World famous psychic and columnist Shawn Robbins offers more details and revelations about the future of mankind in the 22nd century. Paving the way for life in the post-millennial world, Robbins's predictions include the rise of a new super-religion, the advanced development of space travel and mankind's experiments in contacting the dead.
Learn how contemporary practitioners go about the magickal business of witchcraft, including how to cast spells positively for better results. Wiccapedia provides a fresh, innovative, and thoroughly up-to-date look at witchcraft—and gives readers a prescription for happiness. “Spiritual life coaches” and celebrity witches Shawn Robbins and Leanna Greenaway unlock the secrets of the Wicca universe, explaining what it means to become a “simply fabulous” 21st-century Witch. Newfound Witches will learn how to tap into magic, re-empower themselves, and realize their dreams through a little witchy know how.
The authors of the bestselling Wiccapedia and creators of the successful Modern-Day Witch series provide an in-depth guide to the fascinating realm of psychic and divination spellcraft. For their next volume in the popular Modern-Day Witch series, Shawn Robbins and Leanna Greenaway explore how to harness nature’s magick to tap into your psychic intuition and hone your divination abilities. They cover everything from sharpening your psychic skills and intuition; ESP training; psychic meditation techniques; astral projection; and connecting with spirits and the cosmos. Numerous divination methods are covered: tarot; scrying (crystal ball gazing); crystal divination; numerology; palmistry; pendulums; reading tea leaves; lucid dreaming; psychic plant power—even how to read clouds and candle wax. Included throughout are spells and rituals to help you purposefully utilize your abilities and help enrich your life and the lives of those around you.
-- A MUST READ FOR THOSE FASCINATED BY THE SUPERNATURAL, THE OCCULT, THE PARANORMAL . . . Here are America's earliest and most frightening tales of the unexplained -- with a new overview of the scariest poltergeist case of all time -- THE BELL WITCH! You've seen the various Hollywood horror movie variations of this horrifying American poltergeist case -- but these cinematic efforts have never done justice to what really happened in Tennessee back in 1817 that created mass hysteria and even caused a soon to be president -- General Andrew Jackson -- to feel the wrath of this horrid specter from beyond the grave. The Bells were an upright farming family said to have incurred the ire of one Kate Batts who put a deathbed curse on the Bells that defies all rational understanding. REVEALED IN THIS VOLUME! ** -- Super psychic Shawn Robbins, a protege of the late ghost hunter, Dr Hans Holzer, was able to "revisit" the scene of the Bell Witch haunting and gain new insight into the nearly two hundred years old curse. ** -- The highly respected paranormal researcher, Paul Eno (host of Behind The Paranormal), recounts stories of vampires in New England in the 18th and 19th centuries and also tells the little-known story of an invasion of demonic specter "hooligans." ** -- Journey with Tim Beckley to the historically haunted locales of Jerome, Arizona, and Sleepy Hollow, New York, where ghostly spirits and disembodied voices seem to have established a haven and interact frequently with visitors. ** -- Acclaimed writer Sean Casteel contributes accounts of phantoms and monsters as well as a synopsis of a case of demonic possession that occurred in another New England clergyman's home some 20 years before the trials in Salem made everyone vulnerable to the charge. Also, read about the lesser known Salem witch trial of 1878 in which one Christian Scientist sued another over the "mind crime" of Malicious Animal Magnetism. And let us not forget the stories of swamp women -- flying creatures -- and specters and phantoms and things that go bump in the night and continue to scare us all to this very day.
