Featuring forty-four poems covering more than forty years of creative output, R. Bentz Kirby’s Dream Work offers one author’s creative quest to describe his vision of the truth and beauty found while traversing the landscape both of the human soul and the natural world surrounding us, and perhaps even the world beyond this one.That's right: Kirby has been to the other side and back. After being clinically dead for several minutes following a 2012 S...

Children everywhere know who the Tooth Fairy is and look forward to visits from this fabled character. But where did the Tooth Fairy come from? The Tale of the Tooth Mouse explores the origin of the Tooth Fairy by examining a series of unforeseen events in the life of a happy, carefree mouse named Timothy J who lived with his close friends, twins Jon and Anna. Readers will discover those life-altering nights that lead this mischievous mouse to an unimaginable transformation which ...

What happens when a young woman falls in love with a dashing older man? Annie soon finds out the hard way that love can be unfair and painful. She falls in love with Will, but it doesn't take long for her to experience rejection, making her feel insignificant and unloved. But the arrival of a new family in town brings her opportunities for love and a bright future in this romantic coming-of-age story set on the rugged prairie.

Presents an integrated theory of development and maturation focusing on the influence of childhood experience on adult women. The book draws on the theories of Mead, Habermas, and Schutz, and on narratives and group discussions to analyze case studies.

What does it mean to become the humanyour soul remembers?When the Chest Opens is a poetic initiation-for our youth, young adults, mentors, parents, and coaches walking the tender path of transformation. It is an offering for boys and men-and those in relationship to them-who are ready to move differently through the thresholds of becoming. With evocative verse and lived story, Paul Bentz explores the raw terrain of identity, grief, love, and the unspoken inheritance of masc...

The first edition of this classic text introduced researchers and students to a broad range of approaches that are grounded philosophically and are relevant to real contexts. This new edition reflects developments in social research and changes in the global environment. The authors broaden their conception of mindfulness, and show how mindful inquirers can maximize positive outcomes for participants, organizations, communities, and themselves. The first five chapters describe the applicat...

Much of our nation's documentary heritage resides in small historical societies, libraries, cultural organizations, houses of worship, and museums. The preservation of this heritage often depends on the dedicated efforts of people who, in their workaday world, practice some profession other than archivist. For thirty years, Organizing Archival Records has equipped non-professional archivists to tackle the challenging task of arranging and describing archival materials.The l...

Cooper and his brothers are back again for another action-packed adventure. This time, they’re on a mission to save their best friend. Along the way, old enemies surface and new ones rise, both fueled by revenge. If that isn’t enough, someone knows the boys’ secret identities, and now the brothers don’t know who to trust. It’s up to Cooper to keep his brothers together, even if it means he’s falling apart. People always say keep your friends close and your enemies closer…

What if an even more deadly mutated version of the COVID-19 virus were to emerge one year after the start of the world-wide pandemic in early 2020, and within weeks of the global roll-out of several new COVID-19 vaccines? On January 21, 2021, just outside of Boulder, Colorado, a domestic house cat unknowingly infected with the COVID-19 virus and owned by the Chief of Trauma Medicine at the Denver Health Medical Center, is attacked by a coyote in the back yard of its owner’s acreage. Althou...

RELEVANCE RAISES RESPONSE and that is precisely why mobile marketing is the greatest advertising and marketing medium of all-time. Mobile offers the uncanny ability to laser target your audience by providing the best offer, at the best time, when the targeted customer is most likely to engage and buy.THE CHAPTERSIn Relevance Raises Response: How to Engage and Acquire with Mobile Marketing, author Bob Bentz takes you through all of the major element...

This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on understanding and tackling the major pests and diseases affecting forest trees.The first chapter uses a case study approach to describe how various forest pathogens affect trees and introduces strategies to reduce damage caused by forest pathogens in managed stands. The chapter introduces parasitic flowering plants, rust pathogens, diseases caused by Phytophthora spp., as well as abiotic disease.The second chapter re...

Anna Forthright, an intelligent, attractive woman works in a Government "think tank", which is beset with difficult problems that evade its collective methodologies and intelligence. Anna discovers an author whose ideas are so "wing-nutty", that he might be just the antidote to rejuvenate her faltering faculty. She brings Adam Mann from the Midwest to Washington to spend a week and "share his special insights" including: a thrash-free marriage-bed, vegetarian chicken soup, "killing" terror...