"The CD contains a 6-minute video of the Excellent Judges process--the orientation meeting, the exhibition visit, and the discussion meeting. ... The photographs on the CD are in color and have captions that are based on comments--reactions and feelings--made by a judge as he or she visited the exhibition and wrote notes. On the CD, you can link these comments to related information listed in the Framework."--P. xii.

"Vanessa lives life on her own terms--one day at a time, every day to its fullest. She can't afford to think about whether she has the same fatal genetic condition as her older sister. After all, she has way too much to do, traveling the globe and showing millions of YouTube followers the joy in seizing every moment. But lately, life has been anything but pure joy, and travel has come to an abrupt halt. After her younger [half]-sister drops off an...

This guide to the historical and intellectual background of the John of Patmos' Apocalypse includes a close reading of the text, focusing on the meaning of its images and details the wide-ranging impact of the book on Christian and Western history. Dr. Koester examines its meaning in John's day and how it continues to be meaningful to contemporary readers, for some as a book of predictions and others as a work of literature, while it remains for most...

The two professors discuss how government works, going head to head on such topics as "good" public administration, Congress, big business, and everyone's bugaboo, bureaucratic dysfunction.

Introduces the key aspects of science, from atoms, elements, and energy to forces, physics, and explosive chemical reactions.