Everything you need to know about the history of the Christian church - and a fair few bits you didn't want to know thrown in for good measure.
Chronic invisible illness affects hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom feel misunderstood and even stigmatised. This book aims to give visibility to misunderstood illnesses, to legitimize them, and to enable people to understand and manage an unpleasant and demoralising illness.
The NIV Study Bible, featuring Dr. D.A. Carson as general editor, is built on the truth of Scripture and centred on the gospel message.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer helps readers learn how to depend on God's strength to help them overcome any obstacle, derived from her book The Battle Belongs to the Lord.
'Hits the bull's-eye with every chapter... Very highly recommended.' - The IndependentThis is a fully updated new edition of the bestselling guide for anyone who is thinking of starting their own business. It covers both the strategic and practical issues in the ideal level of detail for budding entrepreneurs, and is full of insider tips which will help give your business the edge in a tough marketplace.
Is this the right book for me?A jargon-free guide for the small business owner or managerSmall Business Accounting is a jargon-free joy for the small business owner or manager, providing practical examples of real businesses to show the reader, step by step, how to record each transaction. This book does not assume that you know anything at all about business records and accounts and gives a system for real businesses to be operated by real business people who want a simple, easy and, above all, quick system of book keeping. Forget about debits and credits, journal entries, ledgers and day books. If you can read a bank statement this book will teach you how to prepare accounts, make cashflow forecasts and prepare a budget. And when you do need to use an accountant, it tells you how best to find a reliable one.Small Business Accounting includes: Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Your bank accountChapter 3: A simple cashbookChapter 4: Analysis columnsChapter 5: Payments - filingChapter 6: Payments - cheque-bookChapter 7: Payments - cashbookChapter 8: Non-allowable expensesChapter 9: Purchase of equipmentChapter 10: Credit cardsChapter 11: Petty cashChapter 12: Receipts - filingChapter 13: Receipts - paying-in bookChapter 14: Receipts - cashbook Chapter 15: Capital introducedChapter 16: End of month proceduresChapter 17: VATChapter 18: WagesChapter 19: End of year totalsChapter 20: Adjustments for paymentsChapter 21: Adjustments to receiptsChapter 22: Transfer to tax returnChapter 23: Trial balanceChapter 24: Final accountsChapter 25: Budgeting and cash-flow forecastingChapter 26: Costing and pricingChapter 27: Computerization. Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features: Not got much time?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.Author insightsLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.Test yourselfTests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.Extend your knowledgeExtra online articles to give you a richer understanding of small business accounting.Five things to rememberQuick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.Try thisInnovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Is this the right book for me?Book keeping is neither dull nor mysterious - its rules are logical and straightforward and are readily mastered by practice. Successful Bookkeeping for Small Business is a substantial yet easy to follow introduction to the principles of bookkeeping and the practical skills of recording transactions, posting the ledgers and preparing final accounts.Written by finance and accounting experts from the University of Birmingham this book: - Explains the purpose and use of books of original entry as the basis of the double-entry system. - Describes the processes of recording purchases, sales and cash transactions. - Shows how these records are used to prepare the final accounts, the manufacturing, trading and profit and loss accounts and the balance sheet to provide accurate financial statements. - Explores petty cash, depreciation, partnership, company law, business documents and the effect of changes in IT.Worked examples throughout allow you to put the theory into practice. There is also a wide range of carefully graded questions and exercises with sample answers. In short, it demystifies the art of bookkeeping and gives you the confidence you need to tackle your books.Successful Bookkeeping for Small Business includes:Chapter 1: What is book keeping?Chapter 2: Business documentsChapter 3: The business transaction, purchases and salesChapter 4: Purchase and sales transactions and ledger accountsChapter 5: Cash transactionsChapter 6: The bank reconciliationChapter 7: Petty cashChapter 8: The (general) journalChapter 9: Writing up the booksChapter 10: The trial balanceChapter 11: What is profit or loss?Chapter 12: The revenue account: the trading, profit and loss and appropriation accountsChapter 13: The balance sheetChapter 14: Adjustments in the final accountsChapter 15: DepreciationChapter 16: Clubs, societies and charities book keepingChapter 17: Information technology and book keepingChapter 18: PartnershipsChapter 19: Limited companiesChapter 20: The analysis and interpretations of accountsLearn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and added features:Not got much time?