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The 3T's of Ministry is a very practical and pragmatic guide to any ministry leader on how to avoid burning out while working in ministry. Bishop Christopher A. Johnson gives insight to various principles that has been effective in his time in ministry and also pulls from a collection of experienced pastors who have served in ministry. The book begins with Johnson acquainting the reader with "Pastor Burnout" which is a fictitious character tha...

China's reemergence as a great power over the next few decades represents the primary strategic challenge for the U.S.-Japan security alliance and for the East Asian security landscape writ large. A clearer understanding of the fundamental underpinnings and trajectory of China's foreign policy and security strategies toward the region is necessary to navigate these challenges and assure stability and prosperity in Asia. As such, this report se...

The study of kinship remains a lively concern among historians, sociologists, and anthropologists. One of the very attractive features of the volume is its crossdisciplinary representation from these fields but also from literature...[and] the mix of senior and junior scholars." · Mary Lindemann, University of Miami "The essays are of uniform excellence and interest, written by established scholars, including very well known scholars, the e...

The word "blood" awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors to this volume develop those questions in new directions. Taking a radically historical perspective that complements traditional cultural analyses, they demonstrate how blood and kinship have constantly b...

Architectural and historical surveys of many of the most important buildings in Lincoln.

Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany-Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant-who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Action, Thrill und jede Menge Bruce:Drei Knaller-Willis-Filme in einer Box. Die Action-Ikone zeigt in allen Streifen wo der Hammer hängt, ob als Schakal, als Bote, der durch die Zeit reisen muss oder als Kopfgeldjäger in der Zukunft - keiner entkommt dem schlitzohrigen, knallharten Chameur....- Looper- 12 Monkeys- Der Schakal

Action, Thrill und jede Menge Bruce:Drei Knaller-Willis-Filme in einer Box. Die Action-Ikone zeigt in allen Streifen wo der Hammer hängt, ob als Schakal, als Bote, der durch die Zeit reisen muss oder als Kopfgeldjäger in der Zukunft - keiner entkommt dem schlitzohrigen, knallharten Chameur....- Looper- 12 Monkeys- Der Schakal

All children get sick now and then, and most of the time they soon get well. How do they do that? How does it happen? When a mother brings her sick child to the doctor for something trivial, like a runny nose, or for something more serious, like difficulty breathing, she usually hears from the doctor that this or that treatment will make the child better, or that no treatment is needed at all. Some parents are content with little information, ...

While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in any detail. This book, centered largely on the European experience of families scattered geographically, challenges the dominant narratives of modernizat...

In his first collection of poems, &luckier, , Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and--even more so--selves.

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A two-year-old develops a nasty cough and after experiencing breathing problems, his concerned parents take him to the emergency room. The doctor on call diagnoses his symptoms as croup, prescribes treatment, but days later the cough is no better. After another trip to the emergency room, x-rays, respiratory therapy, and treatment for asthma, the little boy still cannot shake his cough and breathing difficulties. Finally, two weeks later, the ...

A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.

My Mom Was my Dad is not just another book on parenting. This book was written to help single mothers deal with raising boys. Based on my life story of how I was raised in a single - parent home due to the death of my father, I wanted to take single mothers on a journey of what they will face as they try to raise a boy to a man. I cover deep topics such as, the discussion of the bird's and the bee's, along with showing a young man how to pay b...

The first African-American heavyweight champion of the world in his own words

The greatest power requires the lightest touch. "Getting Dressed From The Inside" tempted my soul and mesmerized my eyes. It is true that words can change, captivate and endure." Jenny Pashalides (age 24) Department Manager "Getting Dressed From The Inside" changed my life! After I finished reading it in one day it made me realize how much of a beautiful person I really am. I was always caught up in my displeasure with my outer appearance that...

This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric (Gongora, Quevedo, and Sor Juana), English drama ("King Lear" and translations of Seneca), and French philosophy (Descartes and Pascal), Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation. Grounding his re...

A great philosopher said that "Anger is the fluid that love bleeds when it is cut." From that quote and my personal studies of relationships, this book was birthed. I wrote this book to help mend the wound that is caused whenever a person is forced to deal with an emotionally traumatic event such as a break-up. Whether a relationship ends with a goodbye or ends in a violent abrupt way, you have to heal from it. We all, as human beings, go thro...