-When Kevin West resigned from his job as vice president of a bank in 1998 after making fraudulent loans, he spent the time before his trial managing a family-owned, small grocery store in Ironton, Ohio ... It was at his lowest moment that Kevin called out to a power beyond himself for help, and God answered his prayer in the form of an elderly vagrant in a soiled shirt and tattered pants named Don. When Don saw Kevin's open Bible on the counter next to the register, the untidy, long-haired indigent took the opportunity to share Bible wisdom and life-giving truths that changed Kevin's life---Provided by publisher.
Kevin West faces himself and the consequences of drifting from his faith. Knowing that his misdeed at work will ultimately lead to imprisonment, he can only cry out to God. Adjusting in his shift from bank vice president to managing a grocery store, he awaits the consequences; he meets a stranger who begins to unlock the mystery of Christ's words: "The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Are you tired of constantly being broke? Mortgages, credit card debt and unpaid bills have become the norm for most Americans today. You are now at a crossroad where you can either choose to lift yourself up from financial woes or you can become one of the many people who complain about the status of their lives till the day they die. If you choose the first option then get ready to change your life in ways you never imagined possible. You should get on your knees today and thank God because you are fortunate enough to have come across a book that will alter the course of the rest of your life. Everything you ever wanted to know about getting rich is within your grasp. There are 20 million people in the US who can claim millionaire status and this book can help you join this elite class! It's time you bought your dream house and that posh car you always wanted since you were a teenager. Visit Paris while flying first class and dine on caviar as a master chef awaits your every request. The good life is possible as long as you understand the principles of building and sustaining wealth. From investing in the stock market to buying futures in the commodities market, this book will teach everything you ever wanted to know about getting to the top. So if you want to know how to ... Save money Create a practical budget Achieve financial discipline Start a small business Keep good financial records Then this book has it all. Read along as I cover critical and edgy topics like: *How the stock market works *How to identify companies with the potential for high growth *Creating a diversified a portfolio *The principles of real estate investing *Tricks to finding assets that you can speculate on *What you need to know in order to trade stocks as a day trader *Why commodities like gold and oil can make you rich *And much more! When you are done reading this book, you will smart enough to know exactly what needs to be done to save, invest and grow your money, just like the people you've been admiring! Knowledge is the key to wealth and this book has tons of knowledge that you will need to embark on the next chapter of your life.
The ultimate canning guide for cooks—from the novice to the professional—and the only book you need to save (and savor) the season throughout the entire year "Gardening history, 18th-century American painters, poems, and practical information; it's a rich book. And unlike other books on preserving, West gives recipes that will goad you to make easy preserves.” —The Atlantic Strawberry jam. Pickled beets. Homegrown tomatoes. These are the tastes of Kevin West’s Southern childhood, and they are the tastes that inspired him to “save the season,” as he traveled from the citrus groves of Southern California to the cranberry bogs of Massachusetts and everywhere in between, chronicling America’s rich preserving traditions. Here, West presents his findings: 220 recipes for sweet and savory jams, pickles, cordials, cocktails, candies, and more—from Classic Apricot Jam to Green Tomato Chutney; from Pickled Asparagus with Tarragon and Green Garlic to Scotch Marmalade. Includes 300 full-color photographs.
The Psychic & Spiritual Awareness Manual is aimed at people who wish to develop their psychic and spiritual awareness in a very practical way. Although organically linked, each chapter deals with a separate aspect of development and also acts as a diagnostic empowering tool. It is a companion to the teacher and student of these disciplines alike and is based around the Spiritualist and New Age approach to full realisation. It fills the gap left by so many books written by people who are not true, experienced practitioners or adepts in these fields. This book is filled with helpful exercises and hands-on useful techniques designed to empower the reader and awaken within them a sense of who, what, why, where and how they are. The chapters include lessons and writings on healing, meditation, psychic awareness, clairvoyance, psychometry, scrying, psychic and spiritual philosophy, colours, auras and their energies, sitting in circle, and much more. This book is not a narrative - it is a manual.
Guarding the Galaxy of the 31st Century, it's Major Victory, Charlie-27, Starhawk, Nikki, Yellowjacket and Talon! But can even this formidable team handle Composite, the deadliest Inhuman of all? A thousand years down the line, it's reassuring to know that some things in the Marvel Universe remain familiar - like the God of Mischief Loki vying to rule Asgard! But who wields Mjolnir in the far future? Vance gets a new look, Yondu returns - and so does another surprising classic Guardian! COLLECTING: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (1990) #40-50, GALACTIC GUARDIANS #1-4, MATERIAL FROM GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY ANNUAL (1991) #4.
