This devotional journal is an ideal companion for anyone wanting to apply the knowledge they learned about lament from Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy and practice it in their own life.

Children add a unique strain on a couple's time and relationship, yet they desperately need parents who love each other. That's why, according to Dr. Willard Harley, one of the most important things parents can do for their kids is keep their marriage healthy. His Needs, Her Needs for Parents, now available in trade paper, helps them do just that. Following the pattern of the bestselling His Needs, Her Needs, this book guides both new and seasoned parents through the whys and hows of sustaining romance in a marriage. It also offers specific, practical steps on spending quality time as a couple, deciding on child-training methods, dividing domestic responsibilities, and even handling kids with ADHD and intrusive in-laws. His Needs, Her Needs for Parents helps couples maintain their love for each other and raise happy and successful children at the same time.

A fabulous folder designed with a jaunty nautical theme that is small enough to carry in a handbag, keep by the telephone or on an office desktop. Use the stickers for handy reminders or making things-to-do or shopping lists or make longer notes using the notepad. Contents include a lined notepad with 70 tear-off sheets, seven peelable sticky notes with 50 sheets each and a gel pen.

Shower your mom, wife, sister, or friend with love on Mother's Day, her birthday, baby shower, or just because by giving her the Strength & Dignity Slimline LuxLeather Journal, to jot down her musings.

The cover of the Strength & Dignity Slimline LuxLeather Journal is made of smooth LuxLeather and displays a lovely floral design heat-debossed into the gray journal. Proverbs 31:25, She is clothed with strength and dignity..." is featured in gold foil with the verse reference beneath it. It also comes with a ribbon marker for easily keeping your place, and the 240-lined pages are gilt-edged.

The Strength & Dignity Slimline LuxLeather Journal pairs well with a coordinating bookmark, and keyring. Give one item or mix and match items for a larger gift.

• Size: 8.6" x 6.1" x 0.8" (218 x 155 x 20mm)
• 240 lined pages
• Gilt-edged pages
• Soft LuxLeather Cover
• Flexcover
• Attached Ribbon Page Marker
• Presentation Page for Gift-Giving

"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes, as in a nightmare, in constant flight from something horrid. In the short story "Silva the Eye," Bolano writes in the opening sentence: "It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always tried to escape violence, even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around 20 years old when Salvador Allende died." Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved "failed generation," the stories of Last Evenings on Earth have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.

These popular and proven workbooks help students build confidence before attempting end-of-chapter problems. They provide short exercises that focus on developing a particular skill, mostly requiring students to draw or interpret sketches and graphs. New to the Third Edition are exercises that provide guided practice for the textbook's Problem-Solving Strategies, focusing in particular on working symbolically.

Featuring eye-catching geometric designs by artist Marleigh Culver, this kit invites you to relax through the meditative process of painting by number. When completed, you'll have three beautiful abstract paintings to gift or display. Includes three pre-printed art boards, six pots of acrylic paint, two paintbrushes, and an instruction guide. Perfect for anyone looking for creative ways to unplug and slow down!

With this book, readers can learn Hebrew on their own and will find themselves reading meaningful verses from the Hebrew Bible after just two hours of study. The book provides the basics of a standard grammar but also includes insights into Hebrew narrative and poetry not usually found in introductory textbooks. Audio files for the book are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources. Now in paper.

Since the beginning of Christianity, the Lord's Prayer has occupied an important place in the lives of Jesus's disciples, for it is the prayer Jesus himself taught them. Like other biblical prayers, the Lord's Prayer contains words people offer to God. But since this prayer is from Jesus and is part of Scripture, it is also God's Word to people. When we say this prayer, not only are we speaking to God, but God is also speaking to us. Highly regarded New Testament scholar William Wright shows how this classic text can speak afresh to the life of the church today. He integrates critical exegesis, theological exposition, and Christian spirituality to explicate the theological substance of the Lord's Prayer. His goal is to help readers come to know God and love God and others more deeply through a focused study of this important Christian prayer. The Touchstone Texts series addresses key Bible passages, making high-quality biblical scholarship accessible for the church. The series editor is Stephen B. Chapman, Duke Divinity School.

The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understanding, teaching, and illustrating the text.

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political importance of museums, and the efficacy of videos in furthering an ideological agenda through the internet. Beginning with the Islamic State's claim that the smashed objects were idols of the "age of ignorance," Aaron Tugendhaft questions whether there can be any political life without idolatry. He then explores the various roles Mesopotamian sculpture has played in European imperial competition, the development of artistic modernism, and the formation of Iraqi national identity, showing how this history reverberates in the choice of the Mosul Museum as performance stage. Finally, he compares the Islamic State's production of images to the ways in which images circulated in ancient Assyria and asks how digitization has transformed politics in the age of social media. An elegant and accessibly written introduction to the complexities of such events, The Idols of ISIS is ideal for students and readers seeking a richer cultural perspective than the media usually provides.

