Journey into Prayer tells the story of Philip and his exciting spiritual journey from the tentative, elementary beginning of a prayer life, to a satisfying and deep communication with God. His journey leads him through a number of learning experience and adventures that develop his ability to pray effectively. Along the way he meets with different people, visits the City of Prayer, realizes the essence behind the teachings of Jesus Christ, and experiences communion with God in an increasingly rich and personal way. The reader is invited to join Philip and his friends on this surprising journey. It may transform your prayer life and lead you into a stimulating, fulfilling and ever growing relationship with God.
At the most hopeless and discouraging time of her life, Allison meets a group of new friends who have started studying the three primary Christian qualities of hope, faith, and love. As Allison begins to absorb the meaning, power, and truth of this “Dynamic Trio,” she is introduced to new ideas, principles, and purposes that will change her life. With the help of her new friends, she applies hope, faith, and love to her own situation and is transformed from a lost and defeated person into someone with purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. As you join Allison in her journey, you may come to a fresh understanding of these three qualities and begin to enrich and renew your own spiritual journey.
William Martin "Bill" Stewart left Missouri to find his fortune. Along the way he worked as a cow puncher, range detective, town marshal, sheriff, and U.S. marshal. In each job, he is forced into conflicts with the Indian.Finally his skills as an Indian fighter caught the attention of the U.S. Army and he was given a commission. He soon discovered that his greatest challenge was in following orders while retaining his humanity.Captain and later, Major Stewart lead men into battle against the Southern Plains Indians and western Apaches. While moving from post to post, Major Stewart became a victim of his own success. Drawing the ire of Generals Sheridan and Crook ensured Bill would retire as a major.The Indian Fighter is the story of one man's devotion to family while following his orders to remove the Indians he respects from their ancestral home.
The author, W.R. Bill Stewart, was born Third Generation Oilfield Trash on December 1, 1947 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. His parents lived nearby in the tiny townsite of Wesson. His dad worked as an "oilfield hand" who later became a pioneer in offshore drilling with substantial international exposure. The author experienced world-wide travel as well as peripatetic residencies, including the Sheikdom of Kuwait, Mexico, and Alaska during his adventuresome childhood, the subject of this book.
Berland "Bill" Stewart is a Jamaican who went to the U.K. after graduating High School.After several years of struggles he served the Royal Air Force for five interesting years in the U.K. and the Middle East and eventually gained National recognition as an athlete and heavyweight boxing champion.On his return to the U.K from his military tour overseas he attended andgraduated from the British Institute of Engineering Technology, a private EngineeringInstitution in London England.Berland returned to Jamaica after spending 12 years in the U.K. when he metand marry Sybil a secretary in the Jamaica Civil Service.He has been successfully married now for over 40 years and the proud parent offour successful college graduates and grand children.After working with the Jamaica Civil Service as an Engineer he relocated to theU.S.A. with his family where they currently reside.Despite his engineering training in the U.K. Berland had to further qualifyhimself educationally to meet the prescribed U.S.A. requirement.This requirement was met when he graduated in Architectural Drafting andsubsequently employed by the N.Y. City Board of Education.After years of secretarial employment Sybil also had to be retrained, graduatedand worked as a Registered Nurse before her retirement.The thought of being a successful grandfather is a fulfillment of his dreams, andbelieves that with perseverance the pursuit of ones goals should never be underestimated.
The story is about six million dollars in gold coins. The protagonist, Joe Wolfe, is a Jewish adolescent in Poland at the beginning of World War II. The story follows him through interment in Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the eventual reunion with his father, who has stolen the gold from the Nazis. They migrate to America, where Joe makes a new best friend in Jimmy Shea. Both men enlist to fight in the Korean War. They finally return home and purchase the marina from the widow of the marina owner. The story continues through building the marina during the Cold War while waiting for conditions in Europe to open the Iron Curtain and retrieve the gold. Joe also suffers from alcoholism in his early life.
