One of the most important steps in every young person's life is coming to the place where you decide for yourself what you believe in. Lydia, A Seller of Purple is the true story of a Pennsylvania girl looking for answers and her purpose in the closing decades of the last century. Containing all the elements of drama, suspense, romance, and narrative, this book will capture every reader's interest. Out of mean and lowly circumstances, Lydia grew strong in moral virtue and spiritual grace. Resolute in being true to her conscience, she conquered obstacle after ...

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The first complete English edition of Verlaine's important first book of poems Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet Karl Kirchwey, faithfully renders the collection's heady mix of classical learning and earthy sensuality in poems whose rhythm and rhyme represent one of the supreme accomplishments ...

The book concentrates on the cultures that arose in Europe after the dispersal of the Aryan-speaking people from their homeland north of the Black Sea during BC 4th millenium. Relying on mythology, history and archeology the author has traced the development and movements of the 'Q-Celt' and 'P-Celt' speaking peoples of Europe and Asia Minor. The time span covers from BC 3rd millenium to the Roman occupation of Celtic Europe. The emphasis is on the Bronze and Iron Ages. The result is a comprehensive overview of the people we have come to call the Celts. ...

Written for mothers everywhere who seek to fulfill their purpose in every aspect of their personal and professional lives, the ten stories in this anthology carve out inspiring and practical paths to reaching the exalted status of #BossMom!   Every author is a boss in her own right, specializing in a certain area of success: one mom will teach you the tenets of unbeatable customer service, while another will show you how she engages her own children in entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Others will help you cultivate your winning mindset ...

The aim of this book is to understand: Spectral Analysis: Fourier Series: the Sampling Function, the Response of a linear System, Normalized Power in a Fourier expansion, Impulse Response, Power Spectral Density, Effect of Transfer Function on Power Spectral Density, the Fourier Transform, Physical Appreciation of the Fourier Transform, Transform of some useful functions, Scaling, Time-shifting and Frequency shifting properties, Convolution, Parseval's Theorem, Correlation between wave-forms, Auto-and cross correlation, Expansion in Orthogonal Functions, ...

Ze wil ontsnappen maar de muren van het verpleegtehuis houden haar gevangen. Zal ze ooit weer bij haar kinderen kunnen zijn ? In het psycho-geriatrische verpleegtehuis Molenhoek heeft teamleider Kees de leiding over een groep wisselende collega's op zijn krapbezette afdeling, iets waar bewoners, vaak ongemerkt, de dupe van worden. Er wordt naar gestreefd de bewoners nog een bepaalde vorm van levenswaarde te geven, maar personeelsleden als Mildred en Willie hebben daar zo hun ideeën over. Zij tolereren de aanwezigheid van bepaalde bewoners vaak niet. ...

This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1817. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced ...