What happens when God calls you into the unknown—with nothing but faith, a Bible, and a few dollars in your pocket?At twenty-three, David heard a voice that would change his life forever. Leaving behind the safety of home, he stepped into a journey of homelessness, hardship, and supernatural encounters. From cold nights spent in parks and tunnels, to spiritual warfare playing out in everyday places, The Seed of David is a raw and powerful memoir of faith i...

This fascinating new core textbook, authored by a highly respected academic with over a decade of industry experience, takes a global and strategic approach to the important topic of operations management (OM). Integrating contemporary and traditional theories the text covers everything a student needs to understand the reality of operations in the modern world and combines the latest cutting-edge thinking with innovative learning features. Written in a concise and engaging style and based...

Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.

The recollections of a coal miner and soldier who survived both the Senghennydd pit explosion and the horrors of the World War I trenches, told through the medium of a conversation between him and his grandson, the author.

The novella "The Metamorphosis," written by Franz Kafka and originally published in 1915, is considered one of his most renowned works, along with "The Trial" and "The Castle." It begins with the protagonist, a traveling salesman named Gregor Samsa, awakening to discover he has been transformed into a giant insect-like creature.

Born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen, France, Gustave Flaubert is considered one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century and a central figure of literary realism. The son of a respected surgeon, he grew up in a cultivated bourgeois environment that later nourished his sharp and often critical portrayal of provincial life. Flaubert began studying law in Paris but abandoned his studies after suffering from epileptic seizures. He then devoted himself entirely to literature, pursuin...

The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare the Otis family, the more they make fun of and ignore him. Clever from start to finish, Oscar Wilde's 'The Canterville Ghost' (1887) is charming and...

Listen to Jekyll and Hyde with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil.

The most up-to-date edition of the gold-standard handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agentsPrescribing medications that treat mental illness is a challenging but essential component of clinical practice. Successful treatment outcomes require careful drug choice and dosage, and other considerations can also have an important impact on patient experiences and long-term care.In the newly revised fifteenth edition of The Maudsley ...

Often, when we were children, we are taught not to think about something to say, but simply to accept whatever we are told. In school and in the family, adults are educating us not to do this and not to do that, they are giving us instructions about "good manners" and things like that, but in most cases they haven't taught us in detail how to build good and long-lasting relationships with our counterparts. Growing up, we get used to rebelling, threatening others, or we started shutting our...

Fresh out of veterinary college, Dr. Dave Perrin has been in practice for two days in the Creston Valley, and already he's found trouble. He has encountered William, the aggressive billy goat, and Theo, the intrepid Doberman. (Theo has recently discovered the delight of chasing chickens on the neighbour's property.)"Sweet" William and Theo are just two of the fabulously entertaining characters that the country vet encounters. There are times he's not sure if he's in the right busin...

The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective - based on Julian Barnes's Booker Prize-nominated novel.In 1903, Birmingham solicitor George Edalji was found guilty of a terrible crime and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Desperate to prove his innocence, he recruited Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, to help solve his mysterious case and win him a pardon.As absorbing as any Sherl...