An Empty Vessel Waiting to be Filled


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Are you ready to get off the merry-go-round of mediocrity? This book is for you! We are not as those that have no hope. Today is your day! Let Jesus take the wheel!! In seven short chapters, this book walks you from the throes of emptiness to the fullness of victory through Jesus Christ. It is well written with the reader in mind. You will experience a full range of emotions as the words leap from the pages into your heart. You will want to laugh out loud, get your praise dance on and shed tears of anguish as you become a part of the story line. Ultimately, you will be filled with hope. This is a must read! Dr. Clark leads you step by step into how to enjoy a rich, refreshing life with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. She uses her own hurts and pain to build a meaningful connection with the readers.Have you ever felt empty, alone, no place to run, nowhere to hide and there was no one to hear your cries? If so, this book is for you. Each chapter invites readers to self-evaluate their position in Christ. It's through our weakness that God's strength is made perfect. God transforms us to be more like Him. Whether you are a seasoned Christian or a new believer, this book gently guides you into truth. It reaches into your core and tugs on your heartstrings to taste and see that the Lord is good!An Empty Vessel Waiting to be Filled, is an inspirational work written with compassion for the broken-hearted. It is written with a touch of humor and the theme of dreaming outside the box is evident throughout. This book shines a light in dark places, offers options for managing adversity in our lives and gives the reader ways to increase their faith. It ignites the flame of our gifts and talents to be used to build the Kingdom of God.




The Teaching Brain


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“A significant contribution to understanding the interaction among teachers, students, the environment, and the content of learning” (Herbert Kohl, education advocate and author). What is at work in the mind of a five-year-old explaining the game of tag to a new friend? What is going on in the head of a thirty-five-year-old parent showing a first-grader how to button a coat? And what exactly is happening in the brain of a sixty-five-year-old professor discussing statistics with a room full of graduate students? While research about the nature and science of learning abounds, shockingly few insights into how and why humans teach have emerged—until now. Countering the dated yet widely held presumption that teaching is simply the transfer of knowledge from one person to another, The Teaching Brain weaves together scientific research and real-life examples to show that teaching is a dynamic interaction and an evolutionary cognitive skill that develops from birth to adulthood. With engaging, accessible prose, Harvard researcher Vanessa Rodriguez reveals what it actually takes to become an expert teacher. At a time when all sides of the teaching debate tirelessly seek to define good teaching—or even how to build a better teacher—The Teaching Brain upends the misguided premises for how we measure the success of teachers. “A thoughtful analysis of current educational paradigms . . . Rodriguez’s case for altering pedagogy to match the fluctuating dynamic forces in the classroom is both convincing and steeped in common sense.” —Publishers Weekly




Vessel


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“A surprising page-turner...Compelling. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal (starred review), Debut of the Month An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian. After Catherine Wells’s ship experiences a deadly incident in deep space and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her dead. Miraculously—and mysteriously—she survived, but with little memory of what happened. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager she barely recognizes. Catherine, too, is different. The long years alone changed her, and as she readjusts to being home, sometimes she feels disconnected and even, at times, deep rage toward her family and colleagues. There are periods of time she can’t account for, too, and she begins waking up in increasingly strange and worrisome locations, like restricted areas of NASA. Suddenly she’s questioning everything that happened up in space: how her crewmates died, how she survived, and now, what’s happening to her back on Earth. Smart, gripping, and compelling, this page-turning sci-fi thriller will leave you breathless.




Vessel


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When the goddess Bayla fails to take over Liyana's body, Liyana's people abandon her in the desert to find a more worthy vessel, but she soon meets Korbyn, who says the souls of seven deities have been stolen and he needs Liyana's help to find them.




