Need to bless a newborn babe? Wondering what color candle to use for a winter handfasting? What herbs are best to use when the Moon is in Cancer? Magick is intent, but any witch will tell you that intent requires forethought and preparation. And even the most seasoned ritualist needs a reference to determine the best timing and most powerful ingredients for their magical work. From Solstice to Saturday to Seven O’ Clock, from Vervain to Mandrake to Amber, using the right magickal correspondences strengthens any spell, ceremony, or ritual. Here Eileen Holland has gathered together a wealth of magickal knowledge, complete with everything from hours, days, weeks, and astrological alignment to proper corresponding plants, animals, oils, herbs, and deities, and compiled them into the ultimate reference book for anyone seeking guidance in creating their own enchantments. Includes a glossary of less familiar terms and deities, as well as a glossary of ingredients.
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Author: Eileen Holland Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser ISBN: 9781609250911 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2009 256 pages
A Bio-Bibliography of Composers at Conservatories, Colleges, and Universities in the United States
Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have taken on the mantle of instruction will find a wealth of detail on their subjects. Painstakingly obtained through direct correspondence with the composers themselves, Floyd includes within each entry a short biography of the composer’s life and education, lists of previous positions, most prominent commissions, awards and honors, and notable performers of the subject’s work. Each entry also contains a discography of the recordings and a bibliography of writings by the composer.
Researchers will find especially useful the organization of each subject’s compositions by a variety of types. These include vocal, choral/assembly, dramatic, keyboard, solo instrument, handbells, chamber music, jazz ensemble, band and wind ensemble, band and wind ensemble with solo instruments, orchestra, orchestra with solo instruments, film/television/commercial, electro-acoustic and multimedia, arrangements, transcriptions, and editions and reconstructions. Music scholars will find under each work not only the title and date of composition but also the date of revision, commission, and dedication information, as well as other pertinent details ranging from the names of collaborators to alternate titles under which works may circulate. Composers in the Classroom is an indispensable tool to scholars of modern music seeking to research the current state of musical composition and the compositional trends of the 21st century.
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Author: James Michael Floyd Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 9781461657644 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2011 356 pages
[Menage Amour: Erotic Contemporary Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, bondage, spanking, sex toys] For months, LA fashionista Whitney Montcrief has secretly lusted after her roommates, super sexy trauma surgeon Mick O'Loughlin and rough, tough and drop-dead gorgeous SWAT sergeant Eddie Dillon. Eddie craves Whitney's touch. Her sweet smile tempts him like none other—and it terrifies him. He's been burned once before and has no desire to relive the pain of rejection. His heart walled off, Eddie denies himself the very thing he wants most. But Mick is tired of tiptoeing around the obvious sexual attraction between the three of them. He wants Eddie and Whitney in his bed. He's ready to play with fire, even if that means dragging Eddie, kicking and screaming, right through the flames behind him. ** A Siren Erotic Romance
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Nehru, Ben-Gurion, and Other 20th Century Political Leaders: Intellectual Odyssey I
This book is unique in illuminating and comparing the charismatic role of two political leaders, Jawaharlal Nehru and David Ben-Gurion, along with assessments of many other 20th century political leaders. Its aim is to enrich our knowledge of an important dimension of global politics: charismatic leadership. The central role of political leaders in shaping the behavior of states has been universally recognized since the political systems of antiquity in East Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. With the massive increase of independent states since the end of World War II, from 55 initial members of the United Nations to more than 200 today, and especially the emergence of awesome weapons of mass destruction, the centrality of political leaders in the survival of the planet has grown exponentially. Both India and Israel have experienced the crucial role of charismatic leaders, Nehru and Ben Gurion, who dominated their states and societies for a near-identical formative period in their political independence, 1947-64 and 1948-63 respectively, as charismatic leaders. Their impact, Brecher shows, extended far beyond their states to both their geographic regions and global politics.
