Beyond the Wheat Field is a story about a woman who returns to room 6, her mother's bedroom, at the nursing home two years after her mother's death, seeking healing. Her past comes unraveled as memory after memory pour out into the room, hard things that began in the wheat field down the street from her home she grew up in. It led her down a path of addiction, broken relationships, and abuse. She had tucked them all safely in the dark places of her mind, never wanting to face them ever again. But through the deep prayers of her mother and a God that never let up, she finds healing and freedom.

This is the story of Melanie Ratleer, a judge who is approaching the peak of her career with the anguished awareness that she has long since abandoned herself to the comforting impersonality of her work. Paula Sharp is the author of "The Woman Who Was Not All There" and "The Imposter".

Steve Jobs. Iconic; a technological virtuoso whose many innovations have become indispensable. Tech Alchemist, Showman, and Visionary Steve Jobs set the world on fire with his insight and involvement with some of the world's greatest advancements technology. His life was filled with accomplishments, and he was known as a very complex individual - impatient, demanding, impulsive, and considered to be insensitive, and prone to confrontational tantrums. Controversy followed home throughout his life, and now seems to continue after his physical death. Blunt, unfiltered and open, he reveals his true Self. A kindred spirit, Katherine kept a detailed record of the dialogues she has had over the years with the spirit of Steve Jobs, as he came to realize that he was indeed physically dead, and his experience since. Professional writer Joy Lawrance was allowed to view the journals. Becoming intrigued with the idea of publishing them, they partnered. Beyond the Wheat Field, provides a heartbreaking and magical account of years of spiritual communications with the legendary Steve Jobs. The vibrant energy and drive that carried him through his tumultuous life, continues after death as he speaks to Katherine with brutal honesty, examining his prior life experience of triumphs and catastrophes. Disbelief, rage, frustration - the reader is given the unique view of how he progresses through these stages, agonizing over his inability to complete the balance of his personal life, and his corporate obsessions. He finds a new voice in talking with Katherine, someone who "gets him," someone he feels he can talk to on all levels. This beautifully illustrated book compiles the conversations that commenced and documents a new look into the psyche of one of the world's most controversial and influential Tech giants. The book includes interactive links, QR codes, and challenges posed to the reader to continue forward thinking discussions, discover new insights, as directed by the inspirational icon - his last famous "One More Thing." Experience the passion and emotional whirlwind as a spirit reaches from beyond, finally finding an eventual acceptance, and even repentance over past actions in life.

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For thirty years, Danish plant scientist Bent Skovmand served as adviser to dozens of countries and hunted for seeds with genes to resist disease and such environmental stresses as drought, flooding, and global warming. In an era when multinational corporations often jealously guarded patents on plant breeding, Skovmand fought to keep his seed bank a free, open scientific exchange for breeders and farmers everywhere. By telling the story of Skovmand and his colleagues, The Viking in the Wheat Field sheds welcome light on an agricultural sector--plant genetic resources--on which our food supply is crucially dependent.

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This book makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence—or ignored altogether. Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement: Baljit Kaur, who armed herself with a video camera to record essential evidence of the conflict; Justice Ajit Singh Bains, who became a beloved “people’s judge”; and Inderjit Singh Jaijee, who returned to Punjab to document abuses even as other elites were fleeing. Together, they are credited with saving countless lives. Braiding oral histories, personal snapshots, and primary documents recovered from at-risk archives, Kaur shows that when entire conflicts are marginalized, we miss essential stories: stories of faith, feminist action, and the power of citizen-activists.

Deftly combining archival sources with evocative life histories, Anastasia Karakasidou brings welcome clarity to the contentious debate over ethnic identities and nationalist ideologies in Greek Macedonia. Her vivid and detailed account demonstrates that contrary to official rhetoric, the current people of Greek Macedonia ultimately derive from profoundly diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Throughout the last century, a succession of regional and world conflicts, economic migrations, and shifting state formations has engendered an intricate pattern of population movements and refugee resettlements across the region. Unraveling the complex social, political, and economic processes through which these disparate peoples have become culturally amalgamated within an overarchingly Greek national identity, this book provides an important corrective to the Macedonian picture and an insightful analysis of the often volatile conjunction of ethnicities and nationalisms in the twentieth century. "Combining the thoughtful use of theory with a vivid historical ethnography, this is an important, courageous, and pioneering work which opens up the whole issue of nation-building in northern Greece."—Mark Mazower, University of Sussex