{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"5 ministry killers and how to defeat them : help for frustrated pastors--including new research from the Barna Group \/ Charles Stone.","author":"Stone, C.","isbn":"9780764208546","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Bethany House Publishers"},"datePublished":"2010","inLanguage":"English","description":"pt. 1. This ain't Kansas anymore. \"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get\" -- \"Houston, we have a problem\" -- Frankly, my dear, I don't give a ...\" -- pt. 2. \"What we've got here ... is a failure to communicate\" (what almost 2,000 pastors and more than 600 church members revealed). Schoolyard bullies who eat our lunch -- Punch 'em out, tell the teacher, or skip lunch? -- Enjoying lunch even when the bullies abound -- pt. 3. Whatcha gonna do when the bad boys come for you? Open up with vulnerability -- Own up with humility -- Show up with integrity -- Speak up with courage -- pt. 4. \"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your life extraordinary.\" Spouse killers -- After you sell the book on eBay, what's next? \r\n \tAbstract\t\"Experienced minister offers insights into frustrations pastors face along with solutions, based on current research from the Barna Group and others\"--Provided by publishers.\n\nPublished in: Minneapolis, Minn.\n\nPhysical description: 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A Guide to Academic Writing","author":"Trinity Theological Seminary","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Trinity Theological Seminary"},"datePublished":"2017","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Legon, Accra\n\nPhysical description: 63p.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers \/ Kate L. Turabian ; revised by Wayne C. Booth ... (et al.)","author":"Turabian, Kate L.; Booth, Wayne C.","isbn":"9780226823379","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The University of Chicago Press"},"datePublished":"2007","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tPt. 1. Research and writing from planning to production -- What research is and how researchers think about it -- Moving from a topic to a question to a working hypothesis -- Finding useful sources -- Engaging sources -- Planning your argument -- Planning a first draft -- Drafting your report -- Presenting evidence in tables and figures -- Revising your draft -- Writing your final introduction and conclusion -- Revising sentences -- Learning from your returned paper -- Presenting research in alternative forums -- On the spirit of research -- pt. 2. Source citation -- General introduction to citation practices -- Notes-bibliography style: the basic form -- Notes-bibliography style: citing specific types of sources -- Parenthetical citations-reference list style: the basic form -- Parenthetical citations-reference list style: citing specific -- pt. 3. Style. Punctuation -- Names, special terms, and titles of works -- Numbers -- Abbreviations -- Quotations -- Tables and figures\n\nPublished in: Chicago\n\nPhysical description: xviii, 466pages. : illustrations","bookEdition":"7. ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"African Christian leadership : realities, opportunities, and impact \/ edited by Robert J. Priest and Kirimi Barine.","author":"Barine, A. Kirimi; Priest, Robert J.","isbn":"9781626982420","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Orbis Books"},"datePublished":"2017","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents :\tThe Genesis and growth of the Africa Christian leadership study \/ Robert J. Priest -- Characteristics of influential African Christian leaders \/ David K. Ngaruiya -- Formation of African Christian leaders : patterns from the ALS data \/ Wanjiru M. Gitau -- Connected--the role of social capital for leaders with impact \/ Steven D.H. Rasmussen -- Leadership responses during armed conflict \/ Elisabet le Roux and Yolande Sandoua -- Word and deed--patterns of influential African Christian organizations \/ Nupanga Weanzana -- African Christian organizations and socioeconomic development \/ Michael Bowen -- African women's leadership--realities and opportunities \/ Truphosa Kwaka-Sumba and Elisabet le Roux -- Empowering leadership--a new dawn in African Christian leadership \/ H. Jurgens Hendriks -- Reading and leading -challenges for African Christian leaders \/ Robert J. Priest, Kirimi Barine, and Alberto Lucamba Salombongo -- Developing transformational leaders--curricula implications from the Africa leadership study \/ John Jusu -- Engaging Africa -- the Tyndale House Foundation's story \/ Mary Kleine Yehling.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \t\"Do you wish you had a better understanding of the issues and questions African Christians face as they seek to live out their faith in their cultural context? Do you wonder how Africans themselves frame these questions and their answers? Would you like access to actual research that can confirm your own experience or bring new information to your attention that would deepen and broaden your understanding? This unique book, the product of a multiyear study and survey sponsored by the Tyndale House Foundation, offers insights into all these questions and more. Featuring input from over 8,000 African survey participants and 57 in-depth interviews, it provides invaluable insight and concise analysis of the dynamics of the development of African Christian leaders today\"--\n\nPublished in: Maryknoll, New York\n\nPhysical description: xx, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Basics of Social Research : qualitative & quantitative approaches \/ W. Lawrence Neuman.","author":"Neuman, L. W.","isbn":"9781292020341","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Pearson Education Limited"},"datePublished":"2014","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tGlossary \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 1. Doing Social Research \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 2. Theory and Social Research \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 3. Ethics in Social Research \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 4. Reviewing the Scholarly Literature and Planning a Study \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 5. Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 6. Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 7. Survey Research \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 8. Experimental Research \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 9. Nonreactive Research and Secondary Analysis \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 10. Analysis of Quantitative Data \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 11. Field Research and Focus Group Research \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 12. Analysis of Qualitative Data \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- 13. Writing the Research Report \/ W. Lawrence Neuman -- Bibliography \/ W. Lawrence Neuman.