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Author: Michael Brecher Publisher: Springer International Publishing ISBN: 9783319326276 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2016 288 pages
The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict
Power and Water in the Middle East’ provides a powerful new perspective on the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict. Adopting a new approach to understanding water conflict – hydro-hegemony – the author shows the conflict to be much more deeply entrenched than previously thought and reveals how existing tactics to control water are leading away from peace and towards continued domination and a squandering of this vital resource.Existing approaches tend to play down the negative effects of non-violent water conflict, and what is presented as co-operation between countries often hides an underlying state of conflict between them. The new analytical framework of hydro-hegemony exposes the hidden dynamics of water conflict around the world and yields critical insights in to the Middle East water problem. This important work will interest researchers, professionals and policy makers involved with the politics of the Middle East and with water conflict more generally._x000D__x000D_’a compelling story of state-building, inter-state competition, and the central role that water plays in state development’ – Water Alternatives_x000D_ _x000D_’washes away another colourful colonial myth and reveals a history of squandered resources, domestic injustice, and regional belligerence… Zeitoun’s meticulous investigation of the conflict over water in the region is a convincing read … it remains essential reading for anybody working on resource management through government ministries, national agencies, and NGOs in the region.’ – Arab Studies Journal
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Author: Mark Zeitoun Publisher: I.B.Tauris ISBN: 9780857715852 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2008 231 pages
Southwest Airlines turns in-depth interviews with the company’s leaders, managers, employees, and passengers into a powerful case study of this highly successful, game-changing business. Ranging from the early days of the company to the present, the book covers the history of the airline and its founders, while also detailing the unique corporate culture that attracts employees and passengers alike.
Throughout its history, Southwest has championed a culture that puts employees first, creating a productive workforce by hiring for “attitude before aptitude” (because skills can be taught) and allowing employees to be themselves at work. The founders’ philosophies of “servant leadership” and a “fun-LUVing” attitude continue to attract employees and influence the company’s daily work today. In detailing the airline’s inner workings in the words of its own people, this book shows other companies how they can emulate Southwest’s powerful business model and strategies, as well as its hiring practices and corporate culture.
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Author: Chris Lauer Publisher: ABC-CLIO ISBN: 9780313378645 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2010 202 pages
Sebastian Case relies on his irreplaceable assistant for everything. But since arriving in Vegas for a conference, mousy Missy Ward has transformed herself. From ordinary to ravishing. From modest and reserved to bold and sensual. And Sebastian, who’d barely noticed she was a woman, finds himself dazzled by her allure.
Now she’s quitting and Sebastian will do anything to keep her. Including accepting her outrageous bet. One spin of the roulette wheelblack and she’ll stayred and Sebastian owes her one night of passion. What can he lose, except maybe his heart?
A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra
The opening chapter traces the history of the term ‘problem plays’ as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play’s relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.
Author: Ernest Schanzer Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781136564963 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2013 208 pages
Asian economies strengthened their monetary and currency management after the Asian financial crisis of 1997 – 1998, and came through the global financial crisis of 2007 – 2009 relatively well. Nevertheless, the recent global crisis has presented new challenges. This book develops recommendations for monetary and currency policy in Asian economies aimed at promoting macroeconomic and financial stability in an environment of global economic shocks and volatile capital flows. Monetary and Currency Policy Management in Asia draws lessons from crises and makes concrete macroeconomic policy recommendations aimed at minimizing the impacts of an economic and financial downturn, and setting the stage for an early return to sustainable growth. The focus is on short-term measures related to the cycle.The three main areas addressed are: monetary policy measures, both conventional and unconventional, to achieve both macroeconomic and financial stability; exchange rate policy and foreign exchange reserve management, including the potential for regional cooperation to stabilize currency movements; and ways to ease the constraints on policy resulting from the so-called 'impossible trinity' of fixed exchange rates, open capital accounts, and independent monetary policy. This is one of the first books since the global financial crisis to specifically and comprehensively address the implications of the crisis for monetary and currency policy in emerging market economies, especially in Asia. Presenting a broad menu of policy options for financial reform and regulation, the book will be of great interest to finance experts and policymakers in the region as well as academics and researchers of financial and Asian economics as well as economic development.
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Author: Masahiro Kawai; Shinji Takagi Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9780857933355 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2012 320 pages
Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth’s attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his wife and spitfire daughter. But Mason’s idyll is abruptly pierced by a wicked tragedy, and soon afterward trouble finds him again when he is forced to confront a brutal secret he and his brother had both sworn to take with them to the grave, a secret that threatens everyone and everything he holds dear.
Intricately plotted and relentlessly entertaining, The Legal Limit is an exploration of the judicial system’s roughest edges, as well as a gripping story of murder, family, and the difficult divide that sometimes separates genuine justice from the law.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Author: Martin Clark Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN: 9780307269348 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
