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In a refreshing challenge to the common presumption that knowing involves amassing information, this book offers an eight-step approach that begins with love and pledge and ends with communion and shalom. Everyday adventures of knowing turn on a moment of insight that transforms and connects knower and known. No matter the field - science or art, business or theology, counseling or athletics - this little manual offers a how-to for knowing ventures.

Betrayal is searing, but God hasn't left you without balm for the pain. Betrayal is an invitation to intimacy with Jesus. When Christians Hurt You will equip you to move forward in love and experience hope and joy in your faith again.

Grace Sinclair has been callously cast out of her home. And though taken in as an orphaned child by the vicar and his wife, her unsurpassed beauty makes it impossible for her to remain in the vicar’s household - with two daughters of their own about to enter Society, the vicar and his wife see Grace as nothing but competition. Thankfully, Grace’s estranged Aunt Bell has agreed to take her in to her home in London. But Grace soon learns her situation has just gotten much worse.

Mitten in der Aufbruchsstimmung der Frauenbewegung stellte Esther Vilar 1971 in ihrer Streitschrift "Der dressierte Mann" die These auf, dass mitnichten die Frau durch den Mann unterdrückt werde, sondern dass es viel eher der umgekehrte Fall sei. Mit dieser Provokation löste sie einen Skandal aus. Doch nur auf den ersten Blick scheint sie einseitig Partei für den Mann zu ergreifen. Vielmehr geht es ihr generell um die Unfreiheit im Umgang der Geschlechter miteinander. Wogegen sie kämpfte, waren Rollenmodelle und Klischees, die auch heute nicht überwunden sind.

While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history.

This book is a comprehensive overview of antibiotic pharmacology to help nursing students do well on exams. The audiobook provides essential information for those taking a pharmacology class, as well as those preparing for NCLEX or HESI Exams. It covers topics such as mechanism of action of various antibiotics, drug interactions, side effects, and dosages.

Christmas at Falstone Castle - Sarah M. Eden - The Dowager Duchess of Kielder eagerly anticipates spending Christmas with her son and his family. Though their relationship has been strained, the duchess is determined to heal the chasm. Even with the help of the widowed local vicar, her plan will take a Christmas miracle. But during this magical season, anything is possible...even two second chances for love.

Part II of the book The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, "Finding the Path to Joy Through Energy Balance", presents the teachings of the collective consciousness known as Abraham. This program will guide you to a deeper understanding of the laws of the universe and will give you a renewed understanding of the purpose of your life. As you apply the processes offered here, your natural power will return.

Johnny had been Mr. Lapham's star pupil, a clever, industrious apprentice silversmith. But when Johnny seriously burns his hand in a furnace, he finds himself crippled and with no means of taking care of himself. Soon, trouble reaches Johnny's life in a new way. Swept along in the tide of events leading to the Boston Tea Party and the first skirmishes of Lexington and Concord, Johnny finds a job as message-carrier for the Sons of Liberty. As young and old men alike make sacrifices for a new country, Johnny prepares to take his own stand in the cause for freedom.

With its brightly painted front door, white-sash windows and garden path sweeping down toward the sea, Lizzie O's guesthouse promises a welcome escape from the world. Aisling and Mick Fitzgerald are travelling all the way from Tasmania to celebrate their wedding anniversary, but Aisling is burdened with a secret that could ruin their marriage. Declan Byrne, exhausted from an unhealthy routine of long hours, takeaway and too much red wine, has spontaneously taken the week off to visit the village of his childhood summers.

Lady Patience Kendrick was born to a life of privilege, and with the London Season looming, she finds herself facing unprecedented pressure to adhere to the rules of society. Unfortunately, the free-spirited young woman is anything but proper. Patience’s elder brother, a former military man, bemoans his sister’s antics - but when he accuses her of incurable frivolity, it is simply more than she can bear. Determined to prove her brother wrong, Patience undertakes a drastic experiment: She will disguise herself as a maid and demonstrate her ability to work as hard as anyone.

As the successful owner of multiple railroad lines, Diana Barton is all too accustomed to fending off suitors seeking to stake their claim on her wealth. In order to keep the wolves at bay, Diana has contrived the perfect plan: appeal to the most notorious rake in London, the Baron Lord Bryant, to ruin her reputation and scare off the worst of the time wasters. The ruse will be no hardship - she’s secretly been fascinated by the man for years.

En este Audiolibro nos dice que toda pregunta recibe una respuesta. Todo deseo es concedido. Toda plegaria atendida. Procedes de un caudal infinito de bienestar que fluye en todos los aspectos de tu vida. Si tus deseos insatisfechos te hacen hoy infeliz, es sólo porque aún no has aprendido a manifestar tus anhelos de forma que te abran las puertas a la vida plena y gozosa que mereces.

It is 1914, and Thomas Maggs lives with his parents on the Suffolk coast. Life is quiet, shaped by the seasons. Then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives, looking for all the world like Sherlock Holmes. Mac is what the locals call him as they whisper. But Mac isn’t a detective; he’s the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and together with his red-haired artist wife, he soon becomes a source of fascination and wonder to Thomas.

Sixteen-year-old Lisa moves to London at the close of the 70s, hoping to follow in her older sister Ruby's footsteps. Ruby has cropped hair, a drug habit and not one but two unsuitable men. Enrolling on an acting course, Lisa decides that she too will enjoy living life to the full. But Lisa finds herself burdened by responsibility. Whatever her own problems, those of her mother, her sister and even her small brother Max always seem greater and more urgent.

Chronic pain, illness, and disability take so much away. Sometimes it seems as though they take everything we have ever loved and held dear. Our physical abilities and our jobs. Our current passions and future dreams. Our finances and our friends. Our sense of community and our ability to engage the world in ways we could before. Chronic pain takes away our sense of self and who we always thought ourselves to be. How in the world are we supposed to deal with this fact?

Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the 18th century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires.

Being a parent is complicated - but the trick to succeed is simpler than you think. Known as the Godmother of Silicon Valley, Esther Wojcicki’s three daughters are all hugely successful in both their professional and personal lives. What’s her parenting secret? As we face an epidemic of parental and childhood anxiety, Woj has the advice every parent wants to hear: climb out of that helicopter and relax.

¿Por qué el sexo y el erotismo finalmente se extinguen, incluso en las mejores historias de amor? ¿Cómo podemos combinar la llama apasionada del deseo y el confort tranquilizador del hogar? Convencida, tras haber seguido a cientos de parejas (heterosexuales, homosexuales, con o sin hijos y de todas las edades), de que no hay fatalidad en el declive del deseo amoroso, Esther Perel nos ofrece aquí un revolucionario análisis de este fenómeno.

Sara möchte, dass es ihr gut geht, sie möchte glücklich und liebevoll sein - aber wenn sie sich umschaut, kann sie nicht viel entdecken, was ihr diese Eigenschaften entlocken würde...