Welcome to The Mastery Code Volume One: It Begins with You. This book is your go-to guide for navigating the roller coaster of adulting and stepping up your game in a world that doesn't come with instructions and doesn't play fair.Are you ready to ditch self-doubt, understand your emotions, and build relationships that lift you up? Our expert thought leaders and coaches have packed this little book with insights and life hacks that will help you do just that.Inside, you'll ...

It's time to change your money life!That's right –You want your money situation to be drastically different, but you just don't know how to make that happen.You've worked hard, and still never seem to get a handle on how money flows in and out of your life.At times, you feel stuck or even hopeless, but you're ready for a NEW NORMAL.Well, you're not alone…In this book, you will find EVERYDAY, game-changing money insight so YOU can change things now.Get the tools you need to uproot the limit...

The Mastery Code Volume II: Mental Health MattersWhat if the support you've been searching for lived inside the pages of one thoughtful, compassionate book? The Mastery Code Volume II: Mental Health Matters brings together mental health professionals and individuals with lived experience to offer practical tools, honest stories, and grounded guidance for navigating life's emotional challenges.Inside, you'll find strategies for coping with depressio...

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens—one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests?Nature and Place in Texas reimagines the Lone Star story by centering its ecosystems. This collection of essays by leading environmental historians reveals how the state’s natural features—its plains, deserts, rivers, forests, and coastlines—have shaped and bee...

This volume brings together studies which represent current perspectives on second language learning and teaching in relation to language and culture in intercultural contexts. The authors reflect on and analyse a variety of topics such as the significance of recognizing and valuing heritage speakers in intercultural contexts, the role of multimodal mediation strategies in language teaching materials, and the impact of intercultural variation on language assessment. Their contributions pro...

Reviews current understanding of the mechanisms of soil erosion, focussing on water-based and wind-based erosion processesConsiders the effectiveness of mitigation measures to reduce soil erosion, including buffer strips, zero/no-tillage and cover cropsAddresses recent advances in techniques used to measure, predict, track and model soil erosion, including digital soil mapping and proximal instrumental techniques

Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020Winner, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2021From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet.Tracing the accretion ...

Invasive arthropods cause significant damage in agricultural crops and natural environments across the globe. Potentially threatened regions need to be prepared to prevent new pests from becoming established. Therefore, information on pest identity, host range, geographical distribution, biology, tools for detection and identification are all essential to researchers and regulatory personnel. This book focuses on the most recent invasive pests of agricultural crops in temperate subtropical...

In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush’s famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier displayed the banner “Mission Accomplished,” the dynamics of the war shifted. Selling War recounts how the U.S. military lost the information war in Iraq by engaging the wrong audiences—that is, the Western media—by ignoring Iraqi citize...

Flicker Floo is based on the parables taught by Jesus; it enhances the application of kingdom principles in childrens lives through the whimsical character of a firefly.Birthed from scripture (Matthew 5:16), Flicker Floo teaches children about faith, the power of prayer, and giving glory to God. He encourages children to live life with a kingdom mindset, and he enriches them with the courage to face lifes challenges while putting God first.As you engage in this fun and exci...

This volume aims to showcase research as to the study of perspectivization in English language academic articles in the field of tourism. A key aspect of this study is the way in which writers elaborate and organize information following their editorial traditions. Interestingly, complete scientific articles in the field have not received much scholarly attention. A first task, therefore, that this book undertakes is the characterization of the article in terms of unctional stages, accordi...

An exquisite, blistering debut novelThree brothers tear their way through childhood—smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he’s Puerto Rican, she’s white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times.Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and ...