Because He First Loved Me is not your ordinary deliverance story! It is a powerful lesson designed to teach you about the heights and depths that God goes to find and recover a soul that has escaped His care. In this powerful book, you will follow debut author, Amanda Moore, as she details her harrowing journey through the shadows of rejection and abandonment and into alcoholism, drug abuse, self- harming, self-hatred, promiscuity, witchcraft and darkness. Her testimony will have you on th...

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean VuongEngaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, Amanda Moore explores the various roles a woman plays in the family, the home, and the world at ...

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean VuongEngaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, Amanda Moore explores the various roles a woman plays in the family, the home, ...

This comprehensive collection of the latest research and policy developments in civic service worldwide provides an informed assessment of what works and what doesn't work in the field. With contributions from some of the discipline's best-known global leaders, it presents a conceptualization and operational definition of civic service that allows for variations across nations and cultures. "Civic Service Worldwide" offers a perspective on the history and potential for civic service from i...

The Spring 2023 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2023 Issue, guest-edited by Alice Hoffman, features poetry and prose by Danusha Lameris, Jennifer Haigh, Victor...

The Winter 2023-24 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features poetry and prose by Richard Bausch, Jesse Lee Kercheval,...

"Striving to Save will inform and inspire social policy with its breakthrough approach in understanding how low-income families make ends meet while striving to make a better life for themselves and their families. Scholarly work in savings, debt, household finance, and behavior economics will benefit from this pioneering study that provides real-life context for some of the most important issues of our day."---Tom Shapiro, Brandeis University"The central contributi...

The Goddess of the Moon has been silenced. Mother is imprisoned and nearly lost to time. But yet their prophecy is whispered through the pages of his father's book to Merek-the only creature in all the Realms who stands a chance at putting an end to the tyranny of the Goblin King Molag and his corruptive mists over the once united Realms. Merek's only friend, a beast of a wolf, the two orphaned to the haunted forest of Wedgemore. In a race against time, magics and creatures of old, will th...

Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, a neoliberal individualist and competitive mindset, and classical music’s white patriarchal roots. The editors of this v...

Leading Millennial Faculty: Navigating the New Professoriate explores how to effectively lead millennial faculty as they navigate the new professoriate. Contributors address some stereotypical millennial characteristics—being achievement oriented, connected to the world at large, relatively sheltered, and unaware of hierarchy in higher education—and how these characteristics create advantages and challenges for all generations in the higher education workplace.

Leonard Quill, private investigator, never expected a case to walk through his door quite like this one, complete with murder, a frame job, blackmail, and powerful players, especially coming from a man with bright blue eyes behind his glasses, a crooked bow tie, and an impossible smile.

Exceptional Minds brings you a unique mindset that helps you improve team-building skills, traits that will help you grow as a leader and as an individual that seeks to enhance your everyday results. Exceptional Minds showcases a self-development mindset that can help anyone overcome obstacles and improve their quality of communication. This book offers knowledge that can help further develop our self-awareness and skill sets to improve our overall life experience.