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Survival Planning - How To Survive Without Money is an intriguing book that takes the listener on adventure of readjusting their mindset to surviving in today's economic downturn without the need for money. The bullet points of what it discusses are as follows: survival in general, how to survive without money, no money how to survive, surviving without money, live without cash, prepared survival, and survival money.

Men and women think, talk, and act differently - which causes problems for writers who are trying to create characters of the opposite sex. When we understand the difference between masculine and feminine qualities and habits, we can use those behaviors and patterns to create characters who are plausible and unique, but not stereotypical. Writing between the Sexes will help you to identify your own gender-specific behaviors, notice those of the opposite sex, and use both to make your characters believable.

After almost four decades of life on the road, Charles Kuralt has visited every corner of the country, sharing with us his fascinating encounters with the people he's met along the way. Now in Charles Kuralt's Summer, he douses the heat with breezy tales of our most extraordinary summer celebrations.

It is with great satisfaction that we present to you this thorough analysis of the Santo Domingo metro and feeder bus system, realized by Carl Allen, 2009 GFDD Fellow and graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School Master's Program in Public Policy and Urban Planning. Mr. Allen's comprehensive study is an evaluation of the potential impact of the transportation system on poverty alleviation, congestion, pollution reduction, urban development and social and economic advancement.

After decades of atheism and hard living, author Dan Wakefield experienced a profound religious awakening that led him back to the church. He describes his religious journey, fraught with peaks and pitfalls, and his hard-won realization that faith is not static. In a continuing quest to maintain his faith over the long-haul, Wakefield speaks plainly about the challenges of maintaining one's convictions in today's complex, secular world. Wakefield's acknowledgement that each day holds the promise of renewal will resonate with listeners who seek to keep their faith.

Sabine Heinlein spent almost a year reporting at "The Farm", a program for mental patients at the notorious Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. Originally designed to teach its "members" confidence and skills by caring for animals and plants, the Farm had long become a dysfunctional hoarder's den. The patients sat idly on chairs in a grimy dayroom filled with the therapist's "collectibles" and garbage.

Today's media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of fake news. This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and author Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters presents actionable tips and tricks for consuming news critically, judging sources, using fact-checking sites, avoiding confirmation bias, identifying trustworthy experts, and more.

A great collection of short stories based on the theme of love. Stories by famous writers including Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde.

“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich”, writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: “A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: “Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder.” In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer’s relation to society....

Throughout his almost four decades of life on the road, Charles Kuralt has introduced us to people and places that have warmed our hearts. Now in Charles Kuralt's Spring, he disposes with winter's chill by recounting some of the most miraculous rites of spring he has witnessed over the years.

Enhanced with an exciting personal colloquy, Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1 has its adroit wordsmith evaluating several of those written works produced by some of the most renowned names in both fiction and nonfiction literature, including Iceberg Slim, Stephen King, John Grisham, Jackie Collins, Donald Goines, and more.

This audiobook will show that the fundamentals, structure, formations, grammar, and syntax are exactly the same in music and in the Egyptian alphabetical language. The audiobook will show the musical/tonal/tonic Egyptian alphabets - being derived from the three primary tonal sounds/vowels; the fundamentals of generative phonology and the nature of the four-sound variation of each letter and its exact equivalence in musical notes.

Approximately 730,000 first-ever strokes occur in the United States each year. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and in most Western countries. However, approximately 80-90% of patients survive their stroke, often with substantial motor dysfunction that compromises the ability to perform valued activities. Stroke is the most frequent cause of permanent disability in adults worldwide.

With over 130 unique, ready-to-use prompts confidentially designed for the legal industry, this book is your exclusive guide to integrating AI into your legal practice. Each concealed prompt is tailored to classified situations you might face in your profession and can be customized to align with your specific, secretive needs.

If you are to understand the future, you must have a clear grasp of where we have been and where we are today. Our current set of skills and ideas regarding the field of hypnotherapy are a mixture of those which are obsolete and ones that involve strong enduring fundamentals. Provided that we have sufficient courage to depart from wrongly ingrained habits, by looking at the field objectively and merging our thinking with relevant scientific discoveries, we have the opportunity to look into our future.

Diese in die deutsche Sprache übersetzt Ausgabe erklärt das göttliche weibliche Prinzip als Quelle der Schöpfung sowohl metaphysisch als auch physisch; die Beziehung (und Einheit) der weiblichen und männlichen Prinzipien; Erklärung von rund zwanzig weiblichen Gottheiten als Manifestationen der weiblichen Attribute; die Rolle von Isis‘ Ideologie auf der ganzen Welt; und vieles mehr. Dieses Buch wird sowohl den Geist mit umfassenden Informationen sowie das Herz mit dem ganzen Spektrum an Emotionen füllen.

This audiobook explains the divine female principle as the source of creation - both metaphysically and physically; the feminine dual nature of Isis with Nephthys; the relationship (and oneness) of the female and male principles; the numerology of Isis and Osiris; Isis’ role as the Virgin Mother; explanation of about 20 female deities as the manifestations of the feminine attributes; the role of Isis’ ideology throughout the world; the allegory of Isis, Osiris, and Horus; and much more. This book will fill both the mind with comprehensive information as well as the heart.

This audiobook will show that the fundamentals, structure, formations, grammar, and syntax are exactly the same in music and in the Egyptian alphabetical language. The audiobook will show the musical/tonal/tonic Egyptian alphabets - being derived from the three primary tonal sounds/vowels; the fundamentals of generative phonology; and the nature of the four-sound variation of each letter and its exact equivalence in musical notes.

Best-selling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: The photo-editing process of the “paper of record”, by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.