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By Carla Neggers. 2012
Rediscover this gripping story of romantic suspense, where FBI agents Sharpe and Donovan must decide whether working alone or standing…
together is the only way to outwit an enemy set to tear them apart, by New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers. When your safety depends on living a lie… After escaping certain death, deep-cover agent Colin Donovan is back home on the Maine coast with his new love, FBI art crimes expert Emma Sharpe. Then Tatiana Pavlova, a London-based jewelry designer, arrives in Heron’s Cove, asking for Emma’s help—a prized collection from a lost era of Russian opulence, decadence and rare beauty has resurfaced, and Tatiana warns Emma it’s about to be stolen again. And Colin realizes his nightmare isn’t over. It’s just begun. And everyone you love is a target… Emma guards her past closely, and Colin is determined to unlock her secrets. As they investigate the mysterious collection and the equally mysterious Tatiana, they confront their greatest challenge. Now they must count on their expertise—and each other—to outwit an enemy who wants to destroy them and everyone they love most. Who can you afford to trust?Originally published in 2012By Anagha Hire. 1999
This a story of the cuckoo secret. In the magical jungle, all birds were lived. crow and cuckoo were best…
friends. cuckoo want to keep her eggs with crow eggs. Read this story what happen.By His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, David Patt. 2005
This second volume of the five-volume commentary by the renowned Buddhist scholar Geshe Lhundub Sopa focuses on the key Buddhist…
concepts of karma, or cause and effect, and dependent origination. Considered one of the finest living Buddhist scholars, Geshe Sopa provides commentaries essential for anyone interested in a sound understanding of Tibetan Buddhist practice and philosophy. Never has a book gone into such clear detail on karma and dependent origination--concepts which, despite many references in contemporary culture, are too often misunderstood. Here, Geshe Sopa starts from the beginning with a faithful reading of the Lamrim Chenmo and, in the end, leaves readers with the proper tools for incorporating core Buddhist concepts into their study, teaching, and practice.By Osho. 2010
Written more than 25 centuries ago, the Diamond Sutra is the first text to record the Buddha’s own teachings, and…
it remains one of the most popular. One day, after the Buddha finishes his daily walk to collect alms, a senior monk steps forth to ask how he can best help humanity. Buddha responds, and thus begins a dialogue regarding the nature of perception. Renowned spiritual teacher Osho offers his unique interpretation of the Buddha's words, writing in an easy, humorous, and conversational style that makes even the most complex ideas understandable.By United Methodist Publishing House. 2017
This 64-page booklet is a tool designed to help individuals and small groups study em>The Social Principles of The United…
Methodist Church. It contains the official text of The Social Principles from The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church 2016 along with exercises for individuals or small groups, a topical index, and Our Social Creed. The Social Principles of The United Methodist Church are the product of ninety-eight years of legislative decisions made by lay and clergy members of The United Methodist Church and its predecessor denominations. The Social Principles are prayerful and thoughtful efforts on the part of many General Conferences to speak to complex and controversial issues in the global community. Studying The Social Principles provides opportunities to examine your own theology and ethics and to practice discipleship.By Osho. 2009
Osho considered Sahara, the founder of Tantra, to be one of the five great benefactors of humanity in bringing this…
form of Eastern existentialism to the world. While Western existentialism focuses on the negatives of anguish, depression & anxiety, Osho argues, Tantra focuses on all that is joyful, beautiful, & blissful.By Shankar Karhade. 2015
One day Yamdoot complains that he is not worshiped on the Earth. So he is sent down to make his…
followers. But instead, when he came there was many deaths, accidents, earthquakes, and calamities. Seeing this the people got scared and started praying to their own gods. Yamdoot returns with the same complaint. Then he is told that his duty is to give death to the people and he has nothing else to give. So he has to stay like that doing his duty. Because he believed that his duty is his religion.By William Abrahams, Peter Stansky. 2012
Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community…
of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes Virginia Woolf (Julian's aunt), E. M. Forster, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the art critic Roger Fry. This biography draws upon the expanding archives on Bloomsbury to present Julian's life more completely and more personally than has been done previously. It is an intense and profound exploration of personal, sexual, intellectual, political, and literary life in England between the two world wars. Through Julian, the book provides important insights on Virginia Woolf, his mother Vanessa Bell, and other members of the Bloomsbury Group. Taking us from London to China to Spain during its civil war, the book is also the ultimately heartbreaking story of one young man's life.By Charles H. House, Raymond L. Price. 2009
Co-authored by Charles House, the only person in the history of Hewlett-Packard (HP) to win the company's Award for Meritorious…
