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A Comprehensive History Of Western Ethics

What Do We Believe?

By: Warren Ashby

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A Comprehensive History Of Western Ethics

What Do We Believe?

By: Warren Ashby

This book provides an engaging, thorough, and inclusive history of western ethics that encompasses both classical and modern perspectives. Author Warren Ashby speaks both to students of history and ethics and to a public interested in but often perplexed by moral values in contemporary life. Ashby embraces all who are concerned with expanding human rights, finding new ways to think about moral experience, and discovering an ethical perspective appropriate for their lives. By exploring past ethical problems, we can prepare for the future's challenges. Included with the commentary on the writings of great thinkers are in-depth discussions of Greek, biblical, and Stoic ethics; Augustine, Aquinas, and medieval views; the Renaissance, the Reformation, and ethics in the age of science; as well as the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the last Western century.

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Prometheus Books

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1615926941

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Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume I

Numbers 1–30

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This book contains thirty numbers of the renowned Bodhi Leaf Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. 1 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta—Trans. by Soma Thera; 2: The Simpler Side of the Buddhist Doctrine—Kassapa Thera; 3: Earnestness—Vappo Thera; 4: Of Gods and Men—Francis Story; 5: The Lesser Discourse of the Buddha on the Elephant-footprint Simile—Trans. by Soma Thera; 6: Buddhist Aids to Daily Conduct—Edward Greenly; 7: One’s Own Good—And Another’s—David Maurice; 8: The Four Sacred Shrines—Piyadassi Thera; 9: How to Teach Buddhism to Children—Dr. H. Klar; 10: Rabindranath Tagore and Buddhist Culture—S. Bimal Barua; 11: Buddhist Ideals of Government—G. Vitanage; 12: Attitudes to Life—Ruth Walshe; 13: An Old Debate on Self—Soma Thera; 14: Pride and Conceit—Dr. E. Ashby and B. Fawcett; 15: Buddhist Meditation—Francis Story; 16: Comments on the Buddha Word—J. D. Ireland; 17: Buddhism and Democracy—K. Leidecker & B.P. Kirthisinghe; 18: Buddhist Therapy—Ruth Walshe; 19: The Dhamma—Bhikkhu Khema; 20: Guide Posts For Buddhists—Sita Paulickpulle-Renfrew; 21: Aspects of Buddhism—Piyadassi Thera; 22: Great Sayings of Anagárika Dharmapála—Bhikshu Sangharakshita; 23: The Place of Animals in Buddhism—Francis Story; 24: The Three Roots of Ill and Our Daily Life—Karel Werner; 25: The Buddha’s Practical Teaching—John D. Ireland; 26: Our Reactions to Dukkha—Dr Elizabeth Ashby; 27: Treasures of the Noble—Soma Thera; 28: Escapism and Escape and Buddhism and Mysticism—Y. M. Rao; 29: A Larger Rationalism—Francis Story; 30: Detachment—T. H. Perera.

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Buddhist Publication Society

