Today’s world is filled with a fear based paradigm. This fear based paradigm has created within human beings a lack of understanding and knowledge of our true potential. Thus what reins is a dependence to look to others outside ourselves to save us from the conditions that we have created by our own choices, which do not align with our inner aspiration to be creators. As a result, human beings have fallen asleep and unconscious to our true power and potential. The time is now to create new breakthroughs in understanding. A New Paradigm for Living will empower you to seek fulfillment and internal growth as a means to create a life of meaning.
This book tells the full and fascinating story of how the country's first federally preserved national military park came into being and how it paved the way for all that came afterwards, including preservation efforts today. As the author explains, most battlefield preservation and commemoration efforts before 1890 were done on a private and state level with veterans' groups and states marking unit positions on battlefields. The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park has served from bringing veterans of the Civil War together and has played host to numerous military units during the Spanish-American War as well as World War I and II. The most important aspect was the creation of historical memory of the men who fought during those wars and the memorials that followed.
The story of beer in Dayton and the Miami Valley is as old as the region's first settlers, who brought their brewing methods with them from Europe. From humble origins, the Schwind brothers founded a Dayton brewing dynasty. Adam Schantz arrived penniless and amassed a fortune as one of the city's early brewers. Martha Vorce, one of the region's several unheralded woman brewers, was running the Springfield Brewery a decade before Eliza Mother Stewart gained fame there as a temperance leader. Although Prohibition swiftly destroyed this flourishing industry, today's local craft brewers promise to keep good beer and good times flowing for many years to come. Join local author Tim Gaffney as he explores the Valley's brewing heritage.
Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fourth Edition, follows a hierarchical organization that begins with relatively easy-to-understand chapters on adaptive responses of insect populations to various environmental changes, disturbances, and anthropogenic activities, how insects find food and habitat resources, and how insects allocate available energy and nutrients. Chapters build on fundamental information to show how insect populations respond to changing environmental conditions, including spatial and temporal distribution of food and habitat. The next section integrates populations of interacting species within communities and how these interactions determine structure of communities over time and space. Other works in insect ecology stop there, essentially limiting presentation of insect ecology to evolutionary responses of insects to their environment, including the activities of other species. The unique aspect of this book is its four chapters on ecosystem structure and function, and how herbivores, pollinators, seed predators, and detritivores drive ecosystem dynamics and contribute to ecosystem stability. - Provides the most advanced synthesis of insect ecology, with updated material throughout and new chapters - Presents the roles of insects in delivery of ecosystem services and applications to pest management and conservation - Features full coverage of ecosystem structure and function balanced with essential background on evolutionary aspects - Includes case studies highlighting practical and theoretical applications for topics covered in each chapter
Praise for earlier editions: “I have been using this textbook as a required reading for my research class since 2004 because I found the text’s coverage of research concepts to be in-depth, and easy to read without the technicalities.” - Ziblim Abukari, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Westfield State University “Applied Social Research... is thorough, well organized, and clear, making it highly appreciated by my students.” -Barry Loneck, PhD, School of Social Welfare, SUNY Albany The tenth edition of this classic text demonstrates how research skills are developed and used to facilitate best social work practices and improve client outcomes. New to this edition are additional examples and practitioner profiles demonstrating research-based practice, problem-solving extended vignettes, and broad inclusion of the 2015 CSWE competencies. The tenth edition also delivers directives for incorporating evidence-based practices into daily practice. Additional highlights include greater emphasis on conducting practice-informed research with minority and other disadvantaged populations. This engaging text for MSW and BSW students helps readers develop logic-based research skills that prepare them to be scientific practitioners who can use research-informed practice to improve clients’ lives. Emphasized throughout is the application of research methods in assessing and monitoring client functioning and outcomes. Additional features include robust instructor resources. The print version of the book includes free, searchable, digital access to the entire contents! New to the Tenth Edition: Practitioner Profiles recounting interviews with actual practitioners Evaluating Competency boxes highlighting the connections between text concepts and CSWE competencies Emphasis on conducting research with disadvantaged populations Enhanced instructor resources including updated test bank with multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions, and PowerPoints Key Features: Demonstrates the crucial connection between research and practice to improve client outcomes Develops critical thinking and logic-based research skills Helps students to measure and monitor client functions and outcomes and critically evaluate practices, programs, and services Emphasizes scaling measures to assess client functioning Includes unique chapter on preparing and presenting data
Today’s world is filled with a fear based paradigm. This fear based paradigm has created within human beings a lack of understanding and knowledge of our true potential. Thus what reins is a dependence to look to others outside ourselves to save us from the conditions that we have created by our own choices, which do not align with our inner aspiration to be creators. As a result, human beings have fallen asleep and unconscious to our true power and potential. The time is now to create new breakthroughs in understanding. A New Paradigm for Living will empower you to seek fulfillment and internal growth as a means to create a life of meaning.
Generous Justice - Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace. The Meaning of Marriage - co-authored with his wife, Kathy, Keller turns his attention to that most complex of matters: our need for love, and its expression in marriage. Every Good Endeavour - Keller argues that God's plan is radically more ambitious than work being a means to and end: he actually created us to work. Preaching - known for his insightful, down-to-earth sermons and talks, Keller helps people understand themselves, encounter Jesus and apply the Bible to their lives.
This will help us customize your experience to showcase the most relevant content to your age group
Please select from below
Login
Not registered?
Sign up
Already registered?
Success – Your message will goes here
We'd love to hear from you!
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.