What if the problem with desire is not that we want what we can’t have, but that we don’t want it enough? What if desire itself - the gap between wanting and having - is the key to living well? Holiness and Desire explores these questions, considering what a distinctive holiness might look like in our highly sexualized modern culture.

Selected poems from a respected African American poetVisit our Events page for details about the Kent screening of the new film Jump Back, Honey: The Poetry and Performance of Herbert Woodward Martin.Herbert Woodward Martin’s body of poetry from the past five decades is, in many ways, matched by no one else. His many poetic voices range from quiet lyrics to angry protest poems, from groundbreaking counterpoint str...

The book Awaken the Millionaire Within sums up the teacher Carlos Wizard Martins’ path for success in business. Backed by the strength of its author’s example, it takes on the importance of a manual capable of motivating anyone to kiss conformity goodbye and, with perseverance, leave behind an anonymous life in which one only earns money to pay off debts. As he himself says and teaches, 'one has to be enterprising to prosper!'

Are you ready for an exciting Halloween adventure on the Lunar Station? This audiobook contains 24 spine-tingling stories full of secrets, ghosts and unexpected encounters. Join Astro, Claire and their friends as they explore invisible figures, ancient catacombs and mysterious machines. Whether it's the brave Ozelot traveling through space or Erik being suddenly surprised by a floating lantern, each story will take you closer to the edge of the moon and make your heart beat faster. But bew...

Years of top-secret government experiments in modification of the world's weather systems has resulted in increasingly violent storms and "natural" disasters on a global scale. Victor Sine, Chief of Security, receives information causing him to believe his entire weather control project may be compromised by the unwitting or intentional actions of John Wayment, a popular TV personality in Denver, Colorado. National security requires he be stopped, bought off, or otherwise compromised....

A revised edition of the internationally acclaimed biography of the prophet• Includes important additions about the prophet's spread of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states• Contains original English translations from 8th and 9th century biographies, presented in authoritative language• Represents the final updates made on the text before the author's death in 2005Martin Lings' biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and ...

No one knows more about every branch of magic than Tabitha Greene. She devoted years to studying the most esoteric texts, hunting down the most obscure source materials, and deciphering the most cryptic ancient scrolls. But her career in academia hits a dead end when no wizard will take her on as an apprentice.Just because, despite being descended from two long and prestigious lines of witches, her attempts to actually perform any magic always fail. Often spectacularly.But ...

Do you want to know the techniques of dark psychology?Do you think you are being manipulated, and that someone controls your mind and your actions?Does the idea of mind control fascinate you?If you want to understand the effects of mental manipulation, to recognize and contrast them instantly, then keep reading...In this book, you will find detailed information on mind control. You will learn how the process is created and how it is imposed to the victim. A ...

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords?

The dominant star shaped fortress on Spike Island testifies to it's strategic importance in the once heavily fortified bastion of British military might that was Cork Harbour. Beneath and around this edifice however lies the story of an island steeped in extensive Irish heritage that stretches further back into the mists of Irelands past beyond the arrival of the Normans and on through to the darkest period of Irish history. From an island of ecclesiastical retrea...

Initially projected as a maritime reconnaissance version of the Lincoln bomber, itself a development of the famous wartime Lancaster which saw post-war service in a General/Maritime Reconnaissance role, (see Flight Craft No 4), the Avro Shackleton, (named after the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton) was a completely new design, powered by four Rolls Royce Griffon 57 engines driving six blade contra-rotating propellers.Split into three main sections, this latest Flight Craft title, perfe...

"Martin King tells the human side of the story of the Battle of the Bulge better than anyone."Commander Jeffrey Barta, US Navy (retired)"I have walked the battlefields with Martin King, who has traversed them countless times with veterans of the Bulge. No one knows this story like Martin, and no one can tell it quite the way he does."Rick Beyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Ghost Army of World War II