The adventure continues—bigger, bolder, and more unpredictable than ever.Following the events of My Own Little Place – Volume 1: Adventures in the Quest to Find One’s Place in Life, this second installment takes listeners deeper into the extraordinary lives of Bronagh, Finn, and their eclectic team. While newcomers can dive into this volume on its own, returning listeners will find richer meaning and continuity by starting with Volume 1.In The Show Must Go On, life doesn't ...

From the depths of despair, her adventures bring to life curious mysteries, rising the Phoenix in Bronagh’s life. A brainy young woman, she needs her questions answered, like she needs gold dust. Finn’s life is barren. Does he believe romance applies to him? No he does not.Rich Celtic culture in Ireland and beyond has underlying secrets. We are lured in and want to know more.Weaving through the mazes and baffling laid down codes unlocks the doors to secrets that will empowe...

This Brief provides a comprehensive introduction to the control of blood flow in the brain. Beginning with the basic physiology of autoregulation, the author goes on to discuss measurement techniques, mathematical models, methods of analysis, and relevant clinical conditions, all within this single volume. The author draws together this disparate field, and lays the groundwork for future research directions.The text gives an up-to-date review of the state of the art in cerebral aut...

With big dreams and steadfast determination, 15-year-old figure skater, Rachael Cohen, sets her sights on making the US Olympic Team. Then tragedy strikes her family and Rachael's life is completely upended. Finding herself alone in a small Vermont town, she is rescued by the venerable county Sheriff, Harry Thurber, his kind-hearted wife, Bea, and their handsome young farmhand, Tommy Couture. Filled with emotional suspense and the healing power of love, Almost April is a dramatic coming-of...

Life On A Cliff is the highly-anticipated sequel to Payne’s award-winning novel Cliff Walking. Famous seascape artist Francis Monroe has come to love Kate Johnson and her artistic son Stringer, who were tracked from California to Maine by their abusive husband and father, Leland. After surviving a brutal attack and a subsequent grueling trial, Francis assumes they can all enjoy a normal life together. Kate, however, is anything but settled as her old demons of addiction a...

Set on the rocky and at times unforgiving coast of Maine, Stephen Russell Payne’s emotionally powerful debut novel, Cliff Walking, shares a poignant tale of loss and love that weaves together the lives of three desperate people who struggle mightily to find a way to save each other. Kate Johnson is a recovering addict from California, married to a cunning, cruel man named Leland Johnson. When she gathers the strength to escape her hellish life, she leaves with her bright, artistic twelve-y...

This book introduces both qualitative and quantitative aspects of human physiology through language and concepts familiar to engineers and other physical scientists. It looks at biological and physiological processes and phenomena, including a selection of mathematical models, showing how physiological problems can be mathematically formulated and studied. It also illustrates how a wide range of engineering and physics topics, including electronics, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics and cont...

This book provides an introduction to qualitative and quantitative aspects of human physiology. It examines biological and physiological processes and phenomena, including a selection of mathematical models, showing how physiological problems can be mathematically formulated and studied. It also illustrates how a wide range of engineering and physics topics, such as electronics, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics and control theory can be used to describe and understand physiological processe...

You want more out of life. You want your work to make a difference. Despite your accomplishments, you feel there is something moremore joy, more love, more importance, more satisfactionthat eludes you. Yet youve been successful and invested time and energy in improving yourself and your relationships. So why do your life and your career have emptiness? And how can you rebuild that incredible sense of meaning in todays chaotic world?The Joy of Work shows that the answer is already w...

The Long Battle for Global Governance charts the manner in which largely excluded countries, variously described as ‘ex-colonial’, ‘underdeveloped’, ‘developing’, ‘Third World’ and lately ‘emerging’, have challenged their relationship with the dominant centres of power and major institutions of global governance across each decade from the 1940s to the present.The book offers a fresh perspective on global governance by focusing in particular on the ways in which these coun...

Collecting material from five different manuscript sources, Matthew N. Payne and J. Stephen Yuille present sermon material from William Perkins that helps us understand how his original listeners heard the grand preacher. Viewing the transcribed sermons enlightens us to the editorial process that eventually turned Perkins’s homilies into published books and commentaries. Yet this collection also contains sermons that never turned into published books, opening up a new window into some of P...

A funny, moving and heartfelt memoir of social upheaval from postwar Britain to the digital age.Patrick Langley Griffin OAM grew up in the post war years of a gloomy Britain in the 40s and 50s and his career spanned fifty years as a hotelier in Grand hotels across the UK, Europe and Australia. His memoir is filled with characters famous, infamous and hitherto unknown. From his first star encounter with Charlie Chaplin, the memoir is overflowing with tales of film stars, rock legend...