Flourishing in Faith: Theology Encountering Positive Psychology explores the fascinating dialogue between two scholarly traditions concerned with personal wellbeing, Christian theology and Positive Psychology, primarily from the perspective of theology. Although each works within different paradigms and brings different fundamental assumptions about the nature of the world, both are oriented toward that which leads to human flourishing and contentment. In such an encounter, can both discip...

This book is designed to supplement the 2025 Doctrine and Covenants Come, Follow Me Church curriculum year. The Doctrine and Covenants beautifully illustrates that the Lord Jesus Christ lives and speaks today. By integrating both spiritual and secular understanding and insights, this volume explores how the Doctrine and Covenants teaches doctrine, principles, laws, prophecies, typologies, and gospel applications.

Do you know the event that begins the Christmas story? It happens fifteen months before the birthof Jesus.Do you know the person Mary spoke to first about her visit from the angel Gabriel? It wasn't Joseph.Did you know that Herod sided with Marc Antonyand Cleopatra against Rome in the years beforeJesus was born? Do you know how the Roman Civil Wars affected the birth of our Lord?Did you know there was a treasure hunt the nightof Chris...

While quantitative analyses of higher education in India are plentiful, informed research on higher education policy at the State level remains limited. This volume seeks to fill that gap. It is the outcome of a multi-state study sponsored by the ICSSR, examining higher education policies in four southern States—Andhra Pradesh (pre-bifurcation), Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu—and the western State of Maharashtra. Set against both historical contexts and contemporary realities, each Stat...

Knowledge.Something he had come to love—a beacon of hope, a guiding light.Power.Something he had been forced to chase—a burden he never wished to bear.Truth.A force that consumes, easy to seek but merciless in its embrace.When Claude stumbles upon a vestige of forgotten divinity, he becomes entwined with a reality far beyond his understanding. To uncover the truth, he must walk the path set befor...

She’s no damsel in distress.I’m not an optimist. Or a pessimist. I’m a realist. After catching the unwanted attention of Seven Shanahan, the school bully and jock at the upper echelon of high school royalty, I prep for a battle of wills and aim to win, even at the cost of getting my heart broken.He’s the wrong guy to mess with.The new girl, Leigh Kim, should cool her temper. Be less defiant and a pain in my ass with this push-pull of me saving her life and she eveni...

There once was this boy I loved very much. He would leave a rose on my doorstep on my birthdays and on the anniversary of the day we met.I don’t know what happened to him. I lost my memory and my ability to speak after a horrendous hit-and-run accident.A different boy shows up like clockwork at the bar I bartend at, but he’s not a boy. He’s all man. Tall. Imposing. Brooding. Guns for arms. Doesn’t speak a lick to me. He stares at me from his dark corner with this intensity,...

This is the essential resource and job-hunting guide for all those interested in international careers in the US government, multinational corporations, banks, consulting companies, international and nongovernmental organizations, the media, think tanks, universities, and more. Careers in International Affairs, now in its ninth edition, provides up-to-date insights about the range of possibilities in the global workplace and tips on how to get these jobs—along with profiles of hun...

He was my first crush. My best friend. The boy I loved before I knew what love was.Rhys Miles**.** Jet-black hair. Hazel eyes that could see right through me. Reckless, irresistible, and Willowbrook’s own Supercross golden boy.I always thought he'd be part of my life forever.Then two life-changing moments shattered everything between us.Rhys is back in Willowbrook for his grandmother's funeral. He plans to leave as soon as it's over...

What would you do if, after finally finding the woman of your dreams, she suddenly leaves to fight in the Civil War?It’s 1863, and Elizabeth Hepscott has resigned herself to a life of monotonous boredom far from the battlefields as the wife of a Missouri rancher. Her fate changes when she travels with her brother to Kentucky to help him join the Union Army. On a whim, she poses as his little brother and is bullied into enlisting, as well. Reluctantly pulled into a new destiny, a la...

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook…It’s 1923 and at Thistlecrook House, a forbidding home on the Scottish border, the roaring twenties seem not to have arrived. But Simon Christie has – a young man who can’t believe his luck when he gets a job cataloguing the infamous art collection of the Mordrake family. Yet from the moment he gets off the train at the deserted village station he can’t shift a headache and a sense that there...

Come back home to a small-town Christmas through the ages...From its founding to the present day, Homewood, Minnesota’s open arms always offer a shining Moravian star and a Christmas to remember. Journey with the first family to settle in Homewood as they embark from the East. Stick around when troubles threaten to turn Homewood into another ghost town. Follow a song of hope and an old violin in the aftermath of war. Sit with a hurting couple in need of a Christmas miracle to compl...