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Giovanni Zappacosta-O' Hara's boyfriend has cancer. Unable to handle watching the love of his life suffer, Gio flees to New York under the pretense of interviewing his great aunt about a ne'er-discussed scandal in the family history. But Gio's boyfriend isn't content to let him wriggle away and books his own flight to New York, on September 11, 2001. Luckily, Gio's boyfriend's flight is grounded in the wake of the terror attack but the close c...

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This textbook and guide focuses on methodologies for bias analysis in epidemiology and public health, not only providing updates to the first edition but also further developing methods and adding new advanced methods. As computational power available to analysts has improved and epidemiologic problems have become more advanced, missing data, Bayes, and empirical methods have become more commonly used. This new edition features updated examp...

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In every novel there are pivotal places that can make or break a book. Write them well, and you'll have your readers begging for a sequel. Write them poorly, and your book will get scathing reviews and sell only a handful of copies. These pivotal places are "linchpin moments, " and in this book you'll learn how to nail these moments. Based on real advice from editing hundreds of novels, John Matthew Fox guides writers through the process of cr...

This textbook and guide focuses on methodologies for bias analysis in epidemiology and public health, not only providing updates to the first edition but also further developing methods and adding new advanced methods.As computational power available to analysts has improved and epidemiologic problems have become more advanced, missing data, Bayes, and empirical methods have become more commonly used. This new edition features updated examples...

RELIGION / Spirituality RELIGION / Mysticism BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious Cover design: Stefan Killen Design ISBN 978-1-62698-455-4

This book offers a sophisticated analysis of the pervasive use of historical myth in some of the best-known writers of the Late Republic and Augustan periods, including Cicero, Livy, Virgil, Propertius, and Ovid. Looking at these writers' use of narrative, Fox uncovers an uneasy tension between the desire for accurate historical representation and the legendary character of traditional stories. In this way, the accounts of Rome's regal period ...

A provocative study of Cicero's use of history, revealing that, rather than promoting his own values, Cicero uses historical representation to explore the difficulties of finding any ideological coherence in Rome's political or cultural traditions.

A thrilling tale of two worlds colliding, when ten-year-old Kara finds mysterious footprints in the snow and must find out who they belong to.

A beautifully moving story of bravery and second chances, for 10+ readers of Piers Torday's There May Be A Castle, and Sally Nicholls' Ways to Live Forever.

Though he lived in the thirteenth century, Meister Eckhart's deeply ecumenical teachings were in many ways modern. He taught about what we call ecology, championed artistic creativity, and advocated for social, economic, and gender justice. All these elements have inspired spiritual maverick Matthew Fox and influenced his Creation Spirituality. Here, Fox creates metaphorical meetings between Eckhart and Teilhard de Chardin, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ca...

Julian of Norwich lived through the dreadful bubonic plague that killed close to 50% of Europeans. Being an anchoress, she 'sheltered in place' and developed a deep wisdom that she shared in her book, Showings, which was the first book in English by a woman. A theologian way ahead of her time, Julian develops a feminist understanding of God as mother at the heart of nature's goodness. Fox shares her teachings in this powerful and timely and in...

A.W.E. is the acronym for the author's proposed style of learning, an approach to learning, eldering, and mentoring that is intelligent enough to honor the teachings of the Ancestors, to nurture Wisdom in addition to imparting knowledge, and to Educate through the author's 10 Cs, which include compassion, contemplation, and creativity.

We have been considering the essence of Aquinas' teachings about our spiritual journey toward wisdom and justice and compassion and away from dullness and indifference and, in his words, folly. He says: "Folly implies apathy in the heart and dullness in the senses...For sapiens (wise) as Isidore says 'is so named from sapor (savor), because just as the taste is quick to distinguish between savors of meats, so too a wise person is quick in disc...

I invite the reader to travel with me into the spaces, into these memories, these projections, down the middle way, the path of forgiveness, the road of genuine faith that comes only through the crucible of doubt. Join me in a sincere quest, a search for the spirit of place and belonging, between the green.

A renowned theologian "interviews" Thomas Aquinas, questioning the saint about the Four Paths of creation spirituality. Responses are culled from Aquinas's works and include pieces never before translated into English.