At the most hopeless and discouraging time of her life, Allison meets a group of new friends who have started studying the three primary Christian qualities of hope, faith, and love. As Allison begins to absorb the meaning, power, and truth of this "Dynamic Trio," she is introduced to new ideas, principles, and purposes that will change her life. With the help of her new friends, she applies hope, faith, and love to her own situation and is transformed from a lost and defeated person into someone with purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. As you join Allison in her journey, you may come to a fresh understanding of these three qualities and begin to enrich and renew your own spiritual journey. About the Author: Bill Stewart was born and raised in Scotland. After completing his college education, he married Rita and they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Bill attended seminary to continue his training for the ministry. Upon graduation, Bill and Rita moved to Canada to begin their ministry and Bill completed his work for a Doctorate of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in California. Bill has been a contributing author for a number of books and articles. He has authored three other books: "Journey into Holiness," "Journey into Prayer," and "Journey into Wisdom." Bill and Rita have three sons and make their home in Riverview, New Brunswick. They have many interests but particularly enjoy hiking, reading and travel.
Journey into Wisdom" tells the story of Colin and his friend Peter and their exciting spiritual journey from a tentative, elementary understanding of wisdom to a deep, life-changing experience which gives them a soul-satisfying relationship with God. Their journey takes the form of a canoe trip down the River of Wisdom to the Sea of Tranquility, leading them through adventures and learning experiences that teach them the principles of wisdom. Along the way, they develop their understanding of what true wisdom looks like. They meet with different people, teachers, and challenges that help them mature in their Christian wisdom. Join Colin and Peter on their surprising and eventful journey. The journey could transform your whole understanding of what wisdom is and lead you into a stimulating, fulfilling, and ever-growing relationship with God. About the Author: Bill Stewart was born and raised in Scotland. After completing his college education, he married Rita and moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Bill attended seminary to continue his training. Upon graduation, Bill and Rita moved to Canada to begin their ministry and Bill completed his work for a doctorate at Fuller Theological Seminary in California. Bill and Rita have three sons. They have devoted their ministry lives to serving in Canada, where they pastored churches both in the West and in Toronto. In 1983, Bill was appointed by his denomination to supervise the churches in Atlantic Canada. In 1994, he was elected as national director for his denomination in Canada. Bill has been a contributing author for a number of books and articles. He also authored companion books to this one, entitled "Journey into Holiness" and "Journey into Prayer.
A Language All Their Own, a Life Unto Themselyes was inspired by the author's experiences in the float-camps of Southeast Alaska. In years past, logging camps could be found hugging the rugged, rocky shoreline, floating hamlets buoyed from logs harvested out of the same forests that provided the inhabitants with their livelihood. Moored a world apart, the only way in or out of the camps was by boat or plane. Some camps were larger, some smaller, nestled in quiet coves, bays and inlets; shrouded in fog; drenched by the rain; occasionally warmed by the sun or locked in the ice of winter.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of twenty-five years of research by former Congressman Bill Hendon and attorney Elizabeth A. Stewart, this book brilliantly reveals the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973, what these brave men have endured, and how administration after administration of their own government has turned its back on them. This authoritative exposé is based on open-source documents and reports, and thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery, as well as author interviews and personal experience. An Enormous Crime is a singular work, telling a story unlike any other in our history: ugly, harrowing, and true.
This book explains the skills of signwriting and signwork, including gilding, glass decorating and small-run screen printing. It includes advice not only on design but materials, fixing and cost. The revised edition includes a photographic section of examples, with a discussion of design aspects, new material on colors and masks and transfers, and a set of test questions for students and lecturers.
Bill Calfee has been working with guns since the 1970s and decided to focus on the 22 rimfire beginning in the 1980s. Since the 1980s Bill has had many ideas on how to improve the accuracy of the 22 rimfire, some ideas have increased the accuracy potential tremendously and some ideas proved out to be learning experiences for future ideas. Since about 2001 Bill has tried to capture his ideas, experiments, testing, and conclusions by writing about them. He has written about the successes that increased accuracy as well as the ideas that didnt improve accuracy. Although Bill is not a writer, he felt compelled to pass along the knowledge that he has obtained in the spirit of improving the accuracy of the 22 rimfire benchrest guns for everyone that has like goals. He has shared his writings previously with the benchrest community through different avenues. In this book, all of Bills writings are assembled in a chronological order to show the evolution of the accuracy of the 22rf as he has experienced it. He goes into detail about each aspect of rimfire accuracy discussing all of the components and their contribution to the improved accuracy. This book is a must have for everyone that is serious about increasing the accuracy in their 22 rimfire guns.
