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Walt Whitman s meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one s place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes including locales as varied as Walden Pond and Mesa Verde, the mountains of Montana and the coastline of Maine, Great Lakes shorelines and Manhattan on the first day of the war with Iraq.

Rich in all that retrospection, Postscripts chronicles moments of intimacy and arrival in the natural world while also charting intersections of...

»Werden die Männer ab einem gewissen Alter komplett verrückt im Kopf?«

Klara Reininger stellt sich genau diese Frage. Und hat ihre Ehe denn noch eine Chance verdient? Die fünfundsechzigjährige Pensionistin lebt den Inbegriff eines perfekten Daseins. Als sie jedoch eines Tages ihren Mann in flagranti mit einer deutlich jüngeren Frau im eigenen Haus erwischt, steht sie plötzlich unfreiwillig vor den Trümmern ihres Lebens.

Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hat sich die eher introvertierte und unsichere Klara eigentlich vorgenommen, ihr Haus nie wieder zu verlassen, um einsam auf ihrer...

For more than 50 years, relational or incarnational ministry has been a major focus in youth ministry. But for too long, those relationships have been used as tools--as a means to an end--where adults try to influence students to accept, know, trust, believe, or participate in something. While our motives may be good, it's possible that by focusing on these goals, we're not ministering the whole person. When we choose not to engage in the full life of a student, we run the risk of failing them and our ministry. In this thoughtful and insightful book, Andrew Root challenges us to reconsider...

"Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators" is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. It features lesson plans teachers can use immediately, and from which they can learn the basics of the game. Since the plans meet academic goals through chess, teachers also learn that chess can be a part of reading, math, science, and social studies. An appendix showing how chess meets the requirements of curriculum standards is another plus.

"Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators" is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational...