This book is a true story from my heart. As my life unfolds before you, I hope you will see the truth for yourself and discover an inner meaning for your life.My life has touched many lives, but as you will see, has not left a good impression of my past.If I could have changed anything, at the time it would have been to listen to those who loved me. In my own way, by telling this story, it's perhaps a way of saying I am sorry for all the pe...

On Renewal Night, the North will begin to die.It is nearing Renewal Night, where Arna, supreme god of the Northlands, renews the rule of his empire.Tyr is seventeen and lives in a village, so he usually pays little attention to such things. This changes when he receives startling visions of the sacred past and witnesses a joyful spirit of fire dancing amongst the revellers at a feast. The priests of Arna are left baffled by Tyr’s experiences, summoning him in their hour of ...

If Only I Knew Then is the fourth and final novel in the series that began with Nursery Rhymes, They Never Saw It Coming, and Vengeance Is Mine. Shean O'Brien is on a relentless path of vengeance, driven by the tragic deaths of his younger twin brothers, who were shot while trying to run a roadblock in Northern Ireland by the British Army. Adding to his fury is the torture he endured at the hands of the police after being arrested twice. Using his cunning, O'Brien has managed to escape the...

An exploration of Harold Pinter's work in the theatre – through interviews with the man himself and with actors and directors who worked with him.Eight actors and directors who worked with Pinter in the theatre talk candidly about what it's like to appear in a Pinter play, to direct a Pinter play, to be directed by Pinter, to work alongside Pinter as an actor.The voices belong to directors Katie Mitchell and Sam Mendes, and to actors Barry Foster, Susan Engel, Roger Lloyd P...

Listed as one of the five worst international selections ever, and described in a book about Scottish rugby as ‘a full back slower than your average prop’, Ian Smith cheerfully won eight caps for Scotland in a career that saw him score every point for his team on his debut in an historic victory over South Africa (and in so doing became the first Scottish full back to score a Test try) and defeated a star-studded England team to lift the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield in the 1970 Five Nations...

Good assessment focuses mainly on improvement and is used to support progress. It helps learners to know how well they have learned and provides feedback on how they can do better; it encourages learners to support and help each other; it builds self-motivation, self-confidence and self-reliance. Sound familiar? These are the principles of formative assessment. They're at the heart of the national Assessment for Learning initiative and they form the core of the "Assessment & Learning Pocke...

In Setting the Captives Free Marion Carson sets out to answer the question, what does the Bible say about human trafficking? Aimed at Christian anti-trafficking activists and church groups, the book offers an overview of the biblical material on slavery and the sex trade. Acknowledging that there is a difference between the biblical worldview and most Christians today with regard to slavery, it suggests that we can learn much from the Abolitionists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centurie...

In July 2007, Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7,634 per cent, deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment.Months later, on 20 November 2007, Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black majority rule and the dangers that he believed it would bring to his country.Ian Smith was a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions i...

Creating business value is not easy. The facts are sobering: Out of 27.3m US enterprises, 26.7m are employing less than 20 people and only 5,000 to 10,000 US enterprises are selling out for $10m or more each year. That’s a 1 in 6,000 chance. Therefore, I ask you, are you sure you are increasing business value? Operational tips are needed more than ever. After nearly 100 blog posts of The Smith Report—and many requests for a compilation--I decided to bring these one-page business tutorials ...

A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby … a Nobel Prize–winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . .The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally combative sleuth.World-renowned Dartmouth professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he e...

In Nursery Rhymes, D.C.I. Keir Dickson put two young brothers behind bars for eight years. In They Never Saw It Coming, the government devised a two-year plan to reduce the congested English prisons. A priest by the name of Fr. Sean O'Brien takes on the task of rehabilitating the two brothers, or so it appeared. The real purpose of taking on these two brothers was to wreak vengeance on the police and British army. D.C.I. Keir Dickson foils the priest plan, who is injured, and loses his rig...

It is essential to build effective health systems to deliver universal health coverage, especially for low-middle income countries. This action guide presents key practical actions within primary health care that contribute to promote public and community health, prevent disease, improve living conditions, water, sanitation, nutrition, immunization, and encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Written with a particular focus on low-middle income countries, it explains key approaches a...