The aim of The New Testament from 26 Translations is to combine in one volume the complete King James text and the most significant variations from 25 later translations. The entire text of the King James Version appears phrase-by-phrase in bold type, followed in each instance by significant and illuminating variations from the other translations. Each translated portion is coded for immediate recognition. The New Testament from 26. Selects from the many translations words and turns of phrase which add to the King James Version. Offers a concise commentary on the New Testament through a comparison of the various translations. Consolidates into one convenient volume the varying shades of meaning from 25 important versions. Is a unique tool for Bible study.
Barbara Walters’s perception of the world was formed at a very early age. Her father, Lou Walters, was the owner and creative mind behind the legendary Latin Quarter nightclub, and it was his risk-taking lifestyle that gave Barbara her first taste of glamour. It also made her aware of the ups and downs, the insecurities, and even the tragedies that can occur when someone is willing to take great risks, for Lou Walters didn’t just make several fortunes—he also lost them. Barbara learned early about the damage that such an existence can do to relationships—between husband and wife as well as between parent and child. Through her roller-coaster ride of a childhood, Barbara had a close companion, her mentally challenged sister, Jackie. True, Jackie taught her younger sister much about patience and compassion, but Barbara also writes honestly about the resentment she often felt having a sister who was so “different” and the guilt that still haunts her.
All of this—the financial responsibility for her family, the fear, the love—played a large part in the choices she made as she grew up: the friendships she developed, the relationships she had, the marriages she tried to make work. Ultimately, thanks to her drive, combined with a decent amount of luck, she began a career in television. And what a career it has been! Against great odds, Barbara has made it to the top of a male-dominated industry. She was the first woman cohost of the Today show, the first female network news co-anchor, the host and producer of countless top-rated Specials, the star of 20/20, and the creator and cohost of The View. She has not just interviewed the world’s most fascinating figures, she has become a part of their world.
Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy—the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father’s brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States—leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father’s regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Wisconsin. With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana’s daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana’s incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it’s a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father’s name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us. Illustrated with photographs.
Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. The play is believed to have been written between 1599 and 1606. The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book. It was most likely written during the reign of James I (of England), who had already been crowned James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne as well in 1603. James VI/I was a patron of Shakespeare's acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James's reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with the sovereign. Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness, and death.
This early experimental play illuminates the comic vision that informs all Shakespeare's later successes including his last great plays. Two pairs of lovers are forcibly parted and human fickleness is contrasted with constancy, reality with illusion, and the bonds of friendship with those of sexual attraction. The serious elements of Romance are fused with satire and burlesque as The Two Gentlemen of Verona examines the importance of identity with lucid charm and hilarious comedy.
How to have a happy relationship. The author draws upon over 30 years' experience as a psychiatrist to offer hints, tips and guidelines for coping with many of the problems we face every day. In a simple, no-nonsense style he shows you how to: cope with rejection - how to deal with being dumped or being turned down for a job; improve self esteem - learn to feel better about yourself and gain the admiration of others; win every argument, even when you lose - a simple strategy for making sure you walk away from any dispute feeling great; deal with family relationships - whether you are a parent, husband, wife or child. A Model for Living has advice and tips that really help, and they are all easy to introduce into your daily life.
Staying Alive is at once heartbreaking and heartwarming, a brilliant rendering of the emotional and psychological shadows cast on both the afflicted and the family members who support them. It is a story of sisters, of mothers and daughters, and also the men who loved them. In the end we are inspired by the extraordinary strength of these women, by their will to fight the disease, and the power of love in survival.
Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it -- forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years. He travels to Boca Raton, Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at Century Village, a retirement village that is home to thousands of senior citizens.Early Bird is an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with, and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf. The day-to-day dealings begin to wear on him. Before long he observes, "I don't think Tuesdays with Morrie would have been quite so uplifting if that guy had to spend more than one day a week with Morrie."Rodney throws himself into the spirit of retirement, fashioning a busy schedule of suntanning, shuffleboard, and gambling cruises. As the months pass, his neighbors seem to forget that he is fifty years younger than they are. He finds himself the potential romantic interest of an aging femme fatale. He joins a senior softball club and is disturbed to learn that he is the worst player on the team. For excitement he rides along with a volunteer police officer on his patrols, hunting for crime. But even the criminals in his community seem to have retired.
This real-life legal and environmental thriller follows an epic confrontation between marine conservationists and the US Navy. The story centers on environmental attorney Joel Reynolds and marine biologist Ken Balcomb. Together, they investigate a series of mysterious whale mass strandings in the Bahamas. Their investigation uncovers a high-intensity, top-secret sonar submarine detection system deployed by the military that floods ocean basins with deafening sound waves, driving the whales ashore. The narrative tracks their multi-year "David vs. Goliath" legal battle that went all the way to the US Supreme Court, balancing national security interests against the protection of marine ecosystems.
Tom Lanoye vertel van sy ma se beroerte, haar spraakverlies en haar langsame aftakeling en uiteindelike dood. Terselftertyd toon die roman die ontreddering van 'n skrywer wat sy moedertaal in sy moeder sien verlore gaan en wat dié verlies probeer besweer met 'n vuurwerk van woorde. Die verlies van taal word herstel met taal, met heelwat humor neem die skrywer ook afskeid van sy jeug, van sy pa se slaghuis en die sprankelende Vlaamse stadsbuurt waarin hy grootgeword het. Maar bowenal is dit 'n afrekening met sy ma - 'n klein, temperamentele amateuraktrise wat nie die teater en die werklike lewe uit mekaar kon hou nie. Sy vorm die middelpunt van talle tragikomiese familietaferele. Dit is 'n meesleurende en oorrompelende boek.
The book chronicles the author's childhood in apartheid-era South Africa and the turbulent years preceding Nelson Mandela's presidency in 1994. It details his subsequent move to Australia, where he has lived for over thirty years, exploring the raw challenges, interesting figures, and unique opportunities that come with migrating between two vastly different countries.
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The book is based on a groundbreaking, multi-year clinical study monitoring couples experiencing domestic conflict. The authors identify two distinct behavioral types of domestic abusers based on physiological and psychological reactions during arguments:
"Cobras": Aggressors who become internally calm during heated arguments, experienced as a drop in heart rate. They tend to be calculated, antisocial, and emotionally detached.
"Pit Bulls": Aggressors whose heart rates accelerate as arguments build. Their anger escalates gradually, and they display extreme, paranoid attachment to their partners.
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The Dressing Station is a book from the medical front line which shatters any preconceptions we may have about the nature of surgery. Kaplan describes what its like to face pain and death on a regular basis and plunges the reader into the frenetic world of the operating theatre.
