This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields. It identifies what mental health chaplaincy is, how mental health chaplaincy interacts with other organisations like the NHS, and what good practice means with examples of positive and fulfilling experiences in mental health settings.The chapters consider some of the main issues of working with the mental health comm...

In der September/Oktober-Ausgabe von Spot on Audio geht es auf Entdeckungstour in Kalifornien. Was macht das typische Lebensgefühl aus? Wie lebt es sich in Los Angeles? Welche Songs prägen das Bild von Kalifornien? Außerdem: Star-Interview mit der Sängerin Adele aus London; der haarsträubende Kampfruf des Neuseeländischen Rugby-Teams; Abgefahrenes rund um Australiens Kängurus; pünktlich zu Halloween klassischer Horror von Edgar Allan Poe, Witze, Sketche und vieles, vieles mehr. Hören und V...

In der November/Dezember-Ausgabe von Spot on Audio reisen die Hörer an eine amerikanische High School, streiten mit einem waschechten Piraten um korrekte englische Grammatik, bringen Santa Claus ein wenig in Verlegenheit und sprechen mit einem Truthahn, der vom Präsidenten persönlich begnadigt wurde. Außerdem: Rückblick auf das Jahr 2011; Star-Interview mit den Red Hot Chili Peppers; ein Besuch bei den Inuit im ewigen Eis; Songtexte; Witze, Sketche und vieles, vieles mehr. Hören und Verste...

This volume looks at concepts and processes of social exclusion and social inclusion. It traces a number of discourses, all of them routed in a relational power analysis, examining them in the context of the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030 with its commitment to “leave no one behind.” The book combines analysis that is fundamentally critical of the rhetoric of social inclusion in academic and UN discourse with narratives of social exclusion processes and social inclusion contest...

This book is to try to help people to understand the Bible and the people in it. We hope that if you read the book in the Bible and then read the corresponding book in our book (or visa versa) that you well feel more comfortable in your understanding of what you are reading.

Originally published in 1987, this collection of essays is a major contribution toward developing a realistic picture of the Latin American Jewish communities in the late 20th Century. The book will be of interest to students of comparative studies, Jewish studies and Latin American studies and responds to the need to learn more about the Jewish communities of Latin America, both as a fragment of the Jewish diaspora and as an element in the economic and social life of the continent.

Lanie Freeman had to grow up fast. Her mother died when she was just fourteen and now her father is in prison. The oldest of five children, seventeen-year-old Lanie has transformed into a surrogate mother … and a beautiful young woman. Not only must she keep her family together, but lately she has drawn the attention of Roger Langley, son of the richest man in town. Tensions run deep between the Freemans and the Langleys. And on top of it all, Louise Langley accuses Lanie of trying to snat...

Raising four strong-willed younger siblings after her mother’s death and her father’s imprisonment, seventeen-year-old Lanie Freeman never knows what new adventure will roll into view—such as her brother’s wild idea to turn the family’s old truck into a traveling store.The Freeman Rolling Emporium could provide the financial security Lanie and her family so desperately need, or it could tear them apart. Yet it’s only a prelude to other changes. Author Brent Hayden’s arrival in Fairhope bre...

Lanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. “God,” she finally said, “I’ll do my best, and if you’ll help me, that’s all I ask.”Fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has high hopes for her future. Happy on the fi...

Lanie Freeman and her siblings have survived the Great Depression without their father. They are convinced that he has been unjustly imprisoned.Lanie’s strong-willed sister, Maeva, runs away to Los Angeles to find the one woman in a city of thousands who can prove their father’s innocence. Nothing Lanie says can deter Maeva from her mission.Even as her family seems to be unraveling, Lanie’s dream of writing becomes a reality. Lanie is on the verge of becoming a published author. Amid the e...