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Shattering the dogmatic interpretations long held by the "churches, " the author has revisited many of the Bible's mysteries, and now presents the esoteric truths contained within. An intentionally non-religious work, though dealing with core issues of religion and spirituality, this book proves to be both unique and profound. Drawing from the study of sacred texts, religious myth and symbols, from the study of metaphysics, psychology, a...

A humorous look at life as seen and told by Mystic the Cat.

America is still young compared with Europe and Asia, but it is not so young that we are free from the danger of forgetting much that was worthy and memorable in the lives of our forefathers. In the midst of our modernism and commercialism we need an injection of that sort of patriotism and national pride which is born of ancestor worship and the backward glance. We need to cultivate a finer appreciation of our historic and artistic heritage....

Es esta espectacular historia de amor lésbico, se cuentan las vicisitudes de una joven médica que, huyendo de una desgastada relación, llega a un misterioso poblado en donde arriesgará la vida como consecuencia de los embates de la naturaleza y, simultáneamente, perderá su corazón. Historia lírica en donde los perfiles de personajes complejos, logran trazar a dos espectaculares mujeres que luchan por vencer sus miedos y prejuicios dentro de u...

The Land of Grimer...a world beyond the mist...a world of pirates and swashbuckling. Two kids, Randy and Sonja, enter by mistake and accompany an old sailor who's on a quest that he will allow nothing to stop him from finishing. Will Randy and Sonja ever get home? Their only hope may be to finish the quest of the old sailor.

The world, through children's eyes. Mostly innocent. Mostly colorful. Always sparkling with hope. Leaving it to us, grownups, to watch, interpret, understand. After all there's nothing more important than a child's wish. It is up to us to translate it into command and execute... blindly.

Having lived through several earthquakes at his home town - Christchurch, New Zealand - Hugh Wyles is best positioned to witness in his special rhyming way about the events happening around him. He watches the events with a practical, critical, no nonsense eye, his faith as strong as ever.

Beten hat viele Gesichter und Töne: Klagen und Beten, Loben und Danken, so wie es uns Menschen eben geht. Dieser Band stellt mit trinitarischen Gebeten und Eröffnungen die "Anbetung Gottes" in den Mittelpunkt. Der Glaube an den dreieinigen Gott gewinnt in ihnen betend und bekennend eine besondere liturgische und sprachliche Gestalt. Neben den Sonntagen des Kirchenjahres und seinen Festzeiten werden für besondere Anlässe Einleitungen und Gebete...

From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, playwrighting, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction and Christian apologetics. In Heretics Chesterton discusses the importance of orthodoxy in the Christian faith...

Offering a rich harvest of recent poems, this collection displays the wit, intellectual agility, and arresting beauty for which the author is renowned. This anthology is full of stories that confront personal subjects as well as broader topics. Giving a mature voice to their genre, these pieces go beyond the colloquial and experiment with semantics and puzzles to achieve a unique type of aesthetic.

This volume contains a selection of papers whose content have been presented at the International conferences CIPHI on Cultural Heritage and History of Engineering at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, in recent years.  The conference series is aimed at bringing together researchers, scholars and students from a broad range of disciplines referring to the History of Engineering and Cultural Heritage, in a un...

La poesía de Juan Julio Navarro es un entramado de tiempo y recuerdos, olvido, ira, nostalgia y amor, en el que plasma la huella de la impronta del mundo difícil y doloroso que le tocó vivir o padecer, llamando siempre la atención sobre las verdades fundamentales de la vida. En su poesía el lector podrá descubrir al hombre en su caótico fluir existencial, golpeado, pero no vencido. En ella se pone de relieve todo el misterio de la condición hu...

The African Great Lakes region, where conflict resolution and peace operations have been a challenge for 50 years, has been the site of continuous conflicts in the 1960s and 1990s. Despite South Africa's enormous contribution as a peacemaker in the region since 1996, the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains fragile.How can another potentially deadly conflict in the Great Lakes region be prevented in the future? And h...

Amidst the growing popularity of complex dialog systems it has become quite difficult to grasp the implementation of such systems. The intention of this document is to introduce the designers and researchers new to this field to tools and design techniques which may be used to develop dialog systems. We looked into systems such as OpenEphyra, Trindikit and Ariadne. We then shifted our gaze to MyBus, a text based dialog system which makes use o...

Currently, destinations are finding themselves in a position where they have to compete for the spending of tourists. Specific branding strategies, where emphasis is put on a destination's strengths, are an effective way to stand out from the crowd. Thailand is a country where food and food experiences are of high value, not only to the local population, but also for tourists. Therefore, I wanted to research the extent to which Thailand could ...

Why do we go on holiday? Is it just to put our bodies into the sunshine, or occupy our muscles while hiking? No, the tourism product is mainly a psychological product which satisfies the need for tourists to consume images and experiences. Images which have evolved and shaped through time by all the senses involved. However, one could wonder if music and sounds have more value than it seems and if it is acknowledged rightfully. This book discu...

This research aims to shed light into the influence of trademarks on the due diligence process of VC funds. Finding the most-promising and eventually outpacing start-ups is at the core of a venture capitalist's activities. VCs seek herefor signals that ease the process. Previous research shows that intellectual property plays a significant role in a VC's decision-making. Due to the growing importance of trademarks, on the one hand, to protect ...

HIV/AIDS: A Critical Discourse Analysis of selected Zimbabwe broadcasting Corporation Television Advertisements that deal with HIV/AIDS issues is a book that examines the communicative strategies used in addressing destigimatisation, protection against HIV/AIDS, prevention of mother to child transmission, HIV/AIDS transmission modes and abstinence from pre-marital sex. It uses CDA as an analysis tool. It establishes that language is persuasive...

This book initially provides a review of controlled drug delivery systems and an overview of microencapsulation methods with emphasis on the emulsion solvent removal methods. The book then presents studies conducted on producing microspheres containing commonly used drugs such as Theophylline, Piroxicam and Propylthiouracil. The book also discusses various formulation and processing parameters affecting microsphere-drug products. Such factors ...