LIGHT YEARS BEYOND ANY OTHER BOOK ON POLTERGEISTS AND HAUNTINGS! If you are a reader who has greatly enjoyed - or has been inspired by - the works of John Keel, Dr. Nandor Fodor, Jacques Vallee or Hans Holzer, you will find this work to be an outstanding breakthrough book on the paranormal. Likewise, if you are just looking for something to titillate your sense of fear this is guaranteed to be a real page turner. SIX MEMBERS OF THE DEFEO FAMILY WERE MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN THEIR HOME IN AMITYVILLE, LONG ISLAND. DEMONS WERE SAID TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HIDEOUS SLAYINGS INSIDE WHAT WAS TO BECOME KNOWN AS AMERICA'S MOST POSSESSED DWELLING. There remains a great controversy as to where the truth lies about this grizzly crime. Were all the events, as recounted in the bestselling book and the subsequent movies, true? Or was a hoax created for the purpose of cashing in on a horrific event that had captured the public's imagination? ALL NEW FINDINGS Poltergeists come in all shapes and sizes and inspire varying degrees of horror. What might be surprising is that poltergeists are NOT necessarily the spirits of the dead nor the overworked, disordered personalities of the living often thought to have become possessed by demonic forces. That which we call a "poltergeist" could just as easily include a wide range of other unearthly phenomena, such as random denizens of the dark moving through time and space and other dimensions, as well as a manifestation of cryptids, known collectively as shapeshifters and "bedroom invaders," and possibly even representatives of numerous alien races. It is not always possible to remove a poltergeist utilizing such "tools" as blessed crosses and holy water. Such items may only serve to provide more energy to the "parasites," who are often attracted to the mentally disturbed, and enable the spirit fiends to have a virtual "field day" that includes the tossing of heavy objects across a room, igniting fires, throwing knives and paperweights, causing animals to seemingly "talk" and, in extreme cases, even raping their helpless victims. As one researcher put it, "A teddy bear can work just as well for a child as holy water for a Catholic!" Here, in pictures and text, are the most bizarre, the most terrifying and the most perplexing cases of poltergeist activity that you are likely to encounter, as investigated by the top paranormal researchers of today without bias and without relying on pre-existing conclusions as to what might be causing such unpleasant transgressions. And please note that these bloodsucking parasites can attack not only the most innocent of souls or the average dwelling, but have also been known to follow hysterical individuals across the vastness of the country while maintaining a stranglehold that in some cases is almost impossible to break.
Make the most of your magickal year by chronicling it with this indispensable planner filled with inspiring Wiccan spells, lore, and recipes. This 17-month planner (August 2022-December 2023) is the perfect place for modern-day witches, Wiccans, and pagans to keep track of everything from daily tasks to key rituals to the sacred holidays and solstices on the Wheel of the Year. It is filled with beautiful line drawings as well as tips on holistic magick, Wiccan lore, holiday recipes, and spells distilled from the bestselling The Good Witch's Guide--from Sabbat Wish Powder to Attract Good Fortune to citrusy poppy Imbolc Cake. The planner also lists the all-important moon phases, as well as major and national holidays. Includes an elastic band and ribbon marker.
In How to Live a Gem of a Life, K. Shawn Gibson has assembled an easy to read, understand and follow guide to a truly enlightened life. This book will help you identify and prioritize your life goals through easy to follow processes. It will help you to understand how your mind works and how to take control of your life. How to prioritize your goals, eliminate the negativity and fear, take control of your finances, and map a path to a truly successful life. A Gem of a Life!
A friendly book on the power of true engagement. It is for the executive, leader and team member who desires to create and sustain a culture that makes a meaningful contribution. It is about personal alignment, collaboration and making a positive impact.
If you have tried to make changes in the past, without succeeding. If you have a personal goal, but you don't know how to achieve it. If you want something more out of your life... Here's the truth: you can get anything you truly want. Until now you may have asked yourself "How do some people succeed or achieve their goals? "Why do people like me are just spectators in a game they wouldn't win even if they played? " How to achieve success or a personal goal, in fact, isn't truly a secret. It's just a matter of cause and effect, but the problem is that most of us are approaching goals the wrong way. There's two types of people. You either only "focus" really hard for a short period of time before giving up too soon, or "work really hard" and exhaust yourself by not having a proper method. Both general behaviours will lead you down a slow and painful path towards trying to reach your goal and eventually failing. But, if You want to make a real change in your life, you have to go deeper and completely rewrite the mechanism at the base of your method in order to get results. You have to change your habits by replacing your negative and passive ones with good and powerful habits to lead you down the road of success. By changing your habits, the chances of achieving your goals will go from a maybe to a CERTAINTY. Here's what you will discover inside this books: - Why Habits are important and how they will change your life - Finally get rid of your harmulf, negative and passive habits - Better your environment for a better living - Break the loop and change your life with keystone habits - The hidden method to achieve goal and reach success - The 7 Most Important Keystone Habits (only availables and explained in this book) There is no end to the benefits that come from knowing how to achieve your goals. If you are finally ready to make a big and real change in your life by discovering the key habits that will automatically lead you forward towards greater success .... ...Scroll to the top of the page and press the buy now button!
Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People’s Concerts, which introduced an entire generation to the joy of classical music. In this fascinating new biography, the breadth of Bernstein’s musical composition is explored, through the spectacular range of music he composed—from West Side Story to Kaddish to A Quiet Place and beyond—and through his intensely public role as an internationally celebrated conductor. For the first time, the composer’s life and work receive a fully integrated analysis, offering a comprehensive appreciation of a multi-faceted musician who continued to grow as an artist well into his final days.
A friendly book on the power of true engagement. It is for the executive, leader and team member who desires to create and sustain a culture that makes a meaningful contribution. It is about personal alignment, collaboration and making a positive impact.
An essential review for residents across neurological disciplines, the chapters are organized into groups of questions covering neurobiology, neuroanatomy, clinical neurology, neuropathology, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, and critical care. Written and edited by neurosurgery residents who have passed the boards, the book works as an effective stand-alone review book or used in conjunction with The Definitive Neurological Surgery Board Review. Featuring hundreds of high-quality figures as well as high-yield tables, this essential review book concludes with a 300-question multidisciplinary self-assessment examination."--BOOK JACKET.
Life can be rough on the streets of Chicago, especially for a young black man growing up in the hood. As gangs are created, drugs are distributed and violence begins to take hold on one's life. There's nowhere to go, but down after enduring the sights of someone being murdered in the backyard of your poverty infested neighborhood at a young age, to being initiated into a gang, where it's death before dishonor. Black John 3:16 is a graphic, deep and propelling tale about gang rivalaries, sex, drugs, crime, lies and chilling truths. Could you survive the streets of Chica
A sense of community. Quaint surroundings. Deadly rivalries. Welcome to Whispering Pines. As the weather turns crisp, Jayne O'Shea and the other villagers prepare for the last big tourist draw of the season: the autumn equinox festival. It's a time to enjoy a bounty of food, the company of others, and the ever-popular cooking competition. Events in the baking division, however, turn from friendly to fatal when one of the contestants, a beloved nationally known chef, is found dead in the woods. As all eyes turn to one of the villagers as the killer, Jayne knows that what's seen on the surface isn't always the truth, especially in Whispering Pines, and digs deep to clear the name of one of their own
About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other countries are similar. Written by an outsider (an anthropologist) and an insider (a spousal abuse survivor), this book offers a humanistic, rather than statistical, overview of the problem of spousal abuse. It is based on an extensive set of interviews with abused women and individuals who seek to help them (shelter workers, police officers, marriage counselors). More particularly, it follows four women as they move through the steps they must follow to extricate themselves from an abusive relationship and then get on with their lives. The reader witnesses their success and failures as they face a task that is both necessary and daunting, and the effects that spousal abuse (and at attempts stopping the abuse) have on an ever-widening circle of people. This book illustrates how society in general and individuals and organizations in particular help and hinder the process of extrication - often at the same time. By analyzing the solutions, and their implications, that have been offered to and by the abused women, the authors arrive at a set of alternative solutions that could significantly reduce the incidence of spouse abuse in the future.
