Peaceful Public Speaking is a practical guide to overcoming the fear of public speaking. This book starts a new conversation about the dynamics of public speaking that will transform the way you think about giving a speech and can turn your anxiety into anticipation. If you could imagine, even if briefly, that the thoughts you are thinking are the cause of your upset. Setting the self-doubt aside just long enough to imprint a new or different idea on your consciousness can lead to a confid...

Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured both reading practices and our understanding of the novel as art.Despite claims that theory is a relic of a previous era of literary study, theory's fundamental assumptions persist in the belief that we as readers take an active role in the production of the meaning of the work of art. To make this case, Mode of Address returns to the 196...

She was nineteen years old, just finished her first year of college, and her future was overflowing with possibilities. Thats what she thought until that tragic night, the night when her future came to a screeching halt and her car was struck by a drunk driver. Nothing could have prepared her for the turn of events that quickly followed. Excruciating pain, paralysis, emergency surgery, and then the fateful words she had to hear. Im sorry, you will never walk again.Kay Loy Avers was now a p...

This story takes into the account of a young lady with a normal life of a Christian mother and housewife suddenly introduced to a changed life beyond the normal by learning of spiritually foretelling events that would change everything for her. Events occur over the course of several years which inevitably changed her normal life pushed to an eye-opening world of learning how to deal with extremes, a wider meaning for her religious beliefs, and learning about struggling and success, but mo...

An all new suspense romance from USA Today bestselling author Dakota Davies featuring a woman in hiding and the small town cop who breaks all the rules to protect her.It’s been a year since a serial killer put my small town on the map. A year of chasing my tail in an investigation of dead ends and false leads while the families wait for justice. When the killer strikes again, I’m drawn into a desperate race against time to stop him once and for all.It's har...

The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! All aboard for an engine adventure! Toby the Tram Engine doesn’t have many passengers – everyone thinks he is too old-fashioned. Can he prove that he is still Really Useful?

The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! All aboard for an engine adventure! Emily has a bumpy start when she first arrives on Sodor. Will the other engines ever want to be friends?

Making links between different professional roles, policies and practices, this book equips readers swith the skills, knowledge and understanding that managers, practitioners and students require to work in integrated multiprofessional settings. It draws on case studies to consider the dilemmas, challenges and complexities common within workplaces.Chapters cover:- roles, policies and practices in integrated services- quality assessment in a multiprofessional context...

Score big with this BRAND NEW steamy single dad ice hockey romance!⛸️❤️ Perfect for fans of Heated Rivalry, Chelsea Curto and Elle Kennedy!FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING SPORTS ROMANCE AUTHOR KELLY JAMIESONTropes: Sports romance Single dad Friends to lovers Alpha male Forced proximity Slow burn Spicy af!An unexpected game changer…Ford

Written with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly poignant work that succeeds not only as a memoir but as a moving account that will inspire listeners to recall their own childhoods in a totally new light.Eager to retell the narrative of her own family and her coming-of-age, Patti Davis casts aside misperceptions that defined her in the past. Far from being the enfant terrible, Dear Mom...

From USA Today bestselling author Dakota Davies comes a small town suspense romance about a star quarterback and the shy musician he’s never stopped loving.When I fell in love with my best friend’s little sister, we were just kids. Not that it mattered. Charlotte was my forever. I knew it then and I know it now. But everything fell apart that summer before college. I tried to fight for us, but it was impossible, not with our goals pulling us apart, and her silence....

Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm. In fact, most white evangelicals see no systematic discrimination against blacks. But the authors contend that it is n...