For the believer in Christ, spiritual faith is tested every day. At times we feel the world "sifting us like wheat" just as the Lord describes to Saint Peter. With "Letters to the Holy One," we enter "Luce" the author's spiritual life through more than two hundred of his prayer encounters with God. Each prayer was spoken and recorded by one of his seven children. "Letters to the Holy One" began in the days following the tragic loss of the author's son James on September 11th 2001. Reading them, we experience the spiritual journey of a father who in the face ...

This book discusses the probability distributions used in reliability engineering and risk analysis. For each distribution, the book provides graphical visualization and related formulas, along with the corresponding reliability functions and other related formulas. Common statistics such as moments and confidence interval formulas are presented, including the likelihood functions. For the most important distributions, the book provides derivation of the maximum likelihood estimates. Bayesian estimations using non-informative and conjugate priors are provided ...

Whether in the home, in a church building or around familiar landmarks in a local community, a pilgrim journey can be made that will bring a new level of understanding and appreciation of daily life and the holy spaces it inhabits. Linking in with the traditional experiences of pilgrimage - Beginning, Discovering, Struggling, Resting, Remembering and more, this book provides guided meditations for ten prayer journeys inspired by everyday sights. Appropriate prayers and reflections are provided throughout and photographs encourage us to see familiar objects ...

Practical Moral and Political Economy, written by T. R. Edmonds, is a comprehensive study of the relationship between government, religion, institutions, individual happiness, and national power. The book presents a practical approach to understanding the moral and political economy, with a focus on how these factors can be utilized to achieve the greatest possible benefit for both individuals and society as a whole. The book is divided into several sections, each of which explores a different aspect of the moral and political economy. The first section focuses ...

Inhaltlich unveränderte Neuauflage. Stetig zunehmende Übertragungsraten in Datennetzen ermöglichen eine Reali­sierung immer neuer geografisch verteilter Anwendungen. Dabei kann die reelle Performanz einer Anwendung sich von der erwarteten um Größenordnungen abweichen. Netzdesigner, Netzplaner sowie Forscher und Ent­wickler neuer Anwendungen sind dabei gut beraten eine genauere Analyse einzelner Parameter der Performanz der Datennetze zu untersuchen. Dabei ist zu beachten, dass die Performanz an sich eine Sammlung diverser ...

After the sudden death of their parents, Jess Thomas and her sisters, Sly and Maggie, start creating a new life for themselves. But when Sly is accused of a crime she didn't commit, the young sisters are threatened with separation through foster care. Jess is determined to prove Sly's innocence, even at the cost of her own life. Cole McBride has been Jess's best friend since they were children. Now his feelings are deepening, just as Jess takes risks to protect her family. Can Cole convince Jess to trust him−and God−to help her?

Ce livre apporte des solutions aux problèmes intrinsèques non résolus, aux problèmes et aux mystères de la vie humaine, notamment l'esprit et le destin, les crises de la vie, le bonheur, l'amour pour les autres, l'illusion, la signification du silence et le chemin à suivre lorsque l'on se trouve à la croisée des chemins. la vie lorsque le chemin défini n'est pas certain.Les mystères de la vie concernant la force vitale, les types de respirations, la mort dans la vie et la vie au-delà ...

""Examen Hist������rico Cr������tico Filos������fico de la Doctrina del Consentimiento Paterno"" es un libro escrito por Emilio Ayll������n y Altolaguirre en 1862. En esta obra, el autor realiza un an�����lisis exhaustivo de la teor������a del consentimiento paterno, una doctrina que se origin������ ...

What they have left are the shoes, the suits and the photos. Now Dominic pushes to keep promises made to his father. His sister, Diallo, grapples with reconciling memories and recalling her mother's ways. Standing with them is a colourful band of friends and neighbours. Life comes at the twins with the shocks we feel are just not supposed to happen - banditry, betrayal, loss. It is up to them to reclaim their stories.