Bøger af Mark Ryan

Title: OWL WHO COLORS - Adult Pandora Coloring BookImmerse yourself in the enchanting world of "Owl Who Colors: Pandora Owl Adult Coloring Book," a mesmerizing collection of owl-themed illustrations set in the mythical realm of Pandora. This adult coloring book is not just a creative journey, but a top choice for those seeking stress relief, artistic exploration, and a connection with nature's most mysterious bird - the owl.Exquisite Owl Artwork: Each page of this adult coloring book is adorned with stunning, detailed images of owls, rendered in the magical style of Pandora. These intricate designs offer an engaging coloring experience, blending the allure of nature with mythical charm. Whether you're an avid bird watcher, an art lover, or a coloring aficionado, these owl illustrations will captivate and inspire.Relaxing and Therapeutic: Coloring is renowned for its calming effects, and "Midnight Mysteries" provides a perfect escape from everyday stress. Engaging with the detailed owl patterns promotes mindfulness and relaxation, making this book an ideal tool for unwinding after a long day.High-Quality Paper: To ensure a premium coloring experience, each illustration is printed on thick, durable paper. This quality makes the book suitable for a variety of coloring mediums, including colored pencils and markers.Perfect Gift for Adults: "Midnight Mysteries: Pandora Owl Adult Coloring Book" is an excellent gift for anyone interested in art, nature, or simply looking for a new hobby. It's a thoughtful present for birthdays, holidays, or just to show someone you care.In "Owl Who Colors: Pandora Owl Adult Coloring Book," you'll find not just a collection of beautiful illustrations but an invitation to explore your creativity, relax your mind, and connect with the mystical world of owls and Pandora. This book is more than just a coloring activity; it's a journey into a realm of fantasy, nature, and art.Let the mysterious owls guide you through a world of color and imagination!I hope you enjoy, Mark Ryan

Seasons change like memories. Swelling on a yearly cosmic tide. Never free from change, we move like blood coursing through a body, pumped by a heart under the pressures of life and circumstance. Discover this photopoetry collection while you drift, snapshots in time across the seasons that wander into your eyeline. From Spring to Winter, course your path across the yearly interval and meet visitors such as love, pain, wonder and friendship.Wander, and wonder with eyes and heart wide open.

She left the earth how she wanted, walking into the ocean as the stars above sparkled in their preciousness. She hoped to join them, to transform into something that burned with a power a million miles away from here. Her departure may be one of sadness, but it was by her own choosing. It was her own way to transform.'Nothing but I am' follows the life of Eleanor, as read through her journal in her final days on the planet. It washes over her hopes and dreams, loves and despairs at the hands of fate and the disturbance of states that begin to corrode her life. Her death imprints itself on a police officer trying to unpick meaning in her demise as she goes through her words and thoughts left in her journal. A hybrid poetry and fiction novel, marrying poems with journal entries surrounded by a story of departure.

Lurking deep within all of us, even those familiar to the stormy seas, dwells the leviathan. The monster in the soul which takes hold when the sun is so easily burnt out. It is the bringer of the darkness, the chaos and the nightmares. Threatening your little raft of life that is cast out into the world.Journey here onto the sea of poetry and short stories that explore the waves of emotions, horror and sadness. But keep an eye on the horizon for that little splinter of hope that breaks from the sky. 'Leviathan: Of the soul' is a poetry and short story collection covering topics of death, mental illness, suicide and redemption. Hold on against its onslaught.

It would be virtually impossible to invent Mark Ryan. In his life he has been a secret soldier, a West End leading man, a cult TV icon, a Hollywood actor, a licensed private investigator and an advisor to the L.A. Police Department. He has written two books about the history and psychology of tarot, taught intelligence officers how to uncover secrets and actors how to use a sword, as well as working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Here, in collaboration with New York Times bestselling author John Matthews, a long time friend, Mark tells his amazing story.

