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This thoughtful collection of prayers offers children ways of approaching God in a variety of circumstances. The prayers, each rooted in a Bible story, describe different situations that readers will easily relate to. Full color.

Brain Banking, Volume 150, serves as the only book on the market offering comprehensive coverage of the functional realities of brain banking. It focuses on brain donor recruitment strategies, brain bank networks, ethical issues, brain dissection/tissue processing/tissue dissemination, neuropathological diagnosis, brain donor data, and techniques in brain tissue analysis. In accordance with massive initiatives, such as BRAIN and the EU Human B...

Throughout history, comedians and clowns have enjoyed a certain freedom to speak frankly often denied to others in hegemonic systems. More recently, professional comedians have developed platforms of comic license from which to critique the traditional political establishment and have managed to play an important role in interrogating and mediating the processes of politics in contemporary society. This collection will examine the questions th...

Christian Kracht ist derzeit einer der umstrittensten, zuletzt auch gefeiertesten deutschsprachigen Autoren der Gegenwart mit einer zunehmend auch internationalen Ausstrahlung. Dabei stellt sein Werk die literarische Öffentlichkeit unentwegt vor neue Herausforderungen. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge zu Kernkonzepten der Kracht'schen Poetik wie Ironie, Camp, Pop, dem unzuverlässigen Erzählen, dem Spiel mit den Grenzen des Sagbaren und der Gatt...

This is a key textbook for anyone responsible for fundraising, whether your post covers legacy giving in particular, or you have a wider remit. The guide will also be of use to senior charity staff, chief executives and trustees considering a legacies strategy. New chapters including In-Memory Fundraising and Digital Communications.

Based on a decade's experience of preparing ministry students to become preachers and his own experience as one of today's most gifted preachers, Doug Gay offers an imaginative, practical and inspiring guide for all who are privileged with the task of preaching. 40 short, pithy and often humorous reflections consider different aspects of the nature and practice of preaching and aim to fire the imagination, build confidence and develop creativi...

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The book provides for a historical-materialist understanding of the multiple crises of capitalism, focusing on the ecological crisis and its interaction with other crisis phenomena (financial crisis, crisis of democracy, economic crisis). Drawing on political ecology, Gramscian theory of hegemony, critical state theory and the regulation approach, it introduces the concept of an imperial mode of living in order to better understand the everyda...

This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age, and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. This collection challenges the standard models of family life and family law that have been developed within a child/parent-centred paradigm, and which may require rethinking in the...

According to a recent U.S. census, approximately 2.5 million children under the age of eighteen have experienced the death of a parent. Losing a parent at such a young age can have devastating consequences. Beyond the grief children and young adults experience, they can be at risk for many negative outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress symptoms, as well as diminished self-esteem. Their academic success and relation...

As the world's second-largest faith and by some accounts the most fast-growing, Islam is often at the forefront of intense public conversation in debates about politics, international relations, globalization, modern society and culture. From the rise of ISIS and revolutions in North Africa and Middle East to more tempered discussions about what it means to be a Muslim in the West and foreign policy making, this student focused textbook, unpac...

Die Wiley Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics ist eine Neuauflage der Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics (ECM) aus dem Jahr 2004. Nahezu alle der 71 Kapitel wurde mehr oder weniger umfassend überarbeitet und spiegeln nun die Fortschritte der letzten zehn Jahre in dem Fachgebiet wider. Zusätzlich enthält die Enzyklopädie 18 neue Kapitel zu Berechnungsmethoden, die seit 2004 entstanden sind. Neue und überarbeitete Kapitel werden als Upd...

Communicating Project Management argues that the communication practices of project managers have necessarily become participatory, made up of complex strategies and processes solidly grounded in rhetorical concepts.

A mechanical approach to microsystems, covering fundamental concepts including MEMS design, modelling and reliability Mechanics of Microsystems takes a mechanical approach to microsystems and covers fundamental concepts including MEMS design, modelling and reliability. The book examines the mechanical behaviour of microsystems from a 'design for reliability' point of view and includes examples of applications in industry. Mechanics of Microsys...

This book gathers together technical and practical wisdom from some of the world's most well-known practicing CCM pedagogues. Structured in interview format, each of the twelve master teachers represented speaks in-depth about their beliefs about vocal production and approaches to CCM technique and repertoire.

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Although anarchism is often thought of as a political topic, the interdisciplinary nature of the Anarchism: A Conceptual Analysis makes it of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences, liberal arts, and the humanities.

Are you sick of nagging your child to write down homework assignments? Is his or her backpack a black hole that eats up papers, books, and gym clothes? Organizational skills problems aren't just frustrating--they get in the way of school success and wreak havoc at home. Fortunately, help is at hand.