Here are poems with music matched to matter, so that reading them often involves both swoon and startle: “When it folds open, the rule-less rile / of sky,” Evans, writes, “the comets and giants. And also: / books, chamomile, and more kissing.” Panoramic in time and space, Lives knows each of us, our ordinary lives and our occupancy within history and the universe, our yearning for connection: “And if I turned to you now, my one wet muscle run dry, would you / turn to me? And what ...

This concise book provides some guidelines and advice for people wanting to live a life according to Christian principles. Since immorality has become commonplace in modern society, the focus is on avoiding sin. The author encourages people to either get married or to be celibate, since those are the options considered acceptable by God's standards.

No matter what your title or place on the organization chart, you have the potential to be a leaderor more precisely, the potential to exercise leadership in the moments that matter most. Leadership is not a job title or position, but rather an action. In certain moments and situations, anyone can rise to the occasion to act as a leadergaining respect, confidence, and ultimately greater success in the organization. But how can you recognize these moments where leadership is required, and t...

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations.Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology fills a need for entrepreneurs, designers, and marketing professionals in the application of foundational psychology to user-experience design. The first generation of books on the topic focused on web pages and cognitive psych...

This 10-Day Bodyweight-Only Training Guide can help you get started in your fitness journey, increase your strength AND track your strength's progression. I've designed this program so that each day's training session is a Total Body Workout, so there's no need to worry about missing a specific day of training if/when life happens. Since each week's exercises also build upon the previous week's, you will challenge yourself and get stronger physically. Weights, a gym, and other equipment ar...

Designed for Intermediate-Advanced Level Athletes, this is an eight (8) week Strength Training Program created to get you strong. You'll need access to gym equipment such as a workout bench, squat rack, barbells, and dumbbells. This workout isn't "pretty." It’s a strength training program centered around "Big Lifts" with some additional accessory and bodyweight exercises to test your muscular and cardiovascular endurance. At the end of this program, you’ll see an increase in strength, powe...

We live spiritually when we live in the presence of God.The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is often read for his contributions to Christian theology, but he also has much to offer about spirituality—both Christian and more generally human.C. Stephen Evans assesses Kierkegaard's belief that true spirituality should be seen as accountability: the grateful recognition of our existence as gift. Spirituality takes on a Christian flavor when one recognizes in Jesus Christ t...

An Collins' Divine Songs and Meditacions were first printed in a small octavo volume in London in 1653. The only extant copy is presently held at The Huntington Library and it is, therefore, this copy that is reproduced in this facsimile edition. It is an important text because it is one of the earliest volumes of collected poems by an English woman in the seventeenth century. The poems are especially intriguing because of the glimpses they provide into the life and mind of a woman writer ...

C.G Evans is from Amesbury Massachusetts where she then moved to Gibsonton Florida at the age of thirteen, graduating from East Bay High School. She served in the United States Army where she accomplished Airborne school, the Physical Demand Study, three deployments to the middle east, and received 17 awards and ribbons. After her service, she moved to Knoxville Tennessee where she then went to the University of Tennessee. She now resides in her husband’s home town in Flor...

This popular textbook provides a detailed examination of the central assertions of measure theory in n-dimensional Euclidean space, with emphasis upon the roles of Hausdorff measure and capacity in characterizing the fine properties of sets and functions.Measure Theory and Fine Properties of Functions, Second Edition includes many interesting items working mathematical analysts need to know, but are rarely taught. Topics covered include a review of abstract measure...

More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth. These tiny arachnids play many ecological roles including acting as vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation, and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites, even trained biologists are often unaware of their significance. Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (2nd edition) aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of these intriguing creatures....

You don't need a gym membership to get strong. Your body weight can help you with this. Using my 28-Day Bodyweight-Only Training Guide can help you increase your strength AND track your strength's progression. I've designed this program so that each day's training session is a Total Body Workout, so there's no need to worry about missing a specific day of training if/when life happens. Each week's exercises also build upon the previous week's, keeping you challenged while helping you get s...