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Corporate Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: A Case Study Collection
by Sarah Lai-Yin Cheah Joshua Ng Jun ZhiThis book provides detailed case studies exploring how industry-leading organizations are integrating corporate innovation and sustainability initiatives.The book first introduces the difficulties and importance of managing innovation within established organizations. It identifies five themes key for organizations seeking to future-proof their business: external drivers in the business environment, structures for corporate entrepreneurship, modes of collaboration, sustainability as a lever for innovation, and performance management. It then provides detailed case studies of how companies across diverse sectors, such as banking, shipping, and real estate, made the choice between short-term profit and future-proofing their business. Cases are written such that they can be used independently, and a storytelling approach is used so that readers may apply the conceptual frameworks and see how theories are translated into practice. Detailed teaching notes are available for instructors, each containing a sample lesson plan, six discussion questions, suggested answers, and further readings.A useful teaching resource for instructors and students in corporate entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and strategic foresight.
The Archaeology of Ancient Cities (Principles of Archaeology)
by Glenn R. StoreyCities are the largest "artifacts" investigated by archaeologists--entities that have been under academic scrutiny for a long time. Urban places are both physical and social agglomerations, fostering the most intense interaction of any human settlement. Archaeological evidence illustrates how ancient cities worldwide were similar in origin, development, and maturation, showing considerable isomorphism with modern cities. This book explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offers a new heuristic typology of cities, and reviews case studies of six ancient cities (Copan, Great Zimbabwe, Gyeongju, Hierakonpolis, Rome, and Teotihuacan) with illustrative exercises at the end of each chapter. Cities have been characterized as "social reactors" working much like a star in creating an explosive increase in human connectivity. Urban planning, both ancient and modern, helps us understand the essence of this--the most exciting and vibrant product of the human tendency to nucleate.
The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings
by Klaas SchilderRecovering a forgotten theologian. Klaas Schilder (1890–1952) was a prominent Dutch Reformed theologian in the early twentieth century, first as a pastor and then as a professor. While his fame spread to North America in the 1940s, he is mostly forgotten today. In The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings, readers will rediscover this important Dutch theologian. Working in the tradition of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck, Schilder applies Dutch Neo-Calvinism to the twentieth century. This includes secularism, the rise and influence of Karl Barth, opposition to Nazism, and the relation between the church and society. The Klaas Schilder Reader contextualizes his work and furthers the neo-Calvinist tradition.
Il Mio Amante Scozzese (Serie della famiglia Pennington)
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickEcco la nuova generazione di Pennington... cinque fratelli e sorelle pieni di passione e di privilegi. Entrate nel loro mondo aristocratico... dove ognuno di loro combatterà l'ingiustizia e troverà l'amore. Hugh Pennington - Il visconte Greysteil, Lord Justice of the Scottish Courts, eroe delle guerre napoleoniche, è un vedovo addolorato con un desiderio di morte. Quando riceve una cassa attesa dal continente, rimane scioccato nel trovare all'interno una donna quasi morta. La sua identità è sconosciuta e la manciata di monete americane e il prezioso diamante cucito sul suo vestito non fanno che infittire il mistero. Grace Ware è una nemica della corona inglese. Suo padre, un comandante militare irlandese dell'esercito sconfitto di Napoleone. Sua madre, una giacobita scozzese in esilio. In fuga dagli assassini del padre, non si sarebbe mai aspettata che la sfortuna la depositasse nella casa di un aristocratico nei Borders scozzesi. Baronsford è l'ultimo posto in cui potrebbe aspettarsi di trovare sicurezza, e Grace finge di perdere la memoria per guadagnare tempo mentre si riprende. Quando il loro duello d'ingegno si trasforma rapidamente in passione e romanticismo, le paure di Grace cominciano a dissolversi... finché il pericolo non la segue fino alle porte di Baronsford. Infatti, all'insaputa di entrambi, Grace è in possesso di un segreto che porterà scompiglio all'interno del governo britannico. Amico e nemico sono indistinguibili mentre forze letali convergono per separare i due amanti o distruggerli entrambi!
