Miracles In El Salvador: A Minister's Journey for Justice and Hope documents the decades-long spiritual journey and human rights advocacy of Rev. Robert C. Cook, a Presbyterian pastor from Iowa who first visited El Salvador in 1990 during the country's civil war. Initially travelling to Cantón El Tablón to report on poverty for the Des Moines Presbytery's Rural Harvest Offering, Rev. Cook was deeply transformed by the extreme hardship, U.S.-backed military violence, and resilience...

Dealing with the basics of the Christian life, this simple, informal book offers counsel from both the biblical text and human experience. More than 1,000,000 copies in print.

While on an enlightening journey to seek the truth, Robert Charles Cooke ultimately gained an acute awareness of his innate nature. Now able to clearly see his place in the world and a path forward, he shares his experiences with the hope of helping other seekers realize the same inner peace. Robert, who understands he is flawed, once struggled with self-condemning thoughts as he mirrored his parents and became more like the people around him rather than his true self. While chronicling hi...

Particle StrengthsA holistic and straightforward analysis framework for understanding particle strength distributionsIn Particle Strengths: Extreme Value Distributions in Fracture, distinguished researcher Dr. Robert F. Cook delivers a thorough exploration of the science and related engineering of fracture strength distributions of single particles tested in diametral compression. In the book, the author explains particle strengths...

Make simple sense of complex financial information!The high-profile accounting scandals of recent years have made one thing clear: You can't know too much about the company for which you work. What are the numbers? Where do you find them? How do they affect you and your staff?This fully revised and updated third edition of The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Finance for Nonfinancial Managers provides a firm grasp on what all the numbers really mean. Designed to let y...

This book is the first to specifically trace the movement of Mississippian maize farmers throughout the US Midwest and Southeast. By providing a backdrop of shifting climatic conditions during the period, this volume also investigates the relationship between farmers and their environments. Detailed regional overviews of key locations in the Mississippi Valley, the Ohio Valley, and the peripheries of the Mississippian culture area reveal patterns and variation in the expression of Mississi...

Read for you by best-selling narrator, Steve Cook, Sara is found in the Book of Tobit in the Apocrypha. So as not to confuse; this is not Abraham's wife from the book of Genesis.Sara is miserable because of numerous marital misfortunes, and she eventually prays to God that he would let her die. Her story is intertwined with that of Tobit, a righteous man who lived in Nineveh (a town many miles away) near the time of Jonah, the biblical Prophet. Tobit, for reasons of his own, also p...

A United States Marine's account of the American military's 2021 mass evacuation of Afghanistan—"A brutal, honest account by an American veteran of what went wrong and how a few determined people tried to make it right. Beautifully crafted and deeply researched, it marks a vital contribution to the accounts that have come out of the War on Terror."― Sebastian Junger, New York Times –bestselling authorAs the American gover...

Rural Road Engineering in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive coverage of the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of rural roads in developing countries and emerging nations. It covers a wide range of technical and non-technical problems that may confront road engineers working in the developing world, focusing on rural roads which provide important links from villages and farms to markets and offer the public access to health, education, and other services e...

If you want to learn how to breed, raise, and prepare show hogs for pig shows, then check out HowExpert Guide to Show Pigs. This guide is an information-dense piece of text that is a step-by-step guide for raising show pigs from farrow to table.In the first section of the book, you will discover everything there is to know about picking a sow and boar to produce a litter of pigs that will be able to stand the test of showing. Whether it’s for meat or a high-quality, well-mannered s...

Found in the Qumran caves of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran Cave 4), and presumed to be written before BC 170, chapters 1-36 of 1 Enoch are also referred to as The Book of the Watchers. These passages are also known to incorporate portions of the Book of Noah.The theme of the Watchers is final judgment and incorporates the expository background of one of the most spectacularly glossed-over, overlooked, and misunderstood Scriptures in the Bible - Genesis 6:1-4.The "so...

As part of the global Governing Uranium Project headed by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzed U.S. experiences with the security of its “front-end” uranium industry. This report examines current U.S. regulation and industry practices regarding security measures and controls over natural uranium prior to enrichment. Topics include prudent management practices, export-import controls, transportation, physic...