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This book has lots of actionable information on how to catapult your self-esteem in order to ultimately boost your self-confidence and happiness levels by unleashing the full power of your mind. Sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself won’t make that happen but learning how to become super confident will. Stress and anxiety are both triggered by lack of self-esteem or lack of confidence. You may not be aware of it, but they skew the way that the world perceives you and also the way in which you interact with life.

This emergency disaster preparedness guide can save your life. Urban Preppers with Kids, Pets & Parents goes far beyond the basic emergency preparedness handbooks and provides practical, real world advice. Urban Preppers is the emergency response preparedness guide for the rest of us who are not Bear Grylls survivalist but regular people from all walks of life and of every, age, gender, and socioeconomic level.

Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals. Journeying from Aysgarth Falls to the Great Barrier Reef, it becomes clear that animals are not so far removed from us as we might imagine. In a time where humans are struggling to navigate cityscapes, isolation and a loneliness epidemic, Ward shows us that studying the social behaviour of animals offers insights valuable in their own right as well as a window into the evolutionary basis of our own species.

From the NBC News correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, a gripping and revelatory account of the devastating 2025 Los Angeles fires, which he covered on the ground as an LA native.

Dragons invade a proud city. Mike Merlino is the magical guardian of Pittsburgh and vows to solve the problem. The young wizard learns that his only chance to defeat the evil dragons is to find a mythical musical instrument...Will Mike unearth the elusive instrument and use it to reclaim his city?

1867. Ancien esclave et sorcier vaudou, Sam espère réaliser ses rêves après avoir accompli assez de missions pour l'agence Silverton , dirigée par Allan Pinkerton et Victor Hugo. Il peut compter sur les loas, divinités qui murmurent à son oreille et l'aident à affronter les spectres… selon leur bon vouloir. Sam doit aussi faire équipe avec la fratrie O'Reilly : Linus, soldat coincé par un enchantement dans un corps d'enfant et adepte des explosifs, ainsi que Sinéad, rescapée d'un asile aux puissants dons de médium qui lui permettent de voir les fantômes.

Can ancient wisdom solve today’s chronic ailments? Discover a groundbreaking guide to revitalizing your health and well-being with Breaking Your Bubble by Dr. Razvan Balotescu, a seasoned medical professional with over twenty-five years of experience in internal medicine. Dr. Balotescu reveals the hidden dangers of modern living and its disconnection from our natural design, which he argues is the root cause of many chronic diseases and discomforts that plague us today.

Evie Black and her demon imp partner, Cass, are two of the most fearsome supernatural bounty hunters on the West Coast. But when Evie’s beloved grandmother dies, her world shatters. After finding the bottom of a bottle of tequila, Evie breaks the one rule she knows better than to ignore: Never hook up with a werewolf.

ChatGPT offers incredible possibilities for beginners and seasoned users alike, bridging the gap between basic use and career-enhancing prowess. This easy-to-follow guide unveils the potential lying within, eliminating any intimidation and replacing it with confidence and creativity.

Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, but these two dinosaurs lived more than eighty million years apart—a greater span of time than the entire post-T. rex history of the planet. Furthermore, we often know even less about the environments these animals lived in. The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the full story, a 230-million-year epic of small beginnings, spectacular golden periods, and eventual global domination.

Formerly titled Slaughter the Animals, Poison the Earth. All new foreword by New York Times Bestselling author Steve Jackson. It is the extermination of the coyote—a shrewd, wily, solitary scavenger—that serves as the central theme of Jack Olsen's ragingly indignant, beautifully written and deeply moving book, perhaps the most gripping and important work of its kind since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic - a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy. Crewed by an eclectic team of seafarers, the Bounty was led by Robin Walbridge, their highly respected captain with decades at the helm, whose actions - sometimes questionable - decided the fate of his ship and crew.

Despite health care professionals' constant efforts to educate, entice, advise, convince, indoctrinate, and persuade patients with smooth talk, bribes, guilt, and manipulation to make people understand and follow medical advice, the results are often minimal. People continue to suffer from various diseases and chronic conditions. This powerful, encouraging book reveals how the divine design of the human body functions most perfectly when a person's thought life aligns with God's instructions (prescriptions beyond science).

Britain is the home of the badger — there are more badgers per square kilometre in this country than in any other. And yet many of us have never seen one in the wild. They are enigmatic, nocturnal creatures who vanish into their labyrinthine underground setts at the first hint of a human. Here, Patrick Barkham follows in the footsteps of his badger-loving grandmother, to meet the feeders, farmers and scientists who know their way around Badgerlands: the mysterious world in which these distinctively striped creatures live out their lives.

From the historical roots of the concept of risk to the latest digital anxieties, each chapter unfolds a captivating narrative, weaving together major historical incidents and topical news events. Explore the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and witness the transformative power of risk perception. Travel to Fukushima and learn how a nuclear disaster shapes our approach to designing critical infrastructure. Dive into the digital realm with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, revealing a new era of digital risk and anxiety.

Organizers, activists, artists and community members share their struggles in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Floodlines is a firsthand account of community, culture, and resistance in New Orleans. The book weaves the stories of gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, Arab and Latino immigrants, public housing residents, and grassroots activists. From post-Katrina evacuee camps to torture testimony at Angola Prison to organizing with the family members of the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories behind the headlines from an unforgettable time and place in history.

MURPHY'S ELEVENTH BOOK SHOWCASES HIS FLAIR FOR TURNING ESTABLISHED GENRES INSIDE OUT AND ON THEIR HEAD. WHERE THIS BOOK STARTS IS NOWEHERE NEAR WHERE IT FINISHES, WITH AN ENDING GUARANTEED TO SURPRISE YOU AND TERRIFY YOU WITH IT'S IMPLICATIONS. EQUAL PARTS SUSPENSE AND PHILOSOPHY MIXED WITH PSYCHOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS TALE IS A ROMANTICIZED IDEALIZATION OF SIMPLER TIMES AS WELL AS A WARNING AGAINST WHERE HUMANITY IS HEADING.

Dans la ville de Ravencharm où la caféine est interdite, Abby sert des décaféinés jusqu'au jour où son patron lui fait goûter un breuvage particulier qui ouvre littéralement les portes de l'Enfer. Entrée de force à l'Académie Surnaturelle des Barista, Abby découvre alors un monde peuplé d'anges, de mages, de sorcières et de Fae et commence à s'entraîner pour défendre l'humanité contre le mal. La vie à l'ASB ne se résume cependant pas à étudier des manuels et à s'entraîner au combat.

At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately forty-eight seconds, shock waves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death, and trapped many alive. Matthew Davenport draws on letters, diaries, unpublished memoirs, and previously unearthed archival records, as well as interviews with engineers and geologists, to combine history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.

It may be unlikely that a Swedish karate champion, family man, and cancer scientist could be at the center of developing a systems approach to life on Earth that could revolutionize the way humans operate in the world, but this is the story of just that: the idea, and the man behind it. As a cancer specialist, Karl-Henrik Robèrt faced a stream of parents who would sacrifice anything to save their children. Yet that same selflessness did not seem to extend to saving the environment.