From beyond the unknowns of the Mighty Brim Mountains of the west they camehordes of nomadic giants called Troguares led by a merciless warlord, Obizar, their king. With the use of dark sorcery and having an insatiable appetite to conquer an entire world, he and his armies slowly swept across the land for nearly thousand years, bringing kingdom after kingdom of men to their knees, leaving death and destruction in their wake. While both enslaving and supplementing them as food, he held all ...

Jack Kerouac meets Arthur Rimbaud for the millennial generation. A debut poetry collection from LA-based Australian writer, singer, songwriter Cody Simpson who has penned hit songs and toured worldwide for the majority of his young life.Conjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, ***Prince Neptune***presents poems and prose on themes of life, love, fame, escapism, environmentalism, with an overarching narrative of nature...

The nations of Subsaharan Africa experienced declining levels of food production per capita throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly in the area of livestock production. Addressing that problem, the authors of this book assess in a systems context the environmental, biological, and social constraints on future African livestock development and consider prospects for improving productivity, They focus especially on changes needed in production and marketing systems, pointing to im...

What if the opportunity to connect with God was as close as your next breath?Many of us yearn for a deeper connection with God but struggle to find the time or space to cultivate it in the midst of our busy lives. The daily stress of meeting familial, work, and personal responsibilities leaves us longing to connect with God and find rest for our souls. We crave intimacy with our Creator and the peace that only God’s presence can give.With God in Every Breath invites you on ...

Leave the self-doubt behind — get fully grounded in effective perinatal care, with Perinatal Nursing, 5th Edition, an official publication of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). This freshly updated, comprehensive resource offers expert guidelines and best practices for the full range of patient care issues, from cultural practices and pregnancy complications to newborn assessments and nutrition. Stay current with this must-have, evidence-based suppor...

Set against the contrasting backdrops of Wisconsin’s pristine Northwoods, known as God’s country, and the hustle and bustle of the Windy City, unfolds a mystery of unique characters with complicated pasts and conflicting agendas—the innocent, the socialites, the vigilantes, the village chief of police, the world-weary veteran detective, and the trust-fund sluggard.When the body of a twenty-six-year-old ne’er-do-well from an elite family of Chicago’s North Shore is found half-consume...

Issues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not only further develop current theoretical ideas around being seen and unseen within organizations, but will also provide us with the opportunity to problematize the concepts of visibility and invisibility.

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden Age as a handmaiden in struggles against colonialism, to difficult decades when its survival has been threatened by capricious political and economic conditions, and the uncertain present where the continent’s historians struggle to justify their value to frequently sceptical publics.In exploring the discipline’s prac...

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume IV, marks Donne's establishment as Dean of St. Paul's and his full entry into the central arena of London's ecclesiastical and civic life. Preaching now in "Old St. Paul's," Donne found himself at the heart of England's capital, addressing not only cathedral congregations but also civic gatherings, court audiences, and public assemblies at Paul's Cross and the Spittle. The sermons of this volume vividly ref...

The Sermons of John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, Volume X, brings to completion the monumental sequence of Donne's preaching, concluding with his final and most famous sermon, *Deaths Duell*, delivered before King Charles I in February 1631. Spanning the breadth of his ministry, this concluding collection situates Donne's work in its full arc—from his late and hesitant ordination, through his triumph as Dean of St. Paul's, to the physical decline and spiritual i...

Some very few amongst are a little different. They look the same, possibly act the same but, somehow, we might suspect that they are a little out of tune, a little off.Their difference is that they have dark powers. Powers for the greedy benefit of themselves and not you or I. In these stories our authors have them doing some quite unconscionable actions that disturb and menace those around them and of course you and I.

The Sermons of John Donne, edited with introductions and critical apparatus by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, Volume III, traces Donne's preaching from April 1620 to February 1622, a transitional period culminating in his appointment as Dean of St. Paul's. The sermons of these years reveal striking fluctuations of tone. In the early months Donne is preoccupied with human frailty, lamenting the "vanity of vanities" and expressing unease at the political and religious upheavals of E...