An inspirational book of poetry to which everyone can relate. Poems from My Life in Sunshine and Shadows is an uplifting read, with many compositions on life, love and happiness. A positive attitude and sunny disposition that will have you chuckling out loud. A wonderful mix of humor and spirituality.

Talk With Confidence Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle, Exactly What to Say and Speak With No FearWhether you need to talk in class or a team meeting, or maybe you need to present in front of a big audience, there really comes a time in your life when you need to speak in public from time to time. Some people are terrified with the idea because they feel they will just be humiliated in front of other people. Public Speaking really causes anxiety and concern for some people.Or are you som...

Describing many of the most important aspects of Lie group theory, this book presents the subject in a 'hands on' way. Rather than concentrating on theorems and proofs, the book shows the applications of the material to physical sciences and applied mathematics. Many examples of Lie groups and Lie algebras are given throughout the text. The relation between Lie group theory and algorithms for solving ordinary differential equations is presented and shown to be analogous to the relation bet...

Lie group theory plays an increasingly important role in modern physical theories. Many of its calculations remain fundamentally unchanged from one field of physics to another, altering only in terms of symbols and the language. Using the theory of Lie groups as a unifying vehicle, concepts and results from several fields of physics can be expressed in an extremely economical way. With rigor and clarity, this text introduces upper-level undergraduate students to Lie group theory and its ph...

Your government warns that 10% of your neighbors have a deadly contagious virus. The producer of a diagnostic test advertises that 90% of its tests are correct for any population. The test indicates that you have the virus. This book’s author claims your test has a 50% chance of being false, given your test’s result. Who do you believe? This book gives you insights necessary to interpret metrics that make a difference in life’s decisions.This book gives methods and software that ar...

Speak With No Fear: The Essential Guide to Public Speaking, Learn Strategies and Useful Tips on How You Can Present and Speak in Public With ConfidenceWhether you need to talk in class or a team meeting, or maybe you need to present in front of a big audience, there really comes a time in your life when you need to speak in public from time to time. Some people are terrified of the idea because they feel they will just be humiliated in front of other people. Public Speaking really c...

The book surveys how chaotic behaviors can be described with topological tools and how this approach occurred in chaos theory. Some modern applications are included.The contents are mainly devoted to topology, the main field of Robert Gilmore's works in dynamical systems. They include a review on the topological analysis of chaotic dynamics, works done in the past as well as the very latest issues. Most of the contributors who published during the 90's, including the very well-known scient...

Magister Dr. Robert Johnson's companion piece to Anton LaVey's celebrated THE SATANIC WITCH. The second edition includes a new introduction and adds many collected newsletters.

These essays explore team-based parish leadership theologically, sociologically, and pastorally in a variety of cultures and circumstances. The result is an extended conversation, both practical and deeply reflective, emerging from the collaboration of theologians, social researchers, organizational development specialists, and pastoral ministers.Collaborative Parish Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnershi...

ContentsTHE PROPHETIC PICTURESBy Nathaniel HawthorneTHE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOWBy Washington IrvingTHE GOLD-BUGBy Edgar Allan PoeCORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER(From "The Oak Openings")By J. Fenimore CooperUNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLYBy Bret HarteTHE NOTARY OF PERIGUEUXBy H. W. LongfellowTHE WIDOW'S CRUISEBy F. R. StocktonTHE COUNT AND THE WEDDING QUESTBy O. Henry...

Note: The three volumes are not sequential but rather independent of each other and largely self-contained.The reader of Simple Systems is not expected to be familiar with the material in Basic Matters, but should have the minimal knowledge of a standard brief introduction to quantum mechanics with its typical emphasis on one-dimensional position wave functions. The step to Dirac's more abstract and much more powerful formalism is taken immediately, followed by reviews of quantum kinematic...

The theories describing seemingly unrelated areas of physics have surprising analogies that have aroused the curiosity of scientists and motivated efforts to identify reasons for their existence. Comparative study of physical theories has revealed the presence of a common topological and geometric structure. The Mathematical Structure of Classical and Relativistic Physics is the first book to analyze this structure in depth, thereby exposing the relationship between (a) global phy...