epub | 896.2 KB | English | Isbn:9781580805193 | Author: Lee E. Cart | Year: 2012
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Category:Two-Hour Cookbook, Food & Wine Short Reads, Baking, BakingThe cracker ingredients move well beyond traditional wheat flour crackers to include brown rice, oatmeal, wheat germ and more-even gluten-free crackers. As a bonus, recipes for over a dozen delicious and interesting dips and spreads are included as the perfect complement to home-made crackers.
epub | 7.21 MB | English | Isbn: 1538131978 | Author: Gabrielle Paluch | Year: 2023
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Category:Intelligence & Espionage, Southeast Asia History, Asian PoliticsPublishers Weekly calls the book "a jaw dropping study of a lesser-known yet larger-than-life figure."
Opium Queen is the true story of the widely mythologized genderqueer Burmese opium-pioneer of noble Chinese descent, Olive Yang, who secretly ran an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle.
Olive Yang was a widely mythologized genderqueer lesbian opium-pioneer in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. After escaping an arranged marriage with a noble cousin, Olive felt that she had no choice but to lead a life of banditry with an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA. As her smuggling empire grew, she became so powerful and infamous, novelists were inspired to write about her evil ruthlessness and beauty. Yet, Olive's real life and identity remained a mystery to many.
To the Kokang people whom the Yang family once ruled, Olive was both folk-hero and villain. To the communists Olive's men harassed, she...
epub | 306.05 KB | English | Isbn: B0BD62GGB4 | Author: Chris Jags | Year: 2022
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Category:Coming of Age Fantasy eBooks, Coming of Age Fantasy, First Contact Science Fiction eBooksHaving recently lost his parents in an accident, Jackson Hughes relocates to his uncle's rural home. The life of rustic tedium he expects is quickly thrown into chaos when - following a dramatic accident - he is swirled away to a town existing in a pocket between dimensions: a hub at the center of a great crystalline flower where dozens of alien species meet in harmony to trade.
With no way to return to Earth, the disoriented Jackson - one of only two humans ever to discover this dimension - is put up at the local inn, where he is drawn into a web of intrigue: the Hub has come under attack by an unknown terrorist, who opens their reign of terror by destroying a local landmark.
With the help of new friends and allies - including the only other human ever to visit the Hub and her plant-like clone, an amiable young beastman, and a devil of a crush - will Jackson be able to adapt to his new surroundings and unravel the plot to take control of the Hub? Find out in this fantasy/sci-fi-lite adventure!
epub | 12.38 MB | English | Isbn: B0B96QTPKF | Author: Tara Dairman | Year: 2023
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Category:Children's eBooks on Death, Grief & Bereavement, Children's Books on Death & Dying, Children's Books on FriendshipGifted gardener Henna embarks from her island home to search for the plant that might save her papa's life in this vibrant story of love, grief, and growth.
Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End-until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil's, Henna is surrounded not only by incredible plants, but also, for the first time, other kids-including her new roommates: wisecracking, genderfluid P, who gleefully bends every rule they come up against, and wealthy, distant Lora, who is tired of servants doing everything for her, from folding her clothes to pushing her wheelchair. But Henna's search for the fabled healing seed...
pdf | 7.56 MB | English | Isbn: B00JSRY89U | Author: Galen Strawson | Year: 2014
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Category:Epistemology, Modern Philosophy, MetaphysicsIn this revised and updated edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in all philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. Strawson challenges the standard view of Hume, according to which he thinks that there is no such thing as causal influence, and that there is nothing more to causation than things of one kind regularly following things things of another kind. He argues that Hume does believe in causal
influence, but insists that we cannot know its nature. The regularity theory of causation is indefensible, and Hume never adopted it in any case.
