Mr. Wamblie was a success story: upper middle class, wife, kids, suburban affluence and executive status. He has lost it all in a mid-life crisis that includes a year in a psychiatric hospital and ends where the book begins: in a YMCA room. With his constant ruminations and regret, Wamblie is the darker side of life. He reminds us he pursued living without thinking until certain demon questions engulfed him. Is Wamblie a martyr, a prophet or the engine of his own undoing? Are Wamblie's obsessive questions merely self serving? Are Wamblie's caregivers in denial or just more willing to accept the limitations of life? Finally, is Wamblie sane? Do we really know what sanity is and, if so, can we measure it? If Wamblie's fears (while exaggerated) are essentially justified, how can the hospital acknowledge them and still maintain the important divide between sane and insane? This is the 'ceremony of innocence', the unanswerable conundrum that everyone seeks to avoid.
Contingency, Immanence, and the Subject of Rhetoric considers rhetoric as the historical counterpoint of philosophical and religious discourses via its correspondences with antique rabbinic exegetical practices and contemporary psychoanalytic insights into causation. Timothy Richardson takes up the rabbinic position to demonstrate how traditional Greco-Christian rhetoric might be insufficient to account for what we now mean by rhetoric as a discipline.
Players exposed is the first book of its kind that reveals the methods used by men to manipulate women. Here you will find the truth on how men entrap them in love and romantic adventures; using snares of empty promises, and hopeless possibilities. Learn their approach to infiltrating dating sites, pen-pal sites, social networking sites, chat lines, and even the subconscious thoughts. This extraordinary virtual reality perspective permits an entry into a world the reader would never have been privileged to explore without this book. Learn the signs, and avoid them in this "tell-all-book." Players exposed invites you to familiarize yourself with the persuasive language and deceptive arts of con that leave woman vulnerable and misused. Even the most intelligent of woman find themselves a victim to the charm and word play in the psychological whirlwind of persuasion used by men for personal gain. Learn to identify the so-called player at "Hello" and be the first to say "good-bye." Don't become or continue to be a victim of the games men play. After all, it is your right to be informed.
WHO IS SIDNEY RICHARDSON? In a wooded park in Cincinnati on March 9, 2009, police discovered the nude body of a young woman--body battered and head decapitated. The victim, a pretty high school senior named Sidney Richardson, had left a party after a volatile argument with her boyfriend. Four handsome, intelligent, and charming young men, with bright futures ahead of them, were the last to see her alive. WHO IS SIDNEY RICHARDSON AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE PERKY TEENAGER THAT BREEZY SPRING EVENING? A year has gone by and the four men realize someone witnessed their act of violence. That someone, a man with an agenda of his own wants revenge and he’ll stop at nothing to get it. Not even murder. THE MAN WITH THE COLD EYES IS CLOSER THAN THEY THINK! In a suspenseful tale of secrets, sex, rape, betrayal, murder and obsession, a detective must piece together the puzzle of a shocking crime that will leave the reader asking the ultimate question. In a world where evil is lurking around every corner who can one really trust?
It's Time 4 CHANGE From the heart of Rojay Moore I hate the devil! But I love God and His people! I'm here for you and we must change our focus. We're off point, because the devil has blinded and deceived many of us. You just don't know it. This book is my personal campaign to motivate and influence us all to get back on track. Let's get our focus back on what's really important about life. This book is not some religious book. It's a book about relevant issues about life and our focus. What hindrances and distractions have you bound? My questions are: What's on your mind? Where's your focus? What are your motives? What's of most importance to you in life? Who are you associating with? Who are they associated with? What voices are you listening too? Where are you really headed in life and why are you headed there? Is God, your Creator, happy with your lifestyle? I love you all with the love and passion of Jesus Christ . . .
A must-have for managers, teachers, trainers, consultants, and anyone who wants to grow creatively...Every page contains something new and thought-provoking."-Arthur Van Gundy, Univ. of Oklahoma.
The United States President is missing, and secret service has no suspects, or even an indication of how his disappearance occurred. Vice president Cheney makes an executive decision to deceive the country with a lookalike George Bush. President George Bush's wife Laura ruins his opportunity to return safely by joining forces with the executive branch of government in a conspiracy against the American people. Would karma deal a blow to President George Bush for not signing into law the reparations act bill for African Americans, or is this a bad dream? Could a taste of American History be as easy to digest if the ethnical roles of dominance get reversed? How will George Bush fair in a world where a black man, named Barack Obama, is president during the term he thought he was to be serving? He will soon find that even a mention of himself as president could have him arrested. This bizarre turn of events takes George Bush on a journey that he may never return from unless he comes to terms with the man on the other side of the mirror.
