If a plant grows with shallow roots, the storms of a season will wither away and uproot it; like a house built on sand, a poor foundation will doom its fate. But this isn't a book on botany, nor on architecture; foundations, good roots, are essential to thought structures as well as material structures. In theology, a bad foundation will produce results as catastrophic as bad roots or shifting sand. How we think about God and His work in the world will profoundly affect how we live and work out our Christian faith. This book evolved from the conviction that ...

The term 'terrorism' is often applied exclusively to non-state groups or specific 'rogue states'. Far less attention is given to state terrorism carried out or sponsored by democracies, most notably the United States. History shows that this state terrorism has been responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Weapon of the Strong analyses the forms of US state terrorism through exclusive, never before published interviews with leading commentators and theorists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Richard A. Falk, Judith Butler, Ted Honderich ...

Ce recueil de poèmes est une autobiographie. Il parle de moi, de ma vie, mes peines, mes joies, mes souffrances, mes amours. Je suis née en République d'Haïti dans un village appelé Camp-Perrin situé dans le département du sud dont la capitale est Les Cayes. Je suis issue d'un pays et d'une famille qui n'avaient rien à m'offrir d'autre que de la misère et de la tristesse. Quand j'ai quitté mon pays natale Haïti pour aller à Montréal le 15 Avril 1990, je ne savais ...

She's their only hope. If only she could wield the power to save them... Geriel hates that she's the weakest healer in her tribe. And when a deadly disease sweeps through her village, she despairs she's not good enough to rescue her people. With the outbreak spreading and her gift unstable, she's sent on a desperate mission to locate the herbal cure deep in enemy territory. Seeking to better control her powers with guidance from a skilled dragon, she falls in with a ragtag band of freedom fighters. But even with her mentor's mystic teachings, villagers ...

A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains". "A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou . . ." is one of the most famous poetic lines ever written. One of the great achievements of poetry, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, was written in Persian in the 11th century. Omar Khayyam was a consummate philosopher and astronomer whose work extended far beyond the Rubaiyat, but it is this work that survives today, a testament to ...

"Of all the creatures roaming Earth today, I would have never guessed that birds are the dinosaurs' closest relatives. I always assumed that lizards and iguanas carried the family torch, but on a recent visit to a farm, it finally made sense to me. Look into the eyes of a chicken and tell me you don't see the shadow of a velociraptor." What do the dinosaurs, the Great Emu War, and Pluto have in common? In Alex and the Dinosaur Prints , they all tell a heart-warming story of growing up, making sense of the world and seeking a meaningful life. Oh, and ...

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Public Health Nutrition is a comprehensive, practice-based textbook for graduate and upper undergraduate students and community nutrition and public health professionals. It provides readers with the principal understanding of how improving access to healthy foods at individual, local, regional, and global levels as well as improving food security and sustainability can improve community health and combat noncommunicable diseases, infectious diseases, hunger and malnutrition, obesity, social injustice, and debilitating food environments. Across diverse communities ...

The book explores how the European Union (EU) promotes unity of the European people through media. It assesses the impact of European media regulation on broadcasting industries, on television schedules, on forms of production practice, on international as well as intra-European exchange of audiovisual products, and on viewing patterns of the European audience in pre- and post-enlargement period. It highlights complexities of identity creation within the broader framework of 'Europeanization' of media sectors and identities throughout Europe. The book ...