Stephen Lewis

"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help. Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced...

What could be worse than being stuck at home, bored to death? The president has declared a country-wide lockdown, and everyone has to stay at home in order to combat the spread of the highly-contagious Falcevirus. Sixteen-year old Lucas is enjoying not going to school, but is slowly going stir crazy on a diet of video games and household chores. Things start taking a turn for the strange when he gets a frantic call from his friend Nkata, with news...

Another Way describes a new way of leadership for the 21st Century, one that inspires people to delve deeply into their own selves and that creates a mysterious relatedness among strangers. When this leadership happens, we remember people are created to experience community, to find joy in one another, and to create a better world out of a deep reservoir where the soul resides. Written by the leaders of the Forum for Theological Exploration, the internationally...

Explains different types of investing--savings accounts, bonds, stocks, and mutual funds--and provides information to help make decisions on each kind of investment.

"Before discussing the central framing guiding this book (see Chapter 3), it is first important to provide foundational knowledge about self-injury. Accordingly, this chapter addresses key areas within the field of self-injury, including how self-injury is defined, who self-injures, what might contribute to self-injury engagement, the reasons people may have for self-injury, and the risks associated with engaging in self-injury. In Chapter 2, we build...

A collection of fifteen classic fairy tales for beginning readers.

When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A High School, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known and soon faces opposition to his coaching methods from the school superintendent.