This romantic opening is a real rarity at top-level chess. Probably the greatest expert on this line right now is England's Grandmaster Joe Gallagher.' - Nigel Short in The Daily Telegraph The King's Gambit has always been a great favourite of tactical players. However, since its heyday in the nineteenth century, it appeared only sporadically in Grandmaster chess. Recently, this has begun to change, and the King's Gambit has once again become a force to be reckoned with. A whole host of new ideas have appeared, many of them introduced into international competition by the author himself and explained in this book.
Culled from a larger, more expensive volume by the same authors first published by Eerdmans in 1994, this beautiful volume focuses on 15 biblical characters and gloriously presents not only their stories but also more than 200 art-historical images of them, along with searching commentary by the late theologian Dorothee Soelle and discussion of their post-biblical legacies in art and literature by historian Joe Kirchberger.
This book incorporates a range of new material on racist events and incidents across the United States. It includes a few new concepts and some of the original concepts about individual and institutionalized racism in the United States.
The book deals with the real, historical factual person of Jesus Christ. The book shows that not only was Jesus Christ a real figure in history, but that He is also the true Lord God and Almighty Creator cloaked in flesh. This book proves that the resurrection was a real event and real fact in history that can be objectively proven. This will, in turn, prove the spiritual aspects of the Bible must be true; such as the fact that He is the Lord, and that our sins are forgiven for putting trust in this real Man. Joe Cienkowski is a Christian man born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who loves to teach about and share his Christian faith. He grew up in the Roman Catholic faith, but abandoned his faith in his 20's. Joe is a passionate, fundamental Christian, who believes the Bible literally and historically and whose mission is to teach and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. God broke down the many strongholds that were in his life, such as believing in evolution and believing in the Roman Catholic faith. After time in prison for marijuana, he came to understand that Jesus wasn't just some superhero, but a real Man who lived, performed miracles, fulfilled prophecies, and perform the greatest miracle ever: the resurrection from the dead. Although he has no diplomas from any college, he is a self-made ready student of the Bible. He has spent many years studying the Bible on his own, and has put himself under the most sound teachers in the faith, such as RC Sproul, D. James Kennedy, Ravi Zacharias, Hank Hanegraaff, David Jeremiah, Tony Evans, and Kent Hovind, to name a few. Of course he credits the greatest teacher, the Holy Spirit, for teaching him the sound fundamentals of the faith.
IMPORTANCE OF MEDITATION BENEFITS OF MEDITATION Individual benefits of meditation Relief from stress Improves brain functioning and intelligence Improves creativity Better focus and concentration Improves interpersonal skills and helps build good relationships Reduces anger Spiritual growth, happiness and peace of mind Improved self-actualisation Increased strength of self-concept Societal benefits of meditation Improved quality of living Increased positivity and decreased crime rates Decreased violent fatalities Increase in acts of kindness Reducing conflicts and war MEDITATION AND HEALTH Meditation helps handle anxiety and depression Meditation improves overall health Meditation lowers blood pressure and diabetes Meditation cures addiction to alcohol, drugs and cigarette Meditation supports women?s health Meditation helps keep yourself young and energetic MEDITATION HELPS CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS HOW TO MEDITATE? Important measures before meditation Choose the right time to meditate Choose the right duration Choose the right place Other preparations to be made before the session Important aspect of meditation Right posture Focus on an object Watch your thoughts and do not follow