Failures washed over his workbench, dripping down his life. His quest to find the secret of changing lead into gold had consumed and shaken his soul. Yet he had merely strayed from the path he was meant to travel, clouded by the misty haze of obsession. When a little book comes into his life, it realigns his fate and lets the alchemy truly begin.'Alchemy' is a story about a man's evolution at the end of his life and how his preciousness is valued, not in the gold he makes; but the changes that he conjures. Strewn around poems that lead from dreams to magic, and prayers to happiness; the story navigates from despair to adjustment in surreal and magical landscapes.

Nothing truly lasts forever. We dance on the fingertips of the ephemeral looking back to our footsteps in the sand. Along this journey, we encounter fables of construction in our mind and stories we wish to tell.A collection of short stories that take you back in time, statically to the present and forward deep within your own heart. From the sadness surrounding The Astronaut to the evil that dwells at Anaxbly House in Souls in the Wind; we come full circle to the beautifully damaged understanding of Imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete, where acceptance of imperfection is the liberation we all desire.Twenty one short stories make up this composed and compressed novel, all beautifully damaged.

Make calculus more manageable with simplified instruction and tons of practiceCalculus All-in-One For Dummies pairs no-nonsense explanations of calculus content with practical examples and practice problems, so you can untangle the difficult concepts and improve your score in any calculus class. Plus, this book comes with access to chapter quizzes online. Dummies makes differentiation, integration, and everything in between more manageable, so you can crush calculus with confidence. Review the foundational basics, then dive into calc lessons that track your class. This book takes you through a full year of high-school calculus or a first semester of college calculus, only explained more clearly.* Work through easy-to-understand lessons on everything in a typical calc class* Get the score you want and need on standardized tests like AP Calculus* Access online chapter quizzes for additional practice* Untangle tricky problems and discover clever ways to solve themWith clear definitions, concise explanations, and plenty of helpful information on everything from limits and vectors to integration and curve-sketching, Calculus All-in-One For Dummies is the must-have resource for students who want to review for exams or just need extra help understanding the concepts from class.

Wild Magic invokes the power of the Wildwood--the Green Man and Green Woman, as well as all the living archetypes of the forest. Journey into the pre-Celtic world, where primal forces roamed free and opened doorways into the otherworld of the Ancestors. With information on the Lore of the Wild, the Wheel of the Year, shamanic methods, meditations, and newly crafted rituals, the book takes a fresh look at ancient traditions.

Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook helps you to quickly apply fastai to create deep learning applications. This recipe-based book teaches you how to use fastai for each of the four application areas that the framework explicitly supports: tabular data, text data (NLP), recommender systems, and vision data.

Journey deeper into the Wildwood... invoke the power of the Wildwood, of the Green Man and Green Woman, and of the living archetypes of the forest such as Robin-in-the-Hood, with this new companion to the bestselling Wildwood Tarot.

Geometry Essentials For Dummies sticks to the point, with content focused on key topics only.

It is widely acknowledged that we have a duty to protect the environment. Yet, current environmental policy discussions demonstrate that fulfilling this in practice is a difficult, complex, and costly task. There are many ethical questions arising from such discussions. Should we care about the environment because it is economically valuable or because nature has intrinsic value? How do we establish an ethical trade-off between our current needs and those of future generations? Should we protect individual species or entire ecosystems instead? What way should we discuss societal values and ideals, or should scientific analysis take precedence within decision making practice? This book aims to tackle some of these thorny sustainability issues and responds to them with a cohesive, original alternative in the form of the precautionary ecosystem health principle (PEHP). It provides a detailed philosophical approach and advocates that a PEHP approach is able to overcome many of these stark and challenging difficulties within sustainability theory and environmental policy.

Stehen Sie wie viele Schülerinnen und Schüler mit der Mathematik auf Kriegsfuß? Wollen Sie sich als möglicherweise fachfremd unterrichtende Lehrkraft einen Überblick über die Mathematik der Sekundarstufe verschaffen? Betrachten Sie sich eher als weniger talentiert in Mathematik? Dieses Dummies-Buch lässt Sie nicht allein. Alle Grundlagen, Schritt-für-Schritt-Erklärungen, viele Beispiele, Übungen und Lösungen sowie das Aufzeigen von Zusammenhängen; mit diesem Buch werden Sie sich viel sicherer fühlen.