Wonder Woman takes over as leader of the Justice League of America, whether other members like it or not! Acting at the behest of the United Nations, the team must respond to a human rights crisis in a remote African nation, only to find the populace under the thumbs of the super-powered Extremists. The team must then jet to Norway, where the young superhero called Ice struggles to keep the nation out of the hands of her older brother. All this plus the mystery of two Guy Gardners! Comics writer Dan Vado is joined by a team of veteran artists that includes Kevin West and Rick Burchett, who introduce Wonder Woman as the new leader of a very different kind of Justice League! Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #78-85 and JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA ANNUAL #7.
Founded in 1917, Grand Central Market is a legendary food hall in Downtown Los Angeles that brings together the many traditions and flavors of the city. Now, GCM’s first cookbook puts the spotlight on unique recipes from its diverse vendors, bringing their authentic tastes to your home kitchen. From Horse Thief BBQ’s Nashville-Style Hot Fried Chicken Sando to Madcapra’s Sumac Beet Soda to Golden Road’s Crunchy Avocado Tacos, here are over 85 distinctive recipes, plus spectacular photography that shows off the food, the people, and the daily bustle and buzz. Stories about the Market’s vibrant history and interviews with its prominent customers and vendors dot the pages as well. Whether you’ve visited and want to make your favorite dishes at home, or are simply looking for a cookbook that provides a plethora of multi-national cuisine, The Grand Central Market Cookbook is sure to make your kitchen just a little bit cooler. 2018 IACP Cookbook Award nominee for Compilations.
When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white southerners defended the institution of African American chattel slavery as well as systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations. Slaveholders' western ambitions culminated in a coast-to-coast crisis of the Union. By 1861, the rebellion in the South inspired a series of separatist movements in the Far West. Even after the collapse of the Confederacy, the threads connecting South and West held, undermining the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.
Kevin E. West is both a Hollywood veteran television actor and a bad-ass Keynote speaker with over 65 plus credits including Guest Stars on Hawaii 5-0, Criminal Minds, Aquarius, Bones, Castle, Touch, CSI: Miami, Justified, Leverage, Lost, 24, Desperate Housewives, NCIS, Alias, CSI, Judging Amy, all the way back to Matlock and dozens more found on IMDB. In the Summer of '18 Kevin wrapped shooting on, The UnHealer, starring Lance Henriksen and Natasha Henstridge. Kevin has been a public speaker since 1991, with more than 1500 appearances and began his career as a Stand-up Comic and Improv artist.When Kevin speaks it is often raw, deeply personal, some colorful language and yet directed precisely at each individual in the room. Kevin has consulted well over a 1000 people in his life from 20+ countries on the complexities of 'how to be' pro-actively successful in any industry. In 1991, out of a dream and a pure grass roots mentality, Kevin founded and built the award-winning actor's business organization, The Actors' Network.Kevin is commonly recognized as the top expert opinion leader industry-wide on the 'business of show business' and The Actors' Network still remains the most endorsed actor's business organization in the U.S., winning consecutive BackStage West "Reader's Choice" awards (06/07). A few of its alumni include Emmy Nominee Masi Oka (Heroes), Chelsey Crisp (Off The Boat), Chris Gorham (Covert Affairs-Ugly Betty) and Maggie Grace (Taken trilogy). Kevin has spoken at the ShowBiz Expo, WGA, SAG LifeRaft Foundation, UCLA, as well as talent conventions across the U.S. and in the spring of '15 in Stockholm at the Swedish Film Institute for the inaugural event, A Date with Hollywood.
Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading explores how selected American and European literary texts, from the classic to the contemporary, represent reading as a dangerous endeavor. It investigates how the texts being read or the conditions of reading may produce danger and considers the various qualities of the dangers depicted: literal or metaphorical, real or imagined, minor or mortal. Whereas readers can readily imagine being depressed or bored by a book, or even perhaps corrupted in some moral fashion, readers typically assume that the mere words on a page cannot directly affect their health. Nevertheless, literature can and does stage readings in which readers suffer actual harm from the magical or supernatural qualities of a given text. Such impossibly dangerous reading fascinates, the author argues, by exaggerating the dangers that may inhabit certain real experiences of reading.
Here, from one of today’s leading authorities on film history, is the story, told brilliantly and for the first time, of the pioneering movie makers who as early as 1905 traveled beyond the studio stages to make feature films on location—and in so doing recorded the real history and real life of their time. The War, the West, and the Wilderness is the result of more than a decade of passionate research by Kevin Brownlow, whose last book, The Parade’s Gone By… (hailed by Charles Champlin as “the definitive work on the silent era”) is regarded as a classic history of early motion pictures. His new book is alive with the voices of the film-makers themselves, in their logbooks, in their letters and diaries, in their firsthand accounts of their adventurous journeys and cinematic innovations, and—even more immediate—in Brownlow’s interviews with cameramen, director’s, lighting technicians, and actors who relive those days, taking us with them to the Great War, to the West, ad into the Wilderness. It is the triumph of this book to reconstruct the dramatic moments when these men and women contrived, against ordinary odds, to bring to movie audiences for the first time, the look, the feel—the actuality—of large events and distant places, from the great battles of World War I to the South Seas with Jack London aboard the Shark, and the gold rush in Tonopah, Nevada.
Get ready to take flight as two certified flight instructors guide you through the pilot ratings as it is done in the real world, starting with Sport Pilot training, then Private Pilot, followed by the Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, and Air Transport Pilot. They cover the skills of flight, how to master Flight Simulator, and how to use the software as a learning tool towards your pilot’s license. More advanced topics demonstrate how Flight Simulator X can be used as a continuing learning tool and how to simulate real-world emergencies.
Kevin Hough was an enthusiastic, successful athlete and student during high school and went to a Division 1 college on an athletic scholarship. Kevin was also a party animal. Even though the police arrested him twice for juvenile drinking during High School, his drinking too much alcohol had to do with an accident that almost took his life after his first semester in college had ended. An amazing comeback was made by Kevin even though three pieces of his brain had to be removed to save his life. After many months in two different hospitals, he decided to go back to college, against the advice from different doctors and counselors, and it was very difficult for him. With determination, he succeeded with needed academic assistance only a short time after he almost lost his life. Golf was not as difficult a comeback for him because the brain that was unharmed during the accident, was the side that retained the muscle memory. His college success in both areas is described and you can find out what all his needed advice and assistance was. Excellent for reading, especially for High School Athletes (golfers) who want to succeed in sports and academics in high school and college too! This book also features the appreciation Kevin has for those who saved his life, took care of him as he needed, assisted in him maturing, getting his more correct social life back and succeeding in school, golf and life.
The Old G. Pimp From West Palm Beach Part 2 will give you a good look at what goes on in the Pimp game--a page turner giving it to you as real as it comes. After coming back from the Playas Ball, Big PaPa couldn't wait to get home with his two new hoes, Jackie and Joy. These girls were on top of their game at all times and were very happy to be with Big PaPa. When they get back to Singer Island, making money is on Big PaPa's mind. Big PaPa has been in the game 30 years or more, so he is true to this game, not new to this game. He has been living the game for a long time and will keep it real with you - word for word. So when you're reading his book, understand that he's been and done this for years. Part 1 and 2 of OG Pimp is as real as it gets!
The Frontier: the line between civilisation and the unknown where pioneers rely on a strong will and a dead eye not big city laws. A land where the sweat you shed makes a place yours, whatever lines the government draws on a map; where everyone knows putting on a badge doesn't make a sheriff better than everyone else; where the divide between legend and reality isn't always where it seems. From aging settlers who miss the days when the town only had one street to decent folk who become gunslingers, from lawmen who find the solidity of the railroad is no protection from the devil to practical men who discover some monsters are more than heathen superstition, these nine tales will show you the West that was, that might have been, and might be again.Each story in this anthology takes you along a different trail, but they share the grit and adventure that built the frontier. Containing: "Hangman’s Knot" by Kevin M. Folliard "Mystery Train" by Misha Burnett "Llano Estacado" by Jackson Kuhl "Dusk Woman" by J. Conrad Matthews "Josephine’s Revenge" by Damito Huffman "Such is the Nature of the Change" by Stephen M. Coghlan "Absolution" by Patrick Winters "Through Dry Places" by Dave Higgins "The Amarillo Job" by Jeffrey L. Blehar
An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West and modern storytelling as we have come to understand it today. It makes texts and scholarship from near Eastern, Classical and Celtic disciplines engaging and accessible, and traces narrative meaning through stories from ancient Mesopotamia to the BritishMedieval Period, offering compelling pathways into such writings as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Genesis and Job, The Odyssey, The Mabinogi, The Life of St Cadoc and Sir Orfeo. Looking at each in detail, Myths and Ancient Stories also explores myth through a modern lens, probing at how, in this scientific age, it continues to inspire contemporary film, games and literary works such as those by, Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, Madeleine Miller and Pat Barker. Impressive in breadth and bringing together a wide range of foundational texts from diverse traditions for the first time, this work is the ideal orientation to the ancient works central to English literary culture, shedding light on the mythological roots of storytelling and narrative.
