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Introducing The Sustainable Wedding: Plan Your Big Day with the Earth in Mind, a Special Report designed to help you celebrate love, life, and our beautiful planet all at once. Penned by the renowned eco-planner, Dennis Smith, this guide walks you through each phase of creating an unforgettable and visually stunning event that's also eco-friendy.From the proposal to the reception, your choices can make a profound difference. This guide reveals how you can reduce the carbon footprint of your big day without compromising on joy or elegance. Love your Engagement: Discover green alternatives for the ring and the proposal. Visit your Venue: Learn what to look for when scouting for an environmentally friendly location. Manage your Checklist: Develop a comprehensive and eco-friendly gameplan. Dispatch your Invitations: Choose sustainable stationery and invitations. Nourish your Guests: Find out how food and drink choices impact your wedding's carbon footprint. Dress for the Day: Embrace eco-conscious apparel without sacrificing style. Decorate the Day: Infuse your venue with eco-friendly decor to match your theme. Grace your Guests: Learn about sustainable registry ideas, gifts, and favors. Close your Day: Plan your honeymoon and post-wedding activities with sustainability in mind.This comprehensive guide exists at the intersection of style and sustainability, showcasing how green is the new white for weddings. Say 'I do' to a beautiful, memorable and sustainable wedding and contribute to a healthier planet for our future generations. Begin your journey of love and sustainability with us today!

From the author of Report from Engine Co. 82 comes the story of two best friends who chase their childhood dreams of becoming firemen but find themselves living significantly different lives.Steely Byrne and Jack Haggerty grew up as best friends with dreams of becoming firefighters in the slums of Manhattan’s East Side. As they grew up and their dreams come true, they discover they are living very different careers as firefighters. Though Steely and Jack both find themselves in the dangers of burning buildings and threatening fights, they realize they aren’t in the firefighting business for the same reason. Rising rapidly in the ranks, charming and ruthless Jack will stop at nothing to become New York City’s next Fire Commissioner, no matter the price.

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Smith, a former firefighter, reported to Manhattan's Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue efforts. In the weeks that followed, Smith was present on the front lines, attending to the wounded, sifting through the wreckage, and mourning with New York's devastated fire and police departments.This is Smith's vivid account of the rescue efforts by the fire and police departments and emergency medical teams as they rushed to face a disaster that would claim thousands of lives. Smith takes readers inside the minds and lives of the rescuers at Ground Zero as he shares stories about these heroic individuals and the effect their loss had on their families and their companies. "It is,” says Smith, "the real and living history of the worst day in America since Pearl Harbor.” Written with drama and urgency, Report from Ground Zero honors the men and women who—in America's darkest hours—redefined our understanding of courage.

This work is an often boisterous and poignant look at growing up Irish, Catholic and poor on the sidewalks of New York. Even as he dodges the slaps of merciless nuns and learns how to wallop a punch-bag, Smith is haunted by the spectre of his mysteriously absent father.

Dennis Smith offers a fascinating survey of Elias's life and writings and traces the growth of his reputation. He also illustrates how Elias's insights can be applied to understand Western modernity and social and political change, showing why Elias is so important to sociology.

What happens inside the church doors is its liturgy. It is there that life and fulfillment should be found, but too often today liturgy seems stale and lacking in vitality. The problem is not a lack of faith so much as it is a lack of life in the liturgy itself. In our liturgies we have let our emphasis on preserving traditional forms and expressions overrule attempts to give vital expression to the life and faith of contemporary participants. This is especially true with that part of the liturgy that is known as the Lord's Supper or eucharist. Though the practice of this sacrament is still central to the piety of most Christians today, here especially there is often a lifelessness and lack of connection with life as it is now lived. This need not be, however. The tradition is alive with meaning that we have too often overlooked. And liturgy can more effectively address the contemporary situation if we can learn better how to apply it to the aesthetic and symbolic language of today's culture. --from chapter 1

In this exciting new book, Dennis Smith argues that we need to look afresh at globalization. So far, he argues, analysts have not properly explained religious extremism, the War on Terror, and the dynamics of fear, anger and resentment.

Few historians have attempted an account of Japan since 1945 yet the country's emergence as the second largest economy in the world has been one of the most dramatic and significant developments since the Second World War.