Does prophecy really matter? Christians cannot seem to agree on it, so why spend time trying to understand future events? When souls are perishing, why become distracted by something which is not a salvation issue? Yet prophecy is important. Although not a test of orthodoxy, it helps Christians grow in their faith. This book has four aims: to establish guidelines of interpretation of prophecy; to differentiate between Dispensational and Covenant Theology (which largely determines how w...

Provides a comprehensive overview of the key concepts in biodiversity management within agricultural landscapesConsiders the role of farmers and rural communities in implementing ecological restoration practicesReviews the importance of habitat and animal rewilding in promoting biodiversity and other key ecosystem services

Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision and management of offenders in the community.Three different aspects of working with offenders are covered: developments in policy; assessment, supervision and intervention; and iss...

Lewis Grassic Gibbon, der bürgerlich James Leslie Mitchell hieß (1901–1935), hat sich ganz besonders mit der Hauptfigur Chris so tief in die Herzen seiner Leser eingeschrieben, dass sie "Lied vom Abendrot" bis heute immer wieder zum größten schottischen Roman aller Zeiten wählen. Erzählt wird die Geschichte von Chris Guthrie, die unter ihrem strengen Vater leidet. Sie darf das College besuchen, bis die Mutter stirbt und Chris auf den Hof zurückkehren muss. Nach dem plötzlichen Tod auch des...

A baffling mystery sets an FBI agent on a dangerous path . . .Park rangers are puzzled when a child is found wandering alone in the middle of a forest near Seattle.Stranger still, he speaks a peculiar language that sounds a little like German and is dressed in clothes people wore in the Middle Ages.With no one having reported him missing, FBI Special Agent Will McCord assembles a dedicated unit to investigate the case, placing Detective Ilona Farris...

FBI agents race to find a graffiti artist whose work appears to foretell calamityA truck veers off an overpass and falls onto the interstate below, right into the middle of the morning commute. Many people lose their lives, and the city of Seattle reels from the disaster.When an elaborate mural that appears to glorify the event is discovered, it is seen as being in very poor taste. That's until it transpires it was painted two days before the crash....

An impossible victim, a more than impossible killer!FBI Special Agent Ilona Farris has barely recovered from her first escapade with the newly formed Unsolvable Crimes Unit when a bizarre case lands on her desk.A man has been chained to a sack of stones and pushed into the water at Seattle Marina. However, the victim supposedly died in a plane crash over twenty years ago.Witnesses report seeing a man in a straw hat and long coat at the scene. There ...

Violent storms wreak havoc in Tornado Alley. A serial killer exploits the chaos to cover their tracks . . .When a five-year-old girl reports being saved by a mysterious being in the middle of a tornado, her story is readily dismissed.But less so the computer-assisted discovery of a pattern in a series of deaths that suggests they are no accident.Special agent Ilona Farris of the FBI puzzles over how a killer could predict the storm events so accurat...

A propulsive thriller starring Jack Rowan, Siena Kelly and Iain de Caestecker.All three series of this fast-paced thriller from award-winning writer Ben Lewis, performed by a stellar cast – it will have you gripped from the first episode.When Jake signs up to a personal training programme that promises to turn the meekest man-boy into an alpha male, he doesn’t have a clue what he’s getting himself into. Two years later, his sister Maya sets out to uncover th...

`This is a book about a well-known writer, Lewis Carroll, and about a little-known subject, the theory of voting' (from the Editors' Introduction).This book has been edited from the manuscripts of the late Scottish economist Duncan Black. Shortly after the publication of The Theory of Committees and Elections Black started to collect material for papers and a book on Lewis Carroll's theory of proportional representation. Black's chapter plans made i...