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The Yagy¿ clan stands out among Japan's countless medieval warrior clans as a clan renowned for its mastery of the art of swordsmanship. This first full Yagy¿ history in the English language recounts how, through a string of misfortunes beyond their control, the Yagy¿ clan first lost its independence, then its castle and domains, until finally its members were thrown upon the mercy of a local temple. Yet it was in the very depth of those bleak...

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright, born in 1799 in Tours, France. His father was Secretary to the King's Council and a Freemason, and his mother came from a wealthy family of haberdashers. Balzac had difficulty with the strict nature of his early schooling, and was often sent to punishment in a small isolated cell. This caused early health problems that plagued him throughout his life-exacerbated by his rigorous writing sch...

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This book synthesises decades of coaching material to highlight the core values that are at the heart of the helping professions. It covers the basic skills of coaching, listening, engaging and understanding to give the reader strong foundations for their coaching practice. Through drawing on work around attachment, relationality and transference this book can examine common techniques including giving assessment and diagnostical instruments a...

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In his Spiritual Exercises, St Ignatius of Loyola famously encourages us to ask for the grace of an "intimate knowledge" of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is exactly what God wants for us: Now this is eternal life: that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent (Jn 17:3). Throughout this little book, a saintly disciple of St Ignatius, Venerable Luis de Ponte, develops this salutary thought so that we too may com...

Thomas De Quincey's multivalent engagement with Romantic translation This book investigates how De Quincey's writing was shaped by his work as a translator. Drawing on a wide range of materials and readings, it traces how De Quincey employed structures of interlinguistic and interdiscursive exchange to reimagine Romanticism. The book examines how his theories and practices of translation served to position his oeuvre, define his style, frame h...

The Yagyu clan stands out among Japan's countless medieval warrior clans as a clan renowned for its mastery of the art of swordsmanship. This first, fuly illustratedl Yagyu history in the English language recounts how, through a string of misfortunes beyond their control, the Yagyu clan first lost its independence, then its castle and domains, until finally its members were thrown upon the mercy of a local temple. Yet it was in the very depth ...

Short, relevant and inspirational studies for each chapter of the Bible book of Genesis. Bite-sized and ideal for personal meditation, family bible time, group bible studies and preparing bible talks.¿ Jesus based his teaching on the Old Testament scripture, and surprisingly, rather than suggest we study it, he told us to eat a portion of it daily! Taking a small portion of the Bible as our daily diet will help us transform day-by-day into a c...

This book sets out a new analytic methodology: analysis by contrasting narratives (ACN), which states that defining an enemy and attempting to counter threats can contribute to the manifestation of that threat. Peter de Werd applies ACN to the problem the US faced in understanding and responding to the phenomenon of Al Qaeda in the 1990s.

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IT'S EVERYWHERE! Puppy's hair and kitty whispy furry fluffs too! It floats on the air, it's in hair, upon the floor, and out the door. It tangles in between fingers. No one wants to sweep it, but would rather play. Arlo, thinks and wonders what he could do to solve the puppy hair and kitty whispy furry fluffs problem? Arlo wonders what would Rumplestilskin do. Rumplestilskin has a new book about how to spin anything into gold. What ideas would...

Wandering in the forest, the elusive Bigfoot is spotted by a young girl. She observes him gathering wishing sparks and there are so many they are falling out of his bag. What does Bigfoot do with the wishing sparks? The young girl sees he is putting wishing sparks on a Wishing Keeper and learns that if wishes are an idea, then the dream is the action. Bigfoot is the image metaphor for all the big wishes and ideas in each of our thoughts. ...

During the period 500¿1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of events, developments and processes occurred that would greatly affect its history and that of the eastern Mediterranean in general. This is the first volume to map Egypt's position in the Mediterranean during this period. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, the individual chapters detail its connections with imperial and sc...

This book will make readers fall into a horror trance. They will find themselves the story happening like a movie. I hope the readers will like this story. A must for every teen and even adults.

Strolling through a park, the young girl sees something unexpected, a moose in a tree. She is so surprised she thinks he is funny. Even though she is laughing at what she sees the moose calls her a "wonderous being". The Moose makes an invitation for her to fly into the sky with him and discover other wonderous beings. She learns there are many different beings and they are as wonderful as she is. 'Wonderous' in the title (old spelling of 'Won...

Have you forgotten how wondrous life can be? Christopher de Vinck offers a timeless collection of wisdom on family, childhood, God, love, compassion, buttered toast, snowmen, Hamlet, Bugs Bunny, bees. For anyone who is caught up in the hustle and bustle of life, weary and perhaps a little jaded by all that seems wrong in the world, this is a book that helps us to see again. In essays that are warm, evocative, and often amusing, Christopher De ...

Japanese castles cast a spell on all those who set their eyes on them. They are the product of a people whose history might be steeped in blood and drama, yet whose hands produced works of breathtaking refinement. This groundbreaking encyclopedia is the first work in the English language to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, architecture, and all the attending aspects of Japanese castles. It references a total of 370 castles, givin...

The Energy Inside Valsin's Choices is a hybrid historical and metaphysical fiction respecting choices and consequences, which pulse into the beyond. Nabella is a newcomer to New Orleans in 1862 just before the Union occupied the city during the Civil War. She becomes curious about her mysterious neighbor Valsin. The energy inside his choices has cumulative effects in his future lives as well as profound impact on Nabella and others. We travel ...