Karen Smith

Lauri Kahanpää

Pekka Kekäläinen

William Traves

This is a description of the underlying principles of algebraic geometry, some of its important developments in the twentieth century, and some of the problems that occupy its practitioners today. It is intended for the working or the aspiring mathematician who is unfamiliar with algebraic geometry but wishes to gain an appreciation of its foundations and its goals with a minimum of prerequisites. Few algebraic prerequisites are presumed beyond a basic course in linear algebra.

An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry

Beverly Verhage

Erica Baldwin

JacQueline V. Roe

What if you woke up one morning and could barely function? Your ability to work deteriorates and you lose the capacity to care for those you love. Fear grips you, leading to depression so deep that life feels hopeless.In two parts, JacQueline shares her journey of searching for hope in the midst of chronic illness and pain, inviting us to come alongside her, discovering with fresh eyes the God of Hope who longs to hold each of us.

Memoirs of a Headcase: Held by the God of Hope

Why can't your loved one see their eating disorder is killing them? Loving people with eating disorders is complicated, fraught with misunderstandings. You encourage your loved one to eat, but they withdraw and refuse. They might scream for you to stop trying to control them. Why is eating so hard? Why can't they see you want them healthy? Karen Kay Smith, a recovering anorexic, uses illustrations from her own traumatic experience to help you visualize the distortion that is happening. Your loved one may be a Christian with a deep faith in God, but victims of anorexia and different types of eating disorders can't see what they are doing to their bodies. With Karen's insight you will discover: How to lay aside your preconceived ideas of eating disorders Where your gifting lies to serve your loved one Practical ways to show your love Mistakes to avoid (and how to recover from them) Karen draws from her faith and understanding of the Bible to show you the way to journey with your loved one toward healing. You are not alone and you will see: there is hope.

Nearsighted Choosing to See Eating Disorders Differently

Fictional account in which Karen draws you back in to Mia's world after her first year in Iraq. She continues the drama with the sequel from her first book 'Desert Rose' about losing love, then finding love again in a war torn country. It also shows the mentality of a minority of people who still work in Iraq, who have devious, evil, vindictive minds and will stop at nothing just to make money; most importantly the book highlights the heros who would risk their own lives to love or protect you. The book also highlights areas that still are apparent to life in Iraq that people become complacent about and should always be aware of expecting the unexpected.

The Reunion

Sonya Shafer

A Charlotte Mason Nature Study Handbook

Hours in the Out-of-Doors

Whether you want to tone your stomach and thighs, reduce back or shoulder pain, improve your flexibility or achieve greater mental stamina, Pilates is for you - regardless of your age and ability. Live Better: Pilates introduces the reader to the basic exercises of the Pilates system and presents a simple and practical programme aimed at improving health and well-being through a combination of regular exercise and positive living. In more than 30 step-by-step exercises, expert teacher Karen Smith reveals how to tone and strengthen the key areas of your body and offers advice on how to absorb the benefits of regular Pilates into your body schedule. The approach can be adapted to suit all abilities and fitness levels, and is easily worked into the busiest day.

Exercises and Inspirations for Well-being

Pilates

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Weiwei Ai

Bernard Fibicher

The first comprehensive monograph on this key figure in China's burgeoning art scene. Often working with ancient materials - beams from destroyed temples, Han dynasty urns - Ai Weiwei (b.1957) creates ingenious sculptures that break new artistic ground while commenting on the rapid transformation of contemporary China. Ai Weiwei's work is consistently innovative and unmistakably original, ranging from his sculptures and photographs to his numerous architectural commissions, and recalls the work of his artistic forebears Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol. A towering figure whose influence can be seen in the multiplicity of his roles: not just an artist, designer and architect, but also curator, publisher, web blogger and cultural compass for an entire generation of Beijing artists.

Ai Weiwei

Matt Smith

Season 3

Dear Bob and Sue

Kirsten Holmes

Recent years have seen an explosion in research on tourism volunteering. Volunteers are an essential part of tourism, whether they are volunteering in their local museum, at a sporting mega-event, as an airport ambassador, or travelling the global as a volunteer tourist. Managing Volunteers in Tourism reviews the latest research to highlight the key management issues and relate them to the tourism volunteering context. It includes previously under-researched forms of tourism volunteering such as meet-and-greeters, surf life-savers, conservation, festival, and information centre volunteers and volunTourists. The book develops through three distinct sections, the first of which begins by introducing the concept of volunteering and considering the variety of volunteer forms and settings within tourism. The next part picks up the organisational approach and examines volunteer program design and planning, volunteer motivation, recruitment and selection, training and development, reward and retention, and diversity management. The final part consists of ten case studies from leading international researchers and practitioners identifying best practice and key management challenges. Real-life examples and case studies throughout this book provide an in-depth examination of the challenges facing those managing tourism volunteers, making this book indispensible for current and future managers in the tourism industry.

Managing Volunteers in Tourism

Lenni wants to find someone to understand her and the new girl could just be that person Lenni can't please anyone lately. At school, her friends want her to kiss someone for a stupid competition. At home, her grandmother wants her to be more ladylike. And on the playing field, her friend Adam has started acting like a big weirdo around her. Then Lenni meets Jo, the new girl at school, and everything feels so normal. Jo is cool, fun, and unlike anyone Lenni's ever known—finally, someone's on Lenni's wavelength!

The Birth of Avant-garde Art in New China

Nine Lives

David Brown

Marla Aycock

Ge-Anne Bolhuis

Gray Bridges

Mandy Cantrell

George Cauble

Deck Cheatham

Jan Deems

Laura Doll

Carl England

Millicent Flake

Karli Land

Gene Magnicheri

Ethan McRae

Vickie McEntire

Amber Nagle

Sherry Patterson

Mike Ragland

Cheryll Snow

Natalie Tankersley

Janie Watts

Kay Whatley

Telling Stories 3

Arlene B. Tickner

This exciting new textbook challenges the implicit notions inherent in most existing International Relations (IR) scholarship and instead presents the subject as seen from different vantage points in the global South. Divided into four sections, (1) the IR discipline, (2) key concepts and categories, (3) global issues and (4) IR futures, it examines the ways in which world politics have been addressed by traditional core approaches and explores the limitations of these treatments for understanding both Southern and Northern experiences of the "international." The book encourages readers to consider how key ideas have been developed in the discipline, and through systematic interventions by contributors from around the globe, aims at both transforming and enriching the dominant terms of scholarly debate. This empowering, critical and reflexive tool for thinking about the diversity of experiences of international relations and for placing them front and center in the classroom will help professors and students in both the global North and the global South envision the world differently. In addition to general, introductory IR courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels it will appeal to courses on sociology and historiography of knowledge, globalization, neoliberalism, security, the state, imperialism and international political economy.

Worlds of Difference

International Relations from the Global South

Karen Smith

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