Lost Gifts: Miscarriage, Grief, and the God of All Comfort
by Brittany Lee AllenGrief upon grief. I felt life perish from within my body three times. I had children, I just never got to hold them or know them or kiss them. My life looked no different from the outside. But inside, I was heartbroken and confused. Losing a baby in the womb is common, but that doesn't make it any less painful. The grief of losing any child feels unbearable. Lost Gifts: Miscarriage, Grief, and the God of All Comfort laments the grief of miscarriage, discovers God's gifts in spite of loss, and remembers our Good Shepherd, who weeps with those who weep. When we suffer, we are invited into deeper communion with Jesus. In the pain of miscarriage, we learn to treasure our suffering Savior who holds us.
Romans: A New Covenant Commentary (NCCS)
by Craig S KeenerA helpfully concise commentary on Paul's letter to the early Christians in Rome, which the Apostle wrote just a few years before the outbreak of Nero's persecution. Keener examines each paragraph for its function in the letter as a whole, helping the reader follow Paul's argument. Where relevant, he draws on his vast work in ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman sources in order to help modern readers understand the message of Romans according to the way the first audience would have heard it. Throughout, Keener focuses on major points that are especially critical for the contemporary study of Paul's most influential and complex New Testament letter.
Creative License: From Leeds College of Art to Leeds Polytechnic, 1963-1973
by James Charnley'Creative License' describes what happened next and the continuum leading up to this moment. In this ground-breaking study, James Charnley reveals the personalities and events that ignited an explosion of radical creativity such that a contemporary observer, Patrick Heron, could describe Leeds College of Art as an unprecedented inventive powerhouse on the national scene. Between 1963 and 1973, Leeds College of Art and Leeds Polytechnic were at the forefront of an experiment in art and education where all that was forbidden was to be dull. With Jeff Nuttall, Robin Page, George Brecht, Patrick Hughes and John Fox on the staff, students pushed the freedom and facilities offered further than anything before or since. 'Creative License' captures the rebellious trajectory of the 1960s, the emergence of the counter-culture, dissent and later disillusionment. This is a case study of an era when art colleges were well funded and well free and, at Leeds, had a mission to progress the avant-garde project to the next level. Perhaps only now can the consequences of this experiment be assessed and its achievements recognised, and James Charnley sets out to do just that.
Science and Sensibility: From the Heavens Above to the Earth Below
by David HoweIn an outer arm of the spiralling Milky Way galaxy can be seen an insignificant speck. This is our home, planet Earth. Its skies, clouds, lands and seas, and indeed life itself have long drawn the interest of scientists and artists alike. Our cultural and scientific history is evidence enough that curiosity and wonder are the twin drivers of both scientific and artistic imaginations. In Science and Sensibility, David Howe unveils the stories of the scientists who helped to make sense of the stars, clouds, life, rocks, and the elements, and weaves their tales with the thoughts and feelings of artists who found meaning as they experienced nature's beauty, grandeur and mystery. Scientific greats such as James Hutton, Charles Darwin, Dmitri Mendeleev, Gregor Mendel and Annie Jump Cannon all the way up to today's leading scientists are complemented by the literary insights of people such as William Wordsworth, Jorge Luis Borges and Iris Murdoch. Readers are encouraged to embrace what the sciences and the arts can reveal together. In doing so, the earth below and the heavens above become brighter and richer. The wonder and curiosity embodied in Science and Sensibility could perhaps take us a step closer to holding 'Infinity in the palm of your hand / and Eternity in an hour'.
Lost Worlds of Ancient and Modern Greece: Gilbert Bagnani: The Adventures of a Young Italo-Canadian Archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924 (Archaeological Lives)
by D. J. Ian BeggBy day, young Gilbert Bagnani studied archaeology in Greece, but by night he socialised with the elite of Athenian society. Secretly writing for the Morning Post in London, he witnessed both antebellum Athens in 1921 and the catastrophic collapse of Christian civilisation in western Anatolia in 1922. While there have been many accounts by refugees of the disastrous flight from Smyrna, few have been written from the perspective of the west side of the Aegean. The flood of a million refugees to Greece brought in its wake a military coup in Athens, the exile of the Greek royal family and the execution or imprisonment of politicians, whom Gilbert knew. Gilbert's weekly letters to his mother in Rome reveal his Odyssey-like adventures on a voyage of discovery through the origins of western civilisation. As an archaeologist in Greece, he travelled through time seeing history repeat itself: Minoan Knossos, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Smyrna were all violently destroyed, but the survivors escaped to the new worlds of Mycenaean Greece, Renaissance Venice and modern Greece. At Smyrna in the twentieth century, history was written not only by the victors but was also recorded by the victims. At the same time, however, the twentieth century itself was so filled with reports of ethnic cleansings on such a scale that the reports brutalized the humanity of the supposedly civilized people reading about them, and the tragedy of Smyrna disappeared from public awareness between the cataclysmic upheavals of the First and Second World Wars.
Mechanisms of Pain
by Alaa Abd-Elsayed Krishnan V. ChakravarthyPain is a serious health problem. This book presents an intensive review of the anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology of the systems that mediate nociceptive processing. The authors cover areas that include anatomy, central and peripheral nerve processing, tissue and nerve injury states, as well as preclinical and clinical models of pain. Mechanisms of Pain also covers important clinical concepts, with specific emphasis on mechanisms of action. Written by world renowned global faculty, this book covers important areas of science required to understand pain medicine. Important topics covered include post–tissue and nerve injury pain states of primary afferents and the spinal cord. The authors also cover mechanisms of action of clinically relevant analgesics (opiates and non-opiates), psychological aspects of pain, pathophysiology of migraines, as well as the genetics of pain. This comprehensive book is to guide undergraduate, graduate, and clinicians in the field of pain medicine on important concepts related to the science and practice of pain.
The Psychology of Attack Politics: Perceptions, Evaluations and Effects (Global Perspectives in Political Psychology)
by Alessandro Nai Lukas P. Otto Chiara VargiuThe Psychology of Attack Politics explores the use of political attacks in election campaigns, and the way in which their, often deliberate, use impacts voters and has wide reaching societal consequences.With most elections being fraught with tension, disrespectful treatment of political opponents, and political incivility, this timely book aims to disentangle the dynamics of how attack politics is perceived (e.g., whether citizens perceive a negative message to be, indeed, negative) and evaluated (i.e., whether citizens like or dislike attack politics). The book also looks at the effects of attack politics, for instance, whether exposure to negative or uncivil messages alters attitudes and behaviors, such as turnout, affective polarization, and support for political violence. The authors provide a systematic conceptualization of attack politics, made up of negativity, incivility, and intolerance. Focusing on cutting- edge research in political psychology, political communication, and electoral behavior, the authors make the central argument that to understand the effects of different forms of attack politics, there should be a strong focus on individual differences in message perception and evaluation.Exploring what ultimately drives the effects of negative, uncivil, and intolerant rhetoric, and analyzing the phenomena at the center of current scientific and public discourse, this is a fascinating reading for academics and students in psychology, political science, sociology, and communication, as well as anyone interested in political campaigning and elections.
Mirrored Minds: Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen
by Kate AshtonIn her unique dual biography, Kate Ashton delineates the parallel lives of Hans Christian Anderson and Sen Kierkegaard, their personal relationship, literary careers, and lasting cultural influence on the western and wider world. These two towering literary geniuses followed radically divergent paths, and yet each read and reacted to the immense power and depth of the other's growing oeuvre as it refracted their own. Against the backdrop of the end of Golden Age Denmark within a warring Europe, and the spiritual and sexual repression of Reformed Christianity, each suffered the fate of the prophet unhonoured in his hometown of Copenhagen. Tracing their lives from childhood trauma to tragic love affairs and anguished isolation, Ashton illuminates counteractive response to experience: one an inward search for truth and self-knowledge, the other flight into distraction and fantasy. Mirrored Minds offers the reader an opportunity to explore each author and his legacy within the context of the other, just as their long-standing association held up a mirror for Anderson and Kierkegaard themselves.
