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A vital book by acclaimed thought leader and global AI expert, Dr. Lance Eliot, and based on his popular Forbes column series and podcasts on the latest in AI and Machine Learning (ML), this fascinating book provides pioneering insights into the emerging use of generative AI (GenAI) for mental health therapy and personalized mental health advisement.

Dispensationalism Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Restatement A Festschrift in Honor of Charles A. Hauser, Jr. This book is a collection of essays written by former students and colleagues of dispensational theologian Charles A. Hauser, Jr. The essays explore a variety of topics related to dispensational theology. Dispensationalism Revisited is divided into four parts. The first part deals with three sine qua nons of dispensationalism: the glory of God, a defense of literal hermeneutics, and a clarification on the distinction between Israel and the church. The second part deals with broad topics within dispensationalism, such as the relationship between the biblical covenants and the dispensations, the nature of the kingdom of God, and the disappearance of Israel from the thinking of the early Church Fathers. The third part deals with more specific topics in dispensational thought, such as a dispensationalist reading of the book of Acts, the question of what Romans 9-11 teaches about the future of Israel, and the nature of the second coming of Christ. The fourth part is a defense of a pretribulational rapture of the church. The essays in this book are written by leading scholars in the field of dispensational theology. They are well-researched and carefully argued, and they provide a valuable overview of the current state of dispensational scholarship. The book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand dispensational theology or who is interested in the latest thinking on this important theological topic. Key Features: A collection of essays written by leading scholars in the field of dispensational theologyProvides a valuable overview of the current state of dispensational scholarshipWell-researched and carefully argued essaysA must-read for anyone who wants to understand dispensational theologyTarget Audience: Students of dispensational theologyLaypeople who are interested in learning more about dispensational theologyTheologians and scholars who are interested in the latest thinking on dispensationalism

How did I become the person I am today? I have become a weak person, a person that now has low self-esteem, a person that now feels broken, unloved, and in so much pain. I am trying to figure out why and when I stopped loving myself and accepted the type of treatment that I have endured. When you hear my story, you may judge me, call me weak and insecure, and say I have low self-esteem and no self confidence. Well, whatever you say about me, believe me, I have already said it about myself repeatedly. I have cried many days and nights, asking myself the same thing, but the pain I am feeling right now is so unbearable that I feel like I am losing my mind. Every day I wear a mask with a smile on my face, laughing and talking to people at work, my family, and friends. A mask of happiness but inside, I am sad, feeling drained, tired, and most of all, embarrassed. I did not want people to know what I was going through because of the embarrassment and being disappointed in myself that I had allowed myself to become the person I am now.

My Imagination, mixed with the loss of a safe haven in my neighborhood and the lack of that moving music of the 1970's along with the curse of addiction upon myself and my community, pushed me to be creative. I thought if I could create something from nothing, such as a song or a poem, then my life might be worth something. It was more than just a distraction. The songs and poems that I wrote made my life worth living. The written word became everything to me in a world where my country, my community, and my own God given strength had failed me. It is from this field of my life's journey that I create a thing of substance, something eternal. Through all the pain and power, a dim starlight illuminates the storm inside of my mind, and a song is born. The poet in me awakened and I am no longer another sentient soul irrelevant. The universe inside me becokons to be heard. With joy in my heart I would like to take you on a journey. From sinner to saint, from helpless to hopeful and with rhythm and rhyme. Until at last, at last, you and I are free.

There are a number of reasons why kids tell lies, one reason is to avoid getting into trouble. TOuch, lies hurt is a fun, engaging, interactive book that encourages children to tell the truth. Telling the truth is a very good thing while and telling lies is very bad. Ouch, Ouch, Lies Really Hurt and they make people cry. Please boys and girls, don't tell a lie!

Dominique is an eight-year-old Haitian kid living a life filled with love, familial support, and adventure. Growing up in a country gripped by severe poverty, desolation, as well as a brutal dictatorship, Dominique still finds ways to experience the beauties of life. As he navigates the common challenges of adolescence, he must also overcome the greater barriers that awaits him in his future.With a budding puppy love, a mysterious dream that keeps showing him a vision he can't understand, and a government regime that is threating to kill his father, will he have enough strength to endure?

Young John is surprised and delighted when he learns the story behind his Noanie's special grandmother name, which inspires him to think about what other grandmothers are called. As John and his daddy consider many beautiful grandmother names from other cultures and regions, as well as sweet and unique family names, young readers and their reading partners are encouraged to join in with finding and sharing their own special grandmother name.*Families can personalize their copy with a photograph and inscribed name of "YOUR" grandmother to make this a very special keepsake.

