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We never really know what we have until it's gone. That's what Devon Camburn realizes the night he makes an awful mistake and jeopardizes his relationship. Piling on top of his already failing grades, the only thing that can make it worse - in the throes of his mistake at a drunken party - he stumbles into the last person he wants to see - his professor, Dr. Asan, who just gave him a lecture on responsibility that day. What Devon expects to be a beratement turns into a story - one where Dr. Asan shares about his own misgivings in college, his love and losses, and the search for his identity as an Indian-American in 1990, told over a single, stormy winter night. Hardcover edition

Through a lens starkly, undertake a photographic odyssey into the sun-baked heart of Morocco's High Atlas Mountains. Spanning the years 1975-1981, Pierre Toutain-Dorbec's visits with the Imazighen people who live in the Imilchil region, led to a visual record and testament to a pastoral way of life attuned to the cyclical flux of seasons, to the rhythms of nature herself. This exquisite black-and-white collection reflects a chronologically compressed life in the day of the Imazighen, underscored by the interior narratives and silent stories implied in a stunning montage of portraits, while also capturing the grit, symmetry and high-desert mystique of the resident landscape.

For more than a century, historians and writers on Africa have almost invariably associated the name Mlozi with all the cruellest excesses of the central and east African slave trade during the nineteenth century. That Mlozi bin Kazbadema was a significant slaver who conducted his trade according to all the brutal conventions of his period is beyond dispute. His subsequent botched hanging at the end of a British-sponsored rope, following a drum-head trial of questionable legality, has been generally regarded as well-deserved and a fitting, if muscular, exemplar of Pax Britannica in action. In The End of the Slaver, a title taken from recollections of Mlozi's hanging by the medical missionary Dr. Kerr Cross, author David Stuart-Mogg examines Mlozi's life and milieu and carefully weighs the often conflicting evidence apparent between official military and government reports and the largely unpublished private letters and diaries written at the time by those who participated in Mlozi's downfall and elimination. Stuart-Mogg's carefully evaluated findings call into serious question the altruism and philanthropy that the ultimate, and inevitable, victors of the struggle accorded their actions and their undoubtedly laudable ultimate objective - the eradication of slavery in British Central Africa. Referring to this book as 'an unusually stimulating study, Professor Shepperson recommends that The End of the Slaver deserves to be widely-read, not only by those whose primary interest is in the history of Malawi but also by students of slavery and the anti-slavery movements in the nineteenth century - and, indeed by all who are concerned with man's inhumanity to man.

This story of heartache and suspense will keep you guessing until the very end...It's the fall of 1954; eight-year-old Lily and her two-year-old brother are playing on the porch of an isolated farmhouse in rural California. They suddenly hear the reverberating boom of a shotgun in the house. Lily rushes inside and watches in horror as she sees her mother, Ellen, bleeding from a shotgun wound to the abdomen.No one is prepared for the burden of having to care for Ellen's three children, and after Ellen's death, Lily is sent to live with her grandmother, and her two half-siblings are orphaned off to whichever of their father's relatives agree to "keep" them. Ellen's husband, Orville, proclaims his innocence but keeps vanishing and reappearing without notice.Lily's gypsy grandmother, Pet, as she likes to be called, is tormented by her daughter's death but is unable to confront her pain as she drags Lily through a myriad of rural California towns in search of work. Lily is thrust into one school after another, navigating whispers and rumors about Ellen's death while clinging desperately to her mother's memory.The coroner rules the death a suicide without any real investigation, though suspicions linger that the jealous-hearted husband is guilty. Will the tragedy and the town gossip that follows tear the family apart?This story takes you down winding paths filled with in-depth perspectives from friends and relatives, trying to determine what really happened. Was it a suicide or a heinous murder?

This dissertation contributes to the fields of medical sociology, environmental health, and public health by examining the effects of social stratification on environmental exposures and physical morbidity. Although previous conceptual models suggest that the unequal distribution of environmental exposures may help to explain race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in physical health, there is little to no empirical evidence to support these processes. Building on previous research. I use data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2007-2008) to formally assess the following questions: 1) Does exposure to environmental toxins vary according to race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status? 2) Do race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in environmental exposures help to explain race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in physical health? The results of this research extend the literature by revealing empirically the unequal exposures to environmental toxins by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Specifically, race/ethnic minorities (Blacks and Hispanics) and individuals with lower levels of socioeconomic status are disproportionately exposed to environmental toxins. Although overall toxin exposure and lead were unrelated to self-rated health, cadmium. was found to partially mediate race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in self-rated health.

