A thoughtful meditation on the Stations of the Cross for followers who want a deeper understanding of the Passion and the meaning of Easter. With a helpful map, illustrations.Every Friday in Jerusalem, Franciscan monks take groups of pilgrims down the Via Dolorosa, the road Christ may have walked on his way to the cross. Stopping at each of fourteen locations that mark events in the final days of Christ’s life, the pilgrims recall the Passion story and offer prayer...

Get a taste of farm life with seasonal recipes and stories from the founder of Angelic Organics, the popular CSA farm with members across the Chicago area.John Peterson grew up on the family farm he later transformed into the community supported farm Angelic Organics. For him, farming isn't just about growing vegetables. It is also about building relationships between the farm and the people it serves. A leader in organic and biodynamic gardening, his passion is he...

The Johnny Chronicles (a factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence) describes Johnny's life in more or less chronological order. It starts on the beach when Johnny was three years old and ends in the doctor's office when Johnny was seventy-five. In between are fourty-nine chapter/vignettes which describe in detail (some might say horrific detail) things that happened to him and/or things that happened to others in Johnny's presence for which...

In 1985, the head of a very successful Connecticut aeronautics firm takes off time to uncover who murdered his beautiful mother in 1955 in a town in the Midwest to which his family has no known connection. He is driven not only to find the killer but also to know the truth about his mother's different lives.

Oman today is a rapidly modernizing and peaceful country on the fringes of a region in turmoil. It does, however, have a long history of internal strife. In the twentieth century, this strife took the form of two internal conflicts. The Northern Oman or al-Jabal al-Akhdar War of the 1950s was a struggle between the forces of the old tribally based Imamate and the newer Sultanate in the northern part of the country. In the Dhufar War of the 1960s-70s an anti-Sultanate - and later Marxist - ...

In the autumn of 1944 the Second World War was coming to an end. In the Atlantic the U-boats had been beaten back through a massive programme of Allied shipbuilding combined with tactical, technological and intelligence improvements. The threat to Allied shipping had diminished. But it had not disappeared, and a lone U-boat on its first active patrol slipped into the North Channel; in just a few days five ships lay broken on the seabed including the Empire Heritage, one of...

Music theory has recently seen burgeoning efforts to make the field more inclusive and diverse. One prominent response involves a concerted effort to collect musical examples by historically marginalized composers for use in the classroom. Less has been done, however, on behalf of the scholars whose work is taught in our classrooms. This collection addresses this concern: scholarship taught in the music theory classroom is often dominated by one particular cultural reality, and this collec...

This is a collection of ten short science fiction stories based on parapsychology. The stories include: It's All in the Mind (about a disembodied brain and what it can do), The Mind Digger (about a man who not only recalls his memories but relives them), Psilent Partner (about a man who uses his psi powers to make money), Sonny (about a man whose thoughts affect electricity), Vigorish (about a man who uses his telekinetic abilities in a casino), Psichopath (about how a man's unconscious af...

John and Sylvia understand that chaplain self-care is much more than spending a few extra minutes in prayer. Based on their own ministries, they assist readers to find activities that are most likely to restore them when they are "running on empty": creative expression, mental exercise, emotional health, physical health, recreation, relationships, and spiritual practice.

Benchmarks, a 360-degree assessment, has been used by approximately 21,000 organizations and over 265,500 managers. Data collected through its administration have resulted in large comprehensive databases that have provided the basis for numerous studies. These annotations on published research were written for anyone who is interested in the research leading to the development and refinement of Benchmarks, the interpretation of the assessment’s results, or the relationship of Benchmarks t...

The discovery of oil in the Gulf revolutionised its social and economic relationship with the West. This book provides a broad overview of foreign policy imperatives, an examination of three of the most important issues - the Iran-Iraq war, OPEC, socio-political extremism - and finally a closer inspection of three of the key players in that area: Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

In this much-needed study of current strategic thinking on both sides of the Atlantic, a diverse collection of leading European and American analysts are assembled to tackle key questions that remain unanswered in the existing literature:how much do new security strategies signal convergence or divergence in US and EU foreign and security policy doctrine?what tangible political and policy impacts can be attributed to new security strategies?what ...