Effective Communication Starts HereAs an attorney, your success depends on your ability to communicate effectively, regardless of the subject or audience. Your goal must be simple, unadorned prose; writing that is lean, strong, and free of embellishment. None of that comes effortlessly, but armed with the right strategies, it is easily achievable."This handbook is a must read for any lawyer seeking to unlock the secret of transforming legal argument int...

Traditional preaching, along with the mainline churches in which it has been most prevalent over the years, is losing its appeal for growing numbers of people who are caught up in the dangers and confusion of our fragmented world. Many are hungering for a more powerful and challenging message rooted in Jesus' life and teachings, seeking clues about how to live faithfully amid the destructive social and personal pressures created by our nation's exploitation of its position of global domina...

Overcoming Difficulty in Language Arts: Grades 1, 2, & 3 is designed to help students build impressive, resourceful, and accurate language skills. The lessons in the textbook provide opportunities for students to practice what they are learning. As a result, many students’ language and writing skills will be enhanced, allowing them to improve their grammar and have a better understanding of language arts. Most importantly, many students will increase their scores on standard tests. Overcom...

If you search for the word "coffee" in the Bible, if you're pretty sure that all the pairs of animals in Noah's Ark were married, and if you know that Heaven is up and Hell is down, you'll love Growing Up Lutheran. If the Lutherans you know seem rather, er, mysterious, it will do you good.Combining their own memories with those of other Lutherans who grew up in the 1940s through the 1960s, Janet and Suzann have written a delightful expose of what it means to be Lutheran an...

While social media has many benefits, it often serves as a breeding ground for divisiveness and hostility. Hidden behind our screens, we are often tempted to type things we would never say aloud.With wisdom from the Proverbs, Pastor Jeff Johnson offers five practical questions that can help us cultivate heavenly wisdom in our use of social media:• Am I controlled?• Am I calm?• Am I careful?• Am I compassionate?• Am I conscientious?Read

Summer's Secret Keeper spins a tale of intrigue and bravery fit for the young and curious. Meet Summer, a bubbly seven-year-old whose days are filled with giggles and games, until her world tilts on its axis with her mother's demanding job as a doctor. Everything seems okay when her mom hires a babysitter named Ms. Anna, who everyone says is really nice. But things get tricky when Summer experiences something strange with Ms. Anna. Now, Summer has to figure out who she can trust a...

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith.This box set includes:PERIL IN THE ROCKIESby Jill Elizabeth NelsonRescuing the inhabitants of a wrecked Jeep, park ranger Gabriel McCray and his K-9 partner, Macky, suddenly find themselves under gunfire. But who would be shooting at a woman and a baby in a blizzard? Now the ex-military pararescueman will risk everything—in...

The latest edition of the bestselling text on quality improvement in health care, providing powerful theoretical frameworks and principles, valuable tools and techniques, and a proven action-learning programNow in its second edition, Quality By Design contains an evidence and practice based strategy for teaching and practicing the clinical microsystem approach across all levels of health care organizations. Overall, the microsystem approach continues to ev...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Considered by many to be one of the best-known criminal defense lawyers in the country, Clarence Darrow became nationally recognized for his eloquence, withering cross-examinations, and compassionate support for the underdog, both in and out of the courtroom.Though his fifty-year-long career was replete with momentous cases, specifically his work in the Scopes Monkey Trial and the Leopold and Loeb Murder Trial, Darrow’s Nightmare zeroes in on the two worst years of Darrow’s career:...