"I retired in 2004 after 35 years of teaching.Rad was already retired and restless to finda place where he could have a horse. ..."From a comfortable suburban setting to a rural Texas farm. And, back. A not-so-young woman less than enthusiastically accompanies her husband in relocating to a rural Texas farm in search of a home with horses, cows and barn cats. When her husband suddenly passes away, she finds herself in charge.Light-hearted, humorous and fille...

Advent: A Season of WonderA season of anticipation: " What would you feel like if you knew that soon-very soon you would have the opportunity to accept an offering of complete amnesty for all your mistakes and debts, even those inadvertent ones made out of ignorance? This would create an eagerly awaited point in time. It would offer an eagerly anticipated sense of incredible release from all doubts and fears. This would be a jubilant event and a fantastic opportunity for expression...

In this follow-up to her bestseller, Trauma-Sensitive Schools, Susan Craig provides secondary school teachers and administrators with a trauma-sensitive approach to instruction that will improve students’ achievement. The text provides an overview of the effects of three types of trauma on adolescent development: early childhood adversity, community violence, and systemic inequities.Book Features:Provides an overview of the effects of three types of trauma on...

Once before God called out a people to be His special people and a priestly nation before the world. Now again God has called out people to be His and walk before Him as an example to all peoples, calling the people of the world to Him. Now as then He is ingathering us from the far country to which we had wandered and setting us on our betrothal journey home. We can discern much from the first such journey of ingathering that can assist and encourage us as we set out on our own journey of ...

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives on Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including:• Exploration of major and lesser-known works, translations, and lyrics, such as The Canterbury Tal...

A rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry into how classical rhetorical traditions continue to inform, challenge, and enrich modern legal reasoning and jurisprudence.Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law: A Critical Reader is a rich work that analyzes the interplay between ancient rhetorical traditions and modern legal practice, reestablishing the lost connections between law and classical rhetoric. From Isocrates’s Panegyricus in 380 BCE to...

“Kudos! Susan Craig has done it again. After Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt, she has written a book that will help administrators and educators truly make schoolwide trauma sensitivity a regular part of the way their schools are run. A major contribution to education reform.”—Susan Cole, director, Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative, Massachusetts Advocates for Children, and Harvard Law School.“Dr. Craig’s message is clear that promoting ...

Hope: expressed as anticipation, expectation, preparation, and transformation.Gladness: expressed as illumination, celebration, appreciation, and jubilation.Promise: expressed in constancy, guidance, providence, and comfort.Love: expressed in perseverance, faith, forgiveness, and truth.Then it seemed natural to look at what had been told about the purpose of this greatest of gifts from God. I explored the wonder of Advent and the reasons for it. This explora...

A Little One Shall Leadshares the encouragingstories of 17 congregations that, despite limited worship attendance and financial resources, have outsized impact with their ministries. Co-authorsSusan McNeily Craig and Douglas Allan Dunlap, of the Small Church Story Project, treat these snapshots of small church life with care and reverence for the Holy at work in life-affirming ways.

Costing for the Fashion Industry is a practical, easy-to-use guide to the manufacture, sourcing and risk management methods essential to make a new fashion business venture financially viable.Each chapter focuses on a theme, such as entrepreneurship, time constraints, global awareness and new markets and sourcing, alongside practical exercises and detailed industry case studies to put the theory into context. This second edition explores capital investment decisions, the c...

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world’s deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major land use change, the damming of rivers, the engineering of coasts and the growth of some of the world’s largest me...

In today’s culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions explores what that means with a wide-ranging collection of chapters that consider the many ways in which contemporary pop music performances of gender and sexuality are politically engaged and even radical. With analyses rooted in feminist and queer thought, contributors explore music from d...