A bedrock text of American progressivism, Twenty Years at Hull-House tells the dramatic story of how social reformer Jane Addams cofounded and developed the Chicago settlement house into a community center dedicated to serving the city's immigrants and poor. Addams provides an eyewitness account of urban life in her lifetime while explaining the ideas and experiences that motivated her to dedicate her life to helping these Chicagoans. By arguing that Americans should respect immig...

People are hurting at a scale we've never seen. They're dealing with an onslaught of issues like anxiety, grief, mental illness, family troubles, and hopelessness. Pastors and counselors can't see everyone in need. This book can help.Based on national research with more than 2,000 church leaders, social researcher and bestselling author Shaunti Feldhahn and psychologist and professor Dr. James Sells show how this i...

People are hurting at a scale we’ve never seen. They’re dealing with an onslaught of issues like anxiety, grief, mental illness, family troubles, and hopelessness. Pastors and counselors can’t see everyone in need. This book can help.Based on national research with more than 2,000 church leaders, social researcher and bestselling author Shaunti Feldhahn and psychologist and professor Dr. James Sells show how this i...

From James Hollis, author of Letters to My Younger Self and The Geometry of Moving OnNot every letter is meant to be sent. Some are meant to be written—for you, and you alone.LETTERS TO THE ONE WHO HURT YOU is a gentle, guided workbook for anyone carrying the weight of old wounds. Whether you're struggling with a parent who wasn't there, a partner who left, a friend who betrayed you, or someone whose name you rarely speak—this book offers a safe space to write what you've n...

A powerful, no bullshit account of how a workplace incident changed James’ life. ’12 Reasons NOT to get hurt at work’ is written in a way that most people will relate to and without any spin or jargon. James Wood, known as 'Woody', is an internationally recognised award winning safety speaker who has taken to the written word to share some of the most common questions and discussion points from his 25 years of sharing his story at workplaces all over the world.'I wrote this short b...

James W. Moore says that “physical stress fractures are painful and troublesome, but there is another kind of stress fracture that is even worse—stress fractures of the spirit.”In his engaging style, the author provides guidance for those times in life when you need “healing where it hurts.” Drawing upon the Bible and stories of faith and hope from everyday experience, he tells how the healing power of love can bring healing and wholeness . . .· when life breaks your heart

As a society, we are only just beginning to understand the degree of damage that bullying inflicts on individual teenagers and on their relationships later in life. In this groundbreaking work, James Garbarino and Ellen deLara uncover the staggering extent of emotional cruelty and its ramifications and counter the nursery rhyme that words don't hurt.In this groundbreaking work, James Garbarino, the bestselling author of Lost Boys, and Ellen deLara uncover ...

The stories in this remarkable collection—including "An Anxious Man," winner of the National Short Story Prize (UK)—are vibrant and gripping. James Lasdun's great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the vertiginous moments when the essence of a life discloses itself. With forensic skill he exposes his characters' hidden desires and fears, drawing back the folds of their familiar self-delusions, their images of themselves, their habits and routines, to reveal their interior liv...

We all have a “this” moment. A major struggle in life, a sudden calamity, a burning wound we never could have prepared for. The impact can knock the spiritual wind out of us and leave us sprawled out on the ground—or send us straight to the strength of the Father. Whatever your “this” may be, God can use it to equip you with strength, and He has a plan to lovingly bring you into wholeness. In God Will See You Through This, author and teacher Dr. Jim Garlow humbly journeys alongside you to ...

A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacyFrom the divisiveness of the Trump era to the Covid-19 pandemic, alienation has become an all-too-familiar contemporary concept. In this groundbreaking book, James A. Tyner offers a novel framework for understanding the alienated subject, situating it within racial capitalism and white supremacy. Directly addressing current economic tre...

Mr. Walker studied and meditated on the upper-room discourse of Jesus given to his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion. This discourse is recorded in the Gospel of John 13–16. John shares the most precious promises of Jesus that tenderly comfort and provide hope and instructions on what to do after his departure. Mr. Walker found the promises of Jesus to be most comforting and encouraging during his time of deep grief. He wrote down his devotions and have shared them with other griever...

Christian parents are not exempt from the struggle and heartbreak caused by rebellious children. This softcover version of the classic resource The Hurting Parent by Margie Lewis, written with her son, bestselling author Gregg Lewis, for the first time offers the rest of the story that inspired the original edition of this book.The Hurting Parent takes a realistic approach to the problems young people face today--peer pressure, easy access to drugs and alcohol, an...