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9552403537

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9789552403538

Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume II

Numbers 31 to 60

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This book contains thirty numbers of the renowned Bodhi Leaves Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. 31 Meditation—First Steps to Control of the Senses—P. M. Rao 32 The Threefold Division of the Noble Eightfold Path—Piyadassi Thera 33 Extinction Without Remainder—Buddhadasa Bhikkhu 34 Protection Through Satipatthana—Nyanaponika Thera 35 The Four Cankers (Asava)—T. H. Perera 36 Renunciation—T. Prince 37 The Preparatory Path—John D. Ireland 38 The Advantages of Merit—Bhikkhu Khantipalo 39 The Supreme Conqueror—Francis Story 40 Right Understanding—Bhikkhu Silabhadra 41 Applications of Dhamma—Siri Buddhasukh 42 Buddhism: A Method of Mind Training—Leonard Bullen 43 The Relevance of Buddhism in the Modern World—Princess Poon Pismai Diskul 44 Three Mental Faculties and Guarding the Doors of the Senses—Dr. Elizabeth Ashby 45 This Self Business and Other Essays—M. O’C. Walshe/Natasha Jackson/Dr. Elizabeth Ashby 46 The Way to Happiness—H. L. B. Ellegala 47 Women in Ancient India—C. D. Weerasinghe 48 Buddhist Observances and Practices—Piyadassi Thera 49 Saísara and The Way of Dispassion—Francis Story 50 Buddhist Ideas in English Poetry—Cyril Moore 51 Meditation: The Inward Journey—John Andrew Storey 52 Mindfulness: An All-Time Necessity—C. F. Knight and Reg McAuliffe 53 Why Buddhism? Why Theravada? Theravada, Mahayana, Hinayana—M. O'C. Walshe 54 Rebirth—John Andrew Storey 55 The Scientific Approach to Buddhism and The Appeal of Buddhism—Francis Story 56 Three Buddhist Tales—Various Authors 57 The Story of the Mahinda, Sanghamitta and the Sri Maha-Bodhi—Piyadassi Thera 58 An Actual Religion—Bhikkhu Silacara 59 Buddhist Lay Ethics—Francis Story 60 Mindfulness and Awareness—Nyanavira Thera

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9552403502

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On Spoken French

An Ashby Reader

By: William J. Ashby

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On Spoken French

An Ashby Reader

By: William J. Ashby

This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995), including two real-time studies appearing for the first time in English translation. To help readers visualize just how radically different the morphosyntax, morphophonology, and semantics of Spoken French are from French-on-the-page, the editor has developed a glossing framework, designed to capture the systemic, radically-prefixal morphology of Spoken French and the variability of change-in-progress. The model, presented here and used to gloss the examples from the Tours corpus, is also suitable for corpus-tagging. The volume is organized into sections preceded by an Editor’s note and followed by suggestions for further reading, and closes with an appendix of French corpora. This scholarly edition was written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the field.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027254893

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A Viking Way of Life

By: Steven P. Ashby

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A Viking Way of Life

By: Steven P. Ashby

An engaging look at life in the Viking Age.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445620588

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Demonosity

By: Amanda Ashby

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Demonosity

By: Amanda Ashby

An ancient myth + a mean girl + a reluctant warrior = a lively take on good vs. evil The Black Rose--a powerful ancient force--has been let loose and has taken up residence in Celeste Gibson, popular girl at Cassidy Carter-Lewis' high school. Thomas Delacroix is the spirit of a fourteenth-century knight who is devoted to protecting the Black Rose, but he needs a contemporary living being to take on the challenge. That's where Cassidy comes in. She's a quirky high school junior who just wants to dress in her vintage clothes, hang out with her best friend, and take care of her father, who is recovering from surgery. She's the last person who would ever volunteer for such a task, but no one actually asked her. Now, like it or not, she finds herself training before dawn and battling demons at parties, the mall, and even at school. But hey, no one ever said high school was going to be easy. . .

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1101625902

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Imago Mortis

Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture

By: Ashby Kinch

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Imago Mortis

Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture

By: Ashby Kinch

In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material. He demonstrates the surprising and effective ways that late medieval artists appropriated images of death and dying as a means to affirm their artistic, social, and political identities. The book dedicates each of its three sections to a pairing of a visual convention (deathbed scenes, the Three Living and Three Dead, and the Dance of Death) and a Middle English literary text (Hoccleve’s Lerne for to die, Audelay’s Three Dead Kings, and Lydgate’s Dance of Death).

