"We're all a little messed up, but We're all beautiful" will make you laugh, cry, and think. It shares a series of journal entries consisting of the author's battle with mental health, work challenges, heartbreak, preparing for deployment, and more. Sharing the real, honest, and sometimes heartbreaking side of life, this book dives into the complexities of being human. This book is about finding peace with who you are. These entries, combined with the author's short stories describing her ...

Since the accident, Taylor's memory has been fuzzy. But at least she's awake. Who knows what her boyfriend, Scott, will remember when he comes out of the coma. Will he remember that Taylor was driving the snowmobile when it crashed? Will he remember the engagement ring? Her pregnancy? Will he remember that she tried to break up with him? Taylor doesn't know. And she doesn't know if she wants him to remember. Plenty of things happened that night and before—secrets wrapped in secrets—that sh...

The Orbis Pictus is an early picture book by Johann Amos Comenius. Known as the first illustrated book for children, it makes use of marked illustrations and associated sections to present the names of ordinary objects.

In "The Orbis Pictus," Johann Amos Comenius presents a groundbreaking approach to education, intertwining illustrations with text to enhance the learning experience for children. The book, widely regarded as one of the first children's textbooks, uses a simple and engaging literary style, characterized by its didactic tone and vivid imagery. Comenius' innovative integration of pictorial elements with descriptive language reflects the pedagogical shifts of the 17th century, emphasizing the ...

1 Clement, attributed to an anonymous early Christian author, offers a profound exploration of ecclesiastical authority and community ethics in the nascent Christian church. Written in the late first century, this epistle serves as a letter of encouragement and instruction to the church in Corinth, addressing the issues of division and moral decay. The literary style is characterized by a mixture of rhetorical flourishes, scriptural allusions, and a deep call for unity and reconciliation. ...

The "Epistle of Barnabas" stands as a profound early Christian text that intricately weaves doctrinal teachings with a distinctive epistolary style. Written in the late first or early second century, it explores themes of faith, eschatology, and the interpretation of the Jewish laws from a Christian perspective. The author employs a rigorous allegorical method, often drawing from the Hebrew Scriptures to elucidate the nascent Christian faith, thus situating the text within the complex theo...

Your Prescription for Health and HealingUntold millions daily confront the agony of debilitating symptoms, chronic pain, even terminal disease. Do you—or someone you love—suffer with sickness? You can be well! You just need to know how healing works and how to receive it.In Healing School, renowned 20th-century divine healing minister Lillian B. Yeomans, M.D. shares scriptural truths to help you get free, remain free, and bring freedom to others bo...

The Orbis Pictus (1658) guides novices through animals, elements, crafts, civic offices, and devotion via woodcuts and brief Latin-vernacular captions. Opening with sounds and letters, it moves from things to words, marrying image to concise prose so that seeing teaches reading. Both primer and small encyclopedia, it stands between Reformation schooling and seventeenth-century encyclopedism, launching the modern picture book and exemplifying object-based, sensory instruction. Johann Amos C...

The prominence of the carp group of fish is widely recognised in three important economic areas: food production, recreation and the ornamental market. Carp species thus represent over 50% of world fish production and are vital to the economic stability of several countries and global regions. It is therefore crucial that the health of these cultured aquatic species is properly considered and maintained to ensure the sustainability of production and recent disease epidemics, for example gr...

Should ambition cease with death? Napoleon Bonaparte doesn't think so. His ghost is actually hungrier than ever.The ex-emperor has no intention of allowing his premature end to thwart his destiny or threaten his legacy. But death has unexpected surprises for the restless spirit of the nineteenth-century's most infamous tactician.Set in 1821 on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena during the week between Napoleon's death and burial, this historical who-done-it examines wh...

The book addresses the current demand for a scientific approach to advanced wireless technology and its future developments. It gives a clear presentation of both antennas and adaptive signal processing which is what makes antennas powerful, maneuverable and necessary for advanced wireless technology. The book presents electromagnetic signal processing techniques that both control the antenna beam and track the moving station, which is required for effective, fast, dynamic beamforming....

This book gives a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the physics of lightning and protection systems, based on nearly 40 years of research, teaching, and consultancy work in this area.The book begins with an overview of the climatology of lightning and electric storms, as well as giving insight into lightning discharge from the preliminary discharges or processes such as corona, stepped leader, and subsequent return strokes, including the important submicrosecond threats an...