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by José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
A slave, wet nurse to her mistress the queen's son, the crown prince, defends her charge from the dead king's bastard half brother, a vile would-be usurper, at great cost to herself.Genre: short taleWords: 2,030Date of translation: 2011
Announcing the Kingdom
The Story of God's Mission in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Announcing the Kingdom provides a comprehensive survey of the biblical foundation of mission. It investigates the development of the kingdom of God theme in the Old Testament, describing what the concept tells us about God's mission in creation, the flood, and the covenant with Abraham. It then describes...
by Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal Shusterman, Brendan Shusterman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, seventeen of the most recognizable YA writers—including Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Beth Revis—come together to share the viewpoints of a group of students affected by a school shooting.
It took only twenty-two minutes for Kirby...
Analysis Without Paralysis
12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Since the publication of the original edition, the importance of interpreting business data has become mission critical for professionals in all types of businesses. These professionals have discovered the benefits of business analysis to address their organizations most crucial strategic and tactical...
After the Factory
Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity...
Communicator-in-Chief
How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American...
by Kathryn E. Newcomer, Harry P. Hatry, Joseph S. Wholey
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The leading program evaluation reference, updated with the latest tools and techniques
The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation provides tools for managers and evaluators to address questions about the performance of public and nonprofit programs. Neatly integrating authoritative, high-level...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Natural Childbirth
The Support You Need for the Birth You Want
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Thoughtful planning so mom and her supporters are ready when the baby is!
A midwife helps expecting mothers decide how natural they want their labor to be, what birthing methods are available, and the type of professional they want present. It helps women weigh factors, prepare mentally, make...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
The Nonprofit Almanac
The Essential Facts and Figures for Managers, Researchers, and Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The Nonprofit Almanac, Ninth Edition, completely updated to include the most recent data available,
assembles into one compact and well-organized volume an accessible and reader-friendly bible of data on America’s extraordinary and rapidly growing civic sector. In many cases, the data cover spans...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Aging Heroes
Growing Old in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality....
Spectrum
SmartyPants Spectrum Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
**You are an explorer in a galaxy of worlds... **
...with countless stories to delve into or even just try out.
Inside, you are the rescuer of the kitten who rescues you right back. You are the citizen making a life-or-death decision. You are the teenager experiencing her first...
Core’s Attack
Cosmos’ Gateway Book 6
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Thrust into a deadly game….
Avery Lennox has been called many names, but bond mate was never one of them. Her position as Chief Security Officer for Cosmos Raines guarantees that her life will never be boring—especially after her genius boss decides to open a portal between Earth and Baade,...