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This book fills an important niche in our understanding of scottish local government within the dynamic new context of the Scottish Parliament. It provides academics, students, practitioners, journalists and others with a broad-ranging yet detailed account of how local government actually works and the main political issues and debates surrounding its multi-faceted role in contemporary Scotland. It covers issues such as:*The nature and purpose...

Truman Capote was hailed as one the most meticulous writers in American letters-a part of the Capote mystique is that his precise writing seemed to exist apart from his chaotic life. While the measure of Capote as a writer is best taken through his work, Capote the person is best understood in his personal correspondence with friends, colleagues, lovers, and rivals.In Too Brief a Treat, the acclaimed biographer Gerald Clarke brings together fo...

The Night I Held An Angel touches on the death of a child before they were delivered as well as the fertility issues that may arise afterwards. The manuscript will help bereaved parents see that although their child is no longer with them, they will live in their heart and the hearts of those who were lucky to know them for the short time they were here. This story shows how every parent can take such a painful experience and use it to change ...

This vintage book contains a complete manual for the sportsman, game preserver, gamekeeper, and amateur on the art of taking animals and birds in traps, snares, and nets. Profusely illustrated and full of invaluable tips, this timeless handbook will be of considerable utility to modern readers, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Animal Trapping and Snaring", "The Dorset Trap and Its Var...

The topic of electoral reform is an extremely timely one. The accelerated expansion of the number of new democracies in the world generates increasing demand for advice on the choice of electoral rules, at the same time, a new reformism in well established democracies seeks new formulae favouring both more representative institutions and more accountable rulers. The Handbook of Electoral System Choice addresses the theoretical and comparative ...

As World War I ends, Orin Dawes' love, Dimple Deribus, lies dead in the hay loft of her father's stable in Ramsfield, Illinois. Orin soon meets Ruby Somers, the daughter of nomadic tent preacher Rev. Jimmy. Ruby's "gift" helps her ease Orin's terminally ill mother's pain - and read people's sins. When Orin's mother dies she is buried in the family plot at the edge of the farm. Orin marries Ruby and they start a family. Over the next twenty yea...

Kory the Koala Bear: It's good to be kind introduces children to Kory, a loveable Koala Bear, who loves children. In this book he shows children how to be kind to each other and how to get along with everyone. Even though we are all from different ethnicity and backgrounds, Kory teaches that we are all the same and we must be kind to each other.

Who says the Midwest is boring? Where else can you meet Uncle Bert and his flaming turkey, or ride and tremble in fear with a first time tractor puller. But lest you think we are all just rednecks, stand in wonder as we soften the blows with tranquil scenes and sweet wild creatures. Or maybe you'd like to visit our haunted house to see how we let guilt take revenge on the soul. Why stop there? Learn new ideas for gender bashing and family clas...

LIVING HELL IS WRITTEN FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE. IT INVOLVES SEVERAL FAMILIES WHO ARE TORN APART BY CHILD MOLESTATION. THE STORIES OF THE VICTIMS ARE CLEVERLY INTERTWINED. IT CAN BE SAID THAT ALL FAMILIES ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL TO SOME DEGREE, BUT COMBINING CHILD MOLESTATION TO THE ABNORMALITY ONLY PROMOTES DEVASTATION. MY BOOK WILL SHOW THE FAMILIES SUBSISTED WITH FEELINGS OF INSECURITY, DEVIANCE, MENTAL ANGUISH AND IGNOMINY AS A WAY OF LIFE, BECAUSE...

LIVING HELL IS WRITTEN FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE. IT INVOLVES SEVERAL FAMILIES WHO ARE TORN APART BY CHILD MOLESTATION. THE STORIES OF THE VICTIMS ARE CLEVERLY INTERTWINED. IT CAN BE SAID THAT ALL FAMILIES ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL TO SOME DEGREE, BUT COMBINING CHILD MOLESTATION TO THE ABNORMALITY ONLY PROMOTES DEVASTATION. MY BOOK WILL SHOW THE FAMILIES SUBSISTED WITH FEELINGS OF INSECURITY, DEVIANCE, MENTAL ANGUISH AND IGNOMINY AS A WAY OF LIFE, BECAUSE...

