This book is for men who plan to get married or are currently married. Men, if you are just getting started on your marriage or have been married for thirty-plus years, this book will enhance your relationship. Churches, this is also a great book to add as a prerequisite for premarriage and marriage counseling for men. If you want to know what will make a marriage endure and last through the trials of life, the answer is Grace. This book will help you operate and function the way God intended us, husbands, to function as the leader in our marriage. As married men, we must be leaders in applying Grace to our wives. This book will help you become a Grace-Based Husband. Men should be the leaders of Grace in their marriage. This book will help you become the husband that God has called you to be. Everyone needs Grace, and we, as men, must learn what Grace is and how it should be put into action in our marriage. After reading this book, you will have a Grace outlook on your marriage and allow God to mature us, men, to His Grace.
Edge Of Spider-Geddon #1-4 And Superior Octopus #1. Every world has its spider! Spider-Punk is back and better than ever, tackling his home dimensions problems with arachnid attitude! And witness the next chapter in the life of Peni Parker, A.K.A. the fan-favorite SP//dr! But the amazing, spectacular alternate-reality heroes dont stop there! In one universe, when Uncle Ben is shot in a mugging, Peter Parkers radioactive blood donation turns Ben into a Spider-Hero too! And then theres the Earth where industrialist Norman Osborn received the arachnid bite and changed the world as a very different Spider-Man! But whats Superior to a spider? An Octopus! And you wont believe what Otto Octavius, in his new body, is up to as the savior of San Francisco! Experience the stories that set the stage for the Spidey event of the year: Spider-Geddon!
This book will help you get past the initial learning curve quickly so that you can get started using SSIS to transform data, create a workflow, or maintain your SQL Server. Offering you hands-on guidance, you'll learn a new world of integration possibilities and be able to move away from scripting complex logic to programming tasks using a full-featured language. What you will learn from this book Ways to quickly move and transform data How to configure every aspect of SSIS How to interface SSIS with web services and XML Techniques to scale the SSIS and make it more reliable How to migrate DTS packages to SSIS How to create your own custom tasks and user interfaces How to create an application that interfaces with SSIS to manage the environment A detailed usable case study for a complete ETL solution Who this book is for This book is for developers, DBAs, and users who are looking to program custom code in all of the .NET languages. It is expected that you know the basics of how to query the SQL Server and have some fundamental programming skills. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Prelude to the biggest Spider-Event EVER! As Spider-Heroes assemble for the Spider-Verse event, discover some of the alternate reality Spider-Men (and women) you know, such as Spider-Man Noir… or think you might know.. Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman! Collecting Edge of Spider-Verse #1-5.
My Dreams For You! is an inspiring picture book for every person beginning a new journey and the perfect gift for all of life's milestones and adventures. Through heartfelt text and vibrant art, Jason Tharp pens a loving message to remind us that love always sees us through. Your Life will be full of ups and downs. I dream you find more smiles than frowns. My Dreams For You was inspired by Jason's 2021 brain cancer diagnosis. Over the course of his publishing and motivational speaking career he has been fortunate enough to interact with thousands of kids and adults. When Jason sat down to write My Dreams for You! he wondered, what would he want to tell the people who touched his life the most? He'd want to tell them that dreams come in all shapes and sizes, but that turning away from fear and finding love is the key to making your dreams come true. People of all ages will love reading and rereading this book as they discover their own dreams.
The Civil War is the backdrop for this story of interracial love, romance, and adventure. Meet the Duvall family of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Faren, a female slave in the Duvall household, dreams of being free. Sean Duvall, the oldest son and heir, falls in love with a black woman at a time when this was not acceptable. Henri, Sean’s father and patriarch of the family, has loved Faren’s grandmother, Louise, who has been a household slave for over forty years. Faren leaves Louisiana for Paris at the beginning of the war to accompany her mistress, Henri’s daughter Renee Duvall. On the way to France, their ship is blown off course by a storm and Faren is swept overboard. When she awakens, she is in North Africa, where she finds that she is still a slave, but in the harem of a prince. Selim, son of the former Sultan of Morocco, falls in love with Faren and she becomes his wife. Renee Duvall finally arrives in France, to stay at the home of her aunt. She falls for a charming Frenchman, Gerard de Montfort, who is hiding a dark secret. After their marriage, Gerard becomes envoy to Morocco, where Renee’s former slave Faren is living. Renee’s husband begins to mistreat her and she turns to Faren for help. Back in Louisiana, Sean and his best friend become soldiers in the Louisiana regiment, but they get captured at Gettysburg. The loves and lives of these young people take divergent paths, yet all seek fulfillment during hard times.
