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The Secret Of Success is a course of 9 lessons on the subject of the application of the Latent Powers of the Individual toward attainment of Success in Life. Content includes: Secret of Success The Individual, Spiritedness Your latent powers Soul force Powers of Desire Law of attraction Personal Magnetism Attractive Personality William Walker Atkinson was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an American pion...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Theologically, the Old Testament book of Ruth offers a reflection on God's providence presented in narrative form. Goethe called it "the loveliest complete work on a small scale, handed down to us as an ethical treatise and an idyll." David Atkinson leads his reader, passage-by-passage, through this moving story of courage and loss, death and rebirth.

Applies a range of postmodern literary approaches to Conan Doyle's classic stories

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These essays reflects fresh developments in the increasingly influential field of conversation analysis.

Arthur is a precocious eight-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with her bank account than with her son's development. Then an enigmatic young nanny introduces him to a world he never knew existed.

A prophetic, action-filled tale of an Osama bin Laden plot to infect millions of Americans. Written a full two years before the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, the book chronicles a diabolical plot that shows how far terrorists might go to bring fear to America and how American will defend itself.

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In this volume, Paul Atkinson presents useful advice on how to read, and therefore how to write, ethnography. He examines how ethnographers create field notes and how they do interview transcriptions, inevitably revealing the author's hand. He outlines various literary conventions used in ethnographic writing and points out some of the recent experiments that have departed from traditional ethnographic style. He links these to an analysis of t...

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Yet even when they know what would work, partners often find that they are unable to do these things. Why is this? Provocative new neurological research suggests that old habits die hard for a reason-they may be woven into the fabric of brain states. We are wired for specific kinds of neural activations very early in life and these habitual responses are automatically activated in daily living, often without conscious awareness. Once they are...

Praise for Pleasing the Dead..."Atkinson [mixes] realistic stories of contemporary Hawaii with facts about the islands' past. The combination goes far beyond the tunnel-vision tourist's view." -BooklistSome nasty predators dwell in paradise and they are not all hiding in the azure waters. The day attorney Storm Kayama arrives in Kahului to help Lara Farrell set up her new dive shop, someone bombs a restaurant. When one of Lara's employees, a r...

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David Atkinson's commentary wonderfully illumines the ancient cultural and religious background of the discourses and sayings of the Book of Proverbs. He brings the wisdom of Proverbs into conversation with the wisdom of God displayed in Jesus Christ.

This is an exposition on the Book of Job by David Atkinson and is part of The Bible Speaks Today series edited by J.A. Motyer and John R.W. Stott.

This exposition of Genesis 1-11 by David Atkinson is part of The Bible Speaks Today Series, edited by J.A. Motyar and John R.W. Stott.

A concise book to help those who are licensed to be responsible for worship in a congregation that does not have the services of ordained clergy on a regular basis, as well as for all laity--licensed or otherwise--who have responsibility for some aspect of worship. Examines lay participation in the Ministry of the Word, in the Eucharist, and in the Daily Offices.

Suffering from a bad heart, emphysema, glaucoma, and deafness, Thurgood Marshall finally retired from the Supreme Court at the age of 82 in spite of having always claimed "I was appointed to a life term, and I intend to serve it." Many observers felt he should have left much earlier.Life appointments make Supreme Court justices among the most powerful officials in government and allow even dysfunctional judges to stay on long after they should...