Lutheran Identity and Political Theology
by Carl-Henric Grenholm Göran GunnerLutheran tradition has in various ways influenced attitudes to work, the economy, the state, education, and health care. One reason that Lutheran theology has been interpreted in various ways is that it is always influenced by surrounding social andcultural contexts. In a society where the church has lost a great deal of its cultural impact and authority, and where there is a plurality of religious convictions, the question of Lutheran identity has never been more urgent. However, this question is also raised in the Global South where Lutheran churches need to find their identity in a relationship with several other religions. Here this relationship is developed from a minority perspective. Is it possible to develop a Lutheran political theology that gives adequate contributions to issues concerning social and economic justice? What is the role of women in church and society around the world? Is it possible to interpret Lutheran theology in such a way that it includes liberating perspectives? These are some of the questions and issues discussed in this book.
The Rosenholm Trilogy Volume 2: Forget Me Not (The Rosenholm Trilogy)
by Gry Kappel JensenChamomile, Kirstine, Victoria and Malou are back at Rosenholm Academy to start a new school year. But in addition to the lessons in runic magic, clairvoyance and Norse mythology, the girls also have something completely different to worry about. A crime from the past draws threads to the present, and the girls have committed themselves to solving the murder mystery that casts a shadow over Rosenholm. An ominous prediction causes the seriousness to dawn on them, while the questions loom large. And each of them harbors deep secrets that threaten to tear them apart before they can fulfill the promise they made. Time is running out and it could end up being fatal... Forget me not is the exciting sequel to the fantasy novel Roses and Violets and volume 2 in the Rosenholm trilogy.
The Foremost Problems of Contemporary Dogmatics: On Faith, Knowledge, and the Christian Tradition
by Herman BavinckHerman Bavinck on the challenges theologians face Herman Bavinck's counsel to theologians A unique window into Bavinck's thought An overlooked work from a key Neo-Calvinist thinker In The Foremost Problems of Contemporary Dogmatics, Herman Bavinck identifies the primary challenges confronting Protestant theologians in the early twentieth century. Since the main difficulties do not concern specific heads of doctrine but arise in theological method, Bavinck's focus narrows to the act of faith. Bavinck demonstrates the necessity of viewing faith as knowledge rather than mere trust, recounting the development of doctrine from the biblical authors through the dawn of the twentieth century. This book provides a unique window into Bavinck's thought, as he speaks candidly about the limitations and failures of Reformed theology and the relative merits of modern thinkers. The Foremost Problems of Contemporary Dogmatics was a series of lectures delivered at the Free University shortly after Bavinck moved to Amsterdam in 1902. Edited and translated by Gert de Kok and Bruce R. Pass, these previously unpublished lectures are available for the first time in English.
La Promesse
by May McGoldrickLA PROMESSE USA TODAY BESTSELLER ! PROTÉGER Lors d'un voyage désespéré vers l'Amérique, Rebecca Neville promet à l'épouse mourante du comte de Stanmore d'élever et de prendre soin de son fils nouveau-né, James. Une fois arrivée dans le Nouveau Monde, Rebecca commence sa nouvelle vie, en tant que mère... TI CHÉRIR Dix ans plus tard, le comte de Stanmore apprend le destin de sa famille. Il envoie chercher son jeune héritier dans les colonies afin de l'élever comme un pair du royaume. Rebecca, qui n'a pas l'intention de renoncer à son vœu, retourne en Angleterre avec James pour affronter un avenir sans son bien-aimé. Mais elle doit aussi faire face à son passé tumultueux... AIMER Au premier abord, le formidable Stanmore fait vaciller Rebecca. Mais sous sa façade froidement attirante et son apparente indifférence au sort de son fils, les émotions se bousculent. Car Stanmore et ses motivations sont plus complexes qu'il n'y paraît. L'énigmatique lord a sa propre promesse à tenir, et une passion pour Rebecca qui ne peut être niée... À propos de LA PROMESSE... "Le don de McGoldrick pour la caractérisation s'étend de l'héroïne courageuse et du héros blessé du livre jusqu'à un groupe fascinant de personnages secondaires, y compris un méchant vipérin et une maîtresse merveilleusement intrigante. Ce roman historique géorgien vibrant est parfait pour les lecteurs qui aiment un bon mélange d'histoire et de passion." – Booklist Review (American Library Association) ~~~~~~~ Si vous avez aimé Belle ou Bridgerton, vous voudrez essayer ce best-seller de USA Today, qui démarre une série de romans d'amour géorgiens et de régence. Idéal pour les fans de Grace Burrowes, Julia Quinn, Julie Garwood, Mary Balogh, Christi Caldwell, Julie Johnstone, Scarlett Scott, Amalie Howard, Sarah MacLean, Lisa Kleypas, Sabrina Jeffries, Eloisa James, Sophie Jordan, Grace Callaway, Tessa Dare, Erica Ridley, Mary Jo Putney, Kelly Bowen, Glynnis Campbell, Amanda Scott, Lynsay Sands, Elisa Braden, Tanya Anne Crosby, Kerrigan Byrne, Maeve Greyson, Tessa Candle, Chloe Flowers, Lucy Langton, Alexa Aston, Suzanne Enoch, Susan King, Claire Delacroix, Amy Jarecki, Maddison Michaels, Vanessa Kelly, Darcy Burke, Jess Michaels, Madeline Hunter, Philippa Gregory ou Kate Bateman.
