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In Out of the Forest of Errors, poet, recording artist, singer, songwriter Owen T. Smith invites the reader on an introspective and often lyrical journey toward inner understanding and sought after wisdom. Collecting free verse, song lyrics, notes, and cards to family and lovers. This assortment of printed words, spans over fifty years of personal, introspective writing, with works that paint a soul in flux, exposing the author’s inner thoughts and at times his human weaknesses.The...

Fifty years ago, health outcomes in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia were not far behind those in Western Europe and well ahead of most other regions of the world. But progress since then has been slow. While life expectancy in the ECA region today is close to the global average, the gap with its western neighbors has doubled, and other middle-income regions have all surpassed ECA. Some countries in the region are doing better, but full convergence with the world’s most adv...

Kaela knew the Queen had murdered Lord Orvyn the moment she learned how he had died.A man who complains of stabbing pains in his stomach and a band of iron around his chest moments after drinking from his wine cup; who falls from his chair, face beaded with sweat and struggling to draw his next breath – the screams of a kitchen girl filling everyone's ears, and the wooden plate she had been about to place on the table splitting in two on the stone floor beside her Lord...

Ancient Greek terminology continues to shape contemporary discourse; hubris is a case in point. Typically seen as the catastrophic yet common tendency to reach too high, only to fall, it remains a fixture in the contemporary discourse of business and politics. But hubris has also become a term of art for researchers in a number of academic disciplines; and it remains a hotly contested topic in Classics. This unique volume of essays explores the connections, continuities and differences bet...

My manager asked me to deploy an application: "Should be simple", he said. "It's a Setup.exe and part-way through the installer, the user has to make a choice from a drop-down menu - they must select 'Sage Enterprise Management' and you know they wont, so make sure that part's automated."After that, I have one more urgent deployment; you'll need to customise an xml file which needs to be copied to a specific folder structure that may or may not already exist on the computer. And th...

On the 8th of June, 793CE, Fenn is a young apprentice scribe at St. Cuthbert's Monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, England. On that fateful summer's day, he is violently torn from one life and thrust headlong into another.Two strange dragon-headed ships appear on the beach and savage raiders swarm ashore – the first Viking attack on English soil. Fenn tries to save the Lindisfarne Gospels, a priceless manuscript, but its gold and jewel-encrusted cover is ripped f...

This definitive work covers the expanding law and practice of Asset Recovery in the domestic, European, and international spheres. It is designed for judges, legal practitioners, financial investigators and other professionals involved in investigations and legal proceedings for the recovery of the proceeds of crime, including terrorism. Smith and Owen on Asset Recovery offers comprehensive coverage of the key areas of asset recovery pursued by law enforcement agencies: criminal c...

The Journaling Memories process is designed to assist and stimulate the thinking and written expressions of the aging including those suffering with memory weaknesses associated with dementia and Alzheimer's. Such stimulus is considered one of several areas that has been shown to help in the treatment of memory weaknesses The process of recalling and chronicling the thoughts, insights, and lessons of life has additionally been important to millions of people around the world in keeping the...

Seven Keys to Baldpate-proof that great old stories are great, ALWAYS.An original story by Kyle Owens; Time stops moving for protagonist Dave Miller; beautiful poetry written by a young man who diedfrom shrapnel wounds; and More...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An authentic historical fiction set in England and Europe at the end of the turbulent 8th century CE.A tale of a clash of cultures; the triumph of courage, resilience and determination over adversity; a thrilling journey across thousands of miles of uncharted seas and unforgiving landscape while the events of the times unfold.On the 8th of June, 793CE, Fenn is a young apprentice scribe at St. Cuthbert’s Monastery on the ...

A thrilling and moving lyrical descriptive poem in the style of legendary Australian bush poets Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson and Henry Lawson. Australian bush ballads are renowned for their easy flowing style and comfortable rhythmic pace and this poem is a beautifully crafted example of that art.A desperate Australian farming family caught in a drought and under threat of mortgage foreclosure in a few days, form a plan to enter their horse Bonny Blue in a horse race (...

For fans of This Was Our Pact and Hayao Miyazaki films comes a breathtaking graphic novel about siblings who risk everything to return their grandmother's ashes to her home inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone.Osamu hasn't been the same since that day. When the tsunami hit Fukushima prefecture, it killed his parents, destroyed his home, and triggered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. Now, all Osamu has left is his grandmother, Bā-chan, and his big...