\n\nPublished in: Harlow, England\n\nPhysical description: 400 pages : illustrations.","bookEdition":"3th ed., Pearson new international ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christian counseling : a comprehensive guide \/ Gary R. Collins.","author":"Collins, Gary R.","isbn":"1418503290","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Thomas Nelson Publishers"},"datePublished":"2007","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents : Part 1: Introductory issues -- The changes in counseling -- The counselor and counseling -- The church and counseling -- The community and counseling -- The core of counseling -- The legal, ethical, and moral issues in Christian counseling -- The multicultural issues in Christian counseling -- Part 2: Prominent issues -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Anger -- Guilt and forgiveness -- Loneliness -- Part 3: Developmental issues -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Twenties and thirties -- Forties and fifties -- The later years -- Part 4: Iinterpersonal issues -- Conflict and relationships -- Sex apart from marriage -- Sex within marriage -- Homosexuality -- Abuse and neglect -- Part 5: Identity issues -- Inferiority and self-esteem -- Physical illness -- Grief -- Singleness -- Choosing a marriage partner -- Part 6: Family issues -- Premarital counseling -- Marriage issues -- Pregnancy issues -- Family issues -- Divorce and remarriage -- Part 7: Control issues -- Mental disorders -- Alcohol-related problems -- Addictions -- Financial counseling -- Vocational counseling -- Part 8: Concluding issues -- Crises -- Trauma, terror, and terrorism -- Other issues -- Spiritual issues -- Counseling the counselor -- Part 9: Future issues -- Counseling waves of the future.\r\n\r\nAbstract :\"This proven guide in pastoral counseling has been extensively expanded and revised by the author to include recent developments and research, new resources, and attention to newly urgent needs such as AIDS, eating disorders, homosexuality, and violence. Written with clarity and sensitivity, this volume builds on biblical foundations and the best resources of professional psychology. It reflects the insights the author has gained from many years of Christian counseling. New Sections include: The Legal, Ethical and Moral Issues in Counseling The Multicultural, Multiracial Issues in Counseling Conflict and Relationships Dealing with Death and Grief Alcoholism and Other Substance Abuse Crises and Trauma Counseling and Terrorism.\"--Publisher's description.\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tennessee\n\nPhysical description: xv, 976 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":"Third edition.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Conflict Resolution interpersonal and organisational\/ David Kofi Ahorse","author":"Ahose D.K.","isbn":"9789988199470","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":null},"datePublished":"2014","inLanguage":"English","description":"Content: conflict theories and sources of conflict, interpersonal relationship in organization, the dynamics of conflict, the management of interpersonal conflict, resolving conflicts in organization, research on conflict resolution in an organization, empirical findings on the use of conflict resolution strategies, Definition of terms, conflict Scenarios, References, Index.\n\nPublished in: Tema - Ghana\n\nPhysical description: 111p. ill.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Conquest of death","author":"Silverstein, A.","isbn":"0026109301","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Maxwell Macmillan International,"},"datePublished":"1979","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: New York\n\nPhysical description: xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Counseling across cultures \/ edited by Paul B. Pedersen [and others].","author":"Pedersen, P.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawai"},"datePublished":"1981","inLanguage":"English","description":"Counseling across cultures \/ Juris G. Draguns -- The cultural inclusiveness of counseling \/ Paul B. Pedersen -- Cultural sensitivities in counseling \/ Edward C. Stewart -- Racial and ethnic barriers in counseling \/ Clement E. Vontress -- The self-awareness factor in intercultural psychotherapy \/ Ronald M. Wintrob and Youngsook Kim Harvey -- Intercultural psychotherapy \/ Julian Wohl -- Counseling Asian Americans \/ Harry H.L. Kitano and Noreen Matsushima -- Culturally relevant and behavioristic counseling for Chicano college students \/ Rene A. Ruiz and M. Manuel Casas -- Value differentials and their importance in counseling American Indians \/ Joseph E. Trimble -- Psychotherapy and the foreign student \/ A.A. Alexander [and others] -- Behavioral approaches to counseling across cultures \/ Howard N. Higginbotham and Junko Tanaka-Matsumi -- Psychological tests and intercultural counseling \/ Walter J. Lonner -- Research and research hypotheses about effectiveness in intercultural counseling \/ Norman D. Sundberg.\n\nPublished in: Honolulu\n\nPhysical description: x, 370 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Counseling in African-American communities : biblical perspectives on tough issues \/ Lee N. June & Sabrina D. Black, editors ; Willie Richardson, consulting","author":"June, Lee N.; Black, Sabrina D.; Richardson, W.","isbn":"0310240255","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ZondervanPublishingHouse"},"datePublished":"2002","inLanguage":"English","description":"Gambling addiction \/ Sabrina D. Black -- Sexual addiction and the internet \/ Sabrina D. Black and LaVern A. Harlin -- Dealing with addictions through the twelve steps with godly principles \/ Annette Hampton -- Substance abuse : A programmatic approach and its blessings \/ Alfred Young, Jr. -- Domestic abuse \/ Kenneth Staley and Sheila Staley -- Sexual abuse and incest \/ Deborah G. Haskins -- Divorce recovery : Grief and loss \/ Paris M. Finner-Williams -- Blended families \/ Willie Richardson -- Adultery and midlife crisis \/ Haman Cross, Jr. -- Depression and bipolar disorder \/ Julius Brooks -- Demonology and schizophrenia \/ Darrell Freeman -- Schizophrenia \/ Michael Lyles -- Attention deficit hyperactive disorder \/ Michael Lyles -- Suicide \/ Cupid Poe -- Grief and loss \/ Patricia Richardson -- Suffering for a season \/ Pamela Turnbo -- Conflicts \/ Willie Davis -- In search of a healthy and authentic faith \/ Joan Ganns -- Unemployment \/ Artis Fletcher and Blanche Ross -- Incorporating research into clinical practice \/ Lee N. June and Christopher Mathis.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 263 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}