In the middle of the night, a spirit work Bo Sebastian and asked him to begin to type what he heard. The result is the book Theoraphasz, which means "God speaks in the final phase of human development.
Finding Authentic You" not only gives you seven effective steps to change, but also walks with you day by day for an entire year to help each individual find personal growth: mind, body and spirit! You can join Bo Sebastian on his website with a Year to CLEAR Challenge!
When Marlene Vincenza, a famous New York artist, finds herself falling in love with Michael Thomas, she doesn't expect that his religious belief or his church would topple her world and almost ruin her art career. When religious conviction overrides sense, you get the picture of these bigger-than-life characters exploding from the page to create fanatic havoc in every area of Marlene's life.
Girlfriends, get ready for some straight-talk about straight men from a gay friend. What do men really want from women? How do you avoid Mr. Wrong in your search for Mr. Right? What kind of emotional baggage is likely to send a man packing? Is your heartthrob a deadbeat? Where are the best places to search for the man of your dreams? Explore all these questions and more with renowned Life Coach, Bo Sebastian. Find ways to make your life and relationships better. Nationally renowned Clinical Hypnotist and Life Coach Bo Sebastian is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists and taught at the 2008 World Hypnosis Conference. He currently works with Green Hills Healing Arts and has a private practice in Nashville, Tennessee. Bo has appeared on The Learning Channel with his sound-enhanced, multilayered hypnotherapy.
The Protein-Powered Vegetarian is not just a book for people who do not eat meat. With this cookbook, the individual can explore new and exciting ways to include protein, an often-misunderstood vital nutritional element, into their diets. The recipes are veggie, but as the vast number of dishes and cultures become obvious, that fact becomes far less important. Bo Sebastian offers a sound, intelligent and creative way toward health and happiness in the home.
Jimmy Joe Willimay had been in love with Marty since he graduated high school. But, when he got another girl pregnant, his entire life changed. In the south. then, you married the girl you got pregnant. But, fifty years later, when Marty's husband died, his own children were grown and out of the house, and his own wife had lost interest in intimacy, he decides to take back his power and divorce his current wife to marry Marty. However, on that day, his wife tells Jimmy Joe that she has an incurable disease, which has a fatal diagnosis. Days later, his best friend's parents are murdered just two doors down from where he lives, his best friend is on the run from the law, and he has an unexpected spiritual experience that changes his entire perspective of life. Jimmy Joe decides to given up on his old way of thinking and take back his power to live in the Now.
Sometimes, life hands you candy canes. Sometimes, life hands you sadness. The trick to waking up happy every day is hidden in Kissy Sue's first job, working for the richest family in Dixon County—the Divines. She learns that Willa Divine is not the princess everyone thinks she is. Actually, being rich doesn't make a young girl happy at all. Being rich isn't much different than being poor. Read this book to see why!
In a small, Bible-Belt town like Restaria, Billy Ray Higby tries to find his way to understanding his gay feelings, in the midst of his Baptist father and drunk mother. He takes refuge in an Italian, Catholic family—an anomaly in the south—where he becomes best friends with Jimmy, who he eventually falls in love with. Jimmy doesn't know or want to know how he feels about Billy Ray, because he's a jock and wants to be a lawyer and have a family. However, as Billy Ray's father murders one of his promiscuous wife's lovers, Jimmy and his family come to the rescue. The rest is Tennessee history. Billy Ray says it best: "Restaria was undoubtedly my home. It fed me baby food. I suckled from the paps of its small-mindedness, until I grew weak from hunger and needed the strength of richer, more complex food. Restaria was where I grew beyond my rural upbringing to chase for stars in a new vicinity. And there, where indiscrimination resided, and I could discover my own set of truths, I found what I'd been looking for in a new place called Honesty.
Follow the further adventures of the engaging characters of a small southern town, similar to the Mitford series. This volume blends the storytelling talent of many beloved authors into a collective novel that will take readers from laughter to tears and back again.
The Protein-Powered Vegetarian is not just a book for people who do not eat meat. With this cookbook, the individual can explore new and exciting ways to include protein, an often-misunderstood vital nutritional element, into their diets. The recipes are veggie, but as the vast number of dishes and cultures become obvious, that fact becomes far less important. Bo Sebastian offers a sound, intelligent and creative way toward health and happiness in the home.
