This purpose of this book is to provide wise, spiritual insight and motivation in achieving goals. It looks at life through the lens of a Christian perspective while adding practical application and faith. The objective is to strengthen and grow the spirit of the reader.

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking, argues that mor...

Edward the Elder succeeded his father Alfred the Great to the kingdom of Wessex, but was largely overlooked by his contemporaries (at least in terms of the historical record) and to a greater or lesser extent by later historians. He is the forgotten son of Alfred. Edward deserves to be recognised for his contribution to Anglo-Saxon history and a new assessment of his reign is overdue. He proved equal to the task of cementing and extending the advances made by his father, and paved the way ...

This is a history of the kingdom of Wessex told through its more than twenty regnal kings, from its early foundations under Cerdic circa 500 to its apogee in 886 under Alfred the Great. Its roots are traced to the migration of Germanic tribes in the fifth century, with two of these tribes, the West Saxons of Hampshire and the Gewisse of the Upper Thames Valley, eventually uniting to form what would become the kingdom of Wessex.We move from the post-Roman period, in which Cerdic and...

Godwin and his family dominated English politics for almost half a century, establishing themselves as the most influential and powerful dynasty in Anglo-Saxon England. At the height of its power, it took a matter of weeks for the dynasty to fall. Earl Godwin established himself as Cnut’s most senior advisor and continued that role to become even more influential during the reign of Edward the Confessor, seeing his daughter Edith become queen and his two eldest sons, Swegn and Harold, give...

Chinese Herbs is an illustrated encyclopedia of over 250 herbs for medical problems ranging from anemia to TB.Chinese traditional medicine (TCM) has been gaining popularity as a respectable field in of herbal medicine. This comprehensive guide offers information specifically designed for Western readers.Each entry includes the herb's Latin name, its English name, the name in Chinese characters, a botanical description, a pharmaceutical description,...

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For centuries the Drehhu have ruled every continent, brutally enslaving the human inhabitants. Now after endless wars the human empires of Ophion, Velesa, and Modjal have pushed the inhuman enemy back to their heartland and unite in a final, massive assault.The victors will rule from The Basilisk ThroneAlastor Nevelon and his son Crespin set sail against the Drehhu, and they have their own secret weapons. Yet Alastor is forced to send his daughter Chrysanthe to the capitol ...

Commencing in 2001, the Europa Lecture has become a high-profile fixture on the EU-New Zealand calendar. As witnessed by the fifteen lectures reproduced in this new volume, the speakers were selected for both their high-level profile as well as their importance to this bilateral dialogue. This volume includes speeches from three Prime Ministers, a President, four European Commissioners as well as four Foreign Ministers both European and New Zealanders.Each lecture, naturally, refle...

Edited and produced from the lecture notes of his students at the University of Geneva, the Course in General Linguistics was first published in 1916, three years after its author’s death. The book sets out Saussure’s theory that all languages share the same underlying structure, regardless of historical or cultural context. Using examples, he describes a new structuralist approach to understanding how words convey meaning. Saussure also draws a distinction between specific speech acts and...

A charming, humorous, and colorful coming-of-age memoirBay Boy is a collection of essays by award-winning young adult author Watt Key, chronicling his boyhood in Point Clear, Alabama. During his childhood, Point Clear was not the tony enclave of today with its spas, art galleries, and multimillion dollar waterfront properties. Rather, it was a sleepy resort community, practically deserted in the winter, with a considerable population of working-class resid...

From the fog-draped streets of Athlone, Ireland, to the grandest concert halls and opera houses on both sides of the Atlantic, the story of John McCormack reads like something conjured from the most ambitious works of fiction. Yet every word is true. Born into modest circumstances in 1884, this legendary Irish tenor defied every expectation, overcame every obstacle, and climbed to the very summit of the musical world through nothing but the extraordinary power of a voice that could reduce ...