Ayna Çatladığında
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickChristina Phillips, yaşadığı derin bir trajedinin ardından yasını hafifletmek umuduyla Kaliforniya'dan İstanbul'a gelir. Bu kadim şehrin büyüleyici manzaralarının, tınılarının ve kokularının ruhuna iyi geleceğini düşünmektedir. Ancak, genç bir Kürt kadın tarafından gölge gibi takip edildiğinde ve ailesi hakkında her şeyi biliyormuş gibi davranan bir şoför tarafından tehdit edildiğinde, Christina kendini beklenmedik bir girdabın içinde bulur. Geçmişin acı verici sırlarını çözmek ve adaletsizliklerin yarattığı tahribatı onarmak için zamanla yarışmalıdır. Zari Rahman, savaşın yakıp yıktığı Kürdistan'da kimyasal saldırıların ve bombaların arasından kaçarak yeni doğan kızı için güvenli bir hayat arayışına girer. İstanbul'a ulaştığında, evsiz ve çaresizdir; ancak ummadığı bir iyilikle karşılaşır. Fakat bu iyiliğin bedeli, hayatını sonsuza dek değiştirmeye yetecek kadar ağır olacaktır. Bu iki kadının hayatı, Doğu ile Batı'nın birleştiği bu büyüleyici şehirde kesişir. Christina ve Zari, adalet ve kefaret arayışlarında tehlikeli bir yola birlikte adım atar. Ayna Çatladığında , fedakârlık ve annelik, toplumsal aidiyet ve dışlanma, kültürel kimlik ve mültecilik deneyimini ele alırken, anne ve kızların geçmiş ile şimdiki zaman arasındaki hikâyelerini birbirine bağlıyor.
Lifestyle Medicine and the Primary Care Provider: A Practical Guide to Enabling Whole Person Care (Lifestyle Medicine)
by Rebecca Kelly Daniel Reichert Ron StoutLifestyle Medicine and the Primary Care Provider: A Practical Guide to Enabling Whole Person Care is a comprehensive and practical guide for primary care clinicians seeking to incorporate lifestyle medicine (LM) principles into their practice. Edited by Ron Stout, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FACLM; Dan Reichert, MD, FAAFP; and Rebecca Kelly, PhD, MAE, RDN, FAND with series oversight from Jim Rippe, MD, this volume offers family physicians and primary care providers a roadmap to enabling lasting health improvements for their patients through whole person, behavior-based care. Covering over 27 chapters by leading experts in the field, the book delivers evidence-based LM interventions into actionable strategies for busy practices.Each chapter provides practical, time-efficient approaches to implementing LM in real-world settings. Emphasizing core principles like patient history, screening tools, and lab testing, this guide focuses on streamlining workflows and facilitating behavior change through team-based approaches. For practices not in integrated care models, the book outlines effective methods for collaborating with external resources, including behavioral health specialists, dietitians, social workers, and pharmacists.Readers will find valuable insights on maximizing reimbursement for LM services, from direct virtual visits to shared medical appointments, with examples from successful best-practice models. The book also includes considerations for reimbursement strategies and policy elements that enhance LM integration. Special chapters cover innovative practice models, offering practical examples of how to navigate reimbursement for lifestyle medicine.A volume in the Lifestyle Medicine series, this resource goes beyond theory, giving primary care providers the tools to foster sustainable lifestyle changes that support patient health and resilience. With its pragmatic approach, Lifestyle Medicine and the Primary Care Provider: A Practical Guide to Enabling Whole Person Care serves as an essential companion for clinicians dedicated to transforming primary care with whole-health solutions that meet the demands of modern practice.