Just Another Day is the true life story of an FBI agent after a short career as a New York City police officer. The sequence of events not only captures investigations and arrests but also involves interactions with a number of individuals on both sides of the law, to include a childhood friendship with a man who rose to be the right hand of the boss of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti Jr. This book is geared toward individuals who have a taste for true crime stories (including stories of Italian organized crime figures) that are entwined with events involving a special agent of the FBI during the course of a twenty-eight-year career. The stories begin with an evolving saga that involves the struggles growing up in a neighborhood that was affected by the violence of the crew of associates of John Gotti Sr. It then takes you through episodes experienced during six years as a cop in the high-crime areas during the 1980s in Harlem and Washington Heights, which culminate with working with the special agents that brought down Gotti in the 1990s.
This book examines catalysts for Buddhist formation in ancient South Asia and expansion throughout and beyond the northwestern Indian subcontinent to Central Asia by investigating symbiotic relationships between networks of religious mobility and trade.
This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also contemporary thinking about labor practices, pedagogical procedures, scientific experiments, and technological innovations. By offering an exploded definition of meter—one that extends beyond conventional foot-based scansion—this book explicates the conceptual and, at times, material exchanges between poetic meter and machine culture. The machines of meter include mid-century theories of abstraction and technologies of smoothness and even spacing; a deeply influential, though rarely credited, system of metrical manufacture; verse produced by a Victorian automaton; the mechanics of the human body and mind and the meters that issued from them; and the promise of scientific machines to resolve metrical dilemmas once and for all.
In this book, Jason B. Dorwart contends that the material presence of visible disability disrupts the framing devices that provide safe distancing for theatre’s fictive nature. Conceptions of disability that place the disabled body into a permanently liminal space between life and death are directly at odds with theatrical performances, which are geared toward moving through liminality into a new point of stasis. Dorwart reveals how this contradiction leads to performance practices that work to marginalize and eliminate the presence of disabled bodies of both character and actor, as disabled characters have historically been written with different character arcs than nondisabled characters and with the assumption that they would be played by nondisabled actors. As more disabled actors gain exposure in film and theatre, the difference in how disabled characters are written is also increasingly affected by whether the role is intended for a disabled or nondisabled actor. These performances are enacting new means to performatively and figuratively reincorporate or eliminate the liminal disabled body. The Incorporeal Corpse demonstrates how recent plays and films try to rectify this tension between the permanence of disability and the transitory nature of performance. Scholars of theatre, disability studies, and performance studies will find this book of particular interest.
Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and by looking closely at how Neruda created his poetic persona within his poems, this Companion tries to establish what should survive of his massive output. By seeing his early work as self exploration through metaphor and sound, as well as through varieties of love and direct experience, the Companion outlines a unity behind all the work, based on voice and a public self. Neruda's debt to reading and books is studied in depth and the change in poetics re-examined by concentrating on the early work up to Residencia en la tierra I and II and why he wanted to become a poet. Debate about quality and representativity is grounded in his Romantic thinking, sensibility and sincerity. Unlike a Borges or a Paz who accompanied their creative work with analytical essays, Neruda distilled all his experiences into his poems, which remainhis true biography. Jason Wilson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University College London.
Sir John Harington (1560-1612) has long been recognized as one of the most colorful and engaging figures at the English Renaissance court. Godson of Queen Elizabeth, translator of Ariosto, and inventor of the water-closet, he was also a lively writer in a wide variety of modes, and an acute commentator on his times. Combining detailed readings and first-hand historical research, this study reconstructs the complex, often devious agenda that Harington wrote into his books as he customized them for specific individuals and occasions.
This book looks beyond fidelity to emphasize how each adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s short stories functions as a creative response to a text, foregrounding the significance of its fluidity, transtextuality, and genre. The adaptations analysed range from the first to the most recent and draw attention to the fluidity of textual sources, the significance of generic conventions and space in film, the generic potentialities latent within Lawrence’s tales, and the evolving nature of adaptation. By engaging with recent advances in adaptation theory to discuss the evolving critical reception of the author’s work and the role of the reader, this book provides a fresh, forward-looking approach to Lawrence studies.
Every year a staggering number of corporate service providers mask perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which firms flout global identification standards remains unknown. This book sheds new light on the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations through a series of field experiments.
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