An Empty Vessel


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This memoir is the result of several years of a commitment to impart my unbelievable saga to the universe. The legend is the offspring of my fervent labor of love. It is the true and poignant narrative of a woman with emotional illness, named India, who becomes homeless in the fifth month of her pregnancy. She was transcended from the height of ecstasy to the depths of despair when her newborn blessing is snatched from her breast like a lovely flower, plucked up from its roots, and placed in foster care. What follows is a heartfelt account of how she overcomes unspeakable trials and tribulations, and how her unyielding faith in God ultimately sustains, and carries her from glory to glory. She is eventually reunited with her only child, but only after they both suffer deep, invisible scars which would remain throughout their lifetimes. India receives some divine recompense when she, at last, comes into her undeniable destiny.




This Body is an Empty Vessel: Poetry


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Here is poetry that is personal yet spreading to have its tentacles struggling to grip into other equally slippery facets of life. In brief, Beaton writes his poetry to assuage his personal feelings yet in so doing he ends up massaging our shared experience - as Malawians, Africans and just as humans. Beaton has observed, learnt, and is growing in the Malawian poetry space. Thus, he also comes to the stage bearing the Malawian influence on his poetry.




Sovereignty, RIP


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Has the concept of sovereignty outlived its usefulness? Social order requires a sovereign: an actor with unlimited, undivided, and unaccountable authority. Or so the classic theory says. But without noticing, we’ve gutted the theory. Constitutionalism limits state authority. Federalism divides it. The rule of law holds it accountable. In vivid historical detail—with millions tortured and slaughtered in Europe, a king put on trial for his life, journalists groaning at idiotic complaints about the League of Nations, and much more—Don Herzog charts both the political struggles that forged sovereignty and the ones that undid it. He argues that it’s no longer a helpful guide to our legal and political problems, but a pernicious bit of confusion. It’s time, past time, to retire sovereignty.




All Backs Were Turned


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“An existential fable” from the uncompromising Polish author of Killing the Second Dog, known as the James Dean of Eastern Europe (The New York Times). In this novel of breathtaking tension and sweltering love, two desperate friends on the edge of the law—one of them tough and gutsy, the other small and scared—travel to the southern Israeli city of Eilat to find work. There, Dov Ben Dov, the handsome native Israeli with a reputation for causing trouble, and Israel, his sidekick, stay with Ben Dov’s recently married younger brother, Little Dov, who has enough trouble of his own. Local toughs are encroaching on Little Dov’s business, and he enlists his older brother to drive them away. It doesn’t help that a beautiful German widow named Ursula is rooming next door. What follows is a story of passion, deception, violence, and betrayal, all conveyed in hardboiled prose reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, with a cinematic style that would make Humphrey Bogart and Marlon Brando green with envy. “[A] blowtorch of a novel . . . Matchless and prescient.” —Publishers Weekly “A story as bleak and unrelenting as its setting, in which no one escapes the past or themselves. Nihilistic but compelling.” —Kirkus Reviews Praise for Marek Hlasko “Hlasko was an original. His novels were fearless, his vision unsparing, and decades later, his darkly brilliant work has lost none of its power to unsettle. He achieved what few other writers ever have: he turned the literary landscape into a much more interesting place than it was when he found it.” ––Emily St. John Mandel, author of National Book Award finalist Station Eleven




Vessel of Peace


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"The point of the spiritual journey is freedom." So begins a guide that offers profound insight on the human experience and the search for spiritual peace. In a world filled with stress, Vessel of Peace offers an ancient but seldom-followed path toward a peaceful life of deep meaning in the spirit. In this guide, we discover how to empty ourselves of cultural myths that cause us anxiety and to fill ourselves with spiritual truths that enable us to live an authentic and fulfilling life. "Vessel of Peace, more than any other, is a book that asks life's largest questions and then answers them with all the wisdom of which we humans are capable." -M. Scott Peck, M.D., best-selling author of The Road Less Traveled "Simple without being simplistic, Vessel of Peace is a guide-book for pilgrims of the spirit which promises nothing but a probing clarity.... This gracious book is a celebration of life as a gift, reminding us that this is not a rehearsal and that the goal and gift of life is communion in freedom." -Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.




Magic Vessels


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Enchanting tree spirits grant a poor playwright named Muthu his wish: that he always have food. Muthu then hosts a feast for the entire village and in so doing angers the richest man in town.