Papers from the Steps of Battelle is an attempt to attack the vagaries and digressions of a road that leads through a man's twenties. With a collection of works and experimental free writings Matthew Craig tries to expose the uncertainties and daydreams that paralleled every day experiences.
In Country is a Table-top game designed to bring fast and decisive Vietnam War combat from the company level up to the battalion, if desired. With these rules, players will be able to simulate the small skirmishes, reconnaissance missions, and large scale battles that made up one of the longest wars in American history. Includes: Unit Statistics Charts, Campaign Considerations, Painting guide with simple steps to help get new painters started, Scenario section with 3 scenarios
Florida possesses more wetlands than any other state except Alaska, yet since 1990 more than 84,000 acres have been lost to development despite presidential pledges to protect them. How and why the state's wetlands are continuing to disappear is the subject of Paving Paradise. Journalists Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite spent nearly four years investigating the political expedience, corruption, and negligence on the part of federal and state agencies that led to a failure to enforce regulations on developers. They traveled throughout the state, interviewed hundreds of people, dug through thousands of documents, and analyzed satellite imagery to identify former wetlands that were now houses, stores, and parking lots. Exposing the unseen environmental consequences of rampant sprawl, Pittman and Waite explain how wetland protection creates the illusion of environmental protection while doing little to stem the tide of destruction.
Dogfight Over the Trenches is a fast-paced and exciting game designed to replicate the air battles and combat missions that took place in the skies over the battlefields of the Great War from 1915 to 1918. This book contains not only the core rules for playing out missions, but a set of advanced rules for more complex and in-depth gameplay. There are tons of planes to choose from, and aircraft availability tables to match the year YOU want to fly in! Recommended for ages 12 and up.
In Country - TO&Es and Additional Units is the first supplement for In Country. This supplement includes: more than 30+ historical Tables of Organization and Equipment for combat formations that operated in Vietnam, as well as 20 new units and additional rules.
Surface Fire - Naval Combat in World War 2 is a table-top game designed to simulate the naval engagements that took place all around the globe during World War 2 (from 1939-1945). The rules have been structured to enable new gamers to readily understand and enjoy playing the game. These rules include: Naval Data sheets, Templates, 100+ markers
Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians advances the interpretation of these letters by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to or "echoes" the Jewish Scriptures and other ancient materials. Comparative wording is at the forefront, whether in relation to Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, or prophecies and promises from Genesis, Habakkuk, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Psalms, or other texts such as Philo. Issues and controversies include such topics as faith (ἐκ πίστεως), the Torah, the Holy Spirit, holiness, suffering, eschatology, allegorical interpretation, identity of the Israel of God, Zion and the return from exile, Roman piety, imperialism, and hidden transcripts.
“GROW RICH with eBay Consignment is a powerful tool for achieving financial goals online. Christopher Matthew is an eBay pioneer. I don't believe in ‘get rich schemes’ — Christopher Matthew's wealth of wisdom will give you a foundation for success. Christopher Matthew has the rare combined talents of a historian, an innovator and a leader in the unique arena of eBay business development. I believe, if you read this book and apply the education here, you will find what you need to know to become a vendor, who is respected and successful on eBay and beyond.” — Kathy Ireland, Chairman, CEO and Chief Designer, kathy ireland Worldwide "For over a decade, I've watched Christopher Matthew Spencer refine his consignment seller business. He is one of the few that succeeded and mastered this occupation. If you are serious about starting your own, this book must be your guide." —Marsha Collier, author of 42 books on eBay, social media commerce and customer service; radio host and Forbes Top Influencer “Christopher Matthew Spencer has done an amazing job of explaining the nuts and bolts of running an eBay consignment business. Whether you are a one-person operation or a well-staffed business, you’ll benefit from Christopher Matthew’s advice.” —Ina Steiner, editor of EcommerceBytes eBay offers you a surefire path to earn money from the convenience and comfort of your very own home. In 1999, Christopher Matthew Spencer was featured in Time for his success as an eBay consignment sales expert; and he continues to run a highly-successful business today. In good and bad times, people have tons of unwanted stuff. And they would rather pass these items on to you so that you can turn them into cash. Christopher Matthew Spencer is a pioneering authority on eBay consignment and has even worked for eBay University educating thousands on best practices for selling on the site. In this book, he shares: Planning, starting & managing a profitable eBay consignment businessFinding the best clients who have valuable items that they want you to sell for them and are eager to compensate you generously for your time and the convenience of having you handle everythingLow-cost ways to promote yourself for guaranteed results and minimal time investedUnlocking unlimited free publicity to get the word out about your eBay consignment businessAvoiding the pitfalls of running your own business and learning proven success tips that will guarantee profitsProfiles and case studies of people just like you, who have successfully earned a living through eBay consignment An evergreen, one-of-a-kind book by an expert marketeer and an eBay veteran who has been there and can show you how to get there too! An extraordinary treasure chest of information and the best book for achieving success of its kind.
