Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gender, temporality, politics, education, technology, disability, conflict, identity, ethnicity,...

Achieve simple, sweet, and stackable puzzles and toys! The ultimate project guide for beginners, 20-Minute Scroll Saw Puzzles features 60 easy and adorable animal family puzzle designs that consist of no more than 10 pieces each. After opening with detailed sections on the scroll saw basics, wood selection, safety, child-safe finishes, and more, a helpful step-by-step tutorial will show you how to make a puzzle project from start to finish. From there, be inspired by 60 high-quali...

Every believer is a person of influence. In the Maxwell Leadership Bible, leadership expert John C. Maxwell shows you the principles of leadership taught in God’s Word and how to use them. Whether you are an employee, a boss, a parent, or a neighbor, you are a person of influence in your part of the world. Throughout the pages of Scripture, John Maxwell has assembled the time-tested and irrefutable biblical principles of leadership to equip and encourage leaders with his signature approach...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

John Nelson presents the first full length study of the Gospels' treatment of Jesus' appearance, exploring precisely why, though Christ's image is recognised throughout the modern world, he is not physically described in the texts. Nelson argues that while the Gospels resemble Graeco-Roman biographies in their focus on a single individual, they also frequently depart from the genre's conventions; one of their most glaring omissions, picked up in recent scholarship, is thei...

Plan Now for the Life You WantToday’s economic realities have reset our expectations of what retirement is, yet there’s still the promise for what it can be: a life stage filled with more freedom and potential than ever before. Given the new normal, how do you plan for a future filled with prosperity, health, and happiness? As a companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the world’s best-selling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement offers bot...

FINANCIAL ABUNDANT KEYS IN THE MIDST OF STARVATION AND FEMINEThere are keys that provoke wealth!There are keys that provokes abundance!There are keys that can take you from poverty, starvation and femine and launch you into abundance!This book is all about the simple keys that took me from the place of starvation and femine and launched me into the realm of abundance!Get set as you unveil these keys which are easy to apply no matter your location.

The Holy Bible is the infallible word of God. The Bible is also a masterpiece of world literature. Much of the literary beauty of the Bible comes from the context and stories that are being portrayed and are therefore indentical in other languages. Why not using our reading of the Holy Bible to learn a foreign language, and kill two birds with the same stone? You can read the Holy Scriptures in French and, if you have a doubt, check the word of God in English, right next to it.

Use this ultimate scroll saw beginner's guide to hone your scrolling skills to perfection. You'll find everything you need to know here, boiled down to the best and simplest methods. Practice a specific technique in each of 25 skill-building chapters, and then use that skill to make an attractive project. As you progress, each chapter builds upon the previous skills you've already learned. By the time you've completed the book, you'll be ready to tackle any scroll saw project with experien...

An inspiring work ideally suited to private reading and daily meditation that makes Therese's simple way available to all.

The Holy Bible is the infallible word of God. The Bible is also a masterpiece of world litterature. Much of the literary beauty of the Bible comes from the context and stories that are being portrayed and are therefore indentical in other languages. Why not using our reading of the Holy Bible to learn a foreign language, and kill two birds with the same stone? You can read the Holy Scriptures in French and, if you have a doubt, check the word of God in English, right next to it.

This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides critical analyses of key issues in Russian and post-Soviet studies. It explores the most fruitful ways of stud...