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Touch and Go: Easyread Comfort Edition

Touch and Go: Easyread Comfort Edition

D. H. Lawrence

ANABEL (after a pause): Answer them, Gerald. What's the use of prolonging this? GERALD: I've nothing to answer. VOICES: Nothing to answer – Gerald, darling – Gerald, duckie – oh, lovey-dovey – I've nothing to answer – no, by God – no, ...
The Power of Patriarchs: Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism

The Power of Patriarchs: Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism

Elizabeth A. Morrison

A study of the Northern Song Chan monk Qisong and his writings on Chan lineage, this book offers new arguments about Buddhist patriarchs, challenges assumptions about Chan masters, and provides insight into the interactions of Buddhists and ...
Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism

Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism

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This landmark guide to the practice of Chan Buddhism includes texts from the great living Chan master Sheng Yen, as well as material by three key ancestors of his lineage, going back to medieval times: Yuanyun Jiexian, Boshan Yuanlai, and ...
Poker

Poker

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Johnny Chan Johnny Chan Johnny Chan at the 2006 World Series of Poker Nickname(s) Orient(al) Express Hometown Las Vegas, Nevada World Series of Poker Bracelet(s) 10 Money finishes 42 Highest ITM Main Event finish Winner, 1987, ...
China Engages Global Governance: A New World Order in the ...

China Engages Global Governance: A New World Order in the ...

Gerald Chan

40 Withexpanding anddeepeninglinkages betweenChina andtherestof the world, Samuel Kim has argued, there has been asteadyrisein global learning forpostMao reformers. Kimhasdefined globallearning as atwoway interactive linkage ...
Descendants of Jacob Dyck and Elisabeth Jaeger: Kronsthal, ...

Descendants of Jacob Dyck and Elisabeth Jaeger: Kronsthal, ...

Joyce Stevenson Elias

V Darleen [Marshall] and 1. Gerald Morgan and 2. William Haynes Darleen met, and married Gerald D. Morgan, in Victoria, BC. Gerald, born June 30, 1934, was in the Navy. They were married in Victoria on Dec. 17, 1955. Gerald died in Sum-  ...
Play Poker Like Johnny Chan: Book One: Casino Poker

Play Poker Like Johnny Chan: Book One: Casino Poker

Johnny Chan

Whether you are a beginning or intermediate player, this book will help you on your road to expert status. Concise and easy to understand, Play Poker Like Johnny Chan covers all the popular casino poker games.
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Daniele Della Rocca

... DEATH AT APPLEDORE TOWERS di Gerald Lientz, THE CROWN VERSUS DOCTOR WATSON di Gerald Lientz, THE DYNAMITERS di Milt Creighton, THE HONOUR OF THE YORKSHIRE LIGHT ARTILLERY di Gerald Lientz, THE ROYAL ...
The Ghost of Neil Diamond

The Ghost of Neil Diamond

David Milnes

Neil tried to recall in which of Chan's smart clubs Iannis was working but he couldn't remember. What else was in that expression, that puckered frown? With the shadow from the hat it was impossible to say. “How is he? Ole channy Chan?
The Convergence of Theology: A Festschrift Honoring Gerald ...

The Convergence of Theology: A Festschrift Honoring Gerald ...

Gerald O'Collins

This work contains twenty-one essays written in honor of Gerald O'Collins, SJ, and includes contributions in the areas of New Testament studies, Catholic theology, spirituality and fundamental theology and resurrection and christology.
Million Dollar Hold'em: Limit Cash Games

Million Dollar Hold'em: Limit Cash Games

Johnny Chan

Chan, who regularly plays against and defeats the best players in the world, shows how to win money consistently at poker's most popular game-limit hold'em.
Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom

Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom

Howard M. Berlin

A selection of 600 quotes from the Charlie Chan movies, based on the character created by Earl Derr Biggers. Includes a 12-page databank of publicity photos, lobby cards, and other scenes from the movies.
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Steven Heine

See Morten Schlütter, How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009). T48:292c22–293a14. See Robert E. Buswell Jr., “The Transformation of Doubt ...
The Moneymaker Effect: The Inside Story of the Tournament ...

The Moneymaker Effect: The Inside Story of the Tournament ...

Eric Raskin

This was our ESPN debut broadcast, so we wanted—and ESPN wanted—to have a Johnny Chan or a Doyle or a Hellmuth. So when Johnny Chan was eliminated, there was certainly some disappointment in that. Maranz: Our coverage, we ...
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Soong-Chan Rah

Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world.
Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou

Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou

Shengyan

A Chan Master who has co-led retreats with the Dalai Lama presents the Chinese Zen meditational practice of asking an answerless question, called huatou, a traditional method for breaking through the trap of habitual thinking and finding a ...
Out of the Shadow of 1997?: The 2000 Legislative Council ...