Every minute of every day some unsuspecting and innocent citizen is victimized. I Choose To Act is the resource for anyone who wants to raise her awareness. Author Hakim Isler has over thirteen years of experience in self-protection and criminal profiling. Isler gives practical advice on how to avoid and prepare for potentially victimizing situations. I Choose To Act highlights: Lessons of survivors Common assault tactics Case Studies Criminal...

A theoretical framework is thus provided for its comprehension and teaching. While some people are naturally more intuitive than others, the author makes a number of practical recommendations whereby the faculty of intuition can be cultivated by therapists, increasing receptivity to unconscious messages and helping the client to achieve insight. Clinicians, training institutes, their tutors and students, and indeed anyone working with people, ...

Oral communication is quite different in its spontaneity and communicative power from textual and visual communication. Culturally-bounded expectations of ways of speaking and individual creativity provide the spark that can ignite revolution or calm the soul. This book explores, from a cross-cultural perspective, the centrality of orality in the ideological processes that dominate public discourse, providing a counterbalance to the debates th...

To get his college degree as quickly as possible, twenty-one year old Dan needs to live with Margaret, an unknown distant relative. The elderly landlady claims she can communicate psychically with animals. Dan is dumbfounded. She doesn't seem the weirdo type. She has to be a shyster, evil, or just plain crazy. To protect himself from the possibility of Margaret's corrupting influence, he devises a plan. He will keep as much distance between th...

Derron Rider had traveled with his sister, Kerah, and cousin, Lando to Luna Vanceda for the Solar Games. Returning to their home world, Pergenta, they are lured to a dead planet by a distress call. The three are trio are soon fighting for survival in a lost city that is over seen by the giant Permanoids & the mysterious Guardian. Fast paced to the end, this Sci-Fi tale will keep the pages turning.

Three Shades of Blackness is a fiction novel, which depicts the story of three girls from different backgrounds as they become friends and grow up together. Shayna is abandoned by her mother and when Mrs. Andrews takes her in, she enrolls her in a religious summer program. There she meets Tanya, a preacher's child, and Mercides, who is from a wealthy background. Although they are from vastly different families, they become fast friends. Three ...

Three Shades of Blackness is a fiction novel, which depicts the story of three girls from different backgrounds as they become friends and grow up together. Shayna is abandoned by her mother and when Mrs. Andrews takes her in, she enrolls her in a religious summer program. There she meets Tanya, a preacher's child, and Mercides, who is from a wealthy background. Although they are from vastly different families, they become fast friends. Three ...

It is an amazing experience to attend Princeton Theological Seminary. The core of that experience is the cadre of professors that God has brought there over the years, since the seminary's founding in 1812. Those professors have taught over 25, 000 men and women how to prepare for ministry in the pastorate, and in the academy. They have taught them the effective ways to study and to understand God's word - and how to articulate that understand...

In 1963, with a revitalization of traditional cultural, political, and religious values, bolstered by security threats, Greek Cypriots sought to marginalize and terrorize Turkish Cypriots. The result was a breakdown of the inter-communal dialogue necessary for the creation of a State. The concept of a unified Cypriot identity eroded as each community articulated the ethnic and national priorities of their separate motherlands, Greece and Turke...

In The American Ali Baba, the author draws an amazing parallel between an ancient Arabic folktale and the tragedy of the current American Presidency. Full of intrigue and drama, both plots revolve around thievery, lies, deception, trickery and murder, all veiled in intense secrecy. Both stories portray central characters on greedy missions to amass a fortune, at the expense of others. The book presents an abbreviated version of the ancient tal...