A compelling story that takes you inside the mind of an addict - Thirty Three Years to Conception describes a life and death struggle with inner demons, and the harsh reality of life on the streets of Toronto. Daniel Pollock's story shines a light on society's potential for kindness and cruelty, as manifested through the treatment of the disadvantaged. This is a book for parents, youth, educators, mental health workers, legislators, lawyers, police and anyone else who deals with addictions.
Have you ever had a moment, where you thought about the Next Generation to come?What would you share with the younger you?God deals with me in different ways. He shows me different viewpoints of his anointing through messages, and people speaking. I wrote this book, so you could be poured back into through the knowledge and wisdom that I have gained from Destiny's church and other people in my life. While you are reading the pages of this book, I will be the midwife that helps you birth your baby out through principles and processes. Now, a midwife does not change your baby's eyes or arms, but she helps you know when and how to push or breath. Although everybody wants to do things on their own, God didn't design us that way. If a vision is just surrounded by you, how really big is it? Think about it. He wants us to help guide each other. Moses and Joshua had to guide the children of Israel to the promised land. Using the tools in this book will guide you to the promise land that God has for you. Don't be content where you are right now because God has so much more for you. Come, let's glean like Ruth in Boaz's field so that God will show us a favor. I just ask that you come with an open mind on this journey.
The Moments When God Touched is a guided for a people that wants to find their purposed with God help. I use my personal situation to open your eyes to the unknown.
The fall of the Alamo - An historical drama in four acts concluded by an epilogue entitled The battle of San Jacinto is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Charmaine Addresses something that comes to us all, and to all our loved ones, and which we are very ill equipped to handle; death, the end of life, or the passing from one state, which we know, to another, which we cannot know. A near death expereince, and the existence and reality of these expereinces is well attested and undoubted, is a great and impressive glimpse behind the veil, and into another, truer reality than that of every day. Charmaine has the ability to communicate, and her writing is clear and lucid. She deals sensitively and perceptively with what can be a difficult subject. Behind her veil, is a brighter, vibrant, living truth. From her journey she has brought back much of value, a golden treasure, and she shares this . Many of us would dearly wish to pierce, however little, the veil that hides us from other worlds, and to see what else is there. This book is one that helps us understand a little more the strange ways of creation.
Brayden wants to get stronger so he can help his dad lift things into the car. His dad suggests he eats some broccoli, and Brayden turns into the superhero Broccoli Boy Your purchase of this book from the Our Yarning collection supports Library For All in its mission to make knowledge available to all, equally.
Using music as an integral part of the storytelling, Blue spans nearly twenty years in the life of the affluent African American Clark family in rural South Carolina. Events are seen through the eyes of the eldest son Reuben, who evolves from a preteen trumpet player into an adult artist. His mother, a relentlessly chic matriarch with dark secrets who is out of place in the her provincial surroundings, holds court at family gatherings. She lays out grandiose plans for her two sons while the mesmerizing music of sexy jazz singer Blue Williams adds a unique dimension. Meanwhile, her husband runs a profitable funeral home, grandmother offers unsolicited advice and Ruben's brother runs with the girls. This humorous family portrait abounds with tenderness, acceptance and the search for unconditional love while introducing audiences to an African American family the likes of which is seldom portrayed on stage or screen.
Old Ways Won't Open New Doors; Embrace ChangeLife is one huge continuum of change but it is a wonder that a lot of people continuously resist change. How you answer the following questions will show whether not you you have the tendency to resist change.What does change mean to you? Does it mean pain or the anticipation of pleasure?What do you expect your life to be like in five years' time? In ten years?This book, Embracing Change Painlessly, will help you define change in a relevant and irresistable way. It is all about living, identity, adaptability, flexibility, open mindedness and being willing to explore unknowns - areas outside our comfort zones.Embracing Change Painlessly will teach you how faith can help you to define who you are and gives you the strength to face the numerous changes that life will throw at you. Without these changes, there is no growth. Every new stage of a positive change takes you to a better place and make you more like your imagined-self.Read the book with the hope that you will become that whole and entire PERSON that God has created you to be.
The Confidence Code for Girls meets The Care & Keeping of You in this bold, bighearted book about growing up with unshakable confidence. Puberty comes with a lot of changes for girls today. There's the thrilling stuff: making friends, discovering their superpowers, and finding their voices. Then there are the not-so-fun parts: body changes, school stress, and totally understandable social anxiety. It's enough to make a Rebel Girl's head spin That's where we come in. Filled with helpful advice, Q&As between experts and girls around the world, and fun quizzes, Growing Up Powerful has the inside scoop on all things girlhood, and gives tweens and teens the tools they need to become their most confident selves.
