The Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition, is your complete road map to shaping public policy at the state and local level. It gives detailed, step-by-step instructions for developing an effective plan and putting it into action. With this handbook, you will discover how lobbying can help fulfill your mission; learn how to initiate, support, or defeat bills; develop effective lobbying skills; gather and mobilize support for your positions; lear...

LESS > FakeLESS > ShameLESS > MasksMORE > RealJesus promises ‘life and life to the full’. So why do so many people walk away from faith – and not just teenagers but people who have been in church for years?The full life offered is one of genuine relationship with God and others, but has our tendency to fight vulnerability, mask weakness and hide disappointment cost us the real thing? Have we tried to keep it together,...

This new adaptation of Dee Brown's multi-million copy bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, is filled with photographs and maps to bring alive the tragic saga of Native Americans for middle grade readers. Focusing on the Sioux nation as representative of the entire Native American story, this meticulously researched account allows the great chiefs and warriors to speak for themselves about what happened to the Sioux from 1860 to the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1891. This dram...

Exploring Childhood in a Comparative Context meets an increasing need for students focusing on early childhood to be familiar with alternative practices in other countries. Providing a ready-made source of information about a wide range of countries including Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and many more, the book clearly describes the way each country understands and conceptualises childhood.Each chapter includes contextual in...

"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating next chapter in the Red Rising Saga: Morning Star.Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music!Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedi...

Online Risk to Children brings together the most up-to-date theory, policy, and best practices for online child protection and abuse prevention.Moves beyond offender assessment and treatment to discuss the impact of online abuse on children themselves, and the risks and vulnerabilities inherent in their constantly connected livesGlobal in scope, setting contributions from leading researchers and practitioners in the UK in international context via chapters ...

LESS FakeLESS ShameLESS MasksMORE RealJesus promises 'life and life to the full'. So why do so many people walk away from faith - and not just teenagers but people who have been in church for years?The full life offered is one of genuine relationship with God and others, but has our tendency to fight vulnerability, mask weakness and hide disappointment cost us the real thing? Have we tried to keep it together, keep the faith, until we simply can't do i...

The high profile reporting of child sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile over decades has had far reaching-consequences, raising public awareness and concern, yet we continue to uncover new cases of institutional abuse which have been taking place under the radar for years.This book distils the learning from 80+ public inquiries relating to Savile as well as related cases of institutional abuse and analyses the key findings. It examines what we now know about offending within o...

An exclusive extract from this book has been published in THE GUARDIAN: "Vittorio Pozzo: football immortal tempered in the trenches"In the high-stakes arena of the FIFA World Cup, where nations clash and legacies are forged, the coaches on the sidelines are the unsung architects of triumph.This book The Architects of Glory celebrates the tactical geniuses, inspirational leaders, and trailblazers who have defined the men’s ...

An exclusive extract from this book has been published in THE GUARDIAN: "Vittorio Pozzo: football immortal tempered in the trenches"In the high-stakes arena of the FIFA World Cup, where nations clash and legacies are forged, the coaches on the sidelines are the unsung architects of triumph.This book The Architects of Glory celebrates the tactical geniuses, inspirational leaders, and trailblazers who have defined the men’s ...

"Phantom Canyon Tales" is a chilling collection of seven suspense horror stories by new authors D.L. Brown and Martin Walker Brown with gripping illustrations by Jon Stubbington. This contemporary anthology of horror steals you away to a moon-lit ranch, a violated sanctuary, the office of a private investigator confronting a terror older than humanity. These tales will take you across many years and many fears. Stories include The Piper's Song, The Men of Yuul, All Hallows End, Blood Wattl...

Jon Gillespie Brown brings his extensive mentoring experience to bear in this new handbook for would-be entrepreneurs. So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? contains a series of mentoring sessions, each carefully thought out to make you consider and plan your life based on your passions, ambitions and ultimate visions. By actively taking part in each of the exercises, you give yourself the best chance of succeeding as an entrepreneur, or the sufficient clarity to decide what other career opti...