Their grandeur takes our breath away. Their gentle sound compliments periods of mediation. Regardless of their size, waterfalls create in the observer a feeling of serenity, a sense of restrained power. To discover a falls is sublime, and now Waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia is available to guide willing adventurers to locate easy as well as challenging waterfalls in the Old Dominion and Mountain States. This complete and comprehensive guide offers clear directions to over 200 waterfalls open to the public. In addition to a brief description of each falls, at-a-glance information including height, type, size of watershed, and difficulty of access help readers choose which waterfall to visit and when. Directions on photography, including how to set up the best shot--from time of day, angle, direction to location--makes this book indispensable to professional and amateur photographers. From Shenandoah National Park to New River Gorge National River, from the Monongahela National Forest to the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, this book has a waterfall to fit any readers mood or sense of adventure. Waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia is the only guidebook to the waterfalls of these two states.
The follow-up to The Death of Superman. In the wake of Superman's death at the hands of Doomsday, new heroes arose to take his place. Foremost among them is John Henry Irons, who - clothed in heroic armour modelled on Superman's costume - now fights crime on the streets of Washington DC.
Six people on different continents are haunted by a woman, kidnapped, and wake up in a desolate courtyard beneath an old Castle. Tyus Clark from America, Trisha Ulundi an African studying medicine in England, Jack Stewart an English born treasure hunter, Arianna Cruz a Mexican field hand, Minh Su Han a Chinese farmer, and Jason Nelson a business man who unwittingly gets thrown into the mix as punishment for refusing the woman. Now wide-awake; they find themselves immersed in a battle for survival against creatures of mythical proportions. They realize quickly that their lives will e forever transformed But that's just the beginning of their woes. They begin to realize what they're up against when they receive their first visitor after waking; a winged Gargoyle-like creature named Romi, that Tyus, seems to know but is keeping a tight lip about. Using wits and each other, they converse with the beast while keeping it at arms length. Only to be pointed into a journey of constant danger and constant battles. They are unsure of anything, as all reality seems to have been replaced by Mythological creatures and happenings. One thing is for sure however, they are not dreaming. They must make their way across a land filled with beings that are hostile to them. Each time they lay down someone must stay awake to keep watch. What's worse, there does not seem to be any human beings as far as the eye can see. The only thing certain is that they must fight to survive and find a way home to confront the redheaded woman that has entrapped them. As strange as things seem; it all gets stranger still when they finally learn the secrets of the place they are sent. It gets even deeper when they learn that their being there is no accident but a design of fate. They begin to unlock secrets about themselves and each other, each having a past that is directly connected to what they are doing. They learn slowly, their whole lives have been a preparation for what is about to happen. They come to the conclusion that decisions will need to be made before going home; if in fact they can. Finally they learn the secrets of the universe and their true purpose within the world they are now traveling in. They are given an ageless secret, the secret of the Universe itself; a secret that will determine the fate of the Earth and all life within her. They must fight their way home, each doing their part to make sure they reach home. Finally making a choice to do what is necessary in order to preserve the people of Earth. What starts out, as a kidnapping will end in an all out war to determine the fate of the Earth.
A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice will be profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions they have taken in significant Supreme Court decisions. The object of these chapters is to provide a rhetorical frame that each of these justices would find appealing regarding First Amendment case law.
A guide to finding and identifying birds in the American West, designed to fill in the gaps left by field guides and bird-finding guides. Provides birders with general concepts and frameworks needed to develop good bird-finding and identification skills, describes different identification techniques, and details microhabitats and difficult-to-identify species in depth. Also gives advice on keeping field notes.
This Fourth Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned is loaded with seventeen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from thirteen of today’s top speculative fiction writers. Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's Black Mirror in the short story format. These are Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.
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