Stone Wall Freedom: The Slave," the final book in David Tucker's enthralling historical trilogy, contains unforgettable drama and poignancy and is a beautifully written final piece of the puzzle. It abounds with complex characters and richly evocative images, and Tucker's stunning conclusion is as surprising as it is perfectly suited for tying all the loose ends together. With "The Slave," David Tucker just might have saved the best for last.
Sea captain Alexander Hawkins has returned to his Block Island (RI) home after an extended voyage, and little has gone well in his absence. The family farm is struggling and his sweetheart greets him with cool contempt. In addition, the political atmosphere in the spring of 1776 is charged, as the American colonies scramble against the British. Many Sons of Liberty insist that freedom from British rule means freedom for all men, black and white. Yet many patriots wonder about losing their profits without slaves. Who will survive and what will it take to rekindle Alexander's passion to continue the fight for slave freedom? "Stone Wall Freedom--The Islander," the second book in Tucker's trilogy, picks up the threads of the original story and weaves a new one all its own. Drawn from the Block Island landscape, this historical fiction was written "as a tribute to the microcosm of the struggle for freedom that the men and women, both free and slave, faced on this blessed little land.
In 1749, pirate captain Giddy Gilcox and the crew of the Rogue Flattery commandeer a Spanish galley, intent on plundering its cargo, killing all aboard, and scuttling the ship.Gilcox discovers, however, that the ship's hold is filled with human cargo—African tribal people, enslaved workers bound for Spanish America. Gilcox's crew bristles--they've heard stories of Black Sam Bellamy meeting his death after overtaking a slave ship.Later, Gilcox captures not only a fortune in gold but also Helen Tanner and her young son. Upon reaching Block Island, the pirates anchor the Rogue Flattery and bury their treasure, but the feeling of dread from the Spanish slave ship haunts Gilcox.Could the spirit of the slave ship be responsible for the nor'easter that blows in as they prepare to leave the island? Building on Block Island's history of pirate legend and lore, Tucker has created a story at once thrilling and poignant, full of evocative language, as mystical and magical as Block Island itself.
Each year, too many law enforcement officers die in the line of duty and too many people are killed by the police. Yet, can any of these deaths be avoided? To answer this we must investigate the nature and causes of these deaths in an unbiased and objective manner to highlight and expose weaknesses in policy that can be amended through more rigorou
Trends in automotive modification come and go, some outlandish, some practical. Currently, the trend called "Pro Touring," while expensive, definitely leans toward the practical. Originally a term coined for GM cars, the term Pro Touring has come to mean a style of all cars, and many eras. Pro Touring is essentially the art of adding modern technology to aged designs, creating cars that stop, start, handle, drive, and behave just as modern performance cars do. You can do this in many ways and choose from many suppliers. Detroit Speed is at the forefront of the Pro Touring movement. Both a parts manufacturer and car builder, the company is in a unique position not only to design and manufacture parts, but to build cars and test the parts for their effectiveness on the street and track. Kyle and Stacy Tucker have put their considerable skill in engineering and market savvy to create a unique company to lead the Pro Touring movement. Not only do you learn about the history of the company and how they design their performance parts, install sections cover front sub-frame assemblies, rear suspension assemblies, wheel tubs, fuel system upgrades, brake upgrades, driveline upgrades including an LS swap, cooling system upgrades, and more. The featured cars are customer builds as well as DSE test cars, which include a host of different Chevrolet products, a 1966 Mustang and a 1969 Charger. Detroit Speed’s How to Build a Pro Touring Car is a vital edition to every performance enthusiast’s library.
In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we discuss and describe the positioning, functions, capabilities, and advanced programming techniques for IBM InfoSphereTM Streams (V1). See: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247970.html for the newer InfoSphere Streams (V2) release. Stream computing is a new paradigm. In traditional processing, queries are typically run against relatively static sources of data to provide a query result set for analysis. With stream computing, a process that can be thought of as a continuous query, that is, the results are continuously updated as the data sources are refreshed. So, traditional queries seek and access static data, but with stream computing, a continuous stream of data flows to the application and is continuously evaluated by static queries. However, with IBM InfoSphere Streams, those queries can be modified over time as requirements change. IBM InfoSphere Streams takes a fundamentally different approach to continuous processing and differentiates itself with its distributed runtime platform, programming model, and tools for developing continuous processing applications. The data streams consumable by IBM InfoSphere Streams can originate from sensors, cameras, news feeds, stock tickers, and a variety of other sources, including traditional databases. It provides an execution platform and services for applications that ingest, filter, analyze, and correlate potentially massive volumes of continuous data streams.
Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen (1917–2002) was a Finnish Septuagint scholar and the father of the translation-technical method in studying the nature of translations. The present volume upholds his work with studies related to the syntax of the Septuagint. It is impossible to describe the syntax of the Septuagint without researching the translation technique employed by the translators of the different biblical books; the characteristics of both the Hebrew and Greek languages need to be taken into consideration. The topics in this volume include translation-technical methodology; case studies concerning the use of the definite article, preverbs, segmentation, the middle voice, and the translations of Hebrew stems in the Pentateuch; selected syntactical features in Isaiah and Jeremiah; the connection between the study of syntax and textual criticism, especially in Judges; and lexical distinction between near-synonymous words. The volume concludes with six articles by Soisalon-Soininen, originally written in German and translated into English. These studies pertain to the use of the genitive absolute, renderings of the Hebrew construct state and the personal pronoun, interchangeability of prepositions, segmentation, and Hebraisms. These articles have lasting value as analyses of significant translation-syntactic phenomena and, together with Soisalon-Soininen's monographs, they crystallize his translation-technical method. The volume paves way to a description of the syntax of the Septuagint that does justice to its nature as a translation.
This book is the result of the author's personal Bible Study. His approach is simple, he reads and studies the Bible to probe for answers to life's questions, to hear God's voice, and to come to know the Bible's author while relying on God's promise as written in the book of Hebrews to reward those who diligently seek Him. For years after Tucker first committed to following Jesus, he believed the truth in the identity of Jesus being "Fully God and Fully Man" as one of the great unknowable and Holy spiritual mysteries - an incomprehensible paradox. Yet, as he studied the life of Jesus in the Gospels, a distinction began to unfold. More and more of what he read and studied seemed to be Jesus operating as a man and relying on the Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit as His source of strength and wisdom - something like what Christ-followers are taught to do throughout the New Testament. Tucker began to compile the evidence that has led him to the conclusion that Jesus, even as forever the eternal Son of God, while He walked this earth from birth, right up until when He breathed his last breath on the cross, chose to live his life while on earth fully as a man! Yet, even as a man, Jesus never stopped being a part of the Triune Godhead, the eternal Son of God. This book is a compilation of the evince that supports a conclusion that meets his spiritual, relational, and intellectual satisfaction. Recognizing that there have been centuries of studied debate resulting in an array of divergent opinions on this topic, Tucker humbly puts forth the evidence that leads to his conclusion of what it means that Jesus came in the flesh. He hopes that others will find it relevant while feeling strongly that however, a Christ-Follower comes out on this debate, it will have a dramatic impact on how a Believer lives out their life in Christ.
The Enneagram provides an amazing framework for understanding human behavior. Revealing both the positive and negative traits of each personality type it provides us with a path for growth (integration) and a path to avoid (disintegration). Though an ancient system it is consistent with the findings of modern psychology. The Enneagram's many remarkable aspects become even more evident when compared with the typologies of Karen Horney, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and the psychiatric personality disorders defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This book includes sections for counseling each personality type, making it an excellent resource for pastors, counselors, therapists, psychologists and anyone who helps others. The Create, Connect, Commit philosophy of change is also included. CCC teaches people how to change and personality typing is at the heart of it. The Enneagram provides the framework for the self discovery that allows us to make permanent, dynamic changes in our lives. Written from a Christian perspective, this book helps Christians to live their lives as New Creations. When at their healthy psychological levels, each type is most in tune with their own spirituality. This book will change your life forever, creating both personal and spiritual growth. Visit our website createconnectcommit.com to learn more. Other books include "Create, Connect, Commit to God" and "Change Anything; How I Beat Depression and the Process I Used To Create A New Life.
There are two schools of thought among Christians when it comes to psychology. Many orthodox Christians believe all we need to do to heal our hurts, fears and painful past experiences is to appropriate the fact that Christ died for our sins and has risen from the grave to live out His life in us. The other school of thought teaches that the only way to deal with such issues is through years of therapy, inner healing, visualization, healing of the memories and other such methods. The truth lies somewhere in between. (Isaiah 53:5) The Bible teaches both God's sovereignty and man's responsiblity. God told Noah how to build the Ark, he didn't build it for him. We must utilize the tools God has given us, such as psychology, personality typing and Create, Connect, Commit. I developed Create, Connect, Commit to overcome depression, anxiety, the fear of failure, co-dependency, low self esteem and to foster change. It is a scientifically based complete system of change and personality typing is at the heart of it. This book gives a detailed explanation of the most accurate and useful model of personality typing; The Enneagram. Apply the wisdom of this book for personal growth, spiritual growth and church growth. If you are seeking to understand yourself and use the insight to create real and lasting change in your life, this book is for you. Create, Connect, Commit will help new converts in their journey to become a New Creation. It will renew the spiritual life of long time believers and foster growth and commitment in churches that impliment it. CCC to God is the key to self development and spiritual growth. .All Pastors should own this book. Visit createconnectcommit.com. Other books by the author include "The Christian Guide to The Enneagram; Why We Think And Act The Way We Do" and "Change Anything; How I Beat Depression and the Process I Used to Create a New Life
Are serial killers born or raised? The argument of "nature vs nurture" always has been and is still being researched to this day. The idea is simple enough: if you have had a happy childhood - but killer genes - you may go on to live a normal, happy life. If you have the wrong genetics and a bad childhood, you are a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off at any time. In Homemade Horrors, researching 13 of the most notorious serial killers ever known, they all show distinct patterns of childhood abuse and early trauma. So were the parents to blame? Here we look at the early years of these serial killers who really had the childhood from hell - and who killed because they actually enjoyed it.
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