Alan Comeaux is no stranger to hardship. His childhood was impacted by his father’s alcoholism. At almost 18 years of age, he moves from his parents’ home to pursue his life on his own. He lost his first real job in the oil field due to layoffs. He set sails for California. He ran out of money quickly and found himself homeless and living in his truck. He was robbed, stabbed, beaten and left to die on the streets. Through God, he found shelter and life again. Alan married his beautiful wife and built a mighty sales career. On the outside, he seemed like a successful young man; however, his relationship with his wife was unraveling and almost falling apart altogether. Pride, anger, and money tested his faith once more. Through it all, God was with Alan. The one-word God spoke to him, repent, changed and touched him forever. Now, Alan wants to help others find the same confidence he has in his faith. With poignant scripture references, Alan takes the many lessons he’s absorbed through his struggles and provides inspiration for others to learn from the crosses he’s borne in his life. From dealing with worry and pride, parenting to relating to others, to finding faith when you want proof, Alan wants to help you discover the peace God provides to those who trust in Him.
Alan Comeaux is no stranger to hardship. His childhood was impacted by his father's alcoholism. At almost 18 years of age, he moves from his parents' home to pursue his life on his own. He lost his first real job in the oil field due to layoffs. He set sails for California. He ran out of money quickly and found himself homeless and living in his truck. He was robbed, stabbed, beaten and left to die on the streets. Through God, he found shelter and life again. Alan married his beautiful wife and built a mighty sales career. On the outside, he seemed like a successful young man; however, his relationship with his wife was unraveling and almost falling apart altogether. Pride, anger, and money tested his faith once more. Through it all, God was with Alan. The one-word God spoke to him, repent, changed and touched him forever. Now, Alan wants to help others find the same confidence he has in his faith. With poignant scripture references, Alan takes the many lessons he's absorbed through his struggles and provides inspiration for others to learn from the crosses he's borne in his life. From dealing with worry and pride, parenting to relating to others, to finding faith when you want proof, Alan wants to help you discover the peace God provides to those who trust in Him.
Alan Comeaux is no stranger to hardship. His childhood was impacted by his father’s alcoholism. At almost 18 years of age, he moves from his parents’ home to pursue his life on his own. He lost his first real job in the oil field due to layoffs. He set sails for California. He ran out of money quickly and found himself homeless and living in his truck. He was robbed, stabbed, beaten and left to die on the streets. Through God, he found shelter and life again. Alan married his beautiful wife and built a mighty sales career. On the outside, he seemed like a successful young man; however, his relationship with his wife was unraveling and almost falling apart altogether. Pride, anger, and money tested his faith once more. Through it all, God was with Alan. The one-word God spoke to him, repent, changed and touched him forever. Now, Alan wants to help others find the same confidence he has in his faith. With poignant scripture references, Alan takes the many lessons he’s absorbed through his struggles and provides inspiration for others to learn from the crosses he’s borne in his life. From dealing with worry and pride, parenting to relating to others, to finding faith when you want proof, Alan wants to help you discover the peace God provides to those who trust in Him.
Parasitology Highly detailed textbook on parasites and parasite relationships The fully revised edition of Parasitology: An Integrated Approach holds true to its engaging and easy-to-read approach. It comprehensively covers the complex and dynamic interaction between the parasite and its host ranging from invertebrates to vertebrates. Following an integrated approach, the authors explain how the study of parasites requires an understanding of biological concepts such as growth and reproduction, molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, and pathology. In this second edition, they further address parasites and parasite relationships in the grand scheme of global changes and their impact. This textbook also reviews the often-neglected positive aspects of parasite infections and how humans have used parasites for their own advantage. Parasitology: An Integrated Approach, 2nd edition includes supplementary learning resources such as self-assessment quizzes, practical exercises, and an extensive collection of photographs. Now includes parasite life cycles in colour Strong focus on parasite interactions with other pathogens such as bacteria and viruses Discusses major advancements in the field of parasite diagnostics Additional image material and learning resources (quizzes, practical exercises) provided online A valuable and comprehensive learning resource for undergraduate students in the biological, biomedical and veterinary sciences and in medicine. It is also of interest to postgraduates and professionals with an interest including but not limited to parasitology, animal welfare, ecology, and medical microbiology.
The inside story of the hypermasculine world of American private aviation. In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has barely changed. In Weekend Pilots, Alan Meyer provides an engaging account of the postWorld War II aviation community. Drawing on public records, trade association journals, newspaper accounts, and private papers and interviews, Meyer takes readers inside a white, male circle of the initiated that required exceptionally high skill levels, that celebrated facing and overcoming risk, and that encouraged fierce personal independence. The Second World War proved an important turning point in popularizing private aviation. Military flight schools and postwar GI-Bill flight training swelled the ranks of private pilots with hundreds of thousands of young, mostly middle-class men. Formal flight instruction screened and acculturated aspiring fliers to meet a masculine norm that traced its roots to prewar barnstorming and wartime combat training. After the war, the aviation community's response to aircraft designs played a significant part in the technological development of personal planes. Meyer also considers the community of pilots outside the cockpit—from the time-honored tradition of "hangar flying" at local airports to air shows to national conventions of private fliers—to argue that almost every aspect of private aviation reinforced the message that flying was by, for, and about men. The first scholarly book to examine in detail the role of masculinity in aviation, Weekend Pilots adds new dimensions to our understanding of embedded gender and its long-term effects.
Lean back into Louisiana lore with an earful of New Orleans jazz and a bellyful of Cajun cuisine. But when the music dies down and the lights flicker out, hushed conversations bleed into the darker mysteries of the Pelican State. Storied outlaws like John Murrell, Eugene Bunch and Leather Britches Smith steal into the room. Voodoo priestesses Marie Laveau and Julia Brown are already there, along with the Phantom Whistler and the Axeman of New Orleans. Folklorist Alan Brown educates and entertains with tales of the unseemly, bizarre and otherworldly, like the legends of the Rougarou, the Lutin and the Honey Island Swamp Monster.
Electrostimulation is defined as the action of electrical energy on nerve and muscle OCo the two classes of excitable tissue. This cutting-edge resource offers you broad coverage of the subject, expanding the scope of electrostimulation discussions to include accidental, aversive, and possibly harmful biological effects of electrical energy. The book enables you to develop standards for human exposure to electric currents having various waveforms, determine classes of nerve fibers brought to excitation within specified regions of the body due to certain types of exposure, and quantify how harmonic distortions influence the excitability of sinusoidal extrostimulation. This practical reference also offers guidance in using the SENN (Spatially Extended Nonlinear Node) computer model that simulates the interaction of applied electric energy with myelinated neurons.Moreover, you learn how to compare efficacy and hazard potential of various stun weapons, assess unintended nerve stimulation from MRI exposure of patients with metallic implants, and compare the safety margins between electrostimulation thresholds of sensory and motor neurons relative to unintended cardiac excitation or painful sensory responses.
This volume reveals how the world's leading stuntmen, special effects teams and makeup artists have put together some of the cinema's most thrilling moments.
An illustrated reference to American folklore covers the heroes, music, vampire tales, urban legends, and weather stories that make up the vast, variegated network of American myth.
Since the coming of the talkies, the thriller has been the film-goer's favourite genre - world-wide. This guide to 500 best English language thrillers contains a brief plot summary of each film, and contemporary and later reviews. A star-rating system to assess each movie at a glance is provided. Movies by Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, and performances by James Cagney, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Uma Thurman, Brad Pitt and John Travolta are included. The author adds his often controversial views.
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