In a world filled with constant hustle and unrelenting demands, find refuge in the pages of "Dear Stress, Let's break up!." This captivating book takes you on a journey to conquer the tumultuous seas of stress and anxiety, offering a delectable feast of wisdom and techniques to savor.Imagine sinking into a plush armchair, a cup of soothing chamomile tea in hand, as you embark on this mouthwatering exploration of your inner world. The aroma of calmness wafts through each chapter, in...

White Ghost of the Mountains; a gritty tale, circa 1820, tells of hard living frontiersmen whose lives converge in the rescue of a young man raised from infancy by a deer-tiger and Indian priestess, leading to the stories surprise ending. Barclay's pursuit of cross country adventure takes him into the Rocky Mountains where he battles men and beasts.There he finds peace and a woman to love but she is tragically taken from him. Once again alone he wanders back to the Midwest. Johnathan, anot...

The issues presented here are addressed to the type of thinking that has not considered the importance of the questions they raise. The results of their reading are committed to the Spirit of God who is the guide to all truth.The Lord Jesus said the wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. John 3:8In above writing it is hope that objective of its reading would b...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - May 2022Dampening: Law enforcement from previously genocidal enemies are forced to work together to solve a possible murder.The Big, Immovable I: Daphne is institutionalized while trying to answer the question, "Why am I, I?"The Man Who Killed The Dog: A man slowly goes crazy because he is unable to come to terms with his past.

The discovery of an additional week's worth of entries in the diary of José Enrique de la Peña has opened another chapter in the longstanding controversy over the authenticity of the Mexican officer’s account of the Battle of the Alamo.In this expanded edition of With Santa Anna in Texas, Texas Revolution scholar James E. Crisp, who discovered the new diary entries in an untranslated manuscript version of the journal, discusses the history of the de la Peña diary controver...

"Murder, mayhem, and mystery! Every story . . . is filled with suspense, sizzle and startling twists. I loved it!" -Lisa Jackson, New York Times–bestselling authorCrime comes to the capital of country music in these all-new stories by mystery and thriller stars including Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Robert Dugoni, Donald Bain, Jefferson Bass, and many more."Settings include backwoods hollows, late-night recording studios, seedy dives, quiet suburbs,...

"Nothing goes wrong quite so dramatically as a disastrous military expedition."--from the IntroductionARROGANT ARMIESSpanning more than two hundred years of martial adventurism, aggression, and outright blundering, Arrogant Armies chronicles the profoundly misguided and utterly calamitous military expeditions of the great empire builders and overconfident expeditionary forces. From colonial America to South Africa, from Mesopotamia to Khartoum, an extraordinary number of pr...

The establishment of frank and honest communication is one of the most important early goals of psychotherapy. Indeed, the most prominent challenge in the early stages of treatment is to develop a comfortable relationship that allows disclosure. In this volume, the authors show that objectively interpreted personality measures can be applied in psychotherapeutic assessments to facilitate an understanding of the patient and a thriving treatment program. Successful psychotherapy depends upon...

When it comes to falling in love, Tammy Whinot will stop at nothing:No matter that when she meets Mr. Perfect, he's shooting it out with a Chechen convenience store owner.Or that five minutes later he takes a leap over a drunken Porsche into a coma and a stint in a wheelchair.Or that the fixer-upper Tammy buys Mr. Perfect contains a family of ghosts trapped in an afterlife of murky tribulation.Or that tribulato numero uno is the mobster Tony Ten Finger's obs...

Almost three decades ago, James Perry created the first survey instrument to measure public service motivation. Since then, social and behavioural scientists have intensively studied the motivating power of public service. This research relating to public service motivation, altruism and prosocial motivation and behaviour has overturned widespread assumptions grounded in market-orientated perspectives and produced a critical mass of new knowledge for transforming the motivation of public e...

James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin’s deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020—which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supr...

The next crisis might be here now, or it might be around the corner. In The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before, two history-making experts in crisis leadership—James, dean of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Wooten, president of Simmons University—forcefully argue that the time to prepare is always.In no other time in recent history have leaders in every industry and on every continent grappled with ...