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A Transgender's Faith tells the remarkable true story of Walt Heyer, a man plagued since childhood with thoughts and feelings that he should have been a girl. The torment intensifies as he grows up, marries and starts a family, and builds an amazing career. Desperate, he secretly seeks out a radical treatment that promises relief, but also could risk the destruction of all he holds dear.With the same resolute determination that propelled him t...

Inspired by a news article about a missionary who spent his life serving on medical missions in Thailand, author Dr. King F. Yee changed his major from science to medicine. This memoir follows Yee's long and vigorous educational process of medical school, internship, and residency. It shares how, following training, Yee realized obtaining credentials and hanging a shingle do not make a medical practice an instant success. In For Love of Compas...

In my fictional memoir, entitled "Revelation Road, " my existence could end with two possible scenarios: a hopeful reality defined by romantic love or a hopeless reality characterized by poverty and unregulated mental illness. Poverty acts as an escape mechanism or a coping mechanism, depending on person, environment, and social conditioning, in my case it was a coping mechanism to confront reality. During the formative years of my childhood d...

This is the tale of one operations officer in America's espionage service. It begins with the story about his imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp with his parents in the Philippines during World War II, and how that led him to serve his country at the height of the Cold War. Howard Phillips Hart served most of his 25 year career in South Asia and the Middle East. He was involved in the Iranian Revolution, planned, started, and led the C...

Perry Slaughter's work has been called "dismayingly sexist" and "what you might get if Philip K. Dick and Chuck Palahniuk raised a special-needs baby." His characters, grappling as they do with issues of manhood and violence, are not what one would generally regard as romantics, and yet here, in a run of remarkable stories penned in the late '80s, he gives us romance as only he could-or would. In settings ranging from Earth to distant planets ...

Three main characters made the Magna Carta possible--the evil King John, the brilliant Archbishop Stephen Langton and the supreme warrior William Marshal. Besides these, others were involved in the story: Eleanor of Aquetaine, Richard the Lionhearted and others. This work includes information about the political, religious and economic life of England in the 13th century, recounts deeds of bravery and gives just a hint of still-buried treasure...

Das Bundesjagdgesetz und die Landesjagdgesetze werden für den Jäger immer wichtiger - oft hängt sein Jagdschein davon ab, dass er das Jagdrecht beherrscht. Aber schon in der Vorbereitung auf die Jägerprüfung gehört das Jagdrecht zum schwierigsten Lernstoff, und der gestandene Weidmann beherrscht es nur noch selten. Hier will dieses kleine Buch aus der Feder eines anerkannten Fachmanns auf lockere und amüsante, aber gleichzeitig tiefer gehend...

Entzündliche Prozesse sind der Kern vieler Gesundheitsprobleme. Deren Lösung - dafür gibt es immer mehr Anzeichen - liegt zu einem großen Teil in der richtigen Ernährung. Ernährungsmedizinische und orthomolekulare Ansätze haben dabei bisher oft eine bedeutende Substanzgruppe vernachlässigt - die sekundären Pflanzenstoffe. Vor dem Hintergrund immer neuer Studienergebnisse werden sie nach dem Hype um die Vitamine in den 60er- bis 90er-Jahren mit...

This is the first book on the Serbi-Mongolic language family - a major language family of Asia - and the first modern linguistic study of the Serbi (Xianbei ¿¿) peoples, whose conquest of North China took place at approximately the same time as the Germanic and Hunnic Völkerwanderung into the former Western Roman Empire. The findings presented in this book - the first rigorous and systematic unified theory on the origins of the Mongolic and Se...

In this moving book of poetry, author Smoky Zeidel celebrates her walk with nature while exploring all the peaks and valleys of life through her kinship with the natural world. In Crescent Meadow, she shares her deep and abiding love for the flora and fauna of this planet we call home. Through On the Anniversary of My Father's Death, she reflects on the cycle of life while remembering her father, who has sent her a gift every year since his pa...

Contains ten army and navy lists covering the Bishops' War of 1640, the English Parliament's response to the Irish Rebellion of late 1641, and the outbreak of the first English Civil War in 1642. All are transcribed directly from copies of the original documents, giving the names of 2, 200 men including officers of horse and foot, naval commanders, and auxiliary staff.

FEATURING: Julie Canlis, Jonathan Hiskes, D. L. Mayfield, Brett David Potter , Shelia Rogers PLUS: Wanderlust: A Personal History Hospitality and Domesticity: Where Can These Black Women Live? The Transfigured Earth: Jubilee and the Transformation of Watersheds Somewhere in Newfoundland Until an End Is Made --AND MORE . . .

A poster child for our nation's urban experimentation a century ago, Gary was forged with hype and hope, dreams and sweat, political agendas and tons of steel. The hardscrabble city attracted all kinds, from shady scroundrels and famous architects to hardworking immigrants and brilliant entrepreneurs. Boasting 180, 00 residents at its peak, the booming melting pot eventually faded away under the afflictions of urban decay, racial unrest and po...

Package includes 6 copies each of: Ecosystems - Approaching Level, ELL, On Level, Beyond LevelBuilding a Biome - Approaching Level, ELL, On Level, Beyond LevelDiscovering the Elements - Approaching Level, ELL, On Level, Beyond LevelStrong as Steel - Approaching Level, ELL, On Level, Beyond LevelShake, Rattle, Explode! - Approaching Level, ELL, On Level, Beyond LevelAlloys: Metals in the Mix - Approaching Level, ELL, On Level, Beyond LevelMixtu...

Durable, illustrated cards with directions for students for use in self-directed centers for small-group differentiation. One set included in Comprehensive Classroom Resource Package.Grade 4 Contents: 124 activities on 62 double-sided cards that measure 10x12

Durable, illustrated cards with directions for students for use in self-directed centers for small-group differentiation. One set included in Comprehensive Classroom Resource Package.Grade 3 Contents: 126 activities on 63 double-sided cards that measure 10x12

Utah's Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area offers breathtaking natural resources, powerful historical drama and intriguing cultural traditions. This rich legacy is built on old-world values of cooperation, industry, ingenuity and true grit--as well as a miracle or two. From frontier justice and lost treasure to the lasting contributions of a Presbyterian minister and a Jewish settlement, talented regional historians, educators and storytelle...

In the winter of 1861, Union armies had failed to win any significant victories over their Confederate counterparts. The Northern populace, overwhelmed by the bloodshed, questioned whether the costs of the war were too high. President Lincoln despondently wondered if he was going to lose the Union. As a result, tension was incredibly high when Union hero Ambrose Burnside embarked for coastal North Carolina. With the eyes of the nation and worl...

The Santa Fe Line and the famous Fred Harvey restaurants forever changed New Mexico and the Southwest, bringing commerce, culture and opportunity to a desolate frontier. The first Harvey Girls ever hired staffed the Raton location. In a departure from the ubiquitous black and white uniform immortalized by Judy Garland in 1946's Harvey Girls, many of New Mexico's Harvey Girls wore colorful dresses reflective of local culture. In Albuquerque, th...

The Southside, Diamondback and the Preakness -- Marylanders imbibe history in their native cocktails, from local favorites to little-known classics. Early residents favored fruit brandies and potent punches until the Civil War, when rye whiskey laid claim to local palates. During the golden age of the cocktail, grand hotels like Baltimore's Belvedere created smooth concoctions such as the Frozen Rye, but the dry days of Prohibition interrupted...