In our culture, we are constantly comparing and critiquing, so it is no surprise that being a teenager today can be really tough. As a teenager, you know that just about everybody wants to give you some sort of label: smart or dumb, athletic or awkward, pretty or un-pretty.Unfortunately, in our labeling obsession, we often miss something much more important; the fact that each of us is an individual of infinite worth.This book is intended to help you discover that infinite,...

Projects are inherently risky, since they involve some level of uncertainty, doing something new in the target environment, but the percentage of projects seen as a success is still disappointingly low, especially for IT projects. The ‘Iron Triangle’ of time/cost/quality suggests that all three aspects are equal, but with quantitative methods for monitoring project performance, the focus is primarily on managing cost and time.This book seeks to redress the balance, explaining the r...

Join Jake on an unforgettable Christmas Eve adventure in The Christmas Cruise Ship Adventure! When Jake boards the magical S.S. Snowflake, a cruise ship that sails only once a year to the North Pole, he’s in for a holiday unlike any other.Along the way, he’ll stop at holiday islands—Candy Cane Cove, Reindeer Ridge, Gingerbread Glacier, and Tinsel Tree Tropics—each with a unique challenge to solve.With the help of friendly elves, talking snowmen, and even a surfing ...

When Solar City—the magical station that brings light and warmth to the whole solar system—is threatened by a team of wild space villains, only three heroes can save the day.Winslow, a genius boy scientist, his quick-witted robot Spark, and Nova, a brave alien, must race across planets and outsmart icy queens, fiery comets, shadow masters, and more!With teamwork, kindness, and clever inventions, they turn enemies into friends and save Solar City from darkness.

Religious Education and Critical Realism: Knowledge, Reality and Religious Literacy seeks to bring the enterprise of religious education in schools, colleges and universities into conversation with the philosophy of Critical Realism. This book addresses the problem, not of the substance of our primal beliefs about the ultimate nature of reality and our place in the ultimate order-of-things, but of the process through which we might attend to questions of substance in more attentiv...

This is not a book by Barbara Kingsolver nor is it affiliated with her it is an independent publication by Andrew Wright that summaries her book in detailsAbout The Original BookSet in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voi...

Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era.The shadow of National Socialism, a history of German polarisation by jazz, and the influences of occupation and division, meant that jazz catalysed influential young creative artists. These included writers such as Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, Young German Cinema filmmakers like Han...

“Wright’s work captures the enduring spirit of armored combat and the human dimension that continues to define it. For armor officers, NCOs, and defense leaders engaged in force design and doctrinal modernization, this book provides both historical perspective and a reminder that the tank’s relevance ultimately rests on the professionalism of those inside the turret.” – ParametersDuring the Iraq War, the U.S. Army found itself in a very similar situation to the 1st...

Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies.Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook’s voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals a...

The indispensable guide to curating resources for worship in the Episcopal Church.Newly revised and reorganized, this guide to liturgical planning in the Episcopal Church is organized around the seasons of the church year and the cycle of Sunday readings in the revised common lectionary. Structured as a series of three volumes—one for each year in the lectionary cycle—Planning for Rites and Rituals includes guidance for making seasonal choices among the ch...

The indispensable guide to curating resources for worship in the Episcopal Church.Newly revised and reorganized, Planning for Rites and Rituals is a guide to liturgical planning in the Episcopal Church, organized around the seasons of the church year and the cycle of Sunday readings in the revised common lectionary. Structured as a series of three volumes—one for each year in the lectionary cycle—Planning for Rites and Rituals includes guidance fo...

The indispensable guide to curating resources for worship in the Episcopal Church.Newly revised and reorganized, Planning for Rites and Rituals is a guide to liturgical planning in the Episcopal Church, organized around the seasons of the church year and the cycle of Sunday readings in the revised common lectionary. Structured as a series of three volumes—one for each year in the lectionary cycle—Planning for Rites and Rituals includes guidance fo...