Forse sei venuto a conoscenza che una persona a te cara è stata colpita da un tumore e ti senti sgomento. Trovi difficile accettare la diagnosi e non sai a chi rivolgerti per chiedere aiuto. Questo libro ti offre delle informazioni pratiche al riguardo e dei suggerimenti che saranno utili a prendere le decisioni giuste. Ma più di ogni altra cosa, l'autore del libro addita a Gesù: l'Unico che può dare vero conforto in queste situazioni. Deborah Howard, infermiera professionale, con esperien...

Forse sei venuto a conoscenza che una persona a te cara è stata colpita da un tumore e ti senti sgomento. Trovi difficile accettare la diagnosi e non sai a chi rivolgerti per chiedere aiuto. Questo libro ti offre delle informazioni pratiche al riguardo e dei suggerimenti che saranno utili a prendere le decisioni giuste. Ma più di ogni altra cosa, l'autore del libro addita a Gesù: l'Unico che può dare vero conforto in queste situazioni. Deborah Howard, infermiera professionale, con esperien...

Are you anxious? Plunge into ten of the most comforting passages in Scripture, immersing yourself in God's tender promises. Rich theology, practical suggestions, and reflection questions guide you to assurance and hope.

When young, beautiful Cordelia Lawson left her civilized hometown of Baltimore, Marylandto join her soldier husband in the wild frontier of Indian Territory, she couldn't have imagined how her life would change. Caught between the love and respect for her husband and her newly-found appreciation and concern for the Southern Cheyenne, her heart and mind are torn. Cordelia's implusiveness throws her into wild adventures she couldn't have dreamed as a girl in Baltimore. And her rescuer turns ...

Because one death touches many lives, it is important for both those who are dying and those who love them to be prepared for the pain and grief that accompany it. Here Deborah Howard shares words of comfort and encouragement for everyone coping with suffering and death. Her compassion, firm faith in Christ, and years of working as a hospice nurse create a uniquely sensitive, experiential, and biblical volume.Above all, she emphasizes that there is a light that cuts through death's...

Cordelia Lawson is summoned back to her home in Baltimore—without her beloved Robert. There, she learns to move forward with her life, overcoming a new set of obstacles and challenges. She settles into some semblance of normalcy, then hears that Robert has been found. Rushing to Hot Springs, Arkansas, the man she finds there looks like Robert, speaks like Robert, but is he the one she's loved and longed for?

Resigning herself to spending the rest of her life alone, Cordelia Lawson devotes herselfto her children and her father. Reunions with family and friends mark her joys as she settles intothe role she's chosen. But one particular reunion changes her life forever. Will Cordelia find thelove she's yearned for? Or will this new situation result in yet another heartbreak?

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the many ways in which religion infused daily life within the household. Acts of devotio...

This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive essays written specifically for this volume.

The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, "City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York," Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city's most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, Jewish New York traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union. Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They bu...

Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom introduces faculty, administrators, and staff to creative techniques that can be incorporated into the classroom at undergraduate and graduate levels. These techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences can enhance learning and support professional development experiences for students and faculty alike.While faculty are experts in their disciplines, many are not formally trained in effective or evidence-based...

The Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice presents an ongoing dialogue among scientists, family investigators, and clinicians related to a natural systems view of the family and human behavior that has been occurring over several decades. The concept of the family as an emotional system, as defined in Bowen theory, is presented as the principal integrative concept underlying this dialogue and an effort to move toward a science of human behavior. ...