"Mix Factor - Compendio sulla musica dance elettronica" è la prima vera e propria enciclopedia sul genere in cui parti tecniche e trucchi del mestiere si alternano con le parole dei protagonisti della scena musicale dance internazionale, prendendo voce attraverso interviste, pensieri, aneddoti, e soprattutto esperienza nel comparto. Una serie di volumi che illustrano e approfondiscono temi legati al fenomeno dei dj, del clubbing e dell'industria musicale. "Mix Factor - Compendio sulla musica dance elettronica" è un macro testo che attraversa tecniche e stili: è saggio e si trasforma in manuale diventando fondamentale guida a uso e consumo di chi la musica la vuole vivere da protagonista o scoprirne solo i retroscena. Per addentrarsi in tutti gli aspetti del movimento che muove le masse, spinge il business e rivoluziona il settore dell'intrattenimento, una serie essenziale da avere nella propria libreria."Oltre ogni limiter" è il terzo volume di questa collana.

UNA DE LAS MÁS IMPORTANTES EXPOSICIONES DE LA TEOLOGÍA BÍBLICA DEL NUEVO TESTAMENTO Aunque ningún documento individual del Nuevo Testamento pretende ofrecer una teología exhaustiva, Thomas Schreiner sugiere que ciertos temas recurrentes surgen del estudio del conjunto. En este volumen, Schreiner rastrea los temas clave que aparecen a lo largo del canon neotestamentario, explorando los énfasis que surgen de una lectura detallada de los textos.El enfoque de Schreiner se basa en una sólida exégesis de todos los textos clave y le conduce a una visión unificada de la enseñanza fundamental del Nuevo Testamento. Se centra especialmente en dos temas generales. El primero se refiere a la unidad de la historia redentora y el reino de Dios. El Nuevo Testamento retoma las imágenes del Antiguo Testamento y afirma que el reino ha llegado (aunque sigue sin cumplirse) en Jesucristo. El segundo tema relacionado se refiere al objetivo del reino: la gloria de Dios a través de la obra de Cristo y la presencia potenciadora del Espíritu. En la segunda mitad de la obra, Schreiner aborda la cuestión de lo que estos temas significan para la vida del creyente y el ministerio de la comunidad de fe.>"Thomas Schreiner es conocido por ser un hábil y cuidadoso estudioso del Nuevo Testamento. En su Teología del Nuevo Testamento saca a relucir sus habilidades y su estilo claro y conciso al ofrecernos un relato sintético de este complejo tema, un relato que refleja su elevada visión de las Escrituras. Se trata probablemente de la mejor teología del Nuevo Testamento escrita en las últimas décadas desde un punto de vista decididamente reformado y evangélico".Ben Witherington III >"La Teología del Nuevo Testamento de Schreiner ha sido desde hace tiempo esperada por colegas, amigos y estudiantes. El apéndice, que ofrece un útil estudio de la disciplina de la teología del Nuevo Testamento, y la discusión de la justificación, que contiene un resumen del debate moderno y una defensa de la interpretación forense de la enseñanza paulina, valen por sí solos el precio del libro".Robert H. Stein >Sobre el autor: THOMAS R. SCHREINER (PhD, Seminario Teológico Fuller) es catedrático James Buchanan Harrison de Interpretación del Nuevo Testamento y profesor de Teología Bíblica en el Seminario Teológico Bautista del Sur de Louisville, Kentucky. Es autor de numerosos libros, y reconocido como unos de los más importantes eruditos bíblicos de la actualidad.

