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CYCLES is a riveting account of one woman's triumph over many of life's obstacles. This novel will encourage you, provoke you and challenge you! It explores Prececa Morriston's weaknesses and strengths and how she becomes a true woman of substance through it all. Through all the snares, rejection, pain, confusion and being misunderstood, Prececa is still here .... And she has a testimony!
The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique circumstances. Researchers new to this field need to understand how the disaster context affects the application of the methods of research. This volume, written by some of the worlds leading specialists in disaster research, provides for the first time a primer on disaster research methods. Among the topics covered are qualitative field studies and survey research; underutilized approaches such as cross-national studies, simulations, and historical methods; and newer tools utilizing geographic information systems, the Internet, and economic modeling.
In your quiet times with the Lord, this book will inspire you to love God and others in a more meaningful way.Love will come and give you a purpose for life. Sometimes in a subtle way and, at other times, in a more obvious way, the love of God which is more affirmative, than any other love will motivate you through lifes various situations whether it be a job or home and family. The answer to most of our problems in life seems to stem out of situations related to love or lack of it. Take a step in the right direction now and love in a more practical way. Make a mark in your world! Some of us, do not know what love isWe hear a great deal about loving our self, but can we love our self or someone else if we dont know what love is. Love comes from God and he loves us in more ways than one.It can be through people or even through the presence of our pets.Love cannot be explained, it must be believed to help us in any way. If you are curious about who God is, this book is also for you, because at times, it attempts to answer some of lifes difficult questions.God is not a Santa Claus and he is not a mad being ready to punish his creation.But who does the Bible tells us God is?
A forbidden love is what they had. No one was supposed to know they were in love; that each night before bed, they each lay with someone else, but they would think of the other; that they tell them good night and I love you for the winds to carry the message to each other. Many messages the winds carried, but this one was always delivered with a swiftness. The wind itself knew that these two people belong together. They deserved to have the other. Each longed to hold the other at night when the stars were shining bright. The moon would whisper sweet lullabies to them as they held each other closely.
Four factors are rapidly converging into a “silver tsunami” that will soon challenge every aspect of American society: 1) the increasing number of people living with dementias; 2) the mounting number of people providing dementia care, whether they want to or not; 3) the spiraling healthcare costs of dementia care; and 4) the lack of geriatricians to provide medical care and oversight. The way dementia care is currently provided is simply not sustainable. Congregations and other community groups must on the one hand find ways to support those providing dementia care, and on the other hand become involved in long-term efforts to make such care reliable, reasonable, and affordable so that those with dementia will not be forsaken.
Heart surgeon Miller presents his personal reflections on the nature of life, addressing the subjects of sex, self-interest, God, Schopenhauer, music, compassion, life as a heart surgeon, and the finality of death.
The first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil War Race, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and cultural currents that led to its failure. The first attempt to racially integrate West Point proved not simply a lost opportunity but an opportunity sabotaged with shocking degrees of forethought and deliberation. By investigating West Point’s experience with race from varied and nuanced perspectives, including those of the first Black cadets, the US Army officer corps, white cadets, the Academy’s faculty and staff, and the Black and whi...