Spending some moments with Him, God our Creator, on a daily basis reminds us of the need to spend more time with Him. For in those quiet moments with Him, we acknowledge our need to be with Him. We make it known to our Lord that we desire His presence in our lives. In those moments, we show our hunger for personal worship with our God. An opportunity to interact with God should be held at the highest priority within our lives. Those moments with Him are to be cherished. Moments with Him refresh our spiritual walk daily with Him. Spending time with Him encourages us and strengthens us when confronted with life’s challenges. Those moments with Him provide personal times of experience that broaden our knowledge of the Creator. "Moments With Him" is yet a tool to enter into His presence. May you further experience the living God today in your life as you spend moments with Him.

In places as diverse as South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Nepal, negotiators of national peace plans have for years sanctioned the creation of local peace committees (LPCs) to address community-level sources of grievance and thereby to build peace from the bottom up. In A Crucial Link: Local Peace Committees and National Peacebuilding, longtime practitioner Andries Odendaal engages in the first comparative study of LPCs and asks whether and where the committees have succeeded.

All social relations involve emotional responses, from the simplest face-to-face encounter through the mobilization of social movements to the commitments that individuals develop for culture and society. The social world is thus dependent upon the arousal of emotions, and equally significant conflict and change in societies is ultimately driven by emotional arousal. Thus, it is important to understand how human emotions influence, and are influenced by, the social world. This understanding takes us into the sociology of emotions that has emerged as a distinct area of inquiry over the last thirty years.

With the development of a variety of exciting new areas of research involving computational chemistry, nano- and smart materials, and applications of the recently discovered graphene, there can be no doubt that physical chemistry is a vitally important field. It is also perceived as the most daunting branch of chemistry, being necessarily grounded in physics and mathematics and drawing as it does on quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and statistical thermodynamics. With his typical clarity and hardly a formula in sight, Peter Atkins' Very Short Introduction explores the contributions physical chemistry has made to all branches of chemistry. Providing an insight into its central concepts Atkins reveals the cultural contributions physical chemistry has made to our understanding of the natural world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

A fast-paced psychological thriller, this story will change the readers’ perspectives of the mechanisms of the world. While depicting technology as a double-edged sword, it transports you into the magical world of love, instinct and intuition. The bad guy in the story is invisible, but is a formidable force that is out to take control of the world in the most surreptitious way. (S)he is unstoppable and moves in a very fast and sophisticated manner. The protagonists, on the other hand are normal people who try hard to match the power of the antagonist. This book is not about the war between love and technology; rather it is a narrative of how technology and love coexist as the two most potent forces that drive modern human life. Every page of the book promises to be a cliffhanger with some spine-chilling moments. The endgame proves to be a breathtaking account of the coming together of primal powers to take on the might of the adversary that is growing in strength exponentially. Stop thinking… you are being heard!

From the "Facebook" revolutions in the Arab world to the use of social networking in the aftermath of disasters in Japan and Haiti, to the spread of mobile telephony throughout the developing world: all of these developments are part of how information and communication technologies are altering global affairs. With the rise of the social web and applications like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, scholars and practitioners of international affairs are adapting to this new information space across a wide scale of issue areas. In conflict resolution, dialogues and communication are taking the form of open social networks, while in the legal realm, where cyberspace is largely lawless space, states are stepping up policing efforts to combat online criminality and hackers are finding new ways around increasingly sophisticated censorship. Militaries are moving to deeply incorporate information technologies into their doctrines, and protesters are developing innovative uses of technology to keep one step ahead of the authorities. The essays and topical cases in this book explore such issues as networks and networked thinking, information ownership, censorship, neutrality, cyberwars, humanitarian needs, terrorism, privacy and rebellion, giving a comprehensive overview of the core issues in the field, complemented by real world examples.