A Tony Crowne Christmas mystery just in time for the holidays.Santa Claus is accused of a devious crime and hauled off to the local slammer. Santa refuses to defend himself and may spend Christmas in a lonely jail cell. The world's celebration of the Christmas holiday hangs by a thread. Will Tony Crowne and his friends free Santa in time to deliver presents?

"Unfiltered Love" is not just a collection of sermons but a blueprint for physical transformation. George's ability to articulate complex issues with clarity and heartfelt insights into relationships and marriage makes this book a must-read for anyone committed to creating positive change. In a world where relationships are often viewed as curses rather than fulfillment, George's enduring message challenges readers to find profound endings to their relationships. This book is a treasure tr...

Automotive Vehicle Safety is a unique academic text, practical design guide and valuable reference book. It provides information that is essential for specialists to make better-informed decisions. The book identifies and discusses key generic safety principles and their applications and includes decision-making criteria, examples and remedies. It

The story in this book is not about how one man against all odds took his family halfway around the world from Siberia to America. This is about how God reveals his wisdom, power, and knowledge in our present, everyday lives!

Neurological Disorders is the latest and fifth monograph in the series on management and treatment in major clinical specialties or patient groups. Each book is complete in'its own right and has been prepared by practising physicians with an interest in treatment and management, together with scientists involved in clinical research. The volumes are intended to fill a gap between standard textbooks of medicine and therapeutics and research reviews, symposia and original articles in supersp...

This book contains the author’s (George N.H. Peters) never before published 1907 study notes on the biblical book of Revelation.Mr. Peters unique approach to interpretation faithfully adheres to the the plain grammatical sense of scripture. By doing so He successfully combines biblical prophecy with oath-bound covenants (Abrahamic and Davidic) to unlock this book’s predominant symbolic language.Peters correctly identifies Jesus (not St. John) as the real source of this prop...

Canoe across large lakes, up and down rivers and rapids; labour over portages and through a miasma of blackflies; bask in the golden evenings of the Subarctic. In this account of an 800-mile canoe trip -- which begins at Reindeer Lake on the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border, continues into Nunavut past the treeline, and ends on Hudson Bay -- Peter Kazaks conveys the experience of being in the north by describing the daily details that bring the trip to life. He captures the flavour of an exten...

Homo sapiens emerged as a species about 200,000 years ago and soon––with fire, simple tools, and an egalitarian social system––we inhabited every continent. But now our infinitely elaborated tools and our highly non-egalitarian social system threaten sustainability. Many at the bottom lose the desire to live, committing suicide or succumbing to drugs, alcohol, and obesity. As women gain education and contraception, they lose the desire to reproduce, and our species' total fertility plummet...

People undertake action learning work in small groups to tackle organisational and social problems and to learn from their experience of working together to bring about change. Having a dedicated facilitator or a coach for a group can make the process more effective and rewarding. This book provides examples and analyses of effective behaviours of action learning facilitators and coaches.Action learning is an approach to individual, team and organisational learning. In an action le...

"Jones provides a nuanced perspective on both the promise and limits of this unheralded form of unofficial diplomacy." —Stephen J. Del Rosso, Director, International Peace and Security, Carnegie Corporation of New YorkTrack Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy. Sadly, those involve...

The last five years have witnessed an increasing interest in the subject of transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) as illustrated by the number of abstracts presented at the meetings of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology (Figure). The ideas and concepts associated with this particular method of myocardial revascularization have changed dramatically over even this short period of time. The original premise of "de-evolving" mammalian hearts to recrea...

There are stories that strike like a bullet—swift, precise, and inescapable. Mateo Falcone is one of them.In the sun-scorched Corsican wilderness, where honor is measured in blood and a man's word is as unyielding as the mountains, a moment of hesitation can seal one's fate. A fugitive seeking refuge, a child faced with an impossible choice, a father whose sense of justice knows no mercy—Mérimée paints a world where tradition rules with an iron grip, and betrayal, no matte...