Dark illustrations in this heartwarming read-aloud picture book make it a perfect bedtime story.Share the classic story of Madelon and the Christmas Rose. The Christmas Rose tells the classic tale of the First Christmas and Madelon, a young shepherdess. Inspired by the generosity of the Three Wise Men as they present gifts to Baby Jesus, Madelon yearns to offer her own present, setting the stage for a poignant journey of giving and faith.The Christ...

This is a beautiful and inspirational story from when Jesus was a little boy. In this children's book about Jesus' life, we gain an insight into the character of Jesus as a boy and His life, and through the story of Jesus in the Temple after Passover, it also gently teaches the wonderful lesson of obedience, love and respect to parents and the charm of a pure and holy childhood. The story is perhaps all the more interesting because it is full of everyday life's human interest.Child...

This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.

Emotions are central to social life and thus they should be central to organization theory. However, emotions have been treated implicitly rather than theorized directly in much of organization theory, and in some literatures, have been ignored altogether. This Element focuses on emotions as intersubjective, collective and relational, and reviews structuralist, people-centered and strategic approaches to emotions in different research streams to provide one of the first broad examinations ...

Paradise Regained is a poem by English poet John Milton, first published in 1671. The volume in which it appeared also contained the poet's closet drama Samson Agonistes. Paradise Regained is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes; indeed, its title, its use of blank verse, and its progression through Christian history recall the earlier work. However, this effort deals primarily with the temptation of Chris...

This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason that she never sought to be so. Because she understood the sphere in which a woman's work in the world must usually lie, and led her life truly along the lines that God had laid down for her; because she suffered bravely, forgot herself for others, and remained faithful to her noble ideals, she ruled as a queen amongst those with whom her life was cast....

New formulations of globalisation have radically altered how people conceptualize the movement of people, ideas and capital throughout the globe, with questions of securitisation and transnational sentiment re-shaping long-standing Western concepts of asylum and human rights. Questioning the manner in which the reception of sanctuary in modern Australia changes migrants' sense of belonging, this interdisciplinary volume focuses on the disjuncture between receiving sanctuary and feeling sec...

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Anna Wahlenberg.

Evaluation is ubiquitous. Indeed, it isn't an exaggeration to say that we assess actions, character, events, and objects as good, cruel, beautiful, etc., almost every day of our lives. Although evaluative judgement - for instance, judging that an institution is unjust - is usually regarded as the paradigm of evaluation, it has been thought by some philosophers that a distinctive and significant kind of evaluation is perceptual. For example, in aesthetics, some have claimed that adequate ae...

Devastated by a diagnosis of stage 3 breast cancer, A Wild Adventure on the Big C tells how Anna turned an ordeal into an adventure, tapping into her body's magical powers of self-healing and stepping into self-sovereignty. This book is the story of how she healed herself without conventional medicine - gently, beautifully, magically and very quickly.'Dreams can save your life,' says Anna. 'I believe they saved mine.'Being terrified of the conventional approach to ...

The Dr. Sebi alkaline diet is otherwise called the ph. wonder, ph. balance diet, or the acid-alkaline food in addition to other things. It was dependent on the theory that everything that you eat can either make your body develop acid or to turn out to be progressively alkaline. For somebody beginning this diet, it very well may be overpowering, attempting to make sense of what is excellent (alkaline) and what is terrible (acidic). There are many basic diet rules. The essential thought is ...

Offering a comprehensive review of the field from basic scientific concepts to assessment and treatment strategies, this reference provides an excellent understanding of the epidemiology, diagnosis, and prevention of acute and chronic wounds-analyzing the latest research from some of the most experienced clinicians and scientists in the field, as w