Above Beyond delivers a unique take on the age-old good against evil theme in a very refreshing, surprisingly uncommon, and perhaps controversial way. As the Fallen One uses children as pawns to convert and control perniciousness, the heavenly bodies step in for the first time in 2015 years to interrupt the evil process. Both the angel of evil and God of holiness recruit and show the way. The fray and the sub-plots are stunning, and read as no story ever told or read before. Biblical verse and passage is sensitive and sensible in presentation and prop-up the profound novel throughout.
If there is any doubt lingering around our new man Sammy's talent, we're going to play a little game." As the Manager speaks, Sammy takes his place on the mound and Jimmy, his, behind the plate. And the entire team rotation of batters nervously wait to be called to the plate. "The rest of the team will face them via the batters on-deck circle. You'll each get nine pitches coming your way: You may hit them - fair or foul - called strike, or ball, or you will go out swinging or taking. The umpire will make each call. "Good luck, boys. Prepare to be amazed." Sammy takes his full wind-up and delivers a Knuckle-Curve. Jimmy reaches high as the ball refuses to drop. The batter looks like ol' Frank Howard as he takes a whirling, wind-breaking swing. A loud crack echoes through the small stadium. The bat breaks and flies twirling toward third base. The 3rd Base Coach catches the fat end, looks at it and throws it down. Sammy immediately collapses and drops to the ground. He is starched.
In a global competition between continued harvesting of fossil fuels and the slower-paced exploitation of renewable energy, which side will win, and how? In a dangerous world of big business, big government, and greedy scoundrels, up against a decades-long march of peaceful activists for renewable energy, who arises as the resolute savior?
Contemporary literary fiction and genre-shattering published author J.A. Landry introduces a unique and bold writing style to the fiction genre. Creatively mindfulness commingled with his experience immerses the reader in dark, sinister, comedic and intriguing tales. Expert storytelling and character dialog talent bring his characters and story to life. J.A. Landry introduces a writing style yet undiscovered until his fictional novels became generally available. He is a necessary-read author for anyone who wants to experience the latest style of fiction in the literary world. Read J.A. Landry if you want to experience this new, latest style of fiction in the literary world. Simply stated, contemporary fiction breakthrough author J.A. Landry introduces a unique and bold writing style to the scene. He introduced this style in his previous novel, Fool Star, and does it again in this latest novel, Eaves Drop.
Passion From a Mind Abuzz: A Collection of Poetry is fifty-four poem book of poetry by Award-Winning Author J.A. Landry. The pieces revolve around the human condition, relationships, the many levels of emotion, love and nature. The poetry is sensitive and at times sensual, but is also, most importantly, creative. It is illustrated, in that there is a lead-in, black and white illustration on the page before the beginning of each poem. The illustrations are meant to provide a background of sorts for the poem it precedes.
This book provides aquatic biologists with a concise text on the biology, temporal and spatial distribution patterns, and the functional role of planktonic protozoa in fresh, brackish and marine waters.
This study goes beyond the traditional "great man" approach to biography and incorporates the newer directions of social history to produce a critical study of a controversial religious figure in western Canada. A biography of Bishop A.-A. Taché is more than the story of an individual because it is the chronicle of the Catholic Church in Quebec and the Canadian North West. It is a study of how clerical elites influenced society and its evolution and an account of an attempt to transplant and nurture and idealized agricultural society of Quebec on the prairies. As a pioneer French Canadian Oblate missionary and bishop A.-A. Taché was associated with some of the most momentous events in western Canadian history: the Red River Insurrection, French Catholic colonization, the Saskatchwan Rebellion and the school and language controversies in Manitoba and the North West Territories. Taché was an authoritarian figure and this tendency was reinforced by religious and episcopal office. In practice he was a micro manager who desired to control everything. Despite his valiant efforts his vision of a sister province of Quebec in the West failed to materialize and Quebec failed to respond to his urgent pleas for immigrants and Quebec politicians undermined his efforts by suggesting that he had betrayed his native province. Taché’s career is also a chronicle of failure and frustration but he took consolation in the fact that he had not shirked his duty nor tarnished his honour. Within this context Taché’s actions are a reminder of sacred accords concluded between English and French, Catholic and Protestant in 1867 and 1870. As an administrator Taché’s forte was in managing the material assets of his diocese. On the other hand, he lacked interpersonal skills in dealing and relating with his clergy. In the final analysis Taché will always remain an enigmatic figure.
