Rising rays pierce fir and cedar shadows,illuminating diamond-dewed websstrung like laundry from fragile twig to twig.…Rivulets of yellow rippling downthe ever-greenèd slopes,and round each outcrop,burning bushes signalwe’re on holy ground.Molten glass reflecting rock and slopes of autumn glory,silent, still, ‘til broken by a dipping paddle stroke.And we, gliding through reflected glory,learn that heaven ...

This book contains the results of the first and only multi-institution study of interlibrary loan and document delivery customer satisfaction among academic library patrons. By examining customer perceptions and ILL/DD activities, Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery and Customer Satisfaction: Strategies for Redesigning Services allows library administrators and managers to better understand service needs and shows them where to best allocate resources. The volume includes current reports o...

There is an epidemic of insecurity in society today. Many people suffer from an unhealthy need for affirmation. They are not capable of feeling good about themselves. For some the quest for approval becomes an actual addiction, as they seek self-worth from the outside world because they can't find it within themselves. Joyce Meyer understands the need for seeking approval from others to overcome feelings of rejection and low self-esteem. The good news, she says, is that there is a cure. Go...

The #1 bestselling author explores the myriad ways readers can experience a life overflowing with tranquility.

This book develops the concept of feminist technoecologies as a theoretical and methodological tool for examining the co-constitutive relation between technology and ecology, which have typically been considered as distinct objects of studies. In underscoring how their dynamic relationality troubles the location of agency, this book challenges the idea that technology, as the marker of the innovative capacity of the human, either corrupts or saves ecology.The contributions to the v...

The time is winter 1962, the place London. Teddy Bean’s detective agency isn’t doing too well lately. Their most illustrious client is an ageing actor who thinks he will be murdered. Another case is even more complicated when ex-police detective Tony Halliday is assigned to a worried wife who thinks her husband is planning a bank robbery and falls for her in the process.Meanwhile, Teddy’s worries about his failing business and on-off relationship with a divorcee are beginning to ta...

The time is winter 1962, the place London. Teddy Bean’s detective agency isn’t doing too well lately. Their most illustrious client is an ageing actor who thinks he will be murdered. Another case is even more complicated when ex-police detective Tony Halliday is assigned to a worried wife who thinks her husband is planning a bank robbery and falls for her in the process.Meanwhile, Teddy’s worries about his failing business and on-off relationship with a divorcee are beginning to ta...

The bodies God gives are instruments for experiencing a fulfilling life on earth, for doing good works, for spiritual development. To do the work individuals are meant to do, they need to keep in shape. They must maintain a sound mind, body, and soul. Yet in the modern world, it is all too easy to let one, two, or all three of these slip. LOOK GREAT, FEEL GREAT presents Joyce's twelve-key plan to address the epidemic of "self esteem drought" that appears to be a factor in perpetuating habi...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer reveals the seven most common obstacles to living a happy life and the ways to triumph over them.

Building on her signature message of using the mind to master difficult emotions, Joyce Meyer focuses on the most destructive, insidious one of all: anger. It is responsible for broken relationships, sleepless nights, high blood pressure and ulcers. It destroys friendships, marriages and families, not to mention peace of mind. Anger is especially hard to handle for many Christians who have learned from childhood that "good Christians don't get angry." Meyer argues that properly handled, an...

Engrained in our culture is the belief that unbending discipline is the only sure way to success. You must go to the gym five times a week, never order the dessert, and don't even think about buying that dress you keep staring at in the store window. Breaking from such a regimented lifestyle is a sign of weakness, right? Wrong!-and Joyce wants to tell us why. . .Though setting rules in our lives are important, it's just as important that we break them fro...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer discusses the importance of words in Change Your Words, Change Your Life."Words are a big deal. They are containers for power, and we have to decide what kind of power we want our words to carry ... I believe that our words can increase or decrease our level of joy. They can affect the answers to our prayers and have a positive or negative effect on our future ... One might say that our words ar...