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"A Quest for Answers: A Personal Journey," takes you by the hand on a journey into the world of homelessness. The author's voice and the homeless voice draws a profile of the daily struggles of being homeless. The journey takes you from the external pressures of living on the streets to the invisible internal thoughts that wander in silence seeking answers. "A Quest for Answers: A Personal Journey," the writing is a journey into the lives of the homeless people and gives every American a first hand glimpse into the tragedy of homelessness. -Donald Whitehead Executive Director The National Coalition for the Homeless "A Quest for Answers," is a must read for everyone. It powerfully speaks to the authentic visual and poetic realities of the homeless in a manner that causes one to declare, "I thought I knew." -Revella Logan Love, Ph.D. President & CEO Culturally Competent Communications

This book contains many practical tips for managers wishing to become leaders. The difference between the two is that managers control the business process whilst leaders manage change. The author takes us on a progressive journey of lessons learnt as he develops his career from a technical designer to achieving senior international management positions. He provides insight into how to break down the barriers in leading multi-cultural, multi-site organizations and developing them into high performing teams. He strongly agrees with Ray Kroc of McDonald`s view “That none of us is as good as all of us.” He has spent over thirty five years in the construction industry, mainly in the oil and gas sectors and successfully led green field start-ups, joint ventures and business turnarounds. From the stormy waters of the North Sea to the head-hunting Iban [E-ban] tribesmen of Borneo the author leads us through an interesting series of adventures and the learning opportunity in his quest for success.

In a remarkable experiment lasting over a decade, a group of 88 independent campuses, ranging from comprehensive universities to intimate colleges, have demonstrated the value of an emerging educational agenda focused on meaning and purpose. These programs have shown that college can provide emerging adults with an understanding of themselves within today's insecure and highly competitive world that enhances their ability to develop the "grit" needed to create meaningful lives. By focusing on the exploration of vocation and its theological foundations, the programs have produced remarkable outcomes in enhanced student engagement in the learning process and more effective entry into adult life. Discernment of vocation provides for many students a synthetic and compelling focus for intellectual and practical exploration. Sustained by articulate reflection and grounded in communities of learning that include faculty as well as students, undergraduate life takes on new significance and urgency. Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose analyzes a series of successful efforts to reconfigure undergraduate education as a journey toward life purpose. Examining the experiences of students and faculty, William M. Sullivan reveals the concrete importance of this educational agenda for individual lives and particular campuses. By connecting the several dimensions of undergraduate experience through reflection on purpose, Sullivan demonstrates how these programs expanded the bandwidth of academic learning in energizing and exploratory ways. Within the larger, troubled environment of contemporary higher education, these pioneering efforts hold promise for a significant rethinking of the undergraduate experience to better serve students and society.

This study presents the contemporary Islamic resurgence movement among young people in Bandung Indonesia, focusing on its emergence, development and routinisation. It traces various factors and conditions that contributed to the emergence of the movement. It also tries to explain how and why young people (students in particular) turn to Islam, and how the movement is organised and developed among students. Finally, it examines internal changes among various Islamic groups as responses to social, political and cultural changes.

From the earliest "velocipedes" through the advent of the pneumatic tire to the rise of modern road and track competition, this history of the sport of bicycle racing traces its role in the development of bicycle technology between 1868 and 1903. Providing detailed technical information along with biographies of racers and other important personalities, the book explores this thirty-year period of early bicycle history as the social and technical precursor to later developments in the motorcycle and automobile industries.