For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men (Titus 2:11) And be not conformed to this world but: be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (Romans 12:2a) The focus of this book is to challenge you to come back to the cross. It will remind you of the promises of grace and its transforming power to all who seek it. It is not based on your performance it is unmerited. His love is unconditional. However, Change in an individual is not automatic. Though it is not by ...

Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien’s Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational study of the critical and highly productive years from 1951 to 1974 during which the American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived and worked in Brazil.Now available in English for the first time, the book provides Bishop scholars and her steadily growing audience of general readers a uniquely informed Brazilian perspective on the writer. Przybyzien discusses Bishop’s...

Three experts on equity and technology offer research, evidence-based strategies, and examples of best practices to move toward digital equity in teacher education programs and beyond.Closing the Gap is an ISTE book series designed to reflect the contributions of multiple stakeholders seeking to ensure that digital equity is achieved on campuses, in classrooms, and throughout education. In this series, authors Nicol R. Howard, Sarah Thomas, and Regina Schaffer offe...

This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir silta...

Three experts on equity and technology offer concrete, evidence-based strategies for classroom teachers to move toward digital equity in K12 settings.Closing the Gap is an ISTE book series designed to reflect the contributions of multiple stakeholders seeking to ensure that digital equity is achieved on campuses, in classrooms, and throughout education. In this series, authors Nicol R. Howard, Sarah Thomas, and Regina Schaffer offer historical and philosophical ins...

The need for loving and being loved by a significant other doesn't diminish with age, but often single older adults don't know how to go about filling that void, or, in many cases, even realize that it exists. Still others have given up on finding that special someone or think they're too old for love. Love & Successful Aging When You're 70+ and Single draws on upbeat, personal stories from individuals in their 70's through 90's who are in exclusive, committed relationships with a signific...

This tale of mystery and its solution contains all the elements which go to make a fascinating story, in which one’s sympathies are awakened over the impending misfortunes of the little heroine and her family, and one’s curiosity is excited to the utmost by the methods employed to bring to a successful termination a quest which is not accomplished until the very last chapter is reached.

In the annals of linguistic curiosities, "English as She is Spoke" stands as a beacon of unintentional humor. Originally published in 1883, this Portuguese-English phrasebook by Pedro Carolino has become a cult classic for its hilariously mangled translations. From "The clock is striking twelve, and I am very hungry" to "The gentleman is very glad to see you, and he hopes you will stay to dinner," this book offers a side-splitting glimpse into the perils of cross-cultural communication. Pr...

In these little sketches of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquaintance with it, I have tried with ’prentice hand to reproduce for shore-dwellers some of the things it has told me. His whales and sharks and other monsters of the deep are creatures with whom one is proud to be associated. These Idylls—little pictures—strike me as some of the most vivid things ever written about the sea. I take it that only a man who has used t...

Gabriel Oaks observes Bathsheba Everdene, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to bad decisions and romantic impulses, unaware of the stroke of fate that will finally bring about their union.

It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities, which was written deliberately in a non-academic tone. Its target audience was the middle and upper class members of society—those who were more likely to be well educated—and exposes the poverty existing in two prosperous cities: Paris and London

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read"One of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels." —The New YorkerHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into mo...