**More than 350,000 soldFrom bestselling author Jon Gordon and rising star Damon West comes The Coffee Bean:an illustrated fable that teaches readers how to transform their environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change.**Life is often difficult. It can be harsh, stressful, and feel like a pot of boiling hot water. The environments we find ourselves in can change, weaken, or harden us, and test who we truly are. We can be like the carrot that...

Create positive and lasting change in your life with proven concepts from The Coffee BeanIn How to be a Coffee Bean, bestselling coauthors of The Coffee Bean, Jon Gordon and Damon West, present 111 simple and effective strategies to help you lead a coffee bean lifestyle—one full of healthy habits, encouragement, and genuine happiness. From athletes to students and executives, countless individuals have been inspired by The Coffee Bean mes...

From the bestselling authors of The Coffee Bean, inspire and encourage children with this transformative tale of personal strengthThe Coffee Bean for Kids tells the inspiring story of Gavin, a young boy with the difficult task of starting school in a new town. Gavin's teacher, Mrs. Spring, teaches him the story of the carrot, the egg, and the coffee bean. The environments we find ourselves in, like a pot of boiling, hot water, can change, weaken, ...

Vintage comedy drama starring Dame Thora Hird as straight-talking Hilda Springett, one very determined widow…Treat yourself to this vintage sitcom from the 80’s, full of charm and humour starring the inimitable Dame Thora Hird as the strong-willed yet lovable Hilda Springett. This is a laugh-out-loud drama about the antics of a group of fun-loving pensioners making the most of life. Hilda believes everyone should have a purpose. However, she also believes her purpo...

Jon West spent over three months working for a children's charity in the city of Delhi, India. He took a photo everyday and everyday experienced something new. This is not just a travel journal, not just a photo book, it is an insight into India, the real life and people who live and work there. This book contains 100 images of India, a picture can say 1000 words.

This volume is a Festschrift celebrating the life and work of Donald K. McKim, one of the most significant and widely published scholars in the Presbyterian/Reformed tradition in America today. The contents address a range of topics covering his interests, from the Lord's Supper, to sermons on the book of Revelation, theological retrieval, Waldensian theology, Early Modern Women, a theology of exile, and John Calvin's belief that the devil had secret plans to attack French Christianity. Ma...

In How to be a Coffee Bean, bestselling coauthors of The Coffee Bean, Jon Gordon and Damon West, present 111 simple and effective strategies to help you lead a coffee bean lifestyle—one full of healthy habits, encouragement, and genuine happiness. From athletes to students and executives, countless individuals have been inspired by The Coffee Bean message. Now, How to be a Coffee Bean teaches you how to put The Coffee Bean philosophy into action...

This accessible book introduces the life and work of Martin Bucer (1491-1551), the significant sixteenth-century Protestant Reformer. Bucer shared theological insights with other Protestant Reformers but also provided his own unique contributions. Donald McKim and Jim West help us to understand Bucer's thought in the historical, political, and ecclesial context of his times. They also explore its ongoing importance for the contemporary church.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the authorPublished to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered judge wants only to retire in peace when his orphaned grand...

Michael Palin tackles the full length of the Himalaya in this terrific number one bestseller.Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin. In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, in 6 months of hard travelling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities like Peshawar and Lahore, the...

"Congratulations," said Dr Chawla. "You are having the malaria."And so begins Russell McGilton's comic adventure as he attempts to cycle from Bombay to Beijing in the quest of writing his travel opus.Pedalling furiously for China, McGilton's tour de force rides the reader through an honest handlebar view on the absurdities and fragile wonders of travel from the saddle. He rides, he falls, he gets chased by wild dogs, eats things he shouldn't, battles tropic...

How far would you go to change your life?Sharell Cook is 30 years old and living a privileged life in Melbourne's wealthy suburbs. She has it all: the childhood-sweetheart husband, the high-powered job and plenty of cash to splash.And it's not destined to last. In a dramatic turn of events, Sharell's marriage breaks down and her perfect life falls apart. Sharell opts for a complete change of scene, travelling to India to do volunteer work.But reinventing herself is ...