As a boy in Houston, Bill Sarpalius, his brothers, and their mother lived an itinerant life. Bill dug food out of trashcans, and he and his brothers moved from one school to the next. They squatted in a vacant home while their mother, affectionately called “Honey,” battled alcoholism and suicidal tendencies. In an act of desperation, she handed her three sons over to Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch north of Amarillo. At the time, Bill was thirteen years old and could not read. Life at Boys Ranch had its own set of harrowing challenges, however. He found himself living in fear of some staff and older boys. He became involved in Future Farmers of America and discovered a talent for public speaking. When he graduated, he had a hundred dollars and no place to go. He worked hard, earned a scholarship from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and obtained a college degree. After a brief career as a teacher and in agribusiness, he won a seat in the Texas Senate. Driven by the memory of his suffering mother, he launched the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in an effort to help people struggling with addiction. Sarpalius later served in the United States Congress. As a Lithuanian American, he took a special interest in that nation’s fight for independence from the Soviet Union. For his efforts, Sarpalius received the highest honor possible to a non-Lithuanian citizen and was named a “Grand Duke.” The Grand Duke from Boys Ranch is a unique political memoir—the story of a life full of unlikely paths that is at once heartbreaking and inspirational.
Cartoonist Wallace Wood created and published his own magazine ― witzend. Witzend immediately became a venue for personal work, without regard to commercial constraints and with contributors like Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, and Reed Crandall. (And that was just the first issue!) In later issues, Steve Ditko, Art Spiegelman, Vaughn Bodé, Jim Steranko, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Howard Chaykin, Bernie Wrightson ― and dozens more ― joined in.
Payne at Pinehurst presents a fascinating re-telling of the 1999 U.S. Open--considered by many golf experts as the greatest U.S. Open ever played--where Payne Stewart dramatically sunk a fifteen-foot putt on the 18th hole to defeat Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, and a host of other golf greats just four months before his untimely death in a bizarre plane crash. It has been called the greatest U.S. Open in the Open's over one hundred-year history. Veteran sports journalist, Bill Chastain, crafts the dramatic story of Payne Stewart's 1999 U.S. Open victory by combining extensive research with interviews of those who made it unique. Payne at Pinehurst shows how Stewart dealt with his stunning U.S. Open defeat in 1998 and planned victory for the championship that meant so much to him. Stewart's conquest of Pinehurst No. 2, while fending off Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, David Duval, and Vijay Singh in an epic battle where every swing held significance, is the stuff of which golf legends are made. From compelling action by the best golfers in the world to the tournament's dramatic conclusion, Payne at Pinehurst shows readers why the 1999 U.S. Open is regarded as the best U.S. Open ever played. "A fresh and concise look at Payne Stewart's victory at the 1999 U.S. Open."--Golf Digest
Bill Nash is a newspaper columnist, freelance writer and photographer based in Southern California. He writes a weekly column for the Ventura County Star and occasional feature stories. He also both writes and takes photographs to illustrate travel articles. He has published nearly 50 travel destination pieces on locations including California, Florida, New York, Hawaii, Tennessee, Arizona, Oregon and international destinations in Mexico, Canada, Chile, Italy, Korea and Australia. Also a non-fiction author, Bill wrote Oil, Orchards and Flames, a history of the fire department in Santa Paula, California. He has a background in journalism, public relations and advertising.
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation. Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve days—a new record. The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin, a great human disaster, the relief efforts for which were guided by the uncannily able and insufferably pompous Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a gaudy and murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression. All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master. This specially priced 14-volume set includes every book in the series: Mindfulness Resilience Influence and Persuasion Authentic Leadership Dealing with Difficult People Focus Self-Awareness Happiness Empathy Leadership Presence Purpose, Meaning, and Passion Confidence Mindful Listening Power and Impact
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