Authoritarian parents are so commonplace in our society that teenage rebellion is considered inevitable. We need a change of attitude, say Bob and Janet Aldridge, world renowned peace activists who have raised ten children. Cooperative decision-making in the family is the place to start. Raising nonviolent children means, first and foremost, creating an atmosphere of harmony in the home–where children need to feel nurtured and safe in a society that is increasingly violent. Sharing their faith pilgrimage of raising children in urban Amerrica, reconciling the larger political peace issues with ccreating a loving home, they give us a helpful guide for raising children peacefully and modeling a nonviolent approach towards decision-making.

As the number of cross-cultural and interracial marriages in our society grows, our faith communities find they are welcoming into their midst an increasing number of those who are marrying across the traditional barriers of race, language and ethnicity. Such couples inevitably face unique hurdles as they try to forge family systems that function even though they come from disparate backgrounds and, in many cases, have dissimilar expectations of what marriage and family should be. Dr. J. Lawrence Driskill has done a masterful job interviewing and writing up the case histories of 20 cross-cultural couples with church connections. He points out what the church can do to help these families resolve conflicts and establish happy homes.

Edited by Dean Turner, Ph.D. and Richard Hazelett, this book comprises excerpts from Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives' response to Einstein's theories which Dr. Ives called a "myth" plus "The Einstein Myth" by Dr. Turner and a condensed version of "Euclid or Einstein" by Jeremiah Joseph Callahan. This is a monumental scientific work that shatters the relativity theory and replaces it with a new, readily understood theory that is in conformity with all known phenomena. It restores logical clarity, common sense and realism to the study of space and time and opens the door to greater freedom of creative research, speculation, progress and practical discovery in the fields of physics and cosmology. The notes reveal startling, unexpected, little-known facts.

Our country has slipped car-by-car into a massive dependency on a transportation system which has become a public addiction claim authors Hart & Spivak, both engineers. Cars and trucks have been identified as the most wasteful element of our consumer society, yet few protest the public subsidies that keep this system going–the free use by motorists and the trucking industry of costly urban space and municipal services. This vicious cycle continues causing an enormous trade imbalance and ecological damage froom producing a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. Here are practical ways which could turn this devastating system around and start to unravel the complicated grasp on our lives held by the internal combustion engine.

Why some religious congregations flourish while others straggle along is a question addressed by two well-known ministers, Denton Roberts and Robert Hill in this insightful book. Specific guidelines to help congregations are derived from principles woven together from human development theory, quality management practice and the recovery movement showing congregations how to grow in effectiveness and enjoyment. "Any congregation will benefit from the insights contained in this volume, says Rabbi Michael Zedek of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, adding "I would urge clergy colleagues of every community to avail themselves of this instrument for the renewal of their sacred communities and themselves."

Award-winning photographer Karen Ande and veteran journalist Ruthann Richter have put together this intriguing book which offers a moving portrayal of life in Africa in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Its combined photography and narrative capture the hopes and joys, struggles and sorrows of orphaned children left to survive on their own, often caring for younger siblings. It pays homage to the care-giving grannies, the little-known heroes of Africa, who have kept families together as traditional social networks collapse. It also presents some of the special challenges faced by children who are living with HIV. It also profiles the activists–working at the grassroots level to help the well-being of thousands of children and families affected by the epidemic.