Continuing Chronicles new Garden Design Series, WATER GARDENS features chapters on basins, bowls, and jars, fountains, ponds, springs and ditches, and other watery effects. Captivating projects include a raised pond with wooden seat, a three-tiered Italian fountain, a water jar with irises, drainage ditch with roses, and much more. 100 beautiful, full-color photos.
.By nature, most women have a desire to nurture. The problem is that they spend too much time rescuing and uplifting the wrong people. This devotion has often caused psychological, physical, and verbal abuse. Many have experienced rejection, ridicule, embarrassment, and deflated self-esteem and self-worth from unappreciative individuals. The author of this book suggests to women that it is time to spend more time and energy on nurturing themselves. This will result in women becoming more educated, informed, interesting, impressive, attractive, politically active, admired, confident, self-assured, and desirable. This book is an excellent guide for the process. It is never too late for women to turn their ships around. It can be done. The author offers blessing to all who make the journey.
Contains dozens of projects for improving or creating a patio near your home, including thorough and easy-to-follow instructions, tools and materials lists, and estimates of costs and degree of difficulty.
* What is the extent and impact of white collar crime? * How can white collar crime be explained? * How is white collar crime controlled? This comprehensive overview of white collar crime begins by introducing the concept, looking at its definition, its identification with class and status, and its development within criminology. The problems of estimating the vast extent of white collar and corporate crime are explored, and some of its major forms are outlined, including fraud, corruption, employment, consumer and environmental crime. Hazel Croall looks at the kinds of offenders who are convicted for white collar offences and at patterns of victimization which involve class, gender and age. She examines the various ways in which white collar crime has been explained and analysed, including individual, organizational and social structural perspectives. The issues surrounding regulation and punishment are explored, focusing on the contrast between white collar and other crimes, and on alternative approaches to its control. This new book is a revised, updated and readily accessible replacement for the author's highly successful White Collar Crime (Open UP, 1992). It includes expanded coverage of corporate crime, and provides an essential text for undergraduate courses in criminology, sociology and law.
Introducing Chronicle's new Garden Design Series--filled with cutting-edge designs from award-winning gardens, step-by-step instructions, tips and techniques--PATHS AND WALKWAYS covers brick, gravel, stone, grass, wood, and concrete, and features easy "recipes" for many special projects, such as a beach trail, a stepping-stone bridge, Mediterranean paving, and more. 100 full-color photos.
There is a serious problem evolving in the modern church. Churches are becoming unbelievably corrupted. The church leaders are involved in inappropriate sexual sins such as adultery, homosexuality, and fornication; sins of pride; sins of lack of compassion for the sick, the elderly, widows, and the poor; sins of greed for power and money; and sins related to misuse of words and the tongue. The big question is why these behaviors are tolerated in the church. Church Misbehaving reviews the declaration in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, which emphasizes the responsibility of the church for disciplining those who are misbehaving. Church discipline is crucial for church growth and effectiveness, so what is going on with the modern church when it comes to disciplining its misbehaving leaders and members? Is the church failing in its responsibilities? Do church authorities know how to discipline? Or does it care? Drawing on her experience as a minister, Dr. Hazel White portrays the Church Misbehaving and what Christians, as good stewards, can do to resolve internal discipline issues. Discover key steps to cautiously and biblically choose leaders for the body of Christ and to deal with the missteps of those who go astray.
This revision guide is designed to thoroughly prepare you for the AQA AS Citizenship Studies exams. It covers the content from the AS Level Citizenship Studies course: Identity, Rights and Responsibilities; Democracy, Active Citizenship and Participation. This revision guide will help you to: - Use the concise notes to revise the essential information - Tick each topic as you complete it and take a step nearer to exam success! - Test yourself with end-of-topic questions and answers - Practice exam skills with exam practice questions and then check your answers online - Avoid making typical mistakes with expert advice
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the international religions that have arrived from abroad to find adherents in Ireland. Drawing on fieldwork in two LDS communities, Hazel O’Brien explores how these adherents experience the Church in Ireland against the backdrop of the country’s increasingly complex religious identity. Irish Latter-day Saints live on the margins of the nation’s religious life and the worldwide LDS movement. Nonetheless, they create a sense of belonging for themselves by drawing on collective memories of both their Irishness and their faith. As O’Brien shows, Irish Latter-day Saints work to shift the understanding of Ireland’s religious landscape away from a predominant focus on Roman Catholicism. They also challenge Utah-based constructions of Mormonism in order to ensure their place in the Church’s powerful religious and cultural lineage. Examining the Latter-day Saint experience against one nation’s rapid social and religious changes, Irish Mormons blends participant observation and interviews with analysis to offer a rare view of the Latter-day Saints in contemporary Ireland.
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