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Wisdom and Hope for Parents of Grown-Ups As a parent, your role changes drastically after your kids grow up. You fear heartache and strained relationships when your children choose difficult--even seemingly wrong--paths. Love, Pray, Listen is the gracious, practical resource you need for navigating the rocky terrain of parenting grown-ups. In this book, mom and author Mary DeMuth answers questions like: What do I do when my kids make choices t...

The book integrates a number of essays on Charles Peirce's semiotics or inspired by it. Particular issues covered include icons, diagrams, propositions, assertions, self-control, realism, multimedia, and biosemiotics. Framed by an overall introduction, the volume makes a strong case for the actual relevance of Peirce's realist semiotics.

Globalisation, regionalisation, new technology, demography, voters¿ expectations and re-structuring of societies are expected to influence welfare state development for years to come. This handbook analyses how different welfare state models and regimes will be able to cope with contemporary and future challenges, providing a variety of evidence based tools that make it essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers alike.

Eve Duncan's daughter Jane now has everything she's dreamed of with her marriage to Seth Caleb and their newborn baby but their happily ever after is about to be upended in this gripping suspense novel from the number one best-selling author of The Persuasion. Fans were thrilled when Jane and Seth finally committed to a life together. Now we pick up where The Persuasion left off, and the couple is in Scotland with their newborn baby and her pr...

In the aftermath of her husband's life-altering mistake, Tiana Williams grapples with lingering resentment while working full-time and raising their toddler. But when Jay becomes a person of interest in the kidnapping of ten-year-old Zoe Miller, Tiana is torn between trusting her husband and believing the growing pile of evidence. After she gets dragged further into the mystery and discovers her connection to the missing girl, the shaky ground...

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Bruno De Nicola investigates the development of women's status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters show a coherent progression of this development and contextualise the evolution of the role of women in medieval Mongol society. The arrangement serves as a starting point from where to draw comparison with the status of Mongol women i...

The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys early modern Russia as an "empire of difference, " that is, the government ruled the empire primarily by tolerating the great cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of its subject peoples. Over its many lands the Moscow center used a combination of coercion, cooptation and supranational ideology to maintain power, and the book explores each of those themes. The Moscow government did not hesitate to us...

How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie considers the origins and evolutions of kraevedenie, looking specifically at the role that movements and institutions that emerged in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg played in the formation of this discipline. Based on extensive work in archives in St. Petersburg, it looks at the historical preservation movement that was spearheaded by participants in the World ...

The Blue Lagoon, Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry, was published in nine volumes in the United States from 1980 till 1986. For many years it remained one of the most important sources on Russian unofficial poetry of the Soviet period. It is also the biggest anthology of Russian poetry ever. Today, mostly in online version, it is a living mirror of the Soviet era and its chronicler - poet and publisher Konstantin Kuzminsky (1940-2015).

Life in the modernist era not only moved, it sped. As automobiles, airplanes, and motion pictures, among other technological advances, proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, speed transformed contemporary reality, generating new possibilities not only for everyday existence, but also for modernist culture. From Manhattan to Milan to Moscow, the rise of modernism coincided with a precipitous acceleration in the pace of human experie...

Words, silences, and narratives as vehicles are always in flux, always fueling us, precipitating actions both virtuous and criminal, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, sublime and ridiculous. Dostoevsky, more than any other writer except perhaps Shakespeare, supplies an unending source of inspiration for the full sweep of human action, thought, emotion, and belief in all their contradictory manifestations and combinations. Dostoevsky's journey...

A parable is a story told to illustrate a truth that helps us understand things at a deeper level. Parables are earthly stories with heavenly meaning. Jesus relied heavily on storytelling to deliver His lessons. Over the course of this 10-week Bible study book, author and Bible teacher Kathy A. Weckwerth explores ten of her favorite parables to discover how Jesus taught others through His incredible art of storytelling. With each parable le...

What does it mean to know God? How do you follow Jesus as His disciple? What good is it to have the Holy Spirit? How should the church operate? How do you raise children in the knowledge of the Lord? Can you truly be righteous and holy? Can you operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit? Discover the answers to these questions and much more. This devotional is one of a kind. Filled with revelation for each day from the Holy Spirit. It even has an...

Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family's land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for frie...

For those who live close to the earth, farming provides a front-row seat to God's handiwork.Country mornings are like a gift from heaven as the dawning sunrise spreads along the horizon as far as the eye can see. Birds chirp, cows moo, chickens cackle, a rooster crows. Slight breezes rustle the wheat in the fields beyond the barn.Whether you're a farmer, live in the wide open spaces of America, or just plain dream of country living, you'll tre...

Numbers, shapes, and colors are all blessings given by God! In these sweet, rhyming board books, young children will learn how to count, label shapes, and recognize colors while being reminded to thank God for the wonderful way he created the world. These three books--A Child's First Bible: Numbers, A Child's First Bible: Shapes, and A Child's First Bible: Colors--come packaged together in a small carrying case, making them portable and easy t...

Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family's land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for frie...

Open The Message Thinline and God's Word comes alive!Enjoy the easy-to-understand, modern translation of The Message with this portable, slim edition in attractive new covers. Just over one inch thick, The Message Thinline, Large Print slips easily into your bag, your desk, and your life, it's a high-quality reading Bible without being bulky. The Message translation awakens longtime Bible readers and welcomes new believers into the passion and...

Open The Message Thinline and God's Word comes alive!Enjoy the easy-to-understand, modern translation of The Message with this portable, slim edition in attractive new covers. Just over one inch thick, The Message Thinline slips easily into your bag, your desk, and your life, it's a high-quality reading Bible without being bulky. The Message translation awakens longtime Bible readers and welcomes new believers into the passion and personality ...