Defiance (1982), this book explains the philosophies, practices, and organizational principles behind the company's six transformations. The book chronicles the growth of the company from $98 million in 1962 to $9. 8 billion currently, looking at products from an engineering perspective and looking at human issues from a manager's perspective. The audience for the book includes engineers, managers, and organizational leaders. House is senior research scholar in the Human Science and Technologies Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University. Price is professor of human behavior in engineering at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Both authors have held management positions at Hewlett-Packard. Stanford Business Books is an imprint of Stanford University Press. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)By Suzanne Scurlock-Durana. 2017
A guided tour through the body’s innate healing powersMany of us have learned to ignore, deny, or even mistrust the…
wise messages our bodies give us. The result is that when trauma strikes, a time when we need every aspect of our beings to master the challenge, we may find ourselves disconnected from our greatest strengths. Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, who has spent thirty years studying the gifts of the body and teaching thousands how to reclaim them, began to recognize this strength, which she likens to a GPS, when she herself experienced a life-threatening trauma. Here she walks readers through different areas of the body, revealing the wisdom they hold and how to reconnect with that wisdom. As she shows in this warm, compassionate book, the body’s abilities are always available; we must simply reconnect with them.By Ariel Helfer. 2017
In the classical world, political ambition posed an intractable problem. Ancient Greek democracies fostered in their most promising youths a…
tension-ridden combination of the desire for personal glory and deep-seated public-spiritedness in hopes of producing brilliant and capable statesmen. But as much as active civic engagement was considered among the highest goods by the Greek citizenry, the attempt to harness the love of glory to the good of the city inevitably produced notoriously ambitious figures whose zeal for political power and prestige was so great that it outstripped their intention to win honor through praiseworthy deeds. No figure better exemplifies the risks and rewards of ancient political ambition than Alcibiades, an intelligent, charming, and attractive statesman who grew up during the Golden Age of Athens and went on to become an infamous demagogue and traitor to the city during the Peloponnesian War.In Socrates and Alcibiades, Ariel Helfer gathers Plato's three major presentations of Alcibiades: the Alcibiades, the Second Alcibiades, and the Symposium. Counter to conventional interpretation, Helfer reads these texts as presenting a coherent narrative, spanning nearly two decades, of the relationship between Socrates and his most notorious pupil. Helfer argues that Plato does not simply deny the allegation that Alcibiades was corrupted by his Socratic education; rather, Plato's treatment of Alcibiades raises far-ranging questions about the nature and corruptibility of political ambition itself. How, Helfer asks, is the civic-spirited side of political ambition related to its self-serving dimensions? How can education be expected to strengthen or weaken the devotion toward one's fellow citizens? And what might Socratic philosophy reveal about the place of political aspiration in a spiritually and intellectually balanced life? Socrates and Alcibiades recovers a valuable classical lesson on the nature of civic engagement and illuminates our own complex political situation as heirs to liberal democracy's distrust of political ambition.By Foreword By Andrus, Rick Just. 2017
Idaho’s state parks have been called the “jewels” of the Gem State. The story of how those jewels came to…
be involves political intrigue, much resistance, some philanthropy, and a touch of irony. Sen. Weldon B. Heyburn famously said that state parks were “always a political embarrassment.” Idaho’s first state park was named after him. Today, Idaho’s 30 state parks host five million people a year. Visitors come to boat, camp, bike, climb, hike, fish, and make memories in the great outdoors. This book tells the story of Idaho’s diverse state parks—from Priest Lake in Idaho’s panhandle to Bear Lake in the southeast corner of the state—through a wealth of historical photographs. A variety of parks are featured, including ones that were lost, found, or never came to fruition.By Shankar Karhade. 2015
There was a beggar and nobody was giving him anything. He goes to gods and sees they are rich and…
their people also rich. The question came to his mind who is my god? One day he meets a painter and the beggar asks him to draw a picture of my god. The confused painter draws a picture of a beggar. The painter explains to him about his condition and seeing the picture he quits begging.By Surekha Panandikar. 2015
This is a story of Chedo. His family was into fishing business. Now so happened that everyday some fishing boats…
capsized and people died. Chedo decided to find out the reason. One day he accompanies his father on the fishing boat and see something strange following the boats. He puts his net on it but fails to grab it. Later the navy comes for of missing people and finds out that it was a submarine. The attackers could not attack anymore because their periscope had been damaged because of Chedos attempt to catch it.By Hilary Putnam. 2017
Hilary Putnam argues that all facts are dependent on cognitive values. Ruth Anna Putnam turns the problem around, illuminating the…
factual basis of moral principles. Together, they offer a pragmatic vision that in Hilary’s words serves “as a manifesto for what the two of us would like philosophy to look like in the twenty-first century and beyond.”By Leonard Greenhalgh, James H Lowry. 2011
Authors Leonard Greenhalgh and James Lowry chart a path for the full participation of minority businesses in the U.S. economy.…
