Now in paperback and shortlisted for the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize, this poetry collection movingly animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork, Ireland.
Squaring the Circle is a cutting-edge guide to the state of the art of normal childbirth, with contributions from world-renowned experts in their fields.
A succinct and engaging guide to creating a unique wedding ceremony that reflects the couple's love and makes sense to their families and friends. Specific tools include questionnaires, checklists and a specially designed ritual toolbox for writing tailor-made texts and crafting secular wedding rituals.
Provides professionals who work with birth parents insights into the support needs of this sometimes-neglected group of people in the adoption process. It shows how best to support them, and the benefits this support can provide.
Drawing on Classical Chinese Medicine and modern nutritional science, this book explains how to diagnose and heal nutritional deficiencies and improve health with food and herbs. It includes specific advice for working with a wide range of illnesses and conditions and a selection of delicious recipes designed to treat specific organ deficiencies.
This book enables chaplains to deliver vital spiritual care to non-responsive patients and their families. With exercises, worksheets and case studies, it demonstrates how chaplains can develop the confidence and skills needed to engage with patients in meaningful ways, while affirming their personhood and bringing comfort to their loved ones.
These simple and creative activities and lesson plans bring you exciting new ideas for teaching Citizenship, PSHE and Religious Education to children working below National Curriculum levels. Encourage every child with easily adaptable and fun activities, from Caring Carousel to Meditate My Way.
The messy realities of providing therapeutic parenting to teenagers are advised on here, advising on drug use, sexual health, child on parent violence and other eventualities. Draws humorously from Donovan's own family life.
This insightful and important collection contains contributions from representatives of 12 religions, demonstrating how religions can be a powerful means of unity and compassion. It shows the benefits of bringing people from different backgrounds together, especially in a time of crisis.
This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality. Focusing on the crises over the last thirty years of immigration and multiculturalist politics i...
The newly-revisedthird edition of Rick Young's The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X is the ultimate mentor for getting up and running with Apple's professional editing software, regardless of your skill level. In this step-by-step, full-color guide, Young clearly explains the key concepts and vital knowledge you need to edit your project from start to finish, providing clear, time-saving instruction on producing and outputting using Final C...
Die byzantinische Geschichte ist zunächst nur ein neues Zeitalter der römischen Geschichte. Doch setzt schon bald ein Tranformationsprozeß ein, der vom alten Imperium Romanum zur Entwicklung eines eigenen byzantinischen Staatswesens führt. Strukturelemente und Triebkräfte dieser Veränderung sind die Verwaltung des Kaiserreichs, die griechische Kultur und der christliche Glaube. Durch ihr Zusammenwirken entsteht eine neue Hochkultur, die mehr a...
Die neue Schriftenreihe "Baptismus-Dokumentation" aus dem Oncken-Archiv in Elstal stellt Quellen und Materialien zur Geschichte des Baptismus zusammen. Das vorliegende erste Heft ist ein Wegweiser zu Archiven vor allem im osteuropäischen Raum, in denen Unterlagen ehemaliger Baptistengemeinden vor 1945 zu finden sind - ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel sowohl für freikirchliche historische Spurensuche als auch für die Familienforschung.
Modern awareness of nutrition issues can be understood correctly if considered the destination of a historic journey, the critical aspects and outcomes of which have led to the current situation. In fact, over time there have been changes to scientific knowledge, food availability and processing and preservation methods. Commercial exchange has increased considerably between the countries of the world - so much so that it has defined a complet...