If your church seems to be "stuck," this is a book you need to bring to your next leadership meeting. Vision That Works follows the journey of a pastor of a plateaued church as he struggles with stagnation and discovers the importance of his churches "mission, vision and values" and their ultimate impact on church health and relationship to planning. In the course of the story the reader is introduced to a 5-step process that has revolutionized this church and has the potential to change y...

This insightful and accessible introduction provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the increasingly important discipline of international investment law. Focusing primarily on the legal principles contained in the growing body of international investment agreements, this book covers the core concepts of the discipline with attention given to their relation to each other and to the manner in which they have been developed through arbitration case law. The conte...

Marriage is a beautiful event, and knowing how much goes into a marriage, the question is asked: "Do we really have the true idea and intent for marriage?" Beyond the neon lights of balls in receptions and the flashing of cameras capturing the moment of the wedding, there is a meaning and a meaning that is sometimes missed. In this stage play, you will go through this experience with two characters and find out what is missing in the marriage.

Stifled by their upbringing in small-town Texas, Chaz and Kat yearn for escape, for a chance to explore other ways of thinking, being, dreaming. Sadly, their trajectories carry them to separate states and entirely different career paths. When they reunite ten years later in the tidepools of Houston's underground, there's not enough space in Space City to rebuild their abandoned relationship. But there's no harm in tryingor is there? Follow the wandering thoughts of sleepy, introspective en...

In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state's 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump...

In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state’s 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump...

This book provides a concise, critical expert overview of the elite group of consultants, analysts and commentators known as ‘management gurus’.Often dismissed as lacking in substance, this volume demonstrates that gurus must be taken seriously given their impact on the world of management. Noting that the gurus are very much products of the 1980s, the book accounts for the rise of this group while challenging those who have attempted to personify – to name and acclaim – thegurus. ...

Principles of World Trade Law presents a comprehensive and balanced picture of the legal framework underpinning the modern world trading system – covering the law of the WTO but also drawing on bilateral and regional instruments. It acknowledges the shifting relevance of the WTO in world trade law in favour of regionalism, particularly in relation to new fields such as digital trade.While drawing heavily on the law of the WTO as a source of legal rules, this concise text a...

An account of the English colony in New South Wales Volume I presents a detailed narrative of the early formation of a distant settlement established under difficult and uncertain conditions. The work describes the challenges faced by those sent to build and maintain a functioning community in an unfamiliar landscape marked by isolation, limited resources, and harsh environmental conditions. Attention is given to the daily realities of survival, including the struggle to secure food, estab...

Tehran was well known to American businessman Jack Devlin until the day everything changed. When radical Islamic students stormed the US embassy on November 4, 1979, Jack narrowly escaped the revolutionary chaos, leaving behind 80 percent of his business and 100 percent of his heart. To get his beautiful girlfriend, Farideh, out of Iran, Jack accepts a devil’s bargain with the CIA and MI6. He must slip back into Tehran, where the militant students are holding dozens of Americans hostage in...

This is the story of the unusually long and interesting career of a small Scottish schooner spent primarily in the southern hemisphere. From the quest to trace her history and construction to the careers of those who owned and sailed in her during her 74-year life, the story is full of vividly-portrayed rogues and heroes – the famous and infamous – as well as ordinary people calmly going about their daily business in tempestuous and difficult times, when grave risks were stoically and cour...

When fifteen-year-old Jack Sligo runs away from his loving Boston-Irish family, he hopes to get a summer job on a cruise ship. His dream becomes a nightmare when two strangers give him mysterious drinks in a waterfront saloon.Jack wakes up, far at sea, shanghaied aboard an African freighter. The ship’s first call is a remote jungle port in Venezuela where there’s plenty of thieves, rum and women, but no opportunity for escape.Manor Nelson, the ship’s bo’sun, is his secret pro...