Mimpi itu bualan belaka, mimpi adalah bunga tidur. Mimpi datang kepada setiap orang. Mengupas dan menafsir mimpi mengajak kita untuk mengenal dan bergaul akrab dengan mimpi sebagai bahasa hidup, mengungkapkan apa yang hidup di dalam diri kita: kerinduan, persoalan, harapan, dan tawaran-tawaran sekaligus peluang-peluang dalam perjalanan hidup untuk melangkah lebih maju. Mimpi bisa mengungkapkan …
The Details of Thomas Becket’s life and of the first fifty years or so of his cult are so well-known that they hardly bear retelling.1 For the fifteenthcentury monks who acted as custodians of his shrine there was a handy mnemonic for the most significant events of his path to sainthood—the Seven Wonderful Tuesdays—which they duly copied into the instructions written fo…
Here is an original and exciting new look at the fascinating world of ancient people and their ways of life. Detailed real-life photographs of tools, weapons, jewelry, clothing, and even the remains of the people themselves, offer a unique "eyewitness" view of how human life changed during its first four million years. See the tools used by the first farmers, the oldest surviving food, the weap…
Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity. Ranging over four billion years, Benton weaves together the latest findings on fossils, earth history, evolutionary biology, and many other fields to highlight the great leaps that enabled life to evolve from microbe to human--big breakthroughs that made whol…
Economic activities for individuals and societies need to be financed, whether they are business projects and enterprises, or expenditures of a private nature, such as purchasing a home or paying for education. Financing human activity can be conducted in two principally different ways: by using equity belonging to the initiator, or by receiving loans, credit or equity from a third party. At a …
South African Christianity, like that in the rest of the African continent, is explosive, phenomenal, and relative in numbers. Contemporary South African Christianity is enormously vibrant and diverse. Theologians and sociologists agree that Africa is continuing to make a major contribution to the shift of the centre of gravity of Christianity to the Global South taking pl…
n a sunny, crisp morning in May 2008, I traveled by bus to Sipoo, a town east of Helsinki, to interview Anna. She lived in a middle-class residen-tial area, in a large yellow duplex amid a yard with a number of trees and flower beds, as well as a gazebo. Slightly nervous, as always when meeting new interviewees, I rang her doorbell, and Anna came to the d…
Actually, the final command was more precise than that. He did not say, “Teach them all my commandments.” He said, “Teach them to observe all my commandments.” You can teach a parrot all of Jesus’s commandments. But you cannot teach a parrot to observe them. Parrots will not repent, and worship Jesus, and lay up treasures in heaven, and love their enemies, and go out like sheep in the…
Not only does the book concur with earlier authors on the impact of trauma on the survivor’s spiritual or faith dimension, but life narratives in the Trauma Healing Research Project also show that regardless of religious affiliation the research participants turned to spiritual resources for answers and deeper social redress in their traumatic situations. While much research h…
The realization that customs services could be improved has prompted many governments to devote substantial energy and resources to modernization. They have also mobilized external assistance in this endeavor. In response, bilateral and multilateral development agencies have supported many customs reform initiatives. International donors or financial institutions such as the European Union (EU)…
Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all these are attacks on the mind. If readers suffer from negative thoughts, they can take heart! Joyce Meyer has helped millions win these all-important battles. In her most popular bestseller ever, the beloved author and minister shows readers how to change their lives by changing their minds. She teaches how to deal wi…
You were created to be filled with joy, peace, confidence, and creativity. But it's easy to go through life holding on to things that burden you, guilt, resentment, doubt, worry. When you give space to these negative emotions, they take up space that you need for the good things that move you toward your destiny.
You were created to be filled with joy, peace, confidence, and creativity. But it's easy to go through life holding on to things that burden you, guilt, resentment, doubt, worry. When you give space to these negative emotions, they take up space that you need for the good things that move you toward your destiny.
This very readable guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be a source of enjoyment or inspiration, including some books from beyond any formal religious tradition. While written from within the Christian faith and offering introductions to the writing of medieval mystics, Quakers and modern evangelists, both Protestant and Catholic, it also looks at classics of secular spirit…
Readers who may expect to get good advice about the use of psychology in transcultural and interreligious settings may be disappointed by this book. This study introduces the results or even the beginnings of an encounterof Christians and members of other religions from two continents and from two regions of the world when facing their approaches to counsell…
Among the most commonly used types of beverage bottles are bottles made from plastics for single use. The environmental impact of single-use plastic bottles has been widely discussed in society. For example, they are among the top plastic products found on beaches, contributing to the growing littering of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. To mitigate the environmental problems of single-use pl…
In all my reading of Bunyan, what has gripped me most is his sufering and how he responded to it—what it made of him, and what it might make of us. All of us come to our tasks with a history and many predispositions. I come to John Bunyan with a growing sense that sufering is a normal, useful, essential, and God-ordained element in Christian life and ministry—not only for the sake of weanin…
In hisremarkable study of the Upper Palaeolithic parietal art of Western Europe, The Mind in the Cave, David Lewis-Williams suggests that some imagery present in caves such as Chauvet and Lascaux was inspired by ex-periences of altered states of consciousness.1 Emergence from such altered states can be accompanied by the appearance of afterimages, mental pic-tures that hang suspended in the fie…
This book is dedicated with love and admiration to every weary soul who falls down and gets back up, over and over again. It’s easy to fall; it takes courage to rise up and take the next step.
Proper initial care of patients with major burns is key to their clinical outcomes. The early identification and control of airway and breathing problems help prevent early deaths. Initiating proper fluid resuscitation avoids major complications. Recognizing and treating associated injuries are also essential. Finally, prompt consultation with burn center staff in patients who meet referral cri…
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
I'm supposed to say something here that will make you want to read my book. Well, to my knowledge, this is the first book ever written and illustrated by a gecko. So by reading it, you'll become part of history, especially if it ends up on the bestseller list. You can say, "I helped put the first book ever written by a gecko on the bestseller list". Which is almost like being able to say, "I w…
For most people most of the time, prayer is hard. It is especially difficultâ---not to mention unsatisfying---when people experience it as formal, dry, and repetitious. But what might happen if you discovered a simple prayer that changed all that? What if you discovered a prayer that changed you? In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces Christians to a 500-year-old form of pray…
Life Without Limits is an inspiring book by an extraordinary man. Born without arms or legs, Nick Vujicic overcame his disability to live not just independently but a rich, fulfilling life, becoming a model for anyone seeking true happiness. Now an internationally successful motivational speaker, his central message is that the most important goal for anyone is to find their life’s purpose de…