This is the final collection in the trilogy of Little Spiritual Books by Trevor Jones. Throughout his work and in this final volume he takes us yet again through a doorway into his spiritual and emotional journey of understanding life. A simple soul ever in search of himself through his many reflections and journeys; this comes to fruition in his many compositions and poetry of deep spiritual ruminations. One can feel this breath of consciousness all through these compositions; words flow in torrents like a cascade of ideas, no stopping, but ever moving in depth of meaning.Surrounded by an unseen power, Trevor's writings seem to come from beyond this terrestrial dimension. I get the impression someone else is speaking through him; he is only an instrument for the thoughts he is putting down on paper. The reader will experience the beauty, the power and energy in each and every piece within the covers. Enjoy and be refreshed.
*Trevor Jones was a sports-crazed Naval hero when at the age of 26 he was nearly completely paralysed. *After serving in the Falklands, carrying out the longest air-sea rescue ever mounted in the South Atlantic and saving the life of Richard Branson, Trevor broke his neck when skiing for the navy in competition and had to come to terms with never walking again. *He was thrown into a deep depression, but friends rallied around Trevor, he fell in love and with great courage created a new life from the shattered remains of a physically broken body. *He spent eight years in a fierce legal battle with the Ministry of Defence but eventually won. *Trevor now scuba-dives, drives, sails, skis, and even flies a micro- light plane alone.
Originally published in 1980 at a time when the discipline of sociology was still relatively young in Australia, The Inheritance of Inequality is an important contribution to the study of social mobility in Australia. The book is based on findings from a survey of nearly 5,000 Australians who were interviewed about their family backgrounds and occupational careers. In its scope and sample size, the survey was unique among non-governmental Australian studies. It went beyond the findings of earlier surveys, giving broader understanding of social mobility and stratification. The book sets out the processes by which Australians have found their place in the world of work in the 20th Century. Factors tending to enhance or frustrate attainment are identified and the degree to which Australia is an egalitarian society is assessed.
The night can be a lonely place; doubly so if you are ill. For some the wee small hours of the morning is a time of troubling doubt, of insecurity, of bitter regrets. But not so for Trevor Jones, a broken Firefighter, whose night time experience turned from despair to hope as he fought through his dark times and learned to listen to his heart. And as he listened the words poured out; words of love, thoughts of God and finally the bright blinding light of optimism. Glance through this book and feel the love and optimism flow from it, keep it by your bedside and maybe, just maybe, it will help get you through your night.
Six talented authors lend their voices to a tale of destruction, mistrust and ... hope. Two hundred years ago, the dwarven clans and the elvish houses of Mirstone were at peace. The king of the dwarves, in a selfish and greedy move, used his wizards to expand their mountain empire, raising new peaks from the forest floors of their elven neighbors. War and hatred ensue. The tales within offer a glimpse into the minds of the elves and dwarves who live in the aftermath. Come, journey into the world of Mirstone. Keywords: fantasy, epic fantasy, short stories, short story collections, fantasy anthologies, elves, dwarves, magic, sword and sorcery
Hydrocarbons and their derivatives (oxygenated and chlorinated, in particular), both natural and xenobiotic, represent a very large class of compounds whose conversions and degradation by microorganisms cover an extremely rich field, whose concepts are detailed in this book. The fascinating evolution of these concepts over the last twenty years has revealed the extent of the processes implemented in the environment and has multiplied their industrial applications. The resulting achievements and the current developments are described in this book.The English edition of this reference manual is an entirely revised and updated version of the French edition. It is intended for professionals, microbiologists and chemists, as well as scientists, engineers, teachers and post-doctoral researchers, who are interested by the conversions of hydrocarbons and by microbial ecology.The French edition of this book was awarded a special mention for engineering education text book by the Roberval Prize committee in 2007.
I have been forced to become . . . a librarian." ~ Georges BatailleThe Non-Library is a non-standard expression for life that is lived without mediation from words, images, or even ideas. While a thing called "the Library" continues to terrorize humanity even as it enters its last stages as a consequence of cataclysmic climate change and late capitalism, the Non-Library is a strictly performative, ahistorical immanence that suspends the Library's insistent calls to categorization, representation, and reification. Of course, to describe or circumscribe such ineffability has its limits, but it also has its thresholds to cross: with commentary on Derrida's Archive Fever, a deconstruction of Fichte, a parabiographical meditation on librarianship, and a vamping on the possible "Non-Virgil," The Non-Library gently proposes a negative capability in liminal spaces in order to best escape and resist the Library's stranglehold on human knowledge and its requisite social imaginations."Let us now descend into the blind world . . . ." ~DanteBuilding on the non-standard thought of Francois Laruelle's non-philosophy, while not beholden to it, The Non-Library attempts to leave the discourse of the university behind and uses its citations of Badiou, Borges, Bataille, and Dante instead to construct a philo-fiction more akin to the immanence of music and its many expressions rather than Philosophy's demand that all questions be eventually answered, that the Real is ultimately thinkable, or that all of Life might possibly be contained in the Library.
