The story takes place in Northern California, in the spring of 2000, when the dot-com boom was at its peak. Elizabeth Reilly-Hayden is a successful executive in her late fifties and a divorced mother of two. Emotionally armored and living alone, she wants only to maintain the status quo: her long-term significant other, her job, and her trusted friends-five feisty women whose high school friendship has carried them through multiple marriages, dramatic divorces, and maddening menopause. Yet in a matter of days, the three anchors that have kept her moored are ripped away. The group of lifelong pals gathers at Lake Tahoe to attend to the funeral arrangements of their beloved friend and tries to unravel the mystery of her death. Through their shared tragedy, Elizabeth learns how disappointment and grief can bloom into healing and hope.
Discover how flashes from past lives can appear as signs and synchronicities, childhood impressions, dreams and memories, even spontaneous shifts in consciousness or time. Providing time-tested exercises, Past Lives, Present Stories shows how to explore your past lives and use the lessons you've learned to flourish in your present incarnation. Join author Judith Marshall as she takes you through the full range of techniques for exploring your past lives and piecing together information to help you on your path. Providing examples of her own glimpses into her past lives, Judith illustrates how illuminating and healing past-life discovery can be.
In every moment, including this one, an angel is with you. No exceptions. Get to know your angels, guardians, and guides—you’ll be amazed by what you experience. This collection of true encounters with loving celestial beings will add a new dimension to your life and help you grow into the person you’ve always wanted to be. In addition to sharing genuine experiences from the author and her family, this inspiring guide describes divine helpers in detail—archangels, ascended masters, spirit guides, totem animals, and others. Discover the role they play in our lives and how to recognize their presence. There are also simple meditation techniques to help you initiate contact with angels, interpret their messages, and tap into a divine network of unconditional love and wisdom. With this book, you will come to know that you are loved, period. Trust. Believe. Shine.
Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964. McLuhan published several breakthrough books and coined terms like "hot" and "cool" media, "the global village," and "the medium is the message.
Sara moves back to her family's old Victorian beach house, and the pranks begin. They seem harmless enough at first--perhaps even coincidental. Then she witnesses a murder, the police arrive, but the body is gone. Now Sara hides and listens to the haunting winds--knowing the killer is coming for her.
Hearing an explosion of gunfire, Alison Archer races down the stairs just in time to see a shadowy figure fleeing--and her father lying in a pool of blood. Now, Alison is alone--with her grief and the realization that something is terribly wrong at Megtex, her father's corporation that she now owns and runs. Soon she is stalked by a cunning madman who has killed before . . . and will kill again.
Consumed by ambition, J.P. Ralston controls everything in his reach—a successful law practice, any woman he desires, and total social freedom. His world is turned upside down by the local librarian. Samira Cartwright is everything J.P. has purposefully avoided. She’s steady, smart, and predictable, yet she mysterioiusly permeates his every thought. Unable to resist Samira’s quiet beauty, J.P. dares to engage, but the consequences are demanding, sending both J.P. and Samira summersaulting into their pasts. Broken relationships, disappointments, and old wounds must be reconciled, with only a fine line between what is from what might yet be. Out of My League – Love Never Makes a Wrong Choice, will surprise you, challenge you and test you as you discover remnants of your own life etched in the pages. Judith Kay presents a relational masterpiece that draws you into hearts and minds of fictional characters who are so real you would recognize them on the street corner in your hometown.
This book explores the relations between literacy and "people's power" in the context of Mozambique's project of socialist construction. It probes the tensions between literacy as a tool for grassroots democracy versus literacy as a tool for mobilizing at the base for top-down initiatives.
A collection of essays first published in Moscow in 1909. Writing from various points of view, the authors reflect the diverse experiences of Russia's failed 1905 revolution. Condemned by Lenin and rediscoverd by dissidents, this translation has relevance for discussions on contemporary Russia.
