A radiant, unsparing meditation on Haiti’s inner life, this book listens to the wounds history leaves in a people: inherited grief, broken trust, exhaustion, fear, and the silences that settle over a nation. Yet it is never merely a study of suffering. With the tenderness of a healer and the lyric power of a storyteller, it reveals the fierce spirit still alive beneath the hurt. What emerges is a vision of awakening: dignity reclaimed, imagination rekindled, and a people moving from fractu...

Starships! Death Rays! Superheroes! Mutants! Monsters! The Multiverse! An astrophysicist (and science fiction fan) explores the scientific possibilities behind superhero superpowers, time travel, the supernatural, Bigfoot, ghosts, vampires, alien worlds, and much more!Have you ever wondered whether we might someday teleport from place to place with transporters like those shown in Star Trek? Or pondered the existence of ghosts and the possibility of alien life visi...

What happens when the hands that should protect a child become the hands that cause unimaginable pain?Behind the innocent image of a child in a crib can lie a story no one sees-a story of fear, silence, confusion, and wounds carried far beyond childhood.HANDS IN THE CRIB is a deeply personal and courageous journey through childhood trauma, the devastating effects of abuse, and the long road toward healing. With honesty and vulnerability, Dr...

You will recognise someone in this book. It will not be comfortable.Perhaps it is the husband who has spent a lifetime showing love through logistics: paying the bills, fixing what breaks, making tea at midnight, and never once being asked what he feels. Perhaps it is the mother who phones her grown son every evening, not to listen but to confirm he is still on the path she drew for him. Perhaps it is the couple lying twelve inches apart at 3 a.m., both awake, both...

The history of Requirements Analysis and Design makes an interesting study. For example, "We the People" have always experienced a range of requirements for a range of needs that spanned the duration of every human life. Although we are mortal creatures with finite lifetimes, we are still complex beings with complex needs. Merely to live an ordinary human life, each one of us lives a life embedded in a universe of needs and necessities merely to exist. You, me, and each of us earthly creat...

Once and for All: Tell the Truth About TithingDoes the New Testament require Christians to give ten percent of their income?For generations, Christians have been told that tithing is a universal requirement, that failing to tithe means "robbing God," and that Malachi 3:10 establishes a ten-percent obligation for the church.But what does the Bible actually teach?Once and for All: Tell the Truth About Tithing takes an...

Hard work matters. But hard work alone is not enough.Why do some people work harder and still achieve less? Why can we stay busy all day without making meaningful progress?In The Difference Between Effort and Results, Dr. John M. Hartinger combines biblical wisdom with practical principles of productivity, business, leadership, and personal growth to explain why effort must be guided by wisdom, purpose, planning, and discip...

Prepare early educators to help all children thrive in inclusive settings with the third edition of this widely adopted text, now updated to align with today's critical topics in early childhood education. Bridging the gap between early childhood education and early childhood special education, this textbook blends today's best practices for teaching young children with and without disabilities into one proven, comprehensive approach.Now with expan...

Abstract the System of healing used by the Filipino espiritistas: An Archival Study ScottMatthew Taubold Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center The purpose ofthis dissertation was to describe the system of healing used by the Union of Espiritistasof the Philippines as perceived by the espiritistas themselves (in accordance withthe National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine standards), fromtheir own cultural context, not from t...

What if your family could have less screen time—and more real life?Whether you're setting screen limits from the start or changing course with older kids and teens, Hold the Phone shows you how to create healthier boundaries around technology and a richer life beyond it.Smartphones and screens are reshaping childhood, but parents have more power than they may realize. In Hold the Phone, author and speaker Katherine Martinko offers a practi...

The Virtual Organization, ah yes, there is nothing quite like the Virtuality of the office. Wherever I go, I take my office with me. Simply wonderful! Freedom at last. Really? Freedom from what? Didn't you get paid for working in the office? Of course you did. Slavery is not a virtue in the 21st Century. If you work without ever being paid, you must be a good-natured volunteer. If you are not a volunteer and work without pay without choosing to do so, you are a slave and Slavery is a very ...

Sometime, back in the mid or late 1970s, I began work on my first book. I entitled it in a way that gained a wide range of comments from the people who saw it. That would be a small collection of professors, friends, and executives I knew in the university and the workplace. The reviews were mixed with a few really complementary and one or two not so complimentary. The higher the professional position of the person the better the comment. The lower the professional position the worse the c...