For example, we feed upon God's Word; then we exercise our faith by acting on God's Word.

    . . and their messages and lessons for women today.More than just a faddish look at a few bad girls from the Bible, this is the most widely used and best-selling study of Bible women-good and bad. Drawing on the life, character, and experiences of more than thirty women of the Bible, the author combines solid biblical knowledge, interesting historical background, and human warmth to make these women live and speak to women today.While the world has changed dramatically since these women lived, human nature and the pressures of female life have not. Imagination and insight add perception to these factual accounts taken directly from Scripture. Thoughtful and sympathetic questions for discussion at the end of each chapter allow today's women to personally apply the lessons of the women God has chosen to preserve in Scripture.Captivating reading for personal insight. Readily adaptable to any class or study group setting. A superlative book for every woman who longs to achieve all that God has planned for her.

    “Chip” Bohlen witnessed the sweep of nearly thirty-five years of Soviet-American relations. He helped reopen the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1934, attended the last of the great purge trials of the thirties and served as FDR's interpreter and advisor during the wartime meetings with Churchill and Stalin at Teheran and Yalta and again with Truman at Potsdam. Bohlen served as chief advisor on Soviet affairs to three secretaries of state during the early Cold War crises in Iran and Korea. He served four years as U.S. ambassador in Moscow and tells of the death of Stalin, Khrushchev's rise and the secret speech denouncing Stalin, the Hungarian uprising, and the Suez crisis. Bohlen later filled ambassadorial posts in Manila and Paris.In his memoirs Chip Bohlen faced up to the issues, admitted errors, pointed fingers of blame, gave credit where due, appraised personalities, and offered his assessment of the future. He exemplified the nonpartisan foreign policy coalition active in Washington throughout the Cold War era. Ambassador Bohlen died in 1974.

    The book offers a solid theoretical foundation for these tools, demonstrating applications through various case studies. Firmly rooted in reality, the applications covered relate to areas such as food processing, the military, mining, transportation, steel, and petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Ideal for classroom use, this text features supplementary software that can be downloaded from the CRC Web site. The downloadable educational versions of software packages include: OREST, SMS, EXAKT for CBM optimization, PERDEC, Workshop Simulator, Crew Size Optimizer, and WiebullSoft. This book can be used as a textbook for a one-semester senior undergraduate or postgraduate course on maintenance decision analysis. It provides problem sets with answers at the end of each chapter, an extensive set of PowerPoint slides covering the various chapters and appendices, a solutions manual for the problems in the book, and a bank of more than 100 examination questions. Instructors who adopt the book can obtain these resources at www.crcpress.com.The authors approach the topic with the ideology that mathematical modeling is not a spectator sport. Their examination of the underpinning theories for formulating models and exploration of real-world applications make the book both informative and practical. It provides professors with the tools they need to easily teach their students how to transform data into information.