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9004245812

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With Amusement for All

A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830

By: LeRoy Ashby

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With Amusement for All

A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830

By: LeRoy Ashby

With Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture -- from minstrel shows to hip-hop, from the penny press to pulp magazines, from the NBA to NASCAR, and much in between. By placing the evolution of popular amusement in historical context, Ashby illuminates the complex ways in which popular culture both reflects and transforms American society. He demonstrates a recurring pattern in democratic culture by showing how groups and individuals on the cultural and social periphery have profoundly altered the nature of mainstream entertainment. The mainstream has repeatedly co-opted and sanitized marginal trends in a process that continues to shift the limits of acceptability. Ashby describes how social control and notions of public morality often vie with the bold, erotic, and sensational as entrepreneurs finesse the vagaries of the market and shape public appetites. Ashby argues that popular culture is indeed a democratic art, as it entertains the masses, provides opportunities for powerless and disadvantaged individuals to succeed, and responds to changing public hopes, fears, and desires. However, it has also served to reinforce prejudices, leading to discrimination and violence. Accordingly, the study of popular culture reveals the often dubious contours of the American dream. With Amusement for All never loses sight of pop culture's primary goal: the buying and selling of fun. Ironically, although popular culture has drawn an enormous variety of amusements from grassroots origins, the biggest winners are most often sprawling corporations with little connection to a movement's original innovators.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813171326

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Caedmon's Song

By: Ruth Ashby

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Caedmon's Song

By: Ruth Ashby

Long ago, when hardly anyone knew how to read or write, people recited stories by heart. They sat around the hearth at night, telling of heroes and monsters, great battles fought, and fortunes made and lost. On feast days, they passed the harp around the room so that everyone could sing a poem. But when the harp reached Caedmon, his thoughts dried up. He opened his mouth and nothing at all came out. It was embarrassing. No wonder he hated poetry. A quiet man who loved tending his cows, Caedmon couldn't recite poetry because he thought he had no stories to tell. Then after one especially upsetting experience, Caedmon stormed home, fell asleep in the barn, and began to dream. That night, everything changed for Caedmon . . . With jovial, heartwarming illustrations and beautifully illuminated letters, this tale is based on the true story of Caedmon, the seventh-century cowherd who became known as the first English poet.

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Eerdmans Young Readers

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0802852416

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The Jackpot Killer

Sequel to The Last of the Soul Searchers

By: David Ashby

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The Jackpot Killer

Sequel to The Last of the Soul Searchers

By: David Ashby

This book is a projection of the Future, Artificial Intelligence is saturated throughout the plot, as is climate change and its impact on the environment. This book is a sequel to the last of the Soul searchers, and projects the main character ten years after he was placed in a mental hospital for being an alleged serial Killer. Shaun is released as a test subject, after a Neura link Chip was placed in his brain. This chip will hopefully control his dissociative personality disorder but is this another Anunnaki conspiracy to use a mentally unbalanced person as a scapegoat of murders committed by the Anunnaki Assassin known as the phantom? A detective from Brownsville Ky teams up with a special agent from the FBI to investigate murders in casinos in Vegas, the mountains of North Carolina, and on a cruise ship headed for the Bahamas. As both men use technology of the future to solve these assassinations, there are unrelated murders of pedophiles near the Mammoth Cave area. Are there two serial killers working in tandem, or is it just modern technology serving up its horrifying consequences?

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Xlibris Corporation

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Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction

By: Arved Mark Ashby

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Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction

By: Arved Mark Ashby

Arved Ashby writes with a keen sense of the historical processes, ironies, and reversals that seem to characterize the ways that musicologists think about, and contemporary listeners experience, works and performance. This book is a major contribution to the burgeoning body of critical musicological literature on recordings; anybody interested in that field, or in the question of the 'artwork' in the contemporary world, needs to read this book--which fortunately, is a great pleasure to do."--Adam Krims, author of Music and Urban Geography "The relationship between classical music and recording is strangely conflicted: on the one hand recorded music is the perfect realization of aesthetic autonomy, on the other hand it commodifies music and transforms its role within society. Ashby's book offers a penetrating analysis of these cultural conflicts, showing how technological developments from the phonogram to the mp3 have changed our basic sense of what music is as well as the ways in which we consume it. What emerges from this sustained study of the relationship between technology and values is a view of classical musical culture that is both richer and truer to life."--Nicholas Cook, author of A Guide to Musical Analysis "Lively and persuasive. Ashby has the enviable, rare ability to lead the reader comfortably through highly complex material without oversimplifying. This is a must-read for composers, music theorists, performers, musicologists, critics, and anyone with an interest in classical music beyond the elementary level."--Jonathan Dunsby, author of Performing Music

