Shakti, the feminine lifeforce energy that marries with our well-honed masculine skills, can fuel our creative endeavors. Our inner resources are like a tree, needing to be grounded like roots, giving and receiving love from the heart like the trunk of the tree. Connecting with spirit can be akin to the branches reaching upwards.

Gruzhya (the "zh" is pronounced like the "s" in "pleasure") enjoys being a shepherdess with her faithful dog as her only companion, but her calm pastoral life is thrown into chaos when she encounters a raging dragon. This discovery propels her into a quest to discover what—or who—is disturbing the peace in the kingdom.

Use your dining room table to help you combat climate change.When you go to the supermarket to buy groceries, you probably don't think much about how everything got to the store. There are the farmers, the harvesting machines, the delivery trucks, the stockers, and countless other people involved in getting meats and produce and ice cream from where they're made to your kitchen.But there are many real costs involved--and most of them involve impacts to the ...

Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in many cases, skeletal trauma. The contributors to this edited collection seek to close this gap by exploring the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in bioarchaeological and ...

In the last twenty years electromyography and electro neurography have earned a secure position amongst methods of electrophysiological investigation; indeed, it is no longer possible to think of neurological diagnosis with out them. In particular, it is in the early recognition of peri pheral neuromuscular disorders that these techniques are so dependable and objective. The present text may be thought of as an introduction to method and to diagnostic application, and it should be of value...

An escaped Templar, an old crusader, and a discarded brideembark on a quest for justice in the face of tyranny.An English Templar travelling to Cyprus is one of thousands arrested on Friday 13 October 1307. Victims of Philip IV's greed for the Order's legendary riches, they are cruelly tortured. The English knight becomes the first non-French Templar to confess to the trumped-up charges. Then he disappears. Soon, other imp...

**A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.“A tour de force ... Read it now.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography**In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are even more powerful. In city halls, police strong-arm local leaders and nullify attempts at public oversight. And...

Book I in the Award-Winning Jerusalem TrilogyB.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree, Historical Novel Society Editor's ChoiceHollywood made him a blacksmith; Arab chronicles said he was "like a king."He served a leper, but defied Richard the Lionheart.He was a warrior and a diplomat both.This is the first book of a three-part biography of the historical Balian d'Ibelin.About the AuthorHelena P. Schrader has won more than twenty l...

Read the same wisdom that has inspired many great saints.Since the beginning of creation, men and women have been made to share in the very life of God. Yet the constant call to holiness is often met with the distractions and temptations of the world.The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, speaks directly to this struggle: How can we live in the world while pursuing Christ and a life of holiness?Rooted in Scrip...

In "Embracing Wellness: A Journey to Healing with Fibroid Tumors," Katie Schrader takes readers on a transformative journey of self-discovery and empowerment.When Katie was diagnosed with fibroid tumors, she faced a daunting choice: undergo a total hysterectomy or explore alternative options. Determined to find a natural path to healing, she embarked on a quest to understand the connection between food, lifestyle, and fibroid tumor management.In this inspiring memoir, Katie...

Using rhetorical criticism as a research method, Public Memory and the Television Series Outlander examines how public memory is created in the first four seasons of the popular television show Outlander. In this book, Valerie Lynn Schrader discusses the connections between documented history and the series, noting where Outlander's depiction of events aligns with documented history and where it does not, as well as how public memory is created through the use of music, language, directori...

On 24 June 1948 the Soviet Union abruptly closed all land and water access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over 2 million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory and the West for food, fuel, and other basic goods, were suddenly cut off from all necessities of life. The Western Allies had the option of withdrawing their garrisons and allowing the Soviet Union to take control of the entire of city, or of trying to supply the city by air. Never in history had 2 mi...