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In this engaging children's book, a young girl asks her mother, "Where is God?" and the mother explains, in a humorous way, that God is everywhere, and especially in her heart. The book helps young children understand the unseen but very real and present nature of God.

This is an up-to-the-minute revised edition of a text which, since its publication in 1990, has been extremely influential. The great changes of the past 18 months have entailed a comprehensive updating of the book. This edition takes account of new developments that include the independence of the Baltic states and the treaty which sparked 1991's attempted coup.

Hollywood film stars, fascist assassins. Bombs on San Lorenzo, la dolce vita on Via Veneto. Baroque fountains, umbrella pines. Urban planning, unregulated house-building. After half a century living in Rome, David Lane turns his eye on events and streetscapes in the Eternal City over the past 100 years. Scenes from a Roman Century begins with the 1924 murder of Giacomo Matteotti--the beginning of the end for interwar democracy--and ends with the organized crime and political violence of our own era. It sketches Rome's growth under Mussolini's dictatorship, and its fortunes during the Second World War; the economic miracle of the post-war decades; and Rome's latest transformations through the turn of the millennium. Lane sends readers meandering down the alleys, out towards the suburbs and to stand before the monumental architecture, capturing cultural and political moments from Rome's past and present. He explores fascism's material legacy across the city, terrorism and political extremism on the right and left, and the struggle to manage economic growth's burdens--ugly urban sprawl, and the crush of mass tourism in the historic center. As pilgrims descend for the 2025 jubilee declared by Pope Francis, what is next for this ever-changing city of history?

This bold new book offers an exhaustive diagnosis of global capitalism. Proposing a novel system of economic and political coordination based on a combination of market socialism and state planning, it offers crucial insights for thinking about alternatives to capitalism.

What if you did something, and everyone misunderstood what you did? What if they thought you were being bad, but you thought you were doing something good? What if you were going to get in trouble? Would you have the courage to speak up and tell the truth even if it was really scary and hard to do? A young boy's grandfather tells the story of when he tried to find a way to help his struggling parents save the family farm and almost got in big trouble. The Banana Farm is a touching tale of trust and loving sacrifice. Sometimes things are not what they appear to be. Sometimes we have to trust that what we are doing is right and accept that it may be hard to explain or we may get in trouble anyway. Sometimes we have to decide to make that sacrifice and hope what happens will work out for the best. Join us for an inspiring tale about a boy's decision to love above all else, regardless of the consequences.

Jesus tells us trouble is a given in this fallen world; yet, we often find ourselves incapable of handling suffering, overwhelmed by the pain, anguish, and sorrow that adversity brings. How do we stand firm in the face of adversity? How do we deal with hardship without losing ourselves and giving in to the enemy? And how do we understand suffering while still seeing God as loving and good? Join us on this 8-part journey through valley and storm and learn how, in all things, to stand - without fear - without shame - in the peace that is beyond understanding and the perfect love that casts out fear.

Lane shows how globalisation has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a local phenomenon. It describes in painful detail the daily accommodation to Mafia pressure endured by priests, politicians and prosecutors, businessmen, trade unionists and ordinary citizens. At the same time he incorporates a portrait of the South's long and tumultuous history and powerful flavours to provide a richly coloured portrait of a European region under siege.

In A Guidebook for a New Humanity, author David Lane offers a step-by-step guide, including practical exercises that teach us how to build personal awareness, identify patterns of thought and behaviour that may be holding us back, and work with higher forces to fulfill the potential of our lives.

The year 2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union. This may be an appropriate time to evaluate the adoption by previously state socialist societies of other economic and political models. The transition has sometimes been described in positive terms, as a movement to free societies with open markets and democratic elections. Others have argued that the transition has created weak, poverty-stricken states with undeveloped civil societies ruled by unresponsive political elites. Which is the more accurate assessment? David Lane examines a few of the theoretical approaches that help explain the trajectory of change from socialism to capitalism. He focuses on two main approaches in this volume—elite theories and social class. Theories dwelling on the role of elites regard the transformation from socialism to capitalism as a type of system transfer in which elites craft democratic and market institutions into the space left by state socialism. Lane contrasts this interpretation with class-based theories, which consider transformation in terms of revolution, and explain why such theories have not been considered the best way of framing the transition in the post-socialist states. While recognizing that elites can play important roles and have the capacity to transform societies, Lane contends that elite theories alone are inadequate to explain a system change that brings free markets. In contrast, he proposes a class approach in which two groups characterize state socialism: an administrative class and an acquisition class.