Author: Solange Jacques
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748723458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Antoinette is a young, religious, spunky teen with loads of character. She deems anyone who falls in love as pathetic, but when she meets him, she is conflicted... Does she stay true to her morals and religious values, or does she fall hard and just forget all the advice that she has been taught for the past 15 years? This decision is bigger than to love or not to love, it's a tug of war between her beliefs and her undying soul... Different stories, unique reactions, and loads of emotional outbursts. For some, they find love and acceptance easily, whereas for others, it was always meant to be an emotional rollercoaster. Each scenario leads into a poetic breakthrough of mental courage and life changing epiphanies... This book would be the definition of love, betrayal, unacceptance, and societal uprising bursting at the seams...
The Burdens of a Tormented Soul...
Author: Solange Jacques
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748723458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Antoinette is a young, religious, spunky teen with loads of character. She deems anyone who falls in love as pathetic, but when she meets him, she is conflicted... Does she stay true to her morals and religious values, or does she fall hard and just forget all the advice that she has been taught for the past 15 years? This decision is bigger than to love or not to love, it's a tug of war between her beliefs and her undying soul... Different stories, unique reactions, and loads of emotional outbursts. For some, they find love and acceptance easily, whereas for others, it was always meant to be an emotional rollercoaster. Each scenario leads into a poetic breakthrough of mental courage and life changing epiphanies... This book would be the definition of love, betrayal, unacceptance, and societal uprising bursting at the seams...
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748723458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Antoinette is a young, religious, spunky teen with loads of character. She deems anyone who falls in love as pathetic, but when she meets him, she is conflicted... Does she stay true to her morals and religious values, or does she fall hard and just forget all the advice that she has been taught for the past 15 years? This decision is bigger than to love or not to love, it's a tug of war between her beliefs and her undying soul... Different stories, unique reactions, and loads of emotional outbursts. For some, they find love and acceptance easily, whereas for others, it was always meant to be an emotional rollercoaster. Each scenario leads into a poetic breakthrough of mental courage and life changing epiphanies... This book would be the definition of love, betrayal, unacceptance, and societal uprising bursting at the seams...
Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports
Author: Mike McIntire
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393292622
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A searing exposé of how the multibillion dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious, smash-mouth entertainment conglomerate known, quaintly, as intercollegiate athletics. In Champions Way, New York Times investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles the rise of this growing scandal through the experience of the Florida State Seminoles, one of the most successful teams in NCAA history. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his Times investigation of college sports, McIntire breaks new ground here, uncovering the workings of a system that enables athletes to violate academic standards and avoid criminal prosecution for actions ranging from shoplifting to drunk driving. At the heart of Champions Way is the untold story of a whistle-blower, Christie Suggs, and her wrenching struggle to hold a corrupt system to account. Together with shocking new details about prominent sports figures, including NFL quarterback Jameis Winston and former FSU coach Bobby Bowden, Champions Way shines a light on the ethical, moral, and legal compromises inherent in the making of a championship sports program. Beyond the story of Florida State, McIntire takes readers on a journey through the history of college football, from its origins as a roughneck pastime coached by nineteenth-century professors to its current incarnation as a gold-plated behemoth that long ago outgrew its scholastic environs. Illuminated in rich and disturbing detail is the hidden financial ecosystem that nourishes hundred-million-dollar teams, from the hustlers who recruit players for schools and the athletic departments controlled by rich boosters to the universities whose academic mission and moral authority have been undermined. More than pointing out flaws, McIntire examines their causes and offers hope to those who would reform college sports.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393292622
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A searing exposé of how the multibillion dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious, smash-mouth entertainment conglomerate known, quaintly, as intercollegiate athletics. In Champions Way, New York Times investigative reporter Mike McIntire chronicles the rise of this growing scandal through the experience of the Florida State Seminoles, one of the most successful teams in NCAA history. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his Times investigation of college sports, McIntire breaks new ground here, uncovering the workings of a system that enables athletes to violate academic standards and avoid criminal prosecution for actions ranging from shoplifting to drunk driving. At the heart of Champions Way is the untold story of a whistle-blower, Christie Suggs, and her wrenching struggle to hold a corrupt system to account. Together with shocking new details about prominent sports figures, including NFL quarterback Jameis Winston and former FSU coach Bobby Bowden, Champions Way shines a light on the ethical, moral, and legal compromises inherent in the making of a championship sports program. Beyond the story of Florida State, McIntire takes readers on a journey through the history of college football, from its origins as a roughneck pastime coached by nineteenth-century professors to its current incarnation as a gold-plated behemoth that long ago outgrew its scholastic environs. Illuminated in rich and disturbing detail is the hidden financial ecosystem that nourishes hundred-million-dollar teams, from the hustlers who recruit players for schools and the athletic departments controlled by rich boosters to the universities whose academic mission and moral authority have been undermined. More than pointing out flaws, McIntire examines their causes and offers hope to those who would reform college sports.
Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Milton James Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415575435
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
With in-depth analysis of more than fifteen countries, this volume examines the impact of the double disease burden on health care regimes, resource allocation, strategies for prevention and control on the wealthiest nations in the region, as well as the smallest Pacific islands. Milton Lewis, University of Sydney.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415575435
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
With in-depth analysis of more than fifteen countries, this volume examines the impact of the double disease burden on health care regimes, resource allocation, strategies for prevention and control on the wealthiest nations in the region, as well as the smallest Pacific islands. Milton Lewis, University of Sydney.
Lost Soul: AJ's Burden
Author: Nicky James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781979128162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
What does rock bottom look like to you?AJ Silva is about to find out. His life has been spiralling the drain for the past year, and if he doesn't find a way out soon, he may die on the streets of San Francisco. Drowning in a severe drug addiction, battling every day to survive, AJ doesn't know where to turn. His past haunts him in more ways than one, and leaves him both grasping and begging for change, while fearing his future. All AJ knows how to do is chase one problem away with another. How can you win the war when your enemy is yourself?Trystain Larsson is an addict. Five years ago, he discovered rock bottom first hand. Since that dreaded day, he's worked his recovery with everything he has. Helping others who've fallen victim to drugs gives him hope for a better tomorrow. If he can save even one person from that life, it will mean victory. When AJ lands at his doorstep, Trystain gets more than he bargained for. Not only is AJ at the end of his rope, but there is something darker going on.Coming off drugs is not an easy task, and with AJ, Trystain has his work cut out for him. During their time together, a bond that goes deeper than friendship grows. Will mistakes from the past be barriers for the future? It's hard to move forward, when you can't stop looking back. **TRIGGER WARNING** This book deals with addiction and has on-page drug use.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781979128162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
What does rock bottom look like to you?AJ Silva is about to find out. His life has been spiralling the drain for the past year, and if he doesn't find a way out soon, he may die on the streets of San Francisco. Drowning in a severe drug addiction, battling every day to survive, AJ doesn't know where to turn. His past haunts him in more ways than one, and leaves him both grasping and begging for change, while fearing his future. All AJ knows how to do is chase one problem away with another. How can you win the war when your enemy is yourself?Trystain Larsson is an addict. Five years ago, he discovered rock bottom first hand. Since that dreaded day, he's worked his recovery with everything he has. Helping others who've fallen victim to drugs gives him hope for a better tomorrow. If he can save even one person from that life, it will mean victory. When AJ lands at his doorstep, Trystain gets more than he bargained for. Not only is AJ at the end of his rope, but there is something darker going on.Coming off drugs is not an easy task, and with AJ, Trystain has his work cut out for him. During their time together, a bond that goes deeper than friendship grows. Will mistakes from the past be barriers for the future? It's hard to move forward, when you can't stop looking back. **TRIGGER WARNING** This book deals with addiction and has on-page drug use.
