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''This self-help book is the equivalent of those British Military Fitness boot camps where the instructor screams at you to do squats in the pouring rain ... it''s an approach that has won legions of fans ... it''s appealingly direct advice.'' The Times This is not the usual self-help book. It''s time to unf*ck yourself and unleash your greatness! This is blunt force trauma to the way you think life has to be for you. Most importantly, it is designed to give you an authentic leg up - one that feels genuine and right for you, and can propel you to new levels of greatness. It will teach you not to look to the outside world for answers, but inside yourself. You will learn how to take full responsibility of your life, the highs and the lows, and you''ll actually feel good about it - no, in fact, you''ll feel f*cking great about it!

THE STORY: The place is Mansfield, Ohio, the time 1976--during the celebration of the nation''s bicentennial. As the play begins, a police radio reports the murders of the wife of a leading citizen and her lover, and a team headed by chief detective

Park Service surveyor and former FBI forensic specialist Jack Randall finds himself swept away in a diabolical journey through a mystical primitive world. Following a naked man captured by aborigines, Jack steps through a vortex into a prehistoric 13th century Mesa Verde culture. Accompanied by a shaman of the Butterfly Clan, the shaman''s lively and lovely granddaughter and Jack''s best friend Spade, he searches the American Southwest 800 years in the past for an ancient Egyptian tablet. To find and possess the tablet, the trekkers must outwit a primeval cult whose high priest, sensuous women and warriors will stop at nothing to reclaim the lost stone. Murder becomes the norm. Loyalties are tested. Jack struggles to piece together the evidence--who among them is eliminating the trekkers one by one for their own selfish ends? The realism of a 13th century Mesa Verde setting comes from Bishop''s years of extensive reading about our Ancestral Puebloans.

"Bobby Horvath, stock car racer, had visions of being the greatest, but he has returned home knowing he isn''t and never will be. Racing brought him excitement and glamour escape from the drudgery of a factory job. The play records his encounters with his father, the wife and daughter he deserted and also other friends and relatives. The action moves in and out of the past and the heart of the play is his struggle to come to terms with himself. But when past and present collide, the results are unexpected. The play is also about a blue-collar mid-American town with its deadening routine of life. Boredom and depression begins to enfold Bobby with its futility and sterility. He returns to racing, even if it means he will be a loser."--Publisher''s description.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself comes tough-love that explains what makes relationships work: you taking responsibility to fix yourself. ''Love is patient, love is blind. . .'' Until it''s not. Then what? No matter how much advice we get or how much work we do on our ''stuff'', nothing ever seems to make the difference. The truth of it is, you''re woefully ill-equipped for one of the most life-defining things you will ever take on - being in a committed relationship. Whether you''re currently in one, want to be in one, half in-half out, getting over one, married, single, separated, divorced, or just overwhelmed with the whole thing, let''s cut through the morass of relationship schtick and put you back in charge. No flowery BS, no woo-woo strategies, systems, or techniques, just real talk, for real people who want a real relationship in their life that actually works.

After the impact of the car shattered his body on the evening of January 11, 2004... Fr. Groeschel reflects on the good that has come - and continues to come - from that horrific accident. And, responding to questions posed by noted British journalist John Bishop in an interview before the accident, he reflects on: Founding the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Spending time in jail for civil disobedience outside an abortion clinic. Recognizing where God is when suffering intensifies and evil prospers. Understanding Christ''s feeling of abandonment on the cross. Discovering and living one''s vocation. Loving the poor wholeheartedly. Being "gently scolded" by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. And more...

Flavourful and easy-to-prepare recipes with Bishop''s trademark focus on fresh seasonal ingredients-over 10,000 copies sold. John Bishop of the renowned Bishop''s Restaurant in Vancouver has, over the years, created more than a hundred wonderful dishes that feature seasonal ingredients with the trademark Bishop''s emphasis on flavour and texture and that are also simple to prepare. Simply Bishop''s features tempting recipes organized into appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, side dishes and desserts. Accompanying the recipes are useful and friendly tips about selecting produce and preparation techniques. John Bishop also supplies wine suggestions for entrees and a section on basic stocks. He also offers menu suggestions for special events, as well as tips on preparing for and giving dinner parties, setting up an attractive buffet and keeping a dinner party diary.

The first part of this book presents a detailed survey of the worship of the Methodist Church. It examines the eighteenth-century sources, traces the historical development of distinctive Methodist services such as the Covenant, the Watchnight, and the Lovefeast, considers the Methodist doctrine of the Sacraments, and deals with the place of hymns in Methodist worship. The second part of the book deals with the place and function of form and order in a service of public worship as conducted in the Free Churches, and proceeds to consider the various elements that make up such a service—the hymns, prayers, lessons, sermon, and sacraments. A study of this book will serve as reminder of the two-fold tradition of the people called Methodists with regard to form of worship, which has been both liturgical and free, and it will help preachers and congregations to engage in public worship with a deeper understanding.

THE Ecclesiastical History of John, Bishop of Ephesus, was discovered by Dr. Cureton among the Manuscripts obtained by the British Museum from the convent of St. Mary Deipara, in the desert of Scete, and published in the original Syriac at the Oxford University Press in 1853. It was then his intention, as he mentions in the Preface, to have also undertaken the task of making its contents generally available by means of an English translation; but as more important labours have hitherto prevented the fulfilment of this duty, it has now, with his consent, been undertaken by myself, and I am alone responsible for the correctness with which it has been accomplished. Aeterna Press

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It all started with a promise to a girl he hardly knew... Love, Freedom or Death is a love story set against the resistance struggle in Crete during World War 2. Inspired by true events, it follows impetuous young Dudley Watkins, a New Zealand Sergeant, as he journeys from the disillusionment of defeat in the battle of Crete to the willingness to risk all for the island he has come to love. Love, Freedom or Death tells of a man who kept his promises, but in doing so drove others to break theirs, a man who fought to make the Cretan dream of freedom a reality and a man who falls out with his British masters while falling in love with an unattainable woman. Reminiscent of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, John Bishop’s novel is a powerful story of love and betrayal.

This novel, seen through the eyes of a British officer, imagines how the experience was for some of the Chinese. What did the world’s most populous country contribute to World War One? Not much, apart from the 140,000 labourers who signed up to work on the Western Front and found themselves under a casually-racist military jurisdiction. The Chinese Attack dramatises their situation through the eyes of 2nd Lieutenant Jack Reynolds, sent to find evidence of unfolding mutiny among them after he himself has been charged with inciting protest at the War’s direction – this a consequence of the loss of his men in a futile decoy attack at the Battle of Passchendaele. Jack’s growing realisation that he is being used to further injustice leads him to rebel and fight to stop his Chinese charges’ being sacrificed to mindless prejudice. Against a backdrop of the chaos unleashed by the Allied collapse in the Spring of 1918, Jack’s mission to save his servant Tien becomes a pell-mell dash for freedom to escape from the firing squad. In the course of which he struggles to regain his own will to live. While the central plot is fiction, the routine experiences of the Chinese are based on fact and bring to life a neglected aspect of the War, which both contributed to post-war Chinese political and economic developments and fed the anti-imperialist propaganda of more recent Chinese governments.