Out of the Shadow of 1997?: The 2000 Legislative Council ...

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Some of the Young Turk members in these branches spent time campaigning for Albert Chan, instead of campaigning in their own districts, as they saw Chan as the only hopeful Young Turk candidate. However, this did not violate any party ...
Understanding and Treating Depressed Adolescents and Their ...

Understanding and Treating Depressed Adolescents and Their ...

Gerald D. Oster

Gerald D. Oster, Janice E. Caro. This book is ... Library of Congress Cataloglng-ln -Publicatlon Data: Oster, Gerald D. Understanding and treating depressed adolescents and their families / Gerald D. Oster, Janice E. Caro. p. cm. — (Wiley ...
Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism

Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism

Master Sheng-Yen

He finally settled down on Mount Bo (Boshan) to teach for the rest of his life. In the Chan custom of referring to eminent masters by their place of settlement, he then became known as Master Boshan. The two tracts of Boshan's translated here ...
WSOP Official Guidebook

WSOP Official Guidebook

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Johnny Chan 198788 Main Event Champion Member of Poker Hall of Fame The 1988 championship event isa classic in WorldSeries ofPoker history,inpart because Johnny Chan won it for the second consecutive year, but primarily because ...
The Church Has AIDS: Essays on Sexuality, Sexual ...

The Church Has AIDS: Essays on Sexuality, Sexual ...

Gerald M. Palmer

... leading the way," Gerald Palmer Minister Gerald Palmer is an Associate Minister for Calvary Temple Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, under the leadership of his mentor and Pastor, Rev. Eric D. Williams. Palmer holds both a Bachelor ...
Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan ...

Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan ...

Alan Cole

Patriarchs on Paper charts the emergence of this kind of “fantasy Buddhism” and details how it interacted with more traditional forms of Chinese Buddhism in order to show how Chan’s illustrious ancestors were created in literature in ...
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Steven Heine

See Miriam Levering, “Dahui Zonggao and Zhang Shangying: The Importance of a Scholar in the Education of a Song Chan Master,” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 30 (2000), 115–139; Robert M. Gimello, “Chang Shang-ying on Wu-t'ai Shan,” ...
Incorporating Children in Worship: Mark of the Kingdom

Incorporating Children in Worship: Mark of the Kingdom

Michelle A. Clifton-Soderstrom

Rah, Soong-Chan. Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church. Chicago: Moody, 2010. ———. “Soong-Chan Rah: Freeing the Captive Church.” Faith and Leadership. September 2011.
52 Greatest Moments World Series of Poker

52 Greatest Moments World Series of Poker

Mark Rogers

THE MOMENT If Johnny Chan wanted to be the king of the World Series of Poker he first would have to defeat the court jester. The final match was postponed in order for ESPN to provide adequate television coverage for Chan's historical ...
Master Sheng Yen:

Master Sheng Yen:

Dharma Drum Mountain

By the time of his death in February 2009, Chan Master Sheng Yen was recognized as a preeminent spiritual leader. A traditional master of Chinese Buddhism,he wasa lineagedescendant ofboththe Linjiand Caodongschools of Chan.For over ...
Coconut recipes from around the world

Coconut recipes from around the world

M. L. C. George

Albert Chan and Yeow Giap Seng did the layout. We are grateful to our Bioversity colleagues Albert Chan, for providing valuable technical assistance; Yeow Giap Seng, for facilitating the whole process of getting the book to publication; and ...
Fire in the Tail: Bobby's Adventure Continues Down Under

Fire in the Tail: Bobby's Adventure Continues Down Under

Mary Randall

As the five of us kids and Tutu looked over at Mae—Ling, her father Albert—Chan , and Kim—Sung, we noticed that Kim—Sung who was now dressed was looking down at the ground in shame while his father, Albert—Chan was speaking very ...
Gerald's Journal: The Life of an Everyday Hero

Gerald's Journal: The Life of an Everyday Hero

David McElhinny

Gerald's thoughts on bullying, inclusion, and friendship make this book a must-read not just for special needs families, but for every person, everywhere.
The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue

The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue

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For Zhang Shangying, see Miriam Levering, “Dahui Zonggao and Zhang Shangying: The Importance of a Scholar in the Education of a Song Chan Master, ” Journal of SongYuan Studies 30 (2000): 115–139. 10 See Jeffrey Lyle Broughton, ...

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