Nine year old French girl Lysette is thrown into the chaos of war when she runs for her life from a bomb dropped on her neighbourhood in Aachen, Germany. Travelling through the Netherlands, then a long trek through Belgium, she arrives in the town of Sedan in northern France where she is taken into a monastery. There, she is sheltered from the horrors of war. But outside, the war rages on. Local resistance groups fight Gestapo soldiers, and secret messages are sent across northern Europe and Belgium Closer to home, the Gestapo are searching for ‘the girl in the blue uniform’ after Lysette had witnessed a murder whilst in the Netherlands. The reality of war is contrasted with the calmness of the monastery. Will Lysette ever see her parents again?
When thirteen-year-old Erin discovers she is the daughter of the love god Cupid, she uses her newfound ability to sabotage her rival Trevor by making him fall in love with her, but she soon realizes love has a funny way of complicating things.
From the author of the best-selling Christy Miller and SisterChicks series comes a new book of community, friendship, and tackling the hard things of life with God and loved ones around a table. Five young moms, including beloved Gunn character Christy Miller, gather to share meals and soon become unlikely best friends. The regular gatherings provide opportunities for the women to reveal their stories, and those life stories endear them to each other. They experience their lives naturally meshing as they raise their children together in community. In Becoming Us the group find ways to challenge, encourage, and help each other become the nurturing mothers they wished they'd had when they were growing up. They unite to be remembered for what they do as moms and not for what was done to them.
David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example in performance and installation art as well as photography. Contemporary work in these areas responds both to forensic evidence, including crime scene photography, and to some of the assumptions underpinning its consumption. It asks how we look, and in whose name, foregrounding and scrutinising the enduring presence of voyeurism in visual media and instituting new forms of ethical engagement. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. It displays an enduring debt to the discursive model of testimony which has so far been insufficiently recognised, and which forms the basis for a new ethical understanding of the forensic. Jones’s analysis brings this methodology to bear upon a strand of contemporary visual activity that has the power to significantly redefine our understandings of the production, analysis and deployment of evidence. Artists examined include Forensic Architecture, Simon Norfolk, Melanie Pullen, Angela Strassheim, John Gerrard, Julian Charrière, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras and Sophie Ristelhueber. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, literary studies, modern languages, photography and critical theory.
All women suffer hurt, disappointment, and heartache in their lifetimes. The subsequent wounds left behind can be emotional, abusive, racial, and can negatively affect our souls, families, and self-esteem. Without the proper care, these wounds may be the obstacle that is preventing women from moving forward and becoming the best versions of themselves. In an inspirational story, several troubled women facing various challenges share their opinions and reflections. Brought together by the program, Sisters Having Open Wounds (S.H.O.W.), the women begin examining their pasts and the hurts that have left behind ugly scars in order to remove the bandages layer by layer, uncover the core of their pain, and attain a brighter future and life. As they look deep within and rekindle their faith, the women soon discover that healing a wounded soul takes effort and time as they slowly transform spiritually into strong, capable, and confident females ready to take on the world. S.H.O.W. is a powerful tale that chronicles the lives and challenges of troubled women as they embark on faith-filled journeys to find healing from their pasts and move forward into brighter futures.
A sweeping medical drama set on the battlefields of Europe as a global influenza pandemic looms... Frontline is the first instalment in a series charting the rise of a prominent medical family in the 20th Century. From war to a global pandemic, the discovery of penicillin and the birth of the NHS, the Burnetts find themselves at the centre of domestic and international developments in public health. It's 1914 and Europe is at war with itself. Grace is the daughter of the landed gentry, who defies her parents' wishes and volunteers as a nurse on the Western Front. Will is the son of a dockworker and doing his best to keep himself out of trouble, working nights as a hospital porter and trying to get through school. But the lure of patriotism and the thrill of adventure prove irresistable and he enlists while still in his middle teens. We experience the atrocities of life in the trenches through the eyes of these two characters, whose lives collide in a field hospital in France. By then, Will is a stretcher bearer whose medical talents impress all the doctors. Grace is an ambulance driver whose bravery and compassion is legendary within the army. But as rumors of an armistice begin to circulate, so does a virus of mysterious origins, carrying with it an unimaginable death toll of soldiers and civilians across the globe.
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