With a foreword by the Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ, The War Is Here is Life magazine photographer Bud Lee's dramatic, empathetic, and still shocking record of the Newark uprising of 1967-a pivotal moment in a summer of protest and rage across the country, whose reverberations we still feel today.

It has been a long road for me to travel. The journey has been dark and full of rain! The process of becoming a man happened long after I was of adult age. The years I would spend being like a dog chasing his tail. The mistakes I would make would create a resentment that I would harbor for the man I looked at in the mirror every day, yet I had a sickness lying deep within me. That sickness was like a cancer that chewed away my hopes, blurred my vision, and took away my voice.

Known for his bestselling memoirs and as an acclaimed poet, Nick Flynn in Stay presents a self-portrait via a constellation of topics that the author has circled¿or have circled him¿in his work: suicide, homelessness, addiction, political engagement, artistic friendships.

“On the eve of Christmas Eve...” Paul Auster writes, “Tyler Kobe Nichols collapsed onto the sidewalk with three knife wounds in the front of his torso and one in the back.”His death soon followed. With it, the twenty-one-year-old joined the ranks of young people killed by senseless violence in America. Tyler’s death warranted just two paragraphs in the New York Daily News. And yet with each death, a new story begins that is rarely if ever told; one that centers around the fallout from traumatic loss. This story, as Tyler’s mother Sherma Chambers keenly observes, is generational, with no clear end in sight.Long Live King Kobe began with a mistake. Photographer Spencer Ostrander had arrived at the funeral for Tyler believing he was a victim of gun violence, and hoping to include him in an ongoing project Ostrander had created to document the lives of gun victims. Instead, he met Sherma Chambers, and a week later a collaboration, which soon included Paul Auster, had begun--one in which a pair of strangers would join a family in their sorrow.Thanks to the generosity of the entire Nichols/Chambers family, Long Live King Kobe invites us to join them in their intimate grief in the weeks that followed Tyler’s death. The family’s response to his murder, including their creation of a foundation dedicated to counteracting street violence with love, is one that presents their tragedy as a means for our society to grow.Long Live King Kobe offers a privileged journey into the power of community for all who have felt outrage, confusion, sadness, and deep despair at the epidemic of violence in our country. It also provides reason to hope. The Long Live King Kobe Foundation, started by Sherma Chambers, will support nonviolence initiatives to keep youth safe. Proceeds from this book will benefit the foundation.

Vogue's Best Books of Summer 2021 "Everyone had a clearer vision of my body than I did. It didn't feel as if my body was really mine..." At age fourteen, Jonathan Wells weighs just sixty-seven pounds, triggering a scrutinizing persecution of his body that will follow him into adulthood. Upstate New York in the 1970s: A boy in preparatory day school suffers a harrowing attack by a teacher offended by his failure to put on weight. For the first time in his young life, Jonathan Wells is forced to question his right to take up space in the world. Jonathan's father, reading his weight as a clear and deeply concerning deficit of masculinity, creates a workout regimen meant to bulk him up. When that doesn't help, he has Jonathan seen by a slew of specialists, all claiming he is in perfect health, and yet the problem cannot be denied: the boy is simply too skinny. Jonathan's complicated relationship with his charming but elusive mother does not help matters. As the eldest son, he is privy to the struggles of a fraying marriage in which he, unwittingly, plays a divisive role. As a result, Jonathan is sent to boarding school in Switzerland, where he manages to establish an identity of his own among the child exiles and outcasts that make up the student body. And yet, his father's obsession follows him to Europe, threatening to destroy the space he has painstakingly won for himself. The critically acclaimed poet and author of the collection Debris, Jonathan Wells gives us a candid, powerful, and quietly humorous memoir about the universal exploration of adolescence and self-image, the frailty of masculinity, and all the places we seek comfort in a world that tries to define us.

"In The Devil's Treasure--aptly subtitled A Book of Stories and Dreams--the iconic author Mary Gaitskill has created a chimerical hybrid of fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, and visual art that transcends categorization. This collage of four novels (one a work in progress), interspersed with and thematically linked by a single short story, then woven together with the author's commentary, is a kind of director's cut revealing the personal and societal forces that inform each individual piece of work, an ongoing, passionate exploration of core human emotions and experience, the ideally, sometimes quixotically high and grossly, confusedly low. With the stylistic daring and preternatural acuity that has made her one of America's most original writers, Gaitskill has created a layered vision of modern life that simultaneously blends the huge prehistoric creatures that swim at the bottom of our collective ocean with a family that picnics on the beach while a podcast natters about politics and a perhaps dangerously curious child explores the lapping waves."--Provided by publisher.

A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a vivid selection of O'Brien's own writings on music to fashion to downtown art and, just as importantly and unexpectedly, the political temperature of America.