This volume traces the historical development of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment through apartheid to contemporary unity efforts. The study examines mission-to-church transitions, responses to apartheid, and multiple attempts at achieving unity including the formation of FELCSA, LUCSA, and includes:Comprehensive historical analysis of Lutheran churches in southern Africa from colonial establishment to contemporary unity effortsExamin...

Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones–coming to Netflix on November 21!A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of The Economist**'s 2011 Books of the Year**One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes

Count down to Halloween with 13 sealed short stories!Bump in the Night features 13 chilling tales to tingle kids' spines without keeping them up all night. Perfect for reading in the lead-up to Halloween, each story features full-color artwork and is sealed with a sticker for kids to peel open and reveal the frights and delights within. Whether readers open one story per day, or tear into them all at once, this collection will set the stage for a very spec...

A laugh-out-loud story about the perils of always saying ‘no’, brings together a brilliant new picture book duo, Sue Meikle and Denis Angelov.Stanley is a boy who loves to say ‘NO!’ And once he starts, he just can't stop.He doesn’t want to sit sensibly on the bus. . .He doesn’t want to hold his mum's hand. . .And ‘NO!’, he doesn’t want to wait in line!But one day on a trip to a museum, Stanley discovers that saying no can have mons...

Cold!Since you're already sweating so much, the cool air comes as a shock.Susan. Don't leave me, Susan. Susan.Susan!Did she get lost or something? Confused?A male, she said, had entered her room.Have you caught a chill?Yeah, go for it.Get on with it. Has everyone left Room 2?Sure, it makes sense.Apply some stress on he...

Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, or online—the ways to play a video game are endless and varied, just like the jobs and skills it takes to make a video game. It's so much more than just coding!Award-winning video game developer Denis Galanin dives deep into the world of video game development, from the art team to the music, from pre-development to release. With cool video-game style illustrations and simple, child-friendly information on the most essential topics in game design...

The History of the Russo - Polish Thirteen Years' War, 1654–1667In the summer of 1654, the armies of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich crossed the western frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and set in motion one of the most consequential conflicts in European history. The Thirteen Years' War, fought across the devastated borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania by Russian, Polish, and Cossack forces whose competing visions of the eastern European order wou...

Bestselling author Denis Waitley offers timeless and timely advice on how to apply his philosophy to the digital age and attain personal and professional excellence today.". . . a compelling game plan for winning at life . . ." - MEHMET OZ, M.D., Emmy-winning Host, The Dr. Oz Show"Denis Waitley has played a pivotal role in helping grow a small cellular nutrition products company into one of the largest, most respected direct sales companies...

American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost...

From the curious clauses in a miser's will, to a plea for help on a tiny scrap of paper, these six cases, from the early years of Holmes's career in the 1880s, present a singular collection of mysteries for the world's first consulting detective to resolve.What is the significance of the arrival in the post one morning of a cardboard packet of children's bricks? Who is the man found dying in a deserted warehouse in London's East End, and what is he doing there? Why have the names of a coup...

Building MAS-RAG (multi-agent AI systems for RAG) that reason over real-world data using hybrid retrieval and scalable architectures for production use. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesMaster DualRAG by combining vector search with SQL filtering over structured enterprise dataImplement GraphRAG, Spatial-RAG, and vector search natively in Oracle Database 23aiBuild multimodal video pipeli...

Mangogul, Sultan of the Congo (and an allegory for Louis XV), finds himself increasingly bored with court life, and his favorite consort, Mirzoza, has run short of gallant narratives of court and city life to amuse him. Her advice that he apply to the genie Cucufa for a way to hear new stories results in his possession of a magical ring that not only grants its wearer invisibility, but also compels any woman's body to disclose its amorous history regardless of the woman's wishes.Ov...