Eric D : 170 books
Prospects for Resilience
Insights from New York City's Jamaica Bay
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous...
Your Hands Can Heal You
Pranic Healing Energy Remedies to Boost Vitality and Speed Recovery from Common Health Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
What if one of the most effective tools you have to restore your health is not surgery or medications, but your own hands? Incredibly, your hands can heal you -- with the "energy medicine" of Pranic Healing. A powerful system that is rapidly increasing in popularity, Pranic Healing works with your...
The Amazing Way to Reverse Heart Disease Naturally
Beyond the Hypertension Hype: Why Drugs Are Not the Answer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
When hypertension is diagnosed, treatment is usually based on expensive drugs, most with dismal side effects and of limited usefulness. Really effective treatment of hypertension calls for getting at the cause, which the author has found often relates to nutritional deficiencies or excesses. Based...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
Second Chances
The Power to Move On, Forgive Ourselves and Start over Again!
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Though small in content Second Chances has very big message. Whether you are rich or poor, black or white, young or old Second Chances has message for all who seek to live better lives. If you have ever failed in life which most of us have this is just for you. I blew it! Why should I even try again?...
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
The Journey Unraveled
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion – including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology – and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities...
by William Morris, Theric Jepson, D.J. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
What if the territory of Deseret had never joined the Union and instead became its own nation? What if Leo Tolstoy or Nikola Tesla had converted to the LDS Church? What if Brigham Young had gone all the way to California instead of stopping in Utah? The genre of alternate history invites us to imagine...
Christian Higher Education
Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.
Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
Mental Illness and the Church
Integrating Psychology & Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Mental Illness and the Church: Integrating Psychology & Theology When I began studying the disciplines of Psychology and Theology as a bi-vocational pastor, I didnt consider them to be at odds with each other; I viewed them rather as complimentary, one supporting the other. Little did I realize,...
by Eric Garcia-Diaz, Laurent Clerc, Morgan Chabannes
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book provides the tools to understand the issues related to bio-based concretes using lime as binder.
Themes covered include specific properties of lignocellulosic aggregates (density, porosity, size distribution, water absorption, microstructure, soluble components under alkaline conditions),...
Politics in a Religious World
Building a Religiously Informed U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Politics in a Religious World examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.
After the Cold War, it became evident that religion was a key factor in many conflicts, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. However, the US failed...
Homer Simpson Ponders Politics
Popular Culture as Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
It is often said that the poet Homer "educated" ancient Greece. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale have assembled a team of notable scholars who argue, quite persuasively, that Homer Simpson and his ilk are educating America and offering insights into the social order and the human condition.
Following...