them Post meditation measures Remain silent Enjoyment Activity post meditation COMMON ERRORS COMMITED DURING MEDITATION Lack of motivation Remedies to lack of motivation Lacking in consistency Remedial measure to lack of consistency Distractions Remedy to distractions Physical pain Remedies to physical pain Wrong duration Remedies to wrong duration Meditation Posture: Remedies to wrong posture Meditation Teachers Remedies to choosing a wrong teacher Practicing in groups Remedy to practicing in groups Getting frustrated Remedy to getting frustrated lack of Mindfulness Remedy to lack of mindfulness Choosing wrong techniques of meditation Remedies to choosing wrong techniques MEDITATE ? COME-WHAT-MAY ? BARRIERS TO MEDITATION Health as a barrier Time as barrier Feeling of embarrassment Lack of energy or skills: Lacks of self motivation Lack of resources or cost involved Laziness as a barrier PINNACLE OF MEDITATION ? AN INSTANCE FROM A GREAT EPIC DIFFERENT METHODS / FORMS OF MEDITATION mindfulness meditation Transcendental Meditation Guided visualization How to practice guided visualisation? S NATARAJAN?S AUM BINAURAL AANANDHAM ? AN OVERVIEW KNOW YOUR BRAINWAVES WHAT IS BRAIN WAVE ENTRAINMENT? DIFFERENT FORMS OF BRAIN WAVE ENTRAINMENT Aural entrainment Binaural beats Monaural beats Isochronic tones Audio?visual entrainment HOW DOES S NATARAJAN?S BINAURAL BEATS WORK? THE PRANAVA OR AUM ? USES IN S NATARAJAN?S BINAURAL MEDITATION VARIOUS PRODUCTS OFFERED BY S NATARAJAN?S BINAURAL CENTRE Guided Aum Chanting to attain powers like yogis Light meditation for health and wealth Meditation by sound waves for natural cure and relaxation S Natarajan?s Aum Binaural Sweep for quick deep sleep S Natarajan?s Aum Binaural Kubera and laxmi money mantra ADVANTAGES OF S NATARAJAN?S BINAURAL MEDITATION Easiest form of meditation Low cost Removes place barrier Inspires consistency in practice Quick results CONCLUSION
This work covers the individuals and events of what most consider to be the greatest era in boxing history. The first chapter compares the 1970s to all other eras, from the early 1900s and Jack Johnson to the present day and the Klitschko brothers, proving through an established set of criteria that the '70s stand above all other eras. The second chapter focuses on the tumultuous 1960s and the circumstances that led to the blossoming of unprecedented competition. The remaining ten chapters cover the years 1970 through 1979, revisiting the people and the rivalries of an era that produced Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Norton and Holmes, boxers known to people who didn't even follow the sport.
The African American Male School Adaptability Crisis (AMSAC) cannot be solved by the school alone. It is a race problem which can only be solved if we black males provide the leadership in tackling our three major demons which now mainly account for the problem: IQ lag-fatherless families-crime. AMSAC had its origin about 100 years ago when, after the death of Washington, DuBois gained ascendancy in our African American Garden of Eden and replaced Washingtons brains, property, and character gospel with a civil rights agenda. That agenda has led to a civil-rights fixation and our second bondage, Victimology, wherein being the victim has become part of our core identity and made us psychological slaves. Rather than being proud and self-reliant, disproportionately, we have come to see ourselves as victims who are entitled to system help and special treatment. This bondage and it is a bondage -- vitiates our manhood and the energy and drive required to pursue the adaptation pathway paved by Washington, but demonized by DuBois. Return to that pathway and we can confront and conquer AMSAC and our three major demons. Guided by history and the research evidence, this book details how. Its 20 chapters make for long reading, but, just by reading the first and last chapters, you can get the message. The motto of the proposed evidence-based experimental program, the African American Male Career Pathway Program (AMCAP). A special appeal is made to black athletes and entertainers to help propagate this motto and support the proposed high school student clubs (Student AMCAPs) in its implementation.
