Grief is the price we pay for love-and for those who have loved deeply, the grief can be overwhelming. In The Deeper the Love, The Greater the Grief: Hope Beyond the Tears, Raymond Smith shares his raw, heartfelt journey through the loss of his wife, Wendy, after 33 years of marriage. Drawing from Scripture, personal stories, and the presence of God in the darkest moments, this book is an invitation to every grieving soul to find hope on the other side of sorrow.

Old photographs allow us to relive the past a little and this excellent collection of more than 200 photographs of Blackburn will bring back memories for many. The author has chosen the earliest images of the town for the book from his own extensive collection of old picture postcards and used a selection of press photographs borrowed from the photo-archives of Wally and Howard Talbot to provide some very evocative images of Blackburn in the 1950s and '60s. Through these pages the reader h...

Blackburn Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of Blackburn, the famous streets and the famous faces, and what they meant to the people of this area throughout the 19th and into the 20th Century. Looking beyond the exquisite exterior of these well-kept photos, readers can see the historical context in which they are set, and through the author's factual captions for every pictur...

This book explores and progresses the concept of negotiation as a means of describing and explaining individuals’ learning in work. It challenges the undertheorised and generic use of the concept in contemporary work-learning research where the concept of negotiation is most often deployed as a taken for granted synonym for interaction, co-participation and collaboration and, hence, used to unproblematically account for workers’ learning as engagement in social activity. Through a focus on...

Successful Christian Living is about using the laws of success and applying them to the Christian life.

This book details Anne Allbright Smith's eleven days of discomfort and pain as she voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to bring about her own death. This was despite compassionate hospice care throughout.There is overwhelming public support for Medical Aid in Dying (MAID). Yet only ten states and the District of Columbia have MAID statutes on their books. Why won't more legislators support the will of their constituents?By contrast, our pets have quick, humane a...

Life's Greatest lessons is a combination of three of my short stories. Part one: Frank & Mabel, Part two: The Greatest Story Ever Told, and Part three: Miracle on I-26.

The book starts with the Peter Waldo standing up for what he believed in. He was kicked out of the church, so he started his own religion. The Waldensians came to America to escape religion burden. Their lives was compared to the story from the Bible when the children of Israel crossed the Jordan River, they were told to pick up a stone, one for each of the 12 tribes.

The good life is a combination of two short stories. First is about my experience at the Richard Petty Driving School and my experience with racing most of my life. The second is about a speech I gave on What it's like to be Married Twice.

Mind Over Matter is about hypnosis. It teaches self-hypnosis.

This book inductively develops a new typology that identifies and evaluates three principal strategies that have been, and are being, used to extend international human rights protections to new categories of vulnerable populations.The book explicates the evolution and ongoing utility of the three strategies: categorical enlargement, conceptual expansion, and group-conscious universal application. The strategies are elucidated by case studies of nine distinct vulnerable populations...

He was forced to leave town because of a greedy person who wanted to run a town. One multi-million dollar business was stolen by one of his best friends. In all this he managed to survive and start over. He offers suggests how you can overcome any adversity.