Our Hope and Expectation explores the Advent season and celebrates the joy of the twelve days of Christmas and the day of Epiphany. It includes daily devotions based on year B scripture readings (in the Revised Common Lectionary) for Sundays and festival days between the first Sunday of Advent (November 29, 2020) and Epiphany (January 6, 2021). In addition to devotions, the book offers household blessings and prayers to enrich your preparations and celebrations.

The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history. In this book, Michael Coffey reflects on major social and religious issues leading up to and following the election. Coffey addresses the political issues of the day, not from a partisan position but from the question of what it means to be faithful as church now. Rather than pit left against right or Republican against Democrat, Pastor Coffey seeks to explore fundamen...

This collection of poetic reflections is a rich resource for a faithful imagination. Michael Coffey's poems explore the deep questions and joyful affirmations of Christian faith. Never settling for easy answers or straight-forward interpretations, Coffey's writing invites the reader into new spiritual territory where the strange and unexpected, the beautiful and painful, become an encounter with the holy. Anyone preparing to preach or teach on biblical texts will find here words that inspi...

This handbook brings together authoritative contributions from leading mental health researchers, educators and practitioners to provide a comprehensive text for community mental health nurses in training and practice. In thirty-three chapters it covers a wide range of topics, from the history of the profession to current approaches to specific client groups, organised around three linked themes:professional contextpractice issueseducation and research.

Riveting . . . vibrant and unsparing.” -Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)Superb. . . . Startlingly original.” -Library Journal (starred review)Once I started reading these stories, I couldn’t stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with their taut narratives and evocative language-the language of a poet.” -JAY PARINI, author of Jesus: The Human Face of God and The Last Station

A fascinating look behind more than fifty of the most historic military blunders of our century. Lively and engaging, in-depth and informative, this companion to an upcoming series on the History Channel goes beyond mere footage to delve into the facts of some well-remembered but little understood incidents and accidents of modern military history.

This book will be the most accessible and practical book on the market and offers a practical guide to mental health care planning.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER"A masterpiece."—Newsweek“Superior, startling, incandescently alive.”—The New Yorker**“Brilliant. . . . Both entirely like and distinct from everything Roth wrote later." —**The Times Literary SupplementPhilip Roth’s first book instantly established its author’s reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and fierce compass...

Do you want to know how to help people with mental health problems?This book introduces you to the core skills and essential knowledge you need to deliver high-quality care.Mental Health Nursing is a practical, values- and evidence-based resource which will guide and support you through your pre-registration mental health nursing programme and into your own practice.Dedicated chapters focus on the major mental health problems, and are clear...

Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods. As the demands for rigorous evaluation and evidence-based decision-making increase, health promotion cannot ignore the need for accurate, reliable and valid methods to carry out evaluation. This book provides clear descriptions (with plentiful practical examples) of such methods, and the problems that ca...

Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award 2015 — NominatedFaith healers, movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in Depression-era Los AngelesIt’s the Great Depression and Mary Mabel McTavish is suicidal. A drudge at the Bentwhistle Academy for Young Ladies (aka Wealthy Juvenile Delinquents), she is at London General Hospital when little Timmy Beeford is carried into emergency and pronounced dead. He was electrocuted at an evangelical road show ...

This book will offer examples to nursing students to enable a creative and innovative understanding of how the competencies may be demonstrated in the many contexts where practice occurs with individuals, groups or possibly communities.