Westbow press nov 2005 (44 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I turned to the second photograph. It was Guernica again. It was vandalized again, but this time by someone who had charitably done his handiwork on the photo instead of the picture itself. Now a speech cloud with a tail, like those used in comics, emanated from the pointed tongue of the horse that dominates the work's central panel. It spanned most of the painting in length, this time covering the mother's face and sparing the child's. It contained seven words, written calligraphically in red: Equestrians know. I felt as if the espresso had exploded in my stomach, sending reconstituted coffee beans in all directions, like a napalm bomb. Murder. This is what little Marcel was telling me, not so subtly.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Blake Brown eased his car out of the parking lot and onto the highway. Unseen, the idling evil slowly left its resting place to follow discreetly behind him. Blake rounded corners and went through lights and the black, metallic beast stayed on his tail. As Blake finally turned into his apartment complex, his shadow turned with him. He never noticed the sleek beast behind him as he pulled into his parking spot and turned off the ignition. The evil trailing him inched to a stop on the other side of the parking lot. Blake turned to walk across to his building. Just as he started across the lot, the black car started again. It honed in on him. It moved gracefully through the lot, smelling blood in the water. As it got close to Blake, it slowed, menacingly creeping toward him. The window lowered silently. Blake, sensing its presence, turned and his eyes lit with a hint of recognition. 'Squ ' was all he got out. Before he could finish the sentence, three shots quietly erupted from the silencer- equipped gun inside the black car. Blake Brown staggered backward. He was hit three times in the chest. The deal was off.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Odes to True Love Lost & True Love Found is a collection of poems for anyone that feels that true love is what relationships are built on. If you have ever found someone and lost them, and you just couldn't find the words you wanted to say or feel, then this is a book for you.Author E. C. Schneider II has put together these poems which were written from deep within his heart and soul about the feelings for another. The words that are written and the emotions that are shared are as real as they can get.Odes to True Love Lost & True Love Found is a great book to read in front of a fire or on a beach with another and see what magic and emotions awaken within yourself and one that you care about more than anything else in the world, if not for now maybe in the future.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - He once again reached down and lifted the ash bag at his side. Patting it gently the gray powder from the ash drifted straight back at him. The slight air movement was taking Rod and Handy's scent away from the thicket, the stalk was proceeding well. Remaining downwind was critical, nothing could match the keen sense of smell that an elephant possessed.Rod gave a quick glance over his left shoulder and with his index finger pointed toward the thicket. He shook the finger and nodded, signaling to Handy that the stalk would continue. The black tracker nodded his approval and shadowed him as he took a few short steps and stopped to study the thicket. When he took another step a twig snapped under his foot and he froze. With all the noise that the bull was making in the thicket it was unlikely that he heard the twig break, but those big ears of his were as keen as his elongated nose. The Acacia continued to weave back and forth then crashed violently to the ground. Reassured that the bull hadn't heard him Rod continued the stalk.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Have you ever felt the impact of poor leadership Whether it is at work, church, or in everyday life, success starts with the leader.Leadership 102: The Next Great Lesson is the perfect resource for anyone who desires to become the most effective leader they can be. By reflecting upon meaningful experiences and scientific reasoning, author Dean Leav introduces innovative ideas for influencing and moving your followers into embracing your vision, starting with you, the leader. Acquire the essential tools necessary to make a lasting impact upon your organization as you discover the following:Why being desperate is smartHow dissatisfaction will save your organizationWhy followers are the leader's mirrorWhy Jack Welch runs General Electric like a 'grocery store'Why volunteers are risking their lives in the BronxWhy Rick Warren gives away 90% of the millions he makesHow effective leaders finish smartIn addition to conveying leadership lessons and principles, Leav shows you why they work, giving you the insight necessary to make an impact upon your own organization. The information in Leadership 102: The Next Great Lesson will expand your mind, allowing you to become the effective leader that empowers change. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For two unforgettable years, writer Chuck Maisel and aspiring painter Carroll Graham lived the dream of a lifetime. Living in a timeless village on the Mediterranean island of Majorca, the two friends discover that fantasy can truly become reality.In this charming memoir, Chuck recalls the high humor and deep profundity of daily life on a foreign island, the heart-swelling beauty of place and people, and the wonderful events that brought him maturity, wisdom, joy, and eternal memories.Meet a captivating cast of characters that includes famous authors, painters, and a movie actress. But those most cherished are the island natives: Margarita, Toni, Pepe, Gaspar, Catalina, and others of the wise and delightful populace.Join the fun and fulfillment of an adventure crammed with the emotional warmth of Under the Tuscan Sun, the wit of A Year in Provence, and the joyous idiosyncrasies of living on an island. Enjoy a beautiful world where serendipity is the norm and still excites seekers of adventure today to Majorca island.'This delightful memoir is Chuck Maisel's best argument for the thoughtful and well-planned bliss-following that is necessary at some point in each of our lives-not to escape reality but to rediscover it with enthusiasm.'-Greg Sarris, Author of Watermelon Nights and both the novel and the screenplay of Grand Avenue produced by Robert Redford.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the midst of a major Washington, D.C. snowstorm, Dr. Dell Forsythe is blind-sided. Neither he nor anyone he knows has ever witnessed anything like it. Just before Christmas, a terminally ill cancer patient under his care has a miraculous recovery. Without any medical explanation, relatives and staff are convinced that a heaven-sent angel is responsible.It's not that Forsythe doesn't want to believe in miracles, it's just that after years of professional disappointments and personal regrets, he's well past skeptical. That is, until he meets the angel.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Suicidal at sixteen, life had never been worse for James Ballum. A high school sophomore with a sleepwalking disorder, James often wakes up in places without knowing how he arrived. This weakness is aggravated by the bullies he faces both in and out of school, but he is developing a plan to take revenge against his tormentors. Together with Tim, an ex-football player, Gary, a street hustler, Damian, a con man, and Tommy, a pagan dropout, they form the HAWKS Foundation a teenage suburban hit squad. Using military tactics and guided by a Malevolent Philosophy they are training to become heroes in a stealth war against everyone who has ever wronged them and it's a long list.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the great hall of Dunstanburgh Castle, balanced precariously on the point where England, Scotland, and the North Sea come together, young Aidan of Wellstitch awaits what he has dreaded-he must finally meet his bride-to-be.In the next instant, both he and the comely Holly are pleasantly surprised when they fall in love at first sight. However, a hellish nightmare follows when they disappear from the face of the earth.They have become pawns in a deadly game of palace intrigue that will rock the throne of England. Aidan is a vast saga of adventure, romance, spiritual manipulation, and erotica. Travel the stormy North Sea, peek into the steamy affairs of a royal family, and witness battles from Scotland to the heavens and back to old England in this sequel to author John F. Corrigan's novel Gwen.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The 'Amber Room' treasure hunt is different from most searches for riches; it actually begins at the end of a war as a quest for blood and bone-men, desperate criminal men, trying to avoid prosecution for war crimes. The Allies are trying to capture these men, who now seek refuge in the West, by slipping by their captors disguised as ordinary citizens. Wolves pretending to be sheep; rats masquerading mice.hence the tag line for their route, a Rat Line. Our heroes are counterintelligence GI's, who have a hard time convincing their superiors that such a Rat Line really exists. They even risk court martial to prove their point.The war ends and the discouraged Allies turn their attention to more materially rewarding activity: finding this immense fortune stolen by the Nazis and hidden in the Soviet Zone of occupation. First they have to crack the information out of the Nazi who stole it, now a prisoner in Colditz Castle, find it, then ferret it out of a Europe swarming with refugees, communists, starving patriots, and desperate ideologues. Along the way they become woodsmen, gypsies, and members of a circus. But, will their disguises pay off.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In many ways a regurgitating of author Mihajlo Bugarinovic's On the Theory of Unnatural Unnaturalness Becoming Natural Unnaturalness, The Multi-Dimensionality of Time as a Spatial Continuum returns to the idea of prenihilism as the root of nihilism with nihilism as the root of its root, in other words, to postnihilism. With The Multi-Dimensionality of Time as a Spatial Continuum, he has taken the blending of poetry and surrealist short story to a new extreme: a word's nuances in its definition are expanded upon.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Eight days into the New Year, there's an explosion. Misty, a former acquaintance of Craig's girlfriend, is put off by Craig's rejection to her sexual advances. Misty leads the Feds to believe that Craig is the next domestic terrorist since Timothy McVeigh. After being chased, harassed and viciously interrogated by the ATF and FBI, Craig must fight for his freedom amongst the backwoods mentality that is typical of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Craig was thrown in jail, placed on house arrest and suffered a magnitude of harassment. The home he shared with his girlfriend, Tammy, was broken into and bugged by Federal Agents, as Craig was forced into unreasonable compliance to breeches of privacy. Having nothing else to go on, the Feds decided to hit Craig with an unregistered firearm charge. Now the nightmare has only just begun for what should have been a slap on the wrist! Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! No matter, it was all lies.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Gramps Short Stories and Tall Tales, is the third children's book written by Lloyd Wright. It contains twenty-eight stories on various subjects. The stories were written for his family, little friends, and anyone else with a curious mind and a sense of humor.Most of the subject matter was derived from observing and listening to the students in the two kindergarten classes as he reads to them. He has incorporated good manners, love, friendship, laughter, sharing, safety, and imagination through out the book. Some of the stories were written to fit in with the units the children were studying such as dinosaurs.He is a volunteer that was fortunate enough to find two kindergarten classes that will share their time and affection with him. They refer to him as, 'Gramps.'.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ever since I first found out that Barbara had breast cancer the thought of her dying plagued me almost daily. I never told her how I felt about this because I tried to be her coach and source of strength. There were many nights especially when she was in the hospital with the infections that I cried myself to sleep. I just kept thinking that it was so unfair for her to have cancer and suffer all that humiliation and sickness that came with the chemotherapy treatments. I never really got over the fear of losing her. I was so afraid of what would happen to me. How could I ever go on with my life without her How would I cope with the thought of never seeing her or talking with her again I thought a lot about death during this period. I firmly believed in the afterlife and eternal salvation. I knew that Barbara was a good Christian and that her place in heaven would be a certainty. But I wanted her here on earth with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to see her grow old and comfort me. I couldn't stand the thought of her dying before me.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - By reading the wide variety of love letters found in Love Letters for All Occasions, you'll be able to experience all the emotions love can create within a person.Author Gary Hoskins spent over thirty years compiling letters to provide you with numerous hours of pleasure that you can enjoy again and again.Love Letters for All Occasions covers diverse situations, including:Expressing the joy of loveProclaiming your loveDifficult loveWhen love is not valuedLosing loveA guide for writing your own love lettersYou'll even be able to submit your own love letters for inclusion in Hoskins's next volume of letters.Whether you are experiencing the first joys of true love or dealing with the loss of love, Love Letters for All Occasions guarantees that you'll be able to express exactly how you feel.A great gift for someone that is special.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Some argue that life is so complex that things must be expected to go wrong. Yet even simple tasks fail to be done correctly. Invoices contain erroneous information or arrive late. Documents are misfiled or lost. Mail is delivered to the wrong address. Managers fail to communicate with everyone involved in key business transactions. The list seems endless.Still others argue that the reason things will always go wrong is due to some natural law. Work processes decay, or fall apart, a little at a time, until the outcome of the process is totally unpredictable and must be continuously crutched to keep it going. This natural decay is more easily seen in manufacturing processes, but the tendencies are just as true and unforgiving in service industry processes. The questions are 'Why ' and 'What causes this decay ' Is the fact that things go wrong something people have to accept as inevitable, or is it possible that people can cause work processes to go right instead of wrong What is needed is an organizational approach that anticipates and prevents problems rather than an approach that reacts to things after they have already gone wrong. This needed approach is based on prevention rather than fixing. Prevention is not only possible but also quite practical.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Read where British, American and French writers, actors and authors wined and dined in Paris. From Moliere to Deneuve, from Hemingway to Sedaris. Find out the theatre scene there, today and yesterday. Follow their footsteps in the City of Light and discover fabulous places including the setting of the Da Vinci Code in the Louvre.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When the celestial sky darkened with the coming night, the horsemen bedded their red-scaled steeds. The workers hastened to the rear to make camp. The soldiers girded their armor tighter, and Lucifer looked to the golden ramparts of the city of God. All was silent. No sign of any angelic enemy had they seen. No cry or call had been heard.Then Lucifer strode to the center bridge and summoned a banshee to come to him. The apparition obeyed and entered Lucifer through his mouth, thereby rendering all his words to resonate with extreme fright upon all hearers of his proclamation. . 'The Lord of Heaven has returned and all this land that is rightfully mine, I now take back.' Darkness now shrouded the walls of Zion completely, and there was no sign of life from the walls and ramparts. Yet the air of the valley was heavy with fear and enmity. Then Lucifer crossed the center bridge and laid his horned hands on the graven figure of the Cherubiim. He cast it down unto the ground, and it shattered into pieces. The demonic armored horde squealed in hellish delight and, prompted now by his own bold desecration of holiness, Lucifer howled.across the expanse of Heaven. No mortal man could have survived its sheer terror. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - She didn't want to worry, but found, like usual, she couldn't help it. She tried to tell herself it didn't matter anyway. This relationship was only supposed to be temporary, nothing more. She was black; he wasn't. It was an experiment they were both going to learn from and move on. That's how it was supposed to be. That's all it could be. This encounter would only prove their relationship was impossible. But then, somewhere, she'd forgotten the unspoken agreement. Somewhere, she'd started to believe there was nothing wrong with them being together-that there was the possibility they should be together. She'd listened, learned, liked, and finally loved, though she was still reluctant to admit the latter, even to herself. It was too risky. Nevertheless, her feelings were real. Now, they were walking into possibly the greatest threat to their relationship, the looming test of doom behind door number three-her family. She found herself hoping for the leap of faith that would allow them both to survive; that wouldn't allow something as superficial as the color of his skin to both deny and destroy them.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ravings of a Lunatic is a roller-coaster poetic ride through a young man's emotions. Here in all its glory is the megalomania, paranoia, depression, euphoria, psychosis, defeatism, and much more. Written mostly in an alcoholic stupor over five years of university study, it is a vast trail of evidence of the purging of a young man's soul. Take the ride and feel the screams.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - His appointment to defend a man accused of harming a child had changed all that. It had revived everything in his life that was ever painful. It had returned to his mind and soul an emptiness that once had overwhelmed him. It had set him on a course where he must again confront and deal with the same emotions that had almost destroyed him. As he watched the water move slowly by his deck, he winced at the thought of going to work. He was scheduled to be at the Public Defender's office that morning to view the Brewton file. Perhaps that explained why he thought the pull of the river was unusually magnetic. The more his sleepy head cleared, the more he realized he wasn't being attracted by the river. He was being repelled by his intense dislike for a man he'd never met. Clay had tried to picture him many times, but had failed. He tried venting his anger with imaginary punches, thrown as hard as he could. But, he got no relief hitting a man who had no face. It was time to get on with his dirty chore and learn all the things he didn't want to know about a man called Harco.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Then the circle passes unto its own taking on new challenges, until its energy moves me upward into the heaven space.bliss. With passion and an extraordinary talent for narrative fiction, Kinneth Hollaway takes us deep into the lives of Jonathan and Emmanuelle. This luminous story begins with simplicity and candor, as Jonathan takes us through the past year of his life; a journey in which he describes his change from mediocre existence to a brilliant man in flux, his fear disseminating as he takes on a new persona.Emmanuelle is the artist 'M' a hip vivacious woman, who has arisen from an abused woman, to a wondrous pop artist with an eclectic group of people and her brave eight-year-old daughter, Casey. As she takes us through the past year of her life, she opens her mind and fills her story with vibrant colors, group therapy sessions and finally her 'Suicide Six' paintings, which makes her famous. She begins and ends in New York, where she meets Jonathan, and they engage in a love affair, bringing their lives closer together with great imagination and a bond that cannot be broken.My Second Life is a true charm, an exciting ride through the adventurous lives of several people.a great story for everyone.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A renowned research biochemist is murdered. Nuclear material is stolen and an extremely deadly bio-chemical agent is compromised. A group of international terrorists, presumed to have been terminated years before, are confirmed to be alive and operating within the boarders of the United States. Now they have the capability to unleash weapons of mass destruction within the United States and their third world conspiracy to successfully undermine the stability of the U.S. Government looks to be inevitable. Brent Martin, a former U.S. Intelligence agent once tasked with the terrorists' destruction, is summoned back to the agency to counter their plan and preserve the safety of millions.Emerald Rain is a suspense thriller which pits European and Middle East terrorists and global conspirators against the United States of America. The story brings to light how unprepared the United States, as a whole is able to combat overt acts of terrorism within the boundaries of our nation. At the same time it depicts the resiliency of our countries resolve to improvise, adapt and overcome any obstacle of freedom and defeat the terrorists at their own game.