This collection of 30 short stories from around the world show everyday folk in the past and present discovering unexpected sweetness in the midst of sour circumstances when faith prevails. These stories are funny, others sobering, and more than a few will bring tears of amazement. While most of these short stories have a humorous core, some are historical, with a few based on real historical events. For those who are yet to discover faith, or want to deepen their understanding of it, this collection of short stories is a perfect place to start. Contemporary readers will enjoy these stories as they delve into the idea that parables are not just about faith, but also about us and relate to situations of everyday life. Christian Stahl offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus and faith narratives; the author also shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life, with faith and inspiration as the focal point. Christian Stories Collection: Building a Life Worth Living. One thing that can be guaranteed for this collection is that each and every story will leave the reader contemplating the complex manner of faith and how it plays a part in their current life situation.
An introduction to the modeling of business information systems, with processes formally modeled using Petri nets. This comprehensive introduction to modeling business-information systems focuses on business processes. It describes and demonstrates the formal modeling of processes in terms of Petri nets, using a well-established theory for capturing and analyzing models with concurrency. The precise semantics of this formal method offers a distinct advantage for modeling processes over the industrial modeling languages found in other books on the subject. Moreover, the simplicity and expressiveness of the Petri nets concept make it an ideal language for explaining foundational concepts and constructing exercises. After an overview of business information systems, the book introduces the modeling of processes in terms of classical Petri nets. This is then extended with data, time, and hierarchy to model all aspects of a process. Finally, the book explores analysis of Petri net models to detect design flaws and errors in the design process. The text, accessible to a broad audience of professionals and students, keeps technicalities to a minimum and offers numerous examples to illustrate the concepts covered. Exercises at different levels of difficulty make the book ideal for independent study or classroom use.
Have you been feeling overly stressed lately? Give yourself a break from your nuclear surroundings to have a read and crack a smile. With this book you can cheer up and discover: > That there is evidence and insight that certain sea creatures had sex with a human. > Why having dementia can be a good thing if you're up to no good. > How inherently stupid kids believe in fortunetellers. > Why it is useful to have an eccentric uncle in the Texas Panhandle. > Why you should avoid having adventures in a sauna. 50 Entertaining Funny Short Novels for Adults is a beautifully woven together collection of the funniest and at times true-to-life stories our mother Earth has to offer. People do the craziest things, mostly out of sheer natural stupidity, and this book shows stories born in madness, the craziest misadventures and hysterical anecdotes that will make your stomach clench with laughter; you also will be exposed to weird talking points and occasionally interesting insights. This book is best suited for everyone, but mainly for mature adults. A welcome relief for long lonely nights and situations that simply require distraction. Keep it at home to entertain friends and family, gift it to a friend, or package it up for a still suffering creature or a long lost lover. This book will help you in many ways. Get, or give, hours of entertainment, just scroll up and hit the buy button now!
This book is a fascinating collection of twenty-five cruise ship mysteries that were written for cruise ship travelers and mystery book enthusiasts. The stories include some humorous encounters in addition to strange secrets and exciting adventures. Many of the stories are shrouded in mystery and they will take you beyond the average innocent cruise adventure. While some of the best cruise vacations take you to places you have never been to, these stories are full of suspense and they take place in exotic locations. All of the cruise ship mysteries are fun to read and they will never fail to keep you interested. All of them end with a curious twist and they will delight you! (Ocean Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries Series Volume 1)
100 French Short Stories For Beginners And Intermediate Students Learning French can be challenging, but not with this book. Our aim with this book will be to supply you with entertaining, helpful and challenging learning material that will not only allow you to learn French fast, but also help you to make the experience more pleasant, as any language learning book should be. This book has been well-written and revised by native French and English linguists that will allow you to: * Interpret and understand the Spanish short stories for beginners with the use of a list of French English vocabulary. * Follow the longer stories for intermediate students with English parallel text and slightly more challenging vocabulary. * You can follow the longer stories stories by listening to the audio and thereby enhance and adapt your pronunciation skills. All the short stories are unique and hopefully entertaining in content, new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you wont get overwhelmed. This book will help you to learn French vocabulary and improve your reading skills. You will also learn many useful French expressions and phrases used in daily life. This French language learning book offers you a wide range of important information you can use when you travel to French or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for French language learners, but also for anyone interested in French culture in general. There are many French learning books for beginners out there, but this book can help you in many ways; if you would like to become a reader of the French language this book is for you. To learn French with stories you should also listen to quality audio recordings. At the end of this book, you get access to an mp3 audio link which include the longer stories in the book.
