Its a Metaphysical World is a collection of over one hundred extraordinary short stories drawn from everyday life. Although names, locations, and incidental details have been changed, the salient facts are true. Each story deals with some aspect of metaphysical phenomena such as intuition, synchronicity, astral travel, bilocation, time warps, past lives, cell and soul memories, healings, hauntings, miracles, and sightings. Psychic sightings include everything from angels to ghosts. The strangeness of the stories led authors Marion K. Williams and Elena J. Michaels on a fascinating journey of discovery trying to understand the world they thought they knew. All stories offer insights, and many challenge conventional scientific and religious beliefs.
Since the great recession began in 2007, the average American has been struggling. Costs for food, gas, insurance has risen to astronomical levels. While these costs have continued to rise, salaries have remained stagnant. The result is that paychecks continue to get squeezed, and the American dream of a life increasing wages, financial, and economic security is slipping way. The average American needs timely, easy-to-follow advice that can show them how to keep more of what they earn, pay less in income taxes, and create an income stream that they can use in any way they see fit. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Getting the Most out of Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) is a practical e-book that takes the complex world of IRS regulations and translates it into something that the average American can understand. The authors take the reader, in a concise way, through how FSAs work, and how they can provide a tax-free income stream that can used in any way a person chooses. Case studies from actual clients are employed to show how they have actually done some amazing things, such as: Used the funds from their FSA to take their dream vacation to Australia! Used the funds from their FSA to purchase a clients first piece of rental property! Used the funds from their FSA to pay for their sons first year of college! These people werent any different than the average American. The only difference between them and you is the extremely valuable and easy-to-understand information contained within the covers of this e-book.
The Practice of Value is an exploration of a pervasive but puzzling aspect of our world: value. The starting-point is the Berkeley Tanner Lectures delivered in 2001 by the leading moral theorist Joseph Raz. His aim is to make sense of the dependence of value on social practice, without falling back on cultural relativism. The lectures are followed by discussions from three eminent philosophers, Christine Korsgaard, Robert Pippin, and Bernard Williams, and a response from. Raz. The result is a fascinating debate, accessible to readers throughout and beyond philosophy, about the relations betwee.
Kent Rush is a prolific artist whose work ranges from intimate still-life collages and elegant paintings on stretched-paper panels to monumentally-scaled silver-gelatin photographs. His hauntingly beautiful and evocative work is the subject of this catalog published in conjunction with the artist's retrospective at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. This catalog beautifully illustrates the richness and depth of Rush's work over the course of nearly thirty years. It includes an essay by Lyle W. Williams, curator of prints and drawings and of the Rush retrospective at the McNay, a bibliography, a glossary, and an appreciation by Garo Z. Antreasian."--Amazon.
Fragments Made Whole was birthed in my struggle to find the meaning and purpose to my life. Born into a world where I knew nothing but pain, I abhorred my very existence. I needed and wanted so desperately to be healed of this pain! This book is about my journey to find wholeness! My life was on a spiral spin toward death: the pains and struggles of my childhood painted an ugly picture of whom I should become; this was to dictate my future and map out for me a path of pain, misery and destruction. I lived my life trying to drown out the many voices, which haunted my every step; these were voices, which told me that misery and pain was all that life would hold for me; that there was no future in me and I was supposed to end my life through my lifestyle. I was an alcoholic whose only means of survival was to drink from the moment I woke until I fell asleep. I tried everything I could to stop the pain, and for a moment the drinking, smoke and sex would shut out all the voices around me. But when the sex was over and the drink didn't work anymoreA[a¬A]all it left was a vile taste in my mouth. When everything you've tried no longer works and the voices within begin to torment you and cry out all the more, you have only two options: go back to the thing that once silenced them or search for the something that would make them stopA[a¬A]and that is where you once would find me, searching through the ruins of my life, hoping and praying that among these fragments I would find me. Yet, in among these ruins, through my struggles and pain someone found me and brought me to a place of healingA[a¬A] Fragments made whole!
This book explores key areas of educational and social psychology and considers their relevance to language learning and teaching, using activities and questions for reflection. The topics discussed in the book include: • learners’ and teachers’ beliefs about how a language should be learned and taught • learning and working in groups • relationships with others • the role of the self in teaching and learning • motivation to start and persist with tasks • the role of emotions in learning. The authors provide useful insights for the understanding of language learning and discuss the important implications for language teaching pedagogy. Extra resources are available on the website: www.oup.com/elt/teacher/exploringpsychology Marion Williams was formerly Reader in Applied Linguistics at the University of Exeter and is a past president of IATEFL. Sarah Mercer is Professor of Foreign Language Teaching at the University of Graz, Austria. Stephen Ryan is Professor in the School of Economics at Senshu University, Tokyo.
Have you ever wanted to learn about the Bible but were not sure where to start? Does the vast size of the Bible overwhelm you? "Beyond Adam and Eve" provides the guidance you need to get started. By focusing on fifty simple questions that all Christians should be able to answer but often cannot, you and your family will be on your way to learning about many important Biblical characters and several church traditions. "Beyond Adam and Eve" has a question and answer format, which makes it great for family game nights, car trips, and as a sunday school class. (A curriculum guide is available for an eight-week course.) Scripture passages are also included to acquaint you with different books of the Bible. You'll find yourself returning often to "Beyond Adam and Eve" for inspiration and guidance. Make room on your nightstand for this engaging book!
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