"A devastating attack upon the dominance of atheism in science today."Giovanni Fazio, Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsThe debate over the ultimate source of truth in our world often pits science against faith.In fact, some high-profile scientists today would have us abandon God entirely as a source of truth about the universe.In this book, two professional astronomers push back against this notion, arguin...

In a world where emotional reactions often rule our lives, Respond Instead of Reacting offers a transformative approach to emotional intelligence, teaching us to embrace our feelings as powerful guides rather than letting them control us. Through real-life stories, practical exercises, and insightful research, this book guides readers on a journey of self-awareness, resilience, and authentic living. Kenneth Freeman, a seasoned therapist and clinical psychologist, shares his own experiences...

Freeman's book is divided into sections that cover the education of young children in Athens and Sparta, comparing their different approaches. He looks at the role of the teacher, the curriculum, and the cultural values embedded in Greek education, highlighting the importance of physical training in Spartan society and intellectual education in Athens. The educational system of ancient Greece was focused not only on academic knowledge but also on character development, social responsibilit...

The meeting-place of two streams has always a curious fascination for the traveller. There is a strange charm in watching the two currents blend and lose their individuality in a new whole. The discoloured, foam-flecked torrent, swirling on remorselessly its pebbles and minuter particles of granite from the mountains, and the calm, translucent stream, bearing in invisible solution the clays and sands of the plains through which its slow coils have wound, melt into a single river, mightier ...

This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed. Joss Bland-Hawthorn & Ken Freeman lectured on Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group. Francesca Matteucci’s chapter is on Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and...

Venture capital demystified, for both investors and entrepreneursBuilding Wealth Through Venture Capital is a practical how-to guide for both sides of the table—investors and the entrepreneurs they fund. This expert author duo combines renowned venture capital experience along with the perspective of a traditional corporate executive and investor sold on this asset class more recently to flesh out wealth-building opportunities for both investors and entrep...

'Reimagining Business Education’ discusses the rationale for, and design of, the first Business Education Jam. It reviews key challenges facing business education and articulates a vision for how the role and delivery of business education could be reimagined. This book is critically important during a time when business schools, as an industry, struggle to identify the innovations necessary to meet the needs of a changing world. The Jam was the first open platform for dialogue of its kind...

"Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), Dream Days was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. (The first six selections in the book had been previously published in periodicals of the day—in the Yellow Book, the New Review, and in Scribner's Magazine in the United States.) ...

When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States. Many li...

The America of the early republic was built on an experiment, a hopeful prophecy that would only be fulfilled if an enlightened people could find its way through its past and into a future. Americans recognized that its promises would only be fully redeemed at a future date. In Revolutionary Prophecies, renowned historians Robert M. S. McDonald and Peter S. Onuf summon a diverse cast of characters from the founding generation—all of whom, in different ways, reveal how their unders...

Discusses advances in research on vegetable physiology and geneticsComprehensive review of research on best practice in cultivation, including soil health, pest management as well as organic and protected vegetable cultivationWide-ranging coverage of key vegetables such as carrot, lettuce and cabbage

Rooted in lived experience, cultural reverence, and hard polytheism, this book empowers you to craft daily sacred practice that is honest, embodied, and unapologetically personal.Explore witchcraft as a path to connection with the Divine and a call to daily communion with the gods and spirits who shape our worlds. Kenneth Freeman II shares his journey from Baptist Christian to hard polytheistic magical practitioner who honors gods as living beings with agency, powe...