This is a book that addresses real life experiences for young adults while pointing to Jesus as the Source of hope in difficult times. See some of the following excerpts: Dont you ever talk to me that way again! Tinas mother scolded her angrily. You just dont understand, retaliated Tina Bret faced the crowd with sweat breaking out on his temple We need to stop this! Two rival gang members were fighting each other Sometimes being fifteen seemed to be the hardest thing a person could live through He said he loved me! Jeannie mumbled to herself. Yeah, right! Bruce walked away from the grave site. The family was still gathered sorrowfully around the casket How could Johnny have done this to the family? Thomas felt so lonely sitting at the back of the room by himself. Being the new kid all the time made adjusting and finding new friends so difficult Serena looked down at her stretching belly, feeling the little growth inside her. She was too young for this just barely a junior in high school. Candace walked to the window and watched the kids down below playing together. She had come upstairs for a moment of peace the bruises on her upper arms no one could see Jennifer coasted her wheelchair over to the lunch line. She hated this time of day!
When Guantanamo Bay is closed and the terrorists are move to Hell's Gate Prison in West Texas to await civilian trials a sleeper cell plans an assault to free their comrades. Army Ranger Lucas Kincaid assembles a lethal fighting force to keep them from their mission.
Stand Against the Darkness One small town, six deaths—all females, all from the same small Baptist church. Not just any kind of deaths, either. The despairing kind that ends it all—on one's own terms. There is no rhyme or reason for the perfectly normal teenage girls and women ending it all—engulfing the town in frightening questions that beg for clarifying answers they aren't sure they're ready to discover. Rising to the challenge to solve this inexplicable case is Group X. The Church's investigative agents, Elijah Fox and Gina Anderson, race to Mill Creek Junction to investigate this cluster of self-death that threatens to bloom into a monstrous contagion and consume a reeling community. In a case ripped from the headlines that speaks prophetically to our age, Group X must solve this unfathomable mystery menacing one small town and confront a haunting, fearsome darkness from consuming more innocent lives. Dark, gritty supernatural suspense at its finest, fans of Frank Peretti and Dean Koontz will devour this briskly paced, heart-pounding puzzle mystery that will leave you breathless—a haunting tale highlighting the fantastical side to life waged by the dark, powerful forces of the Unseen Realm.
There have been many advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, but it is still a feared disease with a lot of work left to be done. The importance of gastrointestinal cancer as a frequently occurring disease goes without saying. It accounts for half of human cancer cases but differs from other forms of cancer. Complete prevention is possible through proper treatment of precancerous lesions. There is still no comprehensive book about prevention, early diagnosis, and proper treatment of precancerous lesions and new developed diagnostic modality, and treatment such as endoscopic treatment and minimal invasive surgery and chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Also, this book will contain conservative treatment methods for patients suffering from diverse complications. There will be plentiful clinical cases including endoscopic findings, radiologic images, pathology and treatment outcome in this book. For these reasons, this book will give very valuable information to many gastroenterologists, oncologists , surgeons and general physicians.
