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Some sad, some serious, but mostly humorous stories of growing up in a small rural parish in North Louisiana during the 60's and 70's.

This book describes seven motorcycle trips in and around South Dakota's Black Hills.

Where did professional social work originate from? How effective are social work interpretations in the lives of vulnerable people? This book provides a discussion of social work practice and its evidence-base. It strikes a balance between the need for social workers to understand the social, economic, psychological and interpersonal factors.

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Seven children are chosen by God to become warriors to fight against evil. Guided by a bright light the children are taken to another world to be trained by heavenly guides and to receive their mighty superpowers. On the sixteenth day, training is over and the battle between good and evil begins!

Retail version! In the first book, Confidant, after several failed relationships, Rich and Jane decided to act on their life long attraction to each other. In Confidant 2, everything changes in the first chapter. This book continues the story of Rich, Jane, and their fight to save the soul of Talia.

No matter what walk of life man goes through there has been booze and always romance was found lurking around every corner waiting for two people to discover each other and more times than you can imagine booze was a factor that lead to a relationship.

The intellectual offspring of Ionesco, Beckett, and Pinter, Walter Wykes is proof that the Theatre of the Absurd lives on. In his plays, he creates a series of modern myths, tapping into something in the strata of the subconscious, through ritualism and rich, poetic language. The worlds he creates are brand new, and hilarious, yet each contains an ancient horror we all know and cannot escape and have never been able to hang one definitive word...

Thirteen year-old, Sadie Barton is a trick rider with The Cowgirl Chicks, an all-girl western trick riding team which performs at professional rodeos and entertainment venues all across the country. She is funny, gregarious and adventurous - an inspiration to the thousands of young fans she meets on the rodeo circuit. But while it may seem like a charmed life, Sadie struggles with her parents' divorce, a lack of interest in school, and a longi...

In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive.

The emerging shape of the post Cold War world provides evidence that rather than diminishing, the profound intersection of political ideology and religious forms of belief is an ever more potent force in world affairs. This volume offers both theoretic underpinnings, and a comparative analysis that elucidates this potent and dangerous phenomenon.

Toilets" is based on a true story about a young man named Eddie Keebler and his passion for music, drugs, alcohol and women. This account gives the reader a first class seat into stories of the incredible lengths a man will travel in order to accommodate his own selfish needs without a care in the world for the destruction and chaos he inflicts upon anyone in his path. From the formation of his band, to the blow by blow account of the happenin...

Algorithmic composition - composing by means of formalizable methods - has a century old tradition not only in occidental music history. This is the first book to provide a detailed overview of prominent procedures of algorithmic composition in a pragmatic way rather than by treating formalizable aspects in single works. In addition to an historic overview, each chapter presents a specific class of algorithm in a compositional context by provi...

Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Focusing specifically on the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, Carrie Rohman investigates animality as a fundamental locus for issues of identity construction and complication du...

Throughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in the field, and his immense knowledge of the contexts that gave rise to each tradition supplies the foundations for ideal comparative scholarship. In these essays, Yu explores the overlap between...

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The third installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of "meetings of the minds"--dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.

The role of the Golden Rule in various systems of thought, both religious and philosophical, invites study. How the logic of a given system interprets the Golden Rule demands analysis. Objective data deriving from empirical study of nature and society deserve close examination.

Peer Power: Book One Workbook" helps participating students understand their role as a peer helper, and understand themselves based on much of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Asset Building Model. Next, it takes the participant through eight core skills. The last part of the workbook indicates strategies for implementing peer work into practice.

This book, views the rainforest through the eyes of both the scientist and the artist, who shows us the color, the light, the diversity of the greens and blues of the vegetation, and, above all, the spirit and very essence of the rainforest.