"Eleanor Johnson corrects some commonly held (mis)assumptions concerning what the average medieval English person might've thought about what we now call the natural environment or the ecosystem. Reading both well-studied fourteenth- and fifteenth-century works (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and the Canterbury Tales), and lesser-known ones (Winner and Waster and Mum and the Sothsegger), as well as legal and municipal documents, sermons, moral and penitential tracts, practical and medical guides, plague narratives, and historical chronicles from the period, Johnson describes how poets used the resources of poetic language-meter, rhyme, alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, characterization, plot, dramatic staging, repetition, and other literary devices-to think and feel their way into the problems of ecological peril, even though they lacked the science and scientific vocabulary we have today. Johnson explores how these writers combined multiple discourses from their particular, if narrow, vantage point to comment on ecological disasters, inventing their own "ecosystemic" language and commentary. As Johnson reminds us, the English Middle Ages had their share of environmental problems-air pollution, soil depletion, deforestation, Little Ice Ages, famines, and plagues-similar to the ones we face in the twenty-first century. Focusing on the word "waste" in its original usage across various texts, ranging from the literary to the legal, from the theological to the psychological, Johnson puts twenty-first-century concerned citizens in touch with kindred spirits in medieval England, fully aware of-and interested in-how human (mis)behavior might be connected to the natural world; how resource allocation, use, and pollution by one person might affect another; how environmental damage was linked to urbanization; and how one person's choices might affect the next generation. The book will be read primarily by those interested in medieval English literature, medieval historians, and literary scholars working in later periods, but Johnson also invites conversation with anyone working more broadly in the environmental humanities today"--

This work is a follow up to my two books Fighting Your Way to Victory principles of victory over stubborn problems which deals with the revival of ones prayer life, and Smashing the Gates of the Enemy through Strategic Prayers which encourages the believer to engage in strategic spiritual warfare in order to unseat the powers of darkness limiting them from entering into their inheritance. The book is titled Dealing with Generation Wasters It reveals the operations of generation wasters in mens lives and tries to explain why many people have experienced untold hardships and sufferings that are beyond human comprehension.

Anyone who is not working according to God’s timetable for his life will end up a failure. Are you afraid you may never be able to achieve your goal in life the way things are going for you? Are you getting discouraged because your dream is being dashed? Are you confused and do not know where to turn? Are you losing your self-esteem because you are not living up to expectations? Have you developed self-hatred because all your efforts to make it in life have yielded no result? If your answers to these questions are yes, then the wasters are already at work in your life. This book will teach you how to overcome the wasters so that you can rise to the top where God wants you to be.