Pride is one of the most destructive and deceptive forces in the human heart. It disguises itself as strength while secretly producing division, rebellion, offense, insecurity, self-righteousness, and spiritual blindness. Long before pride destroyed humanity, it was the force that caused Lucifer to fall from Heaven. Today, it continues to quietly sabotage marriages, churches, friendships, leadership, and personal destiny.In The Pitfalls of Pride, Pastor Jeffrey Leach takes...

Learn how to create dynamic, original abstract art using easy techniques and nothing more than watercolor paints and a few pens.Let your creativity loose and start making art, without getting bogged down in detail or accuracy - just allow yourself to experiment, have fun, be present and play with colour, shape and texture to your heart's content.In this unique step-by-step book, you'll discover watercolor techniques, tips and tricks to create your own vibra...

Nature-study in our schools is fast producing a generation of Australians trained to look upon the characteristic beauties of our Australian skies, our trees, our flowers, our birds with a passionate appreciation almost unknown to our pioneering fathers and mothers. It was natural that newcomers from the Old World should have been impressed, and often unfavorably impressed, by the oddness of things here. Rural sights to them had hitherto been sights of trim meadows bordered by neat hedgero...

Learn to create stunning abstract and stylized art using easy techniques and an intriguing variety of art materials including watercolor, inks, glazes, foils, stamps and more!In this highly anticipated follow-up to her bestselling book Creative Abstract Watercolor, artist and art tutor Kate Rebecca Leach continues the journey of discovery into her joyful art style, introducing a wide range of exciting materials alongside watercolors to create mixed media a...

This work is an exposition of a NEW PHILOSOPHY, and although it has been taught to a number of highly educated men,—in a technical way, we have had many suggestions made to us to publish a work which the "work-a-day" people can understand,—some have said: "It is too far above me," and "why don't you explain it so everybody may understand it." In this section we have especially planned to overcome all such incongruities. First of all we want to say that nature is a strict economist of time,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD CROWN AWARD 2022.A disgraced warrior must navigate a course between honour and shame, his people and the Roman Empire, in the first of a trilogy set in the second century AD from the author of Smile of the Wolf.AD173. The Danube has frozen. On its far banks gather the clans of Sarmatia. Winter-starved, life ebbing away on a barren plain of ice and snow, to survive they must cross the river's f...

What if your ten-year-old knew more about your past than anyone in the world – even you?Sheri Lambert is the classic New York workaholic: driven ad exec, financially successful, emotionally empty. Searching for meaning in her life, Sheri becomes a single mother. From the start, her son, Zig, displays strange behavior. He recalls people and places he couldn't possibly know, leading Sheri to a startling discovery of a hidden ancestry she never knew existed. With Zig,...

In short, gloriously inventive essays, Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach's The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected worldHumans, please turn your guns into kazoos.Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categorie...

A village is rocked by a van explosion, and a vicar's wife is on the case! As Pentecost approaches, Berdie Elliott anticipates the Whitsun Long Weekend Regatta. But when a van explodes, Berdie finds herself embroiled in a mystery that ignites village fears.Who would suspect that business vans, one heroic dog, mistaken identity, an evocative book, and enduring friendships could help solve the crime? Berdie must recapture her investigative brilliance, sift the ashes,...

Confused or concerned about AI? Artificial intelligence is already causing massive upheavals in the job market for seekers of their first jobs and for experienced workers as well. Massive investments are being made, even in companies who are laying off experienced workers. States are asked to build, or at least allow to be built, multiple data farms which will greatly increase energy and water costs for everyone, and will probably cause water shortages affecting agriculture and the ability...

Uncover the Mysteries of Our Past and Beyond!Explore groundbreaking theories supported by scientific evidence and ancient texts:Structures on the Moon and Mars: NASA images suggest extraterrestrial origins.Lost Civilizations Under Antarctic Ice: Magnetic resonance data reveals hidden cities.Secrets of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx: X-ray imaging uncovers hidden chambers.Backed by NASA data, radar imaging, and carbon dating, these disc...

Named a Recommended Read by The New YorkerA book of mischief and improvisation that answers fundamentalism with rage, music, and delight in this earth.A book of mischief and improvisation, The Salt of the Universe answers fundamentalism of all kinds with rage, music, and delight. It asks questions that are urgent, impossible, necessary, and irresistible: Where does freedom live? Why does it sometimes feel so good to be tol...