Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and in providing them with a resource for coping.Offering an inter-disciplinary approach to spirituality and personhood in dementia care, the contributors to this book are leading practitio...

The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all.Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before sliced bread? Who first ate frogs' legs? Which cat never changes its spots? What did Lady Godiva do? What can you legally do if you come across a Welshman in Chester...

An Essential text on transforming raw data into concrete health care improvementsNow in its second edition, The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement delivers a practical blueprint for using available data to improve healthcare outcomes. In the book, a team of distinguished authors explores how health care practitioners, researchers, and other professionals can confidently plan and implement health care enhancements and changes, all wh...

Social Justice and the Modern Athlete: Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social Change is an edited volume in which editor Mia Long Anderson and various contributors identify and discuss athletes who have been at the forefront of social movements to lead change in distinct areas of society, including politics, gender equity, and mental health.Contributors analyze how this activism speaks to the impact that athletes can have on raising awareness and...

La doctrina evangélica de la adopción -descrita claramente como "un acto de la gracia gratuita de Dios, por el cual somos recibidos en el número, y tenemos derecho a todos los privilegios, de los hijos de Dios"- ha recibido un tratamiento escaso por parte de los teólogos. Ha sido tratada con una mezquindad totalmente desproporcionada con respecto a su importancia intrínseca y con una subordinación que sólo le permite un lugar parentético en el sistema de la verdad evangélica. No conozco ni...

The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy-the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess's vision, which has deepened and broadened to include...

If theology doesn't stretch our minds, it probably won't stretch our lives.In Café Theology, Michael Lloyd invites us to travel on a journey from Creation to New Creation, visiting the Fall, the Incarnation, Resurrection and Ascension, and stopping off at the Trinity and the Church. Michael's inimitable gift for mixing insightful theology with unflinching honesty and a fantastic sense of humour offers an enriching view of life and the Life-Giver.You don't have to b...

"En Cristo: La Unión Vital que Transforma al Creyente", compilado por Jeff Pollard, es una colección de ensayos y sermones de autores como A.W. Pink, John Murray, John Gill, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, y Charles Spurgeon, que exploran la doctrina de la unión con Cristo. Este libro profundiza en cómo la unión con Cristo es el fundamento de toda bendición espiritual, desde la ...

238 Q&A cards sharpen your therapeutic decision-making skills"These cards offer concise yet detailed case studies for students to review current pharmacotherapeutic options for many of the commonly encountered disease states....Students might find these cards to be a very helpful in addition to their therapeutics courses to help them retain knowledge through the use of real-life clinical scenarios. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review ServiceThese 238 Q&A car...

What is my purpose in life? Who am I meant to be? How can I live a successful life? Why is there so much wrong with our world today? Am I part of the problem? What can I do to help change that?These are the big, seemingly unanswerable questions that everyone must ask and then answer in life. In Encounters With Jesus, New York Times-bestselling author and renowned pastor Timothy Keller explores Jesus' answers to life's biggest questions by showing what happened to those who met Jesu...

'An excellent read, especially for those who are looking at what exactly God had in mind when he called us to spend such a huge percentage of our lives in work.' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐HOW CAN I RECONCILE MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE WITH MY SPIRITUAL ASPIRATIONS?In this clear presentation of the theology of work, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites us to live our calling to follow Christ in the workplace. From Keller's deep biblical knowledge and experi...

Some may object to my dogmatic assertions; but I do not apologise for them. Every preacher should believe strongly in his own method; and if I cannot persuade all of the rightness of mine, I can at least stimulate them to think and to consider other possibilities. I can say quite honestly that I would not cross the road to listen to myself preaching, and the preachers whom I have enjoyed most have been very different indeed in their method and style. But my business is not to describe them...