Que nous réserve notre futur ?Que se pointe-il à l'horizon pour notre planète et notre civilisation ?Comment mieux se préparer aux changements ? La Dernière Valse Des Tyrans rend compte des enseignements et des prédictions que Ramtha a donnés il y a plus de 20 ans au sujet des changements radicaux qui allaient advenir suite à des cataclysmes naturels, à des bouleversements radicaux économiques et politiques. Ramtha y expose les forces qui ont induits ces changements et de nombreux événements de notre Histoire - futur inclus - tous méticuleusement orchestrés par une poignée d'entités.Un grand nombre de faits prévus par Ramtha il y a trois décennies ont été clairement confirmés dans des grands titres de journaux. Cependant, IL Y A PLUS À VENIR. Bien que le futur puisse paraître sombre et décourageant, Ramtha prédit l'avènement d'une destinée plus grande pour nous, ceci grâce au soutien de civilisations avancées qui aiment l'Humanité c'est l'aube de la SUPERCONSCIENCE, d'une race humaine plus avancée, d'une nouvelle ère.

In Forest for the Trees & Other Stories, Mathieu Cailler delivers a diverse collection of fifteen shorts that perfectly captures characters steeped in their own troubles. With clear and pointed prose, Cailler creates a conduit through which readers experience the characters' sufferings, losses, revelations, their moments of connection, and their snippets of happiness. The author's experimentation with voice and point of view makes this collection honest and accessible, allowing readers to feel true compassion by better understanding others and the imperfect world we all inhabit

Magic has broken free, and the world is in grave danger.Jayne Thorne, CIA Librarian and secret operative, thought finding her father would solve everything. She couldn't have been more mistaken. Henry Thorne is a prime target for all her enemies, and everyone around him is in danger.Though Jayne's powers are reaching new heights, she must contend with her reluctant new Rogue, Vivienne, her inconvenient and growing attraction to her partner, Tristan, and a prophecy from an unnamed warrior goddess that warns her of the impending danger from the Torrent's powerful hidden mage who is controlling her mother, Ruth. Not to mention face down an ancient secret society tasked with protecting a grimoire vital to their cause.Meanwhile, Jayne's sister Sofia and her Rogue Cillian, along with other members of the TCO (the magical branch of the CIA), are searching for the newly magical children who are making news all over the country. But they are not the only ones with this mission. Sofia and Cillian must find, protect, and educate as many new Adepts as possible before dark forces steal their powers.With the help of her friends, family, and new allies, Jayne must decipher the prophecy, acquire the grimoire, and stop the powerful mage hidden in the Torrent. But even with their help, Jayne is not sure if she will be able to succeed. The enemies of the Torrent grow more powerful by the day, and they are relentless...A story of power, courage, and the fight against evil, this thrilling and suspenseful entry in the award-winning Jayne Thorne series will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

This prayer book follows the format of the Rosary Family Prayer Group. It is a companion to pray with the Rosary Family every night LIVE on YouTube or subscribe and listen later. Prayers in this book are in addition to the rosary and follow the Catholic Liturgical Calendar. It combines daily/monthly devotions, healing prayers for person and family, litanies, spiritual warfare, Marian and Eucharistic prayers. Throughout the book, many images range from traditional to new to help enhance and draw deeper into prayer. There is a section to write your prayer intentions to keep your family and loved ones in prayer nightly.

Ma vie a toujours été mouvementée... C'est le risque lorsqu'on s'ennuie facilement et que les seules choses qui nous animent sont le danger et la soif de vérité. Je suis professeure d'archéologie à l'Université, mais également chasseuse de reliques. Ma réputation dans ce domaine n'est plus à faire et elle me permet d'accepter les contrats les plus lucratifs du marché noir. Ma seule priorité est de garder mon identité secrète pour protéger les miens. Jusqu'au jour où un homme entre chez moi par effraction, pour me proposer un contrat facile: trouver les reliques d'une Déesse-Mère.>Rapidement, ce client aussi charismatique qu'ingrat va mettre mes nerfs et ma vie à rude épreuve. Propulsée dans un monde rempli de danger et de secrets, toutes mes croyances s'effondrent, pulvérisées par la plus grande de mes découvertes ! Survivrai-je assez longtemps pour remplir le contrat le plus sanglant de toute ma carrière ? (Avertissement: Ce livre contient des scènes et des propos pouvant choquer les personnes sensibles).