Firms of different sizes play different roles in organized markets and societies. This report focuses on the particular role that larger firms – firms with 100 employees or more – play in this ecosystem. It shows that larger firms in developing countries have distinct features that set them apart from the rest. These features are closely associated with productivity advantages – their ability not only to lower costs of production through economies of scale and scope, but also to invest in quality and reach demand. These distinct features of large firms translate into improved outcomes for their owners as well as for workers and smaller enterprises in their value chains. The fundamental challenge for economic development, however, is that production often does not reach economic scale in low- and middle-income countries. What is missing are larger, more productive, and outward-oriented firms. The scarcity of larger firms raises the question of how they are created in lower income contexts, and where frictions lie in this process. This report shows that four types of sponsors are often behind large firms: foreign firms creating new affiliates; domestic sponsors having experience with other large firms; governments; and entrepreneurs. Growth paths of large firms also show that distinguishing features of large firms are often in place from the time they are established. Therefore, supporting small firms to grow large is one means for creating large firms, but not sufficient on its own. To fill the 'missing top', governments should support the creation of new large firms from different sources, improve market contestability, and address operational barriers that disproportionally affect larger firms. The challenge lies in balancing the desire for efficiency and welfare benefits of large firms, while avoiding the inefficiencies that result when large firms acquire monopoly power. For development finance institutions seeking to promote a dynamic and competitive private sector, taking a value chain perspective and partnering with larger firms in each indutry - both incumbent firms and new challengers - can benefit firms across the size spectrum.
"We live with a myth about New England," write naturalists Nona Bell Estrin and Charles W. Johnson: "that we have four distinct seasons here." As careful and experienced observers of the natural world, Estrin and Johnson know that nature's progressions are gradual, continuous, and interconnected. And as they demonstrate in their remarkable book, the close examination of nature-even unassuming landscapes close at hand-yields rich rewards on a daily basis. In Season combines the immediacy of direct field observations with broader perspectives on natural cycles. An accomplished field artist as well as a naturalist, Nona Estrin selects extracts from her rich journals to trace the sequences of natural events over the course of a year. From Toothaker Island, Maine to Kettle Pond, Vermont to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, her precise, lively observations, along with her lovely drawings and watercolors, reveal the lives of warblers and butterflies, deer and grouse, frogs and fiddlehead ferns. Occasionally, her records of the natural world are punctuated by charming asides about the difficulty of drawing bees or the rescue of a fledgling kingbird caught in a fishing line.In alternating chapters, Charles Johnson's essays tell the"stories behind her scenes," exploring such seasonal cycles as mating, migration, and winter survival. His wide-ranging knowledge of the natural world clarifies the continuity of life and the interconnections among species. Rather than focus on categorization and identification, Johnson explores the dynamics which shape the natural world in New England, not only for plants and wildlife, but for people as well.With its mix of detailed observation and overarching explanation, as well as the stunning color reproductions of Estrin's on-the-spot watercolors, In Season offers an appreciation of the natural world in New England that is rooted in the specific experience of its ceaseless alternations.
From Baobab Press, in coordination with the University of Nevada, Reno’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, comes This Side of the Divide: Stories, the first anthology in a literary series attempting to capture the newness, vastness, territoriality and sense of transience alive in the American West. Set west of the Continental Divide, these narratives skillfully demonstrate the beauty, austerity, and danger of the untouched wilderness, delight in the mutual ease and asphyxiation of the hyper-urban and chart the interstitial spaces of the developing and the abandoned. Inhabiting the West’s richly varied landscapes, the characters in these stories provide a glimpse of the social and cultural diversity on display in these regions. Among these 15 stories, gathered from rising literary voices, a single mother struggles to maintain her individuality while raising an autistic son; a cathartic hike brings an unsuspecting widow face-to-face with her own mortality; a man injured in a train wreck questions his existence as he blindly wanders the desert; an aging cowboy rides the highways astride his magnificent horse, a final remnant of a fleeting era; Sasquatch looks for love in all the wrong places; and a divorcee tries to reconcile her present with her past, her heart with her head. Positioning the voices of emerging authors alongside acclaimed writers such as Tobias Wolff, Brian Evenson and Nona Caspers, these collected stories, at turns hilarious, frightening, and devastating, showcase the variety of identity, amalgam of voice and depth of character that make the American West such a truly brilliant, literary mosaic. Contributors include Tobias Wolff, Maile Meloy, Brian Evenson, Melinda Moustakis, Nona Caspers, Douglas W. Milliken, David Gillette, Miranda Schmidt, Michelle Willms, Andrea Lani, Leah Griesmann, Vanessa Hua, Cathy Warner, Mark Maynard, Aharon Levy, Sian Griffiths, L.L. Madrid, Kirk Wilson, Ashley Davidson, Carl Beideman, E.G. Willy, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, and Linda Lenhoff.
BLACK & WHITE INTERIOR VERSION --- This special pictorial biography of the life of Charles Raymond Rhodes and his beautiful wife, Billie Ruth Weddle Rhodes contains a lifetime of photos and stories, as complied by friends and family who love them. This is the BLACK AND WHITE photo version. All proceeds for sales are contributed annually to the Geology Scholarship at Eastern Arizona College that the Rhodes Family set up to honor Raymond's lifelong love for Earth Sciences & Minerology. Your voluntary contributions to this fund are deeply appreciated. Please help us continue to honor Raymond's legacy by assisting a worthy student in learning about Geology and to achieve their education, something he firmly believed was very important in life. To support Raymond's Memorial Scholarship, please go to: https: //www.eacalumni.org/donate and in the drop-down menu for "Designation" please click on "OTHER" and enter: CHARLES RAYMOND RHODES GEOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP
