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The Communist Chinese leadership decides to move up their timetable to become the world’s sole superpower from 2049 to the present. Part of this is to unify Taiwan by force. They believe the best model for accomplishing their wider goals is to copy the comprehensive moves by Imperial Japan. The CCP/PLA thinks they can replicate the successes of the Japanese, while at the same time eliminating the failures. By means of subterfuge, they strike their East Asian neighbors, Western Pacific sea lanes, and the key American naval bases, relying on advanced missile and drone technology.

Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush - capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived - and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five decades, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house.

William Osler was one of the big four founding fathers of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and later became the Regis Professor of Medicine at Oxford. But this acclaimed physician was so much more. This is a remarkable story.

The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes—naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last 10 years, the most popular living author of American sea fiction has spent thousands of hours researching for Shipmate, the Academy's magazine. The extraordinary personal stories of adventure and courage he's collected span American history, from the Mexican War to the War on Terror.

Thomas Alva Edison, February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931, was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. In this recording, Edison discusses some of his numerous inventions.

Dean Brandon has fought his inner monster since childhood. Although suppressed, even in adulthood it's still caged inside him, and the violent urges are always there like a recovering alcoholic needing just one drink. The creepy old lady warns him not to write the book he is planning. But that novel is more important to him than any of the previous ones. It's the story he needs to write to exorcise the monster once and for all.

Thierry Laroque, war hero and retired mechanic in rural Tennessee, would like nothing more than to live out his days in peace and quiet, but a dark secret buried in the distant past continues to haunt him. When his Wall Street power-broker brother—the person he blames for the loss of his one true love—shows up destitute at his door after decades of estrangement, Thierry comes face-to-face with the ghosts of a life frozen in time.

Reverend Blake Hardesty has lived the life of Job. Yet he continues to preach faith in God to a dwindling congregation, sharing his life with his teenage daughter, Bethany, who seems to blame him for her mother’s death. If it weren’t for the angel who protects him from the beast who fills his dreams, he would be completely alone. But when trying to help a disturbed congregant makes him the victim of a vicious attack, he realizes that the angel may not be able to protect him any longer from the beast - the wolf - that is now growing inside him.

John Chase, newly married and just back from his honeymoon, doesn't have a moment to settle into life with his new bride before being called back to duty. Warlords are seizing control of a Central African nation and what had begun as a limited conflict is quickly ramping up to full-scale genocide. On orders of the president, he leads a Delta Force team to join up with a squad from the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, who are already on the ground. Together, they have one mission: Stop the wholesale slaughter of innocents by any means necessary. But things are not as they seem.

America strikes back! In the thrilling new addition to the V Plague series, the decimated US military brings the fight to the invading Russians. As battles rage, John is drawn into the melee, delaying his quest to reach Seattle with the remainder of his group. As all are threatened by escalating nuclear war, new dangers stand in the way of the survivors reaching safety.

At the edge of the abyss, where the Blake Plateau abruptly gives way to the deepest parts of the Atlantic Ocean, biologists investigate the largest marine die-off in history. An Everest-style base camp supporting scientists, staff, and eco-tourists sits at the edge of the drop-off, but the scientific mission turns to one of survival when mutant sea creatures threaten the base. Steven Hunte is a sea dog for hire, an ex-Navy biologist turned environmental activist who's been hired to support scientists studying the die-off.

When Dr. David Black takes an internship at a very old psychiatric hospital back home in Alabama, he vows two things - that he will be a better husband to his beautiful and loving wife Pria, and that he will stop cheating on her. Then his enigmatic supervisor Dr. Cassie Allen, a self-proclaimed witch with ties to the underworld, begins to draw him into her darkness. David finds it hard to resist her wicked sensuality, but even harder to resist her evil pull.

Matthew Barrett is a SEAL combat leader who wears the Navy Cross - proof of his prowess as a warrior and an irrefutable symbol of his personal valor. Yet, as adept as he was in the art of war, Matthew was a failure at love and still haunted by the long shadow of his father. His overdue break from near continuous combat tours is suddenly interrupted when he’s injected into an international crisis in Central America, and he finds he’s once again required to execute an impossible task that could very well be a one-way trip.

Set in Galveston during the 1900 storm, the most devastating natural disaster in the history of the United States, this sweeping novel follows the fates of several richly drawn characters. It is the story of Sal, the little girl who is wise beyond her years and who holds out as much hope for the world as she does for her father, the ruined son of a respected father. It is the story of Sister Zilphia, the nun who helps run the St. Mary's Orphanage. And it is the story of Galveston herself, the grand old lady of the Gulf Coast, with her harbor filled with ships from the world ove

Salvage diver and ex-con Tiller Galloway’s vowed he’ll never work for Colombian drug kingpin "The Baptist" again. Running from a vengeful past, he and his partner, fellow Hatterasman Shadrach Aydlett, need to make themselves scarce. Where better to lie low than under the murky, hazardous depths of the Gulf of Mexico? Industrial oilfield diving is the most dangerous work under the sea - which is why it brings big money. But there's more on the floor of the Oil Patch than pipeline and drill rigs. There's also a fathomless corruption that may lead to an environmental apocalypse.

The Mexican Revolution is reaching a boiling point, and the minority Anglo population of Texas is concerned that it will extend north of the Rio Grande, and into South Texas, itself. Thomas Asher is an aging Texas Ranger: tired, infirm, unprepared for retirement, and addicted to laudanum. But the Rangers have made a ghastly mistake, and Asher now finds himself being put to the test at every possible turn, in every possible way: contending with those he loves, those he respects, and, most difficult of all, himself.

Si activamos los conceptos de confianza, gratitud y algunos chakras con esta Meditación para Cambiar tu Vida en Tres Días lograrás atraer prosperidad. Además de realizar decretos poderosos en este sentido, activarás el Muladhara chakra, punto energético de la prosperidad y el Manipura chakra, centro donde habita tu máxima potencialidad. Juntos despertarán al Svadhisthana chakra, la energía del crear, que es la fusión de la energía del hacer con la energía del ser.

La meditación nos permite conectarnos con nuestras emociones para entender su significado y permitirles fluir armoniosamente en nuestra existencia. Ninguna emoción es negativa per se, solo el modo como las asumimos. En realidad son llamados de nuestro interior para atender problemas ocultos o aprender a sobrellevar las situaciones diarias. Tal es el caso del estrés y la ansiedad.

Esta Meditación para Abrir Caminos y Eliminar Bloqueos es un trabajo de limpieza interior destinado a eliminar los desechos energéticos tóxicos presentes en tu vida, los ataques psíquicos y las trabas espirituales. Meditar regularmente nos llena de calma y armonía, por lo que es una gran estrategia para manejar los estados emocionales de baja vibración. La hipnosis por su parte es un ejercicio de concentración profunda que ayuda a identificar problemas internos.

Esta meditación guiada te enseñará que todo nuevo ciclo empieza en la mente. Y con la creencia firme de que puedes volverlo realidad cuando sabes pedírselo al Universo. Es una colección que te ayudará a aprovechar la meditación para tu beneficio y experimentar todos los cambios positivos que vendrán de su práctica constante.