The author begins and ends with the challenging question that many ask today: How do our lives make sense in light of the life of Jesus?Drawing on Jesus's gospel parables and sayings and Paul's letters, each chapter invites readers to explore the virtues of wisdom, love, justice, courage, temperance and transcendence. Jesus's 1st century life deserves our continuing study as we develop a truly mindful spirituality for 21st century well being.Professor McGovern's distinguish...

In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Ramona Harrison and Ruth A. Maherhave compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute greatly to anthropological archaeology. This book assembles a regional model through which the reader is presented with a vivid and detailed image of the climatic events and cultures which have occupied these seas and lands for rough...

A Passionate Call to Save College Sports Before It's Too LateCollege athletics as we know it faces extinction. The beloved institution that has captivated fans for generations is on a collision course with professionalization that will destroy everything we cherish about amateur sports.The Crisis is Real and Urgent.NIL chaos, transfer portal madness, and runaway commercialization are pushing college athletics toward full professiona...

The first major biography of the 1972 U.S. presidential candidate and unsung champion of American liberalismThe Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. In this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George McGovern's life from his rustic boyhood in a South Dakota prairie town during the Depression to his rise t...

Alcohol Problems in the United States: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective presents an overview of trends in the treatment of alcohol problems over a 20-year period from three vantage points: broader treatment perspectives, experienced views from the field, and personal perspectives. Some of the field's foremost experts, including Alcoholics Anonymous historian Dr. Ernest Kurtz and Dr. Robert Sparks, who chaired the committee that authored the Institute of Medicine’s highly influential s...

Sixteen short stories by Thomas McGovern:As Far as Tulsa / Dealing at the "Dove" / Winesburg, New Jersey / A Counseling Life / The Comedian / The Suit Coat / A Festive Occasion / Of Love and Local Color / The Wisdom of the Turk / The Girl Who Didn't Marry Clark Gable (1. At Home / 2. Rectory / 3. Rectory, Home) / Faculty Room Imbroglio / The Education of James P. Mulvaney (A Vocation Lost and Found) / In This Corner / Time of the Wangels / Mensch / Women and Some Philosophers

It had been hundreds of years since humanity and their Witch allies had been forced to retreat to the fortress cities after the disastrous war to eliminate the Magi Clans.Nuclear weapons had burned the skies, and Grand Magic pulled entire continents beneath the seas before the end, but the victory was secured, no Magi was left alive in their slowly recovering world.Or so they thought.Wolfe Noxus was born on the lower levels of a fortress city run by the Morgana Cove...

Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale political, economic, and environmental changes, shown to have recurring patterns and trajectories. The human past provides examples of long-term millennial and century-scale successes followed by undesired transitions (“collapse”), and rapid failure of collaborative management cooperation on the decadal scale. Management of scarce resources a...

An in-depth look at the relevance of religious and spiritual issues to alcohol and drug use and abuse throughout the lifespanSpiritual issues and forgiveness are oft-neglected topics in treatment programs for substance abusers. This unique book brings those underrated components of recovery to the forefront through current research, cas

So, that's how my life ends, what a waste of time... These were the last thoughts of a young man, shot by accident in a fight between local gangs. Little did he know that he would soon wake up in another world, a world of Cultivation! Thrust into a new world, Noah Balvan will need to overcome social injustices, magical beasts, and the cutthroat world of Cultivation. This is the story of the Balvan Family bastard, of a transmigrator who previously had no purpose in life, of a boy who will b...

Under the alias "Vance," Noah arrives in Elbas City to continue his relentless pursuit of strength. Joining the Hunters’ Guild provides the perfect cover to slaughter magical beasts and fuel his unorthodox cultivation methods, but anonymity is a luxury he cannot maintain for long.Noah soon finds himself ensnared in a dangerous political game between the ruling Elbas dynasty and a rising faction of rebellious nobles. Treated as a pawn by the Royals and a threat by the nobles, Noah m...

For more than half a century, the Village Voice served as America’s most influential alternative newspaper—a fearless chronicler of politics, culture, and everyday life in New York City. American Bohemia gathers the extraordinary photographs that helped define the paper’s visual identity and shaped how readers saw the city and themselves. Bringing together work by nearly fifty photographers, this richly illustrated volume captures the radical energy, artistic experimentat...