You left the doctor's surgery before you could ask the things you really wanted to know. You've googled your question about dementia and had 75 answers, all contradicting each other. You asked your best friend - but they looked at you strangely. You have so many questions, but no idea where to start finding the answers. Here they are. In this book you'll find the definitive, expert responses to all your FAQs: On Dementia. No question is too simple, too embarrassing, too rude or too offbeat to be included, and each one has been asked by thousands of people just like you. Will my partner stop loving me now they have dementia? Does my mum have to go into a home now? Is dementia a terminal illness? All these questions, and hundreds more, are covered in this short but powerful, helpful, practical guide to understanding the nature, and impact, of dementia. Read at your leisure, or dip in and out when you most need the support or to shine a light on the issues and concerns that are making you uncomfortable or unhappy, and to bring them out of the shadows so you can understand and accept them.
Here is a frank discussion of the hardiest of trees, shrubs, and groundcovers suitable for landscaping in the rough, and at times unforgiving, Rocky Mountain climate.
Students - have you ever thought about going to college or a university in America? Would obtaining a graduate degree & studying in the United States be a life-long dream of yours? Do you know how to choose a major or prepare for a high quality career? What do you want out of life - success, happiness, adventure, money? Difficult questions, right? Important questions no matter whether you are an American student or an aspiring international student. Only when you have answered these questions for yourself will you be able to choose a school or program of study that is right for you. With the help of Dr. Huddleston's THE WORLDWIDE STUDENT GUIDE FOR STUDYING IN AMERICA, your questions regarding the complex task of getting a degree from an American college or university will be answered in twenty chapters of solid, practical advice. You will be surprised how much useful information is packed into this book. Step-by-step ACTIONS are explained in helpful ways relating to college entrances tests, TOEFL, choosing a major, selecting a good career, finding the right college, financing your dream, institutional requirements - even information concerning the Visa/I-20 process if you are an international student (& much, much more). Your future success & fulfillment of personal or family goals for higher education are fully discussed, researched & documented in this book. Also, several chapters are targeted toward career development & job-getting activities. THE WORLDWIDE STUDENT GUIDE FOR STUDYING IN AMERICA is a logical, first step in assisting you in your quest for educational excellence & successful career development. Read this book, future graduate, & you will not be disappointed! Book Orders: Talking Textbooks, Inc., 610 A East Battlefield, #255, Springfield, MO 65807. Phone: 417-887-8847. Discount information: 25% for orders of 5 or more.
A biography of the life and work of Father Michael Lapsley who lost both hands and an eye as the target of a letter bomb from South Africa. Describes his struggles with his commitment to pacifism and his church in the face of apartheid in his adopted homeland, South Africa. Presents the events and experiences that converted him into a freedom fighter and after he became a victim, into a healer and a voice for reconciliation in the post-apartheid era. Includes a foreword by Nelson Mandela, a list of abbreviations and an index. The author is a prominent South African theologian.
The first biography of its kind about Desmond Tutu, this book introduces readers to Tutu's spiritual life and examines how it shaped his commitment to restorative justice and reconciliation. Desmond Tutu was a pivotal leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and remains a beloved and important emblem of peace and justice around the world. Even those who do not know the major events of Tutu’s life—receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, serving as the first black archbishop of Cape Town and primate of Southern Africa from 1986–1996, and chairing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995–1998—recognize him as a charismatic political and religious leader who helped facilitate the liberation of oppressed peoples from the ravages of colonialism. But the inner landscape of Tutu’s spirituality, the mystical grounding that spurred his outward accomplishments, often goes unseen. Rather than recount his entire life story, this book explores Tutu’s spiritual life and contemplative practices—particularly Tutu’s understanding of Ubuntu theology, which emphasizes finding one’s identity in community—and traces the powerful role they played in subverting the theological and spiritual underpinnings of apartheid. Michael Battle’s personal relationship with Tutu grants readers an inside view of how Tutu’s spiritual agency cast a vision that both upheld the demands of justice and created space to synthesize the stark differences of a diverse society. Battle also suggests that North Americans have much to learn from Tutu’s leadership model as they confront religious and political polarization in their own context.
In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, nonviolent movements for justice have succeeded where violent campaigns have failed. This book examines fourteen cases—eleven movements that succeeded and three that have, until now, failed—and shows why nonviolent strategies work, drawing on the thought of practitioners and theorists. Later chapters examine violent U.S. interventions abroad and at home, as well as citizen movements for nonviolent conflict resolution. As an introduction to nonviolent movements, this text engages students in recent events from the news as well as the history of modern warfare. Bringing in philosophical and religious texts from a diverse set of traditions, author Michael K. Duffey offers a multifaceted argument for embracing nonviolent solutions to conflict.
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