If it can go wrong it will!Companies fix things after they break or go wrong. Author and business owner Norma Shirk takes you on a journey through the often hilarious world of mishaps, where the best lessons come from other people's blunders.Laugh, learn, and steer clear of common pitfalls as you explore, along with Ms. Camila "Cam" Flowers, Norma's fictional assistant, the roller-coaster adventures of small business ownership - a true embodiment of the book's valuable insights and everyday mishaps. Don't wait for things to break or go wrong; be prepared, be entertained, and be inspired with "Things Go Wrong!"

Her Guilty Confessions is a collection of Real women's sexual fantasies, from the western World with it's very open liberating attitude, freedom of thought, action & vast array of lifestyle choices, to some of the most religiously repressed countries in the world, where it is very literally illegal and potentially life threatening to think outside of the conventional box so to speak, due to possible religious fortitudes and cultural beliefs. BUT personal sexual fantasy is every person's human right and totally natural as an adult human, man or woman alike that can't be governed, nor should it or could it be within its very vast parameters of normal! Her Guilty Confessions allows the reader a very raw & candid insight into the world of Female fantasy... I hope you; the reader enjoys the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.... What a ride so to speak!

The PEIS Plan: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is deemed the most intractable conflict in modern times: Every plan since the mid-20th century comes to dead ends. This book introduces a novel solution that can resolve this conflict once and for all. The "deus ex machina" in this book is the introduction of the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt would sell the "bad" part of the Sinai Peninsula to the Palestinians; the Palestinians would combine that purchase with the Gaza Strip to create a contiguous, two-seas-access new nation alongside Israel but 50% bigger; the Israelis would purchase the West Bank from the Palestinians to achieve their yearn for the "Land of Israel", and give the Palestinians the means to purchase their portion of the Sinai Peninsula.The PEIS Plan stands for the Palestine-Egypt-Israel-Sinai peace plan. This book summarizes the current conflict, describes the solution, and explains why the Egyptians, Palestinians, Israelis, and the other parties in the conflict such as the Bedouins and Islamic insurgents, should welcome the PEIS Plan, and how the PEIS Plan, in one stroke, would resolve the status of Jerusalem, the right of return of the Palestinian diaspora, the feud between Hamas and the Palestinian Administration, the Sinai insurgency against Egypt, and how Israel could ultimately afford to pay for this Plan to unify the country.

A Mexican man and an infant are murdered by the Border Patrol in Arizona. In Ohio, a Turkish sheik is abducted, tortured, and killed. And, in the tiny Appalachian town of Princeton, West Virginia, Liam Curran watches from the seat of his tractor as emergency vehicles swarm his neighbor's property. Moments later, two bodies are removed from the home: A Mexican man and a woman named Lacey Sullivan-Liam's neighbor and former lover. Certainhis dark past has caught up with him, Liam struggles to remain neutral asgetting involved could risk exposing his identity all over again. Maybe, it isonly a coincidence. But then again, can he afford to take that chance? Afteragreeing to cooperate with the INS, Liam quickly realizes the murder of hisneighbor and an illegal immigrant is more than a random event and that a linkexists between a Mexican drug cartel, three congressmen, a stalled immigrationbill, and the blackmailing of the President of the United States. In a race tofind Lacey's killer and to stop the blackmailer from bringing down apresidency, Liam must work with those who know him, those he thought he couldtrust, and those who still want him dead. And his only hope is to identify andprotect... ...TheLast Witness.

