Jadie's story is one of hope, healing, and victory in Christ.When she was a young girl, Jadie and her family experienced a brutal attack while serving as missionaries on the island nation of Palau in the South Pacific. That dark night left her physically, emotionally, and spiritually traumatized. Jadie had the choice to live the life of a victim or to walk the hard road of healing that leads to wholeness in Christ.Though she faced physical injury, emotional scarring, fear, ...

The apostle Paul allegorically compared the physical body to a personal temple where God can dwell. Hezekiah described specific guidelines necessary to restore an individual temple damaged by disuse and disrepair. Those guidelines correlate well with the frequently described steps required to achieve inner healing, peace, and recovery. Restoring Your Temple will walk readers through the Christ-centered, step-wise journey of moving out of denial and powerlessness into a recovered lifestyle....

"On the way living" is a learned skill, not an innate ability. Suddenly the homeless person, the prisoner, the addict, the person who argues with you in the grocery store, the disagreeable boss, the customer becomes an opportunity with a chance to intervene and offer life-changing hope, even when they were not your intended destination. When we put into practice "on the way living," we begin to see people differently--not as a threat or inconvenience, but as a mission field with opportunit...

A missionary family, a violent attack, and one woman’s brave determination to break free from trauma. Jadie’s story is one of forgiveness, hope, healing, and victory in Christ.When she was a young girl, Jadie (and her missionary family) experienced a brutal attack while on the island of Palau in the South Pacific. That one hellish night left her physically, emotionally, and spiritually damaged. Jadie had the choice to live the life of a victim or to walk the hard road of healing th...

Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019In this riveting true story of coming of age in the Chicago Mob, Charles “Charley” Hager is plucked from his rural West Virginia home by an uncle in the 1960s and thrown into an underworld of money, cars, crime, and murder on the streets of Chicago Heights.Street-smart and good with his hands, Hager is accepted into the working life of a chauffeur and “street tax” collector, earning the moniker “Little Joe College” by notorio...

In both paid and unpaid work contexts adults learn powerfully from their experiences. In this book, the authors argue that this should be the basis for a new perception of what is truly educational in life. Drawing on the works of Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Russell, along with contemporary conceptual work, they use both philosophical argument and empirical example to establish their view. This work will be of essential interest to philosophers of education and educational theorists worldw...

This book centres on a broadened view of complexity that will enrich engagement with complexity in the social sciences. The key idea is to employ complexity theory to develop a holistic account of practice, agency and expertise. In doing so, the book acknowledges and builds upon the relational character of reductive accounts. It draws upon recent theoretical work on complexity, emergence and relationality to develop a novel account of practice, agency and expertise in and for workplaces. B...

This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state-of-the-art overview of grasslands from multiple, interdisciplinary and global perspectives.Despite the real and intrinsic values that grasslands offer, they are globally subject to fragmentation, habitat and species loss, and they are increasingly threatened by climate change. From a human societal perspective, grasslands are central to much of our culture and represent areas where agriculture first arose. The Routledge ...

FM4 bot NachwuchsautorInnen und allen, die Lust am Geschichtenschreiben haben, die Chance, sich in kurzer Form literarisch über das Thema "haarig" auszulassen. Zehn der cirka 1.000 Beiträge wurden von einer hochkarätigen Jury gekürt und schafften es in die Anthologie Wortlaut 14. Die urteilenden Barbiere und Haarkünstlerinnen: Irene Diwiak (Gewinnerin Wortlaut 13), Jens Friebe (Musiker und Musikjournalist), Gerhard Haderer (Karikaturist und Zeichner), Eva Menasse (Schriftstellerin), David ...

Dr. Satanas holt zum alles vernichtenden Schlag gegen die PSA aus. Nach einem Anschlag auf einen Wolkenkratzer in New York gelingt es dem diabolischen Terroristen in die geheime Zentrale der PSA einzudringen. Sein Ziel: David Gallun alias X-RAY-1 zu töten! Iwan Kunaritschew ist schon seine Geisel ... in seiner Gewalt und dem Tode geweiht! Gleichzeitig bekommt Morna Ulbrandson von Dr. Jack Warren ein schockierendes Geheimnis gelüftet ... Larry Brent wir in die Unterwelt von Dr. Satanas gelo...