epub | 2.64 MB | English | Isbn: B0BZWN6RXH | Author: William J. Plunkett | Year: 2023
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Category:Company Business Profiles, Waste Management, Business InfrastructureWhat started as a modest waste collection and disposal company in Chicago transformed into North America's leading provider of waste collection, recycling, and disposal services. The Waste Managers recounts the creation and transformation of Waste Management, Inc., highlighting the stories of the young and untested talent pool who helped grow the company into what it is today. One of the key players was Dean Buntrock, a twenty something from rural Columbia, South Dakota. During the mid-1950s, Buntrock unexpectedly began to manage his wife's family garbage hauling business in Cicero, Illinois. After a dozen years of work, he had assembled the early assets that would become Waste Management Inc. Buntrock had a vision for the company's future, but he knew he needed resources and investment capital. Buntrock partnered with Wayne Huizenga, a fledgling waste entrepreneur, and Lawrence Beck, a Chicago-area operator. In a daring step of their own, the group rejected a corporate suitor and took their company public in June of 1971. This single move gave the company the initial capital the founders needed to fund the growth of the company, partner with others of a similar vision, and respond to the growing number of federal and state environmental requirements. Environmental law and regulations were changing the future of the waste collection and disposal industry, and the founders of Waste Management Inc. understood those changes meant they needed more funds to respond to the new rules. The environment was ripe for industry consolidation, and over the following decades, Waste Management Inc. would consolidate thousands of companies. The expansion strategy of the company required more than just money. It needed people, and Buntrock had a talent for recruiting bright people and energizing them to achieve goals they thought were beyond their reach. The recruits came from finance and public accounting firms or top engineering schools, and many were too young or inexperienced to understand the difficulty of the challenges before them. However, they were joining a company full of experienced, in-the-field waste operators, and together they formed the corporate backbone and management to propel the business forward and create a model for consolidating an industry. The Waste Managers includes interviews with company leaders, first-person accounts of acquisition experiences, international adventure, and perseverance in the face of challenges. It is the story of the people who made the company that is one of the most important services the public relies on.
epub | 3.81 MB | English | Isbn:978-1-4422-1087-5 | Author: Steven E. Woodworth | Year: 2011
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Category:Reconstruction History of the U.S., Civil War History of the U.S., U.S. Civil War HistoryReferring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of self-government in the last place on earth where it could have the opportunity of developing freely. Noted historian Steven E. Woodworth tells the story of what many regard as the defining event in United States history. While covering all theaters of war, he emphasizes the importance of action in the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River in determining its outcome. Woodworth argues that the Civil War had a distinct purpose that was understood by most of its participants: it was primarily a conflict over the issue of slavery. The soldiers who filled the ranks of the armies on both sides knew what they were fighting for. The outcome of the war-after its...
pdf, epub, azw3 | 7.35 MB | English | Isbn: B0821S8ZQS | Author: Jason Neal | Year: 2019
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Category:Violence in Society, Biographies & Memoirs of Criminals, Biographies of Serial Killers32 Twisted True Crime Stories of Murder & Mayhem
Readers love this series - More than 7,000 five-star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads.
3 Book Collection - First Three Books of the True Crime Case Histories Series (2019)
A quick word of warning. The true crime short stories within this three-book collection are unimaginably gruesome. I start all of my True Crime books with a quick word of warning. Most news articles and television true crime shows skim over the vile details of truly horrible crimes. In my books, I don't gloss over the facts, regardless of how disgusting they may be. I try to give my readers a clear and accurate description of just how demented the killers really were. I do my best not to leave anything out. The stories included in these books are not for the squeamish. What you are about to read are my first three books. The stories in this collection will make you realize just how fragile the human mind can be.
A sampling of the 32 stories includes:
The Canal Killer - A violent psychopath cuts off the head, hands, and feet of his girlfriends and dumps them in the canals of London and Rotterdam.
The Head in the Bucket - A drug kingpin chops off the head of one of his dealers and carries it around in a Home Depot bucket.
Captain Cash - Another drug dealer butchers an entire family so he can take over a man's fruit shipping business and transform it into a drug shipping business.
The Coffee Killer - A young woman, jealous of her rich socialite friend, poisons her by lacing her coffee with cyanide in a public coffee shop.
The Arizona Torso Killer - A petite trophy wife shoots her husband, freezes his body, hacks him up with a jigsaw, and dumps his torso in a dumpster behind a grocery store.
The Oxford Murder - A young college student strangles his girlfriend and crams her body into an eight-inch crawlspace beneath the stairs.
The Girl in the Barrel - A homeowner finds a fifty-five-gallon barrel in the crawl space beneath his home. What they find inside the barrel unlocks a murder mystery dating back thirty years.
