To Jurong with Love analyses a coherent story of young Singaporeans, Catholics and others, from 1960 to 2000, around a remarkable Workers Centre at Jurong, an industrial estate in Singapore.The Review of Life, the method of formation used by the Young Christian Workers Movement inspired hundreds of young men and women to take their painstaking part in building the new society. I doubt there are many comparable pastoral analyses on this scale of church youth leadership in modern soc...

Brothers Peter and James discover a secret entrance to a magical forest where they are able to talk to the animals. Even the trees can talk! They make lots of new friends including wizards, elves, pixies, and fairies. They also meet the King and Queen of the forest. Together with their friend, Sally, they go on many adventures.These stories are ideal bed time reading. Follow the three friends as they explore this magical world. This is the first book in a series which will take you...

George Atkins, a successful twenty-six year old architect living in South London whose whole life changes in a split second. He relocates to a sleepy village in Dorset where he makes new friends and tries to build a new life.Some of the people he meets along the way affect his life in a way he could never have imagined. One of whom, the organist at the village Church, sends him on a journey to rescue a local woman. He becomes embroiled in family feuds and underhand dealings. He mee...

Based on a true story.It's a new house in a new city, right after the most traumatic event of the three Smith siblings' young lives ... and weird stuff starts happening. It goes on for years.Events could be what might be called "spooky." And the house is called "haunted." Yet there could be "real" scientific explanations. The quantum world "behind the curtain."Aspects of reality in the universe are beyond our understanding. The ghostly truth may be stranger than fic...

This dramatic science fiction story is based upon an imaginative mixture of real-world facts and reasoned scientific and religious speculation. It begins a decade before and mostly takes place over the past four years of the present day.A new organization's activities--some call them miraculous while others think they are blasphemous--have literally changed the whole world. The story may inspire a reevaluation of one's fundamental beliefs and perhaps even require one to contemplate...

What was the significance of community action to the Labour movement in Britain during the 1980s? Ray Lees and Marjorie Mayo explore this question in Community Action for Change (first published in 1984), arguing that the Labour movement needed to revitalize its strength in response to the growing dominance of the New Right. They propose that this renewal could be achieved by developing social values rooted in the social needs often expressed through community action.Throu...

Applied social research has long been recognised as essential in the field of social work and welfare, though its value is not always immediately apparent. The Seebohm Report and the reorganisation of personal social services in the 1970s emphasised the importance of identifying social needs before designing programs and evaluating their effectiveness. In response to these priorities, social workers, local authorities, and academic researchers sought practical guidance on the challenges of...

Evan Blair was about to start his first semester in college, when one night while driving down to his girlfriend, Beverly, he was chased by the gang of bikers. Later that night at Evans house, his father, Ron, received officer Kerry with the heartbreaking news that Evan was dead and Beverly was in the hospital. According to the short investigation, Evan crashed his new motorcycle into the fence and died instantly. Submerge yourself into this intriguing fictional tale and listen to Evans Wa...

After a generation of being a leading progressive voice both in the pulpit and in the print media of Springfield, Missouri, Roger Ray has collected one hundred of his essays on topics of social justice, religion, sex, economics, warfare, and race as a collection for use in college classrooms, in adult discussion groups, and as an enjoyable collection of thought provoking articles that once appeared on the opinion page of the Springfield NewsLeader.

A Sample Meditation: Loss on the Way to Enlightenment Avoidance, rationalization, religion, reality, projection, distraction Acknowledging that we often grow tired of the painful truth about poverty, illness, racism, discrimination, environmental ruin, and warfare, we confess that we have escaped through distraction using food, entertainment, alcohol, and personal isolation. We regret most deeply that we have fashioned religions to mask reality, often blaming our cruel indifference on a di...

Trashing the Planet is the one book you need to get a commonsense grasp on the contentious issues of environmentalism, where science and politics overlap and well-meaning idealism turns to counterproductive ecoterrorism. Dixy Lee Ray, a marine biologist and former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, calls for environmentalists to regain a sense of perspective and not let their ardor carry them into the realm of “noble lies.” Dr. Ray exposes how little the public knows about the...

Dixie Lee Ray exposes of the truth behind the frightening headlines of ecological disaster, illustrating how scientific honesty and our constitutional liberties based on property rights are being endangered by environmental extremists, scare-mongering journalists, and rapacious lawyers. She tells what actually happened at the Earth Summit, provides a close look at the environmentalism of Al Gore, and will help you make your own informed decisions on air pollution, global warming, endangere...