Second chair isn't second class.Leadership isn't reserved for those at the top. It belongs to anyone willing to own it.We live in a culture that doesn't own much anymore. We lease, unsubscribe, cancel, and move on. Too many second chair leaders have adopted a rental view of their role, or feel trapped in a cage that may not even exist.Lead It Like You Own It calls leaders to rise with conviction and carry their pastor's vision as if it were...

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social worldFrom social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities, and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning tools are rapidly transforming the way science and business are conducte...

Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (first place, backlist beauty).Do you ever feel caught in an endless cycle of working harder and longer to get more while enjoying life less? The Stewart family did—and they decided to make a radical change. Popular Catholic blogger and podcaster Haley Stewart explains how a year-long internship on a sustainable farm changed her family’s life for the better, allowing them to live gospel values more intentionall...

Do you ever feel caught in an endless cycle of working harder and longer to get more while enjoying life less? The Stewart family did—and they decided to make a radical change. Popular Catholic blogger and podcaster Haley Stewart explains how a year-long internship on a sustainable farm changed her family's life for the better, allowing them to live gospel values more intentionally.When Haley Stewart married her bee-keeping sweetheart, Daniel, they dreamed of a life centered on hom...

"TWO MEN WHO HATE EACH OTHER. ONE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION. A LEGEND IN THE MAKING.A warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Together they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm’s most valuable possessions. But it isn’t gold or jewels the old wizard is after, and this prize can only be obtained by the combined talents of two remarka...

I married an A-list player, knowing I come second place to his craft. But Lucas and I are a golden couple, a modern-day fairy tale. I’ve never doubted what we built...until the sudden death of Lucas’s best friend has scandal rocking the Hills and shaking the foundation of our relationship. I chose Lucas as my safe haven...he chose the role of a lifetime. For the next three months, I’ll share my nights with a stranger, watching as he buries his pain, immersed in his role and living as someo...

Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First-Century Student and Modern Workplace presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape of higher education and serves as a foundational lens and framework for thinking through higher education from both an experiential and transformative instructional context. As instruc...

A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime.This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems from The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #3: February 2019Featuring Ideas by: Anne Hilborn, Justin Tosi, Brandon Warmke, Daegan Miller, Samuel Levin, Sam Dresser, Kyle Arnold, Marc Lewis, Shaun Shelly, Omnia El Shakry, Richard Stevens, Skye Cleary, Thony Christie, Nancy Kwak, Jason Stahl, Claire Fuller, Nathan Schneider, and Stuart Clark

In Voices of Change, a group of Canada’s most accomplished young environmentalists outline bold visions for how we can fight climate change and create a sustainable way of living.The twelve essays in Voices of Change, by fifteen inspiring youth leading the climate change movement in Canada, explore the most challenging issues around climate change, from sustainability to activism. The contributors, from all across the nation, describe their own wo...

Una serie di ridicoli, riottosi, riprovevoli team-up, storie che affiancano all’irrefrenabile Wade Wilson alcuni tra i migliori personaggi e autori Marvel! Ma Deadpool non è un tipo egoista, dividerà volentieri la scena con i suoi nuovi amichetti in queste avventure in coppia. Con una selezione delle migliori stelle della Casa delle Idee, tra le quali l’Incredibile Ercole (!), non uno ma ben due Ghost Rider (!), il Punitore (!), U.S. Ace (Chiiii?), il Colosso Vivente (ok, questo è uno sche...

**»Så. Himla. Bra.« Betyg 5 av 5 | MARKLARS BOOKS»Uppstigningens brunn är ett makalöst episkt fantasyäventyr som ger dig karaktärer att älska och en värld full av hemligheter. Årets bästa? Inte omöjligt.« | BOKHUSET»Brandon Sanderson är en exceptionell författare och det är omöjligt att inte ryckas med av hans innovativa koncept. Jag ser mycket fram emot att läsa fortsättningen.« | I HEART FANTASY**Ondskan är besegrad. Men kriget har bara börjat...De...