Are you living or working with someone who has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)? Perhaps they're your parent or child, close friend, parent, or colleague. OCD can lead both sufferers and those arou
Motorcyclists in record numbers are heading out on ambitious trips across America and around the world. The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Travel offers essential advice to fully prepare them for trave
Help and hope in times of loss. Debra Holland, a psychotherapist and specialist in grief counseling, shares her indispensable knowledge in The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving, tackling the dif
An overview of the Flash scripting language explains how to use ActionScript to control the animation, create sophisticated interactivity, collect and track input, and exchange and manipulate data fro
Explore the world of open source Flash and discover which tools are available. Learn how to identify which tool you need and how to best fit it into your workflow. Step-by-step walk-throughs guide y
The Teacher's Essential Guide to Classroom Management offers classroom teachers concise, effective solutions to the most common instructional challenges they face. These solutions are based on a comb
Contains new information about unpublishedDead Sea Scrollswithtranslations of key passages and recent discovery ofthe movementbehind the Scrolls in their own words In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd stumbled
The cultures of the great empires of the ancient Near East from Egypt to Mesopotamia influenced Israel's religion, literature, and laws because of Israel's geographic location and political position s
Isabel Docampo provides fresh insight into the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth by enabling readers to see these ancient texts through new eyes and discover new applications for their lives. Docampo
It s never been easier to grasp the depth and importance of the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles than when reading them side-by-side in this Immersion Bible study. Timothy Cargal s clear and str
Not a guide book, but a great read. Real life disasters and how they lived to tell the stories fill the pages of this book. Everything from sperm whales biting a hole in a hull and escaping in a rub
The Teacher's Essential Guide to Content Area Writing leads the reader through Burke's teaching strategies, which draw from a combination of research and Jim's own experience as a public school teach
Recent years have seen an explosion of talk about the historical Jesus from scholarly settings as well as media outlets (including sensational TV documentaries and national magazines). How is the stud
The essentials of pastoral care involve the pastor's distinctive task of caring for those who are estranged--the lost sheep. Taken from the biblical image of the shepherd, the pastor by virtue of his
In an engaging style--characteristic of the author, Walter Brueggemann--this Essential Guide describes the leading motifs of ancient Israel’s worship traditions in the Old Testament. The author guides
Preaching: it sounds like such a easy thing to do. All you have to do is step into the pulpit and talk for 20 minutes, right? Anyone who’s ever stepped into that pulpit knows that preaching is anythin
In this excellent outline of Christian ethics, Robin W. Lovin achieves a balance between the questions and issues which form the core of the study of ethics and the life situations from which those qu
Some have raised the question: Is it possible, at the same time, to be a Christian and a feminist? Japinga asks the question a bit differently: Is it possible not to be?Like the other titles in the Es
Beginning with a brief overview of the Bible's structure and history, the authors highlight the development of the canon, point out the major events in the story of the Bible's translation into Englis
One of the chief difficulties in studying the history of Christianity is the lack of prior exposure to the subject that students often bring with them. Struggling to keep up with the large numbers of
The Teacher’s Essential Guide to Content Area Reading leads the reader through Burke’s teaching strategies, which draw from a combination of research and Jim’s own experience as a p
The harassment and discrimination desk reference for every HR professional and managerEmployees filed more than 95,000 discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims against their employers in 2008
A guide to the essential teachings of the Catholic Church explains the origins and purpose of the catechism and discusses the doctrine of the Trinity, the Church, mass and the other sacraments, morali
This book is essential reading for every MGB enthusiast. The mechanical aspects and the restoration of these vehicles have been written about before, but the so often maligned electrical systems has n