At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of Remembering Traditional Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the traditional Chinese writing system, plus another 500 that are best learned at an early stage. (Book 2 adds another 1,500 characters for a total of 3,000.) Of critical importance to the approach found in these pages is the systematic arranging of characters in an order best suited to memorization. In the Chinese writing system, strokes and simple components are nested within relatively simple characters, which can, in turn, serve as parts of more complicated characters and so on. Taking advantage of this allows a logical ordering, making it possible for students to approach most new characters with prior knowledge that can greatly facilitate the learning process. Guidance and detailed instructions are provided along the way. Students are taught to employ "imaginative memory" to associate each character’s component parts, or "primitive elements," with one another and with a key word that has been carefully selected to represent an important meaning of the character. This is accomplished through the creation of a "story" that engagingly ties the primitive elements and key word together. In this way, the collections of dots, strokes, and components that make up the characters are associated in memorable fashion, dramatically shortening the time required for learning and helping to prevent characters from slipping out of memory.
Who gets hit next in this crazy game of killers for hire?" Rappers are showing too much disrespect for women these days. When an R&B legend's daughter is raped at a Death Row video shoot, she takes matters into her own hands and declares war on gangster rap. The head of the Pan-Hellenic Council hand picks: Be'oncay Knolls: The Texas diva, singing sensation with dreams of making it big; an expert marksman and equally as deadly with a microphone as she is with a sniper rifle. Meagan Goodwin: The California beauty, talented actress, skilled in martial arts, who is just as lethal on the stock market as she is in the art of killing. Dr. Lisa Lesley: The certified genius in the operating room and on the basket ball court, who developed a top secret formula that will change the world for women and children. Karen "Super Head" Stephins: Motown's finest; a ruthless schemer, gifted in the skill of male manipulation. Nobody knows the New York underground like the Queen of the streets who loves to play head games and break the hearts of her victims. The beautiful but deadly team of assassins are given covert assignments that send them on search and destroy missions from Las Vegas, New York, Hollywood, Houston, Detroit, and Atlanta to track down and eliminate Hip Hop's most notorious gangster rappers. The murders are changing the face of the industry. The war between East Coast and West Coast pales in comparison to this incredible conspiracy to take out rappers across the nation. Outcast, degraded, disrespected, and underappreciated, the sisters of the Pan-Hellenic Council hold all the secrets to who is killing Hip Hop's biggest stars. The world may never find the right man, because sometimes the best man for the job is a woman.
Principles of Economics 2e (2nd edition) covers the scope and sequence of most introductory economics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.
Principles of Macroeconomics covers the scope and sequence for a one-semester economics course. The text also includes many current examples, including: the housing bubble and housing crisis, Zimbabwe's hyperinflation, global unemployment, and the appointment of the United States' first female Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen. The pedagogical choices, chapter arrangements, and learning objective fulfillment were developed and vetted with feedback from educators dedicated to the project. The outcome is a balanced approach to economics, to both Keynesian and classical views, and to the theory and application of economics concepts. Current events are treated in a politically-balanced way, as well.
At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the simplified Chinese writing system, plus another 500 that are best learned at an early stage. (Book 2 adds another 1,500 characters for a total of 3,000.) Of critical importance to the approach found in these pages is the systematic arranging of characters in an order best suited to memorization. In the Chinese writing system, strokes and simple components are nested within relatively simple characters, which can, in turn, serve as parts of more complicated characters and so on. Taking advantage of this allows a logical ordering, making it possible for students to approach most new characters with prior knowledge that can greatly facilitate the learning process. Guidance and detailed instructions are provided along the way. Students are taught to employ "imaginative memory" to associate each character’s component parts, or "primitive elements," with one another and with a key word that has been carefully selected to represent an important meaning of the character. This is accomplished through the creation of a "story" that engagingly ties the primitive elements and key word together. In this way, the collections of dots, strokes, and components that make up the characters are associated in memorable fashion, dramatically shortening the time required for learning and helping to prevent characters from slipping out of memory.
Renowned pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller continues his Encounters with Jesus eBook series with The Obedient Master, an exploration of Jesus’ active willingness to face death and how this obedience affects our lives. Jesus’ experience in the garden at Gethsemane is well known, yet it is both more horrifying and more beautiful than we realize at first glance. Timothy Keller, pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God, examines this biblical passage to show us how clearly Jesus saw the penalty he would have to pay for our sins and how this payment ensures our standing as righteous in the eyes of God.
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