Supplementing theological interpretation with historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, The Weight of Love analyzes the nature and role of affectivity in medieval Christian devotion through an original interpretation of the writings of the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure. It intervenes in two crucial developments in medieval Christian thought and practice: the renewal of interest in the corpus of Dionysius the Areopagite in thirteenth-century Paris and the proliferation of ne...

Do you rush from one day to the next, barely stopping to enjoy the goodness of God in your life?Do you want to believe your life matters...but if you're honest, you feel like God has forgotten about you?Do you ever feel like you've blown it - like you've missed your moment or messed up God's plan?Kingdom Moments and Movements is your guide to tracing the hand of God at work in each moment of your life - the everyday moments and the life-defining ones, the g...

The files on a series of murders find their way to the Unsolved Case Review Division of the Tucson Police Department, better known as Cold Eyes. Charles Ewing, a brash young corporal and SWAT sniper finds himself in the center of an internal investigation. Teamed up with Bob Earp, an aging and cynical detective, they make up Cold Eyes. Joined by a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s office they follow the thread that binds the cases together and leads them to two men, iden...

This challenging and highly practical book draws on the findings from an international study designed to help practitioners and researchers understand the factors and processes that enable healthcare organisations in the United States and Europe to achieve - and sustain - high quality services for their users. The in-depth case-studies from seven leading hospitals give an international, evidence-based outlook that focuses on both the organisational and cultural processes of quality improve...

This book provides a guide to assessing and supporting individuals with complex needs in the context of personalisation. This step-by-step pocketbook shows how these issues can be applied to the eligibility criteria in order to gain social care funding that is targeted at recovery and improved quality of life.

Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems. This highly readable account of how and why they evolved with completely unforeseen results reveals clear, practical lessons based on case study research involving over 200 interviews. Policy makers, managers and clinicians undertaking any organisational innovation cannot afford to ignore these findings.

Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out into the field, where rhetoric is produced, enacted, and consumed.These field-...

This book provides a case study on how to design and build an introductory geology course for non-science majors. The book presents a foundation with the status of geoscience education and research in geoscience conceptual development as a backdrop for the design process. It then describes the instructional goal-setting process and development of the structural components of the course based on the determined goals. The book presents the three historical narratives (the earth is a historic...

Meeting Excellence is a comprehensive resource that provides a wide range of ready-to-use tools that have been developed and tested by a meeting initiative within Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It is based on years of research observing team meetings, examining existing meeting documents, and conducting a number of intensive individual interviews in the U.S. and Europe. This important book offers the information and tools needed to prepare, facilitate, and follow up on all your meetings. Step b...

When American Occupation troops withdrew from Japan did they leave behind a truly independent country? Or did they leave in place a behindthescenes network that determined much of the course of Japanese politics for decades to come?Painstakingly researched, by authors who have between them over fifty years of experience in Japan, this book looks at aspects of the JapanU.S. relationship that others have missed or avoided. At the heart of the book is the story of ...

Applying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors. Across diverse contexts, these students confront complex debates and contestable affirmations that intersect with their lived experiences and social histories. Martinez and Train highlight the pedagogic and ethical urgency of teacher responsibility, learner agency and social justice in criti...

Imagine a farm where a chicken and duck who go on adventures together.They are full of courage, curosity, and a little bit of mischievousness.It's Roger is a chicken and Barry the Duck learning a valuable lesson in each adventure.