"Texas Wit & Wisdom" is a barrel of laughs crammed into one little ol' book. Inside you'll find a friendly collection of hundreds of anecdotes, humorous stories, wild tales, and even some surprising wisdom from the often wacky, but always wonderful, world of the Lone Star State.
Wallace Chariton, a fifth generation native Texan and author of several books on Texas, has carefully collected the best examples of Texas fun and humor and put them all together in this book, the ultimate collection of Texas humor.

We live in a reactionary culture where divisive issues arise, people on either side throw stones, and everyone ends up more entrenched in their opinions than in reaching common ground--or even exhibiting common courtesy! If there ever was a time for Christians to understand and communicate God's truth about controversial and polarizing issues, it is now. Believers must develop convictions based on research, reason, and biblical truth--and be able (and willing) to communicate these convictions with a love and respect that reflects God's own heart. In Culture Shock, bestselling author, pastor, and radio personality Chip Ingram shows readers how they can bring light rather than heat to the most controversial and divisive issues of our day. Covering topics such as right and wrong, sex, homosexuality, abortion, politics, and the environment, Culture Shock is every engaged believer's must-have guidebook to replacing reactionary hate with revolutionary love.

On December 7, 1828, Lewis Bissell Dougherty was born at Cantonment Leavenworth, the military post of the Missouri River. For the rest of his life, Dougherty carried a footnote to his name: he was one of the first white children to be born in Kansas. These "first" children came to be celebrated as white America's first steps onto the Western frontier. In "Children of the Western Plains," Marilyn Holt rescues the experience of children from the usual adult perspectives on Western history. Her book is the first in a new series that will emphasize the experience of children during different times and at different locales in the American past. The books will be abundantly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. They will take advantage of primary source materials, reminiscences, documents, and secondary works in telling the story of American children throughout the nation's history. In Ms. Holt's book, she explores what life was like for youngsters who lived on the Great Plains in nineteenth-century frontier life. She is especially interested in how they were raised, how they were influenced by their environment, and what sort of independence they experienced while growing up. Her chapters address a breadth of experiences and perceptions: why families came to the Great Plains and where they decided to settle; how families and communities were organized for education, work, and play; how health care, accidents, and mortality affected childhoods; and what children experienced outside the home. As much as possible, she lets the children speak for themselves. This is their story. With 25 black-and-white photographs.

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10

Grab your set of colored pencils, gel pens or markers and relax with this stunning set of coloring cards. Use these cards for anti-stress therapy and biblical inspiration. This collection of coloring cards is composed of inspirational Scripture verses and beautiful designs by Karla Dornacher to bring your creativity to life.

The booklet includes exquisitely designed coloring cards, one side for coloring and the back side for a personal message. This set of 20 cards is printed on heavy cardstock. Each card is easy to tear out and perfect to give as a greeting to someone special.

• Size: 120 (W) x 165mm (H)

• Color one side and write a personal message on the back

• Postcard-size book with 20 tear-out cards

Storytelling is alive and well in Texas! Let storyteller and biographer Jim Gramon give you a personal introduction to some of his legendary storytelling friends.

The BBQ Companion features 50 recipes designed for cooking in the great outdoors. Whether you’ve got plans for a camping trip, a picnic or a backyard dinner, these recipe cards will have you cooking all summer. In the mood for a classic? Try Argentinian beef with chimichurri, grilled buttermilk chicken, or sticky bourbon-bbq short ribs. Or, if you’re looking for something different, there’s Korean bulgogi tofu, haloumi burgers with peperonata, or rum-spiked barbecued banana boats. Each card comes with a different recipe, with enough choices to keep you cooking all summer. So, just shuffle the deck and get grilling! • Covers all the bases, from seafood to steak • Recipes for side dishes and desserts • Includes vegetarian and vegan options

Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. "A Post-May Adolescence" is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film about his teenage years, "L'Eau froide." The movement of thought and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This book also includes two essays by Assayas on the aesthetic and political legacy of Guy Debord, who played a decisive role in shaping the author's understanding of the world and his path towards an extremely personal way of making films. "A Post-May Adolescence" was first published in French in 2005. Its expanded English edition makes a valuable companion to the first English-language monograph on Assayas' body of work, "Olivier Assayas," edited by Kent Jones, also published by the Austrian Film Museum.

My body is a manifestation of the effects of working at BX. I have acquired physical ailments that are quite advanced for one my age. At 21, I now have a bad back, wear orthopedic shoes, and have joints that ache in the morning as well as when it rains. My body has become dilapidated. Have you ever had a job that you hated? Has work hindered your plans for your life? Do you meet, work with, or work for the most inane and irritating people on Earth in your line of work? Are you tired of working for The Man? Are you The Man? Before you is a compilation of memorable incidents and people from the early working years of Ivey Brown. He began writing this book while working in fast food in high school. Over the following six years, he's been everything from a cashier to a manual laborer...and he's not 24 yet. In this book, you will no doubt find yourself, whether in dealing with the most absurd of customers who are Always right, or in doing the most mind-numbing work ever imagined by any regime skilled in the art of torture.