New Zealand's Great War
Author: John Crawford
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
ISBN: 1927147344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
This book is a collection of essays arising out of the OCyZealandiaOCOs Great WarOCO conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New ZealandOCOs involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, the early years of the RSA, Gallipoli, the infantry on the Somme, New ZealandOCOs involvement in the naval war, prostitution and the New Zealand soldier, the Home Defence, religion in the First World War, and the Armistice. New ZealandOCOs Great War is a fascinating miscellany of informed comment on and insight into the event that did most to shape New Zealand as a nation. Contributors include New ZealandOCOs own Chris Pugsley, Glyn Harper, Terry Kinloch, Monty Soutar, Megan Hutching, Vincent Orange and Bronwyn Dalley, as well as Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Jennifer Keene, Jenny McLeod, Pierre Purseigle, Peter Stanley and Gary Sheffield from overseas."
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
ISBN: 1927147344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
This book is a collection of essays arising out of the OCyZealandiaOCOs Great WarOCO conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New ZealandOCOs involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, the early years of the RSA, Gallipoli, the infantry on the Somme, New ZealandOCOs involvement in the naval war, prostitution and the New Zealand soldier, the Home Defence, religion in the First World War, and the Armistice. New ZealandOCOs Great War is a fascinating miscellany of informed comment on and insight into the event that did most to shape New Zealand as a nation. Contributors include New ZealandOCOs own Chris Pugsley, Glyn Harper, Terry Kinloch, Monty Soutar, Megan Hutching, Vincent Orange and Bronwyn Dalley, as well as Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Jennifer Keene, Jenny McLeod, Pierre Purseigle, Peter Stanley and Gary Sheffield from overseas."
The Soul and Its Instrumental Body
Author: A. P. Bos
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004130166
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Aristotle's definition of the soul should be interpreted as: 'the soul is the entelechy of a natural body that serves as its instrument'. The theory of a fine-corporeal body makes it much easier to understand Aristotle's position between Plato and the Stoics . This correction puts paid to all theories about a development in Aristotle's thought.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004130166
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Aristotle's definition of the soul should be interpreted as: 'the soul is the entelechy of a natural body that serves as its instrument'. The theory of a fine-corporeal body makes it much easier to understand Aristotle's position between Plato and the Stoics . This correction puts paid to all theories about a development in Aristotle's thought.
Year Book of the ... Session of the East Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Kennedy Must Be Killed
Author: Chuck Helppie
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440185190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
As a young CIA officer, Patrick McCarthy witnesses first-hand JFKs political immaturity and personal recklessness. When Kennedy is elected in 1960, Patrick fears that Kennedy is unprepared to lead the nation in the height of the Cold War. After the near catastrophic events of the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Patriots, a shadowy group of powerful men, decide to take action before Kennedys next political blunder destroys the country. Patricks devotion to protecting his country ensnares him in the conspiracy to assassinate the president. After the assassination, Patrick assists in orchestrating the Warren Commission cover-up. He realizes too late that he has been duped by those he trusted. Years later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations reopens the investigation and subpoenas Patrick to testify. Patrick grapples with the decision to reveal the trutha truth which will re-write American history and destroy the reputations and fortunes of some of Americas most powerful men. KENNEDY MUST BE KILLED chronicles the life of Patrick McCarthy from the time he arrives in postwar Washington D.C. as an idealistic, patriotic young man to that fateful day on the grassy knoll when he destroys the heart of the nation. It is a story about one mans love for his country, love for his wife and family, and an act of betrayal that causes him to lose everything that he holds dear.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440185190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
As a young CIA officer, Patrick McCarthy witnesses first-hand JFKs political immaturity and personal recklessness. When Kennedy is elected in 1960, Patrick fears that Kennedy is unprepared to lead the nation in the height of the Cold War. After the near catastrophic events of the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Patriots, a shadowy group of powerful men, decide to take action before Kennedys next political blunder destroys the country. Patricks devotion to protecting his country ensnares him in the conspiracy to assassinate the president. After the assassination, Patrick assists in orchestrating the Warren Commission cover-up. He realizes too late that he has been duped by those he trusted. Years later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations reopens the investigation and subpoenas Patrick to testify. Patrick grapples with the decision to reveal the trutha truth which will re-write American history and destroy the reputations and fortunes of some of Americas most powerful men. KENNEDY MUST BE KILLED chronicles the life of Patrick McCarthy from the time he arrives in postwar Washington D.C. as an idealistic, patriotic young man to that fateful day on the grassy knoll when he destroys the heart of the nation. It is a story about one mans love for his country, love for his wife and family, and an act of betrayal that causes him to lose everything that he holds dear.
