Nonprofit Boards For Dummies is a practical, human-centered strategy guide for everyone interested in serving their community as a nonprofit board member. This useful guide walks you through the basics of impactful board governance. Find out how to navigate power dynamics, craft sustainable fundraising strategies, and build healthy board cultures with the actionable tools to apply right now*. Nonprofit Boards For Dummies* goes beyond paint-by-numbers governance manuals, focusing o...

If racism is embedded in everything, as many of the current understandings imply, can the concept explain anything? If the whole system is racist, is antiracism possible without dismantling everything? This book is a comprehensive response to these thorny questions.Moving beyond the classic debates in sociology, anthropology, and race studies about structure vs. agency, materialism vs. culture, and racism as intentional human act vs. racism as unintentional systemi...

Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back—and the conflicting ideas we load upon it.Moving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and U.S. history, Jackson probes how the back carries powerful ideas about beauty, gender, labor, race, and political solidarity. Here the back emerges as a site of vulnerability and desire, embodiment and rhetoric, dependence and resistance.Jackson’s pr...

I shouldn’t have come back.Bryn Walter left town five years ago with one goal: forget Asher Vale. The boy from the wrong side of everything. The boy she was never supposed to love. The boy who promised to protect her – no matter what it took.I never let her go.Asher left, but he never gave her up. He watched. Waited. Returned, again and again, to the place she left him, clinging to a promise that was never meant to fade. Bryn was alwa...

An anthology of contemporary poems and soup recipes to nourish us, comfort us, and bind us together—gathered by award-winning poet Major Jackson.Poetry and soup both offer sustenance and comfort. And yet, the secret ingredient to every great meal is not what we see on the plate, but who we see around the table. This anthology features poems by today's best poets that embody the idea of nourishment, comfort, and connection across cultures and generations. Among the ...

Succeeding as an RE Teacher is the must-have guide for Religious Education teachers – offering everything you need to teach this core subject with confidence.This essential guide takes a no-nonsense approach to delivering the very best possible RE. Drawing on the expertise of experienced RE teachers, it covers everything from strategic lesson and curriculum planning to research-informed practice and guidance for approaching sensitive discussions. Whether y...

Blast off into the second story of this charming graphic novel series with social media sensation Tubby Nugget!Ever since Tubby Nugget escaped his planet and arrived on Earth, he couldn't be happier to call it home.But his peaceful life is suddenly interrupted when a tiny robot named J.O.H.N crash-lands his spaceship right into Josh and Jenine's kitchen. His mission: to bring Tubby back to Nuggetville and force him to turn golden once and for all. Can Tubby...

An essential resource for Christian parents wondering how to respond when a child identifies as LGBT.Children of all ages face social pressures, negative influences, and questions about identity, including sexuality and gender. As a parent, you long to stay connected to your child while upholding biblical truth. When Grace Meets Conviction provides the guidance parents need when it comes to responding with compassion and care rather than hurt or fear. Writ...

FOUR STORIES. ONE BURIED PROGRAM. AND A SIGNAL THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO REACH THE SURFACE.A body recovered from beneath the Arctic ice has been dead for forty-three years.Then it starts breathing.An unplugged radio comes alive with the voice of a child who drowned eleven years ago. A settlement erased from every map waits in the polar darkness for the sun to return. And in Mercy Bay, children begin remembering lives that should have ended decades before they were bor...

Forty years ago, six children disappeared into the Alaskan dark. Now they have come home—and none of them has aged.When the children emerge from the freezing waters of Mercy Bay, they carry memories from another lifetime and bodies altered to survive conditions no human being should endure.Dr. Kayla Marie knows immediately that their return is connected to the abandoned Cold Frequencies program. Beneath Mercy Bay lies another forgotten research installation...

A biography of Titus, Roman emperor who captured Jerusalem, handled Pompeii disaster, and completed the Colosseum.Titus led the brutal Roman siege and capture of Jerusalem in AD 70 and as emperor had to respond to one of history’s greatest natural disasters – the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 that buried Pompeii.Fighting on behalf of his father the Emperor Vespasian, Titus led the Roman forces in the dreadful half-year siege of Jerusalem that devastated the ci...

Can one little boy hold the key to their future?Nigel Emerson’s world is turned upside-down when he learns his late mother’s last wish is for him to restore her house to its former glory with the help of the woman who broke his heart. Still hurt by Peyton Fitzgerald’s rejection, seeing her and her son, Samuel — a child Nigel could never have given her — is the last thing he wants. But as Nigel and Peyton work together repairing the old house, the bond that...