Dear Parents, This is the first in what will become a series of books designedto suggest subjects worthy of discussion with your children as theymature in their curiosity about important life issues. As adults wethink the way adults do, and we often forget how we thought as children. We have forgotten some of our fears, worries, complaints, and confusions, which were products of our innocence and fantasies colliding with real-life experiences and challenges. One of the most important means of showing our children that we love and care about them is to understand how they think and what they feel. In doing so, we reinforce them on their journey through life and give them a solid road map to guide them through life's challenging terrains. The best way to understand and help our children is to talk with them. Reading Why Do You Love Me? to your children will open the door to incredible and moving discussions on love as both a feeling and a responsibility. From one parent to another, I hope you'll be moved. Shalom, Dr. Laura Schlessinger
What if love isn't what it seems to be? For Isabel and Sam Lambert it was love at first sight. And since then, they've created a good life together. But when a stranger named Mark Taylor knocks on their door, claiming to be Sam's son, Isabel is shocked to realize that her life might be nothing but lies. Isabel wants answers from Sam, but he's retreated, leaving her to sort through everything they've shared and decide what kind of future they have. Reconciling themselves to the past is one thing; moving on in the present is another. Can she trust him—and her love—enough to rebuild their relationship?
This volume builds on the existing ethnographic literature on faith-based development internationally to offer a fresh and sophisticated analysis of faith-based organizations in the United States. The case studies included offer starting points for expanded discussions on the meaning of 'faith-based' development, the differences between faith-based and secular development approaches, the influence of faith-orientation on program formulation and delivery, and whether faith-based organizations can offer more efficient and effective solutions to structural inequality and poverty alleviation.
Women are powerful. Our strength is undeniable. Learn the stories of the women who overcome. A book for women written by women between the ages of 40-60. Each contributor shares her story with the hope it will help another woman on a similar journey.
The manga revolution has finally arrived, and it came from closer than you'd think. The same people who revolutionized anime conventions with Otakon present Otazine: Manga of Otaku Generation. Inside you will find the work of artists from around the country, joined by a new vision for the graphic novel. Influenced by East Asian art and culture, these artists are on a mission to combine the best of both worlds and create a new place for east to meet west. Original comics you can't find anywhere else, welcome to Otazine.Featuring art from:DrgnDen.com, Chihiro Kobayashi, Diana Montoya, Lizzie Lambert, Gabriel Lamberty, John Staton, James Stokoe, Chris Snowdon, and Laura Tallardy
States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time. One of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus's classic novel The Plague has been a touchstone for readers over the past two years. As people were surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, many sought answers within the pages of Camus's tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic in 1947. People began to read it as a story about their own lives--a book to shed light on a global health crisis. In thirteen linked chapters told in alternating voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present of The Plague in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people in our current moment. Kaplan's chapters explore the book's tangled and vivid history, while Marris's are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language. Through these pages, they find that their sense of Camus evolves under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care in their own lives. Kaplan herself is struggling with a case of covid as the book opens; as it closes, Marris receives her first vaccine shot. In between, they find aspects of Camus's novel that once seemed merely literary spoke directly to their own fear and grief. They describe how they learned to contemplate the skies of a plague spring, to examine the body politic and the politics of immunity. Both personal and eloquently written, States of Plague uncovers for us the mysterious way a great novel can imagine the world during a crisis and draw back the veil on our possible futures.
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