This book contains100 entertaining Italian short stories or beginners and intermediate learning level. It comes with audio in one MP3 file which contains the more extensive stories.
Some say laughter is the best medicine against ageism. Many elderlies tend to view nursing homes as a boring and stressful environment. Laughter has proven itself to be a natural form of medicine that is available to everyone. Humorous stories and anecdotes can help you relax and manage stress while boosting your immune system and releasing endorphins. How this book can help you. These 100 humorous tales, essays and anecdotes include a grand variety of feel-good subjects, like humorous short novels based on a true story, wedding anniversary humor, humorous anecdotes after decades in the bedroom, and a whole collection of essays and good-hearted jokes about the elderly. This collection of short stories, anecdotes and jokes aim to make you happy and laugh out loud. All 100 humorous stories and essays are told in a simple, humorous style, they are fun and engaging at the same time, making this book the perfect present for a beloved senior in your life.
This book includes 100 entertaining and interesting Italian short stories for beginners and intermediate learning level. Italian for beginners can be challenging, but not with this book. All Italian short stories are unique and hopefully entertaining in content, and new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed.Towards the end of this Italian book you find the stories slightly more complex, but still comprehensible for advanced beginners and intermediate level learners. This Italian language learning book offers you a wide range of culturally important information you can use when you travel to Italy or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for Italian language learners but also for anyone interested in Italian culture in general.
Improve your child's language skills in both French and English with this collection of 15 bedtime stories suitable for children as young as 3. What you get with Learn French for Kids: 15 humorous and cultural relevant stories with life-learning values for children 4 - 11. o All the French stories are followed by English parallel text. o The stories are designed to help your child learn both French and English. o The stories are also written for enjoyment and are perfect to read aloud to children 4+ o This book is perfect for bedtime stories and short plays with children. With the right blend of fantasy and funny children stories, parents as well as kids are assured to have a good bedtime. For lovers of fantasy tales of all ages: Good stories know no age limit! Whether you a language learner looking for reading materials, or an adult who loves magical stories, this book will be a pleasure to read! (French Childrens Books ages 0 to 3 and French Childrens Books ages 3 to 6. Bilingual English French Childrens Books by Midealuck Publishing) Help your young children to get started with French in a way that will fully capture their imagination and attention, start making bedtime more fun tonight with these humorous and captivating short stories! Never hesitate when it comes to helping a child, get your copy now!
Do you know what the most challenging issue when learning French? Finding realistic and non boring reading material that is suitable for beginners. For this reason alone this book has been written and recorded. This book is entertaining and realistic; you would not be forced to search for words in a dictionary every couple of minutes. Probably the best way to learn French is to immerse yourself in it by reading French textbooks for adults. Have you tried reading French fiction for beginners? Reading French stories for beginners can be very entertaining and rewarding. Learning French without a proper French language learning workbook is no easy task, nevertheless, humorous stories that are written for language learners are one of the best French language learning tools you can get! In this book we have compiled 20 easy-to-understand, culturally interesting and enjoyable French short stories that will allow you to expand your reading skills and improve your vocabulary; additionally you will receive a completely downloadable audio file that includes all the stories of this book, you can listen and compare the stories to the text. Each French story comes with French parallel text which means this book will give you all the tools you need to improve your understanding of the wonderful French language. Learning French without a proper French language learning workbook is no easy task, but this French conversation set book provides essential words and expressions which will enable you to get along in a French-speaking environment. How French Short Stories for Beginners works: Each story will involve important cultural components as well as some grammatical tools of the French language (verbs, adjectives, past tense, giving directions, and more), involving an entertaining story with realistic day-to-day situations and dialogues.The block by block English translation gives you the chance to compare the text and too look it up immediately in case you don't understand something. At the end of each story you will be provided with a set of learning questions in English, providing you with the chance to prove that you learned something in the story, whereby the answer of each question is provided immediately after. Included is a French audio book: At the end of this book you can listen to all the French stories in a crisp, native French voice at a slow pace, suitable for beginners. So look no further! Pick up your copy of "Entertaining French Short Stories for Beginners" now and get started to learn French today!
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