Julius Jeffreys (1800-1877), was a prominent Victorian era scientist and surgeon. One of 16 children, he was educated by his father, Richard Jeffreys, at Hall Place, Kent, from where he ran a private school. Julius was employed by the Honourable East India Company for 13 years. While in India he recommended the use of hill stations, developed air conditioning systems and reduced pollution from fireplaces. On returning to England in 1836, he designed the Respirator, a device for warming inhaled air, to ease the suffering of those afflicted with tuberculosis and other lung diseases. While not a familiar item now, the Respirator was mentioned in the works of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and William Makepiece Thackeray. He was elected a member of several learned societies, including the Royal College of Surgeons, Medical and Chirurgical Society (later incorporated into the Royal Society of Medicine) and the Royal Society. He worked with, and in some cases had disagreements with, a number of eminent scientists of the day, including Charles Babbage, William Hallowes Miller, Justus von Leibig, John Snow and Neil Arnott. In 1843, Julius wrote a significant book on the workings of the human respiratory system that described aspects of lung volumes for the first time. The nomenclature he devised was used for a century, before being superseded, but was not attributed to him. Julius was awarded approximately twenty patents, including one for propelling becalmed sailing ships, designs for sunblinds, an illumination system for homes, methods for freezing and transporting foodstuffs, in addition to several for the Respirator. Towards the end of his career he wrote his finest work "The British Army in India", describing his experiences in India, and ways to improve the health and moral of troops in India. He had strong religious convictions, with traditionalist views. He was highly critical of attempts by the Oxford Movement to change worship forms of the Church of England, and wrote a pamphlet on the subject. He also believed that the army should be for defence only. He was passionately against the Opium trade, and wrote an open letter to Sir Robert Peel denouncing the importation and production of the drug. Julius was also influential in the development of the Otago / Dunedin community of New Zealand, with numerous friends and relatives emigrating to the outpost at his suggestion. He himself had decided to emigrate, but changed his mind at the last minute. Julius Jeffreys passed away on May 13th, 1877 in Richmond, Surrey at the age of 7
Margaret, Lady Ravenwood, is trapped in a loveless marriage and firmly entrenched in the medieval world. Along comes Griffin Nightshade, a historian from the future whose soul resonates with hers. He persuades her to return with him to the 1950s, but heeding her heart means courting danger from a curse that could spell her doom. Haunted by his parents' sudden deaths, Griffin knows all too well the pain born of love lost. He guards his emotions, but Margaret delves deep and goes straight to the soul. She's hard to resist…and harder to set free. The heart's desire and history's demands don't always agree. Yet true love is eternal.
PhD student Ardyth Nightshade has renounced men and pursues her twentieth-century career with single-minded focus. When fate whisks her to medieval England, she meets her match in a man whose passions mirror her own. Can she sacrifice ambition for a love she never sought? Hugh, Lord Seacrest confounds all who know him. He refuses to marry without a meeting of minds and hearts, and no lady has even approached his ideal…until Ardyth. But she's an odd one, with unique skills, shocking habits, and total conviction she needs no man. She also harbors secrets, and in the midst of rumors, plots, and murder, trust is fragile. A woman outside of her time. A man ahead of his. They must take a leap of faith to forge a bond that will shape history.
Judith Lomax was born into a world of emerging Evangelical fervor and tightly prescribed gender roles. Her own unique vision of evangelical Christian faith and the strength it instilled shaped her life. A record of her experience as an independent Southern woman in a patriarchal religious and social culture survives in the form of a devotional journal covering her mature years, 1819-1827. Journal entries include reflections on sermons, accounts of worship rituals, tales of life among her circle of evangelical companions, theologically dense religious poetry, and intimate devotional meditations which sprang from her personal and communal religious experience. Witty, thoughtful, and persistent, she lived as an individual bereft of traditional earthly attachments and support, yet bolstered by her complete devotion to evangelical Christianity and to her "Heavenly Bridegroom.
In Unthinking Modernity, Judith Stamps reinterprets the communications theory of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan as a Canadian variant of the critical theory associated with the early Frankfurt school. Stamps argues that Innis and McLuhan used their studies of media to develop a critique of the thoughts and habits that characterize the West. Like their European contemporaries, Innis and McLuhan worked toward a theory of how westerners have developed classifications through which they perceive the world. Moreover, Stamps shows that they used insights derived from their North American experience to add a new, media-based perspective to such a theory. Unthinking Modernity offers unique perspectives on the ways in which economics, politics, and media intertwine to create personal and social consciousness
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