Author: Stacy Claflin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781480179059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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When mysterious things begin happening to Alexis, she learns is that she's been lied to her entire life, running into deception at every turn. What she finds terrifies her and she questions whether she really wants to know the truth about herself... Until she meets a handsome stranger and feels like she's known him her entire life, but she has never seen him before. He appears to know more about her than she knows about herself. What she discovers turns her world completely upside down. Everything that she believed to be false is suddenly her new reality.

Author: Miranda Griffin
Publisher:
ISBN: 019968698X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Transforming Tales argues that the study of transformation is crucial for understanding a wide range of canonical work in medieval French literature. From the lais and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, through the Roman de la Rose and its widespread influence, to the fourteenth-century Ovide moralise and the vast prose cycles of the late Middle Ages, metamorphosis is a recurrent theme, resulting in some of the best-known and most powerful literature of the era. Transforming Tales is the first book in English to explore in detail the importance of ideas of metamorphosis in French literature from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. This book's purpose is twofold: it traces a series of figures (the werewolf, the snake-woman, the nymph, the magician, amongst others) as they are transformed within individual texts; and it also examines the way in which the stories of transformation themselves become rewritten during the course of the Middle Ages. Griffin's approach combines close readings and comparisons of literary texts with readings informed by modern critical theories which are grounded in many of the ideas raised by medieval metamorphosis: the body, gender, identity and categories of life. Literary depictions and reworkings of transformation raise questions about medieval understandings of the differences between human and animal, man and woman, God and man, life and death--these are the questions explored in Transforming Tales.

Author: The Arbinger Institute
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576755029
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Explains why self-deception is at the heart of many leadership problems, identifying destructive patterns that undermine the successes of potentially excellent professionals while revealing how to improve teamwork, communication, and motivation. Reprint.

Author: Erik Vance
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426217897
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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National Geographic's riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events. Drawing on centuries of research and interviews with leading experts in the field, Vance takes us on a fascinating adventure from Harvard's research labs to a witch doctor's office in Catemaco, Mexico, to an alternative medicine school near Beijing (often called "China's Hogwarts"). Vance's firsthand dispatches will change the way you think--and feel. Expectations, beliefs, and self-deception can actively change our bodies and minds. Vance builds a case for our "internal pharmacy"--the very real chemical reactions our brains produce when we think we are experiencing pain or healing, actual or perceived. Supporting this idea is centuries of placebo research in a range of forms, from sugar pills to shock waves; studies of alternative medicine techniques heralded and condemned in different parts of the world (think crystals and chakras); and most recently, major advances in brain mapping technology. Thanks to this technology, we're learning how we might leverage our suggestibility (or lack thereof) for personalized medicine, and Vance brings us to the front lines of such study.

Author: Rand Burkey
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449719759
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Why would a quiet Midwestern couple resort to hiring a team of people to kidnap and deprogram their oldest son from a group that seemed to teach high moral values? What signs did they see that caused them to take such actions? How could a person who was raised in a Christian home fall for a group that had at its core bizarre and dangerous beliefs? How is it that a seemingly normal young adult could buy into the idea that this group had the only truth and would do anything to protect it? Alarming in its content, and frightening in its suggestion that anyone could be swayed to believe and defend to the death the ultimate truth, Delivered from Deception is the unvarnished look at how someone could be manipulated to be a terrorist for his or her beliefs, and how the truth will set men and women free.

Author: Crossway
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433568888
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 5289

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"This study Bible is a must-have to help us see Jesus Christ throughout the whole Bible." —biblereviewguys.com The ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible is designed to help readers see Christ in all of Scripture, and grace for all of life. It features book introductions, gospel-centered study notes, and a series of all-new articles—written by a team of over 50 pastors and scholars. This content explains passage-by-passage how God's redemptive purposes culminate in the gospel and apply to the lives of believers today. Readers will be challenged to see how the message of the gospel transforms sinners from the inside out.

Author: Annette Blair
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425226407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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When Madiera Cutler returns home to Mystick Falls, Connecticut, for her sister's wedding, she must magically unravel the secrets that an antique wedding dress holds to bring the real killer of her sister's arch enemy to justice before everything falls apart at the seams. Original.

Author: Al Seckel
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402705779
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Includes an illuminating Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hofstadter.

Author: Jawara D. King
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434321150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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"Courage on Bataan and Beyond" is a comprehensive story about Abel F. Ortega's life during the Bataan Death March and Japanese imprisonment written by his son. Abel will take the reader with him from his childhood days when he would sit in a rocking chair and dream about the Far East to defending the Bataan Peninsula in a last ditch effort to keep the Japanese from taking the Philippines. Abel narrates how his family's prayers and his faith in God helped him to survive the infamous Bataan Death March, three-and-a-half years as a POW and two Hell Ship Voyages. This book will evoke both laughter and tears as one follows Abel from captivity to liberation. In his three-and-a-half years as a POW, he endured near starvation, hard labor, torture and the indescribable and inhumane cruelty from his captors before being set free August 15th, 1945. There were very few POW's who survived the Japanese brutality of Bataan and their following captivity, and of these, not many are still with us. Today at 85, Abel feels his story needs to be told so that the brave soldiers of Bataan will not be forgotten once again.

Author: Stephen Arterburn
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414307764
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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A renowned speaker and author reflects on seven keys for spiritual transformation that can lead to improved relationships and a more fulfilling life.