The Dexter Wannabe - A young man obsessed with the TV show Dexter lures unsuspecting victims to his "kill room" and keeps a detailed diary of the dismemberment of his prey.
The Girl in the Box - An unbelievable story of a psychopath who kidnaps a young girl and keeps her as a slave locked beneath his bed for seven years.
The Green Chain Rapist - A beautiful young mother is butchered in broad daylight in a London park and the only witness is her two-year-old son. Police then waste three years chasing the wrong man while the real killer slaughters another woman.
Included in this volume:
James Patterson Smith, Kelly Anne Bates, Fred Grabbe, Charlotte Grabbe, Graham Dwyer, Elaine O'Hara, Lawrence Bittaker, Roy Norris, Chris Coleman, Dr. John Schneeberger, Mary Bell, Michelle Bica, Howard Elkins, Reyna Angelica Marroquin, Rick Valentini, Bryan Stewart, Jamie Laiaddee, Mark Twitchell, Johnny Altinger, Alyssa Bustamante, Elizabeth Olten, Albert Walker, David Davis, Ronald Platt, Lester Jones, Paige Birgfeld, Jamie Reynolds, Georgia Williams, Cameron Hooker, Janice Hooker, Colleen Stan, Robert Napper, Colin Stagg, Rachel Nickell, Mike Adams, Nicole Leger, Harvey Glatman, Myles Fukunaga, Jessica Wongso, Mirna Salihin, Ken Avery, Ken Regan, William Horney, Peter Rees, Neil Chohan, John Tanner, Rachel McLean, Larry Gene Bell, Debra May Helmick, Shari Faye Smith, Steven Capobianco, Charli Scott, John Sweeney, Paula Fields, Delia Balmer, Melissa Halstead, Mihaly Illes, Valerie Pape, Ira Pomerantz, Marjorie Orbin, Jay Orbin, Robert Washburn, Gary Charles Hartman, Michella Welch, Jennifer Bastian, Jordan Graham, Cody Johnson, Neville Heath
epub | 2.96 MB | English | Isbn: B0C1KSNWF2 | Author: Alexander Lyashevsky, Alexey Titov, Yiqin Qiu, and Yujia Zhai | Year: 2023
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Category:C++ ProgrammingXeHE: An Intel GPU Accelerated Fully Homomorphic Encryption Library
pdf, epub, azw3, mobi | 13.7 MB | English | Isbn: B095M9MXXX | Author: iz Rija, Marie | Year: 2022
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Category:Yoga, Anatomy Science, New Age MeditationExplore the biomechanics of 30 key yoga asanas, in-depth and from every angle, and master each pose with confidence and control.
Introducing Science of Yoga - an all-encompassing science book to help you better understand yoga anatomy and the medical science behind yoga to perfect your practice and poses!
Did you know that yoga practice can help treat age-related memory loss better than brain-training games?
Recent scientific research now supports what were once anecdotal claims about the benefits of yoga to every system in the body. Science of Yoga provides a detailed insight into variations of key yoga poses and the specific benefits of different styles of yoga on the human body, system by system.
Dive right in to discover:
- Specially commissioned CGI artworks show 30 asanas in depth and detail the physics of the pose
- 16 spreads of clear, easy-to-understand scientific facts and research answering key questions around ancient and modern claims
- Illustrated section on the benefits of yoga on the human body system by system
- Easy-to-understand research is presented in an easy-to-understand format with illustrated pullouts, debunking the myths and explaining the scientific facts, from breathing techniques to mindfulness
Science of Yoga is a riveting read, and reveals how your blood flow, respiration, muscles and joints work below the surface of each yoga pose, whilst teaching you to achieve technical excellence in your practice, from the comfort of your own home.
The first yoga book on the market to combine detailed anatomical drawings, pose mechanics and key scientific research, Science of Yoga is a must-have volume for yoga beginners and professionals alike, seeking an accessible and easy-to-read guide on the effects of yoga on the human body from a scientific standpoint.
Whether you're looking to take up yoga this New Year, or your yoga poses are already perfect, this science book is the ideal fitness gift for the yoga lover in your life, and sets out to separate the facts of yoga from the myths, with proven scientific research.
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