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Great Horse Racing Mysteries digs beneath the surface of some of the sport's most intriguing cases.

"I hope these insights will encourage and enlighten you on your way to excellence," says Baggett. "Consider Dare to Lead your leadership compass, always available to help you get back on track when you find yourself veering off in the wrong direction."

The exercises in this workbook are based in proven-effective emotionally focused therapy (EFT)-an innovative approach for transforming the pain of addiction into a sense of love, community, and connection. Step by step, you'll build a solid foundation of self-compassion to help you heal from the underlying causes that drove you to self-medicate in the first place. Instead of trying to dull the pain at the core of your addiction, you'll discover how to develop a safety net of relationships to protect you.

In the newly revised second edition of Plan Your Prosperity, renowned investment adviser Ken Fisher delivers a practical and insightful new discussion of why all your investing should be done with an eye toward retirement. You'll learn how to think about investing for retirement and learn to understand key concepts like time horizons, return expectations, and cash flow needs. You’ll discover how to select an appropriate retirement benchmark and how to determine how much you need to save each year to achieve your retirement goal.

Following the 1956-57 NBA season, the Fort Wayne Pistons relocated to Detroit, and the Rochester Royals were moved to Cincinnati. The relocations of the Fort Wayne and Rochester franchises left Syracuse as the last small market team in the NBA.

In Kings of the Garden, Adam J. Criblez traces the fall and rise of the New York Knicks between the 1973, the year they won their last NBA championship, and 1985, when the organization drafted Patrick Ewing and gave their fans hope after a decade of frustrations. During these years, the teams led by Walt Frazier, Earl Monroe, Bob McAdoo, Spencer Haywood, and Bernard King never achieved tremendous on-court success, and their struggles mirrored those facing New York City over the same span.

We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic Church. They defined the canon of Scripture. They developed our creeds and forms of worship. They defined Christianity's distinctive moral sense. But who were they? What can we learn from their ancient teachings? What can the Fathers teach the twenty-first century—about holiness, culture, faith, and the Gospel.

Andy and Kara were anxious—anxious about their teenaged children approaching adulthood in a tumultuous world. Anxious, too, about their ministries; after all, as America's pews empty, the church depends on its leaders to save it. If only they could control the circumstances faced by those who depended on them, they could ensure their success. But maybe the solution isn't paving the way for our kids or our congregations. Maybe it's hiking the long road alongside them.

To understand evangelism, it can be difficult to know where to begin due to the wealth of material available on the topic. This one-stop textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to evangelism from an evangelical perspective. It draws from the diverse and vast literature on the topic to help listeners share the gospel at home and throughout the world. Understanding Evangelism emerges from the author's experiences as a pastor, missionary, evangelist, and professor of evangelism and from his expertise as a scholar in the field.

In the isolated villages of Meirion, Wales, people vanish without a trace, leaving a quiet countryside gripped by fear. A series of unexplainable deaths occur under horrifying and impossible circumstances—drowned in shallow marshes, shattered on jagged cliffs, slaughtered on empty roads. The press goes silent and fear spreads like wildfire. Is there a monstrous killer lurking in the shadows, or is something far more sinister at work?

Whether you call Cape Cod a man-made island or describe it as a geographic peninsula connected to the mainland by bridges, there is one non-debatable fact. Cape Cod is surrounded by water on all four sides, jutting out prominently into the Atlantic Ocean. This characteristic accounts in large measure for its history, its economic development, its aesthetic beauty, and its maritime legacy.

Becoming a parent is one of the true wonders of life. You will experience joy, sadness, frustration, bliss, surprise, and all sorts of emotions as you welcome your little one to your life. No parents are perfect. But that doesn't mean you're not going to do your best to give the best life to your child.

In a season marked by personal and team tragedy—the death of his wife and his teammate Ray Chapman, who is the only player to die as a result of being hit by a pitch—Covey pitched three complete-game victories in the Cleveland Indians’ 1920 World Series championship.

Whether you’re looking to lose weight, build more muscle, or simply become a more physically capable human being, one thing is for sure: Barbell workouts are going to change everything for you! The sad truth is that most people in gyms these days aren’t using barbells, and if they are, then they aren’t using them correctly. But if you do it right and take the time to learn the proper form, you’ll soon find that barbell fitness is one of the greatest ways to enhance your physical capacity.

Do you ever have that feeling that you are not doing enough with your life, like there is something always missing or lacking, but you can’t put a finger on it? Many individuals have this thought on an almost daily basis. They are exhausted from the monotonous and tedious nature of life. They spend hours sitting in a cubicle all day or are at home, doing daily chores when they are overwhelmed by this feeling of nothingness. They feel like they are wasting their lives. There is no value or satisfaction that comes from it.

Body, Mind, and Spirit is an all encompassing book that describes how to best experience the human condition. Punctual and to the point; this text is an extremely practical guide with a touch of philosophy and forward thinking. Throughout the book, certain types of books and specific books are mentioned in order to guide the listener on a journey after listening to Body, Mind, and Spirit in the direction of their choosing.

James M. Sweeney is a serial entrepreneur who started multiple companies that sold for billions, changed healthcare in America, and saved countless lives. Today, he mentors startup founders and other professionals in the art of failing your way to success. In this book, he will show you how to reframe anxiety and uncertainty into excitement for new beginnings. You will also learn the timeless wisdom of holding three crucial traits in balance: vision, humility, and the no-quit gene.

Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies shows you how to apply the latest performance appraisal practices and generate positive outcomes for your employees, for your company, and for you. The days of stand-alone annual performance appraisals are drawing to a close, with today's appraisals utilizing quarterly or biannual sessions, continuous feedback with regular two-way communication, collaborative goal-setting, career development, and an ongoing forward focus.

Historian Kevin Schmiesing takes you to more than two-dozen sites and events that symbolize and embody America's rich and sometimes tumultuous Catholic past, including the Santa Fe Trail, Gettysburg, and the Bourbon Trail. You'll also meet both famous and infamous Catholics—including Augustus Tolton, Dr. Samuel Mudd, and Frances Cabrini—who impacted our nation's history.

How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from war zones? Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational authority comes to be.