Today, minorities are well on their way to becoming the majority of our workforce and a large part of our entrepreneurial endeavors; their full contribution is essential to national competitive advantage in a global economy. The beginning of this book summarizes demographic changes in America and shows why it's in the national interest to foster the survival, prosperity, and growth of minority-owned businesses. The authors outline why these businesses are vital to the solution to our current economic woes. Next, the book turns to what minority firms must do to take their place in major value chains, and, finally, the book examines what governments, corporations, and support organizations ought to be doing to foster minority inclusion. In total, Greenhalgh and Lowry lay out a new paradigm for developing minority businesses so that they can fully contribute to our national competitive advantage and prosperity.By Priscilla Murray, Curtis Runnels. 2001
This book, a guide and companion to the prehistoric archaeology of Greece, is designed for students, travelers, and all general…
readers interested in archaeology. Greece has perhaps the longest and richest archaeological record in Europe, and this book reviews what is known of Greece from the earliest inhabitants in the Stone Age to the end of the Bronze Age and the collapse of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The book describes the prehistoric cultures of Greece in chronological order, and illustrates with 98 detailed drawings each culture's typical artifacts, architecture, burial customs, and art. Written in an informal and accessible style free of scientific jargon, the book can be used in the classroom or as a guide for the traveler, or read simply for pleasure by anyone with a curiosity about the earliest ages of this fascinating region. Although intended for a wide audience, the book has a solid scientific foundation. The authors are professional archaeologists with more than 25 years of experience in the field and with a first-hand knowledge of the methods and results of contemporary research. There is no other book today that covers the same range of periods and subjects, making it essential reading for anyone interested in the early civilizations that shaped the Greek landscape, laid the foundations for Classical Greek civilization, and contributed in many ways to the formation of the modern Greek world. The authors have been careful to address the many questions concerning prehistoric Greece that have been asked them by students and visitors to Greece through the years. The illustrations were created especially for this book, showing familiar artifacts and sites from a new perspective, and selecting others for illustration that rarely, if ever, appear in popular publications.By Edwin M. Good. 2011
This book invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis,…
from the creation of the world, through the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel, to the introduction of Abraham. Edwin M. Good offers a new translation of and literary commentary on these chapters, approaching the material as an ancient Hebrew book. Rather than analyzing the chapters in light of any specific religious position, he is interested in what the stories say and how they work as stories, indications in them of their origins as orally performed and transmitted, and how they do and do not connect with one another. Everyone, from those intimately familiar with Genesis to those who have never read it before, will find something new in Genesis 1-11: Tales of the Earliest World.By Kirby Deater-Deckard, Robin Panneton. 2017
This book examines the complex impact of parenting stress and the effects of its transmission on young children's development and…
well-being (e. g. , emotion self-regulation; executive functioning; maltreatment; future parenting practices). It analyzes current findings on acute and chronic psychological and socioeconomic stressors affecting parents, including those associated with poverty and cultural disparities, pregnancy and motherhood, and caring for children with developmental disabilities. Contributors explore how parental stress affects cognitive, affective, behavioral, and neurological development in children while pinpointing core adaptation, resilience, and coping skills parents need to reduce abusive and other negative behaviors and promote optimal outcomes in their children. These nuanced bidirectional perspectives on parent/child dynamics aim to inform clinical strategies and future research targeting parental stress and its cyclical impact on subsequent generations. Included in the coverage: Parental stress and child temperament. How social structure and culture shape parental strain and the well-being of parents and children. The stress of parenting children with developmental disabilities. Consequences and mechanisms of child maltreatment and the implications for parenting. How being mothered affects the development of mothering. Prenatal maternal stress and psychobiological development during childhood. Parenting Stress and Early Child Development is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in infancy and early childhood development, developmental psychology, pediatrics, family studies, and developmental neuroscience.By Andrew Dorman, Joyce Kaufman. 2010
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially following the US decision to invade Iraq, the once strong partnership…
between the US, Canada, and the European allies has faced the serious possibility of significant change, or even dissolution. At the very least, fundamental differences have emerged in the ways that many of the partners, perceive the issues that are most important to them—from perceptions of the threat of terrorism and attitudes to the use of force, to expectation about the future nature of the NATO Alliance—and in the ways in which those perceptions have become translated into policy decisions. In this book, experts from both sides of the Atlantic seek to explain why there has been so much divergence in the approach the various countries have taken. And it seeks to raise questions about what those divergent paths might mean for the future of transatlantic relations.