Patients in psychiatric care can behave in ways that can be alarming for staff, and difficult to respond to. The authors of this practical and imaginative book explain why patients may behave in these ways, and offer a toolkit of ways to respond effectively and kindly. With many everyday examples of how to keep the space positive and safe, and patients calm, this book could transform your working life.
Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and economic crises. At the Global South’s request for a New International Economic Order, the Brandt Commission, chaired by Willy Brandt, was appointed in 1977. The commission, with a goal to formulate arguments on how to close the gap between the North and South, developed a planetary perspective grounded in economic redistribution, ecological considerations, and disarmament. The multinationals, at that time, a new kind of business corporation, repressed Brandt’s vision by seeking freedom from political monitoring. This book discusses the ways that global corporations created facts that changed the world and the preconditions of politics. It moves beyond existing research that considers the competition merely a theoretical clash between Keynesianism and neoliberalism. Featuring a thorough analysis of the decades’ trends and a new interview with Shridath Ramphal, the Commission’s unofficial vice chair, this is a timely volume for students and researchers of international relations, political science, and contemporary history.
Federico Dal Bo examines the design of early Hebrew books from the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, focusing not only on the words in these early books but also on how they were arranged on the page. He follows in the tradition of scholars such as Christopher de Hamel, Marvin J. Heller, and David Stern, who have explored the importance of these Hebrew books in influencing Jewish learning and attracting the interest of Christians. The author discusses important prints, such as the first Talmud and rabbinical bibles, which marked a shift from being for Jewish readers only to being for both Jews and Christians. The collaboration between Jewish editors and Christian printers changed the way these books looked and the audience for whom they were intended. At first, these early prints copied the style of handwritten Hebrew manuscripts. The simple layout could be difficult to read, especially for long books like the Bible or Talmud. But over time, influenced by the humanism of the Italian Renaissance, the layout became more complex. The book also looks at how the layout changed from full-page commentaries to a more complicated design in which the main text and commentaries shared the same page. This shift challenged the idea of who was the primary author and emphasized the role of editors. The layout, with the main text in the center and the commentaries on the sides, created a kind of unwritten rule for how to read religious texts. Dal Bo's study also includes new information about a 1553 trial in which the Talmud was burned. Overall, it explores how the layout of these early Hebrew books shaped cultural power and influenced how people read.
This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change. It examines how China, following its emergence as the world’s largest energy consumer and its resultant growing dependence on foreign energy, engages the world on energy, and its implications for global governance of energy. It notably focuses on the policy impact of China’s global engagement for the accelerated “going out” strategy and the so-called “one belt one road” (OBOR) initiative, and profound climate implications for the rest of the world, contending that the type of energy services, technologies, and infrastructure China finances around the globe today will determine the global community’s carbon footprint in the foreseeable future.
Easy to use and filled with addictive--and highly useful--information about the people whose names will be carried into the future on the backs of the world's reptiles, The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles is a handy and fun book for professional and amateur herpetologists alike.
Fifth in the Kennel Club Classics breed series, The Whippet, written by renowned Whippet breeder, judge and historian Bo Bengtson, is the bible on the Whippet, one of the world's most popular and beloved purebred dogs. This book's detailed chapters on everything from the history of the breed to the breed's accomplishments in dog shows around world to the Whippet's participation in racing and coursing events make it the most important and beautiful book ever published on the Whippet. With hundreds of vintage and modern photographs, this book is a must-have for every whippet owner.
Ian McHarg’s ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. However, few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of his projects. Using the framework of landscape performance assessment, this book demonstrates the long-term benefits of a renowned McHargarian project (The Woodlands town development) through quantitative and qualitative methods. Including 44 black and white illustrations, Landscape Performance systematically documents the performance benefits of the environmental, social, and economic aspects of The Woodlands project. It delves into McHarg’s planning success in The Woodlands in comparison with adjacent Houston developments, which demonstrated urban resilience after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Lastly, it identifies the ingredients of McHarg’s ability to do real and permanent good. Yang also includes a number of appendices which provide valuable information on the methods of assessing performance in landscape development. This book would be beneficial to academics and students of landscape architecture and planning with a particular interest in Ian McHarg.
