This book will change your prayer life." --Dabo Swinney, National Championship-winning Clemson football coach Do you really want your prayers to be heard and answered by God? Do you want to be sure your prayer time isn’t wasted by going through a wishful, whimsical exercise with the hope that something "might" happen? Do you really want to know what happens when you pray? If your answer to these questions is yes, then allow Powerful Prayers That Open Heaven to unlock the secrets of prayer for you. Jamie T. Pleasant will teach you how to develop a more powerful and effective prayer life. Designed for either personal devotions or group participation, each chapter includes exercises and key points that will help you make the most of your prayer time as you delve into the eight truths of prayer that open heaven. As you apply these timeless truths in your quiet moments with God, you will find that your overall perspective on prayer will be transformed, day by day and week by week.
Your age, height, weight, strength and accomplishments will never be able to classify you as a man! What is the makeup of a man? Are you sure that you have reached manhood? How do you know that you have or not? This book answers these questions. Get ready to experience what it really means to be a man. Do you want to enter manhood? Do you want to know for sure that you have been properly prepared to be a man? If so, this book is for you! "The Making of a Man" will take you on a journey to uncovering the man in you that God designed you to be. Each chapter presents straightforward principles and steps to becoming a man of God by his original design that began in the Garden of Eden with a man named Adam. You will reach new heights in your personal walk into manhood! You will learn how to become a man and make men as well.
Are you ready to go to the next level in your life? Do you want to walk in your destiny? Are you tired of living each day not really knowing whether you are in purpose or not? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you! "Daily Quotes for Daily Blessings" will take you on a journey to uncovering your uniqueness. Each quote presents a personal note to help you reach new heights in your life! You will learn new ways to stay motivated and inspired. You will walk in a newness of confidence and joy. Get ready to be blessed beyond your wildest imagination.
Do you have a vision to do something great? Do you dream of living a more prosperous and fulfilling life? Are you ready to experience peace, joy and happiness like you never have before? Do you feel in your heart that you are destined for more? If you are, this book is for you! You Have What It Takes!: A 21 Day Discovery of Your Greatest Self will take you on a 21 day discovery to release the greatest you that has been waiting to show itself for a very long time. You will grow as you meditate on words of wisdom that will inspire you to reach new heights! You will learn new ways to make decisions. You will walk in a newness of confidence and joy. You will walk into your destiny assured that you are accomplishing everything that you were ever born to do. You will realize that, "You Have What it Takes!
Do you want your prayers to be heard and answered by God? Do you want to be sure your prayer time isn't wasted going through a wishful, whimsical exercise with the hope that something might happen? Do you really want to learn what happens when you pray? Do you want to know the process that takes place during prayer? If you often ask yourself these questions about prayer in your life, then Prayers That Open Heaven will unlock the secrets of prayer in your life. Apostle Jamie T. Pleasant debuts with his first book that will teach you how to develop a more powerful and effective prayer life. This book is designed for personal and small group Bible study. Each week, you'll see your prayer time with God and your overall perspective on prayer transform. Chapter exercises and key points will help you make the most of your study time as you delve into the eight truths of prayer that open heaven. Finally, get ready to see heaven open up in your life
You gave your life to Jesus Christ and joined a church. Now you're ready to serve and reap the benefits of ministry work - blessings in your life! In order to receive everything God intended for you, capturing the heart of the Apostle, Pastor or church leader of your church is essential to your success. Best selling author Apostle Jamie T. Pleasant; Ph.D. brings you Capturing and Keeping the Pastor's Heart: Releasing your blessings through ministry service, an eight-week study on the how to serve in your church. You'll learn how to capture your church leader's heart and give it your all in ministry as you work with other church members to build up the body of Christ. This book is designed for personal and small group Bible study. Each week, you'll get a deeper revelation on how your blessings are tied to your ability to serve your church leader and others with your whole heart. Chapter exercises and key points will help you make the most of your study time as you discover the keys to releasing blessings in your life.
Have you ever wondered if Apostles still exist in today's church? Are the twelve that walked with Christ Jesus during His earthly ministry the only Apostles in the Bible? When it comes to Paul, how did he become an Apostle? What are the requirements for one to become an Apostle? Is there a ranking order of authority in the church? If so, what is the ranking authority of an Apostle? If you want answers to these questions, then this book is for you. Get ready to find out if Apostles exist in today's church.
Are you a brand manager? Are you trying to develop a strategy to effectively reach African American consumers? Do you need help in understanding the consumption behavior of African Americans? If you answered yes to any of the aforementioned questions, this book is for you! "How To Advertise To African Americans in the 21st Century" will take you through an 11 chapter discovery of effective ways to reach this powerful ethnic consumer group. You will learn what mistakes leading consumer products companies have made in the past when targeting African Americans. Additionally, you will learn how not to repeat those mistakes that they made by effectively segmenting them and conducting sound research strategies.