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Univ of California Press

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0520264797

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9780520264793

Biology for the IB Diploma Coursebook with Free Online Material

By: Brenda Walpole,Ashby Merson-Davies,Leighton Dann,Peter Hoeben,Mark Headlee

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Biology for the IB Diploma Coursebook with Free Online Material

By: Brenda Walpole,Ashby Merson-Davies,Leighton Dann,Peter Hoeben,Mark Headlee

Biology for the IB Diploma, Second edition covers in full the requirements of the IB syllabus for Biology for first examination in 2016. The second edition of this well-received Coursebook is fullly updated for the IB Biology syllabus for first examination in 2016, comprehensively covering all requirements. Get the best coverage of the syllabus with clear assessment statements, and links to Theory of Knowledge, International-mindedness and Nature of Science themes. Exam preparation is supported with plenty of sample exam questions, online test questions and exam tips. Chapters covering the Options and Nature of Science, assessment guidance and answers to questions are included in the free online material available with the book.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107654602

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Falling for the Best Man

By: Amanda Ashby

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Falling for the Best Man

By: Amanda Ashby

Harlequin Junkie Top Pick "Now this is my kind of romance novel." Emmy Watson loves her small-town life. Most of the time––except the one crazy night she threw caution to the wind and slept with a sexy stranger. Totally not like her, but so worth it. And hey, who’ll ever find out. It’ll be her little secret... Globe-trotting travel writer Christopher Henderson can’t get one woman out of his head. He knows Emmy is all wrong for him–he’d have to pry her cold dead hands from this crazy town–but living without her is slowly not becoming an option. Christopher has a game plan: 1. Dazzle her with his awesome cooking skills to throw her off guard. 2. Win the world’s weirdest golf trophy. 3. Impress her with his ability to talk cranky French dove breeders into doing his bidding. But Emmy isn’t playing by the rules, and Chris might have finally met his match... Each book in the Sisters of Wishing Bridge series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1: Falling for the Best Man Book #2: The Wedding Planner’s Baby Book #3: Dating the Wrong Mr. Right

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Entangled: Bliss

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1633758346

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Biology for the IB Diploma Coursebook

By: Brenda Walpole,Ashby Merson-Davies,Leighton Dann

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Biology for the IB Diploma Coursebook

By: Brenda Walpole,Ashby Merson-Davies,Leighton Dann

This text offers an in-depth analysis of all topics covered in the IB syllabus, preparing students with the skills needed to succeed in the examination. Features include: clearly stated learning objectives at the start of each section; quick questions throughout each chapter and accessible language for students at all levels.

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0521171784

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Art Nouveau

Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation

By: Charlotte Ashby

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Art Nouveau

Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation

By: Charlotte Ashby

Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid means of transnational exchange, bringing about new ways of living, working and creating. This book is structured around key themes for understanding the contexts behind Art Nouveau, including new materials and technologies, colonialism and imperialism, the rise of the 'modern woman', the rise of the professional designer and the role of the patron-collector. It also explores the new ideas that inspired Art Nouveau: nature and the natural sciences, world arts and world religions, psychology and new visions for the modern self. Ashby explores the movement through 41 case studies of artists and designers, buildings, interiors, paintings, graphic arts, glass, ceramics and jewellery, drawn from a wide range of countries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350061166

