In these pages, you will find some strange short stories and some humorous stories as well. There are poems and some very serious topics of the day. Some of what is written here is a reflection of my growing up in New York City. The adventure begins on the very first page, so strap in and enjoy.

Create loyal, engaged, and results-focused teams and organizations using a practical five-part servant leadership formula.Think of a world where people go to work completely engaged, are inspired to do more than they ever thought possible, remain 100% loyal to the teams and organizations they belong to, are achieving mind-blowing results, and gladly and even passionately follow their leader's direction. Is that a world you want to be a part of? The reality is, you ...

The foundation of our faith determines our practice of it. Followers of Jesus today have the benefit-and the hindrance-of hindsight. Looking back from this side of the cross, it's easy to understand the benefits of our salvation. Is it enough to know we are saved from our sin? How would it feel to experience the Good News from the beginning? Would it change how we represent Jesus today if we were also saved to something?

This book offers a new perspective on the emergence of concepts that shaped the world, set against the dramatic background of political upheaval and crisis of scientific knowledge that characterized interwar Germany and Austria. On the one hand, the political-theoretical certainties of previous generations were rendered suddenly obsolete by the imperatives of total war. On the other hand, the old certainties of a reductive and deterministic conception of scientific knowledge had likewise b...

Has Your Love for Jesus Sunk Your Love Life?You hear it over and over: There are plenty of fish in the sea. But as a believer who seeks a relationship with a sold-out follower of Jesus, you find yourself fishing in a very small pond-a fishbowl, even. You put on a brave face, but with each passing year, the doubt only intensifies: Will you ever land a handsome catch?Author Marie-Eve Dawood has experienced firsthand the deep disappointment, nagging doubt, and unrelenting sc...

December 15, 1969, was the most important day of Mario Calabresi's life, although he would not be born for another year. On that date, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli fell to his death from a window at the Milan police headquarters, where he was being questioned about his role in the Piazza Fontana massacre, the most infamous episode of domestic terrorism in Italy.Police Inspector Luigi Calabresi, Mario's father, was in the building, though not in the room, at the time of the acciden...

Written by surgical pathologists for surgical pathologists, Surgical Pathology of the Liver focuses on sharpening your skills and knowledge in diagnostic histopathology, including laboratory and clinical findings that are directly useful when evaluating liver histology for clinical care. It offers comprehensive, superbly illustrated coverage of general liver pathology, as well as several chapters on topics that are not often included in liver pathology textbooks. Abundant high-quality illu...

How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that encourage us to act against our own best interests—Plutarch's essay On Dysopia or How to Resist Pressure and Prudentius's poetic allegory Psychomachia or How to Slay Your Demons. Challenging the idea that humans are helpless victims of vice, these works—introduced and presented in vivid, accessible new prose translations by Michael Fontaine—emphasize the power...

What happens when you can no longer believe what you see, when what you see is you committing a robbery you know you didn’t?

Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible today. Inspired by Alexis de Tocqueville’s analysis of American democracy in the early 1800s, this edited volume represents a multidimensional evaluation of civic education in its new and va...

A stunning and moving novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller – featuring the bravest dog in all the world…This is the story of Aman, as told in his own words – a boy from Afghanistan fleeing the horror of the Afghan war. When a western dog shows up outside the caves where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially repulsed – it is not customary for people to keep dogs as pets in his part of the world. But when Aman and his mother finally decide to make a...

Providing clear, useful, and nonjudgmental information, this revised and fully updated handbook describes some of the effects drugs can have on the human body, mind, emotions, and unconscious. Simple and healthy alternatives to consciousness-altering substances, including hallucinogens, uppers and downers, marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol, are offered to those wishing to break away from drug use. For those seeking to experience higher, more enlightened levels of consciousness, this guide of...