From sportsmen in Chicago to soldiers in Sharjah, Jamie Robinson's collection of images shot between 1998 and 2004 explore the nature of place and identity.
Managed healthcare companies are continuing to look at various ways to develop an effective and efficient brand among many competitors that exists in the healthcare industry. The task of healthcare firms to be the preferred provider for customers over other companies is not an easy undertaking. It requires sound marketing strategies that will establish one healthcare provider's brand over another's. Providers must establish themselves as a brand to compete. As customers are becoming more knowledgeable about healthcare and have more access to databases of all healthcare providers, the ability for a healthcare provider to properly implement the place, price, promotion, and product marketing mix variables will give that firm a sustainable competitive advantage among others. Therefore, healthcare providers must understand and utilize branding strategies based on the marketing mix variables. This book examines each marketing mix variable that a healthcare provider can utilize in order to help establish a credible, unique and powerful brand.
Are you ready to live a more prosperous and fulfilling life? Are you ready to experience peace, joy and happiness like you never have before? Are you tired of the old life you have been living? If you are, this book is for you! "Discover A New You" will take you on a 21 day journey to uncovering the unique you that has been waiting to show itself for a very long time. You will grow as you meditate on words of wisdom that will inspire you to reach new heights! You will learn new ways to make decisions. You will walk in a newness of confidence and joy. You will walk into your destiny assured that you are accomplishing everything that you were ever born to do. You will discover a new you!
Do you need an encouraging word? Are you tired of living each day not really knowing whether you are in purpose or not? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you! "I'm Just Sayin" will take you on an inspirational journey of personal discovery. Each quote presents a personal note to help you reach new heights in your life!
Are you ready to experience a closer relationship with God? Do you want to hear His voice and listen to the great things that He wants to share with you? Are you tired of living each day not really knowing how God feels or cares about you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you! "From My Heart to Yours" will take you on a journey to uncovering the promises and speaking words of God. Each chapter presents a personal love letter from a loving Father that will pull you into a more intimate relationship with Him. You will reach new heights in your personal walk with Him as well! You will learn new ways to make decisions. You will walk in a newness of confidence and joy. Get ready to hear His heart speak to yours!
The past is closing in on Christine Scott. Uprooted from her pleasant life in Chicago, she and her two children are thrust into the Witness Security Program when the mistakes of her husband catch up with him. He lands in prison, while she and the kids are transplanted to a quiet Kansas town. Christine does her best to keep life normal for her active ten-year-old son and persistently moody seventeen-year old daughter. But when they start receiving gifts from an anonymous sender, reminders of their old life, it becomes obvious that someone has found them. Doug Jackson's been in service with the US Marshal’s office for fifteen years. He hasn’t lost a witness yet, and doesn’t intend to start with Christine or her family. If he can get them to cooperate, his job might be easier. Unfortunately, no one seems concerned about making Doug's life easy. Not the man in the white sedan who eludes him, nor the pretty Christine, thoughts of whom he can't seem to shake. Their lives depend on Doug keeping his head in the game, and he's determined to do just that.
This is a cute short story that everyone can relate to. It might remind one of the childhood we all had not too long ago; being a little monster or being tormented by one. We all have a little monster inside of us that comes out at times. '"My Monster.."The Brother"' will definitely bring a smile to every ones face and reveal a pleasant surprise by the ending.
Wrongfully misdiagnosed with a mental disability as a child, Jamie Zunick finds her only solace in endlessly wandering though a remarkable world. While searching for a home, a place to belong, Jamie, a self-determined seeker and explorer, suddenly finds herself on a path of forgiveness, understanding, and endless self-discovery. Traveling opens Jamie up to surprising encounters with nature, people, God, angels, and her own true spirit. After traveling throughout the world, in 2002 Jamie comes up with a plan to drive through every state in America. She won't be traveling alone this time, though. After forty years of domestic abuse, Jamie's mother, Leslee, decides to abandon her own life of tragedies and regrets to search for places of love and happiness. Mother and daughter soon embark on a journey that offers never-ending lessons in relationships, compromise, empathy, insight, and compassion as they travel through America, enjoying the many pleasures and frustrations of being lost on the road to salvation. After searching and exploring for several years, Jamie and Leslee soon find the true meaning of home when death becomes an inevitable part of the journey. Join Jamie and Leslee on their exploration of love, death, and The Sweetness of Life. Discover that the most beautiful places worth exploring are within our own hearts.