Rempson takes issue with those who lay the plight of African Americans on racism, not seeing it, today, as a major obstacle to black progress. Rather, he traces the origin back to what he terms the African American Garden of Eden. In it, W. E. B. Dubois outlasted Booker T. Washington and fathered a tradition which Rempson argues has produced a victim identity and an emphasis on the system rather than the self. Only black males offer a way out, he declares, because it is entirely “our black males who are keeping us down and curtailing our progress,” in contrast to black females, who “are doing OK.” They are plagued by what Rempson calls the African American Male School Adaptability Crisis (AMSAC). Their academic performance ranks at the bottom, alone, below black female students and below white, Asian, and Hispanic male students. In large urban areas, their high school dropout rate is 59 percent and, nationally, they lag behind in college attendance and graduation rates. The outcome, Rempson argues, is dysfunctionality and the existence of hedonistic norms which hinder family and community stability. But while black males are the problem, Rempson contends, it is nevertheless only they who can solve it because research and experience show that it takes males to bring up and change other males. Though intended for everyone, he therefore writes his book to his fellow advantaged black males and makes a passionate plea for them to step up and, with the help of black females and of the nation, take the lead. As their guide, he has formulated eight propositions. Arrived at through an examination of impressively extensive data from numerous sources and disciplines, they are a marked departure from the customary. Most strikingly, delicate matters, such as those which pertain to intelligence quotient (IQ) and culture, are openly confronted and dealt with. But, Rempson writes, “unless confronted, we will not solve our problems.” “Nor,” he continues, “can we solve them unless we cut the umbilical cord to white America. We have no right to expect it to be our savior; nor are we justified in perceiving it as our oppressor.” Forcefully and finely written, Rempson’s book is a singular and courageous contribution. Alone, his eight propositions make it a worthy read.
On January 19, 2009, Chicago teacher and playwright Joe Janes decided to write a comedy sketch a day for a year. He did that. When he was done, Don Hall of the WNEP Theater Foundation decided to produce them. All of them. In June of 2010, Don and Joe gathered together over 200 Chicago actors and directors and over eleven nights presented 26 shows each featuring two weeks worth of sketches (although one has 15 scenes). Yep. Crazy. All 365 comedy sketches are collected in this book along with a complete list of directors and actors from the Strawdog shows. Joe teaches comedy writing at The Second City and Columbia College.
The gritty and granular truth behind the wagers we make with our lives every single day—and, if we’re unlucky, just once in a lifetime. What are your chances of living through the next 24 hours? This week? This month? This decade? Will your job kill you? Your car kill you? Your spouse kill you? Will your own bad habits kill you? Or will a rogue asteroid just kill us all? Each time you lay your head on the pillow at night or set your feet on the floor come morning, you bet your life. Exactly what odds do you face 24/7? You Bet Your Life applies to you, the individual, the analytical approach insurance companies use to calculate risk: actuarial science. The result is a comprehensive, encyclopedic, real world assessment of more than 1,000 of the risks we take every day of our all-too-finite lives, from boarding an airplane to tempting a shark attack by dipping a toe in the ocean. You Bet Your Life is introduced by an authoritative essay explaining how professional actuaries calculate risk and how less objective entities—in government, finance, science, technology, and religion—apply their own competing calculi of risk and reward.
Why does Pilgrims Passage matter? Why can greed and deceit still manipulate us? Why do people choose power over family? Working to address these questions and more, Pilgrims Passage: Into a New Millennium and Rebuilding the Past are journeys brimming with adventures through turbulent times during the transition into the twenty-first century. For Paul Bardeck and Claudia Weiss, discovering a thousand-year-old monks journal fuels their quest to rebuild a mysterious ancient monastery perched upon the foothills in the Slovakian High Tatras, with the promise of releasing boundless energy stored within ancient ruins, as well as the Book of ONE. Concurrently, Karl Vlodas seemingly unquenchable thirst for wealth and power, fueled by the Black Star Pacts dark energy, seems to make the quest for ancient truths a sideshow. As the pilgrims paths entangle, will the promise of timely truths finally come to light? Does standing against the powers of darkness really matter today?
