DEV’S LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES  Have you experienced the deep loss of a precious loved one — your son, your daughter? My son, Devon, left this earth Good Friday, 3/29/2013. He was 23 years old. Dev and I have always had a deep and mysterious connection. Our relationship continues on beyond his physical life and manifests in joyful, loving, and extraordinary experiences.  Our story will give you the opportunity to engage with a powerful spiritual journey while also getting to know Dev as he was in earthly life.  Amazing ...

Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and T-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages. What on earth has happened? In The Juvenilization of American Christianity Thomas Bergler traces the way in which, over seventy-five years, youth ministries ...

Proeven Van Woordverklaring (1871) is een boek geschreven door Willem Lodewijk van Helten. Het boek is een verzameling van taalkundige essays over de herkomst en betekenis van Nederlandse woorden. Van Helten behandelt onderwerpen zoals de oorsprong van woorden, de invloed van andere talen op het Nederlands en de evolutie van woordbetekenissen. Het boek is geschreven in een wetenschappelijke stijl en bevat veel citaten uit oude teksten en woordenboeken. Het is een belangrijk werk voor taalkundigen en historici die ge�����nteresseerd ...

In April 1987 Joseph C. Steffan, one of the ten highest ranking midshipmen in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy, and only six weeks from graduation, was denied his diploma and forced to resign his commission because he answered "Yes, sir" to the question, "I'd like your word, are you a homosexual?" Six years later his cause, and that of other gay men and lesbians seeking to serve their country by enlistment in the military, has become the subject of intense national controversy. This unusual and innovative work, based on the litigation strategy and court ...

Originally published to meet the need for a practical dictionary both for native Hausa speakers and for those wishing to learn or improve their knowledge of the language, the dictionary has remained in demand since publication. Compiled by the Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages in Kano as a concise, compact and readily usable tool, the selection of words has been limited to those likely to occur in everyday conversation, books, newspapers and other mass media. It includes a large number of modern words adopted into Hausa. Main entries give spelling ...

Here is the Story of Corporal Horrie, mascot for the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, as originally told by his owner Jim Moody to the noted Australian author Ion Idriess in 1943. Here we also have Idriess' 63 questions to try and develop the story of Horrie, and Moody's extended narrative of Horrie and the Rebels during the Middle East Campaign and back to Australia are now published for the first time. With an historical introduction by Tom Thompson, and illustrated with Moody's own great photographs of Horrie in action, this is the real story ...

The present study is aimed to identify the motivational question concerning the relationship between the professional in IT and his/her work, as well as to estimate the preference of their career (career anchors). The results of these work showed that the IT students and professionals are self-determined individuals giving much value to life style, and that they are benevolent and hedonic. They harvest well-being and satisfaction from their work and like to be challenged.

Cooperation of multiple space assets is an increasingly interesting topic for the space agencies. This book reviews the literature related to multi-robot research with a focus on space applications. It examines definitions in the field of multi-robot systems and gives an overview of space applications with multiple assets cooperating. It then presents two algorithmic implementations, a simple vector-based and an AI (machine learning) approach, of multi-robot formation control for the area coverage problem. It uses a space exploration scenario ...

This book studies the legalisation of indigenous institutional practices for the election of municipal authorities (known as "usos y costumbres") in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, with the purpose of explaining its causes and assessing its consequences. The book argues that the legal recognition of indigenous electoral institutions was a response by the PRI regime to concrete challenges to its hegemony in Oaxaca, where it faced the threat of indigenous radicalism and the growing deterioration of its own electoral supremacy. These threats were reflections of ...

The tiger has captured the imagination of human beings from the beginning of recorded history. It has been feared, worshipped, admired, hunted, studied, photographed, written about, immortalized in art and poetry and has enthralled king and commoner alike. Tiger Fire celebrates this magnificent predator by bringing together the very best non-fiction writing, photography and art on the Indian tiger from the first written description of a real-life encounter with the animal by the Mughal Emperor Babur in the sixteenth century to photographs and studies of the ...