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Joshua Lightfoot is the last surviving member of his Native American family. Engrained in him by his race, is the belief that the Great Spirit was the Supreme Creator who held everyone's life in balance. Joshua is in the minority spiritually, as well as racially, as he struggles to harmonize his beliefs with those of the majority of the Christian people associated with his life. His family inheritance includes the responsibility of managing a large tract of forested land granted to his grandfather with the provision that it be preserved in its wilderness state, and managed by the Lightfoot...

Maryknoll Catholic missionaries from the United States settled in Peru in 1943 believing they could save a "backward" Catholic Church from poverty, a scarcity of clergy, and the threat of communism. Instead, the missionaries found themselves transformed: within twenty-five years, they had become vocal critics of United States foreign policy and key supporters of liberation theology, the preferential option for the poor, and intercultural Catholicism. In The Maryknoll Catholic Mission in Peru, 1943-1989, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens explains this transformation and Maryknoll's influence in...

Yoga is a long-established approach for addressing behavioral or emotional issues in children, but it is also an engaging way to facilitate speech-language development. In this book the authors present their pioneering approach of applying yogic principles and practices to enhance speech-language development in children. Combining years of experience as certified speech-language pathologists and as qualified yoga teachers, the authors explain how yoga relates to speech-language development. The book offers yoga-based exercises for improving prelinguistic communication, breathing, motor...