Corporate Systems in Emerging Market Economies: A Comparison of China and Eastern Europe (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)
by Ichiro Iwasaki Xinxin Ma Satoshi MizobataThis book provides a comparative perspective of various areas of corporate management in two post-socialist regions: China and Eastern Europe.The book employs original firm-level empirical analyses and meta-analyses of the extant literature to investigate the impacts of corporate ownership on firm performance and organizational behavior; internal organization through the lens of the corporate board; and the interrelationship between firms and gender, labor relations, and society. In comparing China and Eastern Europe, the book addresses whether corporate governance structures have evolved due to global pressures from competition and technological progress or if inter-regional differences reflect how firms were privatized or handed over to managers after the end of central planning.This book will appeal to researchers and post-graduate students interested in comparative economics, economic system transition, and comparative corporate systems.
Stecki401 landet auf der Erde: Konzentration und Entspannung Für Kinder 4-12 Durch Lustige und Spannende Hör-Geschichten (Stecki 401)
by Hassan RefayStell dir vor, du kletterst gerade mit deinem besten Freund Tim auf einen großen Baum um die Wette. Da schreit Tim plötzlich: "Schau mal... Was ist denn das? da oben!" Der Schreck fährt dir durch die Glieder. Ein geheimnisvolles Flugobjekt kommt näher und näher auf den Baum zu. Ihr wollt ganz schnell vom Baum runter klettern und euch verstecken, aber es ist zu spät... Das Raumschiff landet genau unter euch. Ein geheimnisvolles Wesen im Raumanzug steigt aus. Ist es gefährlich? "Tut, tut, tut... ich bin Stecki 401. Ich komme vom Planeten Utanus... Tut, tut, tut... ich bin euer Freund, lauft nicht weg!" So beginnt eine seltsame Freundschaft und eine Reihe spannender Abenteuer...
The Ethics of Sex (Thielicke Library)
by Helmut ThielickeA potentially difficult text for today's Christians, The Ethics of Sex gives a fascinating insight into the mindset of how a Christian thinker considered gender and sexuality when the definitions of both were becoming more and more fluid. Caught between the points of the harsh restrictions of the Third Reich, and the revolutionary approach popularised in the 1960s, Thielicke offers a modern reader the opportunity to understand more of this pivotal period in history. In The Ethics of Sex, Thielicke confronts hot-button issues, many of which are still controversial today, like abortion, homosexuality and artificial insemination. Here he forges a path for the Christian philosopher that is consistent with Christian values of compassion and understanding. While a complex text, The Ethics of Sex rewards both the scholar and the historian.
Biblical Revelation and African Beliefs
by Paul Ellingworth Kwesi DicksonIn this reprinted edition of Biblical Revelation and African Beliefs, the contents of traditional African religions and their relevance to Christian ideas are explored. Through presenting the principal papers of a consultation of African theologians, Dickson and Ellingworth offer an extensive exploration of how these traditional religions and their ideas can enrich and enlighten Christianity in Africa. Rejecting a Eurocentric vision of Christianity in Africa, Biblical Revelation and African Beliefs explores ideas such as the knowledge of God, the notion of power, time, and man, as well as examining the ethical content of African traditional religion and when it can be reconciled to Christian ethics. This group of esteemed African theologians offers a framework for a synthesis between the Christian gospel and African theology, which is illuminating for historians and Christian theologians alike.
New Testament Pattern: An Exegetical Enquiry into the 'Catholic' and 'Protestant' Dualism (Library of Theological Translations)
by Jean-Louis LeubaWhat is the nature of Christian unity? Is it Sacramental, Organic, Federal, Spiritual? These are questions that demand careful examination when different Christian traditions are drawing closer to one another in a common desire to heal the divisions that hinder the witness of the Church to the world. In any attempt to deal with these questions, full weight must be given to the evidence of the New Testament itself: what kind of unity does it reveal? In New Testament Pattern, Jean-Louis Leuba reveals a two-fold framework of unity in the New Testament. One strand - in its witness to Christ, to the Apostles and to the Church - emphasises the institutional, traditional and particular. The other strand emphasises the personal, dynamic and universal. Yet the two strands are actually one. Their unity is more comprehensive, more creative, than any undifferentiated unity could be, with important implications for ecumenism and broader scriptural study.
