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The storms had been pounding Alterson city for weeks. With the panic and confusion the death toll was rising. If the flooding of a city hadn't claimed enough lives an evil presence continued the onslaught. In an alley a single soul descended from above, awoke his memory gone, only a symbol to remind him of who stole his life. He remembered the gang that claimed his life however his new life could be the key. In a city filled with fear and anger can justice prevail? With the help of a troubled spirit, a grieving girl, a beaten policeman and a worn down reverend The descending soul must fight for more than revenge. He must fight for Alterson cities future.
Ancestors and descendants of Henry Keyser, born in Giles County, Virgi- nia, on January 13, 1813. He was married to Abigail Clark (1813- 1889) on January 7, 1830 in Cabell County, West Virginia. He died on December 19, 1909. Descendants live in Iowa, Nebraska, Omaha and elsewhere.
Mary M. and Kenneth J. Gergen make a strong case for enriching the social sciences through performative work, establishing a framework for performative research and including many of their own performance works.
Born of a seething, near-psychotic indifference to golf that was transformed during its writing into the nihilistic and passionate obsession of a student in a Parisian school for acrobats and clowns, "Golf is From Satan" is the first book about golf that seeks and tells the truth about a game that longs to ascend to the heavens of public imagination on the singed wings of demons. This book sings, instructs, will send the reader into convulsive fits of nervous laughter, save or send the reader to hell, then finally and suddenly yield up the hidden secrets of the universe. And it's just a golf book that, admittedly, has little to do with golf itself.
Three ’windows’ to spiritual maturity How can a faithful Christian avoid stagnating in their spiritual development? Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity: Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living explores effective ways in which Christian discipleship can grow in spiritual maturity. This thoughtful, integrative roadmap explains the journey through three interrelated perspectives, or ’windows,’ psychotherapeutic psychology, prayer and contemplation, and moral theology. The author uses numerous examples from everyday life to make the reflections interesting and practical. Unlike other books on Christian spirituality, this book is more challenging and sophistica...
An invaluable teaching text and clinical resource, this is a book about how to do psychotherapy--how to apply the science of change to the complexities of helping people develop new meanings in their lives. Explaining constructivist principles and illuminating what a skilled clinician actually does in day-to-day practice, Michael J. Mahoney shows how to nurture the therapeutic relationship while implementing such creative interventions as centering techniques, problem solving, pattern work, meditation and embodiment exercises, drama and dream work, and spiritual exploration. Appendices feature reproducible client forms, handouts, and other useful materials.
These essays rethink the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. They offer a new understanding of the intertwined trajectories of socialism and nationalism in European and global history.
"This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to arts-based research (ABR) practices, which scholars in multiple disciplines are fruitfully using to reveal information and represent experiences that traditional methods cannot capture. Each of the six major ABR genres/m-/narrative inquiry, poetry, music, performance, dance, and visual art/m-/is covered in chapters that introduce key concepts and tools and present an exemplary research article by a leading ABR practitioner. Patricia Leavy discusses the kinds of research questions these innovative approaches can address and offers practical guidance for applying them in all phases of a research project, from design and data collection to analysis, interpretation, representation, and evaluation. Chapters include checklists to guide methodological decision making, discussion questions, and recommended print and online resources"--
"Ideal for courses in multiple disciplines, the third edition of this award-winning text has been revised and updated with new topics, examples, and guiding questions to introduce each chapter's sections. Patricia Leavy presents a practical guide to the full range of arts-based research (ABR) genres-narrative inquiry, fiction-based research, poetry, music, dance, theatre, film, and visual art. Each chapter is paired with an exemplary research article or online video link (at the companion website) that demonstrates the techniques in action. Following a consistent format, chapters review how each genre developed, explore its methodological variations and the kind of research questions it can ...