Before C. S. Lewis became one of the world's most influential Christian writers, he spent the Second World War speaking to RAF airmen facing fear, conflict, and death.These remarkable encounters helped shape the clear, compelling voice that would later reach millions through Mere Christianity and enriched the imagination that gave rise to The Chronicles of Narnia.In From Airmen to Aslan with C. S. Lewis, Bruce R. Johnson uncovers this remarkable but largely...

From the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a trip to Chile hides in his parents’ bedroom to avoid being caught fooling around with a local boy. An elderly couple attempts to scale a volcano, wrestling with their own physical limitations and an unbearable loss in their past. A father becomes convinced that a daycare has swapped his ...

Tactics and strategies to help business representatives succeed in foreign markets.Recession-hit American companies are sending people overseas in record numbers in search of new business. But sadly around seventy-five percent of these expats fail, costing an estimated two billion dollars a year. CEOs, vice presidents of international marketing, and HR departments must learn how to choose and educate the right people to send overseas. Beyond helping companies to sa...

Pedagogies of Possibility for Negotiating Sexuality Education with Young People offers a sustained and critical consideration of the possibilities and politics of engaging with young people in the redevelopment and delivery of contemporary approaches to Sexuality Education.Drawing on research undertaken as part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant, this book explores the affordances, tensions and challenges of participatory methodologies and pedagogies tha...

Everyone is creative. Creativity is a process which anyone can learn to use more effectively. This comprehensive creativity course will aid you in entertaining family audiences.It provides:A thorough discussion of the steps in the creative process.Guidance in going through the entire process from finding inspiration, to generating ideas, to selecting the best ideas, to completing your project.Examples and case studies about how the...

Have you ever felt distant from God? Have you ever questioned His purpose for your life? Are you fearful of taking that first step? To be honest, we all have, but this is the greatest lie of the enemy. While reading this devotional, you will realize that you have everything you need to pursue the purpose and calling God has for you. All you have to do is restart and take a risk on God!Known for his revelatory yet practical teaching style, Bruce Johnson, Jr's love...

Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture.Although beginning with reference to antiquity, the primary focus is the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the medieval period to the contemporary world. Since mythic times, sound has been an essential element in the formation of belief systems, personal and community id...

Discover how Visual Studio 2019 can improve your development process.Visual Studio is an integral part of the daily life of millions of developers worldwide. Even as this rich integrated development environment approaches two decades, it has never ceased in innovating ways to make developers’ work life more productive.Essential Visual Studio 2019 offers explicit guidance for the developer who is already familiar with Visual Studio, but might feel a...

This comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in your variety act.It provides:The fundamentals of comedyHistory of comedySpecific techniques that have been identified as tending to generate laughterExamples of how those techniques have been usedThought-provoking questions to help you decide how you might use those techniquesMethods enabling you t...

Stop juggling and start managing everything you need to do at home and at work.It used to be simple before kids: Say yes to everything, stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. But now you need a different mindset to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member.Getting It All Done can't teach you to be in two places at once, but it provides you with expert advice as you manage the challenges of succeeding at work while mak...

Bruce Johnson's debut novel Firmament offers a fictional meditation on the real life community of Caplin Cove Newfoundland. Resisting the sentimental or documentary approaches common to many Newfoundland novels Johnson braids songs folk-tales scripture dreams diaries and poems together into an expressionist work one where the grit of the mundane intersects with the mystery of human memory and dreams. At its heart is a preoccupation with the strange relationship among humans the pla...

There was no reason to bet on Bruce Johnson, given where he started out. Poor, Black, and raised by a single mother who had a secret. He was the child she hid in plain view from the rest of her family.Bruce would spend his youth at Chickasaw Park in Louisville—Kentucky’s segregated west end. He would grab the low hanging tree branches, then swing out over the Ohio River before dropping into the dangerous water below. He didn’t know how to swim, but was fearless and knew to paddle q...