National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not investing sufficiently from the start. This book brings together a selection of diverse chapters written by a comb...

The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States. In addi tion, it reports on sources of aid proffered to households and the extent to which there are differences among households in the receipt of help. This volume represents the latest installment in a series of monographs stemming from the Social and Demographic Re search Institute's (SADRI) program of r...

James Wright übernahm das große Glaubenswerk Georg Müllers als sein Mitarbeiter und Nachfolger. In dieser Hagiografie zeichnet Pierson den Werdegang Wrights von seiner Kindheit bei den Quäkern, hin zu zu seinem Anschluss an die Brüderbewegung in Bristol. Dort lernte er die Waisenheime kennen, wurde Assistent und Schwiegersohn Müllers und leitete sie bis zu seinem Tod. Dies ist die Übersetzung der Gedenkschrift anlässlich des Todes James Wrights.

Few New Testament scholars of recent decades have set the pitch for academic discussion and debate in their field like N. T. Wright. His signature contention, that Israel's continuing exile was a pivotal issue in the emergence of Christianity, hasfound a central place in contemporary New Testament scholarship. Israel had grievously sinned against Yahweh and suffered the judgment of exile from its land. But even though Israel had returned, the majority of Jews of the second temple era regar...

Meet Wolf.Wolf is a legend, a rebel in the street art world. Museums have paid millions just for him to recreate the hard-hitting political images he’s portrayed on buildings all over the world.Yet only a few know his true identity.Red is a rising star. Her murals throughout Miami’s poverty-stricken streets have triggered a craze in not only the art world, but in Wolf.He’s on Red’s trail, sniffing out her scent in the graffiti jungles of Wynwood and luring h...

The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927–1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list. With a fierce, single-minded devotion to his work, Wright escaped the steel town of his Depression-era childhood in the Ohio valley to become a revered professor of English literature and a ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This supportive and grounded collection of addiction recovery meditation scripts is here to help you pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself — no matter where you are on your healing path.Part of the acclaimed stillness, this volume is crafted specifically for individuals navigating sobriety, early recovery, relapse, or long-term emotional maintenance. Whether you’re following a 12-step program, a harm-reduc...

Being a bestselling mystery author has its perks—like an all-expenses-paid trip to an exclusive luxury resort for research. But despite his worldwide success, Jonah James still feels like a fish out of water at the Sand Dollar Resort. Of course, if sipping cocktails by the ocean and soaking in the luxury of a world-class retreat helps spark inspiration for his next novel, who is he to argue?What Jonah doesn’t expect is to get tangled up with the Turner family—a dynasty famous for t...

Visit any settlement in the land and there will be ancient buildings hidden in plain sight. Behind a Victorian façade is a Tudor house. Underneath a Georgian frontage is a mediaeval cottage. What is now a modern farm may once have been a castle. We know relatively little about the ancient buildings that surround us, yet buildings archaeology can offer us so many clues for discovering secret hidden historic houses. This book looks at the ways in which ancient buildings have...

These new poems by the author of Saint Judas and The Green Wall embody a sharp break with his earlier work. Their impact is well described by the British critic Michael Hamburger: "He has absorbed the work of modern Spanish and other continental poets and evolved a medium of his own. This medium dispenses with argument and rhetoric, and presents the pure substance of poetry, images which are 'the objective correlatives' of emotion and feeling. It is only in the new collection that Wright h...

In July 1940, Desmond Ibbotson joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve hoping to fly Spitfires. He achieved his dream aged just 19, eventually completing 650 flying hours in seven types of Spitfire. He did two tours of operations with three of the RAF's elite squadrons in the skies over France, North Africa and Italy, was credited with eleven confirmed victories and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar.After a dramatic active service that saw him shot down durin...

This supportive and grounded collection of addiction recovery meditation scripts is here to help you pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself — no matter where you are on your healing path. Part of the acclaimed stillness, this volume is crafted specifically for individuals navigating sobriety, early recovery, relapse, or long-term emotional maintenance. Whether you’re following a 12-step program, a harm-reduction model, or your own trauma-informed path, these meditations are designed t...