Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text in the same way, they can be transformed too.Spiritual Practices of Jesus exp...

The Professor features four short stories depicting how that crush on the dreamy college professor is better left as a theory than in practice.

Et si les modèles de couples traditionnels ne suffisaient plus ? Comment accompagner les partenaires amoureux dans des enjeux dont la complexité est grandissante ? Comment aime-t-on, vit-on, se construit-on ensemble au XXIe siècle ?Depuis la première édition du Manuel clinique des psychothérapies de couple, les relations de couple ont profondément évolué. Diversité des formes, mutations des normes, bouleversements culturels et identitaires : ces transformations redéfinisse...

Caring for Our Common Home connects the problems facing our common home with both the theology of Laudato Si' and concrete, hope-filled activities Christians are undertaking to mitigate our ecological crises and inspire the deep commitment to creation the gospel demands.

"... all the cunning, intrigue, dark humour and darker deeds anyone could want, perfectly plotted and sublimely rendered!" —Iona Whishaw, award-winning author of the Lane Winslow MysteriesThe deadly games people play are on full display in fifteen short stories in the third anthology from Sisters in Crime—Canada West.Old friends feature in several, such as "On The Internet Nobody Knows You're a Dog," where a musician turns PI to track down a stalke...

DIE RACHE DES STOLZEN MILLIONÄRSJahre ist es her, dass Millionär Damien Stanhope seine große Liebe Tess York gesehen hat. Aber dass sie ihm das Herz gebrochen hat, kann er nicht vergessen. Und Damien weiß genau, was er jetzt will: Zuerst wird Tess seinen Auftrag annehmen und das Haus renovieren, in das sie damals hatten einziehen wollen, dann … Dann steht sie plötzlich vor ihm und sieht fast noch schöner aus als damals! Wie gebannt begegnet er ihrem Blick und spürt, wie brennende S...

All that is human is mediated through language. And because we learned the process of being human in a culture as we learned the language of that culture, much that we learned remains invisible to us. But even though invisible, it guides what and how we learn and remember, our perceptions, our behaviors, including communicative behaviors. Throughout our lives, that early language/culture learning affects us, all too often without our realizing. The discoveries about that early learning tha...

The presiding bishop**’**s advisors lay out a step-by-step way to nurture a profound friendship with God in Christ.Walking the Way of Love is organized according to seven practices (Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest) and three ways of being (We Seek Love; We Seek Freedom; and We Seek Abundant Life). The wisdom in this book allows people to move from the first tentative stages of wanting an ex...

**"Parrots of the Wild is an exhaustive compendium of information about parrots, from their evolutionary history to their behavior to present-day conservation issues. A must-have for anyone interested in these amazing creatures." —Irene M. Pepperberg, Professor at Harvard University and author of Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process"If you like parrots then you'll love this b...

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional colle...

New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable MentionFrank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the construction of his most famous house, Fallingwater.The book reinterprets the history of this iconic building, recognizing it as a Depression-era monument that stands as a testimony to what an American architect could achieve with the right site, client, and...

Music is an essential tool in dementia care. This accessible guide embraces ways in which music can enhance the daily lives of those with dementia. It draws on the expertise of practitioners regularly working in dementia settings, as well as incorporating research on people with dementia, to help anyone, whether or not they have any musical skills or experience, to successfully use music in dementia care.Guiding the reader through accessible activities with singing, percussion, sou...