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Throughout this interesting and informative book, Williamson shows the difference between suffering hardships and suffering the infringement of one's rights. She says that every truly consecrated Christian must be willing to give up the right to the normal comforts of life, to physical health...

"Such societies may be called Acquisitive Societies, because their whole tendency and interest and preoccupation is to promote the acquisition of wealth. The appeal of this conception... has laid the whole modern world under its spell. ...It is an invitation to men to use...

Encourage students to develop collaborative problem-solving skills with STEAM Project-Based Learning! The engaging STEAM tasks provide meaningful learning opportunities for students as they work together to study current real-world problems and strategize solutions to help create a better world. These complete units include in-depth...

Encourage students to develop collaborative problem-solving skills with STEAM Project-Based Learning! The engaging STEAM tasks provide meaningful learning opportunities for students as they work together to study current real-world problems and strategize solutions to help create a better world. These complete units include in-depth...

Encourage students to develop collaborative problem-solving skills with STEAM Project-Based Learning! The engaging STEAM tasks provide meaningful learning opportunities for students as they work together to study current real-world problems and strategize solutions to help create a better world. These complete units include in-depth...

Encourage students to develop collaborative problem-solving skills with STEAM Project-Based Learning! The engaging STEAM tasks provide meaningful learning opportunities for students as they work together to study current real-world problems and strategize solutions to help create a better world. These complete units include in-depth...

Encourage students to develop collaborative problem-solving skills with STEAM Project-Based Learning! The engaging STEAM tasks provide meaningful learning opportunities for students as they work together to study current real-world problems and strategize solutions to help create a better world. These complete units include in-depth...

Encourage students to develop collaborative problem-solving skills with STEAM Project-Based Learning! The engaging STEAM tasks provide meaningful learning opportunities for students as they work together to study current real-world problems and strategize solutions to help create a better world. These complete units include in-depth...

David Walker's Appeal is an uncompromising African-centered discourse that attacks white injustice and advocates Black self-reliance. Its publication in 1830 intensified the debate and struggle against slavery. More than a petition against slavery, the Appeal is a foundational document from which many contemporary themes...

Author: R H HarrisISBN-10: 1639231803ISBN-13: 9781639231805Publisher: Lushena BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2022Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35d

Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable,...

Handy guide for Masons everywhere. This complete reference gives a concise history of Freemasonry plus its rules, regulations, ceremonies, rituals, duties, etc. Author: William Campbell-EverdenISBN-10: 163923151XISBN-13: 9781639231515Publisher: Lushena BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/19/2001Pages: 444Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

With brilliantly objective scholarship, respected historian and author John G. Jackson reexamines the outdated, racist, and Westernized history of Africa that is still taught in schools, and presents one infinitely more rich, colorful, varied-and truthful. Challenging the standard dehumanizing and exploitive approaches to African...

The Golden Dawn By Professor Hilton Hotema Author: Professor Hilton HotemaISBN-10: 1639231234ISBN-13: 9781639231232Publisher: Lushena BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2022Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.19d

If the Kingdom of God does not include everything, who is the ruler of that part not included? And if we do not live in the Kingdom of God, where are we? That Kingdom mentioned in the John gospel must have been located far...

To whom this may concern, I appreciate this opportunity and, at this time, present my qualifications within the technology innovation. Leadership and creativity involving training and research work acquired through my work experiences, education, and possibly utilize "Green" training, Energy Star, and certificates received...

Author Ashraf Nubani challenges you to consider while Islam has often been misunderstood in public discourse, it has a powerful message to offer in the marketplace of ideas. Bridging the Gap: Islam's Challenge for America is meant to do just what the title suggests:...

This book presents three papers that seek to understand the importance and role that new technologies and social networks can play in tourists' decisions.In an increasingly digital world, Tourism and Hospitality use social networks, websites and different communication platforms to provide a closer, faster...

How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood is the solution to the social breakdown felt across the country and around the world today. It narrates the story and philosophy of Community Renewal International (CRI), an organization founded in Shreveport, Louisiana. In the places...

The Wisdom of the Egyptians, edited and with an Introduction by BRIAN BROWN, is a comprehensive guide to Egyptian culture, history, religion, and literature. Included in this fascinating tome is the origin of the Egyptians and the history of their monarchy, an overview of...

Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1613829760ISBN-13: 9781613829769Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2011Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

This edition of The Golden Bough A study of magic and religion by Sir James George Frazer is given by Golden - Million Book EditionAuthor: James George FrazerISBN-10: 1613828292ISBN-13: 9781613828298Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2013Pages: 1006Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 2.38d

Crisis has enveloped the more than 200,000 nationally and regionally protected natural and cultural heritage sites around the world. Heritage managers - those who manage natural sites such as national parks, wilderness areas, and biosphere reserves, as well as those who manage cultural sites...