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Though Scott Owens wasn't born and raised in Catawba County, you would never know it by his poetry-so intimately connected with our county that you see and feel the images all around you as you read.He loves our country roads, small-town shops, crazy Hickory streets, open vistas, and iconic landmarks.His poetry, complemented beautifully by Clayton Joe Young's photography, takes the reader on a trip through our Foothills home-and what a pleasure that journey is!- Austin Allran, Author of The Legend of the Isle of Cats, Catawba County Commissioner and Former State Senator 'Round Here is a testament to the beauty and significance of Catawba Valley. Through the harmonious blend of poetry and photography, Scott Owens and Joe Young invite readers to immerse themselves in the essence of this place - our home! - to appreciate its history and the embedded connections forged between its people and the land. It is a celebration of the enduring spirit of a community and a tribute to the power of "place."- Louise Humphrey, Retired Director of the Hickory Public LibraryNot the dry history of when and where, these poems and images do something miraculous; they connect us to the past in a sensory way. William Faulkner once wrote about the past not being dead, in many ways not even past, and Scott's pen and Joe's eye demonstrate how such is possible. Their stellar work has made local history accessible in a new and vital way.- Richard Eller, Author and Catawba County HistorianAs a lifelong resident of Catawba County, this book of poems and pictures has magically transported me to the time of my youth. I read Scott's words and look at Joe's photos, and I'm a small child again. I reminisce on my loving Ridgeview Community. I remember my family working at the Howard Johnson's on Highway 64-70. My soul is further stirred remembering how I met my wife here, raised my family here, and embarked on a career in Law Enforcement here. Overpowering in its beauty, this collection of poetry and striking images captures the soul of who we are and where we come from.- Steve Hunt, Retired City of Hickory Law Enforcement officerScott Owens is the author of 20 collections of poetry and recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Next Generation/Indie Lit Awards, the NC Writers Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC.His poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac eight times, and his articles about writing poetry have been used in Poet's Market four times. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and to be NC Poet Laureate.Owens holds degrees from Ohio University, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro. He is Professor of Poetry at Lenoir-Rhyne University, and former editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and Southern Poetry Review. He owns and operates Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse and Gallery and coordinates Poetry Hickory in Hickory, NC.Clayton "Joe" Young is the author of 11 books and is an award-winning photographer with a background in photojournalism. Young's work has been exhibited throughout the United States in solo and juried exhibitions.In 2014, Young earned the Certified Professional Photographers (CPP) designation from Professional Photographers of AmericaIn May of 2015, Young earned a MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is the Director and Senior Professor for the Photographic Technology Program at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, NC. www.joeyoungphoto.com

The Indo-Aryan migration produced two distinct, yet related cultures in the Indian and Iranian peoples. Though similarities abound in their respective traditions, many notable differences reside. Perhaps the most striking is the strict dualism at the heart of Iranian religion. Even prior to Zarathustra, a Cosmic struggle between light and dark delineated bounds of acceptable conduct, reflecting a radically moral understanding of the universe and man's place at the heart of a holy war. The zurxāne (also spelled "zurkhaneh") serves as an acutely physical expression of this spiritual ethos. Like the Indian akharas, these Houses of Strength engender a profoundly heroic quality in the training and conduct of their adherents. Pahlavānān train and fight as a means of reflecting outwardly the inner conflict pitting one's higher self against a lower, Ahrimanic impulse. Their external victories mirror internal triumphs necessary to become a renowned warrior of both material and spiritual dimensions. Master WarYogin Tom Billinge has again immersed himself in the subject matter of his work, becoming a Western steward of this ancient Indo-European tradition by testing himself in the zurxāne system of today.

Both our secular culture and our Christian discourse suffer from a lack of appreciation of nature. "Nature" describes the world as we find it, created by God, broken by the fall, exhibiting both stability and change. It is denied in different ways by postmodernists, progressives, evolutionary naturalists, technologists, and transhumanists, but also by Christian fundamentalists and ideologues who fail to recognize the goodness of creation and the possibility and necessity of natural, human knowledge.In this book, theologian and philosopher Joel Carini argues for a new theological perspective that gives place to nature and to empirical sources of information in Christian theology. This new approach allows for healthy intellectual interaction with secular thought and other religious traditions and leads to surprising and significant conclusions.

Asher Daniox was an anomaly. Feared and worshiped by her kind for a power previously unheard of, the princess of the Fae Realm sought nothing more than to prove she could rule with a just and strong hand. That she was worthy of the title of queen.Yet, as her impending marriage to a young mortal prince draws nearer, she finds herself dreaming of a different life. One ruled by her own wants and needs. But, with a power as dangerous as hers, would she do more harm than good if left unchecked? And if she does not find allies in the mortals, how will the fae survive the savage demons to the west?When a handsome stranger urges Asher to question her world and those within it - to trust the power she feared for so long - the princess is forced to reevaluate her life, and to continuously put it in jeopardy. Will she follow the orders of the king and queen who raised her - who always knew best? Or will she follow her heart, which might lead her to a fate she cannot survive?As lies, betrayals, and danger find her at every corner, Asher must make a choice. For if she does not, the imminent war will.Who is she, and who does she wish to become?