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Faith, Leadership and Public Life

Leadership Lessons from Moses to Jesus

By: Preston Manning

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Faith, Leadership and Public Life

Leadership Lessons from Moses to Jesus

By: Preston Manning

The connection between faith, leadership and public life is a complex one as Preston Manning knows all too well from his years as a scout and trailblazer on Canada’s political frontiers. Now, in his new book Faith, Leadership and Public Life: Leadership Lessons from Moses to Jesus he fearlessly tackles this subject by drawing upon his own years in Canada’s parliament and political arena and upon relevant lessons to be learned from the public lives of the founding giants of Judaism and the Christian faith. Starting with the public life of Jesus himself, he also draws upon the experience of those leaders whom Jesus most frequently referenced such as Moses and David, as well as examining the lives of leaders such as Joseph and Daniel who were called upon to exercise their faith in societies and political systems hostile to their beliefs. He challenges people of faith today to learn from their examples about how to conduct ourselves responsibly at the faith-political interface, while bringing what Jesus called “salt and light” to bear on the political issues and structures of our times. If you are a person of faith, currently active in politics or leadership, or contemplating involvement in either, the following pages will help you in meeting those challenges.

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Castle Quay Books

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1927355923

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9781927355923

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

Religion in American War and Diplomacy

By: Andrew Preston

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Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

Religion in American War and Diplomacy

By: Andrew Preston

A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country’s course in the world. Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new home would be “a city upon a hill,” Americans’ role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervor—liberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationist—that framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century. He arrives at some startling conclusions, among them: Abraham Lincoln’s use of religion in the Civil War became the model for subsequent wars of humanitarian intervention; nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries made up the first NGO to advance a global human rights agenda; religious liberty was the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt’s strategy to bring the United States into World War II. From George Washington to George W. Bush, from the Puritans to the present, from the colonial wars to the Cold War, religion has been one of America’s most powerful sources of ideas about the wider world. When, just days after 9/11, George W. Bush described America as “a prayerful nation, a nation that prays to an almighty God for protection and for peace,” or when Barack Obama spoke of balancing the “just war and the imperatives of a just peace” in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, they were echoing four hundred years of religious rhetoric. Preston traces this echo back to its source. Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith is an unprecedented achievement: no one has yet attempted such a bold synthesis of American history. It is also a remarkable work of balance and fair-mindedness about one of the most fraught subjects in America.

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Anchor

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0307957608

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9780307957603

Your Call Is Waiting

How to Recognize God's Purpose for Your Life

By: Terry-Anne Golko,Terry-Anne Preston

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Your Call Is Waiting

How to Recognize God's Purpose for Your Life

By: Terry-Anne Golko,Terry-Anne Preston

By following the method presented in "Your Call Is Waiting", readers can discern their calls within God's plan. Questions, charts, lists, and contemplation of biblical examples of calling can lead readers to their answers. To enhance the process, Golko includes a 30-day Bible study that specially focuses on the concept of a call. Good for both individual and small-group discussion.

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Augsburg Books

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0806641606

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9780806641607

Guardian

Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA's War on Terror

By: Thomas Pecora ,Jon Land ,Lindsay Preston

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Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA's War on Terror

By: Thomas Pecora ,Jon Land ,Lindsay Preston

Tom Pecora is prepared to draw back the curtain on the little-known and misunderstood world of the CIA protective operations—security teams who work on the front lines in some of the most dangerous places in the world, doing battle with America’s most determined enemies in the War on Terror and more. Somalia was Pecora’s first deployment as a CIA Protective Operations Cadre (POC) officer, responsible for providing protective operations support in hostile areas of the world. He later headed up a series of the Agency’s undisclosed protective operations teams. From 1989 until his retirement in 2013, he was assigned to multiple war zones across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, doing the kind of work few are even aware exists. But it does, and Pecora’s direct involvement allowed him to work behind the scenes of some of the most well-known conflicts of our time, including the infamous encounter known as Black Hawk Down, the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, and the hotbeds across the Middle East where fires continue to burn. Over the course of a career that saw him receive the Career Intelligence Medal, Intelligence Star, Meritorious Unit Citation, and numerous Exceptional Performance Awards, Pecora distinguished himself as a Protective Operations Cadre (POC) member and as a CIA Security Officer. And now he’s prepared to shed light on the world of clandestine protective operations and the selfless, heroic warriors dedicated to keeping the United States safe at all costs…

