each claims to be the answer. Yet every system reduces humanity to numbers, profit, and control. We labor for systems that do not honor us. We struggle, compete, and survive—but few truly thrive.The Hidden Forces is a call to awaken. It strips away illusions and reveals a truth too long ignored: systems exist to serve people—not the other way around.Written by a systems engineer wh...

Told through the eyes of a young boy, DELUSIONS is a collection of fine threads, golden memories of early youth intricately woven into the tapestry we refer to as "growing up". In DELUSIONS: Memories of Tomorrow author Robert Wane Layton reminds us of the times and events that shaped our lives. Growing up in the 1950's. Black-and-white television. Saturday matinees. And the youthful curiosities, hopes, fears and passions which molded each of us into the adults we are today.

Ruby J. Gonzales moved forward while she cared for the multiple-colored irises, wide bright sunflower plants, and other colorful bright splashes of nature’s infinite beauty.“You plant a garden because you believe in the future. You punch a hole in the soft dirt with your finger and drop a seed in it because you believe in tomorrow. You can’t see what’s going on under the dirt, but you water what you can’t see, believing that one day you’ll see the fruit of your work.”My dea...

A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargainFrom the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time, having fueled an excess of consumerism that blights our...

TWO PLANE TICKETS, NO PLAN, ONE DREAM Happier Than A Billionaire shares one couple's celebration of risking it all for the dream of living a happier life. In this humorous and witty account, Nadine Pisani shares what it is like to follow her dream of quitting her job and starting a new life under the sunny skies of Costa Rica. Along the way, she finds reliable utilities are not that reliable, quirky neighbors are unavoidable, and tackling red tape takes the ...