Featuring poems that range from playful postulations of oddball future generations to ruminative speculations on our place within geologic timescales, and from the hopes of clinically depressed folks to tender appreciations of fatherhood, this unconventional debut explores our relationships with the natural world, the not-so-natural world, and the question of faith. It offers no easy comforts but strives to provide a well-earned acceptance of circumstances as they really are, without the distorting projections of human judgment.

First published in 1996. This new book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do. Presenting data from several populations, 22 authors - among the most respected in their fields - demonstrate that the health resolution of grief enables one to maintain a continuing bond with the deceased. Despite cultural disapproval and lack of validation by professionals, survivors find places for the dead in their on-going lives and even in their communities. Such bonds are not denial: the deceased can provide resources for enriched functioning in the present. Chapters examine widows and widowers, bereaved children, parents and siblings, and a population previously excluded from bereavement research: adoptees and their birth parents. Bereavement in Japanese culture is also discussed, as are meanings and implications of this new model of grief. Opening new areas of research and scholarly dialogue, this work provides the basis for significant developments in clinical practice in the field.

The brilliantly funny and talented Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed Meg Langlsow series readers have come to love. Martin's Press.

This book presents a variety of experience-based perspectives on working in palliative care. Emphasising the use of self and the importance of reflective practice in professional work, the book will be of relevance to professionals in medical and social care who want to gain a deeper understanding of their work and of the motivation underlying it.

This is not an ordinary Christian book. It is mysterious and provocative. It undercuts much of what is currently traditional in the churches of this land. It would never have been written had not the Lord graciously given the author a series of most amazing visual pictures, around which he was asked to write a story depicting a possible scenario for the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth. The Kingdom of God is inseparably linked to His return. "Thy Kingdom come." This book shows how it might come, and how it will take everyone by surprise.

The Greenhouse is a snapshot of what can and will happen in the very near future, if not put in check. Because of what has been done in the past, and what is happening now, the earths future along with all mankind is at risk. It is story of four people who find out a terrible truth that is killing so many unnecessarily. It is their struggle with their own feelings about themselves and each other and a fight to stop a mad man before he inadvertently destroys all life on earth. It involves people caring about each other, and fighting to save millions of lives. It is also about greed and how some people are so blinded by their greed, they cannot see or want to believe what is happening right before their eyes.

A Guide and Bedisde manual through the identifiable, predictable stages of the dying process, including thephysical, emotional, and spiritual aspects. Clear, simple support a person during their last months, weeks, days and hours of life.

Think about it: Since the pope’s immediate boss is the Lord Jesus Christ: _________________ Would Jesus spend a night at the Vatican with all those symbols of sun god worship around? Would Jesus baptize children by pouring or sprinkling? Would Jesus enter a Catholic church with all those images that violate the second commandment? Would Jesus embrace some of the pope’s titles, including that of Pontifex Maximus conferred by Sol Invictus, the sun god? Would Jesus join the pope for Sunday worship instead of Saturday worship? The Answer to All These Questions Must Be a Resounding NO.

On the surface, Chloe Steele appears to be a normal eighteen-year-old girl, but underneath, she carries a dark secret. This secret propels her onto a journey that takes her to rural southeast Alabama, where she serves as a live-in caregiver for the elderly Les and Nellie Grady while attending the local college. When she meets the handsome, yet mysterious Will Finncannon, however, Chloes path of self-discovery takes a dark turn, leading her into a world she never knew existed--a world where the line between fantasy and reality is sometimes blurred.