"The Radiant Heart Awakens" by Daniel Lance Wright is a supernatural thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. As Melissa Dane-Blakely returns to her family home, she is plagued by strange dreams and a feeling of familiarity. But when she uncovers a hidden family legacy tied to the Radiant Heart, her mundane life is turned upside down.As Melissa delves deeper into her newfound powers, she must also navigate complicated family dynamics and a budding roma...

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of modeling and simulation tools, including virtual and mixed-reality environment, for human factors research. It covers applications in healthcare and physical ergonomics, military and transportation systems, industrial monitoring, as well as economics and social sciences. Based on the AHFE 2021 International Conference on Human Factors and Simulation and the AHFE 2021 International Conference on Digital Human Modeling and Applied Optimiza...

For anyone suffering with the symptoms of benzodiazepine withdrawal, this is a collection of tips and tricks picked up by someone who went through it all. From covering the things you must avoid, to things you should try and do to alleviate your symptoms, or the symptoms of someone you care about, this has everything you need to know how to make it easier. Benzo hell can be defeated.

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon with the ontological status of their works. Philosophers who debate whether fictional worlds exist take the novel as an ontological problem to be solved; instead, Wright reveals the novel as a genre of immanent ontological critique.Wright argues that the novel imagines its own metaphy...

The gritty story of working-class lads in Bradford, at the heart of Northern Monkeys is The Ointment — a football firm built on pride and reputation. But behind the matchday clashes are deeper struggles: addiction, poverty, broken homes, love, revenge, and the fight to stay above water. As the firm rises, the police close in, determined to bring them down.Some lads are just trying to escape their mundane lives. Others are chasing power and a reputation. And some just want ...

How did the Victorians think about love and desire?“Reader, I married him,” Jane Eyre famously says of her beloved Mr. Rochester near the end of Charlotte Brontë’s novel. But why does she do it, we might logically ask, after all he’s put her through? The Victorian realist novel privileges the marriage plot, in which love and desire are represented as formative social experiences. Yet how novelists depict their characters reasoning about that erotic desire—making so...

The novel is structured as the personal memoirs of an unnamed protagonist, a writer who has spent his life chasing literary success but has failed to achieve the recognition and fulfillment he desires. The protagonist shares his experiences with raw honesty, recounting the highs and lows of his life, particularly focusing on his deep passion for writing and the countless obstacles he faces along the way.The narrative is interspersed with philosophical reflections on the nature of success a...

Why are some countries rich while others are poor? Why are some well governed while others experience frequent conflict? And how do you measure a country's true success anyways? Social scientists have attempted to answer these types of questions for decades, and have increasingly turned to data for this task. Researching Developing Countries: A Data Resource Guide for Social Scientists serves as a reference guide for social scientists and students interested in answering these complex ques...

In "The Memoirs of a Failure: with an Account of the Man and His Manuscript," Daniel Wright Kittredge presents a profound and introspective narrative that explores the complexities of human aspiration and the painful acceptance of failure. Through a unique blend of memoiristic prose and reflective commentary, Kittredge delves into the psychological and emotional landscapes that accompany personal and professional setbacks. His crisp, unadorned literary style captures both the poignancy of ...

Forty-three-year-old archaeologist, Jasmine Chandler, is decimated by an abruptly failed marriage and throws herself obsessively into her work. Meanwhile, several hundred miles away on the California coast, retired oncologist, Lowell Strudemeyer, struggles against his own demons by drinking and surfing with an apparent death wish. With help from her friend, Barbara Sullivan, their worlds collide over an ancient burial site and it takes a little magic for these two people, Sweetpea and The ...

What if the human mind held untapped potential beyond our wildest imaginations?Jack Dane is an ordinary man with an extraordinary problem. One moment, he's standing by a stagnant, eerie lake; the next, he's back in his apartment, confused and terrified. These inexplicable shifts in time and space leave him questioning his sanity. Desperate for answers, Jack turns to his old friend, psychologist Nikki Endicott, who struggles to believe his fantastical tales.As Jack delves de...

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