What does it take to build a seminary in a nation recovering from war, dictatorship, and spiritual oppression?Growing a Seminary in Ethiopia: A Triumph of Faith in an Uneasy Odyssey is the powerful missionary memoir of Carl E. Hansen, chronicling a remarkable thirty-year journey alongside the Meserete Kristos Church. At the church’s invitation, Hansen and his wife leave their roles in Nairobi to help launch a Christian liberal arts college in Ethiopia. They arrive in a cou...

Accompanied by their two youngest teenage daughters, the author and his companion leave behind a comfortable life in Canada and move to Kenya. They make their home in Ogwedhi, a village on the boundary between South Nyanza and the Trans Mara Region of Rift Valley Province.Where a bloody massacre had left hatred and distrust between the Maasai and their Luo and Kisii neighbors, this couple takes up the challenge of directing a comprehensive project designed to bring peace and reconci...

In his The Odyssey of a Family series, the author reflects on the mystery of how God plans far ahead, arranging details and events that blend to create, shape, prepare, call, empower, and guide very ordinary human beings for his unique purposes.In his first book, Pilgrims Searching for a Home, the author recounts the impressive story of his grandparents, Jacob, and Justina Friesen, who with their family escaped the horrors of revolution and civil war in Russia to settle in western ...

In this autobiographical book, the author gives an informative and lively account of the first eight years of his and his family's living and serving in pre-revolutionary feudal Ethiopia. It is a story of adventure as a novice missionary couple learns and adapts to a vastly different culture while raising a family in the less developed hinterlands.The events take place from 1967 to 1975, a pivotal time in Ethiopia’s history; a time marked by growing discontent with feudalism and the...

In this biographical sketch, the author traces the extraordinary life pilgrimage of his grandparents.In the aftermath of the 1917 Revolution, Jacob and Justina Friesen started their family in Ischalka, Samara, Russia, enduring the turmoil and terror of the disastrous civil war and the famine that followed. This ordinary Christian family, leaving behind home, loved ones, culture, and all that was familiar, and, as pilgrims, fled from their motherland in search of a better home in we...

Leprosy by William Thomas Corlett is a comprehensive and pioneering medical treatise first published in the late 19th century, offering an in-depth exploration of one of humanity’s most feared and misunderstood diseases. Drawing on years of clinical experience and research, Corlett meticulously examines the history, pathology, symptoms, and progression of leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease. The book delves into the epidemiology of leprosy, tracing its presence from ancient civilizatio...

Carl Spitzweg Art Collection 1837 – 1880 (67 Color Paintings)All of the pictures can be zoomed in and enlarge for full screen viewing,active table of contents for easy navigation.

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology; human genetics; gene therapy; human cloning; and stem cell research.A gener...

Medicinska mirakelkurer visar sig nästan aldrig hålla vad de lovar. Fysisk aktivitet är det lysande undantaget! Dagens forskning visar nämligen tydligt att regelbunden träning inte är något annat än just en mirakelkur som inte bara gör att du går ner i vikt och får bättre kondition och styrka. Genom att röra på dig kan du både förebygga, behandla och i vissa fall bota sjukdomar som diabetes, hjärt-kärlsjukdom, cancer och depression. Men det slutar inte där, din träning kommer också att ge ...

Er wird um sein Leben kämpfen müssen. An der Seite seines Sohnes.Norwegen im Jahre 1007. Verbannt ins Exil auf die abgelegenen Orkney-Inseln wird Torstein Knarresmed von Rachegedanken heimgesucht. Als gejagter Mann und vertriebener Herrscher von Vingulmork weiß er, dass er seine Verbündeten nun sorgfältig auswählen muss. Denn noch immer wütet die Schlacht um Großbritannien, und König Æthelred herrscht über den Thron. Von Torstein wird erwartet, im Namen des dänisch...

Medicinska mirakelkurer visar sig nästan aldrig hålla vad de lovar. Fysisk aktivitet är det lysande undantaget! Dagens forskning visar nämligen tydligt att regelbunden träning inte är något annat än just en mirakelkur som inte bara gör att du går ner i vikt och får bättre kondition och styrka. Genom att röra på dig kan du både förebygga, behandla och i vissa fall bota sjukdomar som diabetes, hjärt-kärlsjukdom, cancer och depression. Men det slutar inte där, din träning kommer också att ge ...

This classic and authoritative textbook contains material that is not over-simplified and can be used to solve real-world noise control engineering problems. It covers the principles with practical application of current noise control technology.Topics new or revised from the 5th edition include: beating; addition and subtraction of noise levels; combining multi-path noise level reductions; hearing damage assessment and protection; speech intelligibility; noise weighting curves; in...