SH!T HAPPENS. AGAIN.
That famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster was faked as an act of revenge against The Daily Mail. Before Scotty saved the starship Enterprise a bunch of times, future actor James Doohan stormed the beaches at Normandy to help save the world from Nazis and he got shot to sh!t. Originally known as Napalm Girl, Phan Thi Kim Phúc survived, escaped to Canada, and now helps child victims of war. The first pride parade was inspired by the New York Stonewall Riots, when the LGBT community fought back against police oppression. When Trump lost the 2020 election, his lapdog lawyer Rudy Giuliani held a press conference at Four Seasons Landscaping, located between a crematorium and a porn store. In 17th-century Italy, when divorce was not at all a thing, hundreds of women married to abusive husbands employed Giulia Tofana to poison them. Iñupiat woman Ada Blackjack, and her cat, survived in the remote Arctic for two years when all the men on the expedition died ...
Sh!t goes down every single day of the year, year after year. Sometimes it's a battle that changes the course of history, other times it's a life-saving medical advancement. Bravery is counter-balanced with cowardice. Along with slavery, there is self-sacrifice. History is full of deeds both noble and despicable. Some were motivated by greed, others generosity. Many dedicated themselves to the art of killing, while others focused on curing. There have been grave mistakes and greatness, confrontation and cooperation.
Early in the twentieth century Spanish philosopher George Santayana wrote, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Yet history serves not just as warning, but encouragement. Humanity is not endless suck. There is inspiration to be found amidst the atrocities.
WHEN SH!T GOES DOWN, WE GET BACK UP.
Vedic astrology is unique in its approach and differs from Western astrology in many ways.
It places a significant emphasis on the concept of karma, which suggests that our actions in past lives determine our current circumstances and future outcomes. Vedic astrology also considers the concept of dharma, which refers to living in alignment with one's true purpose and potential. In this book we will delve into these concepts and more in an easy to read format.
Each planet represents different aspects of one's career and can shed light on the most suitable fields, job roles, and even timing for success.
Astrology has long been regarded as a powerful tool for gaining insights into various aspects of our lives. From understanding our personality traits to predicting future events, astrology has provided valuable guidance for centuries.
However, its influence extends far beyond these realms, delving into the intricate connection between our health and well-being.
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Starting with the very basics of functions and limits, you'll explore the landscape of derivatives and integrals, and journey into the realms of sequences, series, and differential equations.
Advanced topics such as multivariable calculus, vectors, and line and surface integrals, once daunting, become comprehensible under clear explanations and practical examples. Interwoven throughout are real-world applications demonstrating the relevance of calculus in fields as diverse as physics, economics, and computer science.
In this book you will learn....
This is a simple and student friendly book which is intended to give you the cheerful mood of a coffee table book, but at the same time giving you a very essential, clear and uncluttered entry to begin your study of calculus. In simple words, this book teaches you how to do calculus rather than discuss the philosophy and underlying principles of calculus.
Hanna works in a generative design agency, curating AI-developed branding when her life takes an unexpected turn. Upon realizing that her coworker-turned-love-interest has engaged in the greatest act of intellectual property theft in history, she's pulled into a world of AI manipulation, mixed reality, and otherworldly art installations.
After failed kidnapping attempts, extortion, and violence they find themselves risking everything to expose how the algorithm underpinning the global economy has been used to subtly manipulate the world they live in.
King Ryckair and Queen Mirjel pursue Baras, the evil dragon who escaped in Dragons Unremembered. Together, as equals, they must complete a subduing spell with the power of the magical crown of Carandir. It alone can return the dragon to eternal sleep.
Baras waits, wounded and in hiding, but his power grows each day as his faithful sorcerers work to release him. Soon, he will rise fully to visit a reign of terror upon the world.
In the east, Shara, the former lover who convinced Ryckair Mirjel was dead, bears a son whom Ryckair was unaware he fathered. She captures the king and reveals his heir who wants to kill Ryckair. Only the queen, who now wears the crown and rules the monarchy alone, can rescue him.
Banished royalty, who took up arms against the Crown in the name of Baras, return and seize control of their former holdings. They ignite hatred against those they consider impure. Courage and cowardice compete as those who are different encounter murder and oppression, forcing many to flee as refugees.
Half Awakened Dreams is the second volume of The Carandir Saga, a tale filled with magic, dragons, wizards, sorcerers, fantastic beasts, battles and political intrigue. Set in an immersive world peopled with characters of different genders, gender orientations, colors and ethnicity, there are unique cultures, lost legends, forgotten lands, poetry and music.
Lionel had never gotten along with his father, Sir Alex of Scotsbane. The man had spent all of Lionel's childhood making his son feel inadequate so as soon as Lionel could secure a position in Camelot he left, never intending to return. His departure meant that his younger sister, Fiona, would be alone with their father. He thought she would be safe for a few years.
He was wrong.
When his father's health began to fail a letter summoning him back to Scotsbane was delivered. Once home Lionel is told that he must choose a bride and get married or his father would force Fiona to marry and would leave the entire estate to her husband instead of Lionel.
Lilith had wonderful daughter, a stubborn sense of pride and was fiercely independent. She did not want a husband, only a new start to life when Fiona left with her brother.
