The Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus, is the most destructive and invasive termite species globally. It is also the only termite species listed in the world's 100 worst invasive alien species of the Global Invasive Species Database. Annually, its infestation costs more than $4 billion in control and damage repairs in the USA alone. This book is the first comprehensive resource drawing on all the literature on C. formosanus since Tokuichi Shiraki first described the spe...

A way of life: embracing grace, seeking holiness, building connections.United Methodist people long to love God and serve their neighbors. Unrelenting Grace by Bishop Ken Carter shows us how to come together and embrace grace, seek holiness, and build meaningful connections promoting strength and healing. Unrelenting Grace evokes insights and courage to overcome feelings of isolation, loneliness, and alienation.The book is an inspiring and...

A way of life: embracing grace, seeking holiness, building connections.United Methodist people long to love God and serve their neighbors. Unrelenting Grace by Bishop Ken Carter shows us how to come together and embrace grace, seek holiness, and build meaningful connections promoting strength and healing. Unrelenting Grace evokes insights and courage to overcome feelings of isolation, loneliness, and alienation.The book is an inspiring and...

Kenneth Weinberg, born into a family of physicians and humanitarian relatives passionate about politics, literature, humor, and art, developed a unique blend of interests. His education and career took shape during the tumultuous '60s and '70s, first as he pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, earning a degree in Television and Film Production and then, working in that field for four years. However, having grown up with a father and grandfather as doctors a...

When a storm threatens his life, one man discovers that God's grace is stronger than the waves.Kenneth Pullin had everything he thought he needed—family, success, and the confidence of a man who believed he was in control. But when a routine fishing trip in the Chesapeake Bay turns into a life-or-death battle against nature's fury, he's forced to face the truth: only faith can hold him steady when everything else breaks.In this gripping true story, The ...

No matter how difficult the situations you have faced or are facing, you can still overcome them.The things we go through are only shaping us to be able to receive the greater things that God has in store for us later in life. These situations are just pushing us into the purpose and destiny that God has for us.Life can sometimes be a struggle, and we may feel hopeless. Often, we go through things that we have no control over; things that were never our fault, and that we s...

Découvrez comment gérer les conflits grâce à la coopération et l'affirmation de soi avec le modèle Kenneth Thomas. Ce livre vous présentera les principes et les stratégies pour créer des environnements de travail inclusifs, où chaque individu peut apporter sa contribution unique et se sentir valorisé.

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book...

Discover the heart of Wesleyan theology.Explore the heart of Wesleyan theology through an engaging and accessible narrative that speaks to both heart and mind. This book shares John Wesley’s teachings, where the themes of inclusion, love, and unity take center stage.The generous, even lavish, nature of John Wesley’s practical theology reveals the freedom and outgoing love of the divine Being, who calls forth people to overcome the divisions and tribalism of...

Wesleyan Leadership Is About Character.Grace to Lead: Practicing Leadership in the Wesleyan Tradition, Revised Edition offers a clear and practical guide for pastors, teachers, and Christian leaders shaped by the Wesleyan vision of grace. Drawing on the insights of the 18th-century Wesleyan revival and the best of contemporary scholarship, Bishop Kenneth Carder and Dr. Laceye Warner show how leadership rooted in grace forms character, inspires mission, and...

Why The Holy Spirit Matters Today is a journey, chapter by chapter, into a deeper life with the Spirit; a life marked, not by striving, but by surrender; not by confusion, but by clarity; not by fear, but by fullness. Each chapter is designed to be built upon the last, and the book begins with the Holy Spirit's presence, and continues on, through His power, character, gifts, guidance, and mission.If you've longed to hear God's voice experience His power, or find purpose in your fai...

Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. Kenneth S. Calhoon examines this tension against an extensive backdrop that includes a number of canonical German authors – Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Lessing, von Kleist, and Nietzsche – as well as the advent of Meissen porcelain, the painting of Bernardo Bell...