Dedicated to military and those in service.You see a friend or a stranger, and they are sufferingand perhaps you think, If only I could tell them the secret of what I knowthen they could be healed.Diana Lynn Rogers wrote this book for that very reason: She wants others to rediscover hope by coming to know the Lord in ways they have never imagined. She shares how shes overcome challenges and tragedies by relying on the Lords strength. God alone was ...

Bears are iconic animals, playing a variety of roles in human culture. They have been portrayed as gods, monsters, kings, fools, brothers, lovers, and dancers; they are seen as protectors of the forest; symbols of masculinity; a comfort for children; and act as symbols for conservation and environmental issues. They also symbolise wilderness, reinforcing and maintaining our connection to the natural world. And stories abound of cultures that gathered berries in the same fields as bears and...

This textbook offers students and practitioners an accessible introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case studies, the book will allow readers to develop a critical understanding of how strengths-based approaches work, and how they can be successfully applied in order to improve outcomes for people with lived experience.Covering the five main models of st...

A dozen female Imagineers recount their trailblazing careers! Capturing an era — and preserving the stories they have told their daughters, their mentees, their husbands, and their friends — a dozen women Imagineers have written personal stories from their decades designing and building the Disney world-wide empire of theme parks. Illustrated with the women's personal drawings and photos in addition to archival Imagineering images, the book represents a broad swath of Imagineering's creati...

Disengagement from education among young people aged 11 to 19 remains of great concern. This book draws together current thinking and research in education and the social sciences to explore the complexities of the disengagement process and the long-term consequences of dropping out of school or college. It presents case studies of effective initiatives for preventing disengagement and for re-engaging young people in education. Lynne Rogers examines schools, colleges, juvenile justice sett...

Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today’s culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages about the interplay of local and global civic engagement. The focus is on three areas of youth civic engagement and cultural critique: homelessness, violence, and performing adolescence. The authors...

In Favorite Stops, readers are taken through a series of “thin places” in the author’s life where people, places and events give a glimpse of an unexpected, mysterious realm where heaven and earth come together. Some of the vignettes are funny, some poignant, some in a dream world, all providing a brief view of an invisible, yet very real, higher power. It is a book about outdoor adventures, remarkable trips to places around the globe, and people with a strong influence on the life of a ma...

A dozen female Imagineers recount their trailblazing careers! Capturing an era--and preserving the stories they have told their daughters, their mentees, their husbands, and their friends--a dozen women Imagineers have written personal stories from their decades designing and building the Disney world-wide empire of theme parks. Illustrated with the women's personal drawings and photos in addition to archival Imagineering images, the book represents a broad swath of Imagineering's creative...

FREE HarperImpulse Sampler!New titles for a New Year…HarperImpulse are delighted to introduce some fabulous new authors for the new year!We are so unbelievably excited about these books and we just couldn’t wait to share these first chapters with you.Happy 2014!

Now with a forward by Sean Hannity, this powerful story of brotherhood, bravery, and patriotism exposes the true stories behind some of the Army's darkest secrets.The Army does not want you to read this book. It does not want to advertise its detention system that coddles enemy fighters while putting American soldiers at risk. It does not want to reveal the new lawyered-up Pentagon war ethic that prosecutes U.S. soldiers and Marines while setting free spies who kil...

When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as distinguished music and dance scholars discuss the meaning of the work and its far-reaching inf...

This book provides a comprehensive outline of the major parent training programs for parents of children with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), including Autism Spectrum Disorder.Parents or primary caregivers spend the most time with a child, and training them in behaviour management and intervention strategies is critical to improving a child's behaviour, to helping them to learn new skills, and to reduce parental stress. Authored by eminent specialists in the fiel...