Teaming With Life

Healthy soil teems with life—not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. Chemical fertilizers injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and the soil becomes increasingly dependent on artificial, often toxic, substances. But there is an alternative: by strengthening the soil food web—the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms—gardeners can create a nurturing environment for plants. Teaming with Microbes extols the benefits of cultivating the soil food web. It clearly explains the activities and organisms that make up the web, and explains how gardeners can cultivate the life of the soil through the use of compost, mulches, and compost tea. With Jeff Lowenfels’ help, everyone—from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants—can create rich, nurturing, living soil.

"Finally, an approach that puts the person at the helm and offers concrete ideas for genuine support, pride, dignity and personalized participation of a labeled person and their support staff. You are going to love this book - and give it to everyone with whom you work." -- Publisher's website.

​“Gets deep into the weeds, so to speak, of the microscopic architecture of plants and the biochemical processes at play.” —Washington Post Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed, but many of us know little about the nature of the science involved. In Teaming with Nutrients, Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener’s perspective. In his trademark down-to-earth, style, Lowenfels explains the role of both macronutrients and micronutrients and shows gardeners how to provide these essentials through organic, easy-to-follow techniques. Along the way, Lowenfels provides easy-to-grasp lessons in the biology, chemistry, and botany needed to understand how nutrients get into the plant and what they do once they’re inside.

Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of increasingly complex, cross industry projects. Amy Edmondson and Jean-Francois Harvey show vividly through their international cases how the complex demands of collaboration impact on management and revolutionize our understanding of teams.

Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap for teaming to innovate. We describe five necessary steps along that road: Aim High, Team Up, Fail Well, Learn Fast, and Repeat. This path is not smooth. To illustrate each critical step, we look at real-life scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership.

If you are an imperfect human being who struggles with the daily challenges life throws at you, then this is the right devotional for you. From losing battles against spiders and bees to unsuccessfully fixing a leaky water pipe, I am just as imperfect as the next person. When faced with lifes little moments where I have had to decide if I will be angry at a rusty old lawn mower or learn to have patience, I have found that only God can provide the peace of mind that gets me through each day. Each devotion tells a story of the frustrating yet funny things that may happen in each of our lives and the need for Gods helping hand in each situation. So if you are looking for a book that will tell you how to live your life, this is not the book for you. But I do pray that you will find this collection of writings to be uplifting, encouraging, and filled with a bit of humor as you take your individual journey towards a loving relationship with Christ.

This true story will take you to a heavenly realm beyond the dimensions of this world, then back again. It starts with the humble beginnings of a normal life no different than anyone else's. Yet it will guide you from the depth of a spiritual seeker to learn that there is a higher power in all our lives beyond this third-dimensional life. It will also take you on a journey of what is called Reflections. Words of wisdom that are a collection of life experiences, placed in a poetic format, to enrich and guide your journey on this path called life.

Join the journey and examine the mysterious physical remains present on earth that are being used to mount a new attack against Christianity. The reason for these ancient remains' existence here on this planet is explained using scripture. Angels or Aliens? explores giants, flying vehicles, and angels as they are discussed and explained in the Bible and how they relate to the coming assault against Christians everywhere by this new theological lie. This new false doctrine is explored, which is now being prepared and developed in order to replace the Theory of Evolution as the Godless answer to mankind's origin. This unique look at the modern world, from a biblical point of view, provides a positive Christian vision and reinforces the fact that God is in control and through Christ the victory is ours. In addition, through the process the reader is exposed to some possible end-time scenarios that they may not have previously imagined. After studying the media and the communication in which it engages, Brouillette has identified a systematic indoctrination that has taken place over the last sixty years, in the area of the existence of life on other planets, and Angels or Aliens? exposes this newest attack against the Christian belief that our world was created by God. Using scripture, this new humanist attack is debunked, and the relationship this new theory might have with end-times prophecy is exposed.