She was everything that Lionel needed in a bride, he simply had to convince her that he was a better man than the one who loved her and left her pregnant to face the world alone.
When the local priests join forces with Moira, Lionel's former lover, Lionel might lose everything if he cannot convince Lilith that he is a better man than he is accused of being.
After a lifetime of being labeled a disappointment can Lionel finally measure up?
We all have talents that makes us unique. Understand how your talents can attract and establish you in places you never expected. Train a child when they are young, then they will not go astray. Written for easy understanding. Children will learn the value their talents are worth and the benefits in growing them. They will understand how to work towards their dreams. These special abilities that we are best at are given to us to bless others. This book will teach your children the different spheres that their talents fit. It will also teach them about talents in the Bible and the benefits and other types of roles God has given for talents to be used.
Banished.
What could be worse for Liam and his 'castaway' knights than to be unable to protect their beloved king?
Doesn't matter that the charges were wrong. They are still worthy of knighthood. And Camelot.
For the widowed Liam of Redbourne, jealousy and betrayal led to his unjust downfall. Now it's only him and his young knights in training.
Determined to return to Camelot, he will do whatever is required to get them there. Even marry. Anything to prove he's still the man he was before the scandal.
But what woman would want to marry a banished man?
A desperate one deemed unsuitable to marry.
Caelia dreams of her knight in shining armor, but her stubborn opinions and masculine hobbies intimidate most men. When her ailing father accepts a proposal for her from a handsome, older, wealthy knight, she must choose... marriage or a nunnery.
For Caelia, a cloistered life is no life at all.
To her surprise, Liam is not only a man she can tolerate, he's a man she could love.
But will Liam's past ruin their happily ever after? Or can Liam and his castaways prove they are worthy of knighthood, the king, and most importantly, love?
Alexander Summerset, future King of Bellerive, doesn't believe in love. When a coronation clause has him seeking a wife, an arranged marriage suits him. His criteria is simple. She must be tolerable to him, and she must be good for the country.
Aurora Wilson followed her boyfriend to Bellerive after college and joined his family's business. When she discovers him cheating on her, she flees their apartment, and the life that's trapped her.
An unlikely and unexpected meeting stuns them both. For a man who doesn't believe in love, he's suddenly only got eyes for her.
There's only one problem. He can only marry royalty or a native Bellerivian, and she is neither.
Win...You live. Lose... You die.
Wine, women and winning- the three things that all gladiators want, and Cassian, a champion gladiator still recovering from an illness that nearly killed him, wants them more than most.
A man of unbridled passion but never love, he has sworn that he will never let another woman into his heart. His title and keeping it are all that matter to him...until her.
Violetta, innocent and devout, has only one desire-surviving servitude to the monster who bought her as a slave at only thirteen.
Her dreams of the temple are destroyed when her innocence is given away. Gifted, not the gods as she had prayed for, but to a mortal man. He was not just any man, but the champion gladiator that ruled the sands of Velletri's arena and soon, her heart.
Owned by different men, both Cassian and Violetta fight for every chance they might have to lay eyes upon one another, praying for even the chance to touch. A bargain between the champion's lanista and the silk merchant that possesses Violetta brings her to his bed with every victory.
With his woman as the prize, Cassian will fight any enemy, even his own pride and temper, to have her in his arms. When the stakes are this high, can he face the ultimate question?
What is the price of a loss?
Leadership is what will keep you focused when all hell is breaking loose and it looks like you are one step away from failure. It will give you the mental toughness required to dismantle the limitations you have placed on yourself and break through all obstacles standing in the way of your goals.
How would you feel if I told you that your inability to achieve your goals does not arise because you are lazy or lack drive, but rather it's a problem because you have never been taught how to practice self-discipline?
In this book you will learn....
This book will help you find the inspiration within so you can plant seeds of hope in the hearts of your team, learn how to use communication to lead and inspire change successfully and, most notably, awaken a sense of expectation inside of you and the people you lead. Leadership has precious little to do with authority, management acumen, or even being in charge.
Everyone knows the story of Esther. Children love her and they probably imagine how life is like having everything they want. Imagine having God's favor all the time. Have you ever wondered how favor works and what it is? When you see somebody get blessed or promoted, did you ever think what about me? God is the one that gives us favor and His favor lasts for a lifetime. Your child or children can also experience God's favor in their life.
My little brother's girlfriend was always supposed to be mine.
The first time I met good girl Maggie Sullivan, she was my brother's guest at Sunday dinner. That should have been enough to keep me away. It wasn't.
The night I lost my tightly held control-she kissed me back and it was like everything I could have ever imagined.
Until our lives changed forever as my family went down in flames.
I left and never planned to come back to our small town.
Now, years later, everyone knows my songs. The ones I wrote about her. The scars that never healed, bleeding out on stage.
Fame and its late nights get tiring, so I've returned to Little Falls to right my wrongs.
With only twenty-four hours until perfect, little Maggie Sullivan is reelected mayor uncontested, I decide to throw a wrench into her plans.
Except I'm the one getting screwed again because all these years later, she's still the only woman I want.
This is a small town former friends to enemies to lovers romance with mid-level open door steam/spice.