The rising rate of home foreclosures which stands at approximately 1 in 92 households in the United States has raised a national alarm. Medical issues account for approximately half of all home foreclosure filings and it appears that approximately 1.5 million American homeowners could...

In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociologist Jose Martinez lays bare the immense social changes that we should expect from the nouvel coronavirus, which has upended American life since March 2020. A...

This devotional is designed for those who serve others. Service includes but is not limited to emergency management, emergency medical services, military personnel, firefighters, first responders, law enforcement, dispatchers / 911 operators, transportation workers, social services personnel, emergency volunteers, and the list goes on....

This work by American social critic H.L. Mencken contains brief mini-essays on a wide variety of subjects. While Mencken has been called many things: cynic, misanthrope and elitist, there is no doubt that he was funny. The mini-essay form (with pieces only a few...

Leaders in the world: learn to disarm yourself to make things right in life. Within the first 4-5 years we start arming ourselves as a child, but some adults do not know how to stop so for them here is help. The unity of...

The Story of My Life By Helen Keller (Special Edition in large print)Author: Helen KellerISBN-10: 1541334450ISBN-13: 9781541334458Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2016Pages: 574Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.89lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.16dLarge PrintAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.8Point Value: 12Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 30507 / Story...

This substantially enlarged and expanded second edition of New Solutions for House Museums: Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of America's Historic Houses provides advice for historic site stewards that have concerns about the financial sustainability of their historic house museum and its relevance to its...

Favorite pieces selected from the clip files of an ethereal writer who spent a decade toiling in the journalism profession.Author: David Trout PomeroyISBN-10: 153512752XISBN-13: 9781535127523Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2016Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.26d

Claus Windelev is taking a critical look at many of the conflicting and at times divisive practices, which seem to have removed the concepts of common sense from public and private discourse. Claus Windelev asks the hard question, whether we as a nation still...

A wedding resource of ceremony samples to assist couples, Officiants and Celebrants with wonderful service ideas. Contains a collection of wedding services, complete except for the legal terminology which your Officiant or Civil Marriage Celebrant can insert. Choose a ceremony style as it is...

The Milwaukee Police Department was organized in 1855 with a determined chief, seven pugnacious officers, and little money. The department grew to 21 men by the start of the Civil War in 1861. Law enforcement in the city soon earned the national reputation for...

Created in England at the dawn of the twentieth century by Boer War hero Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the Boy Scout movement reached America in 1910. Scouting spread like wildfire to Atlantic Highlands, Freehold, Long Branch, Red Bank, and nearly every other town in Monmouth...

Seeing, is a distinguishing feature in the formation of people's perception of the world. Compared to seeing, it can be said that words on the other hand can carry different meanings and be understood differently. Seeing, which predates words, begins in childhood. And as...

The Book of Dogs: An Intimate Study of Mankind's Best Friend is a comprehensive guide to the world of dogs, written by Louis Agassiz Fuertes in 1919. This book is a must-read for anyone who loves dogs and wants to learn more about them....

""Problems of Today: Wealth, Labor, Socialism"" is a book written by Andrew Carnegie in 1908. The book is a collection of essays and speeches that Carnegie delivered on various topics related to wealth, labor, and socialism. In the book, Carnegie discusses the challenges of...

Camera Power is the first book to tackle the policy questions raised by two ongoing revolutions in recording the police: copwatching and police-worn body cameras. Drawing on original research from over 200 jurisdictions and more than 100 interviews - with police leaders and officers,...

First published in 1881, this popular and entertaining work by the printer and bibliographer William Blades (1824-90) examines the numerous threats that books have faced throughout their existence. Based on the author's experience of collecting printed works, the book explores such destructive forces as...

This book, first published in 1868, became the best-known work of medical officer and writer James Africanus Beale Horton (1835-1883), who was born in Sierra Leone to parents of Igbo descent. He was chosen by the British to train as an army medical officer...

The classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) published his History of Rome between 1854 and 1856. His work was received with widespread acclaim by the scholarly community and the reading public. In 1902 Mommsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and acclaimed as 'the...

The classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) published his monumental History of Rome between 1854 and 1856. His work was received with widespread acclaim by the scholarly community and the reading public. In 1902 Mommsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and acclaimed as...

There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems...

Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model for understanding late medieval...

This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that, although it is typically portrayed as serving self-interest, it sometimes takes priority over self-interest. To make this case, the authors discuss the way justice emerges as a personal contract in...

Originally published in 1939, this book contains an assessment of the historical evidence provided by ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets. The text is accompanied by a number of photographs of the tablets, as well as of important archaeological sites and Babylonian artefacts. Chiera's enthusiasm for...

Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today....

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and...

Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period...