Truth Windows


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Truth Windows centers around the construction of a straw bale house by students of Lakemont Academy, a private school in the fictional town of Lakemont, Utah. Senior Cynthia Morgan, editor of the Academy newspaper, is the main character. Juniors Matt Willits and Logan Stillwell are friends who share her affection. Matt, nicknamed Spike for his creative hairstyle, is a student at Millcreek High in nearby Granite City. Logan Stillwell, Lakemont's all-state basketball player from Chicago, is also foreman of the straw bale construction crew. Plot events include conflict among these three characters as well as problems at home for Cynthia. Action stretches from March to June. Basketball season is almost over when Matt is arrested for setting fire to the straw bale house. With Logan's help, Cynthia sets out to prove Matt's innocence. In order to do this, she must confront antagonist Stacey Pepperwood and take upon herself the burden of uncertain truth. Caught in an emotional triangle, Cynthia must make decisions that have life-altering consequences. Included in the novel are school scenes; basketball games; descriptions of Utah, including the Great Salt Lake and red rock country; and information on straw bale construction. Mormonism is not a major plot mover, but it rumbles on the sidelines. A special feature of straw bale houses, truth windows provide a multi-layered title for the story.




Fixing Broken Windows


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Cites successful examples of community-based policing.




His Truth


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"What is truth?" Pilate's question to Jesus holds a special relevance today. In an age of communication and scientific discovery this is still a time when "truth" is more a matter of opinion than fact. In this revised edition of His Truth, Dr. Jack Cottrell investigates truth and reality as revealed in the Bible. His Truth deals with controversial subjects like grace, assurance, God's call, predestination and other doctrines that many people view as hard to understand.




Truth's Lair


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What would the governments of the world do to keep this secret? The real question is... What wouldn’t they do? Travel back to 1945 across enemy lines into Nazi Germany where Lieutenant Matthew Sanders leads a mission to locate and remove one of the Nazi s most powerful superweapons hidden in a remote hangar. His mission was a secret from the world until his granddaughter stumbled across his private journal after his death. She unravels a web of international secrets that many still want to keep secret. Take an unexpected thrill ride through history and modern-day espionage, mysteries, and cover-ups and see if this team of young adults can finally allow the truth to be let out or if they and the truth will be buried forever in Truth s Lair. Review "In the last two years, I have done almost 1200 reviews and I have to say this is one of the best books I have read. The author does an amazing job first telling the story of Matthew Sanders a soldier in World war two. Years later, when Matthew dies he leaves his ranch in Wyoming to the last member of his family, his granddaughter Bailey Along with the ranch, Matthew left Bailey a DVD with a lot of secrets including that of Truth's Lair. This is where this conspiracy, suspense thriller is going to take readers on an adventure they will love. The author did an amazing job in telling this tale I couldn't put down. Amazing read!"




Truth


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Truth Versus Reality


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Throughout the course of human history, assumptions have been made regarding the nature of existence. In a simplistic sort of way, these assumptions can be viewed as being similar to facing a fork in the road and having to decide which path to follow. One such fork in the road appeared when we discovered the peculiar nature of electrons, although I am not sure that people realized it was a fork in the road at the time. By choosing to view these particles as unthinking bits of matter/energy, mankind was essentially forced to follow a certain path. We have been forced to try and conceptualize thought, or consciousness, as being some sort of phenomenon that arises from the functioning within an entity. That there is a separate thought process in each entity and that there is a division between entities that think and those that do not. Obviously, we were also forced to try and hypothesize how this state of affairs developed. Needless to say, the resulting theories on the origin and nature of consciousness have created a considerable amount of disagreement. The key to unlocking the mystery of consciousness lies in recognizing that we took the wrong path...




Ground Truth


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Professionals who work with grieving families, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family therapists, physicians and nurses who work with dying patients and their families, hospice and patient home-care workers, clergy. The book also serves as a text in courses on bereavement, family development, family and child therapy, and child developmental psychopathology.




Still Working It Out


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In various voices and with a range of strategies, these poems speak of and into the collisions we experience day in and day out--collisions with nature, art, language, religion, family, imagination, new and old ways of seeing and navigating the world--collisions that result in loss and sadness, confusion and laughter, gratitude and amazement. Still Working It Out, a collection that moves freely between memory and invention, embodies a faithful struggle to attend to and engage life with all senses on high alert for what may crush or sustain or gloriously transfigure.




In a Summer Season


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The Truth About HTML5


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The Truth About HTML5 is for web designers, web developers, and front-end coders who want to get up to speed with HTML5. The book isn't afraid to point out what everyone gets wrong about HTML5's new markup, so you don’t make the same mistakes. It will show you what rocks in HTML5 today and what the future holds. Marking up a basic web page shouldn't be a quasi-religious exercise where the high priests of HTML5 must be consulted for their interpretation of the holy texts (the HTML5 spec). Don’t waste hours trawling through confusing, poorly researched, and often flat-out wrong information on the Internet. Get the truth on HTML5's markup here. You'll also find out about HTML5's new microdata standard that's being used on major websites, such as eBay and IMDB, right now, and get the low-down on the Canvas object and what it can and can't do for you. The book also covers how HTML5 affects CMSs and web apps, what HTML5 means for mobile, and what the future holds. HTML5 isn't one big blob of technology that will be "finished" at some point in the future. It’s a grab bag of cool stuff, much of which has been around for years. Learn what’s well supported and ready to go today. Now that the initial wave of hype is over, it's time to learn the truth about HTML5. What you’ll learn How to write elegant and up-to-date HTML5 markup How to use microdata - the future of the semantic web What the Canvas object can and can't do, and how to use it correctly How to use new features such as enhanced forms and video and audio Which HTML5 features are production ready, and what the future holds Who this book is for The Truth About HTML5 is for web developers and designers who want to start using HTML5 properly in their web projects. Now that the dust has settled on HTML5, it's a good time for beginners to jump aboard, and for experienced developers to take stock of what's out there. Table of Contents A Somewhat Sensationalized History of HTML5 What HTML5 Means for a Modern Web Page The Pain and Pleasure of Page Structure Elementary, My Dear WHATWG? The Truth Behind the New Structural Tags Semantics, Micro-Semantics, and Schema.org HTML5 Boosted My Page Rank, and other SEO Myths The New Nonstructural HTML5 Tags and When You Should Use Them HTML5 Forms: Beauty and the Beast Canvas, Gaming, and Flash Hear No , See No SVG: It Lives! Web Apps, Mobile, and What Comes Next Performance Based Design: The Future