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What if the strongest thing a little boy ever did was hold back his tears?Kansas Flint Hills, 1951. Six-year-old Robert Phillips wants only two things in the whole world: to be a cowboy, and to have a horse of his own.Robert is growing up on a 160-acre tenant farm near Virgil, Kansas, where the day begins before sunrise with cows to milk and chickens to feed. A potbelly stove heats the little house, the outhouse is a cold dash across the y...

James Lawson, a business entrepreneur from our times, has grown up with the belief that the main purpose of life is to maximize wealth. He only accepts that climate change is real when he realizes that he can make money out of dealing with it.Struck down by a near-fatal brain tumor, he is put into hibernation until a treatment can be found for his condition.During his long sleep, the world economic order collapses. People have banded together to organize themselves into com...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and The End of Diabetes, an unflinching, provocative exploration of how our food is killing us and the ways in which we are unwitting participants in an unprecedented and exploding health crisis.Fast food is far more than just the burgers, fries, and burritos served at chain restaurants; it is also the toxic, human-engineered products found in every grocery store across America. These include: cold breakf...

An Introduction to Community Development offers comprehensive and practical approaches to enhance development processes and outcomes for communities. It enables students to make connections between academic study and practical know-how in both private and public sector contexts. Now in its third edition, the book is based on the authors’ years of teaching, practice and research along with training they have provided for practicing community and economic development professionals, ...

Spiritual poetry and sayings inspired by God through the prophetic imaginative realms. Inspirational and conducive to the creative process of hearing God through that of stillness, and inspiration .

This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development.The evolution of community development as an area of scholarship and application, and the subsequent founding of the dis...

This book offers the first introduction to the concepts, theories, and applications of pricing and revenue optimization. From the initial success of "yield management" in the commercial airline industry down to more recent successes of markdown management and dynamic pricing, the application of mathematical analysis to optimize pricing has become increasingly important across many different industries. But, since pricing and revenue optimization has involved the use of sophisticated mathem...

Collects Marvel Zombies (2005) #1-5. It took the undead Marvel heroes only hours to destroy life as we know it—but what happens when they run out of humans to eat? Follow their search for more food—and witness the arrival of the Silver Surfer!

Living Well After Diagnosis: Practical Strategies to Cope, Move Forward, and Reclaim Your Life with Chronic IllnessBy Robert H. Phillips, Ph.D.A new diagnosis can change everything. But it doesn't have to define you.For millions of people, receiving a medical diagnosis-whether new, unexpected, or part of an ongoing health struggle-brings fear, uncertainty, and a whirlwind of unanswered questions. Living Well Aft...

James Lawson, a business entrepreneur from our times, has grown up with the belief that the main purpose of life is to maximise wealth. He only accepts that climate change is real when he realises he can make money out of dealing with it.Struck down by a near-fatal brain tumour, he is put into hibernation until a treatment can be found for his condition.Revived in the year 2100, he finds himself living in a very different world from the one that we are used to. Even the soc...

In the past 5 years, there has been a tremendous increase in interest regarding diagnosis and management the cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis. This includes new imaging techniques, new evidence-based guidelines regarding diagnosis and treatment, as well as results of registries providing information regarding the outcome of disease. With this new information, the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis has become better served. Many centres are now developing multi-disciplinary cl...

Who lines up to have people try to shoot them, knife them, blow them up, and threaten them with bodily harm? Everyone who is part of the law enforcement family—that’s who. That includes Robert Phillips, who got his start as a sheriff’s officer in April 1998. When he reported for duty on his first day, the senior day-shift sergeant asked him if he was in the National Guard or the Reserves, and when he said no, he was told he’d be good man for the day shift. He wasn’t long on the job before ...