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Exodus

Go Out and Meet God

By: Godfrey Ashby

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Exodus

Go Out and Meet God

By: Godfrey Ashby

The book of Exodus is often seen only as ancient history, largely irrelevant to most of the modern Western world. This new commentary by Godfrey Ashby attempts specifically to show how this Old Testament book is of continuing significance to readers today. Ashby discusses the crucial importance of the events described in Exodus and their meaning for the Old Testament gospel, and explains why the Exodus event is central to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to the faith of believers in our own age. He also explores the relevance of Exodus for the liberation struggle now taking place throughout the third world.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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146745186X

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Dating the Guy Next Door

By: Amanda Ashby

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Dating the Guy Next Door

By: Amanda Ashby

From the author of You Had Me at Halo, comes the first in a new contemporary romance series where a woman must decide between her own fears and true love. MAYBE, BABY... Kate Mitchell is finished with love. After a recent relationship disaster, she's had it. Sure, she's noticed her smoking hot new neighbor, Matt Hunter, moving into the converted warehouse next door. But she resolves to keep her fantasies just that. But fantasy becomes reality when he shows up in her gallery. Matt is a logical, meticulous type while Kate's more of a fly-by-night free spirit. And she won't allow herself to be led into another relationship—especially not with someone who wants to start a family. She can't do that. Still, even Kate can't deny Matt’s charm, and soon realizes she's falling for him hard. If she tells him she won't have a baby, she'll break his heart. But if she doesn't, she might break her own... Praise for novels of Amanda Ashby “Laced with humor, danger, and romance, this book will have readers smiling all the way to the last page.”—Publishers Weekly “Who knew the afterlife could be so funny? Dead—it’s the new alive!”—Allison Rushby, author of Friday Night Cocktails

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Penguin

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0698198018

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9780698198012

The Little Bird

A Novel

By: Ashby Jones

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The Little Bird

A Novel

By: Ashby Jones

In 1964, a Black teenager was murdered by a drunken white cop who got away with the crime, and eight years later, the boy' s best friend, Shane, returns from combat intent on carving out justice himself. Suzanne, the daughter of the lawyer who failed in prosecuting the case, also lands back in Virginia, but her aim is to follow her father' s path to suicide, a path created by his loss and the severe rheumatoid arthritis that followed.Shane and Suzanne were four years apart in high school and barely knew each other before they met, but after a chance encounter, an almost instant connection is made. Neither knows the other' s secret goal, but as their bonds deepen, their love will be tested by familial duty, long-held grief, and even shifting sanity. But love might have other plans for both Shane and Suzanne if both decide to live long enough to find out. In this vividly told and slightly surreal novel, the power of forgiveness might be their salvation.

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Histria Books

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1592114849

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The Last of the Soul Searchers

By: David W. Ashby

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The Last of the Soul Searchers

By: David W. Ashby

Shaun MacGregor is a complex man who struggles with alcoholism and relationships with women. He becomes involved in a battle for the control of Earth. Groomed by his mentor, John Running Bull, Shaun assists the alien Arcturians in saving humanity from the evil Annunaki. With his psychic abilities, Shaun mediates the transformation of evil humans controlled by the Annunaki, changing monsters into harmless clones by presenting them to the Arcturians for adjustments to their souls. Shaun’s stepfather, Mike “Mad Dog” MacGregor, who appears as a human, is the supreme leader of the Annunaki. A retired Air Force colonial, Mad Dog plots to wipe out humanity, so that his people may colonize Earth. The colonel has long viewed Shaun as his nemesis because Shaun is a Nephilim--half human and half Arcturian. He soon threatens Shaun’s existence. With the help of John Running Bull and the ex-Annunaki cyborg Bart, Shaun, and his new love interest Vicki kayak sixty miles to the point deep in the Red River Gorge area in Eastern Kentucky where they are extracted to safety. Along the way down the river, the group experiences many dangers, including learning of the Annunaki’s plan to wipe out humanity by transforming the Earth’s atmosphere so that it is unable to support human life by replacing oxygen with methane gas and carbon dioxide, perfect for the Annunaki. Human activities such as hydraulic fracturing and fossil fuel consumption have long been wrecking the Earth, but the process is taking too long. Nubira, home planet of the Annunaki, is rapidly being destroyed as their sun turns into a supernova. In addition to speeding up the destruction of the planet, Mad Dog MacGregor urges his cohorts to release a virus via their Annunaki Manchurian candidate in Wuhan, China, thus expediting the complete demise of the human species. Extraction is complete when Shaun and Vicki escape by jumping off Seventy Six Falls near Lake Cumberland in Kentucky. There the pair are forced into a wormhole that deposits them into the decade of the 1950s. Such time travel is the Arcturians’ version of a cosmic witness protection plan. When Shaun and Vicki arrive in the 50s, their identities are altered, but not their souls. Shaun becomes a famous writer and uses his influence for good. Finally, Shaun makes it back to the year 2020, and is faced with horrors that threaten his sanity, and threatens his ability to protect humanity from the evils of the Annunaki. Will Shaun survive long enough to save the planet, or will he become just another instrument in the Annunaki conquest of earth.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664166394