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - After her ten-year marriage begins to crumble, Amber Smith finds satisfaction in the arms of a mysterious Nigerian named Blessing. But when Blessing experiences a renaissance of his own with another woman, Amber must follow a new path. Which direction will she take The idea that Mike was having an affair didn't bother me that much. It was ironical that his own indiscretion if it was true, would be so close to home as well. It wasn't really that I still loved him because, I didn't. It wasn't also that I was jealous because, I wasn't. It was just that I'd never thought of him as one who would have affair. Could this be true, I kept thinking My thought went back to Blessing, how I wished he was here to share the moment with me and watch the rain fall. I thought about the way he usually talks to me, look at me and the way he touches me. These thoughts are not strange to me at all because at night, whenever I'm lonely, I often think about him. Whenever I feel disenchanted, which is often these days, I think of him. And most importantly, whenever I needed to remind myself how good a man could make me feel, I think about him.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Poems of Passion. Love. Inspiration. It is not easy to express and write of God's great love. His love makes the oceans and the seas resemble small puddles. His love makes the planets and the stars comparable to a cluster of marbles in the palm of a hand. His love makes us.His children. These poems in Romancing Divine Love are like a scratch on an endless surface of who God is and how much He loves you. They are created to touch your heart, and bring you closer to your Creator, your Heavenly Father. Come with me and let us, Drink of His mercy, Live in His love, Experience His salvation; Let us Romance Divine Love.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Technology has been thought and discussed as one of the pivotal sources of economic growth. As the importance of technology and R& D, as its embodied form, being increased of its importance, a critical concern has been given on how to organize technology development. The concern is not confined to developing countries, but also extends to advanced nations due to a trait of knowledge intensive economies, which require longer and more complex linkages from knowledge to the actual production of goods and services.This book covers the issue of organizing technology development with multinational cases ranging from Korea, Japan to United States and other countries with universally applicable theories that provide possibilities for application in other countries. The other peculiarity of this book is that it presents not only what has happened in its analysis, but also tries to describe possible future trends. Changing contexts of capitalism has increased necessity to organize technology development even for advanced nations as long as they are regarded as knowledge intensive economies. Against the dynamic of longer & more complex linkages from knowledge to production, the answer from the economy & society was to increase R&D to 'ride' the dynamic of 'intensified' technology requirements. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I regret to say that the pioneers, who laid the foundation of America, are no more. The Old West and that breed of hardy souls are gone forever. I'd bet my saddle that modern-day pioneers would trade their motor homes for covered wagons just to follow the wagon-tracks of our ancestors, but for only a couple of days I'm sure. Our ancestors were courageously tough! The modern-day cowboys, among today's bloated population, would choose no other life in reincarnation, than to bob along on a long-tailed cowpony behind ten thousand head of longhorns moving up the old trails to Abilene and Dodge City, or north to Montana. - I was blessed to be born of that breed, blessed because it took that inherited pioneer spirit to pen this saga. An inheritance of chronicles recorded in my memory. Stories that flowed through the veins of my ancestry for well over a century, anecdotes passed down to me many years ago, mainly from my great father, Edward Irvin. I never dreamed that someday I would write a book, sharing, with the world, the accounts of my great-great grandmother's mother, Carolina Harold Irvin's remarkable and tragic life.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'We were not taught in medical school about the spiritual/energetic aspect of our true nature; that I had to learn from my patients and the master healer Himself.' In Healing From Within, Be Still and Know, Fourth Edition, Dr. Brooksby describes how we can reclaim and maintain our health when traditional medicine has failed us. Liberally peppered with case histories, Dr. Brooksby teaches us about our nature and how it's possible to work with our intrinsic energies to help us heal. 'Christ taught his disciples how to heal. We were supposed to have that knowledge, knowledge that has been lost to western cultures. It was not supposed to be a secret.' Additionally, in this fourth and final edition of Healing From Within, Be Still and Know, Dr. Brooksby discusses past life traumas and energetic entities and the impact of those on our health.…

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