In this book, you will learn about the inspiring life journeys of mother and daughter, Po-Ling and Betty Ng. These two Asian-American leaders have led very different career and life journeys, but have shared a common approach to propel themselves and others to success. You will learn about the PO-LING POWER framework, its genesis, how it works, and its real-life application as exemplified through their life stories. You will be armed with a simple, yet powerful evaluation, decision-making, and measurement tool to help you analyze your own situations, as well as decisions you may be contemplating. Bottom line: You will be inspired and empowered to propel yourself, your community, and your organization to success by focusing on what matters.

The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to religious and psychological knowledge. Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship, shows how to use the caregiver's life experience as a source of authority, and demonstrates how to develop the skill of listening and establishing the actual relationship. This new edition elaborates on and expands the author's previous work, adding an intercultural perspective that gives more attention to religious pluralism in the pastoral care setting. It offers a road map for using a step-by-step narrative, relational, embodied approach to spiritual care that respects the unique ways people live out their values and beliefs, especially in coping with stress, loss, and violence. Readers will be able to confidently and professionally offer pastoral care and counseling to members of their congregations or other places of ministry.

The Persevering Penguins and Pals: Propelling One Another to Success An engaging motivational book by kids for kids to embrace diversity, inclusion, and what it means to be successful global citizens. The authors are three amazing cousins who were between 7 and 11 when they started creating these characters and have gone on to become #1 Amazon Bestselling and award-winning authors and illustrator! Crafted primarily for upper elementary and middle school students to read, this book is a charming animal story about penguins and other creatures who help children learn that being determined, working with others for a common goal, and embracing differences help us all to succeed. It is another beautiful day in Patagonia as a colony of penguins snuggles on the iceberg, they call home. When catastrophe strikes for Little Milo and his family, it seems that all hope is lost. The penguins must band together as a team and wait for the right time to implement their plan. When one plan doesn't work, the penguins brainstorm to create another one. But it turns out they are not the only creatures with big challenges. Through perseverance, helping others, leading, inspiring, networking, and growing, the penguins and their creature friends must somehow find a way to overcome their obstacles, no matter how difficult. Being a kid today isn't easy! Give your children the tools to overcome life's challenges with a fun and inspiring story for independent readers! ● The chapter book version of bestselling and award winning "Meet the Persevering Penguins and Pals" with the full stories of each of the different animals as well as how they all come together and must help each other to succeed. ● Includes access to discussion guide on what it means to face and overcome challenges to help parents and educators in schools, camps, early childhood centers, and after-school programs talk with children about the topics in the book to help them process and absorb the lessons. ● Includes access to the best-selling and award-winning authors’ and illustrator’s creative process. It’s sure to inspire other young children to follow their dreams! ● Endorsed by Carmen Fariña, former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education as the "Beautifully illustrated animal stories created by children for children." ● The perfect children’s book about diversity for independent readers age 8-11 and reading aloud to ages 4 and up. ● Loved by teachers, parents, grandparents, family members and kids alike! ● Social emotional learning and reading proficiency made fun for your little ones!

This book focuses on smart materials and structures, which are also referred to as intelligent, adaptive, active, sensory, and metamorphic. The ultimate goal is to develop biologically inspired multifunctional materials with the capability to adapt their structural characteristics, monitor their health condition, perform self-diagnosis and self-repair, morph their shape, and undergo significant controlled motion.

Just outside of Santa Fe, in the land of The Milagro Beanfield War, a group of pilgrims converge on the edge of a canyon for a last chance at life.

Power Ultrasonics: Applications of High-Intensity Ultrasound, Second Edition provides a comprehensive reference on the fundamentals, processing, engineering, medical, food and pharmaceutical applications of ultrasonic processing. Chapters cover the fundamentals of nonlinear propagation of ultrasonic waves in fluids and solids, discuss the materials and designs of power ultrasonic transducers and devices, identify applications of high power ultrasound in materials engineering and mechanical engineering, food processing technology, environmental monitoring and remediation and industrial and chemical processing (including pharmaceuticals), medicine and biotechnology, and cover developments in ultrasound therapy and surgery applications.The new edition also includes recent advances in modeling, characterization and measurement techniques, along with additive manufacturing and micromanufacturing. This is an invaluable reference for graduate students and researchers working in the disciplines of materials science and engineering. In addition, those working on the physics of acoustics, sound and ultrasound, sonochemistry, acoustic engineering and industrial process technology, R&D managers, production, and biomedical engineers will find it useful to their work. - Covers the fundamentals of nonlinear propagation of ultrasonic waves in fluids and solids - Discusses the materials and designs of power ultrasonic transducers and devices - Considers state-of-the-art power sonic applications across a wide range of industries

For the past fifty years, scholars in both pastoral and practical theology have attempted to recapture human religious experience and practice as essential sites for theological engagement -- redefining in the process what theology is, how it is done, and who does it. In this book Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore shows how this trend in scholarship has led to an expanded subject matter, alternative ways of knowing, and richer terms for analysis in doing Christian theology. Tracing more than two decades of her own search for a more inclusive discipline -- one that truly grapples with theology in the midst of life -- Christian Theology in Practice shows not only where Miller-McLemore herself has traveled in the field but also how pastoral and practical theology has developed during this time. Looking forward, Miller-McLemore calls on the academy and Christian congregations to disrupt conventional theological boundaries and to acknowledge the multiplicity of shapes and places in which the "wisdom of God" appears..