Psychological Management of Stroke presents a review and synthesis of the current theory and data relating to the assessment, treatment, and psychological aspects of stroke. Provides comprehensive reviews of evidence based practice relating to stroke Written by clinical psychologists working in stroke services Covers a broad range of psychological aspects, including fitness to drive, decision making, prevention of stroke, and involvement of carers and families Reviews and synthesizes new data across a wide range of areas relevant to stroke and the assessment, treatment, and care of stroke survivors and their families Represents a novel approach to the application of psychological theory and principles in the stroke field
Valentine defies the emperor and becomes a hero . . . and the most wanted man in the empire. Compelled by his faith, he has nothing to lose, until a chance encounter with the daughter of a Roman jailor changes everything. Rome, AD 270. In the wake of the emperor's marriage ban, rumors swirl that there is one man brave enough to perform wedding ceremonies in secret. A public notarius and leader of an underground church, Valentine believes the emperor's edict unjust and risks his own life for the sake of his convictions. But as his fame grows, so do fears for his safety. Iris, the daughter of a Roman jailor, believes regaining her sight will ease the mounting troubles at home. Her last hope rests in searching out Valentine and his church, but the danger of associating with people labeled a threat to the empire is great. Still, as Iris's new friends lead her to faith in God, Iris is drawn to Valentine and they both begin to hope for a future together beyond the treacherous empire. But when a past debt and a staggering betrayal collide, Valentine, Iris, and everyone they love must fight for their lives . . . and wrestle with trusting a God who can restore sight yet does not always keep His followers from peril. Discussion questions for book clubs Retelling of the legend of St. Valentine First Christian historical romance novel set in ancient times by author Jamie Ogle
For Aristotle, arousing the passions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction. On that basis a skill in doing so can be something valuable, an appropriate constituent of the kind of expertise in rhetoric that deserves to be cultivated and given expression in a well-organised state. Such are Jamie Dow's principal claims in Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric. He attributes to Aristotle a normative view of rhetoric and its role in the state, and ascribes to him a particular view of the kinds of cognitions involved in the passions. In the first sustained treatment of these issues, and the first major monograph on Aristotle's Rhetoric in twenty years, Dow argues that Aristotle held distinctive and philosophically interesting views of both rhetoric and the nature of the passions. In Aristotle's view, he argues, rhetoric is exercised solely in the provision of proper grounds for conviction (pisteis). This is rhetoric's valuable contribution to the proper functioning of the state. Dow explores, through careful examination of the text of the Rhetoric, what normative standards must be met for something to qualify in Aristotle's view as 'proper grounds for conviction', and how he supposed these standards could be met by each of his trio of 'technical proofs' (entechnoi pisteis)--those using reason, character and emotion. In the case of the passions, Dow suggests, meeting these standards is a matter of arousing passions that constitute the reasonable acceptance of premises in arguments supporting the speaker's conclusion. Dow then seeks to show that Aristotle's view of the passions is compatible with this role in rhetorical expertise. This involves taking a stand on a number of controversial issues in Aristotle studies. In Passions and Persuasion, Dow rejects the view that Aristotle's Rhetoric expresses inconsistent views on emotion-arousal. Aristotle's treatment of the passions in the Rhetoric is, he argues, best understood as expressing a substantive theory of the passions as pleasures and pains. This is supported by a new representationalist reading of Aristotle's account of pleasure (and pain) in Rhetoric 1. Dow also defends a distinctive understanding of how Aristotle understood the contribution of phantasia ('appearance') to the cognitive component of the passions. On this interpretation, Aristotelian passions must involve the subject's affirming things to be the way that they are represented. Thus understood, the passions of an emotionally-engaged audience can constitute a part of their reasonable acceptance of a speaker's argument.
Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2013! Social neuroscience is an expanding field which, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by the methods of neuroscience. Many researchers believe that evolutionary expansion of the primate and human brain was driven by the need to deal with social complexity, not only to understand and outwit our peers, but to take advantage of the benefits of cooperative living. But what kind of brain-based mechanisms did we end up with? Special routines for dealing with social problems, or more general solutions that can be used for non-social cognition too? How are we able to sacrifice our own self-interests to respond to the needs of others? How do cultural differences in the organization of society shape individual minds (and brains), and does the brain provide constraints on the possible range of cultural permutations? The Student’s Guide to Social Neuroscience explores and explains these big issues, using accessible examples from contemporary research. The first book of its kind, this engaging and cutting-edge text is an ideal introduction to the methods and concepts of social neuroscience for undergraduate and postgraduate students in fields such as psychology and neuroscience. Each chapter is richly illustrated in attractive full-color with figures, boxes, and ‘real-world’ implications of research. Several pedagogical features help students engage with the material, including essay questions, summary and key points, and further reading. This book is accompanied by substantial online resources that are available to qualifying adopters.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! “One of the most beautiful books of motherhood and what we pass on to those that come after us.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Today The New York Times bestselling author of the “mesmerizing and evocative” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price.
The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations. Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and errors from psychology, race and gender from sociology and political science, and tropes and symbols from rhetoric Follows the proven format of The Philosopher’s Toolkit and The Ethics Toolkit with concise, easily digestible entries, “see also” recommendations that connect topics, and recommended reading lists Allows readers to apply new critical thinking and reasoning skills with exercises and real life examples at the end of each chapter Written in an accessible way, it leads readers through terrain too often cluttered with jargon Ideal for beginning to advanced students, as well as general readers, looking for a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to critical thinking
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