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Transform your corner of the world with strategies from a social change visionary In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the 21st century. In the book, you'll explore nine tools that have driven world-shaking social movements and billion-dollar businesses—tools that can work just as well for a farmers market or fire department or small business. The author describes each of the tools—including storytelling, mathematical modeling, and design thinking—in a stand-alone chapter, intertwining each with a consistent narrative and full-color visual structure. Readers will also find: A consist...
Hargrave’s son Jacob drowned unexpectedly when he was 8 years old. However, one day more than fifty years later, the son they buried with their hands once again stood in front of the house with the same voice and appearance as the vibrant little boy fifty years ago. The dead from all over the world have reappeared in the world: murdered families, Nazi soldiers during World War II, famous French artists...Fear is spreading, and the world is in chaos.
When their son Jacob, who died tragically at his 8th birthday party in 1966, arrives on their doorstep, still 8 years old, Harold and Lucille Hargrave must navigate a strange new reality as chaos erupts around the world as people's loved ones are returned from beyond.
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Three-fingered pinch, known in New Mexico as the Carlsbad crease, in the Indian nations as the Seminole crease, and in modern times as the Gus crease after the hat the actor Robert Duvall wore in the miniseries Lonesome Dove. At the time of this story, the crease was an indication that the rider was from New Mexico. The style is believed to come into being around Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the 1870s.
The solution to the growing problem of stress and burnout in rabbis! Written by a practicing clinical psychologist who spent 10 years as a congregational rabbi, The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar: By the Power Vested in Me presents positive solutions to the inevitable negative effects of symbolic exemplarhood, coaching rabbis through dilemmas of the inner soul. Being a rabbi means serving as a Symbolic Exemplar of the best that is in humankind, being experienced and treated and expected to act as a stand-in for God, and a walking, talking symbol of all that Jewish tradition represents. The burden of being a symbolic exemplar of God is extraordinary, and the struggle to live up to its requirement...
A fascinating tale of a seventeen-year-old high school senior, Rik Gabor, reveals a lock-box, buried and concealed in the floor-boards of his home. His friend Ana dropped by to meet on a pleasant Sunday morning. The contents in the box consist of a map, the deed to a property, and an old photograph. Included were various pieces of jewelry and a hand-written letter from the proprietor assigned to care for the property, Pastor Thaddeus Cahoon. The letter setting forth, the Parish no longer wanted to care for the property due to unforeseen life forces. A vision of a beautiful woman while, they were examining the jewelry was wearing the brooch. This sparked Rik and Ana’s interest. Instead of h...
“… one of the most original books I’ve ever read.” – I Heart Reading “One of my most enjoyable reads of this year, cracking along at high speed and using intriguing ideas to create a world that’s like a cracked mirror version of our own history.” – BookieMonster In the heart of London lies the Engine Ward, a district forged in coal and steam, where the great Engineering Sects vie for ultimate control of the country. For many, the Ward is a forbidding, desolate place, but for Nicholas Thorne, the Ward is a refuge. Deep within the bowels of the Ward, Nicholas can finally escape his strange affliction – the thoughts of animals that crowd his head. The shadows of his past han...