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Its a Metaphysical World is a collection of over one hundred extraordinary short stories drawn from everyday life. Although names, locations, and incidental details have been changed, the salient facts are true. Each story deals with some aspect of metaphysical phenomena such as intuition, synchronicity, astral travel, bilocation, time warps, past lives, cell and soul memories, healings, hauntings, miracles, and sightings. Psychic sightings include everything from angels to ghosts. The strangeness of the stories led authors Marion K. Williams and Elena J. Michaels on a fascinating journey of discovery trying to understand the world they thought they knew. All stories offer insights, and many challenge conventional scientific and religious beliefs.

Since the great recession began in 2007, the average American has been struggling. Costs for food, gas, insurance has risen to astronomical levels. While these costs have continued to rise, salaries have remained stagnant. The result is that paychecks continue to get squeezed, and the American dream of a life increasing wages, financial, and economic security is slipping way. The average American needs timely, easy-to-follow advice that can show them how to keep more of what they earn, pay less in income taxes, and create an income stream that they can use in any way they see fit. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Getting the Most out of Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) is a practical e-book that takes the complex world of IRS regulations and translates it into something that the average American can understand. The authors take the reader, in a concise way, through how FSAs work, and how they can provide a tax-free income stream that can used in any way a person chooses. Case studies from actual clients are employed to show how they have actually done some amazing things, such as: Used the funds from their FSA to take their dream vacation to Australia! Used the funds from their FSA to purchase a clients first piece of rental property! Used the funds from their FSA to pay for their sons first year of college! These people werent any different than the average American. The only difference between them and you is the extremely valuable and easy-to-understand information contained within the covers of this e-book.

Teaching Young Learners to Think offers 80 activities with photocopiable worksheets and easy-to-follow teacher's notes. Herbert Puchta, author of a wide range of innovative teaching materials, and Marion Williams, well-known for her book Psychology for Language Teachers, have developed specifically designed tasks that develop children's foreign language competence while promoting the basic thinking skills they will need as they grow older. Teachers will enjoy using the motivating tasks that have been carefully devised to match the language level of EFL learners. Students will enjoy the fun of the thinking challenges these activities offer.

This book explores key areas of educational and social psychology and considers their relevance to language learning and teaching, using activities and questions for reflection. The topics discussed in the book include: • learners’ and teachers’ beliefs about how a language should be learned and taught • learning and working in groups • relationships with others • the role of the self in teaching and learning • motivation to start and persist with tasks • the role of emotions in learning. The authors provide useful insights for the understanding of language learning and discuss the important implications for language teaching pedagogy. Extra resources are available on the website: www.oup.com/elt/teacher/exploringpsychology Marion Williams was formerly Reader in Applied Linguistics at the University of Exeter and is a past president of IATEFL. Sarah Mercer is Professor of Foreign Language Teaching at the University of Graz, Austria. Stephen Ryan is Professor in the School of Economics at Senshu University, Tokyo.

This publication provides a section which gives a brief description of the various offices within the United States Department of Agriculture and their functions, followed by a directory, and an Index of Names.

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels. The first novel is "Seven from the Stars" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The starship Northwind, carrying colonists to a sun in the Spiral Arm, had imploded. The Master Panel, which carries sensitive studs corresponding to the self-destroying implosion units installed, for obvious reasons, in all spacecraft, confirmed today that the implosion device of the Northwind had gone dead. Cause of the disaster: unknown. The Northwind may have deviated from her course and strayed into the Closed Planets. It is surmised that the ship may have been threatened with capture by Rhu-inn-dominated ships, and that the crew may have destroyed the Northwind to prevent passengers from falling into Rhu-inn hands. Survivors are unlikely. Lifeships are not released prior to implosion unless a planet is detected within lifeship range--the swift death of implosion being more merciful for survivors than a lingering death drifting in space. There are few stars in that section of the Spiral Arm, and of these, only a fraction are possessed of habitable planets. The probability that the Northwind may have released lifeships in the vicinity of any of these planets is small. The crew and passengers of the Northwind must for all practical purposes be considered dead. But there were seven survivors! The second novel is "The Girl Who Read Minds" by Robert Moore Williams. It's nice to have a girl friend, but is it so nice when you discover she has the power to read minds? That could prove to be dangerous, especially when she exposes the darkest secrets of those around her. That's what happened to Ken Hayden and Nardia Barclay. What was supposed to be a mind-reading "hoax" at a party, turned out to be a demonstration of the uncharted science of mental telepathy. And soon with thunder crashing outside, Nardia Barclay's powers turned an estate filled with the wealthy into a mansion of horror, brimming with dread and murder; a situation complicated by the fact that Nardia's mind had come into contact with the killer himself.

"This book treats not only Wilkins's Nautilus expedition of 1931 but the diesel- and battery-powered submarine operations of the l94Os and l95Os as well as the era of nuclear-powered boats. It shows how rapid advances in science and technology helped overcome so many obstacles that today the Arctic Ocean is considered the submariner's private sea." "Author Marion Williams, a member of the U.S. Navy's submarine service for many years, tells the story from the viewpoint of the submariners themselves. To do so, he consulted countless official and unofficial documents and recently declassified reports, interviewed participants, and drew on his own professional knowledge. He provides dramatic details of every operation and also describes the military and political ramifications of each cruise. The narrative is certain to appeal to readers of all ages who enjoy tales of exploration and discovery. Dozens of photographs, many never before published, help bring the story to life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved