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The fourth in 'The Mormon Delusion' series tracks the Mormon 'Missionary Lesson Manual' as taught to investigators, and lesson by lesson, exposes and explains the truth behind the false teachings. At every stage, unsuspecting investigators are taught a fictional account of Mormon history and teachings by faithful missionaries who themselves have no idea they are teaching provable fiction. This book exposes the underlying truth behind Joseph Sm...

In Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky provides readers with an insight on leadership and innovation. He introduces Apple business concepts like the 'DRI' (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual event where that year's top 100 up-and-coming executives are surreptitiously transported to a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs). Based on numerous interviews, the book reveals ex...

Drawing on critical race theory, this book critically examines race through a mosaic lens pointing out various issues directly connected to it, such as racial identity politics, racism, multiracialism, interracial relationships, and the hegemony of whiteness. This book goes further to analyze the manner in which socially constructed racial stereotypes contribute to and are used to justify the poor socio-economic situation and marginalization o...

Spirituelle Erfahrungen sind bei Kindern und Jugendlichen häufig, Spiritualität ist dabei nicht an Religiosität gebunden. Solche Erfahrungen können sich in Erlebnissen des Staunens und Wunderns, in philosophischen Fragen, Weisheit, Verbundenheit mit anderen und dem "Sehen" von Unsichtbarem zeigen. Sie haben hohe persönliche emotionale Bedeutung. Oft wird Spiritualität bei jungen Menschen jedoch übersehen - im Leben wie auch in der Psychotherap...

Edward Stourton is a newpaper columnist and the author of five previous books. He is writer and presenter of several high-profile current affairs programmes and documentaries for radio and television and regularly presents BBC Radio Four programmes such as The World at One, The World this Weekend, Sunday and Analysis. He is a frequent contributor to the Today programme where for ten years he was one of the main presenters.

On average, companies loose 40 to 60 percent of their strategic potential during execution. Image the amount of money you could save by closing that gap. But in order to take the next step - to close that gap - organisations need a more detailed view on exactly where they are losing performance. Knowing that your organisation loses between 40 and 60 percent of its strategic potential on the execution highway between the city 'strategy' and the...

Tom Brady marching the team upfield in the final minute of the 2001 Super Bowl. Troy Brown playing offense, defense, and special teams. The Tuck Rule. A rogue groundskeeper plowing a path for kicker John Smith at the end of a scoreless, snowy game. Gino Cappelletti setting the AFL record for points in a game against the Houston Oilers. These are the moments Patriots fans love to remember, now retold by the players who lived them.Once a top tea...

Lately, the lively, often unruly, and occasionally dangerous Schraft Street in Boston has become Jim Herlihy's entire world. As he struggles to eke a meager existence from the small assets he owns-a neighborhood gym, local sports bar, and a renovated old three-decker- his challenges are compounded because the love of his life is in love with someone else, and his troubled young tenant, stripper Amy Jordan, for whom he has developed a powerful ...

Charlotte Bront¿1816-55) was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, one of an extraordinary group of siblings who spent their time immersed in reading and writing and between them went on to change the nature of English fiction. Publishing under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Charlotte was a great friend of Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote her biography, as well as William Makepeace Thackeray and George Henry Lewes.Bront¿ novels Jane Eyre and Shirley are also p...

Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly and commercially.

Compilation of 1890's articles written by Jesse Sinclair which appeared in The Milford Leader newspaper. These articles included the early history and settlers of Holland Township, NJ, religion in Holland township, and the history of Holland School. The collection also contains Jesse's memoirs of his life. There is much genealogical information regarding the settling families included.

Notes from the Nightstand is exactly what the title conjures in your mind. A trio of short stories written from notes made on a pad next to the bed for the writer to write down ideas as he was waking or falling asleep. "In Plane Sight" - The story of a fledgling reporter who is struck by a family tragedy. Her brother and his wife are killed in a tragic accident at an air show. When she travels to his home to deal with his affairs she starts lo...

Written by a recent law school graduate with an extraordinary success story, Excelling in Law School: A Complete Approach transcends merely surviving the experience, demonstrating how to earn high grades by working smart, excel in extracurricular activities, publish, and land top jobs. The author aced his first year at a fourth tier law school and transferred to a top-10 school from which he graduated, magna cum laude. Now, he shares his insig...

Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives and the two major fantasy series, the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Often regarded as mere escapism, works of both literature and cinema wishing to be taken seriously by the public, by critics and by academics have tended to shelter under the euphemistic umbrella of Magic Realism and, until very recently, there has been a general lack of seri...

Teacher and historian Charles Herner describes the life and accomplishments of Alexander Brodie, an intriguing figure whose accomplishments merit a careful study. Herner guides his reader through this man's life, highlighting not only the most historically noteworthy events, but also those formative moments that shaped Brodie's character.

This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues involving rehabilitation interventions and therapies. It is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which incorporates links from varied fields making up Disability Studies as volumes examine topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialis...

Ted Kluszewski played little baseball in his youth, making a name for himself instead as a hard-hitting football player at Indiana University before showing potential on the diamond and being signed by the Cincinnati Reds. Between 1953 and 1956, no other player in major league baseball hit more home runs. With detailed statistics from both his football and baseball careers, this biography chronicles the unusual odyssey that took Kluszewski to ...

This volume takes the child's environment (culture, education, family, peers and media) as an essential component of child development.

A festive novel from the bestselling author of "White Wedding, A Summer Fling, A Spring Affair, An Autumn Crush" and many others. After the death on Christmas Day of her soldier fiance 5 years earlier, Eve has always hated Christmas, but now she has the chance to go into business to build a Winterworld theme park.

For new students the language and concepts of midwifery care can at first be daunting. This book helps students to understand the expectations of midwifery training in relation to normal midwifery practice. It covers the basics of midwifery care including professional practice, frameworks informing midwifery care, key concepts and philosophies of care, communication and care skills, antenatal care, normal labour and birth, postnatal care, neon...