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Post Hill Press

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1642930482

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9781642930481

Doves of War

Four Women of Spain

By: Paul Preston

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Doves of War

Four Women of Spain

By: Paul Preston

This beautifully written biographical work depicts the lives of four extraordinary women to paint a vivid, dramatic, and poignant portrait of the ideologies, horrific realities, and long-lasting emotional costs of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

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UPNE

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1555535607

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9781555535605

African Vodun

Art, Psychology, and Power

By: Suzanne Preston Blier

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African Vodun

Art, Psychology, and Power

By: Suzanne Preston Blier

This book will be of critical importance not only to those concerned with African, African American, and Caribbean art, but also to anthropologists, scholars of the African diaspora, students of comparative religion and comparative psychology, and anyone fascinated by the traditions of vodou and vodun."--Jacket.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226058603

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9780226058603

Pandora's Trap

Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq

By: Thomas Preston

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Pandora's Trap

Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq

By: Thomas Preston

How important is presidential personality and leadership style in foreign policy decisions? To answer this question, Thomas Preston takes readers inside the Bush administration's decision-making process and use of intelligence to better understand how administration officials justified the Iraq War—and how they sought to avoid blame for the consequences of their actions. Based on extensive interviews with key Bush administration officials, Preston offers students of American foreign policy, presidential decision making, the dynamics of blame avoidance, and future practitioners with an in depth examination of how presidential personality and leadership style impacted Bush's central foreign policy failure. In addition, Preston looks critically at the oft-cited comparisons of Iraq to Lyndon Johnson's leadership during the Vietnam War, exploring where the analogy fits and a number of important differences. He shows how both presidents' styles exacerbated their managerial weaknesses in these cases and the limits of blame avoidance strategies. Importantly, the book provides a cautionary tale for future leaders to consider more carefully the long-term consequences of satisfying their short term policy desires by lifting the lid to any new Pandora's trap.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442212152

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9781442212152

Sketches from Concord and Appledore

in large print

By: Frank Preston Stearns

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Sketches from Concord and Appledore

in large print

By: Frank Preston Stearns

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3387319568

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9783387319569

Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and Evidence for Practice

By: Catherine Walshe,Nancy Preston,Bridget Johnston

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Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and Evidence for Practice

By: Catherine Walshe,Nancy Preston,Bridget Johnston

What can nurses do to support those receiving palliative care? How do you ensure clear communication and maintain patients’ and families’ preferences? Palliative Care Nursing is essential reading for nursing students, professional nurses and other health and social care professionals providing supportive and palliative care to those with advanced illness or who are towards the end of life. This third edition of the acclaimed textbook has been extensively revised and examines important research studies, key debates around care and strategies to advance palliative care nursing. In four sections, the book covers key elements of nursing practice towards the end of life: • Defining the palliative care patient • Providing palliative nursing care • Caring around the time of death • Challenging issues in palliative care nursing Leading authors address contemporary issues and explore how to provide high quality person-centred palliative care, encouraging application to practice through exercises and case studies. Chapters completely reworked or new for this edition include those on communication, living with uncertainty, bereavement care, the costs of caring, nurses’ decision-making and capacity, and palliative care worldwide. The clarity of evidence presented and coverage of a diverse range of topics make this the foundational textbook for all studying palliative care at pre-registration level, postgraduate level or as part of CPD study. With a foreword by last edition editor, Professor Sheila Payne, Lancaster University, UK. ‘I welcome this third edition of Palliative Care Nursing and congratulations to the new team who have provided us with a dynamic and innovative development of a core text for palliative nursing practice. As the largest workforce in palliative care, and given the changing face of clinical practice for nurses, including increased educational opportunity and expanding roles and responsibilities, this book is timely in its focus on critical issues which frame and scope the reality of palliative care and the nursing contribution to that discipline. The learning exercises, in particular, offer tools for educators and clinicians to reflect on practice and understand new ways of knowing in palliative care. It will be an excellent resource for nursing, both in the UK and Ireland and to the wider international audience, having drawn on the breadth of global nursing expertise to bring this book together’. Philip Larkin, Professor of Clinical Nursing (Palliative Care), University College Dublin and Our Lady’s Hospice and Care Services, Dublin, Ireland; President, European Association for Palliative Care ‘This is a book of substance that captures the current status of palliative nursing, including the values and research evidence that underpin it. The changing nature of palliative nursing as an evidence-based specialism is balanced with practical skills and insights from experts, and also considers the needs of those working with, or concerned about, the dying person’s well-being. It covers a range of challenging issues as well as drawing on the wisdom of those who actually undertake this work on a daily basis. I hope that students and practitioners from all disciplines will find this a useful resource to understand the art and craft of good palliative nursing’. Professor Daniel Kelly, Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of Nursing Chair of Nursing Research, Cardiff University, UK

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335261639

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9780335261635

I Am Maggie

By: Debbi Preston

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I Am Maggie

By: Debbi Preston

Mama helped with the typing, but these are my stories about my puppy years. You will read about animals I befriended, happy times on the trails, and times when I was in trouble or scared by lightning, rattlesnakes, bees, and rain beetles to name a few. I have left the fence line unguarded too long now so I have to take off. Mama can continue from here. When Maggie joined our family, we hoped she would fill the void left by the loss of our first dog, Toots. We wanted a dog to be an ambassador on the trail, to love snow and water play, and to get along with other animals and people. At first, Maggie and Toots seemed like polar opposites. Ultimately, love proved to be the defining similarity and Maggie was so much more than a replacement. It has been an honor to share Maggie’s first years, and now with the arrival of two grandchildren, there is so much joy seeing her welcome Eve and Eli into our pack and our lives.

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The Social Organization of Zen Practice

Constructing Transcultural Reality

By: David L. Preston

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The Social Organization of Zen Practice

Constructing Transcultural Reality

By: David L. Preston

This book, first published in 1998, provides both a first-hand account and a theoretical analysis of the way an American Zen community works.

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Cambridge University Press

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052135000X

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9780521350006

Legendary Locals of Charleston

By: Mary Preston Foster

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Legendary Locals of Charleston

By: Mary Preston Foster

Charleston was founded in 1670 by people recruited in the coffeehouses and pubs of London. They were a diverse and interesting group that created a vibrant, sophisticated city in the wilderness. This book tells the stories of people in each era of the city's history. There is a second-grade class photograph that contains a mayor, an admiral, and the grandfather of a senator; Christopher Gadsden, who is buried in an unmarked grave because he feared his enemies would defile his body; and Isaac Hayne, who was hanged by the British for being a traitor. There is Mary Moultrie, who led the strike of hospital employees that earned equal pay and fair treatment for nurses. Today, Shepard Fairey, Stephen Colbert, and Tim Scott keep Charleston's reputation for rebelliousness alive.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467100552

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9781467100557

Tears of Love

By: James Preston Hardison

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Tears of Love

By: James Preston Hardison

Tears Of Love, profoundly, portrays the love, respect, devotion, and loyalty that two sisters have for each other even though each of them are in love with the same man. Josh Lambert is a very handsome man that is devoted to his employer, which happens to be the father of these sisters. To Josh, it was love at first sight when he saw one of the sisters at a Christmas party. In order to meet the woman that had captured his heart he would have to face her bully boyfriend. An action packed love story filled with suspense, action, drama and mystery. This fictional novel will soften your heart and grip your emotions as it takes the reader on a journey of shattered dreams, and broken hearts. Tears Of Love is a fantastic book to read as it reflects the unyielding love between a man and a woman. This novel will surely make you laugh, cry, and perhaps reflect back on some of your own life experiences. The setting is in rural America, 2009.

