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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.

It is not easy to keep life's attractions and distractions in perspective and under control. In today's high-speed society, we are called to multitask in all aspects of our lives and all too often we find ourselves teetering on tightrope of today instead of focusing on the future. With God on his side, author John Safarik has developed a basic guide to keeping ourselves in balance. Strip yourself of stress and discover that life can be as easy as Tightrope Walking. Strip yourself of stress and discover that life can be as easy as Tightrope Walking.

The world is full of stories of entrepreneurs who have started from scratch. Tiago Mattos, a Brazilian futurist, graduated from singularity university – the university established in silicon valley by google and Nasa – will show you that you can start a successful company from scratch with the right mindset and an understanding of how the world has been changing. In fact, it has never been so easy to get something done. It has never been so easy to put together a book, a movie, a song, a high school reunion, a protest march, a political party, a house, a car, a declaration of love or even travelling around the world. It has never been so easy to start a company. It has never been so easy to understand that no one will make the world a perfect place for you. Only you can do it for yourself.

"Compound interest is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time. Those who understand compound interest are destined to collect it. Those who don't are doomed to pay it." Attrib. Albert Einstein. "Every day while people try to save 50 cents clipping coupons, drive around the block to save $0.03 on a gallon of gas, or just plain shop for bargains, they are literally throwing away tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars to interest. It is sickening. It is a financial crisis. But if you understand interest, you are destined to earn it, not pay it." Jeremy Washburn

Today’s college students feel as if they are crossing an abyss between their dreams and the reality of an uncertain future. They are a generation seeking stability in a time of profound and accelerating change. They want government and our other social institutions to work in a time when they’re broken; they cling to the American Dream in an age of diminished expectations. They are walking a tightrope, attempting to balance digital connectedness and personal isolation, global citizenship and local vision, commonality and difference in the most diverse generation in American history, and a desire to be treated as mature adults while being more dependent on their parents than previous college students. Generation on a Tightrope offers a compelling portrait of today’s undergraduate college students that sheds light on their attributes, expectations, aspirations, academics, attitudes, values, beliefs, social lives, and politics. Based on research of 5,000 college students and student affairs practitioners from 270 diverse college campuses, the book explores the similarities and differences between today’s generation of students and previous generations. The authors examine the myriad forces that have shaped these students and will continue to shape them as they prepare to meet the future. The first two volumes in this series exploring the psyche of college students, When Dreams and Heroes Died (1980) and When Hope and Fear Collide (1998), offered thoughtful and accurate profiles of the students of the 1980s and 1990s. As Generation on a Tightrope clearly reveals, today’s students need a very different education than the undergraduates who came before them: an education for the 21st Century, which colleges and universities are ill-equipped to offer and which will require major changes of them to provide. Painting a realistic picture of today’s college students, the authors offer guidance to higher education professionals, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, employers, parents, and the public. The book’s insights can help them equip students for the world they face and the world they will help to create.

This book ‘the quest for holiness’ is the rumination on personal pursuit and desire to live a holy life. It reveals the anguish of my heart to please a loving Father Who gave up all so that I might be His. It is the awareness of His holiness, and His holy demand for all who aspires to walk with Him. The awesome belief that God is all-knowing, everywhere, and sees all that man does under the heavens, generated in me an overwhelming and frightening thought of helplessness to attain His holy demand.

Poet Juanita Alexandria Davis shares her latest personal verses in Judgmental, her second book of poetry. In it, her words are light hearted, whimsical and “slightly topical.” Her latest book shows that poetry is in the eye of the beholder. “It’s amazing how people interpret things differently,” she says. “I let a friend read ‘We Cry’ before I submitted it, and he thought it was sad. I let my mom read the same poem, and she could see the happiness in it.” Judgmental is a simple yet diverse poetry collection containing 62 works. “My first book was purposely majority ‘light’ in content. I even had inanimate poems. I can’t get away from my personality, as I have a quirky sense of humor. This time, I balanced out serious poems with the light hearted more effectively.” Before her first book, the author went on the Internet to ask how many poems should be in a book of poetry. The best answer came from a little girl who wrote back, ‘As many as your heart can handle.’

This new publication is a collection of published drawings from 1954 through the sixties and seventies. Fashion, Dress design, Portraits and sketches, illustrations from newspapers and some, unpublished. Vicky Aram will be 79yrs old in December 2014. Many of these drawings are 60yrs old and in danger of death by deterioration. This book resurrects her drawings back to life.

It is often claimed that local churches provide a significant proportion of social care today. This important new study considers the reality of the church's involvement to offer compelling and concrete recommendations for the future. It proposes a transformational model of welfare that breaks free from the default approach of ‘eradicating the five giant evils – squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease’. Instead the authors focus on fostering five assets – relationship, creativity, partnership, compassion, and joy – and empowering people to regain control of their lives. With bold and innovative practical recommendations for churches, civil society and public policy, and compelling theological reflection on welfare and poverty, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the church's contribution to society.