This book is a collection of write-ups that deals with scriptural matters that are very important and need to be thoroughly explained for the enlightenment of believers and unbelievers alike.

If the heart of the library is its collection, this textbook provides the keys to the heart of your library. Alongside standards of basic principles and processes, you'll find practical guidance on everything from acquisitions to preservation. Managing collections in today's libraries is more complicated and challenging than ever. Electronic formats, new options for collaboration and sharing, and the drive to use data for evaluation purposes are just a few of the changes now driving collection management. This updated edition of a classic text addresses changes in the field and provides a thorough overview of what collection development specialists now need to know to effectively and efficiently manage processes that range from selection and assessment to sharing resources, handling challenges, weeding, and preservation. Readers will find increased coverage of technical services, intellectual freedom and censorship, and collection policy development, as well as budget development and tracking, joint purchasing, and negotiating with vendors. Updates on e-resources, user needs assessment (including data visualization), and disaster management, along with suggestions for further reading, are also included. Engagingly written and easy to understand, this is a valuable text for students preparing for careers in public, academic, school, and special libraries. It will additionally serve as a training resource and professional refresher for practitioners.

The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.

Romance Bundle by Helen A Rich writing as Helen A Rosburg By Honor Bound Affaire de Coeur Best Overall Historical Nominee! Honneure Mansart, orphaned child of a lowly servant, finds herself at the glittering palace of Versailles as a servant to the young and lovely Marie Antoinette. Her lifelong love Phillipe also serves the young princess. Their lives are golden—until the aging king’s mistress and her servant scheme to destroy them. Sadness and tragedy stalk them, and a terrible secret might lead Honneure to the guillotine in the footsteps of her queen. The Dream Thief Someone is murdering young, beautiful women in mid-sixteenth century Venice. Even the most formidable walls of the grandest villas cannot keep him out, for he steals into his victims’ dreams. Holding his chosen prey captive in the night, he seduces them…to death. Fearing for her daughter’s life, Pina’s mother takes her away to their estate in the country, where she is vulnerable to her fiancé and the murderer who seeks her. Call of the Trumpet London Book Festival Honorable Mention for Genre-Based Fiction! Upon her French father’s death, Cecile must choose to stay in Europe, where she’s spurned for her and her mother’s heritage or return to the place of her

Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education offers pre- and in-service educators an opportunity to analyze and reflect upon a variety of realistic case studies related to educational equity and social justice. Each case, written in an engaging, narrative style, presents a complex but common classroom scenario in which an inequity or injustice is in play. These cases allow educators to practice the process of considering a range of contextual factors, checking their own biases, and making immediate- and longer-term decisions about how to create and sustain equitable learning environments for all students. The book begins with a seven-point process for examining case studies. Largely lacking from existing case study collections, this framework guides readers through the process of identifying, examining, reflecting on, and taking concrete steps to resolve challenges related to diversity and equity in schools. The cases themselves present everyday examples of the ways in which racism, sexism, homophobia and heterosexism, class inequities, language bias, religious-based oppression, and other equity and diversity concerns affect students, teachers, families, and other members of our school communities. They involve classroom issues that are relevant to all grade levels and all content areas, allowing significant flexibility in how and with whom they are used. Although organized topically, the intersection of these issues are stressed throughout the cases, reflecting the multi-faceted way they play out in real life. All cases conclude with a series of questions to guide discussion and a section of facilitator notes, called points for consideration. This unique feature provides valuable insight for understanding the complexities of each case.