America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as ......
This text provides up-to-date, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive information about aging among diverse racial and ethnic populations in the US. It is the only book to focus on paramount public health issues as they relate to older minority Americans, and addresses social, behavioural, and biological concerns for this population.
The German 3rd Panzer Division was established in 1935 under the command of Generalleutnant Ernst Fessmann. It later participated in the 1939 invasion of Poland, the 1940 invasion of France, and the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.
With over twenty years in the classroom, Gail Ramshaw frames this new introduction to Christianity survey text around the basic questions students ask.
Small towns and rural areas have particular challenges, and in seeking to live out the Christian life in the midst of those, local churches have unique and useful insights into what it means to care for one another.
We often instinctively feel that our lives would be better if we lived closer to nature. In this unique book, Craig Holdrege offers a specific, practical way of taking that step which, he argues, will signficantly benefit ourselves and our world: starting to think like a plant. Plants are both dynamic and resilient, intimately connected to their ......
Jeff Goldberg and Steve Bookbinder combine their wit, intellect, and common sense in this entertaining, data packed instructional manual. They draw on their personal insight, diversified experiences, and passion for life coaching in the writing and production of Leverage Your Laziness! In this collaboration they introduce an approach designed to ......
The checks and balances written into the Constitution helped create one of the most democratic structures in our government, Congress, the ideals of which has inspired numerous other countries' leaders since our country's founding. However, with managing the opinions and views of so many groups comes a complex structure that now, more than ever, ......
Unleash the power of the newest version of PowerPoint with this new addition to our Office Tips & Tricks line of QuickStudy (R) guides. Go beyond the basics of PowerPoint and learn time-saving tricks and best practices, including animations, using objects, and more, bringing your PowerPoint presentations to the next level.
