All you've heard about the crazy world of advertising doesn't even come close.From the top ad people all over the world—the ones who create the best television commercials and ads: the ones you love, the ones you remember, the ones you wish you had thought of yourself—come their own stories, in their own words, about the first work they ever did … and lived to talk about, barely. They talk about the zaniness and craziness; they talk about the good guys and the bad girls, and vice v...

The story of Bluebeard has become a classic in infantile mythical (folklore) literature wherever the English and French languages are spoken. Rev. Dr. Shahan suggests its possible existence in earlier languages and more distant countries. The story is more or less mythical. While it does not follow history with any pretence of fidelity, it has come to be recognised by the historians and literati of France as representing the life of Gilles de Retz (or Rais), a soldier of Brittany in the fi...

What if aging is not a problem to solve, but a journey to complete?Modern society often treats aging as decline, dependency, or loss. Assisted living and eldercare frequently focus on managing limitations rather than honoring the wisdom, purpose, and humanity of older adults.Elder Ashram: Revisioning Aging and Eldercare offers a profoundly different vision.Drawing upon decades of experience in psychology, eldercare, spirituality, and community building, Nader R. Sha...

Parenting them can be fraught with frustration, confusion and angst - often accompanied by a constant gnawing doubt in the back of our mind about whether we’re truly giving our children everything they need in life for happiness, success and impact.As parents, we face many challenges, such as how to educate, set rules, discipline, manage health, and provide love and attention. We also want to avoid repeating our parents' mistakes and raise children who are self-actualized, happy, s...

Marriage. It's been around for millennia, so what more can be said that hasn't already been said? Many books on Christian marriage have been written, but most assume that the Bible puts men in a leadership role, while women are to be submissive. But there's a better way. Not only is it healthier for families, but it's more faithful to the Bible. The Bible casts a vision of marriage where men and women co-lead and co-serve as equal partners. This book explores that vision.Written fo...

From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection , concentration, transport and distribution of light energy is - i.e. solar energy conversion, signal detection, illumination optics, measurement and testing. This book will incorporate the substantial development...

Translating Migration: Multilingual Poems Of Movement brings together the poetic voices of migrants across regions, languages, and circumstances. Twenty narrators bring the poems to life, allowing the voices of migrants to be heard by those with locations and life experiences much different from their own. Translating Migration seeks to translate the creative work of migrants between languages and across contexts. As a collection of intertwined poetry by migrant workers, ...

Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas’ latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding us all today.The Greek philosopher Socrates famously said that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Taking this as a starting point, Eric Metaxas founded a speaking series that encouraged busy and successful professionals to attend forums and...

Halakha cannot be studied in a vacuum, but must be analyzed in light of its historical, political, scientific, and ethical context. Dedicated to the major halakhic questions of our time, Halakhic Realities brings together rabbis, philosophers, scientists, and other professionals to explore the intersections of Jewish law and reality from several angles and multiple points of view.

This novel, the first of the trilogy, is the story of Parson Sykes, the curiously enslaved teenager protagonist, whose historic self-liberation is followed by his enlistment in the Union Army. The story takes place in Southampton County, near the end of the American Civil War, on the farm of slave-holding Jacob Williams, the antagonist. During the 1831 Southampton Insurrection, the farm came under attack by Nat Turner and his insurgents, which still haunts Jacob. In the book, Parson and Ja...

Olethreutine moths often have fruit-boring larvae and this economically important group includes many horticultural pests such as codling moths, Oriental fruit moths and macadamia nut borers. This volume is the first reference to describe the 90 olethreutine genera present in Australia. It provides generic definitions, a key to genera, generic descriptions, and illustrations of adults, heads, venation, genitalia of both sexes and other diagnostic structures of all genera. Summaries of biology...

Sox, a grey kitten with white paws, has a magic box, his adventures are imaginative, fun, and engaging for young readers, fostering a love of reading and sparking their own creative thinking.