Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence, while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918.

A question which every author ought to ask of himself before he sends forth his work, and one which must occur to every thoughtful reader, is the inquiry, Cui bono?—what justification has one for treating the subject at all, and why in the particular way which he has chosen? To the pertinency of this question to the present treatise the author has been deeply sensible, and therefore cannot forbear a few prefatory words of explanation of his object and method. In accounts of the theistic ar...

How valuable to your people are you right now?Do you feel that you are adding value to your people?Are you willing to challenge yourself, and work on yourself every day to become more valuable?The mindset of a highly effective leader is to be constantly growing and becoming more and more limitless.Their thinking is, if I improve myself, I am making myself more valuable to my team. By being more valuable to my team, I am in a great place to help them become m...

Are you a manager or a supervisor? Do you feel the need to GROW into a leader?Do you want to learn how to become a highly effective leader?People don't realise that leadership is a role of service. It is the leader's job to serve their people, not for the people to serve their leader. At the end of the day, leadership is about influencing people, NOT managing people or telling them what to do. In this book you will learn techniques that are...

In this mock picaresque parody of DON QUIXOTE the time is the 1980s and Ronald Reagan is preslident: the setting, San Francisco. The deranged hero, Jamie Bond, is serving time for an undisclosed crime. Due to Reagan budget cuts Jamie and his sidekick, Ted (Sancho Panza), are released early from their halfway house. Jamie becomes bellman at a San Francisco Airport hotel thanks to Nancy, his psychologist at the halfway house. The next round of budget cuts costs Nancy her job and she joins Ja...

According to Wikipedia: "Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity. The term means something quite different for each religious institution that sees itself as belonging to the Christian traditions. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches each claim to be the one Church established by Jesus Christ, specially guided by...

In accounts of the theistic argument, as in the history of philosophy in general, it has been customary to pass over a space of well-nigh ten centuries of the Christian era in silence, or with such scanty and unsympathetic notice as to make silence the better alternative.

More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the"Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and GeneralLongstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from thefirst generation of former Confederates to more recent times, when the Lost Causehas continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regionalculture.Southern writers from the Confederate period through thes...

Fethiye is a small seaport on Turkey's Aegean shore where each summer starting in May, tourists from across Europe and England flock to exchange gloomy skies and rain for sand and sea and sometimes sex beneath a hot, bright Mediterranean sun. Connie Cullingsworth, whose life this novel is a portrait of, flies to Fethiye to rescue her daughter, who has been robbed and will need money. Accompanying Connie is her second husband, Charles, a computer whiz who lives in his world of cyberspace an...

What Is the Color of Love is a deeply reflective and spiritual exploration of love's true nature. Drawing from life experiences, visions, and heartfelt observations, author Lawrence George Thomas delves into the many faces of love—friendship, intimacy, betrayal, forgiveness, and redemption. Through poetic reflections and biblical wisdom, the book uncovers how love can heal, transform, and restore broken relationships and hearts.This inspiring work reminds readers that love ...

The solrom: a soul journey to heal within, by going withoutTwo travellers collide in the wild country on the island of Bracka.Geeter, not much more than a boy, is running from the shadows cast by the death of his father.Wode, a gnoseer: one of a sacred group possessing a deep knowledge of energy and power of the Inner Realms, seeing and knowing what most cannot. He is called to The Tree of Knowledge for a question of destiny; his answer for one reac...

“It is in an unrelated incident years before that Why I bought Belcher’s…has its root: at a wedding. My daughter was attending her girlfriend’s father’s wedding to a physically pretty woman: but with an alcohol problem. During the partying the bride, very drunk according to my daughter, produced a loaded pistol which, brandishing, she threatened to use against her guests. This was before even Columbine High, before the series of gun-related massacres that followed and made me aware that th...