Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is a necessary component of strategy and operations.Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking & Practice provides breakthrough thinking about how to conceptualize and realize collaborative value. With over a hundred case examples from around the globe and hundreds of literature references, the book reveals how collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations can most effect...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

Professions are institutions which, through their small size, self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state nor are entirely private, the individual professions—such as the legal and education professions, journalism, economics, architecture, or the military—arguably present practical avenues through which to teach civic behavior and to...

From the very earliest days New England, first as a colony then as many of the founding states of America, has seemed genteel, almost reserved in its ambitions and the way it presents itself to the world. This volume will disavow you of that notion in short order. The imaginations and pens of such luminaries as Washington Irving, Willa Cather, H P Lovecraft, Sarah Orne Jewett and others bring many views and experiences from this small region of the United States.1 - Stories Set in ...

In the enthralling collection titled *Murder Mysteries for the Long Christmas Night*, readers are invited to immerse themselves in a tapestry of suspenseful tales that capture the essence of the Christmas season's mystery and intrigue. This anthology spans a diverse range of literary styles, from the atmospheric and gothic to the plot-driven and cerebral, effectively highlighting the multifaceted nature of the murder mystery genre. Amidst festive backdrops and wintery settings, the narrati...

The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & Thrillers gathers Victorian, Edwardian, and early modern short fiction in which the season of hospitality, ritual, and domestic intimacy becomes a setting for dread, detection, and surprise. Its range encompasses locked-room puzzles, supernatural visitations, sensation fiction, comic reversals, psychological suspense, and tales of crime concealed beneath snowbound respectability. Alongside classical investigations and uncanny Christmas hauntings, t...

This book takes the reader back to the Tower of Babel and discusses themes and ideas present that resonate throughout Genesis, the Bible, and into modern history. The reader will more fully understand why the Tower of Babel narrative appears where it does in biblical history. Furthermore, the reader will learn why this event in human history remains one of the single most important events in the interaction of humanity and the divine.

As both a neurologist and a Zen practitioner, James Austin brings a quiet logic to the mysteries of enlightenment, and explains how moments of spiritual awakening alter brain function and body chemistry to make us happier and more creative.

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"From out of the Southa song arisesof a worththat lies above wealth.For a man is a manwhatever he has.See only whathe is."Soldier. Father. Whistleblower.Abuser. Destractor. Cheater.James Austin Whitten was a man of extraordinary intelligence who lived a life of contraditions. Born in Arkansas, he was forward-thinking during one of the US's greatest civil rights movements, objected to the cavalier way his fellow...

Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern, or Why Style Matters argues against the traditional view that Marcel Proust wrote pastiches, that is, texts that imitate the style of another author, to master his literary predecessors while sharpening his writerly quill. On the contrary, James F. Austin demonstrates that Proust’s oeuvre, and In Search of Lost Time in particular, deploy pastiche to other ends: Proust’s pastiches, in fact, “do things with words” to create powerful real-world effects. H...

A seasoned Zen practitioner and neurologist looks more deeply at mindfulness, connecting it to our subconscious and to memory and creativity.This is a book for readers who want to probe more deeply into mindfulness. It goes beyond the casual, once-in-awhile meditation in popular culture, grounding mindfulness in daily practice, Zen teachings, and recent research in neuroscience. In Living Zen Remindfully, James Austin, author of the groundbreaking Zen ...