Bøger af Stephen Miller

Budapest and the Bronx: Portrait of an Intermarriage is a memoir that begins in wartime Budapest and touches on dark topics-Fascism, Stalinism, antisemitism-but it is mainly about two people from radically different backgrounds who enjoyed each other's company for almost six decades. Theirs was a marriage of "true minds" because they had so many interests in common, but they did have one serious disagreement.

One in an ongoing series of esteemed and popular Bible commentary volumes based on the New International Version text.

A brilliant and ambitious college professor, Dr. Reginald Thorne finds himself faced with a decision that has shaken his career, his family, and his religious beliefs. As his personal life unravels, he realizes that he must be true to what his heart has revealed to him.

There aren't many career opportunities in the city of Leifsburg for an exiled princess, but Theresa Kuypens has found her niche solving the upper crust's little social difficulties. When a family financial crisis leads her to take on a more underhanded piece of work, Theresa's uneventful life quickly gets turned sideways. With her client dead and a seemingly superhuman killer on her trail, she finds herself on the run along with Petra Ivanova, premier cat burglar and Theresa's best friend, and Vincent Hendriks, a former member of Theresa's royal guard with a few enemies of his own. The three of them soon find themselves caught in a deadly struggle between a megalomaniacal wizard bent on remaking the world and a band of cultists who simply want to destroy it. Saving the world will take every trick they can dream up. Surviving to tell the tale will take a miracle or two.

Running Out of Friends...Meet Max. A great looking guy, all he wants to do is read comic books, play his conga drums when he wants to and to finish his sci-fi novel. It doesn't seem a lot to ask of life, particularly since his novel is so important. His friends are bound to realize just how important the novel is to him. So, his plan is to stay with friends until the novel is complete. Then, when it is a success, he will be able to pay everyone back.Unfortunately, writing while living with friends is not working out for him. One by one, he is overstaying his welcome with his friends, who wish he would just get a job, any kind of job, to support himself while he is working on his sci-fi novel. And, his difficult-to-live-with style and conga drum playing don't make it any easier for his friends to put up with him. But, he can't do some menial job; the book is just too important to put off in any way!Finally, he has run out friends willing to help. He owes all of them money, which he is absolutely certain he will be able to repay when he sells his novel. Why don't they understand that? And, he is so close to finishing his novel. He just needs a little more time!Max ends up in a cheap hotel, broke, with only a week of rent. He has $14 left, and none of his friends even want to talk to him. He just cannot understand why everyone doesn't recognize just how important his book is. He is so close! Even his best ex-girlfriend won't help.Meanwhile, unknown to Max, he might have an inheritance, if his dad, an investment genius, wasn't quietly embezzling it from him.Can he find a way to get the time he needs to finish his book? It doesn't seem that there is anyone left he can turn to who would help him finish his novel. His dad doesn't talk to him. His mother is traveling the world and is who knows where. He keeps looking, and things start to get both strange and surprising.Maybe his third ex-stepmother would help. If only he could find a way to pay his old friends back, when they won't even talk to him...

In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and its revolutionary bourgeoisie, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not take shape in eighteenth-century France. Through the revolutionary period, the mass of the population consisted of peasants and artisans in possession of land and workshops, all embedded in autonomous communities. The old regime bourgeoisie and nobility thus developed within the absolutist state in order to have the political means to impose feudal forms of exploitation on the people. These class relations, and not those offered in the traditional interpretation, gave rise to the crisis of 1789 and the revolutionary conflicts of the 1790s

In the first entirely new major biography of Dolly Parton for over 15 years, Stephen Miller goes behind the larger-than-life image to find out what makes Dolly Parton tick.A self-made woman in every sense, Dolly arrived on the Nashville scene as a solo performer bedecked with lurid outfits and exaggerated accessories designed to get her noticed. Later she would bring the same approach to rebuilding her face and figure, but behind the showbiz excesses were always the exquisite voice and an exceptional songwriting talent. Talking to Dolly's family members, musicians and producers Miller gets to the core of a remarkable woman from a poor East Tennessee background who made it in the male-dominated world of 1960s Nashville and went on to build a respectable movie career as well.The author explores Dolly's private life, especially her closely-guarded relationships with her husband of nearly forty years, Carl Dean, and her lifelong friend Judy Ogle. What emerges is a unique portrait of a strong woman who came to town looking like a burlesque hooker but who took control of her life, her music and her career with resolute determination.

