Franklin's Autobiography has received widespread praise, both for its historical value as a record of an important early American and for its literary style. It is often considered the first American book to be taken seriously by Europeans as literature.By the 1860s, use of the Autobiography and its depiction of Franklin's industry and relentless self-improvement had become widespread as an instructive model for youth."Franklin's is one of the greatest autobiograph...

Are you struggling with a dog that seems to want to call all the shots?Dog aggression can be frightening and overwhelming, leaving pet parents to feel hopeless about connecting with their furry friends. Lacking the understanding of why a dog behaves aggressively makes it nearly impossible to diagnose the cause and to stop it from happening again. In this book, the author explains the different types of aggressive behavior man’s best friend might display, and gives ...

Bibliography Concordance: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible The Amplified Bible published by Zondervan KJV Original African Heritage Edition published by J. C. Winston Pub. I attended The United Christian College In the Northern District of The United Church of America, Inc. I graduated with a Ph.D. 1990 and is the Pastor of the Holy Assembly of Jesus The Christ, Inc. and The Bible Knowledge Institute in Ocala, Florida. My prayerful hope is that this concise study will bring som...

Are you looking for answers and haven’t found any of them in the usual places?Do you seek answers to why or how certain things always happen in the same way every time but don’t know how to explain it?Are there times when you have a number repeat itself and you look at it constantly trying to figure out why it is always in your life?All along this book, you will find the secret wisdom of how we are all aligned with the numerical code of the whole Un...

This book honors the life and work of the late W. Barnett Pearce, a leading theorist in the communication field. The book is divided into four sections. The first section will lead with an essay by Barnett Pearce. This will be followed by sections on (1) practical theory, (2) dialogue, and (3) social transformation. In the broadest sense, these are probably the three general themes found in the work of Pearce and his colleagues. In another sense, these categories also identify three import...

In Truth in Public Life, three public servants—a theologian, an economist, and an ethicist—contend for both the existence and moral imperatives of absolute truth. Each argues that society, built on ethical leadership and communal accountability, cannot be sustained without a widespread commitment to objectivity. This commitment begins at the top: policymakers must resist political expediency, judges must believe victims, journalists must embrace complexity, and the public must hol...

What if there was a watch that could tell you all the significant milestones in your life? Would it change the way you live now?If you knew exactly when and how your life would end, would it make you approach your journey differently?This idea fascinated Tamer Saleh, and he came up with such a watch—a fictional device he called The Chronopath… and in doing so, he changed his relationship with his life.In the hectic rush of the modern world, it's easy to forget to as...

**One of NPR's Best Books of the YearA finalist of the for the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Fact CrimeThe inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing.**By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He and M...

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny, Claire Foster-Gilbert of Westminster Abbey Institute gathers a series of essays and lectures by herself and others, exploring the meaning of 'moral code' in today's public service, and how it can be rekindled in practice.Timely and timeless, the book is founded on traditio...

Don't take another step on the same worn path until you've read this.Are you stuck in a personal or professional rut, and does it feel like fear is standing in the way of the growth you seek?Do you prefer to embrace safety instead of embarking on a journey of discovering your full potential?Are you scared to choose a life of optimism because you've been let down in the past, or put your heart and soul into a personal or professional project that never came to fruiti...

On the Shortness of Life is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives people enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly. In general, time is best used by living in the present moment in purs...

This series of multiple choice questions is based on the textbook Common Eye Diseases And Their Management (1985), also from Springer-Verlag. The questions have been grouped to fit in with the chapter headings in the latter. Many of the questions are supported by expanded answers but further information should be sought in the textbook. The format of the questions has been arranged so that the number of true or false answers varies and we have taken pains to eliminate the ambiguities which...