Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429906383
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
For years Richard Lederer has enthralled fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty presentation. Now Lederer has teamed up with Richard Dowis to take readers on another journey through the world's most wonderful, albeit perplexing, language. How many times have we all heard the word viable used in company meetings? Lederer and Dowis show us how "viable," somewhere along the line, was extracted from medical books, where it literally means "capable of living," and placed into the business lexicon, where it means...well, who knows? The authors clear up once and for all the confusion between lay and lie and put to rest some common myths about language. The book's finale is a ten-minute writing lesson from which everyone, from rank amateur to seasoned pro, can benefit. These and dozens of other features make this book pure pleasure for language buffs, writers, and teachers. Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay is useful and authoritative as well as fun to read, with humorous touches often popping up where least expected and most needed.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Author: Mirjam Pressler
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425840
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
YA. Age 12-14. When Johanna discovers that her grandfathers company--and her familys wealth--was founded on injustice due to the anti-Semitic laws of the Third Reich during the Nazi regime, she must make a life-altering decision.

Treating Chronically Traumatized Children

Author: Arianne Struik
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317743938
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Professionals working with traumatized children are often asked whether it would be better to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’, because the child may not be ready to discuss their experiences, and out of fear that they may become further distressed or disturbed. In Treating Chronically Traumatized Children, Arianne Struik presents the case for waking those ‘sleeping dogs’ in a safe and structured environment, in order to allow the healing process to begin and prevent trauma later in life. Struik has developed a method for those cases labelled most difficult to treat, involving deregulated, traumatized children who refuse to talk about their memories, or claim to have ‘forgotten’ them completely. It incorporates factors in the child’s environment and network to ensure that they are safe and secure before beginning the process, and stable throughout treatment. Downloadable worksheets enhance the book’s content and make each section straightforward to work through, supporting the child through the stabilization, processing and integration phases of treatment. Illustrated throughout by case studies and comprehensive explanation of the theory and the treatment method, Treating Chronically Traumatized Children is clear and accessible and is ideal for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and counsellors, as well as parents and anyone working with chronically traumatized children and adolescents.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie?

Author: Simon Chapman
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1920899685
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Few issues have been as divisive as prostate cancer screening. While some prominent Australian urologists are very active in talking up the importance of prostate cancer screening, few Australians would be aware that aside from some professional urological societies, no prevention agency currently recommends screening for the disease.

Death in the City

Author: Francis A. Schaeffer
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433516578
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Few Christians had greater impact during the last half of the twentieth century than Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer. A man with penetrating insight into post-Christian, post-modern life, Schaeffer also cared deeply about people and their search for truth, meaning, and beauty. If there is one central theme throughout Schaeffer's work, it is that "true truth" is revealed in the Bible by "the God who is there," and that what we do with this truth has decisive consequences in every area of life. Death in the City was Schaeffer's third book and is foundational to his thinking. Written against the backdrop of the sixties countercultural upheaval, it reads today with the same ring of truth regarding personal, moral, spiritual, and intellectual concerns. Especially in light of 9/11, Schaeffer seems disturbingly prophetic. The death that Schaeffer writes about is more than just physical death—it is the moral and spiritual death that subtly suffocates truth and meaning and beauty out of the city and the wider culture. What is the answer that Schaeffer offers in response? It is commitment to God's Word as truth—a costly practice in the midst of the intellectual, moral, and philosophical battles of our day. It is compassion for a world that is lost and dying without the Gospel. It is yielding our lives to God and allowing Him to bring forth His fruit through us. Few have demonstrated this commitment to truth and "persistence of compassion" so consistently as Schaeffer did. And because of this, few who begin reading these pages will come to the end without having their life profoundly changed.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Author: Tim Heald
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448300266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139

Book Description
When the champion of Three Corners, the finest dog ever bred in Alisa Potts’ kennels, is found lying dead in the corner of his enclosure, it’s up to Simon Bognor, special investigator for the Board of Trade, to find out what happened. No dog lover, Bognor doesn’t relish the task. Somehow, the more absurd and low-key the assignment, the more trouble he tends to attract. This time, however, he’s really destined to go to the dogs.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Author: J. P. Lockrey
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595248314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
A strange epidemic of anger and violence has taken grip of world leaders. As their apparent insanity causes rapid loss of credibility and control, the world order sits on the verge of collapse. Jim Wagner and his friends are contacted by a frantic President to find the cause and eliminate it before anarchy becomes rampant. The ensuing race against time moves from the war torn countryside of Ireland to the ancient ruins of Belize's rainforests. Senseless murders, debilitating, agonizing pain and forays into the world of voodoo make this an unforgetable journey into a world of unimaginable scientific horrors.

Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description

Lamba Folk-lore

Author: Clement Martyn Doke
Publisher: Corinthian Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Why Sleeping Dogs Lie

Author: Tracie Howard
Publisher: NAL
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
One of the brightest new stars in African-American fiction, Tracie Howard, coauthor of Revenge Is Best Served Cold and Talk of the Town, now delivers her smashing solo debut-a delicious novel of ambition, intrigue, and sizzling romance. Mallory Baylor is the ultimate New York City girl. She's gorgeous, she's stylish, and she's got a firm grip on Heat, the hottest urban publication in the world. Any blemishes on her past have been artfully airbrushed away...until an opportunity arises to interview handsome Saxton McKensie. Because years ago, Mallory and Saxton's steamy affair ended with the birth of a child that Saxton-and his fiancee, TV superstar Deena Ingram-know nothing about. Now, just as Deena is closing a multimillion-dollar network deal, a long-buried secret comes to the surface and Mallory and Saxton are forced to confront a scandalous past they longed to forget-and a future that only true love can provide....