Benjamin Carpenter, a gifted Bible teacher and church planter, is still recovering from his wife's death five years ago. He leaves his home in the United States to develop a training program for church leaders in Pakistan. This helps him regain purpose in life. However, he discovers that teaching and living in a different culture also makes him vulnerable. He runs short of food and money. He faces ridicule and false accusations. And he's drawn the attention of someone who is willing to kil...

Have you always wanted to bake a delicious pound cake from scratch but weren't sure where to begin? Bake from Scratch Pound Cake 2026/2027 is a practical and beginner-friendly guide designed to help you understand the basics of pound cake baking and confidently create rich, tender, flavorful cakes at home.Inside this book, you’ll discover the essential ingredients, tools, measurements, mixing techniques, and baking principles needed to achieve better results. You’ll also learn how ...

German immigrants created leafy beer gardens here nearly two centuries ago, establishing Bucktown as the heart of entertainment in downtown Davenport for generations. In 1916, the founding of the Tri-City Symphony Orchestra at the Burtis Opera House embodied the neighborhood's reputation for high culture. The numerous saloons and theaters, as well as the forty-two documented brothels that flourished within two blocks, lent a bawdy side to the good times. Varied industries thrived through W...

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns that its effect would only reduce sociology to another discipline – whether biology, psychology, or economics. Worse, apprehension that the application of evolutionary theory would encourage heightened perceptions of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism and reductionism pervaded.Turner and Mac...

Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, David, Goliath, the Witch of Endor, Absalom, the Song of Songs – the very names conjure up visions of intrigue, romance and daring. But the “Golden Age” of Israel supplies us with far more than marvelous tales of adventure and romance. Behind the stories lie enduring principles which are as valid today as they were then. Our very language owes many of its figures of speech to that era. This book is part of a multi-volume biblical survey course. Th...

Have you always wanted to bake a delicious pound cake from scratch but weren't sure where to begin? Bake from Scratch Pound Cake 2026/2027 is a practical and beginner-friendly guide designed to help you understand the basics of pound cake baking and confidently create rich, tender, flavorful cakes at home.Inside this book, you’ll discover the essential ingredients, tools, measurements, mixing techniques, and baking principles needed to achieve better results. You’ll also learn how ...

The Quad Cities—three hours from both Des Moines and Chicago—is a unique metropolitan area along the mighty Mississippi River, growing in both size and nationwide reputation.This region of 400,000-plus people has all the friendliness, affordability, and short, headache-free commutes of many small towns, but also a staggering variety and quality of things to do. 100 Things to Do in the Quad Cities is an invaluable source to help you track down some of the top places, events...

Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with corporate and categoric units and, by extension, institutional domains, stratification systems, community networks, societies, and inter-societal systems. In this Handbook, the author explores the effect of microdynamics on these larger social systems.

In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the ancestors of humans—termed hominins for being bipedal—and forced greater organization than extant great apes when the hominins moved into open-country terrestrial habitats. The ...

A how-to guide for the discovery and prevention of the illegal transfer of moneyWritten for the private sector—where most money laundering takes place—this book clearly explains shows business professionals how to deter, detect, and resolve financial fraud cases internally. It expertly provides an understanding of the mechanisms, tools to detect issues, and action lists to recover hidden funds.Provides action-oriented material that will show how to de...

Few concepts are as central to sociology as institutions. Yet, like so many sociological concepts, institutions remain vaguely defined. This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies—as structural and cultural machines for survival that make it possible to pass precious knowledge from one generation to the next, ensuring the survival of our species. The book extends this classic tradition by, first, app...

70 per cent of the planet is covered by water, and 90 per cent of global economic trade is transported by sea. The world's seas and oceans are big business. Based on gross marine product, the ocean can be considered the world's seventh-largest economy, with the total global value of the Blue Economy predicted to rise to $3 trillion by 2030.Grounded in detailed market research, and brought to life through over 250 meticulously researched case studies, ***Technology and the Blue Econ...