In the "twinkling of an eye" Jesus secretly returns to earth and gathers to him all believers. As they are taken to heaven, the world they leave behind is plunged into chaos. Cars and airplanes crash and people search in vain for loved ones. Plagues, famine, and suffering follow. The
antichrist emerges to rule the world and to destroy those who oppose him. Finally, Christ comes again in glory, defeats the antichrist and reigns over the earth. This apocalyptic scenario is anticipated by millions of Americans. These millions have made the Left Behind series--novels that depict the
rapture and apocalypse--perennial bestsellers, with over 40 million copies now in print. In Rapture Culture, Amy Johnson Frykholm explores this remarkable phenomenon, seeking to understand why American evangelicals find the idea of the rapture so compelling. What is the secret behind the remarkable
popularity of the apocalyptic genre? One answer, she argues, is that the books provide a sense of identification and communal belonging that counters the "social atomization" that characterizes modern life. This also helps explain why they appeal to female readers, despite the deeply patriarchal
worldview they promote. Tracing the evolution of the genre of rapture fiction, Frykholm notes that at one time such narratives expressed a sense of alienation from modern life and protest against the loss of tradition and the marginalization of conservative religious views. Now, however,
evangelicalism's renewed popular appeal has rendered such themes obsolete. Left Behind evinces a new embrace of technology and consumer goods as tools for God's work, while retaining a protest against modernity's transformationof traditional family life. Drawing on extensive interviews with readers
of the novels, Rapture Culture sheds light on a mindset that is little understood and far more common than many of us suppose.

Bursting with bright illustrations of tractors, trucks, diggers and emergency vehicles, little people will love exploring this action-packed non-fiction picture book of busy machines. With engaging text and lively characters throughout, there's plenty for vehicle fans to talk about and discover on every page. Also includes a bright wall poster.

Forgiving is one thing, but forgetting is a whole other story. How can Amina move forward when memories of the past haunt her into submission? How can she make peace with the demons of the past when present demons are a constant reminder of her struggles and weaknesses? How can she improve if she constantly doubts that anything will ever change? Amina makes one mistake after another and does things she never thought she would do. Daily living becomes a struggle when she questions her sanity and loses control. Are the men in her life worth all the trouble?

The story is set in the late 1990's in a small Southern town and features Amina Jefferson, a young African American woman who recently celebrated two victories: college graduation and divorce. Amina struggles with living on a day to day basis because her abusive ex-husband enjoys wreaking havoc at every turn. With only a small circle of friends including the ladies at work and her older cousin Monica, she merely exists in her single life based on safe activities - reading, writing, and work until one day, with Monica in tow; she decides to venture out into the world. Taking one harmless risk at a casino puts into motion a series of events that transforms her simple secure world into a life changing ordeal. The memories of how she managed to turn her life around may haunt her forever.

Amy Johnson's book is timely, compelling, and filled with surprising and inconvenient observations about the plight of oil-rich West Africa. Written from the perspective of a helicopter pilot, the insights are piercing into the most vital and profound issues facing Africa, with the globalisation of commerce, and the part played by the multinationals such as Shell and British Petroleum and their effects on the entire world. Traditionally, vested western interests in oil-rich Africa have sought to downplay the impact of oil drilling on the indigenous population, their religious beliefs, and the wider international community. Through the lens of the helicopter pilot, this book offers a sharp critique of Africa, condemnation for those who exploit indigenous differences for violent gains, and praise for political and cultural leaders who seek to harness the values of Africanness and to keep their environment safe from the incursion of Luciferian companies in search of wealth and power. Michael - The Shockwave, Dauphin the Final Flight 2003 is a thought-provoking work that calls for bold African leadership to rein in the many tribes and religious rivalries and lay the ground for a new political consensus. Amy Johnson's book defies conventional wisdom and suggests not only that African religion and beliefs and politics are inseparable but that their partnership, if well harnessed, will be a tour-de-force for justice and peace in Africa and the entire world. It is also a tale of love and loss and the beauty of Africa, seen through the eyes of an aviator - a perspective few of us can appreciate. Amy Johnson's complementary book on a similar theme is Echo Sierra Oscar, a collection of poems describing the journey of a contemporary Homer in modern times of change, conflict, and globalisation.

