Born into a dysfunctional family in Oakville, Ontario, in the 1950s, Jo-Anne Shaw was forced to leave home at sixteen to escape her abusive father. A high-school dropout, she would go on to endure two abusive marriages and years of serious depression. When she became a single mother of four, she knew something had to change for her children’s sake. Defying all the odds, Shaw went back to school, got her Master of Social Work, and became a successful psychotherapist. Her past gave her the insight and compassion she needed to help others who suffered abuse and mental health challenges. By channeling her own pain, she could become a beacon of hope for those who were struggling. As a therapist, she could show women in abusive relationships that they could heal, leave their abusive partners, become financially independent, and finally be free. Dare to Dream, Joe Shore demonstrates how harmful patterns can be challenged, disrupted, and replaced with a healthier path to a brighter future. With humour and grace, Shaw tells her inspiring tale of resilience and survival, sharing how she navigated the challenges of those early years and finally attained her academic and career goals and the most elusive goal of all: happiness.
At a time of rising populism and debate about immigration, leading legal academic Jo Shaw sets out to review interactions between constitutions and constructs of citizenship. This incisive appraisal is the first sustained treatment of the relationship between citizenship and constitutional law in a comparative and transnational perspective. Drawing on examples from around the world, it assesses how countries’ legal, political and cultural processes help to determine the boundaries of citizenship. For students and academics across political, social and international disciplines, Shaw offers an accessible response to some of the most pressing international questions of our age.
A modern, photographed directory of over 150 knitting stitches, covering techniques including cables, fair isle, lace, and intarsia. More than 150 eye-catching, stash-busting stitches to take your knitting to the next level. Take your knitting to the next level with Knitting Stitches Step-by-Step. Whatever your knitting ability, this essential guide will help you master a huge range of techniques and patterns, including colorwork, fair isle and intarsia, cables and textural patterns, lace knitting, and methods for casting on and off. Find inspiration for your next knitting project or adapt a design you know and love with tips on incorporating different stitches into your work. Every stitch is accompanied by full instructions, with clear photographs and annotations so that you can follow even the trickiest of methods with ease, while the Tools chapter will help you prepare with the right needles, yarn, and other tools you’ll need to recreate each technique. With an at-a-glance gallery to help you find the perfect stitch for your next project, this modern classic is a must-have for knitters of all ages and abilities.
Design and Live the Life YOU Love is a simple, yet thorough, guide to changing your life step by step. Utilizing the author's original poetry, personal stories and practical tools, it offers you a whole-brain approach to unleash your innate wisdom as well as the answers you seek for resolving life challenges.
Will Lucy ever be able to put her own happiness first? Lucy Shaw, sure by name but not by nature, wants to make her marriage work. In her head, that is. Her heart has other ideas as she embarks on a bittersweet journey to try and find true happiness.To the outside world, Lucy's life looks close to perfect: a doting husband, a model son, a lovely home, but it's all an act and the strain is starting to show as Lucy searches for something that will make her life bearable.This is a warm, witty and searingly honest novel of life, love and friendship.
Caractors Unlocked is a verification of the statement made by ancient recorders that the Book of Mormon was written in "reformed Egyptian". This book provides proof that the "reformed Egyptian" is ancient demotic Egyptian. For 190 years, scholars have attempted to decipher the meaning of the "Caractors". This book gives breakthrough evidence that it is written in authentic ancient demotic Egyptian language. it probably comes from the lost 116 pages that had been entrusted to Martin Harris's keeping by Joseph Smith. About the Authors Both Mary Jo Jackel and Faye Shaw have a deep love of The Bible and The Book of Mormon Scriptures. Jackel has been active in 'her church communities for much of her life. She began her research on this topic in 1994, working on the hypothesis that the "Caractors" were actual demotic Egyptian characters. She collaborated with Shaw to make the research available to Book of Mormon and Bible Scholars.
The book is divided into four parts: the introduction; the creation of contracts; contract, power, and justice; and the ending of contracts. Within each part the traditional components of contract law are looked at in separate chapters. This book is an ideal teaching book for first-year undergraduates studying contract law for the first time.
This new study explores issues of legitimacy and subsidiarity in the debate about the future of Europe. It looks at the assumptions behind the Constitutional Convention and its working methods, as well as its implications for reform processes in the European Union. It also analyzes the concept of subsidiarity, both from the perspective of the division of powers, and as a factor legitimizing the political structures of Europe. The book also provides an analytical analysis of how the Constitutional Convention ties in the broader constitutionalization process of the European Union.
The Black Death has spared Clarendon Abbey, where Audra Travers is a novice. It is the only life she knows. Everything changes when men come from Bredonmere Manor, telling her that, in the wake of the plague’s decimation of her family, she is the sole living heir to her father’s lands. She is no longer Sister Audra, but the Countess of Bredonmere. On her way home, she is halted by a masked man who calls himself Lynx and warns her that nothing will be as she expects when she reaches the manor. Furious at his bold ways that elicit sensations she never has felt before, she vows to keep him from intruding. Even so, Lynx in all his roles at Bredonmere becomes her greatest ally . . . and her greatest temptation. But can learning the truth of the man behind the mask and his true reason to come to her home destroy all she has built—as well as her heart?
Fifteen-year-old Beth Johnson lives the double life of actress and spy in this e-book filled with action and adventure. The year is 1666, and Henry Vale, the dangerous mastermind behind the plots to kill the King, is still on the loose, and Beth, along with John and Ralph, is in the thick of the action.With reports coming in that Valemay be hiding out in the colony of America, Beth must decide how far she will go to track him down. Will Beth leave her life in London and make the voyage to the New World?
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