You`re speaking before an esteemed, international audience. Will anyone be listening? Attractive Presentations will guide you through the simple and powerful steps to become an attractive, professional speaker in words, voice and appearance. Your confidence will soar and "Fear, it`s gone!" Learn powerful and effective ways to hold the attention of your audience from the first moment of your speech to your inspirational closing. Voice exercises are highlighted. Many examples are given in ho...

Piety is often regarded with a pejorative bias: a "pious" person is thought to be overly religious, supercilious even. Yet historically the concept of piety has played an important role in Christian theology and practice. For Abraham Heschel, piety describes the contours of a life compatible with God's presence. While much has been made of Heschel's concept of pathos, relatively little attention has been given to the pivotal role of piety in his thought, with the result that the larger met...

This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 3 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet.This short story tells the true tale of the author's visit to Florida's highpoint, Britton Hill. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Florida's highpoint is the lowest of the 50 state highpoints, only 345 feet above sea level. You can dr...

For two thousand years, his name has been known throughout the world - though very little is known about his life. His crucial role: husband of Mary, and the most important step-father of all time. What was it like to help deliver the baby Jesus, to raise the Savior, to witness His suffering in Gethsemane and upon the cross? Experience a first-hand account of the man called to be the father of the Son of God, in JOSEPH OF NAZARETH - a work of inspirational historical fiction.

To the casual visitor, the Gulf of Mexico shores offer mainly sun, sand, and sea. Even the standard field guides, focused on one group of animals or plants, barely hint at the wealth and diversity of habitats and species along Gulf shores. Shore Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico, using a “whole habitat” approach, breaks new ground in describing all the conspicuous vascular plants, algae, birds, mammals, mollusks, crustaceans, and other invertebrates for each marine habitat. The area c...

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including details of physical description, diet, introduction and invasion pathways, breeding behaviour, natural habitat. It also looks at the environmental impact of each species, as well as current and future...

Focused on faith and woven with Christian, ecumenical, and patriotic themes, Our Immigrants' Son is an exploration and celebration of family.The genres of prose poetry and historical fiction very cleverly takes you through the author's rich Irish American history. It begins in misty Ireland and takes you through generations of the Murphy clan while also teaching you how to write your family story.The storyteller is US Navy Captain, John Francis Patrick Murphy, Retired, a di...

A retelling of Sudhana’s story from the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, this book chronicles a child’s quest to seek spiritual wisdom from fifty-five bodhisattvas. Each chapter focuses on a different bodhisattva, with accompanying images from a 12th-century Japanese painted scroll.What does it mean to dedicate yourself to the spiritual path with the innocence of a child? The answers to that are revealed in the story of a little boy named Sudhana, protagonist of the long...

Join radio's most popular crime solving couple, Mr. & Mrs. North, in twelve episodes of mayhem and murder - with a light touch. The Norths aren't your standard detectives: husband Jerry is a book publisher by day, and wife Pam is his stay-at-home better half and most often the catalyst for their exploits when death falls in their laps! Starring as Mr. & Mrs. North in these shows are Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin, who originated the roles on radio, and Barbara Britton and Richard Denning, w...

What's more entertaining than a witty, snappy-talking detective? How about two witty, snappy-talking detectives?Publisher Jerry North and his always inquisitive wife Pamela are sophisticated sleuthing spouses who solved cases everywhere from magazine fiction, to novels, the stage, movies, radio and television.In these eight digitally remastered episodes from their long running radio series, the Norths can't seem to avoid mysteries and murders. In spite of Jerry's best attempts to put aside...

And now, let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge.A winner is declared in the War Bond contest to become Lum's bride! And that's not all. The community is exposed to surrealist painting, Mousey returns from the war, and a runaway girl seeks protection in the Jot 'Em Down Store.Come hear Chester Lauck and Norris Goff as they star in 36 consecutive episodes from the summer of 1943.Episodes Include: Fictional Third Woman 05-27-43; Biography of Mystery Woman 05-31-43; Lum Uses Psychology 0...