Less than five miles from Ground Zero in Manhattan sits an international hotbed of anti-Americanism. The United Nations was created after World War II to promote peace and international understanding. But over the years, and today more than ever, the U.N. has failed to achieve its original mission. It has failed to address the most dangerous threats facing the civilized world, refused to condemn terrorist acts, encouraged America's enemies, and supported some of the world's most oppressive governments, all while wasting billions of dollars. As veteran reporter Eric Shawn of Fox News Channel points out, the U.N.'s iconic skyscraper is where our so-called allies all too often undermine the United States and our vital interests. And for the honor of hosting our adversaries in our own country, Americans pay a whopping 22 percent of the U.N.'s bloated budget. The U.N. Exposed will give you a rare insider's tour of the United Nations, focusing on many disturbing aspects that have been ignored by the mainstream media. You will learn, for instance: • How U.N.-supervised funds were diverted into weapons used against American troops • How terrorists and rogue states seeking nuclear weapons flout toothless U.N. resolutions • how our allies' selfish economic interests drive U.N.-backed challenges to America's sovereignty • How kickbacks, bribes, and corruption have pervaded the highest echelons of the U.N. • How U.N. ambassadors and staff enjoy luxurious and tax-free Manhattan lifestyles and other perks • How U.N. workers have repeatedly turned children into their sexual prey As Shawn declares in his introduction, "I am disgusted by the fact that the altruistic efforts of so many U.N. staff members are undercut by the greed, corruption, and ineptitude of the bureaucracy they serve.
Sportswriter Shawn Fury's Rise and Fire: The Origins, Science, and Evolution of the Jump Shot presents an exploration of the play that revolutionized basketball and provided the greatest moments in the sport's history—from Michael Jordan's legacy-defining jumpers to Ray Allen’s mastery and more. It’s hard to believe that there was a time when the jump shot didn’t exist in basketball. When the sport was invented in 1891, players would take set shots with both feet firmly planted on the ground. Defenders controlled the sport, the pace was slower, and games would frequently end with scores fit for a football field. It took almost forty years before players began shooting jump shots of any kind and sixty-five years before it became a common sight. When the first jump shooting pioneers left the ground, they rose not only above their defenders, but also above the sport’s conventions. The jump shot created a soaring offense, infectious excitement, loyal fans, and legends. Basketball would never be the same. Rise and Fire celebrates this crucial shot while tracing the history of how it revolutionized the game, shedding light on all corners of the basketball world, from NBA arenas to the playgrounds of New York City and the barns of Indiana. Award-winning journalist Shawn Fury obsesses over the jump shot, explores its fundamentals, puzzles over its complexities, marvels at its simplicity, and honors those who created some of basketball’s greatest moments. Part history, part travelogue, and part memoir, Rise and Fire bounces from the dirt courts of the 1930s to today’s NBA courts and state-of-the-art shooting labs, examining everything from how nets and rims affect a shooter to rivalries between shooting coaches to how the three-pointer came to rule the game. Impeccably researched and engaging, the book features interviews and profiles of legendary figures like Jerry West, Bob McAdoo, Ray Allen, and Denise Long--the first woman ever drafted by the NBA, plus dozens more, revealing the evolution of the shot over time. Analyzing the techniques and reliving some of the most unforgettable plays from the greats, Fury creates a technical, personal, historical, and even spiritual examination of the shot. This is not a dry how-to textbook of basketball mechanics; it is a lively tour of basketball history and a love letter to the sport and the shot that changed it forever.
