This is a unique approach to becoming a better, more loving, and stronger You." WORD(S), Volume 1 is a collection of contemporary poems with unique perspectives written by author Christopher O. James as a self-help study guide for teens and adults. The poetry, which stands alone as engaging literature, is combined with scriptures to guide the reader in further bible study and journal pages to write down prayers and the reader's own reflections. Through creative poetry James offers an unrestrained look at real life, relationships, faith, failure, forgiveness, confidence, truth, salvation, fun, benevolence and Jesus Christ's love. Challenging and inspiring poetry encourages readers to build a more committed, faithful and genuine personal relationship with God and raises the bar on the standard to love others. _____________________________________ Awesome Awesome sounds fresher than amazing, But both describe just how you are. Courageous is what you have made me. Despite all my battle scars. Each time I come to you with a problem, Forever you promise to solve them. Given my tendency to fall into sin, How does your holiness offer forgiveness again? It's your love, so compassionate, complete and true. Jesus brought grace and paid justice as a gift to the living. Kindness in action, well beyond what man would do. Love from God is so enduring, merciful and forgiving... _______________________________________
This is a unique approach to becoming a better, more loving, and stronger You." WORD(S), Volume 1 is a collection of contemporary poems with unique perspectives written by author Christopher O. James as a self-help study guide for teens and adults. The poetry, which stands alone as engaging literature, is combined with scriptures to guide the reader in further bible study and journal pages to write down prayers and the reader's own reflections. Through creative poetry James offers an unrestrained look at real life, relationships, faith, failure, forgiveness, confidence, truth, salvation, fun, benevolence and Jesus Christ's love. Challenging and inspiring poetry encourages readers to build a more committed, faithful and genuine personal relationship with God and raises the bar on the standard to love others. _____________________________________ Awesome Awesome sounds fresher than amazing, But both describe just how you are. Courageous is what you have made me. Despite all my battle scars. Each time I come to you with a problem, Forever you promise to solve them. Given my tendency to fall into sin, How does your holiness offer forgiveness again? It's your love, so compassionate, complete and true. Jesus brought grace and paid justice as a gift to the living. Kindness in action, well beyond what man would do. Love from God is so enduring, merciful and forgiving... _______________________________________
Explore the lives of two orphaned brothers caught up in the maelstrom of the American Civil War. Thomas and Otho McManus both rose through the ranks and fought in numerous battles and skirmishes. One survived; the other was killed leading a battle charge seven days before the truce at Appomattox. The survivor married his brother’s widow. This study also traces their roots, explores the lives of their siblings and cousins, and follows five generations of their descendants. Otho McManus wrote more than one hundred wartime letters. Excerpts from those letters provide profound insights into family ties and battle experiences. The story of the brothers’ forebears is a window into American families in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The brothers’ parents, aunts, and uncles joined a great westward migration to the new states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Interesting sidelights include the last slave in Pennsylvania and an inheritance interrupted by the battle of Gettysburg. This study draws on forty years of the author’s personal research and more than a century of cumulative research by others. Family Bibles, letters, wills, censuses, obituaries, grave inscriptions, military records, and county histories are some of the sources consulted. Topics include such diverse areas as migration patterns, military experiences, occupations, patterns of child-bearing, and the historical setting of each generation.
You don't have to puzzle over why the iPod is so wildly popular: Apple's lightweight portable music player can store and organize as many as 10,000 songs -- and with the new version of iTunes for Windows, now PC users can sync up their iPods with music they've bought on the iTunes Music Store, just like Mac users can. With this fourth edition of Secrets of the iPod, popular Macworld magazine columnist Christopher Breen brings you even more tricks to help you uncover the hidden potential of your iPod and iPod mini. Book jacket.
The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change. But what are these formalized and implicit understandings? What are the key dimensions of such bargains? In what conditions do bargains rise and fall? And has there been a universal and uniform change in these bargains?The Politics of Public Service Bargains develops a distinct perspective to answer these questions. It develops a unique analytical perspective to account for diverse bargains within systems of executive government. Drawing on comparative experiences from different state traditions, this study examines ideas and contemporary developments along three key dimensions of any Public Service Bargain - reward, competency and loyalty and responsibility.The Politics of Public Service Bargains points to diverse and differentiated developments across national systems of executive government and suggests how different 'bargains' are prone to cheating by their constituent parties. This study explores the context in which managerial bargains - widely seen to be at the heart of contemporary administrative reform movements - are likely to catch on and considers how cheating is likely to destabilize such bargains.
A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J. G. Ballard—featuring Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, and a new Jerry Cornelius story from Michael Moorcock. Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one of them. Master of both literary and science fiction, his novels such as Empire of the Sun, Crash and Cocaine Nights show a world out of joint – a bewildering, alienating and yet enthralling place. From his rapturously weird takes on contemporary reality to his classic dystopias like The Drowned World and High Rise, Ballard’s legacy shaped the future of literature. This first-of-its-kind anthology, featuring our greatest literary and science fiction authors, pays tribute to the unique visions of humanity’s uncanny and uneasy clash with the future – our empires of concrete – seen through the warped lens of J. G. Ballard.
This book has information of all Pennsylvania Civil War Regiment (including the United States Colored Troops that were organized in the state). This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Pennsylvania Regiments and specific U.S. Colored Troops all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out. This is the second book wrote by Christopher Cox. The title of the first is, History of Michigan Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, Engineers, Infantry, and Sharpshooters.
This book has information of all Maryland Civil War Regiment and U.S. Colored Troops that were organized in the state. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Maryland Regiments and U. S. Colored Troops all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.
This book has information of all Michigan Civil War Regiment and U.S. Colored Troop was organized in the state. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Michigan Regiments and U.S. Colored Troop all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.
This book has information of all Vermont Civil War Regiment was organized in the state. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Vermont Regiments all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.
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