If God is calling women to lead, what's holding them back? Susan Harris Howell has spent years helping students investigate this question. In Buried Talents, she makes clear how gender disparity in leadership is directly connected to a larger, less overt issue: gendered socialization. Howell examines gendered messages people encounter inside and outside the church in each stage of life, showing how they often create misconceptions about who women are, what they're capable of, and how they fit into God's work. As these messages pull men toward leadership, they push women away from it. God's call to leadership doesn't come in a vacuum. It comes to particular people who have, from childhood through adulthood, been shaped by subtle forms of socialization. Using social science research and interviews to explain these forces, Howell offers psychological and practical tools for both women and men to make more balanced vocational decisions. A discussion guide and suggested reading lists are also included to help readers engage and apply the content. As opportunities for women continue to expand, too many still hold back in responding to God's call. Buried Talents provides compelling guidance for how we can remove obstacles that keep women from fully using their gifts.

In theory, parliamentary elections are a contest between political parties whose leaders do not have a separate identity from their party in the public eye. This case study of Britain shows that this theory no longer holds; the dynamics of parliamentary elections have become more 'presidential' in the sense that the leaders of the major parties now figure more prominently on both media coverage of the campaign and in the party that voters choose at the polls. The implications for our understanding of parliamentary democracy are discussed.

Sexuality is an important part of everyone's life - or should be. When everything is working right, procreation and sexual enjoyment can be one of Nature's miracles. But things frequently go wrong. The mind can play cruel tricks. The physical body can become damaged in a variety of ways. Problems can arise that prevent us from enjoying the pleasures that Nature intended. And because of the sensitive nature and, perhaps, the cultural inhibitions imposed on us, when things go wrong it can be difficult to know who to turn to or what to do. This book, written by a leading clinical expert, explores the most common sexual problems in simple non-technical language, and shows how most problems can be overcome.

Harry Mist metamorphosed from stage impersonator to under-cover spy almost overnight. MI6 snatches a top American Mafioso, switches Mist in his place, and sends him off to Tokyo not knowing what awaits him there. After meeting the monstrous Gorthia Schalle and his international cabal, Mist is sent on a mission to North Korea to get support from that regime to flood the West with the highly-addictive drug, Q9. His false identity is discovered and Mist does the only thing possible - kills anyone in his way to escape. Then there was the gorgeous Kuti - half French, half Japanese - daughter of one of the cabal. How far could she be trusted - if at all? A mysterious island in the mid-Pacific is a stepping stone on the route back to Tokyo, where a fight to the death ensues. There can only be one winner. Who will it be, and how?

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