Soul Legacy
Author: A.J. Flowers
Publisher: A.J. Flowers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
A civilization destroyed by magic. Those who remain are on the brink of extinction. Thane is a Dweller, one of the last of his kind. He’s lived for a thousand years and this is the first time that his goddess has sent him to assassinate a fellow deity—a testament of how close they really are to the end. His failure is inevitable, but death is only the beginning of his biggest adventure yet. Thane is reborn into a new life, as is the way of the Dweller. When he finds himself in enemy territory he has no choice but to bind himself to a human soul. In doing so, he learns there is an ancient and powerful magic that even the gods fear. The Void is coming and it will devour everything—the gods, the realms, even magic itself. If it can be harnessed, those he has come to love will never live in fear again. Soul Legacy is a standalone 120,000-word romantic epic fantasy novel featuring Thane, his soulmate Gwen, and their daughter Astrid. This is a reprint of the duology “Soul Bound” and “Soul Child.” Content includes mild violence, language, and high fantasy concepts.
Publisher: A.J. Flowers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
A civilization destroyed by magic. Those who remain are on the brink of extinction. Thane is a Dweller, one of the last of his kind. He’s lived for a thousand years and this is the first time that his goddess has sent him to assassinate a fellow deity—a testament of how close they really are to the end. His failure is inevitable, but death is only the beginning of his biggest adventure yet. Thane is reborn into a new life, as is the way of the Dweller. When he finds himself in enemy territory he has no choice but to bind himself to a human soul. In doing so, he learns there is an ancient and powerful magic that even the gods fear. The Void is coming and it will devour everything—the gods, the realms, even magic itself. If it can be harnessed, those he has come to love will never live in fear again. Soul Legacy is a standalone 120,000-word romantic epic fantasy novel featuring Thane, his soulmate Gwen, and their daughter Astrid. This is a reprint of the duology “Soul Bound” and “Soul Child.” Content includes mild violence, language, and high fantasy concepts.
Lost Luggage
Author: A.J. Stewart
Publisher: Jacaranda Drive
ISBN: 1945741317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
USA Today Bestselling Author John Flynn found a home in the French Foreign Legion until his terrorist hunting unit was disbanded after his final tour went bad. Now, a decade later, the forces that ended his career are back, and they want something they think he has. Something that Flynn made lost. But finding the unfindable was what these men once did. So if they want their lives back once and for all, Flynn and his former Legion brothers must race across the globe in search of a shipment that was never supposed to be found. "Jack Reacher meets Ocean's Eleven!" Series praise: ★★★★★ “I read this book in one day! NON-stop action.” ★★★★★ “John Flynn is a far-above average protagonist.” ★★★★★ “The author is a great storyteller.” ★★★★★ “Another Winner from A.J. Stewart.” ★★★★★ “Filled with twists, turns and unexpected outcomes.” ★★★★★ “I'll be reading more... Eagerly.” ★★★★★ “I don’t know where A.J. will march John Flynn next, but I want to go on that adventure!”
Publisher: Jacaranda Drive
ISBN: 1945741317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
USA Today Bestselling Author John Flynn found a home in the French Foreign Legion until his terrorist hunting unit was disbanded after his final tour went bad. Now, a decade later, the forces that ended his career are back, and they want something they think he has. Something that Flynn made lost. But finding the unfindable was what these men once did. So if they want their lives back once and for all, Flynn and his former Legion brothers must race across the globe in search of a shipment that was never supposed to be found. "Jack Reacher meets Ocean's Eleven!" Series praise: ★★★★★ “I read this book in one day! NON-stop action.” ★★★★★ “John Flynn is a far-above average protagonist.” ★★★★★ “The author is a great storyteller.” ★★★★★ “Another Winner from A.J. Stewart.” ★★★★★ “Filled with twists, turns and unexpected outcomes.” ★★★★★ “I'll be reading more... Eagerly.” ★★★★★ “I don’t know where A.J. will march John Flynn next, but I want to go on that adventure!”