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Look At This If You Love Great Art

100 essential artworks that really matter

By: Chloë Ashby

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Look At This If You Love Great Art

100 essential artworks that really matter

By: Chloë Ashby

Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced, inside is a collection of insightful summaries on just what it is that makes each one so vital. Art writer Chloë Ashby talks you through the pieces that resonate with her, revealing the fascinating stories behind them and offering her considered take on why each work should be regarded as a pinnacle of artistic endeavour. With entries curated to offer a unique juxtaposition of styles, mediums and schools of art, expect a contemporary take on classic artworks, where titans of art history cross paths with under-appreciated examples from outside the traditional canon, and where rebellious visionaries blaze trails that still influence today’s cutting-edge artists. Covering all the most important genres of art –Abstraction, Pop Art, Surrealism, Renaissance art, Impressionism and more – this engaging summary only deals with artworks that really matter and the reasons why you have to see them.

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Ivy Press

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0711256063

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Go Out and Meet God

A Commentary on the Book of Exodus

By: Godfrey William Ashby

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Go Out and Meet God

A Commentary on the Book of Exodus

By: Godfrey William Ashby

This new commentary on the book of Exodus attempts to show how this Old Testament book is of continuing significance to readers today, explaining why the Exodus event is central to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to the faith of believers in our age.

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0802843328

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9780802843326

The Katabasis

A Novel

By: Frank Ashby

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The Katabasis

A Novel

By: Frank Ashby

In The Katabasis, a modern day convent-based mystery drama unfolds as a Jesuit priest and a nun enter into a psychological tug-of-war which culminates on the night of the Winter Solstice. Father Bennett realizes his true relation to the Sirian mystery. This discovery proves to be an integral factor in bringing about a baptism of fire through the Hidden God, which they both must endure. As a result of this baptism by fire, Sister Marcia undergoes a radical change in her ontological status from a quiescent nun to a moon goddess under the aegis of the lunar current. Father Bennett then embarks upon a journey which ends with a remarkable revelation about his true destiny in relation to the coming Black Aeon.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426985231

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Engineering Materials and Processes Desk Reference

By: Michael F. Ashby,Robert W. Messler,Rajiv Asthana,Edward P. Furlani,R. E. Smallman,A.H.W. Ngan,R. J Crawford,Nigel Mills

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Engineering Materials and Processes Desk Reference

By: Michael F. Ashby,Robert W. Messler,Rajiv Asthana,Edward P. Furlani,R. E. Smallman,A.H.W. Ngan,R. J Crawford,Nigel Mills

A one-stop desk reference, for engineers involved in the use of engineered materials across engineering and electronics, this book will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. Material ranges from basic to advanced topics, including materials and process selection and explanations of properties of metals, ceramics, plastics and composites. - A hard-working desk reference, providing all the essential material needed by engineers on a day-to-day basis - Fundamentals, key techniques, engineering best practice and rules-of-thumb together in one quick-reference sourcebook - Definitive content by the leading authors in the field, including Michael Ashby, Robert Messler, Rajiv Asthana and R.J. Crawford

