The Houston Astros are 2022 World Series champions! After falling just short of the ultimate prize in 2021, the Houston Astros were hungry to prove they were simply the best in baseball. With All-Star pitching and a potent offense featuring Jose Altuve, Yordan lvarez, and Kyle Tucker, Dusty Baker's 2022 squad raced through the postseason and defeated the Philadelphia Phillies to reclaim the World Series title. “Next Level: The Houston Astros' Dominant...

"St. Francis could hear the voice of God, which told him that God loved him. Knowing he was loved by God filled Francis with gratitude and happiness. This book is a look at how this gratitude and happiness led Francis to treat his brother and sister creatures with respect. It offers a vision for the many ways that all of us, humans and other animals and all of Creation, are connected parts of God's world. For the young children with whom...

Mother Bird tells her son stories of St. Francis of Assisi. If the animal kingdom can understand the life and teachings of the world's most famous saint, so can children, who will be delighted by this simple, beautiful book for the ages.

Each of the stories in this collection began with a photograph and the ideas the photograph evoked in the author. A photograph of gravestones in a cemetery is the source of the story of an older man's reflections on his life and the deaths of his wife and children; a photograph of a soldier from the Korean War era provides the inspiration for a story about a soldier in Iraq facing the realization that the enemy is a young man much like himself; the...

A woman's story of making her life her masterpiece, integrating family and a career, and living her ideal life. Are you waiting for luck to start living your dream life? Do you think successful people are lucky and you aren't? In this book, Leslie uses her personal, and humorous, life stories to illustrate how we can apply the principles of architectural design to change our circumstances and create our ideal life right now. DISCOVER LESLIES PROVEN...

The purpose of this book is to help you put already-existing performance criteria in a context of your organizational system and assist you in using the criteria to assess problems in your organization. More importantly, this book will help you in designing systemic solutions to the systemic problems you have identified with easy-to-use samples and questions that draw out key areas where the organization needs to improve. Most organizations are not...

Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of full-color images, this family-oriented art resource introduces children to more than 50 great artists and their work, with corresponding activities and explorations that inspire artistic development, focused looking, and creative writing. This treasure trove of artwork from the National Gallery of Art includes, among others, works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henri Matisse, Chuck Close, Jacob Lawrence,...