A practical field guide to everyday mathematics explains how to develop helpful math skills in sections that review basic arithmetic and mathematical concepts ranging from fractions and percentages to statistics, ratios, and roots.

Description:Ought we conceive of theological ethics as an activity that draws from a community''s vision of human goodness and that has implications for the kind of person each of us is to be? Or, can students of the discipline map the ethical implications of what Christians confess about God, themselves, and the world while remaining indifferent to these claims? Habituated by modern moral theories such as consequentialism and deontology, Mark Ryan argues, we too often assume that Christian ethics makes no claim on the character of its students and teachers. It is rather like yet another department store within the shopping mall of ideas and ideologies to which advanced education provides access. By arguing that theological ethics is an activity by nature ""political,"" the author endeavors to show us that to do Christian ethics is to be habituated into ways of talking and seeing that put us on a path toward the good.The author thus affirms the claim that theological ethics is a life-changing practice. But why is it so? This book endeavors to display a philosophical basis for this claim, by articulating the political character of practical reason. Through rigorous conversation with G. E. M. Anscombe, Charles Taylor, Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Jeffrey Stout, Ryan provides an account of practical reasoning that enables us to rightly conceive theological ethics as a discipline that ought to change our lives. Endorsements:Drawing on Elizabeth Anscombe''s significant account of practical reason, Mark Ryan illumines not only my work but how theologians must reason to make clear the truthfulness of the claims we make as Christians. This is an extremely important book, which hopefully will receive the attention it deserves. Few are able to negotiate these philosophical waters with such clarity.""-Stanley HauerwasGilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological EthicsDuke Divinity School""This book is as discerning as its title. By way of a critical study of Jeffry Stout''s Democracy and Tradition, author Mark Ryan offers a surprising defense of the theopolitical thinkers Stout often criticizes: Hauerwas and MacIntrye. The defense is surprising because it takes its measure not from postliberal theology but from the claim of analytic philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe: that ethics is mere speculation unless it speaks to the realities of human desire. By this measure, argues Ryan, Hauerwas''s Christian ethics may win reason''s trust and philosophic ethics may lose it.""-Peter OchsBronfman Professor of Modern Judaic StudiesUniversity of Virginia""We have long lacked a guide for the philosophical background of Hauerwas''s thought, especially as it comes from the work of idiosyncratic anglophone philosophers like Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, and Charles Taylor. Now Mark Ryan has offered us one such guide, and a generous and insightful one at that. The book represents a new step into philosophical seriousness for those of a Hauerwasian persuasion. Offering a ''non-reductive understanding of politics'' as the context in which to see how practical reason becomes what it aims to be, Ryan shows us how Hauerwas''s ethics is actually also a politics. His provocative but charitable critiques of Charles Taylor, Gloria Albrecht, and Jeff Stout help flesh out how Hauerwas''s work is both engaged with and distinct from some of his sharpest interlocutors.""-Charles MathewesAssociate Professor of Religious StudiesUniversity of Virginia""Mark Ryan''s The Politics of Practical Reason is a thoughtful, insightful, and timely book, patiently illuminating the importance of formation as a central yet overlooked aspect of ethical deliberation. Ryan highlights the virtues of Hauerwas''s embodied, storied, and social approach to ethics by reading him as taking up Anscombe''s challenge. By incisively articulating the limitations of Stout''s and Taylor''s alternatives, this book deepens the character of conversation regarding practical reason in religi

Together, and against the odds, Dease and Godley became the first winners of the Victoria Cross in the First World War. Here Mark Ryan uses contemporary documentation and images to tell their astounding, fascinating stories, putting the focus on two genuine and ordinary heroes of the Great War.

Maurice `Moggy' Mayne was a cricket-loving air gunner in the Second World War, with a pretty girlfriend back home in rural England. Fearing losing his beloved girlfriend Sylvia forever, and risking recapture and execution, he saw the chance to escape alone, thus beginning an epic journey through Nazi-occupied Germany.

''It seemed as if the whole town had died.'' Sean O''Brien left his wife and son in County Tyrone to find work as a collier in the south Wales valleys. Years later his dying wife sends her son Jack to search for his father.