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The Chronicler's question for every generation: How will you be remembered?What kind of legacy will you leave? When those who come after you remember your life, what will they say? These questions lie at the heart of 1 Chronicles, and Gary V. Smith brings them into sharp focus in this addition to the Pillar Old Testament Commentary series.Smith opens with a clear orientation to the book's historical context, structure, and genre and then works through the t...

Accounts of everyday Spanish life and very recent history with a touch of humour, seen through the eyes of a British writer after 20 years living in the country.Feel the culture shock as a Northern European comes to grips with Spanish queues, driving, red tape, Spanish fiestas and siestas, regional nationalisms and much more. Views on modern Spain in the grip of economic recession, shared by Spaniards and expats alike.For expats, tourists and travellers who are enamoured, fas...

This is a book of short stories of everyday human emotional experiences. Stories of profound loss. Stories of great friendships. Stories of growing old with a dog, of going to war, and of course, stories of deep romantic love. I hope the stories encourage the reader to do some introspection on what it means to be human. I believe the poems, like all art, will mean more to some than to others.

Did you know that chicken eggs can influence how computers generate random events? Or that humans can postpone death until after important ceremonial occasions? Or live three to five years longer if they have positive initials, like ACE?All these 'facts' have been presented with a straight face by researchers and backed up with convincing statistics. In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps we so often fall into. ...

We underestimate the importance of luck in our lives. We think too highly of the golfer who wins the British Open and, if he loses the next tournament, we speculate that he slacked off. Although the winner is surely an excellent golfer, good luck in how the ball bounced and how it rolled afterwards outside of the golfer's control also played an important role. An insufficient appreciation of chance can wreak all kinds of mischief not only in sports, but also education, medicine, business, ...

Discover a diplomacy mission like no other in Ice War Diplomat, the behind-the-scenes story of the historic 1972 Summit Series. Amid the tension of the Cold War, caught between capitalism and communism, Canada and the Soviet Union, young Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith must navigate the rink, melting the ice between two nations skating a dangerous path.On his first overseas assignment, Smith is tasked with finding common ground and building friendships bet...

Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics, Third Edition will helps students in introductory statistics courses develop statistical reasoning and critical thinking skills. The book demonstrates the power, elegance, and beauty of statistical reasoning, providing hundreds of new and updated examples and discussing the uses and potential abuses of statistics. Examples are drawn from real, contemporary areas to showcase that statistical reasoning is not an irrelevant abstraction, but ...

This book contains hundreds of engaging, class-tested finance exercises (and detailed solutions) that test student understanding of the material. Many are educational in their own right—for example, delaying social security benefits does not give a safe 8% real return; the correlation between bond and stock returns is not stable, and most measures of company performance regress toward the mean.

135 churches close their doors each week. But what if the Church in North America isn't dying... it's sleeping?From Dying to Dangerous is your urgent wake-up call and your roadmap to revival. Whether you're a weary pastor, a passionate church planter, or a Christ-follower desperate to see change, this book equips you to step boldly into God's mission to reignite Kingdom culture in your community.The stats are grim:...

The book contains hundreds of engaging, class-tested statistics exercises (and detailed solutions) that test students’ understanding of the material. Many are educational in their own right—for example, baseball managers who played professional ball were often catchers; stocks that are deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average have generally done better than the stocks that replaced them; athletes may not get hot hands but they often get warm hands with modest improvements in their suc...

Jenny Stone, a prosecuting attorney, finds herself in a precarious situation after concluding a major money laundering case. She notices she is being followed and decides to take a vacation to Italy to visit Warren Steelgrave, a distant relative by marriage. Upon her arrival, she confides in Warren about her fears and the thumb drive containing sensitive information given to her by a suspect, Jacob Colburn.As they navigate through Italy, they realize they are being pursued by dange...

"A Living Lexicon of Wholeness: The Language of Being" is both a book and a field of frequencies—a vibrational atlas of consciousness crafted through the lens of unity. This work invites the reader to rediscover language as a living current, a dynamic force that awakens remembrance and deepens connection to the essence of Being. Through ninety-six essential frequencies, the Lexicon traces the great arc of becoming: from Source to world, from form to Field, and from fragmentation to return....