Johnny Hendricks, son and grandson of traditional Christian pastors in Grand Rapids, graduates from college and gets the calling to create a youth mission in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Soon after he arrives, he finds himself embroiled in a controversy dividing the city of Hancock right down the middle, and he is the cause. Problems that have been dormant for decades are suddenly brought to the surface, and this enthusiastic young man with no experience, a big smile, and a strong fait...

With a crippled body and a broken spirit, Johnny Hendricks is forced to face the battle of his life. A horrific auto accident has taken a friend and left Johnny bound to a wheelchair. It infuriates him that God has brought him so far only to take his dream away from him. The realization that God didn’t leave him and he was the one who left God, humbles him and puts him on the right path. A still small voice in the night gives him a new vision of a project that only he can do.A ghos...

Johnny Hendricks, son and grandson of traditional Christian pastors in Grand Rapids, graduates from college and gets the calling to create a youth mission in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Soon after he arrives, he finds himself embroiled in a controversy dividing the city of Hancock right down the middle, and he is the cause. Problems that have been dormant for decades are suddenly brought to the surface, and this enthusiastic young man with no experience, a big smile, and a strong fait...

Johnny Hendricks has begun building a youth mission in the historical district of Hancock, in Michigans upper Peninsula. Along with the characters from Keweenaw Grace, he is joined by a banjo picker from Eastern Kentucky; a beautiful fiddler from Northern Ireland; a ninetyeight and a half year old retired school teacher with a secret, and a quiet track coach with a past.Thrown together against a back drop of the Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior, this group seeks to help Johnny f...

Originally published in 1989. What should be taught in schools? This book explores the differing curriculum traditions in Britain, Europe, the USA, Latin America, India and the Far East and the possibilities for change. For the practising teacher and the educationalist it opens up the debates about ‘quality’ in education which have been intense in many countries throughout the 1980s and focuses on how different countries are trying to change the curriculum to achieve higher standards and g...

New Jersey 9/11 Memorials: A Photographic Guide brings September 11 memorials and monuments from New Jersey communities large and small, together in one beautiful and informative photo book. Share the memories, history, and heart-felt tributes in this respectful photographic guide. Includes the National September 11 memorials at the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, Shanksville, and Boston's Logan International Airport.Foreword by Thomas H. Kean, former Go...

Are you constantly struggling to put your thoughts into words? Have your emotions gotten the best of you and caused friction within your team? Have you always been the meek, shy type who everyone talks over?Well, not anymore!Become compelling and unforgettable anywhere, anytime with the help of “Communication Skills” by master communicator Brian Holmes!In an age where communication happens mostly through a screen, a lot can get lost in translation. ...

First published in 1998. This book is concerned with the methodology and is a result of the author’s thoughts over a twenty year period about the theoretical problems associated with the study of comparative education.

Originally published in 1981. Presented here is a coherent theory of Comparative Education research, based on the traditions and innovations established by such pioneers as Joseph Lauwerys and Nicholas Hans. From the author’s substantive studies emerges a taxonomy for education based on Popper’s critical dualism, and a way of analysing problems based on Dewey's reflective thinking and the social change theories of people such as Marx, Ogben and Pareto. Models of formal organisations drawn ...

First published in 1985, Equality and Freedom in Education investigates the extent to which it is possible or desirable to provide equal opportunities in education, regardless of age sex, race, language, and social class. Attempts to make such provision regularly attract the criticism that they remove the freedom of parents and religious bodies to educate children in accordance with their particular wishes. To understand this dilemma, the book analyses the educational systems and ...

First published in 1980, Diversity and Unity in Education is the result of a conference set up to analyse criteria of diversity in education, comment on the politics of decision-making where diversity exists, and review in comparative perspective policies within countries and regions which have been designed to achieve educational harmony. Issues associated with the provision of separate education on the basis of sex and intelligence are identified and discussed. The extent to whi...

Do you feel confused, lost, and stuck? In as little as 20 minutes a day for 30 days, you can triumph over your lack of direction, discover, and begin fulfilling your life purpose. Refuse to remain aimless!AIMLESS is the first in a revolutionary new approach to a daily devotional, drawn from years of experience as a transformation expert and the most thought-provoking of his landmark book, The Empowered Christian Road Map: A Guide for Evangelicals - 8 Key Principles for Unswervi...