Skeptical but drawn to spirituality? Explore the best of both worlds. A former evangelical seminarian and ex-Roman Catholic, Barrett A. Evans is an agnostic who has retained a fascination with contemplative spirituality. Building on what he learned in his divinity, counseling, and historical studies, the author draws on hundreds of religious and secular sources in an effort to combine honest doubt with the best of contemplative experience. Presented in a “devotional” format, The Contemplative Skeptic is meant to be an exploration into ...

Only months ago, nineteen-year-old Lydia Brone and her friends were captured by one of Kormace Island's most ruthless clans-the Northers-and forced into a life of slavery.  Every day since, they have been abused, threatened, and beaten. Still, Brone refuses to bow to Rainer, leader of the Northers.  Primal Instincts, the enthralling third book of The Feral Sentence serial, continues where the second book ended-on the dawn of an uprising.   Now, a revolution begins.

Stress is an unwanted natural gift of modern-day life to mankind. Though it is difficult to stay free of stress, making some basic changes in the lifestyle and following some simple steps can bring down the level of stress significantly. Stress is a part and parcel of every aspect of life. Through regular practice of stress reduction techniques, symptoms of stress decrease, one must figure out an effective way to cope with stress. The book covers all aspects of stress management, especially the reasons for stress and suggest various ways to tackle stress ...

Many theorists posit that the difficulties adopted people experience arise from reflection on what it means to be adopted, while some adopted people assert that the transition from biological parent to adopted family is experienced as a traumatic loss of an attachment relationship. Pinning down the relevant conscious and sub-conscious experiences of adopted infants and young children is difficult to do. Still, in order for adopted people to understand impulses and govern behaviors which may stem from feelings associated with the loss of early attachment relationships ...

For twenty years I had been perfectly comfortable; for twenty years I had had the window-boxes filled in the spring, the carpets lifted, the awnings put up and the furniture covered with brown linen; for as many summers I had said good-bye to my friends, and, after watching their perspiring hegira, had settled down to a delicious quiet in town, where the mail comes three times a day, and the water supply does not depend on a tank on the roof. And then -- the madness seized me. When I look back over the months I spent at Sunnyside, I wonder that I survived ...

On the historic campus of the fictional Parthenon University lies Potential Street, a non-descript alley lined by the University's twelve clubs. Each club bears a sign of the Zodiac. The most notorious of the clubs is Pithon which has housed the ancient Greek deities in order to seize absolute political power in North America. All it needs to complete its devious plan is to have one qualifying student from each of the twelve Zodiac Signs participate on their birthdays in Virtues Constellation, a mega-spell that will consolidate all the power of the other ...

India's Needs: Material, Political, Social, Moral, and Religious is a book written by John Murdoch and published in 1886. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the various needs of India in different aspects such as material, political, social, moral, and religious. The author, who was a Scottish missionary and educator, lived in India for over 40 years and had a deep understanding of the country's culture, history, and people.In the book, Murdoch discusses the material needs of India, including the development of infrastructure, agriculture, and industry. ...

The Oxford History Of Music V5: The Viennese Period (1904) is a comprehensive book written by William Henry Hadow. The book is a part of the Oxford History of Music series and focuses on the Viennese period of music, which is considered to be one of the most important periods in the history of classical music. The book covers a wide range of topics related to the Viennese period, including the lives and works of famous composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. It also discusses the social and cultural context of the period, including the role of music ...

Soluções analíticas e/ou numéricas da equação de difusão, para diversas geometrias, condições de contorno e coeficientes difusivos constantes ou variáveis são encontradas na literatura, no entanto existem poucos resultados científicos obtidos a partir de geometrias tridimensionais. Ao se considerar geometrias uni e bidimensionais para descrever processos tridimensionais, algumas discrepâncias, na cinética de secagem e distribuição do teor de umidade ...