These challenging times demand that Christian churches and their leaders faithfully and effectively address diverse global situations with Gospel-rooted compassion and justice. These essays argue that public theology provides the trinitarian theological framework which fuels wise and compassionate public participation in God's mission within the world today. Public church leaders from the Global South and Global North join their voices to explore the global implications of public theology ...

Matti inser för sent att han borde stoppat sin mamma från att öppna den sista julklappen - det som händer sen kommer ge dig mardrömmar.Linnea är ensam i den gamla herrgården där familjen ska fira jul. Plötsligt får hon syn på en flicka i ålderdomliga kläder utanför fönstret.Lova tänder eld på Gävlebocken och får sedan besök av en varelse som vill lära henne en läxa. En fruktansvärd förvandling tar sin början.Aiza, som länge försökt dölja en hemsk hemlighet, firar jul m...

Das Buch "… Weil Gott es so will - Frauen erzählen von ihrer Berufung zur Diakonin und Priesterin" ist innerhalb wie außerhalb der Kirche auf enorme Resonanz gestoßen und hat das Thema Ämter für Frauen in der Kirche erneut in den Fokus der Diskussion gerückt, auch im Synodalen Weg.Das jetzige Buch macht den nächsten Schritt: 100 Männer der Kirche, darunter viele Prominente - Priester, Diakone und Ordensleute, auch eine Reihe Bischöfe - solidarisieren sich mit dem Anliegen der Fraue...

Tampa homicide detective Mike Ash faces two of his most baffling cases yet! First, someone is trying to rid Tampa of drugs and criminals, but who? Territorial rivals? If so, why leave the drugs and weapons for the police to find? Yet where has all the money gone? Second, why is a national children’s charity suddenly underfunded and closing its operations across the country? More importantly, why are some of the top executives found murdered?While Mike tries to sort out the means, m...

BASED ON A TRUE STORYNEW YORK CITY, 1868. They beguiled the suffragists, seduced the millionaires and answered to no one. Spiritualist sisters, VICTORIA WOODHULL and TENNESSEE CLAFLIN were independent, politically progressive free thinkers. The Establishment vowed to destroy them. Based on the true story of the first woman to run for President of the United States, this is the Naked Truth, or Equality, the Forbidden Fruit....

The 2016 presidential election was unconventional in many ways. The election of President Donald Trump caught many by surprise, with a true outsider — a candidate with no previous governmental experience and mixed support from his own party — won the election by winning in traditionally Democratic states with coattails that extended to Republican Senate candidates and resulted in unified Republican government for the first time since 2008. This result broke with the pre-election convention...

Young, though seasoned Tampa homicide detective Mike Ash is stumped! A victim is discovered in his own home, but with no other evidence, and the only eyewitness to the crime is the family dog. A few days later, another man is found murdered in his home-just around the corner from the first one. Again, there is no real evidence or witnesses. Neighbors are worried about a serial killer,, but Mike gets a hunch that maybe things aren't as bleak as they seem. The two newly widowed women have so...

Wie klingt eigentlich Oshiwambo, die Sprache, die von der Mehrheit der Menschen in Namibia gesprochen wird? Welche Sicherheitsvorkehrungen solltest du auf deiner Namibiareise treffen? Wann ist in diesem Land eigentlich die Regenzeit und in welchen Gebieten? Welche Entstehungsmythen stecken hinter dem Etosha Nationalpark oder dem Fish River Canyon? Wie war das eigentlich nochmal genau mit der Befreiung der letzten Kolonie des afrikansichen Kontinents und was dürfen Reisende, vor allem aus D...

OLTRE LE COLLINE, IN UN LUOGO LONTANO… Gli abitanti di Favolandia hanno sconfitto il temibile esercito dell’Avversario e una rappresaglia è ormai imminente. Jack dei Racconti non sembra però interessato a ciò che accade a New York e ha deciso di trasferirsi a Hollywood, mentre Boy Blue si è recato nelle Terre Natie alla ricerca del suo amore perduto. Nel frattempo, cosa sta succedendo fra le fiabe rimaste nella Grande Mela? E come mai Mowgli sta per tornare in America? Bill Willingham e Ma...

In Many Are Called, Dr. Scott Hahn, one of the most celebrated scholars and influential Catholic writers living today, enthusiastically encourages Catholics around the world to renew their focus on the sacred role of the Catholic priest. Using his unique ability to present deep spiritual and theological ideas in the language of everyday life, Dr. Hahn examines the biblical and historical roots of the priesthood to explain the centrality of the priest in the life of the Church. He brings re...

HEAT CONDUCTIONMechanical EngineeringTHE LONG-AWAITED REVISION OF THE BESTSELLER ON HEAT CONDUCTIONHeat Conduction, Third Edition is an update of the classic text on heat conduction, replacing some of the coverage of numerical methods with content on micro- and nanoscale heat transfer. With an emphasis on the mathematics and underlying physics, this new edition has considerable depth and analytical rigor, providing a system...

When lives are treated like garbage, will a by-the-book homicide cop find the clues needed to take out the real trash?Tampa detective Mike Ash works tirelessly to defend the world from monsters. So after a couple of nurse techs are strangled and left in dumpsters, he fears humanity’s worst is stalking the city streets. And when the body of a young girl is also found discarded, the shrewd investigator swiftly deduces there could be more than one murderous hand at wo...