The book is structured as a daily reader, offering meditations, prayers, and inspirational thoughts for each day of the year. Each entry encourages readers to focus on spiritual principles such as acceptance, humility, gratitude, and faith. The reflections often draw from religious and spiritual traditions, aligning with the Twelve Steps of AA, emphasizing the importance of reliance on a higher power and personal transformation.Designed to provide strength and encouragement, Twenty-Four Ho...

Special Olympics Ontario award-winning golf and powerlifting volunteer, Richard Walker, uses his talents to write his first book to raise money for Special Olympics. Special Olympics, a registered charity, is committed to enriching the lives of people with intellectual disabilities through sport. It is the athlete oath, “Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt” that has inspired Richard to write this book. It’s about all of us focusing on ...

Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over six and a half million copies in print it offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. It is a simple, yet effective way to help us relate the Twelve Steps to everyday life and helps us find the power not to take that first drink each da...

What if everything you know about Jack the Ripper is wrong?Since 1888, hundreds of suspects have been proposed for the Jack the Ripper murders - from Polish barbers to Freemason conspiracies.But what if investigators have been asking the wrong question?Instead of asking 'Who was Jack the Ripper?', Richard Walker asked 'How were these murders actually committed?'What he discovered is truly shocking.

From Ghanaian dance floors to global adventures, Richard Walker's memoir, Highlife, & my other lives is a celebration of love, music and resilience. Blending personal history with cultural exploration, it offers readers a poignant and adventurous journey through a remarkable life.As a boy, Richard went to live in Ghana where he danced with his parents and their friends to Highlife music. This experience sets the tone for a life in which music, poetry, literature, theatre, ...

In a Cairo clinic, Ronny recovers from gender-affirming surgery. Her grandmother, mother and then Ronny herself sift through their pasts in search of what has led to this radical self-transformation. From decades of Home Counties respectability emerge buried family secrets - of hidden love, thwarted hopes and desires, stifled by conformity and the bonds of duty from which Ronny has broken free.First published in 1989, A Curious Child is innovative for being written from th...

This is Norse mythology imagined as the propaganda cover-story for a failed coup. Odin's thwarted insurrection results in his disastrous ideology being inflicted on primitive Midgard. Back in Asgard, Loki's son brings two worlds to the brink of destruction. Cosmic forces thrust two artists into a strange world where a jealous dragon and a mad Hatjer hold the key to preventing an apocalypse. A mix of humor, myth and politics that will appeal to fans of Good Omens and early Prachett works.

Richard Walker, BSc, PhD, is an editorial consultant and author of DK's Encyclopedia of the Human Body. He trained originally as a zoologist. Richard gained his PhD in physiology and biochemistry, and taught both secondary school and university students for a number of years before embarking on a successful career as a writer and consultant.‘Twenty-Four Hours a Day’ is a book of meditation, thought, and prayer that is soul inspiring, spiritually uplifting, and filled with sage words of wis...

Learn how to green your business with the help of one of the UK's leading corporate activists.Running a sustainable business doesn't mean that you can't make a profit. In this inspiring book, readers that own businesses of all sizes will learn the value of pursuing ethical policies through the journey of the author's quest to "do it right".Inside the pages of this sustainable business e-book, you'll find:- Expert advice on practical...

Convergence proposes the enhancement of the Internet with a novel, content-centric, publish–subscribe service model based on the versatile digital item (VDI): a common container for all kinds of digital content, including digital representations of real-world resources. VDIs will serve the needs of the future Internet, providing a homogeneous method for handling structured information, incorporating security and privacy mechanisms. CONVERGENCE subsumes the following areas of research:...

In response to changes in internal needs, external organizational environments, and the expectations of shareholders – most notably, citizens and politicians – innovation is now an important common-place aspect of governance and the running of public service organizations. Given the ongoing financial and economic crisis, which presents a significant challenge to public service organizations (PSOs), there is a growing need to establish innovative strategies in order to survive the crisis, a...

This accessible guide presents the astrophysical concepts behind astronomical spectroscopy, covering both the theory and the practical elements of recording, processing, analysing and interpreting your spectra. It covers astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, nebulae, novae, supernovae, and events such as eclipses and comet passages. Suitable for anyone with only a little background knowledge and access to amateur-level equipment, the guide's many illustrations, sketches and figures...