What does it mean to be compassionate? How does it go beyond merely caring for others? The last several years in America have seen a sharp decline in compassion. A deep political divide has surfaced, and even worse, those who are called most to be compassionate and caring have often betrayed the very beliefs they profess. It has created a roiling climate where "us against them" has become the initial focus on every issue. Each side would rather win than be proven right, because the other i...

By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture (PA) can make agriculture more productive and sustainable.This new edition of Precision agriculture for sustainability provides a comprehensive review of the key components of PA, from information gathering to delivery systems, as well as the wide range of applications from precision tillage and seeding to site-specific irrigation and nutrition. The book also discusses recent developments in precision crop protecti...

Expand your investment horizons and increase your returns with alternative assetsIn Grow Your Wealth Faster with Alternative Assets, one of Australia’s leading alternative asset managers, Travis Miller, delivers an eye-opening, jargon-free guide to the lucrative opportunities available in alternative investing. You’ll learn how to successfully diversify your portfolio with alternative assets like commercial property, infrastructure, private equity, private...

Neil Anderson, author of the bestselling The Bondage Breaker™, and his coauthors expose the trauma of legalism to let you see how Christ frees you from your efforts to be “good enough for God.”Far too many Christians believe that the Christian life is “trying hard to do what God commands.” But making laws into lords estranges you from Christ. In this liberating book, the authors uncoverthe chains of legalism: shame, guilt, and pridethe ...

When analytical game designer Nolan Reed discovers an antique mirror at a secluded estate sale, a single touch activates an ancient magic that catapults him into the curvaceous body of a woman named Selena. Suddenly navigating the world through unfamiliar eyes, Nolan confronts a torrent of new sensations and an intensifying, forbidden attraction to the man now inhabiting his original male form.As the boundaries between self and other dissolve, Nolan grapples with deep questions of ...

Winner, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeNarcissus Americana sings and scraps and wrestles its way across various landscapes—abandoned quarries, art museums, lavish homes, and tar pits—in a quest to attain a more complex vision of what it means to be upwardly mobile.These poems question the usefulness of wealth and ownership as markers of success. Taking wine fridges and fake flowers as emblems of capitalism’s failure to assuage human loneliness, t...

This volume explores dynamic conversations through history between individuals and communities over questions about religion and state. Divided into two sections, our authors begin with considerations on the separation of religion and state, as well as Roger Williams’ concept of religious freedom. Authors in the first half consider nuanced debates centered on emerging narratives, with particular emphasis on Native America, Early Americans, and experiences in American immigration after Inde...

康拉德在剛果目睹真正的恐怖、亞瑟．柯南．道爾找到埋葬福爾摩斯的完美地點、安徒生去了義大利才成為小說家、伊薩克．迪尼森來到非洲，又遠離非洲、路易斯．卡羅在俄羅斯發現仙境、費茲傑羅在蔚藍海岸的光輝中看見奢華生活、凱魯亞克第一次在路上還不知道他會寫出《在路上》……如果對我們所有人來說，生活是趟旅行，對作家來說，脫離日常的旅行則是新題材的來源。轉換場景的確能為創造性的想像力帶來奇蹟。正如本書所希望呈現的，某些了不起的文學作品，是作家對自己造訪之處的回應，是作家遠離定型的周遭環境的直接結果，也可能是作家在一個新國家擁抱新生活的產物。從一八四一年赫爾曼．梅爾維爾第一次從紐約到利物浦的捕鯨航行，到傑克．凱魯亞克的公路奧德賽（現已成為標誌性的駕...

The Power of a Simple Song"If I had to pick my favorite Overstreet song, it would have to be 'Forever and Ever, Amen' ... Over the years, I've recorded quite a few Paul Overstreet songs. I consider myself very fortunate each time I stand before and audience and sing his songs. More often than any other time, I see the powerful effect his words have on people."— From the Foreword by Randy TravisSeldom has an American Country musician c...

Wouldn't it be great if you could just sit there on your duff while customers came to you—with no need for cold-calling, prospecting, hard-selling, or flat-out begging for business? Too bad it doesn't work that way in the real world. Or does it?In Gravitational Marketing, you'll discover just how easy it is to create a low-cost, high-powered marketing system that attracts a steadily growing stream of customers into your business day after day, month upon month, for years to come.

Prequel to Ascent of the Fallen, Book I of the Chronicles. Set almost a decade before, Lord Fallondon Breck is a young knight searching for glory and purpose in the Kingdom of Heaven. After campaigns near Jerusalem he is stationed along a pilgrim road in Syria and tasked with an important mission: find and stop an unknown killer crucifying those traveling to Antioch.Fallondon's company of knights are dispatched to Ghmam, a remote village in the Syrian hills near Tishreen. ...

What if self-caring behaviors like commitment to nutrition, early rising, productive living, and physical vitality are already inside of you and waiting to be released? What if the only thing holding you back from these is simply an unawareness of their existence and purpose? What if the secret to success was not in the acquisition of personality, but in the uncaging of it? What if the best and real you is not an end product but a current reality? What if you weren't standing on buried tre...