A refreshing read in the midst of discouraging times, The Art of Getting It Wrong by popular YouTube star Stephen Miller shares never-before-told stories that will guide you to a healthier perspective on life's failures, setbacks, and disappointments.

Rollercoaster: A Life in Twenty-Nine Jobs is a memoir about the author's widely varied jobs, from journalist, professor, and government official, to night watchman, driver for a printing company, and househusband. The memoir also includes portraits of several prominent people he came to know during the twenty years he worked in Washington, including Irving Kristol, Sidney Hook, James Buckley, Walter Laqueur, and Jan Nowak.

Both collectively and individually we have a deep and abiding fascination with angels. This book explores depictions of angels in the visual arts and in scripture and associated apocryphal and mystical writings, specifically in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and Islamic, Zoroastrian and other ancient and latter-day accounts. It examines the visual clues, artistic conventions and attributes that have been set down to help us to recognise angels in their particular roles and functions. Certain writings have had a particularly influential bearing on our understanding of angels. This text focuses on the hierarchies and orders proposed by the likes of Pseudo-Dionysius, St. Thomas Aquinas and others. In a new age of fascination with the metaphysical and supernatural (in film, television, popular mythology and literature), are we cementing or losing our connection with the authentic meaning and purpose that such vibrant and energised beings bring to our table? This book contains more than 30 illustrations in a central colour plates section. It also includes a useful glossary of terms and will prove a rich and enduring reference resource for libraries, as well as a stimulating go-to source for those interested in the world of angels and how human sensibilities and imaginative reasoning have enriched the subject, as a starting point for interreligious dialogue.

According to Alexis de Tocqueville's influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king's government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.

This text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Isett and Miller argue that people rather than markets have been the primary agents of agricultural change, exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time.

Revised and Updated Second Edition. Sandwiches are still the fastest growing food sector, which makes good quality coffee and sandwich bars an exciting opportunity. In this book the author passes on the knowledge he has gained from his own experience. Find out how to: - * CREATE A CONCEPT AND YOUR IMAGE * CHOOSE THE RIGHT LOCATION * BUY EQUIPMENT AND FIT OUT THE SHOP * GENERATE INTEREST BEFORE YOU OPEN

If someone close to you has dementia (Alzheimer s Disease is the most common type) you will know that communication gradually becomes more difficult and at times frustrating. This jargon-free book explains why this happens and how you have to rethink your whole approach by:Making key changes to the way you communicate Creating the right physical environment for good communication And bear in mind that communication in the broadest sense goes well beyond talking; there is also a wide range of non-verbal communication such as facial expression, posture and touch. The person with dementia in your life needs your help. This straightforward book will help you to acquire the knack for improving and facilitating communication that works in a wide variety of situations including: Improving conversationFinding stimulating activitiesDealing with challenging situationsMaking important decisionsReducing stress and agitationMoving into residential careThis book provides invaluable information for people helping to care for people with dementia at home and also those who do so as part of their job.

Building a Healthy Marriage Ministry is a manual for Pastors and Churches who want to build a vibrant marriage ministry in the local church. Complete with Outlines and graphic ideas, this resource is a practical how-to manual to build your very own marriage ministry.

Walking New York is an idiosyncratic guide to New York-a study of twelve American writers who walked in New York and wrote about their impressions of the city in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

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Since its establishment in 1965 the National Endowment for the Humanities has distributed many millions of dollars in grants.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent set of reports, generally referred to collectively as the Fifth Assessment Report, present significant data and findings about climate change. But what role does law play in addressing and responding to these findings? This book focuses on the relationship between law and the Fifth Assessment Report in hopes of bridging this gap.