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.Author insightsLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the authors' many years of experience.Test yourselfTests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.Extend your knowledgeExtra online articles to give you a richer understanding of bookkeeping.Try thisInnovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Is this the right book for me?Basic Accounting is a complete, step-by-step course in elementary accounting. Giving clear and concise explanations of accounting principles and practice including PAYE, cashflow statements, accounting for share capital, accounting standards and non-financial reporting, it is perfect for the newcomer to basic accounting, the first- level accounting student or anybody needing to brush up their accounting skills.No prior knowledge of bookkeeping or accounting is assumed. Clear explanations, diagrams and worked examples enable you to master the basic principles then apply them to practical examples to consolidate and test your knowledge.Basic Accounting includes:Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Source documentsChapter 3: The ledger systemChapter 4: Balancing the cash bookChapter 5: Double entry theory and practiceChapter 6: The trial balanceChapter 7: Gross profit and stockChapter 8: Trading and profit and loss and accountsChapter 9: The balance sheetChapter 10: Illustrative exampleChapter 11: Cash and bank transactionsChapter 12: Bank reconciliationChapter 13: The petty cash bookChapter 14: Credit transactions and suppliers' accountsChapter 15: The accounts of credit customersChapter 16: Purchases and sales returnsChapter 17: VAT and PAYEChapter 18: Classification of ledger accountsChapter 19: Final accounts of a sole traderChapter 20: Interpretation of accountsChapter 21: Cash flow statementsChapter 22: Capital and revenue expenditureChapter 23: The genera; journalChapter 24: Depreciation of fixed assetsChapter 25: Bad debts and provision for bad debtsChapter 26: Year-end adjustmentsChapter 27: Incomplete records and single entryChapter 28: Non-trading concerns and club accountsChapter 29: Control AccountsChapter 30: Partnership accountsChapter 31: Accounting for managementChapter 32: Costs of production and manufacturing accountsChapter 33: Introduction to limited companiesChapter 34: Accounting for share capitalChapter 35: The final accounts of a limited companyChapter 36: Accounting standardsChapter 37: Non-financial reportingChapter 38: Computerized accountingLearn effortlessly with easy-to-read page design and interactive features:Not got much time?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.Author insightsLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the authors' many years of experience.Test yourselfTests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.Extend your knowledgeExtra online articles to give you a richer understanding of accounting.Try thisInnovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Practical lessons in simple living that will help your soul - from Willow Creek pastor Bill Hybels
Franciscan priest Richard Rohr focuses his attention on all frames and doorways to the divine - the alternative way of Francis of Assisi.
Get Started reading, writing, speaking and listening in Thai. Ideal for complete beginners, this course comprises a book and audio support which is easy to download to your computer or MP3 player.
We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines, bodies, languages, cities, votes, mountains, energy, movement, plays, food, liquids, collisions, protests, stones, windows. But the way we've been taught often excludes all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture - anything from cooking to fixing loo cisterns, from dance to model making, from collecting leaves to playing 'Who am I?'. The great thing is that you really can use everything around you to learn more.Learning should be much more fun and former children's laureate, million-selling author, broadcaster, father of five and all-round national treasure, Michael Rosen wants to show you how. Forget lists, passing tests and ticking boxes, the world outside the classroom can't be contained within the limits of any kind of curriculum - and it's all the better for it. Long car journeys, poems about farting, cake baking, even shouting at the TV can teach lessons that will last a lifetime. Packed with enough practical tips, stories and games to inspire a legion of anxious parents and bored children, Good Ideas shows that the best kind of education really does start at home.
It begins as a simple dream.An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture.Within a year, he is ruined.When a corpse appears on his family's property, the farmer is convinced he's being set up. And so begins a journey into a maze of misperceptions and personal obsessions, as the farmer, his now-estranged wife, a predatory deputy, and a backwoods wanderer, all try to uphold a personal sense of honour.A darkly comic debut novel by an independent bookseller, Soil traces one man's apocalypse to its epic showdown in the Mississippi mudflats.
Spiritual intelligence - 'how to live well and die happy' - from the author of How to be a bad Christian.
Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself is a comprehensive guide for all cricketers wanting to improve their skills and performance.
Over 50? Don't panic - your brain is bigger, better and more powerful than ever and this book will show you how to help you keep it that way.
ATTEMPTING 300KPH on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, PAUL CARTER and danger at high speed is his second name. Paul Carter is still the funniest man in the bar and the nicest 'alpha male' you'll ever meet as he risks all for the sake of a cracking yarn.
