The recently married Bernie Mylin and his wife, Gwen, have relocated to the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area and finds turmoil is once again building. Norma Harris, who has caused so much trouble in the past for the Mylin's, has reached out to Harrisburg from her prison cell in Germany. Arson, murders, and a kidnapping keeps Bernie on his toes, seeking answers. Bernie and Gwen call upon two of their friends from Cicero, Illinois, to contribute their help in catching a criminal. Meanwhile, Bernie must still manage an international standards department and hire engineers for two new major product families. At times the swirl of events almost becomes too much to bear. During the course of the story, Bernie Mylin, a Christian, must respond to questions and situations imposed by unbelieving co-workers. Questions of faith are considered as well as Bernie's attempt to witness to a member of a cult. David F. Rundle has had four books published previously. Two are nonfiction Bible study aids (Your Mirror Reflects Jacob and Grace and the Rebel Sigh) and two Christian murder mysteries titled A Spring Cicero Murder and The Bloodied Lambskin. David Rundle worked for thirty-five years in the electronic components industry as Product Engineering Manager and retired in 1998 as Global Product Standards Director. David Rundle's vision and desire is to write and publish fictional novels (mysteries) that include travel to international locations he has visited during his standardization efforts. These novels would also include aspects of electronic component engineering activities while presenting a Christian worldview dealing with everyday challenges faced by company employees. His hope is that the reader would be entertained while observing practical Christian living. David Rundle is a Christian and has served as Deacon, Elder, and teacher in the various churches he has attended.
Bernie Mylin, an engineering supervisor for electrical connectors, is thrust into turmoil by murder and industrial espionage. In the course of his activities, Bernie, a Christian, is called on to respond to various spiritual challenges. Is there really only one way to heaven? How should Christians interface with the homosexual community? Bernie is also catapulted into the international standards arena and is impacted by the emerging global economy. Along with his friend, Detective Sergeant Del Weaver, and his partner, Detective Gwen Bishop of the Cicero Police Department, Bernie struggles to make sense of the events swirling around him. Why did the murder occur? The engineering manager and a large sum of money have disappeared. Why? How are design secrets being stolen from the Ohmal Connector Division? These and other issues are sorted through during the spring of 1988, stretching Bernie Mylin's workweek to an uncomfortable length.
Bernie concludes his first international standards trip in 1988, only to return to chaos. Norma Harris, who had eluded capture, returns to steal company proprietary information, a valuable employee disappears, a hostile company takeover is underway, phones are bugged, a kidnaping takes place, and five deaths push Bernie to his emotional limit. All of this swirls as Bernie, and others, try to make sense of rumors of a bomb planted on the company aircraft. The expertise of police from many disciplines is called upon to solve the murders. These include Del Weaver and Gwen Bishop with the Cicero, Illinois, police department (Bernies close friends), several FBI agents, the Indiana Police Crime Lab, and even a police inspector from the West German Land Police. Even Bernie, at one point, is considered a murder suspect. For Deacon Bernie Mylin, who prides himself with controlling events around him, this is becoming too much.
What has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern' David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focussing on one central element of the humanist agenda - the reform of the script and of the book more generally - to demonstrate a tradition of engagement from the 1430s into the early sixteenth century. Introducing a cast-list of scribes and collectors who are not only English and Italian but also Scottish, Dutch and German, this study sheds light on the cosmopolitanism central to the success of the humanist agenda. Questioning accepted narratives of the slow spread of the Renaissance from Italy to other parts of Europe, Rundle suggests new possibilities for the fields of manuscript studies and the study of Renaissance humanism.
This book explores the lives of the twelve sons Jacob, the Old Testament patriarch. In the course of this exploration, our spiritual lives are examined and challenged as well. Many of us know some about the life of Joseph, possibly even a little about Judah or Levi. But what were the character traits of Issachar? Zebulun? This study will be benefi cial for individual study or for study and discussion in small groups. Each chapter begins with a historical fiction story where the reader is asked to identify the son, about to be studied, from traits shown in the fictional character.
Christ Church Library is pleased to announce the publication of the first in a planned series of manuscript catalogues offering detailed codicological, textual and historical descriptions. The lavishly illustrated volume is published by the Oxford Bibliographical Society in its Special Series of Manuscript Catalogues.00An important new work, the catalogue represents a splendid achievement and a milestone in Christ Church Library's developing history. The catalogue has been in progress for many years. It begins by recapitulating the history of every preceding institution on the site, the priory of St Frideswide to Cardinal College to King Henry VIII College, and of what can be said of book provision at each. The detail here is very rich in new discoveries. No fact has been taken on trust but each has been chased back to source, with the early inventories included in the appendix. The catalogue descriptions and textual identifications are as comprehensive as one would expect from the careful scrutiny of two expert hands.
This custom publication has been prepared using material from : Christie L. Nordhielm , Marta Dapena-Baron, 2015, Marketing management: the big picture (ISBN 9781118014554) and Greg Elliott, Sharyn Rundle-Thiele, David Waller, 2015, Marketing, 3rd ed (ISBN 9781118624173).
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