“Bury me standing. I must be buried standing.”Powers, the follow-up to John Olson’s Shade (“a must-read for those who enjoy Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti” —Publishers Weekly), introduces a sheltered Gypsy girl named Mariutza. Her grandfather utters a mysterious last request before dying in her arms after being shot by ten cloaked men.Those same men die before her eyes, but strange powers continue to pursue Mari through the swamps of southern Louisi...

"You will not fear the terror of the night." —Psalm 91A monstrous waking nightmare is pursuing graduate student Hailey Maniates across San Francisco to Golden Gate Park where she is rescued by a towering homeless man. She seems able to read her rescuer’s mind, but is it just a delusion? Doctors diagnose her as a paranoid schizophrenic and attempt to prescribe away her alleged hallucinations. But too many questions remain around Hailey and the man who saved her. He appears to suffer...

Get the book that covers what you need to know about foot care, including footwear, prevention, and treatment.Hiking, backpacking, running, walking, and other athletic endeavors, your feet take a beating with every step. Don’t wait until foot pain inhibits your speed, strength, and style. Learn the basics—along with the finer points—of foot care before pain becomes a problem. Foot expert and ultrarunner John Vonhof and physical therapist Tonya Olson share how the i...

Lute! presents the autobiography of one of college basketball's greatest coaches, Lute Olson. "It was love at first sight. . . . One day I picked up a basketball, and it never let me go."For fifty seasons Lute Olson taught young athletes the skills of basketball--and life. Starting as a high school coach, he worked his way to the top of the basketball world, winning more than a thousand games, a national championship, and a world championship, producing so...

TABLE OF CONTENTSBanished… for GOOD or, Busted On KT-22Fly-on-The-Wall or, Slide Mountain HubrisA Gringo Makes The Earth Quake or, Bad Day At Puerto PeñascoPonderosa Safety Meeting or, Rescue in the High Sierra"SHEET!" or, Communication Breakdown, Mexico StyleA Taste of Valle de Bravo or, Flyers' ParadiseThe Swizzle Stick From Hell or, a Turd in ParadiseA Valle Purchase or Panties From HeavenSoup Kit...

A Quixotic Vietnam Veteran experiences outrageous fortune, criminality, love, regret and other potentially lethal outcomes when he accepts a flying job in Belize. He soon discovers the recently independent nation is not so tranquil a tropical paradise.John Otis, aka "El Berdo", reveals himself in colorful stories told to and about lovers, friends and trying circumstances. Otis's new job is more than he bargained for. In reacting to unforeseen challenges, he relies upon talents and ...

Perspectives on the Doctrine of God presents in counterpoint form four basic common beliefs on the doctrine of God that have developed over the course of church history with a goal of determining which view is most faithful to Scripture.Contributors to this fifth book in the PERSPECTIVES series are Regent College J.I. Packer chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul Helm (Classical Calvinist perspective), editor Bruce Ware (Modified Calvinist ...

Table of ContentsForward, Taking MEXICO FlyingBig John Comes To Valle de Bravo or, A Gringo Lands In HeavenFlight To The Heavenly Water or, A Twenty Peso BargainMauricio Skys Out or, Miracle At Rock Of The DevilSurviving Colimótl or, Photographers Are Made, Not BornMy Kingdom For A Vowel or, Communication Breakdown #227Encounter With Dinner or, This Little Piggy Went Wee Wee Wee!Circling Disease or, Therapy—O...

This volume showcases current ethnobiological accounts of the ways that people use plants to promote human health and well-being. The goal in this volume is to highlight some contemporary examples of how plants are central to various aspects of healthy environments and healthy minds and bodies. Authors employ diverse analytic frameworks, including: interpretive and constructivist, cognitive, political-ecological, systems theory, phenomenological, and critical studies of the relationship be...

The purpose of this book is to translate the science and practice of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychology, or work psychology, as it relates to sustainable development efforts to provide evidence-based insights for those who are working toward the greater good. To maximize the impact of I-O psychology on the greater good, this book is designed to be accessible and is written for readers who do not have a background in I-O psychology or related fields. The volume spec...

The National Science Foundation funded the first Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology initiative to look at systems that support collaborations in business and elsewhere. This book explores the global revolution in human interconnectedness. It will discuss the various collaborative workgroups and their use in technology. The initiative focuses on processes of coordination and cooperation among autonomous units in human systems, in computer and communication systems, and in hybr...

Quality in Laboratory Hemostasis and ThrombosisSecond EditionEdited bySteve Kitchen, Clinical Scientist, Sheffield Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Scientific Director, UK National External Quality Assessment Scheme (FQAS) for Blood Coagulation, Scientific Director, WHO and WFH International External Quality Assessment Programs for Blood Coagulation, Sheffield, UKJohn D Olson...