Are you ready for an adventure? "What truly sets Elizabeth's stories apart is her masterful use of dialogue. The conversations between her characters are replete with the idioms and speech patterns of the time periods in which the stories unfold, lending a sense of authenticity that makes the characters feel alive. Her vivid descriptions are equally remarkable, painting rustic settings so vividly that you can almost feel the dust of the Wild West under your boots or hear t...

Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become.Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Ea...

Faith-based organizations are sometimes known for what we're against--and all too often that includes being against each other. But amid growing distrust of religious institutions, Christ-centered nonprofits have a unique opportunity to link arms and collectively pursue a calling higher than any one organization's agenda.Rooting for Rivals reveals how your ministry can multiply its impact by cooperating, rather than competing. Peter Greer and Chris Horst explore case studi...

Edited by Ruth Wisse, translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman This seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon, in a restored English edition, offers the luminous narrative of the author's journey home to his Polish birthplace. In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, Jacob Glatstein (1896 –1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two autobi...

**Kifaru – A Final Stop in Africa**What does it take to leave everything behind—and start a new life in the heart of Africa?After an extraordinary 5,000-kilometer journey on horseback across the African continent—an adventure the media would later call *“The Ride of the Century”*—Esther and Horst make a life-changing decision. They turn their backs on Europe and take over a remote safari lodge on the slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.Here, far from the pre...

We live in a unique “geo” ages, in the first decade of the 21st century, a geoeconomic era where geography is appreciated again. The 21st century encompasses political and economic games where the multi-polar world, a new world order and a new value system develop new actors and new industries, in a boundless world, where technology an innovation generates new boundaries. The location of the countries is key in taking over the new economic power centers, countries, cities and city-states.

Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.ContentsHolocaust House (1940)Doan & Carstairs SeriesThe Mouse in the Mountain (1943)Sally's in the Alley (1943)Oh, Murderer Mine (1946)Something for the Sweeper (1937)Doan & Carstairs Series-appy, hard-boiled stories featuring Doan--a short, chubby little detective--and Carstairs, his Great Dane. Carstairs is so big that Doan only half-jokingly figures h...

Increase your strength, power, skill, and focus to maximize your climbing performance.“Training for Climbing is a great resource. Whether you’re just starting out or already ticking 5.13, you’ll find valuable information here to help you climb harder. This is the most complete and up-to-date training guide available.” —Rock and Ice magazineDrawing on the latest climbing research, this third edition of the international best-selling Training for Climbing presents a comprehen...

Without careful attention, faith-based organizations drift from their founding mission. It's that simple. It will happen.Why do so many organizations wander from their mission, while others remain Mission True? Can drift be prevented?In Mission Drift, HOPE International executives Peter Greer and Chris Horst share the results of their research into Mission True and Mission Untrue organizations and show you how to:● determine whether your or...

'Horst is brilliant on the day-to-day details of investigation, while keeping tension to the end' SUNDAY TIMES'Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden's Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas' NEW YORK TIMESIf you loved Wallander, meet Wisting - your next Scandi crime obsession . . .15 years ago, Simon Meier walked out of his house and was neve...

Police officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series…'Grim, gory and filled with plenty of dark twists … There's definitely a Scandinavian chill in the air with this fascinating read that loses none of its terror and fun in translation' Sun'An exercise in literary tag-tea...

A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory and a timely text for contemporary informations theorists and practitioners.With the influential book Cybernetics, first published in 1948, Norbert Wiener laid the theoretical foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics, the study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or socia...