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Libraries from ancient times exist to serve the information needs of users. Accessibility of information is not a new concept, it exists through decades. Libraries being a service agency serve an important role of providing access to valuable information sources through rendering library services and also supporting research work of academicians in the nation. Libraries are the entities which need constant up gradations to be able to meet the ...

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Warrior, Lover, King recounts the tale of the eighth-century, barbarian king, Charlemagne, known for his love of learning, his commitment to the spread of Christianity, and his efforts to educate the children of his realm. As a cool-headed soldier, a lustful, enthusiastic lover, and a thinking, compassionate king, he truly is a hero sprung from the Dark Ages.

A major catalyst for the growth of Korean Christianity occurred at the turn of the twentieth century when Western missionaries encountered the religious landscape of Korea. These first-generation missionaries have been framed as destroyers of Korean religion and culture. Yet, as Sung-Deuk Oak shows in The Making of Korean Christianity, existing Korean religious tradition also impacted the growth and character of evangelical Christianity. The m...

Henry David Thoreau's impassioned activism in the Underground Railroad leads him away from the banks of Walden Pond into a morass of murder…In the spring of 1848, Thoreau returns to Plumford, Massachusetts, in search of a fellow conductor on the Underground Railroad, who has gone missing along with the escaped female slave he was assigned to transport. With the help of his good friend, Dr. Adam Walker, Thoreau finds the conductor-shot to death...

USSOUTHCOM intends to use the Interagency Task Force (IATF) Tecún Umán as a model for new counternarcotics units in Guatemala. This report describes lessons learned from the IATF and provides recommendations for resolving challenges.

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Eine hochbegabte junge Frau beschreibt anhand von Tagebüchern und Erinnerungen ihre Probleme während der Schulzeit: Einsamkeit und Depression führen zu Depersonalisation und selbstverletzendem Verhalten. Mit zwanzig Jahren erleidet sie eine Gehirnblutung. Der lange Krankenhausaufenthalt gibt ihr die Möglichkeit, sich mit der Vergangenheit auseinanderzusetzen und die erlittenen Traumatisierungen zu verarbeiten: Die Kindheit bei der alleinerzieh...

Joyce Oak is a concerned Christian who has observed changes in the church over the past 30 plus years that have been very troubling to her. About 20 years ago she began to write about the things she was hearing from the pulpit and from Sunday school teachers, that were not exactly aligned with the teachings of the Bible, as she understood them. She is hoping that she has finally put her writings together in such a way that it will make sense t...

Her name was Adelei. She was a master in her field, one of the feared Order of Amaska. Those who were a danger to the Little Dozen Kingdoms wound up dead by her hand. The Order sends her deep into the Kingdom of Alexander, away from her home in Sadai, and into the hands of the Order's enemy. The job is nothing short of a suicide mission, one serving no king, no god, and certainly not Justice. With no holy order to protect her, she tumbles ...

Excerpt from Oak Oaks Oakes: Family Register Nathaniel Oak of Marlborough, Mass, , And Three Generations of His Descendants in Both Male and Female Lines The undertaking of this work in 1891 was due to a realization of the fact - sad, though by no means new or peculiar - that the writer's own family was nearing extinction in its old home. In the quiet little adjoining New England towns of Garland and Exeter, Maine, where his great grandfather...

Writers' Revealed, is a collection of short stories and poems written by the Oak Tree Arts writing groups. The Scribblers Pad - ages 9 - 13 And Creative Ink- ages 13 - 16 Oak Tree Arts has been running writing groups for five years, and Writers' revealed is our fifth publication. Here you will find a selection of the young authors work, collected over the last year. They have worked individually and in teams to produce these unique and express...

A memoir about life (and near-death) with a genetic heart condition. This book is composed of many voices: physical and metaphysical, medical and mystical. It's a love story, a heroine's journey and a medical drama that explores the fragility and resilience of the human heart. The journey portrayed reconciles the author's family heritage of natural healing and the conflict that arises between a holistic and spiritual orientation with western t...

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Far from the tranquility of Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau confronts the chilling reality of an epidemic. . .as well as cold-blooded murder.The winter of 1847 has brought a consumption epidemic which is devastating the village of Plumford, Massachusetts. In an atmosphere of increasing hysteria and superstition, country doctor Adam Walker and philosopher Henry David Thoreau seem the only voices of reason. The winter also brings two visitors t...

Excerpt from Parent-Teacher Assoications in Rural and Village SchoolsWhat relation has fatigue to some forms of nervousness? To what extent may nervousness be due to imagination? To imitation? What special precautions should be taken in cases of nervousness? Should parents make threats of punishment? Threats of the doctor? 8. Is a dread of the dark natural to children? How may it be overcome?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundred...

King Charlemagne waits impatiently for Oliver's return. Will his Peer find Hildegard, the love of his life, or has he lost her forever? Will his siege of Pavia succeed and, finally, cut the legs off the Lombard king's obsession with overtaking his realm? The King continues to fight the Saxons, re-organizes the church, and implements educational opportunities for his people. At the same time, his two most-beloved Peers - Roland and Oliver - str...

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Excerpt from Works of Henry L. Oak, Vol. 11: Pioneer Register, Literary Industries, MiscellanyFrom the nature of the case, my authorities, except in special instances, cannot be cited. Such citations would involve endless repetition, and would fill much space that can be utilized to better advantage. The reader is re ferred to the general list of authorities in vol. I., but it is proper to specify here some classes that have been particularly ...

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