This story is about a man called Rhymes Ramose and the way he tried to destroy the world after a man called King Hovercraft killed his sister Hanneck Ramose. It also tells the story about how people tried to stop him from destroying the world for Rhymes Ramose holds the rest of us responsible for his sisters death. The story begins when a plane crashes in a desert. The pilot asks a man called Captain John Coiners why a ship is left in the desert. The pilots name is Keith Black. John tells him that he was the captain of the ship and that the ship is called the Red Dragon. He also tells him the history about how they found the Fiddle of Doom and that his son Michael burnt a Golden Eagle and that Michael was put into prison. He tells Keith that he would do anything for his son. He also tells Keith Black about a man called Treeon Littlewood and the story that he told him and the crew of the Red Dragon.
Focusing on the history of the UK, this is one of a series, modular in structure, which offers teachers the flexibility to design their own scheme of work at Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum. A teacher's assessment and resource pack, including photocopiable worksheets, is also available.
Introducing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- a quantitative approach to assess the performance of hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, and commmodity trading advisors. Steep yourself in this approach with this important new book by Greg Gregoriou and Joe Zhu. "This book steps beyond the traditional trade-off between single variables for risk and return in the determination of investment portfolios. For the first time, a comprehensive procedure is presented to compose portfolios using multiple measures of risk and return simultaneously. This approach represents a watershed in portfolio construction techniques and is especially useful for hedge fund and CTA offerings." -- Richard E. Oberuc, CEO, Burlington Hall Asset Management, Inc. Chairman, Foundation for Managed Derivatives Research Order your copy today!
It is considered by many to be the biggest upset in the history of boxing: James "Buster" Douglas knocked out then-undefeated and seemingly invincible Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson in the tenth round in 1990. The Last Great Fight takes readers not only behind the scenes of this epic battle, but inside the lives of two men, their ambitions, their dreams, the downfall of one and the rise of another. Using his exclusive interviews with both Tyson and Douglas, family members, the referee, the cutmen, trainers and managers, commentators and HBO staff covering the fight in Tokyo, Layden has crafted a human drama played out on a large stage. This is a compelling tale of shattered dreams and, ultimately, redemption.
Today's standard for morality is whatever is right in your own eyes. The world is experiencing moral decline, cultural shifts away from God, and hostility toward the things of God. Through engaging stories and dynamic teaching, evangelist and prayer leader Joe Oden reveals the secret to every spiritual awakening in history: passionate prayers and humble hearts from believers willing to partner with the Holy Spirit. In these pages you will learn how to · develop a lifestyle of consistent, powerful prayer · implement biblical and historical principles of revival · cultivate personal habits that birth spiritual awakening · release God's power to shift the atmosphere and shake the nations God wants every believer to pray for regional, national, and global awakening. It's time to kneel humbly, rise bravely, and move boldly to see sweeping cultural revolution, signs, wonders, and deliverance--and the salvation of millions of souls that causes even skeptics to be in awe of God.
Sometimes life goes by too fast, and we forget the beauty that lives in it! Sometimes it is good to just stop and find the love and magic that it holds for us. Let it become our compass again. There is truly a magic in this book, the magic that is within each of us. Sometimes we forget its there, so its up to us to find it again and embrace it for all that is around us to see. The gift of the present is given every day. Lets all take it and help it grow and see where this world really can go!
These five case studies offer a chilling glimpse into the negligence, greed, murder, and at times comical disorganization behind some of the CIA's most controversial secret operations. Science fiction could not have invented the influence the CIA had in the assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr, the AIDS virus, the killing of the leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement, the PATRIOT act, and the Iran-Contra affair. Smith makes radical claims, but instead of coming across as a raving conspiracy theorist he uses facts to write a believable, accessible alternative to mainstream histories that helps readers to contextualize current events and the anti-American backlash.