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0080878393

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9780080878393

The Great American Documents: Volume II

1831-1900

By: Ruth Ashby

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The Great American Documents: Volume II

1831-1900

By: Ruth Ashby

The essential primer on the most influential American documents between 1831 and 1900 The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the renowned Ernie Colón, tells the history of America through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it. The second volume begins where the first left off. Uncle Sam returns to take us through numerous major documents, ranging from the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico in 1836 to Jacob Riis’s seminal exposé of slum life in New York City, How the Other Half Lives, published in 1900. Each document gets its own chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains not only its key passages but its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the chapter “The Compromise of 1850” we learn how westward expansion forced the federal government to confront the expansion of slavery. “The Emancipation Proclamation” places Abraham Lincoln’s famous decree within the context of the ongoing Civil War. And “The Chinese Exclusion Act” depicts the unique discrimination faced by Chinese immigrants and shows how that 1882 law presaged the restrictive policies and quotas established in the early twentieth century. As Ashby shows, the growth and expansion of the United States through the nineteenth century forced the nation to reckon with and confront many of its original injustices, plunging the country into the Civil War and emerging into new challenges as it rose to become a world power. A handy and elegantly concise guide, this masterfully illustrated volume is the perfect book for students of American history, young and old.

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Hill and Wang

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1466899913

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9781466899919

The Great American Documents: Volume 1

1620-1830

By: Ruth Ashby

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The Great American Documents: Volume 1

1620-1830

By: Ruth Ashby

A graphically illustrated history of America through its major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays introduces, through the narrative character of "Uncle Sam," each document's origins, creation, and impact.

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Macmillan

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0809094606

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9780809094608

Sovereign Wealth Funds

Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power

By: Gordon L. Clark,Adam D. Dixon,Ashby H.B. Monk

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Sovereign Wealth Funds

Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power

By: Gordon L. Clark,Adam D. Dixon,Ashby H.B. Monk

The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and issues of domestic and international legitimacy. Through a variety of case studies--from the China Investment Corporation to the funds of several Gulf states--the authors show that the forces propelling the adoption and development of sovereign wealth funds vary by country. The authors also show that many of these investment institutions have identifiable commonalities of form and function that match the core institutions of Western financial markets. The authors suggest that the international legitimacy of sovereign wealth funds is based on the degree to which their design and governance match Western expectations about investment management. Undercutting commonplace assumptions about the emerging world of the twenty-first century, the authors demonstrate that even small countries with large and globally oriented sovereign wealth funds are likely to play a significant role in international relations. Sovereign Wealth Funds considers how such financial organizations have altered not only the face of finance, but also the international geopolitical landscape.

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Princeton University Press

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140084651X

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9781400846511

Institutional Investors in Global Markets

By: Gordon L Clark,Ashby H B Monk

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Institutional Investors in Global Markets

By: Gordon L Clark,Ashby H B Monk

Institutional Investors in Global Market provides you with a comprehensive overview about what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it; it is about the production of investment returns in the global economy. Being a book about the production process, you learn about key issues found in the academic literature on the theory of the firm. In this case, the focus is on the global financial services industry, where the building blocks underpinning the study of industrial corporations are less relevant. You gain an understanding of how and why the production of investment returns differs from that of manufactured goods. You are provided with an analytical framework that situates financial institutions within the complex web of the intermediaries that dominate developed financial markets. In summary, you gain further insights into analysis of the organization and management of institutional investors; as well as an analysis of the global financial services industry.

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Oxford University Press

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019251167X

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9780192511676

Quest for King Arthur

By: Liz Garrick,Ruth Ashby

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Quest for King Arthur

By: Liz Garrick,Ruth Ashby

After traveling back to Britain during the Dark Ages, a savage wolf leaps at you out of the wilderness. Should you fight the savage beast or run for your life?

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Starfire

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0553271261

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9780553271263

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