Struggling with life's dark side? Longing for change?Begin the journey toward a transformed life! Many of us look at our lives and wish we could experience lasting life-change. We long to live in the light of our relationship with God, but find that we often reside in the troubling darkness of temptation. It's time to step onto the path that God has laid out for us, the only path that will lead us toward the life we long for. It's time to emba...
With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the genetic program that evolution has written for the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand, and researchers hope to uncover the genetic roots of illness and develop new therapies for most major diseases. Here, "New York Times" science writer Nicholas Wade describes the race to decode the genome and how the new knowledge will transform medicine. Soon, phys...
Recognizing the very real emotions that parents feel, "Good and Angry" taps into the constructive side of anger and teaches new strategies for addressing the things children do that drive parents crazy. It outlines seven routines that help children improve in these areas and, in the process, build both the parent's and child's relationships with God.
A story about faith, heroism and inspiration, this true narrative recounts the lives and adventures of the people who made the voyage in the Mayflower in 1620. The book recounts the events that led a group of Puritan Separatists to seek a new life in an unknown land, the struggles and adversities that were confronted and the difficulties of the voyage itself. It traces the extreme hardships of the early years, which could not have been overcom...
The essays collected in Re-inventing the Symptom explore the final period of Jacques Lacan's teaching, focusing on his 1975-76 seminar Le sinthome. This book sheds light on the central questions of this last "phase" of Lacanian theory and unravels the principal enigmas of the seminars. The work as a whole breaks through previous obstacles to the act of reading Lacon's last work, among them the notorious restrictions placed upon the publication...
On April 30, 1975, Saigon and the government of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam, ending-for American military forces-exactly twenty-five year of courageous but unavailing struggle. This is not the story of how America became embroiled in a conflict in a small country half-way around the globe, nor of why our armed forces remained there so long after the futility of our efforts became obvious to many. It is the story...
How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you, " just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive "oasis of the wasteland" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and pop...
John O'Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to understand both himself and the father from whom he'd become estranged. At once a poignant memoir and a tribute to America's most misunderstood region, At Home in the Heart of Appalachia describes a lush ...
In the unrest following the 1848 revolutions, a scholarly young woman crosses paths with a professor and swords with her king, beginning her progress toward romance and power. Ultimately, she is left to face revolt alone, but help appears from an unexpected source.
In the unrest following the 1848 revolutions, a scholarly young woman crosses paths with a professor and swords with her king, beginning her progress toward romance and power. Ultimately, she is left to face revolt alone, but help appears from an unexpec ted source.