An argument for inherent unity in all religious thought "Proving" the existence of God, In My Belief, Joe Isaac Gauthier draws parallels between the facts of science and the historical records and myths associated with the major religions of the world. Endeavoring to speak from a "neutral" platform, he points out the common ground within all monotheistic traditions, providing logical explanations to stories in the Bible, Qur'an, and other historical documents, and also interpreting the universal phenomena that human beings encounter in their search for meaning within theology or anthropology. My Belief is a message of unity in spite of the vast differences human beings all have in the understanding of our experiences. Gauthier's suggestion is that by applying scientific and logical reasoning to the history and content of all religions (even the religion of science), a harmonious evolution can be seen that can serve as a form of "proof" to the modern-day seeker who demands evidence of God. This marriage of science and religion is an attempt to provide some context for understanding the mysteries of the universe. Thinkers and seekers of all ages are challenged to consider the "proof" in My Belief and the appeal of the "Oneness" of a supreme energy that we are created by, exist within, and remain a part of. Book jacket.
The Korean Struggle for International Identity in the Foreground of the Shufeldt Negotiation, 1866-1880 places a special focus on how the Koreans view themselves and the outside world, especially China, Japan, and the United States. It challenges the one-sided, distorted China centered view of the historical and traditional Korea-China relationship, as well as the skewed view of the Korea-Japan relationship from the Japanese side. This book brings the much-neglected Korean views of these historical relationships into perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
This is the fifth and final volume of the expository sermons on John's Gospel from the Grace Fellowship Church pulpit. This volume covers chapters 18-21. Featured in this volume are the sermons on the Lord's trial, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.
The beginning of the end is here! The final piece to the Wonderland trilogy brings the powerful story of Alice's only daughter, Calie Liddle, full circle. Her infant daughter was taken from her arms and brought into the realm of madness. Now Calie must re-enter the one place she has tried for so long to escape. The moment of truth has arrived as the girl who became a woman now sets out to become a hero. The one person who can prevent pure insanity from escaping into this world must now find a way to defeat madness itself. The final chapter of the most intense, riveting and addictive comic book series you have read in years has arrived and this time around there may be no escaping Wonderland.
This book examines the “who, what, when, where, and how” of elite-white-male dominance in U.S. and global society. In spite of their domination in the United States and globally that we document herein, elite white men have seldom been called out and analyzed as such. They have received little to no explicit attention with regard to systemic racism issues, as well as associated classism and sexism issues. Almost all public and scholarly discussions of U.S. racism fail to explicitly foreground elite white men or to focus specifically on how their interlocking racial, class, and gender statuses affect their globally powerful decisionmaking. Some of the power positions of these elite white men might seem obvious, but they are rarely analyzed for their extraordinary significance. While the principal focus of this book is on neglected research and policy questions about the elite-white-male role and dominance in the system of racial oppression in the United States and globally, because of their positioning at the top of several societal hierarchies the authors periodically address their role and dominance in other oppressive (e.g., class, gender) hierarchies.
These are the sermons preached from the Epistle to the Hebrews at Grace Fellowship Church. This volume contains the exposition from chapters one through eight.
MacNeil also describes his early years in a Gaelic-speaking rural community, where story-telling is still a basic element of community life. He explains how he learned the tales and the customs and practices associated with their telling. He also introduces us to the families and individuals who were custodians of the tales. John Shaw's introduction outlines the informant's tradition and its place in the world of the European story-teller. The commentaries of MacNeil and Shaw, the tales, the games, and the other folk material offer a rich and unique perspective on the Gaelic culture generally, and as it has developed on Cape Breton Island in particular.
Have you ever thought of yourself as a hero? Not many people do. But youre a difference maker! You have been handcrafted to be the unique person who you are today, and no other combination of people in history could have led to your birth and legacy. You are here for an important reason. In Hero Status, author and pastor Joe Vinette uses unique stories and passages from the book of Daniel to help you unlock your greatest potential. He recognizes that each person is unique, and he uses practical examples to lead you toward remembering the heroes around you. Joe will also show you your inner hero, helping you to see your own failures as learning points and your own successes as a launching pad. You will understand how to change the way you think about your life, and ultimately your new perspective will protect your inner boldness. God has given you your life so that you can be a light of the world and a reflection of the ultimate lightour savior hero, Jesus! You dont have to be perfectjust willing. Make today the day you embrace your hero status!
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