John Clarke
1) Faithful God
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What is God really like? That is a question that everyone who is searching for a closer walk with God is looking to answer. Other questions and dilemmas that face us in the 21st century include what is God doing in the world and how should we react and respond in a world that seems out of control and on a slippery slope to despair, with war and rumours of war? Closer examination of the word of God leads us to understand what is happening in our world...
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Con demasiada frecuencia oirás arrepentimientos.
Arrepentimientos por no perseguir un sueño. Arrepentimientos por no haber seguido una oportunidad. Arrepentimientos por no haber dedicado tiempo a hacer algo. ¿Con qué frecuencia te encuentras sentado simplemente haciendo nada? Esperando en una línea de supermercado. Esperando en la oficina del doctor. Esperando en el tráfico. Esperando a alguien. Esperando que algo suceda. Esperando que un...
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In this engaging and original book, John Clarke is in conversation with twelve leading scholars about the dynamics of thinking critically in the social sciences. The conversations range across many fields and explore the problems and possibilities of doing critical intellectual work in ways that are responsive to changing conditions. By emphasizing the many voices in play, in conversation with, as well as against, others, Clarke challenges the individualizing...
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Delve into the riveting memoir of an attorney who navigated the transformative world of litigation law in private practice. Journey back to an era when senior partners donned wing collars and were addressed as clerks by their surnames, and when solicitors weren't confined to specialisations.
Experience the spectrum of clients he represented, from navigating harrowing cases at police stations – covering everything from murders to activists challenging...
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This book is acknowledged as the only work dealing exclusively with the identification and description of international gallantry awards, past and present. The multitude of illustrations allows the reader to readily identify those awards most likely to be encountered. The work embraces forty-three countries and describes 270 decorations together with their various classes. A ten page ribbon chart shows 216 different world gallantry ribbons all in...
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Victorian Brackley was sometimes called Sleepy Hollow. Compared to many other places, growth in numbers was modest, but beneath the surface, there were extraordinary scandals and power struggles, some of which reached the national press. Above all, there was a great physical transformation involving the construction of a new Vicarage, Church Schools and Manor House, together with the restorations of St Peter's Church and the College Chapel. This book...
7) Lion Hunter
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Lion Hunter is a historical novel that opens in Europe in 1941, during World War II, with the introduction of a German secret agent, Hans Farber, following a successful mission in Leningrad, Russia. His superior and head of the Abwehr, Admiral Canaris, charges Hans with a nigh-impossible task: assassinate the prime minister of Britain, Sir Winston Churchill, at the rendezvous point between that political leader and the president of the United States,...
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Citizenship is always in dispute - in practice as well as in theory - but conventional perspectives do not address why the concept of citizenship is so contentious. This unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute. The authors dispute the way citizenship is normally conceived and analysed within the social sciences, developing a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle. This view...
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Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centered on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the field, it argues that treating policy's movement as an active process of 'translation,' in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance...
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Sporting Nation volume 2
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Failure at the 1976 Olympics forced a rebuild and while we attempted an international comeback, domestic sport became big business. As the Sydney Olympics approached, we hoped for great things.
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Sporting Nation volume 3
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Cathy Freeman stops the nation at the Sydney Olympics. Since then we've had Cadel and other champions but we now watch more sport than we play. Where are we? Has anyone got a map? What's this got to do with sport?
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Sporting Nation volume 1
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After World War II, Australia had one of the great golden runs in the history of sport, largely in swimming, tennis, cricket, running and golf. This reflected well on the nation and its healthy lifestyle. We thought it would last forever.
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This short but timely work gives the listener a sense of the urgency of African and world history at this moment in time....
Like many of the African-centered scholars who were Dr. Clarke's teachers and his sources of inspiration, he not only gives you accurate analysis and the descriptions of history, he provides prescription of what Africans have to do to bring into being a new day.
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This award-winning Christian Romantic action-adventure novel is set on pirate-fighting research vessel, the Red Sea Princess. John Michael and the ship's crew are on a dangerous quest to find the 600-golden Egyptian chariots, from Exodus 14:7. They are hidden deep in a place the Bible calls God's Storehouse of the Deep, mentioned in Psalm 33:7. John Michael discovered the undersea path where the debris field is found - referenced in Psalm 77:19 and...
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The Promise of Justice connects history with geography, faith with science, economics with ecology and law with politics in telling an inspirational story of hope. In 1895 Cape Prime Minister Cecil John Rhodes arbitrarily imprisoned King Sigcau ka Mqikela of the Mpondo nation for siding with his Chiefs against the harsh impositions of 19th century British colonial rule in South Africa. In 2010 President Jacob Zuma deposed his descendent King Justice...
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General Jan Smuts ironically described the amaMpondo in 1936 as "a native tribe considered somewhat backward in comparison to other tribes of the Union of South Africa" yet "unusually conservative and tenacious" resisting "the disintegration of native life." In the democratic era their struggle for the right to decide their local destinies locally has not become easier. The Promise of Justice is a four part series written to pay tribute to two great...
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Breakthrough fills the knowledge gap for mathematical and computer modeling of carbon dioxide (CO2) elimination in underwater breathing apparatus (UBA). The intended audience is every UBA designer or diver interested in a better understanding of scrubber canisters and metabolic CO2 elimination. It introduces the reader to a new form of stochastic modeling using cellular automata to quantify and visualize the complex thermokinetics of the carbon dioxide...
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The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr. John Cooper Clarke for several decades - and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers and performers. From the 'Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman' to a hymn to the seductive properties of the pie - by way of hand-grenade haikus, machine-gun ballads and a meditation on the loss of Bono's leather pants - The Luckiest Guy Alive collects...
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Why is it that so many students see high school as a prison sentence to be endured rather than a time to learn and grow? According to DiMartino and Clark, many high school students feel invisible and isolated. They don't see the relevance of what they are being taught, and they don't see how their classes are preparing them for success as adults. This book offers a new vision for high schools--a vision that puts students at the center of their learning....
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Can you hear?
The stories are calling.
They're going to be a blast.
Witches and genies howl in the darkness, surrounded by the flames. Can you handle the call?
This collection includes imaginative stories from a diverse group of authors. Inside you'll find space operas, fantasies, and adventure. These up-and-coming authors are showing off their best work to capture your imagination and keep you guessing.
The Underdogs Rise brings together...