Bøger af Steven Cohen

From authors and speakers, Steven and Courtney Cohen, this companion Guide for Loved As You Are is designed for parents, teachers, counselors, family, and friends of children who have been adopted from hard places. This guide is designed to help give common language, empathy, compassion, and understanding for adopted or adoptive children, while equipping the reader with questions, background information of the illustrations, a scavenger hunt on every page, as well as ways to challenge the readers own precepts, beliefs, and understandings.Join Gif, the giraffe, on his perilous and providential journey to find his forever home - to discover what it means to be loved as you are.Family comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Adoption through foster care is one wonderful path a family can walk to come together. Even the storms and steep mountains of life your child has faced are part of the larger, colorful portrait God is painting of their life. Though God may not have brought the challenges their way, He can always make use of them for your child's good.Gif the giraffe, pronounced Jif, was first painted on our nursery room wall as we prepared for our first adopted daughter. He gained his name almost three years later when she would say goodnight to the animals and she called him peanut butter. Like that creamy substance on the roof of your mouth, the name just stuck.In Loved As You Are we are invited into Gif's journey of adoption through foster care. For kiddos who experience these unimaginable challenges and hardships it can become hard to see God's love for them or His bigger picture, sometimes making them feel hopeless or unloveable.But as we travel through this journey we find that not only is God with us in the most difficult of times, but He redeems them to be a part of His beautiful portrait and our testimony.Loved As You Are is also available on BookBaby.com

This companion guide is for parents, counselors, and those who read However Long Forever, regardless of age. It is designed to create a fun environment, develop common language, validate feelings and perspectives of our foster children, help grasp the depth and connections in the illustrations, and to give insight and discussion points. Join Omari, the orca, and discover God's love, healing, and hope - on the journey from place to place. Foster care is one beautiful way to blend God's children together in this wonderful thing called family. Even when we don't know how long it will last, fostering can create an atmosphere of rest, reunification, restoration, and rejuvenation. In short, it is possibly the single opportunity some of God's kiddos will have to experience His love for them. Foster parents play an active and crucial part in a foster child's life.With no promise of tomorrow, we want our kiddos to know we love themHowever Long Forever.

Steven Cohen presents an approachable and applicable guide to urban sustainability that highlights how new, greener trends in city development touch our lives on a daily basis. Replete with recommendations and insights, The Sustainable City has invaluable lessons for anyone seeking to link public policy to promoting a sustainable lifestyle.

This book is a succinct handbook of the essentials of management for current and future practitioners. Leadership experts Steven Cohen and William Eimicke concisely explain management best practices, aiming to equip managers with the tools of the trade and prepare them to tackle decision making.

Can we grow our world economy and create opportunities for the poor while keeping the planet intact? Can we maintain our vibrant, dynamic lifestyles while ensuring the Earth stays productive and viable? Aimed at managers, students, scholars, and policymakers, Sustainability Management answers these questions in the affirmative, arguing it is possible for environmentally sustainable business practices and policies to foster economic and long-term growth. Written by a former analyst and consultant with the EPA, this book originally combines sustainable efforts in water, agriculture, urban, and power management to achieve in practice, not just in theory a sustainable planet and economy. Steven Cohen begins with the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of such a project, and then honestly assesses sustainable practices in the manufacturing and service industries. He addresses renewable and carbon-free energy production; water sustainability, especially with regard to energy issues involving filtration, distribution, and changing rainfall patterns; food cultivation and distribution; and ways to maintain the interdependent systems on which we depend to live. Taking examples from New York City, one of the most sustainable and sustainability-minded metropolises in the world, Cohen explains how everything from construction to waste management can be designed to facilitate a sustainable environment, not just for New York but also for the world. He concludes with this macroscopic view, outlining the global efforts necessary to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, and the impact of war, terrorism, and human conflict on sustainability.

In Understanding Environmental Policy, Steven Cohen introduces an innovative, multidimensional framework for developing effective environmental policy within the United States and around the world. He demonstrates his approach through an analysis of four case studies representing current local, national, and international environmental challenges: New York City's garbage crisis; the problem of leaks from underground storage units; toxic waste contamination and the Superfund program; and global climate change. He analyzes the political, scientific, technological, organizational, and moral import of these environmental issues and the nature of the policy surrounding them. He also places a specific focus on the response from the George W. Bush administration. Cohen considers how our current environmental policy and problems reflect the value we place on our ecosystems; whether science and technology can solve the environmental problems they create; and what policy is necessary to reduce environmentally damaging behaviors. Cohen's multifaceted approach is essential reading for analysts, managers, activists, students, and scholars of environmental policy.

Are you overwhelmed by debt? In over your head? Don't know where to go or what to do? Feel like you have no plan for the future and that your creditors are attacking you left and right? Do you just look at finances and purchases with a blind eye hoping that the numbers will work themselves out? Then this is your guidebook. "Christian in Crisis" provides practical and Biblically based solutions to those drowning in debt with guidance from an expert on numerous issues and situations. It is also an excellent financial guide to those not yet in debt, with key insights into the workings of the debt market and how to avoid the pitfalls and snares which creditors so willingly allow us to fall into in our modern financial world. The text deals systematically and proactively with the most common financial situations facing Christians and non Christians alike today. Do you have what it takes to become debt savvy?!!! You do, but each and every purchase you make and each paycheck you receive is either one step closer toward financial freedom or financial crisis. "Christian in Crisis" provides a chapter by chapter guide to the most common problems and situations facing those in financial trouble today. The text explores how one gets into debt, how to budget your way out of debt and what to do when you are sued or feel the walls are collapsing in around you. Guidelines for buying a car and a home are just a few of the many topics delved into with numerous rules of thumb on how to make wise choices when facing the many common financial choices facing consumers today. We live in a world which looks at your credit score as it as if it were a modern Rock Star or Idol if you will. But our Idol should not be our credit score but the Lord. With a focus towards the wisdom of Solomon, the trials of Job and the teachings of our Lord Jesus, you too can escape debt's hold and be free, debt free!

The best learning transfer happens when participants have fun! Safety Training That Transfers offers more than 50 activities dedicated to different aspects of workplace safety. Each activity includes an overview, step-by-step instructions, and debriefing questions that reinforce each lesson.

A complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levels Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability policy development, implementation, strategy, and practice.

Legal, Tax and Accounting Strategies for the Canadian Real Estate Investor begins and ends with the premise that buying property in Canada can be a smart, safe and successful way to invest your money. However, like most things in life, success requires hard work.

Delves into the issues of how to ensure that the work done by private sector contractors serves the public interest and argues for the necessity of making these organizations act as extensions of the public sector while maintaining their private character.

Revised and updated, this important resource offers highly-accessible coverage of the fundamentals of leading and managing public organizations. All of the key areas of the field are covered and thoughtfully explored through the strategic use of new case studies and real-world examples that are based on recent developments in the sector.

While many books hype the latest fad, here at last (!) is a ?realist's' toolbox designed for public administrators who need to know the costs as well as the benefits of managerial theories and technologies.