This book exposes, bad ideas, beliefs and misconceptions about marriage. It asserts pathways for healing struggling marriages and prepare premarital couples for happy and successful marriages

This book exposes, bad ideas, beliefs and misconceptions about marriage. It asserts pathways for healing struggling marriages and prepare premarital couples for happy and successful marriages.This book exposes, bad ideas, beliefs and misconceptions about marriage. It asserts pathways for healing struggling marriages and prepare premarital couples for happy and successful marriages.

Excavations just outside a large Late Bronze Age ringwork at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Carshalton, in the London Borough of Sutton, revealed a settlement which was occupied possibly continuously from the Early Iron Age into the early Romano-British period. Originally an open settlement, by the Late Iron Age parts of it had been enclosed by an arrangement of small ditches, which underwent some modification over the next two centuries, while keeping their overall layout.

What happens when wealthy Silicon Valley libertarians and cryptocurrency millionaires attempt to buy an abandoned cruise ship, anchor it in international waters, and declare it a completely sovereign, tax-free, unregulated utopia? The disastrous saga of the MS Satoshi and the broader Seasteading movement is a fascinating collision of ideological hubris and unforgiving maritime reality. Driven by a desire to escape government taxation and regulation, the Seasteading Institute has spent deca...

More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border city of Juárez has been hit hardest of all. And yet, more than a million people still live there. They even love their impoverished city, proudly repeating its mantra: "Amor por Juárez."...

A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: "Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league" (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald).Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams routinely advance to the national championships. Games draw thousands of fans; recruiters vie for nascent talent; drug dealers and rap stars bankroll teams; and...

Perfect for reading aloud, this collection of colour poems is sure to grab the attention and inspire any young reader to explore their own world of colour. Using rhyme, metaphor, similes, personification, onomatopoeia and alliteration, they look at the role that colour plays in our lives and are an excellent resource for teaching poetry.Colour plays an important part in all our lives but is so much more than simply the shade of a physical object. Colour can describe our inner most ...

Perfect for reading aloud, this collection of colour poems is sure to grab the attention and inspire any young reader to explore their own world of colour. Using rhyme, metaphor, similes, personification, onomatopoeia and alliteration, they look at the role that colour plays in our lives and are an excellent resource for teaching poetry.Colour plays an important part in all our lives but is so much more than simply the shade of a physical object. Colour can describe our inner most ...

Join Alfie on an adventure of a lifetime as he is transported back to the streets of ancient Rome! Helped by local boy Diocles, can Alfie escape from the Roman army and return home?The start of a new school term is anything but ordinary as Alfie somehow finds himself on the cobbled streets of ancient Rome. With local boy Diocles offering to help him, they are soon accused of stealing, leaving them with two choices... surrender to the Roman army or run! After sneaking through glorio...

The Channel Islands, self-governing British Crown dependencies lying o the coast of Normandy in France, have a fascinating military heritage. Jersey and Guernsey are the two largest islands, but other inhabited islands include Alderney, Sark and Herm. Open to invaders, including the Vikings, the islands passed to Norman control in the ninth century. Although King John lost all his mainland Normandy possessions, he retained the islands, which became an important strategic stronghold, heavil...

The Isle of Wight has been a popular holiday destination since the Victorian times, with the island known for its mild climate, beautiful scenery and historic connections. It also sits right at the entrance to the important Southampton and Portsmouth docks and because of this, there are a number of impressive castles and fortifications located on the island, including Carisbrooke Castle. Throughout history, the importance of the Isle of Wight has been recognised by invaders, and the island...

The story of Scotland’s castles is woven into the history of the country. These formidable structures have guarded the landscape since medieval times, and many of these structures are famous emblems of Scotland today. The royal castles in the strategically important cities of Edinburgh and Stirling still dominate their surroundings, but many others stand proud in more remote areas, often by lochs or the sea, on islands or in the mountains. Many simpler fortified structures were built along...