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1449091016

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9781449091019

CAD/CAM/CAE Systems

Justification, Implementation, Productivity Measurement, Second Edition,

By: Mark E. Coticchia,George W. Crawford,Edward J. Preston

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CAD/CAM/CAE Systems

Justification, Implementation, Productivity Measurement, Second Edition,

By: Mark E. Coticchia,George W. Crawford,Edward J. Preston

This new edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the state-of-the-practice of CAD/CAM/CAE systems.;Maintaining and enhancing the style of presentation of the first edition, CAD/CAM/CAE Systems (second edition) aims to provide a broad, solid understanding of each critical issue involved with the implementation and evaluation of systems; gives industry tested cost justification models to assess the feasibility of purchasing or leasing a system; supplies step-by-step explanations of every aspect of implementation, from initial facility planning to long-term maintenance; shows how to prepare personnel for a new system, including job skills, training stages, organization, and adminstration; illustrates a complete system audit, including five important approaches to determining overall success, six areas that can be judged separately, the dangers of benchmarking, and a two-year follow-up study; and more.;Furnishing the most up-to-date methods, CAD/CAM/CAE Systems, Second edition offers new features such as: a study of the proliferation of personal computers and their role in organizations; a discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of value added remarketers as an alternative to purchasing from conventional CAD/CAM companies; an examination of the cost-effectiveness of third party service organizations; and more. CAD/CAM/CAE Systems is intended as a guide for software, hardware, mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, and design engineers; draftspersons; managers; purchasing agents, acquisition personnel, and company officers responsible for deciding on CAD/CAM/CAE system implementation or augmentation; and graduate-level and continuing-education students in these disciplines.

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082478961X

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9780824789619

Bloodless

By: Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child

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Bloodless

By: Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA. A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night…and into history. A brutal crime steeped in legend and malevolence: Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire. A case like no other: As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how—or if—these murders are connected to the only unsolved skyjacking in American history. Together, they uncover not just the answer…but an unearthly evil beyond all imagining.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1538736713

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9781538736715

Rebalanced and Revitalized

A Canada Strong and Free

By: Mike Harris,Preston Manning,Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.),Institut économique de Montréal

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Rebalanced and Revitalized

A Canada Strong and Free

By: Mike Harris,Preston Manning,Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.),Institut économique de Montréal

Examines the "democratic deficit" present in Confederation today and applies to it these foundational principles: expanding Canadians' freedom of choice; challenging Canadians to accept greater personal responsibility; and deepening Canada's practice of federal democracy.

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The Fraser Institute

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Book's by Preston Manning

Faith, Leadership and Public Life

Faith, Leadership and Public Life

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

Your Call Is Waiting

Your Call Is Waiting

Guardian

Guardian

Doves of War

Doves of War

African Vodun

African Vodun

Pandora's Trap

Pandora's Trap

Sketches from Concord and Appledore

Sketches from Concord and Appledore

Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and Evidence for Practice

Palliative Care Nursing: Principles and Evidence for Practice

I Am Maggie

I Am Maggie

The Social Organization of Zen Practice

The Social Organization of Zen Practice

Legendary Locals of Charleston

Legendary Locals of Charleston

Tears of Love

Tears of Love

CAD/CAM/CAE Systems

CAD/CAM/CAE Systems

Bloodless

Bloodless

Rebalanced and Revitalized

Rebalanced and Revitalized

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