"The Call of a Shepherd's Song" by Michael Doyle is about faith and the essential meaning of Christmas and is dedicated to his daughters, Angelique and Sierra. Each segment compares negative traits in people with the positive qualities spoken of in the Bible; this results in a call to follow faith, love and discipline. Rather than accepting the exaggerated Christmas traditions of gluttony, envy, lust, greed, wrath and sloth, Part I calls for moderation, kindness, ...

Part 1 of the Wade Asher Series - After his exile from the elite intelligence arm of the Admiralty, agent Wade Asher returns to take on a mission at the highest levels. Wade must infiltrate a brutal separatist group in a journey flying high above Centralia City in wayrides and diving through the deepest sewers to face the nightmarish creatures that lurk beneath the polluted waters.Wade Asher - Agent of Admiralty is a spy thriller set within the sci-fi world of the Admiralty. In a f...

The Third Edition of Michael Doyle's classic Color Drawing remains the ultimate up-to-date resource for professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings.Update with over 100 pages, this Third Edition contains an entirely new section focused on state-of-the-art digital techniques to greatly enhance the sophistication of presentation drawings, and offers new and innovative ideas for the reproduction and dist...

In today's competitive business world, organizations are always investigating techniques to encourage employee engagement, raise morale, and create positive work environments. In "The Appreciative Organization," respected author Michael M. Doyle provides a pioneering method that unveils the changing power of appreciation in the workplace.Through real-life examples, case studies, and concrete approaches, this book delivers crucial insights into the function of appreciation in develo...

In "Dawn of a New Era," Michael M. Doyle investigates the ramifications of globalization's demise, revealing a world full of uncertainties and potential. Doyle's comprehensive study and astute analysis shed light on the difficulties that face humanity as it enters a new era.Doyle presents a comprehensive picture of the multiple concerns altering our planet, from economic changes and cultural dispersion to environmental awakening and technological developments.He investigate...

The exponentially increasing production of new data and the advancements in AI learning tools will require teachers to rethink their roles if they are to prepare their students to thrive in this new age of data. The New Science of Teaching: Rethinking a Teachers Role in the Age of Data details the three vital roles teachers must fill in this age of data. The first is to optimize students' learning by teaching in harmony with the most current research on how the brain takes in and ...

The criminal record of Kenneth Allen McDuff, spanning from the mid-1960s to his execution in 1998, represents a critical intersection of psychopathy, institutional corruption, and tectonic shifts in American jurisprudence. McDuff holds a singular and grim distinction in the history of the United States legal system as the only individual to be sentenced to death on three separate occasions for unrelated homicides, a fact that highlights the catastrophic failure of the Texas parole system d...

Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't. Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis argue that each mission must be designed to fit the conflict, with the right authority and adequate resources. UN missions can be effective by supporting new actors committed to the peace, building governing ins...

"By the table, in a wooden arm-chair, the master of the house was seated all in a heap, with his head sunk upon his left shoulder, and that ghastly, inscrutable smile upon his face. He was stiff and cold, and had clearly been dead many hours. It seemed to me that not only his features but all his limbs were twisted and turned in the most fantastic fashion. By his hand upon the table there lay a peculiar instrument,—a brown, close-grained stick, with a stone head like a hammer, rudely lashe...

SUBTERFUGE SOBRIETY is a collection of obscene poems, songs, and pieces of prose that reflect on the abstruseness of modern literature, the chaotic political climate of new millennium, and the absurdist nature of life. Some may call it charming and deep. Others may call it pervasive and degenerate. It’s all of the above - and more! So, if you are in the mood for disturbing nonsense, this book might be your cup of tea or coffee or whatever floats your boat.

On a zoology expedition up the Amazon River, Professor Challenger makes an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to journalist Edward Malone, "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can describe its shape or nature, but it is a word of terror along the Amazon. Something terrible lay that way. It was my business to find out what it ...

Mary Sutherland, who possesses a substantial income from the interest on a fund set up for her, comes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help after her fiancé, Hosmer Angel, disappeared on their wedding day. Taking the case, Holmes discovers Sutherland knew little of Angel; only that he is a quiet and secretive Londoner who works at a Leadenhall Street office, communicated to her through typewritten letters, insisted that she write back via the local post office, and only met with her w...