Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways; the elderly become frail and forgetful. In addition to these natural changes, targeted interventions may cause change: cholesterol levels may decline as a result of a new medication, exam grades may rise following ...
The leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board reveal how God calls people to the most surprising places and unlikely professions for the purpose of changing the world.
Do students who work longer and harder learn more in college? Does joining a fraternity with a more academic flavor enhance a student's academic performance? When are the results from an innovation that is tried on one campus applicable to other campuses? How many students and faculty members must participate in a research project before findings ...
What does it take to revolutionize a person's life and make a real impact? The authors enthusiastically challenge readers to consider that a mission field is simply wherever the reader is at the moment and a call to ministry is being faithful to his immediate tasks.
"Lefty" shows kids what a vibrant minority lefties really are (instead of dwelling upon the ancient negative lore often associated with left-handedness). Wacky, informative, and interactive, "Lefty" includes such out"hand"ish delights as trivia about left-handed animals and left-handed personalities, special--and unexpected--lefty talents, right ...
Wanting to protect his feet from the snow, Fox collects an odd assortment of make-shift boots from his animal friends in return for doing them favors, but just who benefits more is questionable.
The policies that determine who teaches are a confusing, and often conflicting, array that includes tougher licensing requirements, higher salaries, mandatory master's degrees, merit pay, and alternative routes to certification. "Who Will Teach?" examines these policies and separates those that work from those that are destined to fail. The book ...
Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure Superman Returns. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Superman's bittersweet return challenges ...
Illustrated with over 200 stills and drawings, including the complete screenplay, the only book on the making of the spectacular X-Men 2 and the X-Men film franchise. Outcasts from society, the X-Men are genetic mutants, born with superhuman powers, who harness their special abilities for the greater good. But the human race they fight to ...
Statistics, including the percentage of gay American clergy, comparative rates of pay between lesbians and straight women, those states still outlawing homosexual sex, the first gay character to appear on network TV. The book examines AIDS, literature, law, business, social issues.
Discusses how the National Institutes of Health can integrate research in social, behavioural and biomedical sciences to better understand the causes of disease and interventions that promote health. This text also highlights areas of scientific opportunity most likely to improve health.
Communications in Canadian Society, 5th Edition, provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of communications institutions in Canada. This edition has been thoroughly updated to take into account the changes taking place in information technology and the effects of this communications revolution in Canada and throughout the world. As with ...
This volume focuses on selected areas of paediatric pathology, placing special emphasis on the forensic aspects of embryos, placentas, fetuses and newborns as well as offering helpful guidelines from a legal perspective. The descriptions of embryos and placentas and their use in determining the cause and timing of fetal or embryonic demise are ...
Introducing currency considerations into portfolio analysis has implications for the manner in which the underlying assets are evaluated. This monograph provides a unified framework for analysis of global asset markets.
Economic Foundations of Capital Market Returns develops a process for forecasting long-term returns based on a firm economic foundation. The authors examine returns available to the providers of financial capital and how these returns are generated among the myriad assets.
This research guide provides a comprehensive summary of all quantitative research in the world politics field published in scholarly journals between 1970 and 1991. Each such article is summarised in terms of the central query or hypotheses, the spatial-temporal domain, the measurement of the predictor and the outcome variables, the data analysis, ...
Every person is on a quest to find meaning and purpose in life, to know exactly what to do with their lives. This comprehensive Made to Count Life Planner will help each reader on this journey to discover precisely what is their individual and unique calling. Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board, Bob Reccord ...
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