Living Above The Store

Not Merely Sustainable. Restorative. A viable business is a living thing, embedded in the complex web of economy, community, and ecology. Done right, business can help correct the modern stresses of environmental degradation and social fragmentation and create value for workers, shareholders, and additional stakeholders in the community. Living Above the Store explores a road less traveled, and chronicles how business can navigate a new path toward successful, restorative practices. Book jacket.

The shop/house – the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings – appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive account of this common but overlooked building. The merchant's house in northern European cities, the Asian shophouse, the apartment building on New York avenues, typical apartment buildings in Rome and in Paris – this variety of shop/houses along with the commonality of attributes that form them, mean that the hybrid phenomenon is as much a social and economic one as it is an architectural one. Professionals, city officials and developers are taking a new look at buildings that allow for higher densities and mixed-use. Describing exemplary contemporary projects and issues pertaining to their implementation as well as the background, cultural variety and urban attributes, this book will benefit designers dealing with mixed-use buildings as well as academics and students.

Today, we spend most of our time worrying. We worry about having a nice house and car. We worry about whether we have the right clothes. We worry about our money and if it's safe. We worry about our jobs. We worry about our kids. We worry about putting food on the table. We worry about the things that could possibly happen to us. We worry about losing it all. Our worry is destroying us. We're living lives filled with stress, anxiety, and depression. But God doesn't want us to live these lives of worry. God has provided all we need. So why worry? In this study of Matthew 6, author David H. Patterson uses Scripture and experience to prove to us just why we should never worry and how we can live above worry. Worry demonstrates a lack of faith, and Patterson lovingly shows us why our faith is lacking but how we can change that. Imagine a day without worry, with total trust in God. It is possible, through the practice of ascending faith. Don't waste another minute of your life with worry. Discover the key to living above it and renew your faith in God today with the help of Living Above Worry!

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Pearl Goodman grew up in Toronto in the 1960s. In this exceptionally original memoir, written with wry humor and a sharp satirical eye, she juxtaposes popular culture with the jarring transitions and contradictions in her and her parents' lives. Striving to make sense of her emerging identity, she invokes TV shows, ads, movies, and distinctive details of the material and ideological landscape, while interweaving them with her parents' harrowing wartime experiences of concentration and refugee camps, and the drama and uncertainty of their postwar emigration first to Israel, and then to Canada.

A shockingly true account of a woman living part of her teenage years and young adulthood as a Muslim wife and eventually became part of a 'Harem' inside of one of the most influential underground cults in the United States. Assuming the pen name of Ruby Garnett at the request of her family, the author recounts the circumstances that led her to eventually be enticed by the religious extremist dogma of one of the most charismatic, influential underground cult leaders Black America has seen since since the likes of Father Divine... Garnett has a candidly-intimate conversation with the reader about her state of mind from beginning to end. She wrote "Soul Sacrifice" for the children that came forward to let someone know about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Nuwabian cult leader Malachi York. Despite the threats, harrassment and lack of support (from some of their own brainwashed parents), these brave survivors of abuse are the reason this story needs to be heard...

John Gallina and Dale Beatty, Combat Wounded Veterans who served together, were injured together, an established Purple Heart Homes together, share details of their story in Wounded Homecoming: The Uphill Journey of Wounded Veterans from Battlefield to Homefront. The book delves into the background of both Purple Heart Homes Co-founders while showcasing the stories of disabled Veterans from different conflicts. The juxtaposition of similarities and differences from the over 3.4 million injured service members who live in the United States casts a new light on what it means to exist as a disabled Veteran.

David Suzuki cuts through the gloom surrounding the current state of the world's natural resources, and draws attention to the numerous positive instances where private companies, communities and individual citizens are making a real difference to the environment.