"Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions."Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer of the above statement. He not only wrote it, but he did so in the same breath of his more famous dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." How can one reconcile such different perspectives ...

Volume 5 of Critical Perspectives in International Public Sector Management is comprised of three parts. The need for experimental learning in public management development, experimental learning formats and innovative teaching and transfer and value creation. This international, interdisciplinary volume is valuable for leadership, management, public management and education scholars.

This captures the spirit of the American west: It is a classic tale of heroism and romance, with a struggle to survive in a harsh and unforgiving environment. It has the breezy charm of “Cattleland,” as a young cowboy has a major task of saving his ranch from ruthless cattle rustlers. He has a romance as the fast-moving action makes its way through stampedes, shooting and bronc riding in the midst of the rugged and wild landscape of Wyoming.

15 AMERICAN WESTERN NOVELS A Cumberland Vendetta A Daughter of the Dons A Daughter of the Sioux A Man Four-Square A Texas Matchmaker An Apache Princess Bob Hampton of Placer Cabin Fever Gunsight Pass Hidden Gold Kid Wolf of Texas Out of the Depths: A Romance of Reclamation Rimrock Trail

Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. The book is divided in three parts. In the first section, “Foundation,” several contributors reveal their Christian realist roots and discuss the prophetic origins and multifarious agenda of social ethics. Thus, the names of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich come up frequently. In the second section, “Economics and Justice,” the focus turns to the different levels at which economics has significance for social j...

Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with imperial greed, domination, and violence. Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian S...

**"A superb oral history." —The Washington Post Book World"So touching, so exhilarating...no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy." —The New York Times Book Review**The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and v...

This series starter contains the first two books of Vegas Crush in one volume.Book 1 - CrushedPucks fly when a Ukrainian/American hockey god tries to shoot around the 'no-fraternization' policy with the new social media manager for the team. Twitter is about to explode in this steamy hockey love story!!"That 'no-fraternization' policy is about to get broken."-Evan Kazmeirowicz, VEGAS CRUSH

"Public Relations" is about to take on a whole new meaning for a standout Russian enforcer with a bad reputation and the feisty redhead from the PR department who just might be the one person who can help him shine up his tarnished image in this grumpy/sunshine hockey love story."They call me The Mad Russian for a reason."—Viktor Demoskev, VEGAS CRUSHMy reputation as an Enforcer w...

Definitely NOT your parents' "financial planning" for one Russian/Romanian superstar center with money problems and the tantalizing financial advisor he's hired to sort out his p#cking investments. Boris and Talia are in for the ride of a lifetime in Fabulous Sin City as they follow the money trail and fall further i̶n̶ ̶l̶u̶s̶t̶ for each other in this opposites-attract hockey love story."They call me the Ice Dragon b...

Pucks fly when a Ukrainian/American hockey god tries to shoot around the 'no-fraternization' policy with the new social media manager for the team in this hockey love story. Twitter is about to explode!"That 'no-fraternization' policy is about to get broken."—Evan Kazmeirowicz, VEGAS CRUSHDefinitely the goal in mind for the star winger and team captain of the Vegas Crush the day he lays eyes on the new social media...

Things are starting to heat up in the therapy room… for one Russian bad-boy defenseman and his not-so-innocent virgin physical therapist in this steamy hockey love story."There's a lot more to me than what I've let on in the public eye."—Georg Kolochev, VEGAS CRUSHNo, I don't drink vodka straight from the bottle. I don't pour it over my breakfast cereal either.I am not in need of an intervention...unless it...