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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...

»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...

"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...

Creativity isn't born, it's cultivated this innovative guide distills the work of extraordinary artists and thinkers to show you how.

All the imagination needs to be fruitful is exercise. Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein identify the thinking tools employed by history's greatest creative minds from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Amadeus Mozart and Virginia Woolf so that anyone with the right mix of inspiration and drive can set their own genius in motion. With engaging narratives and ample illustrations, Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein investigate cognitive tools as diverse as...

As the youngest son of a tenant farmer in England's Puritan heartland, twenty-year-old Jonathan Smythe foresees himself trapped forever in a life of servitude to his older brother. Anxious to temporarily escape his worries, Jonathan heads on a secret poaching trip with a friend that quickly turns disastrous when the men are captured by Lord Kingley's thugs. After his friend is mercilessly killed, Jonathan vows revenge and later bludgeons the thugs' leader to death. With a murder decree hanging over his head, Jonathan has no choice but to flee England.

Following his father's plan,...