This book presents a radically new approach of how societies can bring corruption under control. Since the late 1990s, the detrimental effects of corruption to human well-being have become well established in research. This has resulted in a stark increase in anti-corruption programs launched by international organizations such as the World Bank, the African Union, the EU, as well as many national development organizations. Despite these efforts, evaluations of the effects of these anti-corruption programs have been disappointing. As it can be measured, it is difficult to find substantial effects from such anti-corruption programs. The argument in this book is that this huge policy failure can be explained by three factors. Firstly, it argues that the corruption problem has been poorly conceptualized since what should count as the opposite of corruption has been left out. Secondly, the problem has been located in the wrong social spaces. It is neither a cultural nor a legal problem. Instead, it is for the most part located in what organization theory defines as the 'standard operating procedures' in social organizations. Thirdly, the general theory that has dominated anti-corruption efforts — the principal-agent theory — is based on serious misspecification of the basic nature of the problem. The book presents a reconceptualization of corruption and a new theory — drawing on the tradition of the social contract - to explain it and motivate policies of how to get corruption under control. Several empirical cases serve to underpin this new theory ranging from the historical organization of religious practices to specific social policies, universal education, gender equality, and auditing. Combined, these amount to a strategic theory known as 'the indirect approach'.
On their 13th birthday, instead of finding answers about who they are, Reggie and Ryssa keep finding more questions. Are they the twins of darkness and light foretold by prophecy?
Imaginaries on Matter – Tools, Materials, Origins, promotes an innovative architectural research agenda that connects historical-cultural written research with digitally led material explorations. The common thread is the notion of the material imagination, disclosed in the reverie, or material daydream, which challenges overly pragmatic or unreflective material choices within current architectural practice. In bonding our imagination directly with matter while also confronting new technologies, this book promotes strategies by which architects' and builders' future relations with materials can stay rooted within the deeper concerns of cultural meaning. Imaginaries on Matter includes interviews with Aulets Arquitectes, Alibi Studio, Ensamble Studio, Geometria, Helen & Hard, KieranTimberlake, Supermanoeuvre, and Vandkunsten, as well as a postscript by David Leatherbarrow. Edited by Thomas Bo Jensen, Carolina Dayer, Jonathan Foote
New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new species has to be given a scientific, Latin name in addition to any common, vernacular name. In either case the species may be named after a person, often the discoverer but sometimes an individual they wished to honour or perhaps were staying with at the time the discovery was made. Species names related to a person are ‘eponyms’. Many scientific names are allusive, esoteric and even humorous, so an eponym dictionary is a valuable resource for anyone, amateur or professional, who wants to decipher the meaning and glimpse the history of a species name. Sometimes a name refers not to a person but to a fictional character or mythological figure. The Forest Stubfoot Toad Atelopus farci is named after the FARC, a Colombian guerrilla army who found refuge in the toad’s habitat and thereby, it is claimed, protected it. Hoipollo's Bubble-nest Frog Pseudophilautus hoipolloi was named after the Greek for ‘the many’, but someone assumed the reference was to a Dr Hoipollo. Meanwhile, the man who has everything will never refuse an eponym: Sting's Treefrog Dendropsophus stingi is named after the rock musician, in honour of his ‘commitment and efforts to save the rainforest’. Following the success of their Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles, the authors have joined forces to give amphibians a similar treatment. They have tracked down 1,609 honoured individuals and composed for each a brief, pithy biography. In some cases these are a reminder of the courage of scientists whose dedicated research in remote locations exposed them to disease and even violent death. The eponym ensures that their memory will survive, aided by reference works such as this highly readable dictionary. Altogether 2,668 amphibians are listed.
Discover an insightful new text covering advanced problems in real property valuation In Advanced Issues in Property Valuation, real estate valuation experts and authors Hans Lind and Bo Nordlund provide a deep understanding of the concepts, theories, methods and controversies in property valuation. The book introduces readers to controversies and discussions in real estate valuation, including the relevance of market value for valuation for lending purposes, how uncertainty in property valuations should be interpreted, and the relationship between market value and fair value in financial reporting. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction to the concepts, theories, methods and problems in real estate property valuation An exploration of the relevance of market value for valuation for lending purposes A practical discussion of how uncertainty in property valuations should be interpreted A concise treatment of the relationship between market value and fair value in financial reporting An examination of how concerns about sustainability and other structural changes can affect property valuation Perfect for graduate level students in courses involving valuation or real estate, Advanced Issues in Property Valuation is also an excellent resource for real estate practitioners who wish to update and deepen their knowledge about property valuation.
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