Ashigaru is a table-top game designed to replicate the samurai combat that took place during the time of the Sengoku Jidai (Age of the Country at War) through the Tokugawa period of Japan (1500-1650). With these rules, players will be able to simulate the skirmishes that made up the longest period of internal conflict in Japan's history. Full color/60 pages (*available in hard cover) Includes: Statistics for 26 weapons, 80 Wounded markers, a Painting guide with simple steps to help get new painters started, Scenario section with 4 scenarios.
Revelation is often considered one of the most confusing books of the Bible, and consequently it’s regularly overlooked or ignored. But no longer. In Between the Cross and the Throne, Matthew Emerson walks us through the book of Revelation, unpacking its complex imagery and pointing out major themes. In conversational tone, he reminds us that Christ died, but he has risen. The Lord reigns, but evil persists. We live between Christ’s ascension and his final conquest—and that should give us hope.
High Noon is a fast-paced skirmish game intended to replicate the gun fights, duels, and showdowns that took place in the American Old West from roughly 1840 to 1900. These rules are intended for 25mm or 28mm figures. This rules set contains: character sheets, scenarios, 80+ markers and templates, quick play sheets, and guns statistics for 30 weapons.
Effective financial planning for executives and entrepreneurs is complex, dense, and impossible to reduce to a single, easy-to-understand formula. Designed to emphasize the importance of successful, targeted financial planning, this book begins by telling a story about a fictional, but plausible, power couple and their family who (spoiler alert!) do pretty much everything wrong in securing their financial future. In most cases, they don’t do the things needed because they don’t know what they are. Using this story as a case study of an executive and an entrepreneur, the book breaks down the case into chapters and offers practical discussions of all the key financial planning components—investment planning, tax planning, estate planning, philanthropic planning, risk management, and equity-based compensation to name a few—with the tools needed to tailor a plan for virtually every circumstance and need. While there is no single plan that works for everybody, this book provides a guide, with technical information alongside general themes, focused on how to build an effective financial plan. In addition to all the benefits of the first edition, this second edition provides significant new content and insights for the entrepreneur who is planning for a future liquidity event such as a sale. It also provides detail on how to manage concentrated ownership positions and on ESG investment strategies, a rapidly growing investment theme. Finally, the second edition includes tax, estate planning, regulatory, and other updates to reflect changes since the first edition was published.
Analytical Thomism is a recent label for a newer kind of approach to the philosophical and natural theology of St Thomas Aquinas. It illuminates the meaning of Aquinas’s work for contemporary problems by drawing on the resources of contemporary Anglo-Saxon analytical philosophy, the work of Frege, Wittgenstein, and Kripke proving particularly significant. This book expands the discourse in contemporary debate, exploring crucial philosophical, theological and ethical issues such as: metaphysics and epistemology, the nature of God, personhood, action and meta-ethics. All those interested in the thought of St Thomas Aquinas, and more generally contemporary Catholic scholarship, problems in philosophy of religion, and contemporary metaphysics, will find this collection an invaluable resource.
This is the story of two German combat divisions that lived through the high points and low points of the Wehrmacht's experience on the Eastern Front in 1942. From Kharkov to Stalingrad, the 60th Motorized Infantry Division and the 100th Jager Infantry Division fought and bled in an all out effort to knock the Soviet Union out of the war. Includes: 37 photographs
Drawing on current scholarship and exhaustive textual study, this volume offers a detailed exploration of creationa "of the cosmos and humanitya "in the thought of the second-century Irenaeus of Lyons, connecting it to themes of trinity, image, progress and perfection.