Schottische Träume-Trilogie: SERIE DER FAMILIE PENNINGTON (SCHOTTISCHEN TRAUM-TRILOGIE)
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickDREI VOLLSTÄNDIGE ROMANE Geborgte Träume Millicent Wentworth will das Böse, das ihr toter Ehemann angerichtet hat, ungeschehen machen und muss einen Weg finden, ihr Anwesen zu retten und die unschuldigen Menschen zu befreien, die ihr Mann versklavt hat. Ihre einzige Hoffnung ist eine Vernunftehe mit dem berüchtigten Witwer Lyon Pennington, dem vierten Earl of Aytoun, der vielleicht der attraktivste und fürsorglichste Mann ist, der ihr je begegnet ist. Gefangene Träume Portia Edwards ist bereit, alles zu tun, um die Familie zu finden, die sie nie gekannt hat. Und als sie den Händler Pierce Pennington trifft, einen überzeugten, aber geheimnisvollen Sohn der Freiheit, hat Portia die perfekte Gelegenheit, ihn um Hilfe zu bitten. Doch ihr sturer Stolz lässt sie schweigen. Das heißt, bis sie erkennt, dass sie sich stark zu dem mutigen Mann hingezogen fühlt, der nachts als der berüchtigte Captain MacHeath bekannt ist und im Schutze der Dunkelheit Waffen auf dem Seeweg schmuggelt - alles im Namen der Freiheit... Träume des Schicksals David Pennington, der durch einen Skandal und den ungeklärten Mord an seiner Schwägerin verletzt wurde, ist nach außen hin frech und arrogant. Doch nichts wird ihn davon abhalten, seine Jugendfreundin Gwyneth Douglas nach Schottland zu begleiten und die schottische Erbin vor den Glücksjägern zu retten. Doch mit ihrer Ankunft in Schottland kommt eine schreckliche Gefahr. Wenn sie jemals ihre Sehnsucht befriedigen wollen, müssen sie das Böse vereiteln, das ihr beider Leben zu zerstören droht...
Engel von Skye: EIN ROMAN DES MACPHERSON-CLANS (EIN ROMAN DES MACPHERSON-CLANS)
by Jan Coffey May McGoldrickGewinnerin der Holt Medallion für den besten historischen Liebesroman Von den ungezähmten Küsten der schottischen Western Isles über die brutalen Schlachtfelder Frankreichs bis hin zu den opulenten Höfen Europas - die Macpherson-Trilogie begibt sich auf eine fesselnde Reise durch das Streben einer Familie nach schottischer Unabhängigkeit gegen den gefürchteten Tudor-König Heinrich VIII. Enthülle die verborgenen Flammen... Fiona kann sich nicht an die Jahre erinnern, bevor sie in das Priorat auf der Isle of Skye kam. Nur die mitfühlende Priorin kennt den Schlüssel zur wahren Abstammung der temperamentvollen Rothaarigen. In eine bescheidene Kutte und ein einfaches Bauernkleid gehüllt, taucht Fiona aus dem Nebel der Insel auf, um Alec Macpherson, dem berühmten Kriegshäuptling der Highlands, gegenüberzutreten. Liebe als Schutzschild... Alec hat König James mit seinem Schwert gedient. Jetzt würde er seine Seele geben, um dieses bezaubernde Mädchen vor dem verschlungenen Netz von Intrigen zu schützen, das sie bedroht. Fiona braucht nicht nur Schutz, sondern auch Alecs Liebe, und er gibt sie bereitwillig her. Doch die Widersacher des Königs manövrieren Fiona in eine gefährliche Falle, denn ihre Erinnerungen bergen das Gesicht des Mörders ihrer Mutter und ein Geheimnis, das stark genug ist, um den schottischen Thron zu erschüttern.