The world has changed drastically over the past decade. The Internet has had a huge part in that, as it has made the world more accessible to anyone of any age, race, or gender. Used for entertainment, education, shopping, dating and more, the internet has provided a whole new virtual world for everyone to enjoy. But with the good also comes the bad—and for kids and teens these days, the bad has becomes a constant threat from cyberbullies and cyberstalking. J. A. Hitchcock began to have an interest in cyberstalking and cyberbullies in 1996 when she blew the whistle on a literary agency scam. They stole her identity and began posting messages online pretending to be her; and that was only the beginning of a barrage of threats. When she contacted local police they had never had an internet-related case and couldn’t help her, so she taught herself how to track down online criminals, how to handle the situation, and how to stay safer online. After 10 years of being a victim, her cyberstalkers were brought to justice. Unfortunately, not all internet crime stories end with a happy ending. Really, anyone of any age can become the target of a cyberbully. And quite honestly, victims are getting younger and younger every year when it comes to being cyberbullied. Throughout Cyberbullying and the Wild, Wild Web, Hitchcock explains how someone can become victim to cyberbullying and how they can stay safer online. Offering victims, and parents, the chance to be able to relate to and truly understand the unfortunate reality of cyberbullying through real-life examples of what happened to someone who had been through a similar situation. For much-needed practical advice, from an expert who truly understands the threat of cybercrime, this is a must-have resource to combat the ever-growing problem of internet crime in our society.
Africans are among the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States. Although they are racially and ethnically diverse, few studies have examined how these differences affect their patterns of incorporation into society. This book is the first to highlight the role of race and ethnicity, Arab ethnicity in particular, in shaping the experiences of African immigrants. It demonstrates that American conceptions of race result in significant inequalities in the ways in which African immigrants are socially integrated. Thomas argues that suggestions that Black Africans are model-minorities who have overcome the barriers of race are misleading, showing that Black and Arab-ethnicity Africans systematically experience less favorable socioeconomic outcomes than their White African counterparts. Overall, the book makes three critical arguments. First, historical and contemporary constructions of race have important implications for understanding the dynamics of African immigration and settlement in the United States. Second, there are significant racial inequalities in the social and economic incorporation of contemporary African immigrants. Finally, Arab ethnicity has additional implications for understanding intra-racial disparities in incorporation among contemporary African immigrants. In general, these arguments are foundational for understanding the diversity of African immigrant experiences.
This book helps readers to overcome the challenges encountered during the imaging diagnosis of soft tissue tumors due to their diversity and the significant overlap in imaging features between different tumors. It does so by fostering familiarization with typical findings and clearly explaining the pattern analysis of soft tissue tumors. The book opens with an overview of diagnostic considerations and discussion of the basic concepts of diagnostic imaging studies and histopathologic examinations. Grading and staging of soft tissue sarcomasare then described.In the second part of the book, radiologic features of soft tissue tumors are reviewed in detail, based on the 2013 WHO classification system.The third part summarizes diagnostic imaging clues, including characteristic imaging findings and radiologic signs that aid in specific diagnosis and differential diagnosis. The book closes by presenting 30 typical cases of soft tissue tumors, with questions, answers, and commentary, in order to help readers to consolidate what they have learned and to hone their diagnostic reasoning skills.
Here are 14 reasons why Medicode's 1998 Hospital ICD-9 is coder tested and coder approved.1. Guaranteed accuracy. Medicode has integrated all 1998 changes into this volume. In fact, they guarantee that if you make a coding error based on an outdated code while using their 1998 ICD-9, they'll give you next year's edition free. 2. Color coding to make fourth and fifth digits easy to find. 3. Easy to understand code definitions. 4. Color illustrations. 5. Color-coded index for ease of use. 6. Exclusive note save system that gives you room to write and a system to save important coding for next year's edition. 7. Coding tips. 8. Thumb-index tabs. 9. Spiral bound design. 10. Index checkmarks that identify invalid codes. 11. Medicare edits. 12. References to AHA's Coding Clinic. 13. Hospital revenue codes for supplies and services. 14. A useful self test.
Fool Star is the tale of a traveling musician and performer named Tony, whose undiagnosed tendencies toward a sad psychosis and schizophrenia eventually spawn action befitting the sociopath few know exists. While Tony reflects on his life, the reader examines the connection between Tonyas stolen childhood and the man he is becoming. Tonyas thoughts corkscrew through relationships and dissect experience. Conflict, constituted by his diligent, street-smart intelligence and high emotional quotient, unwinds in the end to offer a bold finish and delicate beginning. Thus, Fool Star is two tales: one of a lovable, unassuming, narcissistic psychotic; the other, of a bohemian rock-and-roller traveling in a road show.
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