Christians often struggle with prayer because it has become a one-way conversation with the ceiling. It doesn't have to be this way! In this revised and updated edition of the classic bestseller, Peter Lord offers an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to developing a rich prayer life--moving believers from one-way communication to God to two-way communication with God. He answers such questions asCan I hear God's voice today?How can I discern the difference between God's voi...

The creators of Chicken Run and the Wallace & Gromit series share the inside story of their Oscar award-winning animation company.Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and brought to life a string of unforgettable movies and television shows, including the highest-grossing stop-animated film of all time, Chicken Run...

"When you bless," says Peter Lord, "dramatic, miraculous changes take place."In Bless and Be Blessed, this author and pastor shares how we often neglect to bless others until after death. But it is much more useful to give a good or well-meaning word to our loved ones while they are still alive. Coworkers, children, spouses, and friends all need uplifting messages when they can hear, receive, and be transformed by them.With wisdom, personal anecdotes, and hands-on exercises...

The six sequential essays in this collection provide a narrative of a century and a half of Welsh painting, written with an emphasis on issues of social class and national identity. Through his earlier writing, Peter Lord has contributed to the establishment of an historical tradition of Welsh painting, but because it does not feature in the wider story of Western art history as presently told, the work revealed continues to be perceived as marginal, existing in isolation from ideas and mo...

Bestselling Author Shows How to Prepare for Life's 10 Inevitable ChallengesCertain kinds of things just happen--and they happen to everyone. The big question, then, is: How do we handle these inevitable challenges of life in a way that pleases God and demonstrates his character and ways in this world?Respected pastor and bestselling author Peter Lord helps readers identify ten situations everyone will face--related to choices, relationships, work, authorities, conflict, mon...

A manual of constructional details which shows how successful results in acoustic design can be achieved by correct use of building materials, products and components. Details are drawn to scale and carry informative labelling and supplementary text. This updated and revised edition of an established reference book, in an improved format and layout, will be a welcome addition to current reference works on acoustic design.

Peter Lord, considered to be the greatest living scholar on Welsh visual art and culture, surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history. Written for everyone with an interest in the art and history of Wales, the volume illustrates some 400 landscapes and portrait paintings, prints and sculptures from artists such as Augustus John, Ceri Richards, Christopher Williams and many more. The author ...

Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and is behind a string of unforgettable award-winning hits including Chicken Run, the highest-grossing stop-animated film of all time, and the Wallace & Gromit series.With A Grand Success!, Lord, Sproxton, and Park tell the inside story of the 45-year history of Aardman. From their first s...

This fourth edition of Sir Peter Coulson's highly regarded work on construction adjudication, widely considered to be the leading authority in the field, continues to provide comprehensive analysis of the law and practice of adjudication in construction and engineering disputes. Thoroughly revised with reference to over 80 new adjudication cases, the new edition of this popular title also provides an analysis of the increase in 'smash and grab' payment claims brought by contractors based o...

**Something strange is happening to Daniel Lange.**He attended an astral projection workshop as a joke—and as a way to appease his New-Age girlfriend. But something happened during the session that he could not explain. He found himself, very briefly, somewhere else. The science student in him needed to replicate the experience, to prove to himself that it was not just his imagination. It should have been a harmless distraction from his studies. But he soon discovers that he has lost contr...

Through the rose tinted spectacles of time and with a selective memory let us take a journey back to 1952 to a time when most of us mere mortals lived in small yards also known as courts. Each yard had six or eight two up and two down tiny terraced houses, there was an outside toilet at the bottom of the yard shared by all the inhabitants, there was usually a wash house, again shared. The King has died, his daughter Elizabeth becomes Queen. What was life like for us peasants in those days?...

More From Grinding Halt carries on from where Grinding Halt left off. Nobby and Nigel are now well established in the viallge and it is generally idyllic, but trouble is brewing. Nigel's wife has heard that her ex-husband has inherited a lot of money from an uncle - Nigel usew most of it to buy the railway station - and she turns up demanding her share. Thelma devises a plan to get rid of her. She suggests that she pretends to be Nigel's girlfriend, but the fates take control and things do...