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Mark Davis, Steven Stanworth

Patrick Brontë was to say later in his life ‘Thornton, my happiest years.’Who would have thought that this humble little terraced property on the outskirts of Bradford in the village of Thornton was to be the birthplace of incredible literary genius? For in this house three girls were born early in the nineteenth century whose collective ability to weave magic with words created novels that are loved, discussed and read worldwide over 175 years after publication. The Brontë sisters...

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Mark A. Davis

Private Investigator Mitch Morgan's first assignment at Callahan Investigation Agency may very well be his last. His investigation of a minor injury claim uncovers a network of criminal activity, while a second case assignment places his past and present lives on a collision course that culminates in his arrest on numerous felony charges. He sits in court awaiting his sentencing and recalls the cases to a journalist while playing a cat-and-mouse game with an overzealous prosecutor that may...

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Mark Davis, Tom "Big Al" Schreiter

Instant rapport with the audience. They are smiling, leaning forward, ready to listen.Fear stops people from public speaking. Everyone wants to be liked, but the pressure gets in the way. So we avoid it.In a speech, presentation, webinar or even a casual conversation, we have just a few seconds to prove we are interesting and valuable. How can we capture our audience’s attention immediately? By mastering our first 20 seconds.We can ...

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Mark H. A. Davis

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In recent years the finance industry has mushroomed to become an important part of modern economies, and many science and engineering graduates have joined the industry as quantitative analysts, with mathematical and computational skills that are needed to solve complex problems of asset valuation and risk management. An important parallel story exists of scientific endeavour. Between 1965-1995, insightful ideas in economics about asset valuation were turned into a mathematical 'theory of ...

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Mark Davis

Dying is not a right. Government has seized the opportunity to intervene in peoples’ lives when end of life issues arise. Without a clearly written statement of medical directives the health system is forced to turn to blind courts and aggressive prosecutors to guide them. In this book are a series of cases confronting those in the last days of their lives. Many of these patients made national headlines in their fight to die with dignity. In one specific case a State forced a hospital to k...

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Mark Davis, Richard C. Cobb

Although the story of Jack the Ripper has been told many times, the crime scene locations and the killing ground which he and his unfortunate victims would have been familiar with has been largely left unknown. This book is the literary equivalent of a walking tour around the sites that would have been frequented by those who lived in Whitechapel in 1888. Using the original police reports, new images, maps and diagrams the book takes the reader deep inside Jack the Ripper’s London and pres...

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Mark Davis

If you have ever whispered a promise to yourself in the mirror and then forgotten it by lunchtime, you already know the problem this book is built to solve. The words we speak into our own ears shape the way we move through the day, and for many women the voice that runs the loudest is the voice that says we are not enough. That voice is not the voice of God, and yet it has been given a microphone, because it is the only one we have practiced. This book is a different kind of practice, bui...

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Mark Davis

Most homeschool advice was written for a child who does not exist in your house, and the color coded block schedules, the cheerful encouragement to start at 8 in the morning, and the tidy hourly timetables all assume a child who transitions without pain and sustains attention for 45 minutes. If you are raising a neurodivergent child, you already know how badly that picture misses your reality. This book is for the parent who has tried those schedules and watched them collapse by 9:30 in th...

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Mark Davis

(Piano Instruction). The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory, chords and voicings, improvisati...

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Mark Davis

A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds – Dylan Thomas, ‘Love in the Asylum’ With the advent of ‘care in the community’ for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been consigned to the history books. These once bustling Victorian institutions were commonly known in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the ‘county asylum’ or the ‘pauper lunatic asylum’, and were an accepted and es...

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Mark Davis

Part memoir, part poetry, part theological exploration, Mark Davis' debut work of prose is the telling of a deeply personal journey: he is raised Catholic, has a born-again experience in his late teens, proceeds to "inform" his non-believing friends that they are going to hell... until some years later... GOD IN CHAINS opens with the very real moment when Mark awoke in his bedroom and realized his grip on those beliefs (or their grip on him?) had loosened. There's someone else in the room ...

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Mark Davis, Bruce Davis

Do you know where your money is? More importantly, do you know what your money is doing?Most of us feel confident that we know what money is. But few of us feel confident in taking responsibility for what our money does. We hand over the power of money to banks and mainstream finance with real, often damaging, consequences for people and planet.A unique collaboration between an academic and a practitioner, this book tells the story of money, from ancient Athens to the Bitco...