The Science of Esports draws from contemporary research and coach expertise to examine esports athlete health and performance from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including physiology, psychology, sociology, and nutrition. The rapid expansion of the esports industry has elevated competitive video gaming into the realm of high performance, requiring players, coaches, and practitioners to implement interdisciplinary approaches to performance support. The book covers key topic areas such as: What esports is and similarities and differences to sport Game-specific training Physiological and psychological consideration for esports athletes Social aspects of player performance and the social environment of esports Esports coaching and structure of esports performance environments Technology and its use in esports Safeguarding, cheating, and gambling This book includes worked examples and case studies to allow immediate implementation into practice for esports athletes and coaches. It summarises the current state of research to inform researchers and identify gaps in knowledge. This book is critical reading for students of esports and related courses. It serves as the first scientific resource designed to provide athletes, coaches, and practitioners with interdisciplinary insights into esports health and performance.
Illustrating the effect of concurrency on programs written in familiar languages, this text focuses on novel language abstractions that truly bring concurrency into the language and aid analysis and compilation tools in generating efficient, correct programs. It also explains the complexity involved in taking advantage of concurrency with regard to program correctness and performance. The book describes the historical development of current programming languages and the common threads that exist among them. It also contains several chapters on design patterns for parallel programming and includes quick reference guides to OpenMP, Erlang, and Cilk. Ancillary materials are available on the book's website.
This volume contains a detailed, precise and clear semantic formalism designed to allow non-programmers such as linguists and literary specialists to represent elements of meaning which they must deal with in their research and teaching. At the same time, by its basis in a functional programming paradigm, it retains sufficient formal precision to support computational implementation. The formalism is designed to represent meaning as found at a variety of levels, including basic semantic units and relations, word meaning, sentence-level phenomena, and text-level meaning. By drawing on fundamental principles of program design, the proposed formalism is both easy to read and modify yet sufficiently powerful to allow for the representation of complex semantic phenomena. In this monograph, the authors introduce the formalism and show its basic structure, apply it to the analysis of the semantics of a variety of linguistic phenomena in both English and French, and use it to represent the semantics of a variety of texts ranging from single sentences, to textual excepts, to a full story.
You can live so that heaven invades your life. You can live so that seeing angels and conversing with them is natural for you. You can speak to saints from heaven every day as you go for a walk or even when you are just spending time at home. You can regularly meet Jesus in visions. Going to heaven can be commonplace for you. This book contains the following chapters: Visions of Jesus Visions of God A Prophetic Atmosphere Visions of Angels Visions of Saints Accessing Heaven Portals in my House Abundant Money Supply Open Heaven in my House and Seven Keys to an Open Heaven. With his trademark candor and transparency, let Matthew Robert Payne take you on a brief journey of his life. These short chapters describe just some of his many encounters with Jesus, saints, and angels. Each chapter includes questions for you to consider at the end. By the time you finish reading, you will be yearning for similar adventures of your own. Matthew ends the book with a prayer of impartation to encourage you to walk under an open heaven as he does.
You can live so that heaven invades your life. You can live so that seeing angels and conversing with them is natural for you. You can speak to saints from heaven every day as you go for a walk or even when you are just spending time at home. You can regularly meet Jesus in visions. Going to heaven can be commonplace for you. This book contains the following chapters: Visions of Jesus Visions of God A Prophetic Atmosphere Visions of Angels Visions of Saints Accessing Heaven Portals in my House Abundant Money Supply Open Heaven in my House and Seven Keys to an Open Heaven. With his trademark candor and transparency, let Matthew Robert Payne take you on a brief journey of his life. These short chapters describe just some of his many encounters with Jesus, saints, and angels. Each chapter includes questions for you to consider at the end. By the time you finish reading, you will be yearning for similar adventures of your own. Matthew ends the book with a prayer of impartation to encourage you to walk under an open heaven as he does.
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