MANIFESTO -"Ali Deh Nesehbeh" THE BRIEF AMY JOHNSON Amy Johnson's book Manifesto: "Ali Deh Nesehbeh" The Brief, is a Middle East Aviation terrorism case, regarding an American Airlines crash off the capital of Scotland - Edinburgh. The Airline crash sends shockwaves throughout the international community and triggers immense concerns about international law breaches in aviation security. The book is set in the era post 9/11, and is an exposition of the most important and crucial issues surrounding national security and the threat faced by pilots/aviators and passengers by the increased potential of aviation terrorism. Kate Hamilton is a brilliant and incisive lawyer, who is chosen to assist the most successful Advocate Depute Mr Peter Hammond, a man known to dominate the courts with his formidable intelligence and precision analysis of legal points of law. Kate can hardly believe that she is chosen to assist on the most high profile case in Scottish legal History and that of international law; when the Torquair Bombing an American Airlines 747 jet; a disaster of gigantic proportions that occurs just near InnerLeithien; and just outside Edinburgh Scotland; caused by a terrorist group from the Middle East. The Iraq War is raging and the world post 9/11 is on high security alert. The Bombing causes consternation around the world, and questions are raised as to how a breach in airline security of this proportion was allowed to occur yet again. A security breach causes the key witness for the prosecution Hussein Abdullah, to be intimidated and the case is severely compromised. Kate finds herself in a curious position of being removed from the case and her office; but her involvement in the breach is concluded to be minimal. The Accused bomber an intelligence officer from Iran awaits his trial in a high Security prison with scepticism and despair and quotes himself as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, with evidence against him being circumstantial and circumspect. The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are raging and Foreign Secretary Alisdair Straw with residences in Scotland and his work at Westminster, finds his marriage floundering and seeks legal counsel. He suddenly finds himself pulled into the international intrigue when his son Jack is kidnapped by terrorists demanding a huge ransom and the release of Ali Deh Nesehbeh from the Scottish high security prisons where he has been held without bail and indefinitely. Michael MacFarland a high ranking Scottish Executive Officer along with Miss Hamilton and the intelligence agencies, CIA, Scotland Yard and the FBI are propelled into action to salvage a horrendous international situation. The witness for the prosecution Hussein Abdullah comes back into the fray and the case is to commence and the bright young expositionist and lawyer Mark Harrison visits Ali Deh Nesehbeh in his cell amidst national and international chaos caused by the kidnapping, to prepare his erudite Iranian terrorism case client for the final trial to commence in the highest and supreme courts of Scotland in Edinburgh and this time with heightened and tough security to prevent any further breaches to stall the progress of the case. Amy Johnson's book creates a brilliant observation of international intrigue, extreme threats to national security and puts the focus on the dilemmas of post 9/11 terrorism protocols globally and in particular from Iran; which strives to be a nuclear force amidst growing international sanctions and opposition to it developing nuclear capability; whilst Iran remains under the Islamic and religious Rule of Law.

Collaboration, Narrative, and Inquiry that Honor the Complexity of Teacher Education presents a narrative exploration of three teacher educators' collaborative and transnational inquiry into their practices. Through carefully selected narratives, the authors describe how they enacted a practice-based approach in their teacher education courses. The authors present challenges and complexities they encountered as teacher educators in trying to prepare preservice teacher candidates for the realities of the classroom

Mighty Machines Diggers! Certain to delight young vehicle fans, this action-packed title is bursting with all types of diggers and other building machines. With clear, engaging text and bright illustrations, including a host of lively vehicle characters, there's lots for busy little people to look at, talk about and explore on every page.

Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast provides detailed descriptions of contemporary African American experiences with literacy and education in the rural South. In doing so, this book extends current understandings of sociocultural perspectives on literacy by illustrating how literacy practice is morally valenced, embodied, and narrative in quality. Johnson Lachuk argues that meaningful and ethical literacy instruction engages with perspectives that are embedded within a social and cultural community-that is, since literacy is linked to greater social mobility through institutional access for many persons, it is educators' ethical responsibility to ensure that learners have the literacy knowledge required to do so. Recommended for scholars of literacy, education, and sociology.

Pie School is Now in Session! Since the first publication of Pie School in 2014, Kate Lebo has inspired bakers everywhere with her witty and encouraging lessons on all things flaky and sweet. This completely revised and updated edition includes 20 brand-new pies—including two new chapters, one on savory meat or vegetable pies and one on “difficult� (lesser-known) fruit pies—plus updates to the originals (80 in total). Her proven process to achieve flakiness and structure, along with recipes for delicious, inspired fillings, will give home cooks all the skills they need to make the best pie of their lives. Beyond the bake, Lebo also invites us to ruminate on the social history, the meaning, and the place of pie in the pantheon of favorite foods. Recipes include   Brandied Apple and Cracked Cardamom Pie                          White Peach and Raspberry Galette   Rosemary Rhubarb and Vanilla Chevre Galette   Winter Luxury Pumpkin Pie                Huckleberry Pie   Marionberry Pie with Hazelnut Crumble   Lamb, Pumpkin, and Quince Pie          Chicken Pot Pie

No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it. Drawing on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality, this book will show you that you are not your habits. Rather, your habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that is easily reversed. By learning to stop bad habits at the source, you will take charge of your habits and addictions for good. Anything done repeatedly has the potential to form neural circuitry in the brain. In this light, habits and addictions are impersonal brain wiring problems that result from taking your habitual thinking as truth, and acting on that thinking in the form of doing your habit-over and over. This book offers a number of small changes you can make in your everyday life that will help you stop your bad habit in its tracks. If you want to understand the science behind your habit, make the decision to end it, and commit to real, lasting change, this book will help you to finally take charge of your life-once and for all.

This brilliantly bonkers book takes a sideways look at all that is wild, wonderful and downright weird about science, including sections on animals, plants and the human body. Find out what made the loudest sound ever heard, why spiders do cartwheels and what happens inside your ...

You are not your thoughts! Learn how to overcome negative thinking habits and self-doubt so you can experience more confidence, freedom, and peace of mind. When you understand how your mind works, unhelpful and noisy thoughts move to the background, and your awareness shifts to something quieter and deeper. This is true peace of mind. And it's not some unattainable goal reserved for the most enlightened among us. Anyone can experience it. This book will show you how! From life coach and psychologist Amy Johnson, this user-friendly guide offers a no-willpower approach informed by ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience to help you change your negative thinking habits, make peace with your inner critic, and experience more self-confidence and freedom than you ever thought possible. Our minds are hardwired to expect the worst. They love to replay the past and predict the future. They have strong opinions that feel solid and meaningful, but are always changing and contradicting themselves. When we think our thoughts define who we are, we suffer. But when we see the truth-and we glimpse the space that lies beyond those self-created stories-we suffer far less. This book will help you glimpse that truth, and use it to find lasting peace.

Small Animal Pathology for Veterinary Technicians fosters an understanding of small animal diseases, relating pathology information to the responsibilities of technicians in the clinical setting. Beginning with the technician s role in pathology, terminology, and the process of diagnosis, chapters then cover diseases organized by system. From reproductive, endocrine, and eye disease to urinary tract and infectious diseases, the book offers in-depth information on a wide range of commonly presented diseases, providing technicians with practical information linked to their daily tasks. Each body system includes a brief review of anatomy and function, full-color pictures, and tip boxes to help emphasize important issues. A companion website offers images from the book, review questions, and case studies illustrating the process of handling the patient at www.wiley.com/go/johnsonvettechpath. Veterinary technician students and veterinary technicians in practice will find this a valuable resource to understanding disease and the process of diagnosis.