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From the Costa Award winning, bestselling author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed. 'Unputdownable' Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?
“If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians. In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those w...
When a Tempest is more than a violent storm. When the touch of a demonic force starts to create imbalance, two great divine beings decide to create a cure. A child aptly named “Tempest”. At fifteen cycles, her care is entrusted to the Sword Master of Eerikki. His task is to train her to become an Elite Warrior in her own right. Elite Warriors are renowned for their Immense Size, Strength and Battle Skills. They are the best of the best and all sworn to the service of the Goddess and honourable protectors to the realms of MarDav. Tempest suddenly finds herself surrounded by other warrior trainees on the practice fields; only two challenges, she is neither six foot, nor male. Tempest may have been gifted with immortal abilities but will she live long enough to control her immortal gifts and become an Elite Warrior. Or will the Dark Lord Arawn and his mortal agents destroy the first part of “The Panacea” meant to bring equipoise back to MarDav?“ The Tempest of Eerikki” is the first book of The Panacea Quest Series of epic tales of battle-hardened warriors, fanatical dishonoured zealots, divine intervention and the coming of age of the greatest gift.
"Reporting standards are guidelines that describe how to communicate findings clearly in journal articles so that readers can access and understand the story of the research endeavor. Recognizing that reporting standards can aid authors in the process of writing and evaluating manuscripts and editors and reviewers in the process of evaluating those manuscripts, the Publications and Communications (PC) Board of the American Psychological Association (APA) invited two task forces of researchers to develop standards for reporting quantitative and qualitative research in journal articles. The Quantitative Journal Article Reporting Standards Working Group developed standards for quantitative rese...
Improve your management skills and take control of your career with the new edition of this bestselling one-stop-shop for every manager. Pick up tips and advice on 12 core management skills- from communicating and motivating to conducting a company presentation. Explore all your options and put them into action with the aid of charts and diagrams. Plus, discover how to handle work issues whatever your level, with over 1,200 essential power tips. Follow as a complete management course or dip in and out of topics for quick and easy reference. Take it wherever life takes you!
There is nothing wilting about these delicate blooms. Second book of the Panacea Quest, sees us adventuring to the Great Library of Frode were so called wise men toil to accumulate knowledge. Our tale this time centres around the sisters of Elite Warrior Valiant, the six women known as the Flowers of Frode. They are intelligent, beautiful and trapped in a male dominated world. Their journey includes love, loss, struggles and redemption. Will they get what they want? Or will they be destined to be used as pawns in the political games of others. The Goddess Minerva and her Supreme Warrior Kopis still fight to re-establish balance within the Realms of MarDav. While, Arawn, the Underworld God of Terror and demonic mortal agents plague their efforts and drastically effect the lives of Minerva's mortal blessed children.
"Nemesis, the Diabolic, and Tyrus face new challenges and old enemies as Tyrus ascends to the throne, and the two struggle to prove Nemesis' humanity to those who oppose her position as Empress and keep them from full power over the galaxy"--
Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis—and why that belief is so dangerous Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United States, The Confidence Trap examines how democracy survived threats ranging from the Great Depression to the Cuban missile crisis, and from Watergate to the c...