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We love the idea of living a simpler life, a life that’s more manageable, more meaningful, and more rewarding. But simplicity isn’t just about living a minimalist lifestyle or getting rid of things. In Simplify Your Life, Sam Davidson, author of 50 Things Your Life Doesn’t Need, offers practical tips and personal anecdotes to help you simplify your life by discovering what really matters. Using proven methods, the latest ideas, and easy-to-remember step-by-step plans, Simplify encourages you to find what brings you happiness and then helps you find ways to make room for more of it. Learn to de-clutter and prioritize your life to stay balanced and stress-free, all by discovering how to make things simpler.
With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to move towards a transdiciplinary approach to environmental and social problem-solving. This sourcebook is useful for teaching, as each topic within the field of environmental management and social change has pairs of short readings providing diverse perspectives to compare, contrast and debate. Design for Sustainability presents examples of integrated systems design based on ecological principles and concepts and drawn from the foremost designers in the fields of industrial design, materials, housing design, urban planning and transport, landscape and permaculture, and energy and resource management.
Bartholomew Prentice, a long time friend of Angela and Connor Shea is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Connor, determined to prove his friends innocence, enlists the services of a business associate from his past with questionable methods and alliances. As Connor's investigation heats up, Bart is found dead in his jail cell, and his wife is killed in her bed. Uncertain as to who he can trust, Connor realizes that the danger is beyond the police's ability to help. Connor's only choice is to put his family in harm's way in order to protect them. Time is quickly running out, and Connor must take even greater risks in order to find who is responsible before his decision costs his life and the lives of everyone he cares about.
Ever since she was a little girl, Angela Michaels, dreamed of her perfect wedding day. Now, as her marriage to philanthropist, Philip Evans, approaches to the one thing she wants more than anything is to have her father walk her down the aisle; whoever he is. Angela hires rough and warn ex-police detective turned private investigator, Richard Johnson, to track her father down, but when Philip is found murdered, Angela becomes the prime suspect. With the help of veteran police detective, Sam Davidson, Richard works to find the identity of the real killer before it is too late. As doors once locked shut begin to open, the past rushes forward bringing love, lust, jealousy, betrayal, and murder. The race is on to catch the real killer before everyone Angela knows and loves are killed.
In this incendiary new work, the controversial author and speaker Peter Rollins proclaims that the Christian faith is not primarily concerned with questions regarding life after death but with the possibility of life before death. In order to unearth this truth, Rollins prescribes a radical and wholesale critique of contemporary Christianity that he calls pyro-theology. It is only as we submit our spiritual practices, religious rituals, and dogmatic affirmations to the flames of fearless interrogation that we come into contact with the reality that Christianity is in the business of transforming our world rather than offering a way of interpreting or escaping it. Belief in the Resurrection m...
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The Danger Zone When your life and the life of your family depends on winning a quiz show based on general knowledge. You would expect the presenter to be impartial and fair. Not in this game. In this game its not about what you know its about who you know. And if you know the producer... Your chances of winning rises to 100%%%% When Matilda Alice Phillips goes on a quiz show she discovers cheating on a mass scale. That's not the worse of it. A terrible monster is causing contestants to disapper. Will Matilda be next?
Ship portraits include paintings, prints, and photographs. A ship portrait is often more than just an image of a vessel. This book focuses primarily on paintings and prints, discussing the content of a portrait and how to interpret the information in it. For the new collector and current collector alike, students, ship modelers, and curators this book includes tools to help you navigate sources, auctions, research, flags, funnel marks, signatures, attributions, dates, condition, details, and restoration of ship portraits.