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Animals are God's special gift to humanity. This book will show you the many things that the Bible has to say about animals, such as their purpose on Earth, what they need from human beings, whether or not they go to heaven and more. Personal experiences by the author and pictures of her own pets are included as well. "Pawprints On Our Hearts" is designed to give you an entirely new perspective on our animal friends- to help you view them a...

When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. "In Cop in the Hood, " Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift.Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared f...

Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.

Take no prisoner's poetry. Artist, poet, and lyrical warrior Scorpiana X of The Strange Fruits weaves her personal take on love, causes, modern culture, and random aspects of life with her wicked sense of metaphor and twisted wordplay. Inked reflects the duality in all of us.

Pure Caring explores healing and caregiving through a heart-centered and selfless approach for medical caretaking or everyday living. Through powerful hospice stories and simple spiritual pointings, Janie Piano teaches how pure caring manifests as the divine healing force of the universe - which is unconditionally all loving and protecting.

Economics these days is in a mess. One person says this and one person says that. What is the truth? This book sets out the answers in layman's terms.

In reality, a poem can also be a song. So, this book is also a collection of songs on different topics. With good wishes to you all.

Children today need love and happiness in their lives. They do not need more and more toys and computers and Ipods. This book provides some lovely stories for both adults and for adults to read to children.

Today man's immune system has never been worse. Even flu will require the whole population to wear face masks. But (wild) animals seem to manage better. Is this because they are cleverer? No. But, studying animals gives many insights into what man should not do aswell as what he or she should do to maintain health.

Classic Short Stories for the Season of Christmas and all other days of the year.

A sophisticated but sweet group of spanking enthusiasts enact fantasies replete with well-bred perversity from Cape Cod to Southern California in Eve Howard's latest collection of interlocking stories. Five quietly seductive young women enjoy their first cataclysmic encounters with suitable dominant males as: a girl is propositioned by her masterful boss, Hugo Sands discovers an interesting female relation in the scene, a gentleman rectifies...

The author, Um'Khonde Patrick Habamenshi, was appointed Minister of Agriculture in Rwanda in October 2003, two days after his thirty-fifth birthday. It started as a dream but rapidly became a nightmare marked by constant threats, insults, and unfounded accusations. He resigned in May 2005 and sought refuge in the Canadian Embassy in Kigali. The following year was a slow downward spiral to the same hell that decimated Rwanda in 1994, a hell of ...

Normal is the hilarious story of four country girls, each armed with a newly acquired college diploma and $100, who take on Atlanta, Georgia. Each of them wants to change the world in her own way, but they have to make a living, too.The events in Normal take place in the early 1970's. It was a time of unrest, of change, and of poisonous behavior. It was a time of flower children, drugs, protests, and sit ins - almost too much for these "raised...

An extensive introduction and commentary to the 24 interconnected plays.

The book deals with an important and complex issue in geotechnical and earthquake engineering, which concerns the influence of both plasticity and pore water pressure on the influence of the seismic response to real earthquake records. Analyses are carried using the software FLAC3D. The book includes three parts: The first chapter presents a literature review of research on earth dams. It presents observation during earthquake loading, the dif...

This book argues for an innovative approach to the systematic learning of metaphorical expressions, idioms and proverbs.Based on conceptual metaphor and image schema theory, a 4-level hierarchical framework is established, which originates from embodied experiences, and surfaces in linguistic expressions including metaphorical expressions, idioms, and proverbs.Because conceptual metaphors, image, and image schemas posess special cognitive feat...

The Australian Football League (AFL) has a unique injury profile based on its large size playing fields and long match duration. In particular, there are very high rates of soft tissue injuries, such as hamstring strains, groin injuries, quadriceps strains and calf strains. It is no coincidence that much of the world-leading research into these soft tissue injuries has arisen from Australia in the last two decades. This book is an expansion of...

The highlands of northern Thailand are an example of a contradictory situation arising when a centralised government system extends its control to remote areas and clashes with traditional shifting cultivation practices. On the government side, policy is characterised by conflicting interests between forest preservation on the one hand, and the integration of ethnic minorities on the other. Hilltribes, on the other hand, are looking for land s...

SPANISH EDITION: This book has several purposes: to define worship, the origins of worship, how worship is expressed, what are its common elements, how worship has developed and also degenerated during the cycles of church history, to list the different forms and types of worship that are currently in use, and to propose suggested models for improvement in the 21st century.

The Legacy of Dutch immigrants, Jan and Willemina van Roekel ... A love story ... A true story about overcoming the odds ... A story of dreamers leaping out to make their dreams come true ... A story of the hardships of millions of immigrants who came to America to seize the opportunities ... A story of hard work, achievement, and making a valuable contribution to what is America, a land of opportunity ... A story of reaching beyond, in faith,...