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Professing in the Postmodern Academy examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members critically committed to the future of church-related institutions. The book includes articles on a variety of topics from members of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related College, a project that has involved ninety church-related institutions since 1996.

At its simplest, this is the story of an adoption. Simple stops there. How is this different? The 13-year old boy initiates the process himself None of the boy's living parents has ever met each other, and they do not share a common language. He comes from one of the remotest, yet loveliest, locations in the world-the North Caucasus The "rules" for this process are unfathomable, especially as he comes to America at precisely the moment the USS...

As I went through life I see things in a way that seem simple to me but apparently not to other people. These poems are some of my views. I am not saying they are right. I am not saying they are wrong but seeing how one person driving on the expressway can hold up traffic for 2 hours at a time. I hope that if one of my poems can help change your life for the better, I know it is what God wants me to do. So as you read just remember that it's a...

Julie Landis, a successful account executive and community volunteer, is injured risking her life to save two young children. She doesn't expect the fifteen minutes of fame that follow--not to mention the anonymous hate letters, sadistic acts, and death threats that result from the publicity. Who is her tormentor, and why does he hate her? She has no idea what he looks like, or if she ever had contact with him. Nothing in her past would explai...

Julie Landis, a successful account executive and community volunteer, is injured risking her life to save two young children. She doesn't expect the fifteen minutes of fame that follow--not to mention the anonymous hate letters, sadistic acts, and death threats that result from the publicity. Who is her tormentor, and why does he hate her? She has no idea what he looks like, or if she ever had contact with him. Nothing in her past would explai...

There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind, it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live...

This book was born of a healing process that God has taken me through for my emotional healing from a life of hurt, abuse, and rejection. I pray those with similar hurts of physical, sexual, verbal, emotional and mental abuse will be encouraged in this book to seek God's healing and restoration. God wants our lives free of pain from our past. God has His best awaiting us all. He also wants us to learn to live in His love and forgiveness. I say...

If you could permanently terminate any person on the Texas A and M University campus, who would it be? How about a parking nazi who always draws a smiley face on the ticket before he puts it under the wiper blade? And who would then dump his body in a creek for the buzzards to find? Join the crew of TAMU students as they work to solve the mystery before the Sheriff charges them with the murder.

This autobiography is an all too common account of what life is like in an abusive marriage. Also common is the shame that makes the victim feel worthless and abandoned. She was too proud to tell but her practical approach to her husband's bipolar disorder helped her rebuild her life. Finding his crack-cocaine meant even more cruelty until he divorced her. After years of peace in her life, her former husband returns to the only place she was s...

This autobiography is an all too common account of what life is like in an abusive marriage. Also common is the shame that makes the victim feel worthless and abandoned. She was too proud to tell but her practical approach to her husband's bipolar disorder helped her rebuild her life. Finding his crack-cocaine meant even more cruelty until he divorced her. After years of peace in her life, her former husband returns to the only place she was s...

This book is meant to empower the general consumer with knowledge about DNA testing for predisposition to diseases or for deep maternal and paternal ancestry when written records are absent. At home-genetic testing needs watchdogs, Web sites, and guidebooks to interpret test results in plain language for those with no science background. Online, you'll find genetic tests for ancestry or for familial (genetic, inherited) disease risks. What hel...

Rolled, silver white hair created a halo about the woman's head. The lamplight cast oblique shadows on her delicate, high cheekbones. Above the cheekbones, her eyes were ice blue and steady, belying the eighty years of this statuesque woman. Her demeanor exhibited and commanded an aura of aristocracy. Kathleen's throat tightened and felt dry. She trembled slightly as she spoke. She was a reasonably intelligent, thirty-eight-year-old woman quit...

Rolled, silver white hair created a halo about the woman's head. The lamplight cast oblique shadows on her delicate, high cheekbones. Above the cheekbones, her eyes were ice blue and steady, belying the eighty years of this statuesque woman. Her demeanor exhibited and commanded an aura of aristocracy. Kathleen's throat tightened and felt dry. She trembled slightly as she spoke. She was a reasonably intelligent, thirty-eight-year-old woman quit...

First published in 1977 and now reprinted in its original form, A Source-book of Scottish Witchcraft has been the most authoritative reference book on Scottish Witchcraft for almost thirty years. It has been invaluable to the specialist scholar and of interest to the general reader. It provides, but provides much more than, a series of lists of the 'names and addresses' of long-dead witches. However, although it is widely quoted and held in hi...

Who would murder an 84-year-old grandmother? Who would want to? Even stranger, how would someone get into a secure nursing home to do it? Can Detective Dylan Franks solve the mystery or is there such a thing as "the perfect crime?

The Encyclopedia of School Psychology is the first comprehensive guide to this field featuring the latest research on school learning, motivation, and educational assessment. Approximately 250 entries by 175 contributing authors from psychology, education and counseling, child development, and special education address student success, behavior disorders, intelligence testing, learning disabilities, strategies to improve academic skills, and m...

As I sit at my computer surrounded by pictures of "Rebel" and "Blue Lady" recording memories of my sailing life, I know just how lucky I have been. Had I been just a few years earlier in arriving on this earth, I would have missed the chance of a middle class working stiff to own such boats. Only one generation earlier had no opportunity to own and sail the boats I have known. Author J. Howard Williams experienced a variety of jobs in his life...

Every day, organizations around the world use SAP (System Applications and Products in Data Processing) client/server systems. The basic enterprise resource planning software package offered by SAP consists of various modules that are specifically designed to direct a variety of important business functions: Financials (FI), Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Controlling (CO), Asset Management (AM), Production Planning (PP...

FIRE FOR EFFECT! is more than just a book about the Korean War. It is the untold history of the Korean War Artillery Forward Observer, told by the men themselves. From the earliest days of the war in 1950 through the harrowing battles of 1951 and on into the so-called 'stalemate' period of the hill battles of 1952 and 1953, into the final climactic battles before the cease fire, the Forward Observer, or FO, was there. Korea was and is known as...

Cows from Outer Space." "Why I Ate My Husband." "Jesus Returns, and the Christians Think He's Nuts." These and other pieces of unintentional genius from the demented mind of Richard Scott complete this collection of hilarious short stories and idiotic comedy bits. Scott's comedy ranges from the highbrow "Toilet Humour" to the historical docu-drama, "I Heard the President Fart." From the absurd "Toast Hunters of the Amazon, " to the surreal "My...