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Nyx Grimm and the twins, Westley and Nigel, were new to Parker's Point High School, and Nyx had high hopes for the future. However, those hopes were dashed by the unfortunate new nickname hung on the twins... the Brothers Geek. Whereas Westley and Nigel embraced the moniker, Nyx, who found himself included, saw his high school career tarnished for good. Then a mysterious event at the local comic shop led Nyx on an unexpected journey and into the heart of a mystery... a mystery the Brothers Geek swore to solve. Move over Encyclopedia Brown, get out of the way Nancy Drew. The Brothers Geek are here, and they are the Hardy Boys for the new generation!
Alissa is a winsome island beauty raised by her fundamentalist aunt. Simeon is the renegade son of a popular preacher running from the yolk of organized religion. The two become live in lovers, trading their religious roots for a relationship based on their own rules. Eight years later, a curios yearning takes root in Alissa heart, and she is no longer content to feast on "crumbs" when she could be seated at the table. But Simeon has had a full diet of "religious tripe" to last a lifetime. He is not about to submit to the leash of marriage until he is good and ready. As the divine pursuit begins, she must choose between her first love, who will have nothing to do with the hypocrisy of church folks, and the Good Father who wants her for himself. Winsome Richards is a Caribbean native who was raised in a Pentecostal Church. She has great admiration for the ministry of spiritual fathers and mothers, who shepherd the young and vulnerable in the faith. She is an English teacher who enjoys writing, reading and traveling. She and her husband Terence live with their two children Nathan and Zachary in Maryland.
This Handbook covers all the many aspects of cognitive therapy both in its practical application in a clinical setting and in its theoretical aspects. Since the first applications of cognitive therapy over twenty years ago, the field has expanded enormously. This book provides a welcome and readable overview of these advances.
This book contains strategies, activities, ideas, recommendations, and sample author studies designed to help you and your students in launching author studies of your own.
This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means, especially as it relates to black leaders. It is intended for those people who are saying “I don’t know where to start,” “I don’t know what to do” and “I don’t know what to say” when understanding and talking about race at work. Based on candid interviews with 30 successful black leaders, it peels away the multifaceted layers of black British leaders in organisations to offer a new way of thinking about the black British experience. This book provides the insights and ideas required to have positive conversations about race at work and to create work environments where black leaders can...
Steve Edwards trying to forget his pain ups and leaves London to run into a crazy and beautiful girl being bullied. He saves her and takes her home, only to find out she is pregnant. He starts focussing on her well-being to try and avoid his sorrows, just to find out that they may have a connection with each other. After he finds out about that connection he won't let her go no matter who it is trying to separate them.
Developed in the early 1960s by Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis in the USA, mostly for the short-term treatment of patients suffering from emotional disorders, cognitive psychotherapy has rapidly expanded both in its scope and geographically. In fact, when attending recent European conferences relating to psychotherapy, for example, those organized by the European Association of Behaviour Therapy and the European Branch of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, the 13th International Congress of Psychotherapy, and the two international conferences on cognitive psychotherapy which took place in Lisbon in 1980 and in Umea in 1986, one could not but become aware of the active interest in cognitive...
In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the prophecy that 'a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in radiant splendour'. Desiring 'to impart an ever increasing vigour to the Christian life of the faithful', the Council Fathers devoted particular attention to the laity, and set in motion a series of sweeping reforms. The most significant of these centred on refashioning the Church's liturgy—'the source and summit of the Christian life'—in order to make 'it pastorally efficacious to the fullest degree'. Over fifty years on, however, the statistics speak for themselves. In America, only 15% of cradle Catholics say that they attend Mass on a weekly basis; mea...
Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, it has a louder voice. The local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently departed. The islanders keep vigil with the corpse and share in the sorrow of the bereaved. The living and the dead are bound together in the oldest rite of humanity. In My Father's Wake, Kevin Toolis gives an intimate, eye-witness account of the death and wake of his father, celebrating the spiritual depth of the Irish Wake and asking if we too can find a better way to deal with our mortality, by living and loving in the acceptance of death.