'I drive. That's what I do. All I do.' 'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the sound of someone weeping in the next room....' Thus begins Drive, a new novella by James Sallis. Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., the story is, according to Sallis, "...about a guy who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. In classic noir fashion, he is double-crossed and, though before he has never participated in the violence ('I drive. That's all.'), he goes after the ones who doublecrossed and tried to kill him."
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This substantial volume includes more than fifty never-before-published expository sermons on John 4 from one of the twentieth century's greatest preachers. It was just a conversation between two people by the side of a well in Samaria. One, a local woman, came to perform her daily task of drawing water. Another, a Jewish man tired from traveling, sat down for a drink. But he wasn't just any Jewish man, and this wasn't just any conversation. The man, Jesus, revealed himself as the Messiah, leading to the conversion of not only the Samaritan woman but many from her town. Now, for the first time, fifty-six sermons by Martyn Lloyd-Jones on this passage of Scripture are available in Living Water. Lloyd-Jones, known for his ability to clearly communicate profound theological concepts, digs into this familiar passage from the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John, exposing fresh layers of truth. His perceptive analysis is helpful for all who thirst for the living water that only Jesus can provide.
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Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington - Booker T. Washington (April 18, 1856 November 14, 1915) was an African American educator, leader, author and orator and was an adviser to several US presidents. He was born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia, rememberingI cannot recall a single instance during my childhood or early boyhood when our entire family sat down to the table together. On the plantation in Virginia, and even later, meals were gotten to the children very much as dumb animals get theirs a piece of bread here and a scrap of meat there.He was nine when his family gained their emancipation and he describes the rejoicing and the apprehension as freed slaves entered a new life. His mother took the family to the free state of West Virginia. The only name he had known was Booker, but at school, when first asked his name by the teacher, he coolly added Washington to be like the other children who had at least two names. This established him on a path of fitting into the white world.In the course of his life he established the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, helped found the National Negro Business League, now eclipsed by the NAACP, and advised several US presidents. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary Black elite. He established a powerful political and financial network to advance the cause of African Americans through education and business known as the Tuskegee Machine.Up from Slavery chronicles Washington's life from slave to schoolmaster to statesman. It was a best seller when published and for many years thereafter. In it he writesThe temptations to enter political life were so alluring that I came very near yielding to them at one time, but I was kept from doing so by the feeling that I would be helping in a more substantial way through a generous education of the hand, head, and heart.
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On the front veranda of a rectangular farmhouse, somewhat pretentious for its time and place, stood a woman in expectant attitude. The bleak wind of a spent March day played rudely with the straying ends of her bright, abundant red-brown hair, which she brushed frequently from her careworn face as she peered through the thickening shadows of approaching night. The ice-laden branches of a leafless locust swept the latticed corner behind which she had retreated for protection from the wind. A great white-and-yellow watch-dog crouched expectantly at her feet, whining and wagging his tail. Indoors, the big living-room echoed with the laughter and prattle of many voices. At one end of a long table, littered with books and slates and dimly lighted by flickering tallow dips, sat the older children of the household, busy with their lessons for the morrow's recitations. A big fire of maple logs roared on the hearth in harmony with the roaring of the wind outside.
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'Kate Winkler Dawson is an unbelievable crime historian and such a talented storyteller.' Karen Kilgariff, cohost of the My Favorite Murder podcast 'Heinrich changed criminal investigations forever, and anyone fascinated by the myriad detective series and TV shows about forensics will want to read [this].' The Washington Post 'An entertaining, absorbing combination of biography and true crime.' Kirkus 'Kate Winkler Dawson has researched both her subject and his cases so meticulously that her reconstructions and descriptions made me feel part of the action rather than just a reader and bystander. She has brought to life Edward Oscar Heinrich's character, determination, and skill so vividly that one is left bemused that this man is so little known to most of us.' Patricia Wiltshire, author of Traces and The Nature of Life and Death Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities – beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners and hundreds of books – sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least 2,000 cases in his 40-year career. Known as the 'American Sherlock Holmes', Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of the greatest – and first – forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural. Based on years of research and thousands of never-before-published primary source materials, American Sherlock is a true-crime account capturing the life of the man who spearheaded the invention of a myriad of new forensic tools, including blood-spatter analysis, ballistics, lie-detector tests and the use of fingerprints as courtroom evidence.
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When the Swedish Paralympic shooter Jonas Jacobsson was three months old, doctors determined that he was paralyzed from the waist down. It was likely he would spend his entire life confined to bed, and the message to his parents was clear: Leave him here! His parents chose to follow their convictions and defy the doctors' advice. They took Jonas home and fought to give him the conditions he needed to be able to take care of himself in the future. Forty-seven years later, they sat in the stands in London and watched Jonas win his 17th Paralympic gold medal. That victory made Jonas Jacobsson the only Paralympian to have won at least one gold medal at nine consecutive Paralympic Games, making him the most successful male Paralympic athlete of all time. He has a total of 30 Paralympic medals and 38 World Championship medals. Leave Him Here is Jonas Jacobsson's autobiography, a reflection on his childhood, life, and athletic career, shaped by hardship and triumph, humour and outstanding accomplishments. The story is filled with humour and moments of laughter. This book is not just for sports enthusiasts, but for anyone seeking inspiration and a captivating story about daring to take risks in order to truly win something.
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In Lighthouses, Allison casts a light over the world, catching as she does, a man grafting in his shed; the new moon's pull on a love affair; Emily Wilding Davison hiding on Census Night; a mother as a listening telescope and Amy Hopkins falling for a comet. Virginia Woolf dips in and out, with her charcoal stare, her diaries and essays. And there are quiet poems too: sat at bedsides when ghosts and love, like the keeper's light, are never far away.
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Desde el ejercicio de 2015 algunas personas físicas y morales comenzaron a ingresar (enviar), de forma mensual, su información contable a través del portal del SAT (contabilidad en línea), mientras que a partir del ejercicio de 2016 la empezaron a enviar las demás personas físicas y morales obligadas a llevarla. En la Resolución Miscelánea Fiscal para 2017, publicada en el Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF) el 23 de diciembre de 2016, el SAT emitió las normas que regulan la contabilidad electrónica y su envío a través del portal electrónico del citado órgano desconcentrado, notificando qué contribuyentes están liberados de cumplir con esta obligación, así como el calendario de envío de la información contable del ejercicio de 2017. Asimismo, el 1o. de enero de 2016 se reformó el Código Fiscal de la Federación, para establecer la infracción y multa por no enviar la contabilidad electrónica a través del portal del SAT. Además, el 6 de enero del presente año se publicó en el DOF el anexo 24 de la Resolución Miscelánea Fiscal para 2017, denominado "Contabilidad en medios electrónicos"; por la importancia de este anexo, incluimos su texto íntegro en esta obra. El libro está dirigido, principalmente, a los encargados del cumplimiento de las obligaciones fiscales de las personas físicas y morales, estudiantes y profesores de la materia de impuestos, despachos de contadores públicos, asesores fiscales y, en general, a cualquier persona interesada en el tema.
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