As the War of the Spanish Succession, 1702, rages through the American colonies between Spain and England, a merchant sea captain James Beard and his young son, Edward, participate in the colonial siege of Saint Augustine. The boy, Edward, has shown courage and seamanship beyond his years and is moved by the epic battle that he watches unfold. Later, while sailing an errand with his father, their ship comes into contact with Caribbean privateers, led by the notorious Captain Charles Vane. Moved by the ideology of the freebooter, Edward swears that one day he wants to be just like his new hero. After being betrayed by the colonial government and facing financial ruin, his father makes the decision to pursue a career in privateering, taking Edward along for the journey. The Beards and their ship, the Emmeline, quickly gain notoriety upon the high seas. Over time, Edward grows into a man and sets his own course for adventure, following in his fathers wake, as a privateer himself in Queen Annes War. Years later, the war has endedthe privateers disbanded. Yet again feeling betrayed by his government, Edward and his loyal crew are set upon an errand to search for a sunken Spanish treasure ship. Leaving the love of his life behind, Edward sets a course for enemy waters that will change his life forever. Instead of Spanish treasure, he finds an ocean full of cutthroats and ports full of enemy soldiers. Edward quickly learns that retrieving the Spanish gold may cost him more than hed bargained for. On the brink of losing everything that he holds dear, he discovers a new path. It is an adventure that fills his pockets with more gold than he could have ever imagined but may end up costing him his very soul. How far is Edward willing to allow the winds of the storm to push his sails? Will he ever make it back to the life that he once knew? Whether he survives the perilous journey or gets swallowed in the wake of who he has had to become, he will be forever remembered. For the world will never forget Blackbeardthe pirate! Knight of the Black Flag captures the romanticism and adventure of the pirate genre but, at the same time, takes the reader to places previously unexplored. This is an amazing tale that challenges every stereotype that has come to epitomize this amazing figure and the life that he led. It is rooted in the small fragments of truth that have been recorded over the ages. Names and real events were pulled straight out of Colonial American deed books from Bath County, NC, 17021718, and blended with a wildly entertaining tale that will leave the reader wanting more (The Kirkland Press).
Professional development just got more effective. To help teachers make positive changes for their students, transform your feedback! With this guide to quality feedback, you’ll promote professional growth clearly and successfully, with lasting results. Whether you work with novices, struggling teachers, or good teachers with potential for greatness, this book helps you give feedback that’s both heard and understood. Features include Research-based ideas aligned with the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning Structures for offering feedback on teacher-created assessments, in observations, and through videos Advice that fits seamlessly into existing initiatives Tools, artifacts, and examples of quality feedback in action
The Power of Perception: Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and the Gender Divide serves as a practical guide to educate women, men and organizations on the barriers that keep women from fully contributing in the workplace. These include differences in leadership style and emotional intelligence, gender bias and stereotypes, breadwinner and caregiver responsibilities, and differences in gender culture which show up every day at work and home. The Power of Perception also explores significant changes in global demographic trends and how our youngest generations are impacting the workplace. The Power of Perception clearly illustrates the reasons that we don’t see more women leading our global businesses. It has nothing to do with women’s skills and competencies and everything to do with perceptions of women as leaders, as workers, as mothers, and as wives. These perceptions have a significant impact on promotion for many women. Perception is reality—and it’s powerful. The Power of Perception provides personal stories of women’s journeys, real-world examples, and is based on the author’s own research as well as that of many others. Every chapter includes practical, easy-to-apply strategies, summary points, and reflection questions to empower women, men, and organizations to fully leverage talent and diversity.
The Second Edition of Preventing Prejudice: A Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents has been completely revised and expanded to provide the most up-to-date and extensive coverage of prejudice and racism available. The new edition of this bestselling text presents a comprehensive overview of these topics and also includes practical tools for combating prejudice development in children, adolescents, and adults.
The Bioarchaeology of Disaster examines two dozen disasters occurring around the world over the past 2000 years, ranging from natural and environmental disasters to human conflict and warfare, from epidemics to those of social marginalization—all from a bioarchaeological and forensic anthropological perspective. Each case study provides the social, cultural, historical and ecological context of the disaster and then analyzes evidence of human and related remains in order to better understand the identities of victims, the means, processes, and extent of deaths and injuries. The methods used by specialists to interpret evidence and disagreements among experts are also addressed. It will be helpful in understanding the circumstances of a range of disasters and the multidisciplinary ways in which bioarchaeologists employ empirical methods and analytic frameworks to interpret their impacts and consequences. The book is intended for those in the social and biological sciences, particularly archaeology, forensics, history and ethnography. It will also be of interest to those in medical history and epidemiology, ecological studies, and those involved in disaster response, law enforcement and human rights work.
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