"Your Soul's Plan "explores the provocative premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, "before we are born "for the purpose of spiritual growth. Through compelling profiles of people who knowingly planned experiences such as AIDS and cancer, parenting children with disabilities, deafness, blindness ...
Rackstraw Downes paints down-to-earth, often gritty features of today's American environment in an unflinching and highly realistic style. This book is the first to provide a multifaceted picture of his work, its intellectual foundations, and its place in the history of art - from both outside commentators and Downes himself. Beautifully ...
Working with four gifted mediums, the author learns about the pre-birth plans of individuals who chose to experience such common life challenges as physical illness, the death of a loved one, and accidents." As readers discover that they themselves planned their challenges for spiritual growth, suffering that appeared senseless becomes imbued with ...
It is often said that a teen "old enough to do the crime is old enough to do the time", but are teens really mature and capable enough to participate fully and fairly in adult criminal court? In this book - the fruit of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice - a wide range of leaders in developmental ...
An educated, energetic, and motivated student affairs staff is critical to the delivery of quality learning opportunities and services for students. This new volume offers a range of strategies for recruiting, retaining, and developing such a staff, examining a performance-based approach to human resource development, the impact of supervisors ...
Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be ...
A compendium of recipes from Hadassah members in the U.S. and Israel (and a few well-known voices), this cookbook follows the Jewish calendar of holidays and festivals. Recipes range from the obvious (Chicken Soup) to the traditional (Latkes) to the unusual (Pistachio Chicken).
Delmore Schwartz was the golden boy of the American literary scene until his untimeley death in 1966, alone and destitute. James Laughlin was the founder of New Directions, publisher and editor of the Modernists. This collection chronicles a correspondence that began with Schwartz's first unsolicited submission to Laughlin in 1937 and continued ...
The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theater to more people in every corner of America than at any time in U.S. history. The project had units in every region of the country, including groundbreaking African American troupes, and staged productions ranging from daring dramas like The ...
This book examines the life, times, and legacy of Getulio Vargas, Brazil's dictator and president during most of the period from 1930 to 1954. Levine's chief concern is how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives. Vargas ignored individual rights, working for state-regulated citizenship ...
The authors cut through the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys, and statistics. Whether the problem is bad science, media politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge, this book gives news consumers the tools to penetrate the hype and dig out the facts.
This book demonstrates how to join the ranks of successful companies which routinely use risk protection products to manage more effectively their asset liability and to tap worldwide commercial markets. Areas discussed include: interest rates, exchange rates, innovative applications (hybrid instruments, derivatives, macro economic hedging), ...
The Global Experience provides students with up-to-date, global, and high interest readings with a social history focus. Offering a global perspective of world history, this collection provides a concise, easy-to-read selection of documents and secondary readings.
This collection of folk tales, legends, and narratives about the life of Francis of Assisi and his followers appeared about seventy-five years after the saint's death, in the early fourteenth century. The writings have remained popular ever since due to their beauty and charm, and because they are the nearest thing to a biography of Francis that ...
Two psychologists--one of whom has MS--offer a sensitive, supportive guidebook for the sufferers of multiple sclerosis and their families. In reassuring terms, they explain the problems families must face together and provide specific advice on how to cope with the psychological, sexual, financial, and other aspects of the disease.
This study considers how journalists often misinterpret complicated statistical information, thus skewing the reportage of important findings by announcing false results.
The Global Experience provides students with up-to-date, global, and high interest readings with a social history focus. Offering a global perspective of world history, this collection provides a concise, easy-to-read selection of documents and secondary readings.
In the past quarter of a century, the pace of structural change in the equity markets has accelerated dramatically and, as it has, regulation has come to play an increasingly central role in the development of market structure. The purpose of "Regulation of U.S. Equity Markets" is to consider regulation's contribution to the efficiency of the U.S. ...
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