Here's the full book description, ready to paste into IngramSpark's "Full Description" field (300 words, comfortably under any typical limit):Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the same hill, forever. Icarus falling from the sky, and the father left behind who must decide whether to build with wax and feather again. Penelope at her loom, unweaving each night what she wove by day, while everyone around her mistakes her stillness for surrender. The old myths are usually told with the ha...

The most important vocation on the face of the planet is Christian ministry. The most important public speaking is gospel preaching. Therefore, the most unique and dangerous vocation on the face of the planet is professional Christian ministry. This book addresses these uniquenesses and dangers by describing why professional ministry is so unique and dangerous, what ministerial soul health is, the work of nurturing soul health, and the wisdom of including the minister's family in this soul...

This text is for the Spirit-filled Bible teacher seeking to preach expository sermons in a manner that honors the Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition. It seeks to accomplish two crucial tasks: reclaim the office of teacher in the local Pentecostal pulpit, and provide a model for expository preaching that is faithful to Pentecostal preaching distinctives and the unique approach with which Pentecostals interpret Scripture. Jesus gave the church five offices: apostle, prophet, evangelist, pasto...

Employment Now! The insiders track of how to gain employment quickly in today's job market was written to be a highly "tactical and practical" way for people looking for a new job, looking to make a career change or anyone needing to find employment. From an entry level position to executive management, the content in this book is like no other! It contains exercises to help the reader develop a true plan as to how to structure and execute a highly successful job search. There are resume f...

Why does every form of therapy—from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to reflexology—meet with a certain degree of success to change people’s lives?In Help! OK. Richard O. Morgan, a retired teacher and former hypnotherapist, highlights the single thing all these different therapies have in common. Perhaps magic happens not because of the therapy we choose but by our cry for help being met by someone willing to listen.Which raises the question: where do we find the right listene...

Relationships are breaking down across Australia and the developed world - and the standard explanations no longer hold up. It's not primarily a failure of communication, commitment, or character. It's a structural mismatch.Drawing on evolutionary biology, neuroscience, attachment theory, and more than thirty years of clinical practice, Dr Steve Halls argues that the human nervous system was never designed for the environment it's now asked to sustain intimate partnership within. P...

Unstuck: A Companion Guide pairs each of the twelve myths in Unstuck: A Mythology of Moving Forward with a short, plain-language explanation of what the story is really pointing at, a set of reflection questions, and one small, concrete step.You don't need to work through all twelve. Most people find that one or two of these stories describe their own situation almost exactly, while the others simply don't fit right now - and that's fine. Read the one that matches...

The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911 – an accident that may have made her a liability to her owners the White Star Line. Since 1912 rumours of a conspiracy to switch the two sisters in an elaborate insurance scam has always loomed behind the tragic story of the Titanic. C...

The second edition of Revitalizing Criminological Theory is a substantial revision and expansion of the first edition. Ultra-realism is a unique school of criminological thought currently establishing itself in the discipline despite resistance from traditional schools. The second edition still provides the undergraduate and postgraduate student reader with an invaluable guide to existing schools of thought and their roots in politics and philosophy, but with updated commentary on...

“I couldn’t stop arfing” – Lassie, Hollywood, CA “Bow Wow, Wow, Wow” – Daisy, Dagwood Bumstead’s owner “Owwwwwswww” – Goofy, Anaheim, CA “Hoo-wee” – Deputy Dawg, Los Angeles, CA “Bleah!” – Snoopy, Santa Rosa, CA “You know what? I’m happy” – Droopy, Hollywood, CA

On 15 April 1912, passengers stood on a dimly lit Boat Deck, looking down at the lifeboats they were told to enter. In the freezing air, away from the warmth of the interior, they had to decide whether to enter a boat that would be lowered into darkness or remain on an 'unsinkable' ship.RMS Titanic in 50 Objects is a look at the world-famous liner through the objects that tell her story. Sheet music recovered from the body of a musician, a full-sized repli...

This book offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on the relationship between crime, harm and consumer culture. Although consumer culture has been addressed across the social sciences, it has yet to be fully explored in criminology. The editors bring together an impressive list of authors with original ideas and a fresh perspective to this field. The collection first introduces the reader to three sets of ideas which will be especially useful to students and researchers piecing together...