One good thing about a recession is that we need to go back to making our own fun. Games are in the Brandreths' blood, they have spent thousands of weekends and rainy holidays playing them and now Gyles, Saethryd and eight-year-old Rory want to share the very best with you. THE LOST ART OF HAVING FUN picks out over 250 games, guaranteed to make even the grumpiest child or adult laugh, and then with all kinds of interesting stories and lovely illustrations, it shows you clearly (and very entertainingly) how to play them. There are classic parlour games alongside all kinds of interesting ones you might not have come across yet. Nine chapters cover pretty much every eventuality: Rainy Day Games, Car Journey, Analogue Fun in a Digital World, Music and Drama, Word Games and Brainteasers, Racing Games, Party Games (split between children's birthday parties and dinner parties), Country House Weekend and last but not least Seasonal Games: Christmas, New Year and Easter. Forget consoles and board games, this beautiful book is all you need. And Queen Victoria (whose favourite games are here too) would be amused. Very amused.
All That Matters about Risk - what it is, how we make decisions, and how we can do so more rationally.
All of us have experienced creative connection, and glimpsed its power. Yet, for centuries, the myth of the lone genius has obscured the critical story of the power of collaboration. In Powers of Two, Joshua Wolf Shenk argues that creative pairs are the exemplars for innovation. Drawing on years of research on great partnerships in history - from Lennon and McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie, plus hundreds more in fields including literature, popular culture, art and business - Shenk identifies the common journey pairs take from the spark of initial connection, through the passage to a cognitive 'joint identity' to competition and the struggle for power. Using scientific and psychological insights, he uncovers new truths about epic duos - and sheds new light on the genesis of some of the greatest creative work in history. He reveals hidden partnerships among people known only for their individual work (like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien), and even 'adversarial collaborations' among those who are out to beat each other. This revelatory and lyrical book will make us see creative exchange as the central terrain of our psyches.
Do you want to have more meaningful conversations in Spanish?Do you want to feel comfortable in a variety of situations? Using authentic conversations between native speakers as a basis, this course will help you to improve and build upon the language you already have so that you develop your skills to a level where you can enjoy talking and understand what is said. You will be introduced to more colloquial Spanish so you will sound more natural when speaking and gain confidence.Is this course for me? If you already know some Spanish and want to take it further, this is the course for you. It is a great refresher course, as well as being an easy way to build upon and improve your existing Spanish. Taking you from a good intermediate level (level B2 of the Common European Framework), this course helps you to progress up to C1 by offering: Carefully leveled and sequenced material - a solid path to build up your knowledge. Quality listening and reading input - day-to-day conversations but also speeches, interviews and newspaper articles. Fluency building - reach a level where you can discuss sophisticated ideas in Spanish.Full of authentic texts and dialogues about complex subjects, this course covers a wide range of topics of the sort you will want to talk about when in Spain and teaches you the kind of everyday language and features of speech that will enable you to communicate with confidence and feel comfortable taking part in conversation with native speakers of Spanish. The choice of material aims to give you something of the flavour of Spain today and each unit is based around a single theme with lively interviews and conversations on the accompanying recording. There are activities based on the interviews and texts to help you remember what you've learnt and put your knowledge into practice. The units are divided into sessions - to help you organize your learning time and break up the material into manageable chunks - and there are reminders throughout to refresh your memory of points you have learnt.Learn effortlessly with new, easy-to-read page design and interactive features: Not got much time?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.Author insightsLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.Grammar tipsEasy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding.Useful vocabularyEasy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking.DialoguesRead and listen to everyday dialogues to help you speak and understand fast.Test yourselfTests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.Extend your knowledgeExtra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of Spain.Try thisInnovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Worry is always with us, but, the lived experience of anxiety is often complex, embarrassing and hard to explain. This book explores its characteristics, available treatments and effective self-help techniques.
A wise and compassionate exploration of how we can make sense of life's chaos.
Take your German to the next level with this improver's course and feel at home in Germany.
A new complete course in screenwriting, designed to take the reader from complete beginner to the point at which they have completed, edited and redrafted their first piece of work - with practical tips, exercises, and expert advice.
Excellent value, pocket-sized paperback of Matthew's Gospel, ideal for giving away.
Prenumerera på vårt nyhetsbrev för att få fantastiska erbjudanden och inspiration för din nästa läsning.
Genom att registrera dig accepterar du vår personuppgiftspolicy.
