Take time to heighten your daily walk with God by taking a few minutes to direct your thoughts to Him. The Lord our God wants to connect with you. The world is full of challenges on many levels, and we are in the middle of it. Our schedules are filled with family, friends, work, and a great array of events. When we are overloaded with all the pressing needs in front of us it is difficult to stop and connect with our Savior. Decisions confront us so often that we make mistakes, and end up u...

During World War I, Americans and British were riveted by the invasion and occupation of Belgium. Over 5,500 innocent civilians were executed in August 1914, over 2 million fled to the Netherlands, France, and Britain, and the 5 million remaining in the country faced mass starvation. The great medieval historian Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) provides a detailed, gripping account of the occupation. He describes the hunger, the deprivations, the unemployment, the arbitrary arrests and deportatio...

The Power of NO DOUBT: Unshackling the Self to Achieve Your Wildest DreamsWhat if the only thing holding you back was the story you've been telling yourself?In The Power of NO DOUBT, Nicholas David shares the raw, powerful truth: self-doubt is the invisible enemy stopping you from living the life you were meant for. But it doesn't have to be this way. Through personal stories, actionable strategies, a...

Flanders, best known for its large cities and export-grade woollen cloth, is the setting for these articles. Professor Nicholas here emphasises the region's broader importance in the economy of medieval Europe as a focus of demand for grain and industrial raw materials. Imports to supply the bloated internal markets were more important in establishing the Flemish cities and creating the capital base of their elites than were cloth exports, which by the 14th century were being undercut by c...

Matthew and Marcie Hatch live in a Mews in central London with their Poodle, Poodley.Life has been good to them, Marcie is possibly going to be the next UK Prime Minister and Matt's career as an engineer in the arms industry has been, shall we say interesting. Everything changes when an incident at Matt's work, makes him face the truth about everything he has been doing since he left school.After totally losing his calm during a live TV interview, things take a dramatic turn ...

Ogres are a species from another planet. The ones that live on Earth are aware they are different, not that they are aliens.Kip is happier than a dog with two tails, that Jevin, his pet Ogre has found love with Sally.Sally thought her pottery fairies were fairly realistic, but it was only after she met some that she realised she was wrong, she has no clue about Jevin's Grimm heritage.The Realm is not a place to be entered lightly and for humans to leave usually prove...

Zacharia Tobias has retired from The United Western Navy. This might be considered 'just cause' for a celebration, but visiting Daisy's Bar after consuming such a large amount of alcohol, proved not to be one of Zack's best ideas.Zack does not normally 'play well with others', but despite his cynical view of the human race, he finds that some aspects of it, are worth fighting for.Spartax, a large corporate organisation has infiltrated the Central Bureau of Intelligence; they ...

Cradle of northern Europe's later urban and industrial pre-eminence, medieval Flanders was a region of immense political and economic importance -- and already, as so often later, the battleground of foreign powers. Yet this book is, remarkably, the first comprehensive modern history of the region. Within the framework of a clear political narrative, it presents a vivid portrait of medieval Flemish life that will be essential reading for the medievalist -- and a boon for the many visitors ...

Roy Burgin voluntarily enlisted into the Grenadier Guards Regiment in the British Army in January 1940. His introduction to war-time service started on British soil before he was moved to North Africa late in 1943 where the Italian troops were in retreat. Roy was launched into the real horrors of World War II when he was sent to Italy to take part in the Anzio Landing where he was shot and taken prisoner.From his Company of 90 men Roy estimates that he and five others were the sole...

Aiming at ensuring that everyone obtains the rich rewards available in today's information-centred society, this book seeks to provide a systematic method for the understanding, appreciation and evaluation of information needs, which alone can guarantee the value of information to the consumer. Based on the insights gained from research projects involving hundreds of thousands of people, it sets out to provide a framework, firmly grounded in theory but nevertheless highly practical, for in...

This unique book draws on research that constituted the first major nationwide evaluation of the use and impact of key digital health information platforms which were provided to thousands of health consumers in the UK. The authors offer the first comprehensive and detailed comparison of usage and impact of the three major ICT platforms delivering health information - the internet, touch-screen kiosks and digital interactive television. It provides an extensive reference source on how heal...

The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a continuum.) This book covers a much shorter period than the first. That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late Antiquity to the early fourteenth c...