You grew up using the well known black and yellow striped Cliff's Notes to help you grasp everything from great literary works to algebra. Unfortunately, what "Cliff" forgot was the greatest literary work in history: the complete Holy Bible. Enjoy the ease of understanding the Bible like never before, book by book. Shepherd's notes helps reader's learn about the inspired authors of the Bible books and when and where they were first penned. Each Bible book is revealed in simple understandab...

"The world is our parish and all her creatures our congregation." Based on talks given to ordinands in Wales, this book presents the ministry as responding to God's call to be priestly stewards of creation and to participate in the blossoming of the new creation. Clavier engages with Scripture and people such as Augustine, Anselm, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, Lancelot Andrewes, George Herbert, C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, and Rowan Williams to portray the whole minis...

‘Look Behind You’ tells the utterly gripping story of how a single act of unthinking anger leads to a savage accidental killing. Although the killer is soon identified, in his attempt to evade capture, he commits other crimes that will make your blood run cold.Robert Steele the detective, pursues the psychopathic killer across three countries. There is an astonishing twist in the middle of the story, and an even more surprising one at the end. Look Behind You is a gripping and highly origi...

‘Getting Away With Murder’ is an intense, exciting and highly original story about how blame is attributed, revenge fervently sought, justified, planned and finally carried out. This ruthless pursuit for revenge leads to the total unravelling of a mind in the process.This is an extremely black murder mystery, with a compelling examination of the killer’s inner thoughts. The ultimate twist is that the murder is planned with the help of the police.After spending thirty years as a graphic des...

Who is randomly destroying Earth's settlements on other worlds, and why have they apparently spared Earth itself? The truth is stranger than anyone could have imagined!

Let me ask you a simple question."What do Waco, Littleton and New Orleans all have in common?"If you locked onto those locations, you understand what they all share.But, if not, you might want to pay close attention to what you are about to read.We live in a world where everything is instant. Our food, entertainment and shopping are all geared toward instant gratification. Is that a good thing?That's a matter of interpretation depending on who you ask...

This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.Thirty years have passed since the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the beginning of policy on climate change. Thirty wasted years. To most politicians, long-term collective interest has been denomi...

The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods explores the practices and policies that the highest-ranking nations in education implement to achieve their success. Topics include the education of disadvantaged students; cultural attitudes toward education; teacher preparation; and teacher salaries. Eight countries are examined: China, Japan, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, South Korea, Finland, and the United States. The United States is...

Cassie McKinney has always believed in the Hive.Social media used to be out of control, after all. People were torn apart by trolls and doxxers. Even hackers — like Cassie’s dad — were powerless against it.But then the Hive came. A better way to sanction people for what they do online. Cause trouble, get too many "condemns," and a crowd can come after you, teach you a lesson in real life. It’s safer, fairer and perfectly legal.Entering her senior year of high school...

Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered with churches, chapels, crosses and sacred sites, a bardic and literary tradition deeply imbued with Christian themes in both the Welsh and English languages, and the songs sung by tens of thousands of rugby supporters at the natio...

These are the stories of some of the many unknown people who were there during those momentous years when Jesus was born grew up, taught, healed, suffered, died and rose again. They were people who knew his family, who were in the crowds and who listened, watched, went home and told others. Some continued to doubt, or could not accept or even try to understand the message of this man Jesus. But many became believers and went on to tell their stories. Let their stories speak to us, for in t...

This book gives educators the flexible, modularized building blocks for teaching students how to apply Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The guide includes language, guidance, and activities for teaching each Practice and its associated leadership behaviors, as well as tips for coaching students through their leadership development. It also includes direction on using the Student Leadership Practices Inventory, advice for working with students using the Studen...