New Releases by Gregg Lewis

In a poignant account reminiscent of The Autobiography of Helen Keller and Christy Brown''s My Left Foot, Carolyn Martin recalls how she slowly proved to herself and those around her that she had both intelligence and human worth, despite a severe physical handicap.

Drawing on the personal experience of two concerned Christian fathers who currently coach youth athletic teams, this book provides practical advice for parents, coaches, and sponsors about how they can help to make sports activities positive events.

What would make a man walk away from a dream career as a $600,000-a-year major league pitcher? Tim and Christine Burke share the inspiring story of how Tim''s responsibilities as a father of four adopted children with medical problems won out over the glamour and big money of professional sports. A heartwarming lesson on settling priorities and making time for things that really matter.

The former coach of the Dallas Cowboys offers a personal look at his philosophy and faith, his management strategies, and his leadership standards, as well as a glimpse of the sports personalities he knows.

Shireen Perry was married less than two years when her husband Mark lost his battle with AIDS. An inspiring story of love and compassion that breaks down walls of fear while stressing the importance of the church''s role in ministering to AIDS patients and their families. (Saltshaker/InterVarsit y Press)

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The inspiring story of the championship runner who used her faith to help in her struggle against anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and depression.

Literature survey of statistical analysis and empirical studies dealing with relative wage differentials of unionized workers and nonunionized workers in the USA, 1967-1979 - reviews econometric models, evaluation technique and methodology employed for examining the impact of trade unions on wage structure; evaluates statistical methods, estimating the influence of race, sex, occupational status, regional disparity, size of enterprise, etc. On collective bargaining models. Bibliography, statistical tables.

"I spend hours in my study and on my knees preparing sermons, but when I preach them no one listens. What''s wrong? Why aren''t I getting through? Why do I see blank stares, daydream reveries, nodding heads as soon as I open my mouth to preach? I know my messages are biblically sound. I''m sure I''m preaching what God has laid on my heart. But it''s not being received. What''s wrong? What can I do?" Sound familiar? If you''re a preacher, you probably know the feeling. But it doesn''t have to be that way. You can learn to preach in a way that will be readily, even eagerly, received by your congregation. It''s all here: what inductive preaching is, how it works, why it''s effective, who''s used it—including Jesus, Peter, Paul, Augustine, St. Francis, Wesley, Edwards, and Moody, to name only a few. Also included are: * Step-by-step guidelines for constructing an inductive sermon * Two sample inductive sermons * A list of 96 inductive preachers from 20 centuries * A strategy for making traditional sermon structures inductive * A checklist of inductive characteristics. The principles in this book can dramatically increase your sermon effectiveness—turn apathy into involvement, make listeners out of the listless. Inductive preaching is preaching that works!

Implementations of two effective matrix reordering algorithms were published in this paper as Algorithms 508, which implements the Gibbs-Poole-Stockmeyer algorithm for reducing the bandwidth of a matrix, and 509, which implements the Gibbs-King algorithm for reducing the profile of a matrix. Reduction of matrix profile is more often required than bandwidth reduction, but Algorithm 509 is substantially slower than Algorithm 508. Consequently, the Gibbs-Poole-Stockmeyer algorithm has been recommended and used in contexts where the better profile reduction provided by the Gibbs-King algorithm would be more appropriate. In addition, Algorithms 508 and 509 both contain unnecessary restrictions on problem size and provide little error checking. The authors describe a new FORTRAN implementation of both reordering algorithms which is portable, faster, more reliable and uses less storage than the original implementations. The new implementation of the Gibbs-King algorithm is much faster than Algorithm 509, generally slightly faster than Algorithm 508 and nearly as fast as the new implementation of the Gibbs-King-Stockmeyer algorithm. (Author).