Numbers of Faith by Daniel Miranda is a thought-provoking exploration of the unseen connections between numbers and spirituality. Beginning with ancient beliefs that numbers hold divine significance, the book traces their role in shaping human understanding of faith, destiny, and purpose. It unpacks how civilizations across history—from Babylonian astrologers to modern mystics—found patterns in numbers that guided rituals, predictions, and prayers. Miranda seamlessly blends historical insi...

The Millennial Generation, those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, is the most educated, digitally connected, and globalized in the history of the world. Around the globe, this generation encompasses 1.8 billion people--a quarter of the world's population--and will soon produce a majority of the world's political, economic, and social leaders. Millennials grew up experiencing the terrorist attacks of September 11, the perpetual "war on terror", the global proliferation of th...

Immersed in her old diary and unfinished story, Eve Green finds herself in the old room that she had left in haste two decades ago. She recalls how, at thirteen, she followed a path of utter danger and uncertainty just to find answers about her beloved father who mysteriously left her and her distraught mother. The person who leads her to her father is someone who is supposed to have died years ago. Eve uncovers that the father that she looks up to is not who he seems.

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A few days after his father dies, sixteen year old Andrew Gray meets his mother for the first time. Wallowing in self-pity in the comforts of his bedroom, Andrew accidentally finds a brass key with the same initials carved into it that he had seen engraved in a secret door in the house.Using the key to unlock it, Andrew finds himself in a mystifying old study. He discovers a mysterious book with indecipherable words and strange pieces of old furniture. Andrew figures out the words ...

Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change: Children and Youth in Diverse International Contexts considers the shifting social, political, economic, and educational structures shaping contemporary experiences, understandings, and practices of citizenship among children and youth in diverse international contexts. As such, this edited book examines the meaning of citizenship in an era defined by monumental global change. Chapters from across b...

This open access thematic report identifies factors and conditions that can help schools and education systems promote tolerance in a globalized world. The IEA’s International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS) is a comparative research program designed to investigate the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens, and provides a wealth of data permitting not only comparison between countries but also comparisons between schools within countries, and stude...

Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.

Kody Keplinger both returns to the halls of Hamilton High and explores new territory in her collection of two e-book exclusive novellas. In these short stories, the author revisits a familiar cast of characters from THE DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) and A Midsummer's Nightmare. Explore the uniquely teen world of high school drama, secrets, and romantic entanglements from completely fresh perspectives that will intrigue fans of Kody Keplinger and new readers alike.

"Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad mood. A mad-faced mood."To start, Judy Moody doesn't have high hopes for third grade. Her new desk won't have an armadillo sticker with her name on it. Her new classroom will not have a porcupine named Roger. And with her luck, she'll get stuck sitting in the first row, where Mr. Todd will notice every time she tries to pass a note to her best friend, Rocky. An aspiring doctor, Judy does have a little brother who co...

While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift in orientation from a focus on children’s protection and provision to an emphasis on children’s...

A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe—unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler’s clutches—in this action-packed suspense novel by bestselling author Anne Perry.“Unbearably suspenseful . . . pushes the envelope and succeeds on nearly every level.”—BookreporterIt is the summer of 1934, and Hitler is nearing the summit of supreme power in Germany. When Britain’s MI6 gets word that a German scientist ha...