Every twenty years the red comet Cthoma lights up the night sky. Every twenty years, the emperor Shaucrim Vlaide must fear for his life.Throug Slagger was meant to be the chosen one. Born under the comet, he was fated to defeat the emperor and end Shaucrim’s reign of terror before it began. Leaving his family when he was ten years old, he trained with an ancient order of monks and embarked on a quest to find ten powerful Ixafore rings, set on fulfilling the prophecy.He fail...

Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions shows how to implement DevOps techniques in the kind of imperfect environments most developers work in. Part technology tutorial, part reference manual, and part psychology handbook, this practical guide shows you realistic ways to bring DevOps to your team when you don’t have the flexibility to make sweeping changes in organizational structure.SummaryOperations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions show...

How Psychotherapy Works synthesizes recent science to provide an accessible, practical, and clinically relevant understanding of the infrastructure underlying the hundreds of therapies in current use. In joining the best of modern neuroscience with a warm-hearted understanding of human troubles, the book guides beginning and experienced therapists to better therapy through clarity about what is happening now and what to do next.Both groundbreaking and paradigmatic, the boo...

Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD: A District-Wide Systems Approach to Teaching and Learning in PreK-12 lays out the transformational journey of Hampton City Schools (HCS), an urban school division of 30 schools in southeastern Virginia. Our school district faces numerous challenges, such as 62% of students receiving free and reduced-price lunch and 14% of students holding an IEP, and in 2015-2016, Hampton City Schools’ state accreditation rate was approximately half the statewide rate and on a do...

Why is it so hard to change? Not only does psychiatrist and teacher, Dr. Smith's crystal clear prose give the answer, but he shows how to outsmart our own mind's many ways of keeping us the same. Each person's problems and dysfunctional patterns are different but they start out as ways to shield us from painful and uncomfortable feelings. The good news is that facing just those feelings is the path to freedom, and it is not as hard as it seems. Dr. Smith shows how to get to know your feeli...

Caterer Crik Duvall is bewildered. In the city he thought he knew, suddenly buildings grow, people incorporate animal powers, smart phones know it all, and vehicles defy gravity.He's been accidentally transported to a future where he's unwanted. To keep their past intact, the future's authorities must return Crik to the moment he left, a moment when he was dodging gunfire. That is, unless he can show he was vital to progress.With his cat-woman guide, Tepper —could she be hi...

When I thought of dedicating a book in honour of my fathers life and his work, and when I began to put together the outline, I suddenly realized how much his examples -though simple - are in fact precious and humble directives that can help men in general, any particular man, to start life well, to develop progressively through the stages of life, to fight and win in life despite the obstacles and to end life with a real sense of achievement, like a man. Examples of good men - dead or aliv...

Why is it so hard to change? Not only does psychiatrist and teacher, Dr. Smith's crystal clear prose give the answer, but he shows how to outsmart our own mind's many ways of keeping us the same. Each person's problems and dysfunctional patterns are different but they start out as ways to shield us from painful and uncomfortable feelings. The good news is that facing just those feelings is the path to freedom, and it is not as hard as it seems. Dr. Smith shows how to get to know your feeli...

Born to poor farmers, Ash Carn truly came alive when her magic was awoken on a forested hill. The orcs who tried to ambush her and her brother were crushed as old trees were ripped from the ground, wielded by the elemental spirits of stone Ash summoned. Now, she is the mage for a powerful house, under the leadership of Duke Erike Eyvindar—a man she once swore to kill.As war ravages the island realm of Wheyan, Erike and his house struggle desperately for survival. It has been four m...

Uncover the hidden forces shaping our economy and society.Counting Bounty reveals the widespread oversight of land's power in twisting the economy. It highlights the minimization of Earth's worth in America by officials and academics, tracing rent to the rentiers who wield power. Jeffery Johnson Smith uses statistics and research to show how land value impacts economic inequality and offers solutions through land value taxation.Discover how underst...

The dimensions of a higher intelligent living being part 2 is about Gods, someones, and somethings choices because I think God, someone, and something has a choice for God, someone, and something to be having choices; Gods, someones, and somethings intervention; how someone is in life because I think someone is somehow able to be overlapping, and co-existing along with something for someone to be how someone is in life; how something is in life because I think something is somehow able to ...

The dimensions of a higher intelligent living being part 1 is about what dimensions are in life because I think any dimension is something for any dimension to be what any is in life, and therefore, the dimensions of a higher intelligent living being is about how dimensions are in life because I think any dimension is something for any dimension to be how any dimension is in life, even though, the dimensions of a higher intelligent living being part 1 is about the possibility of a higher i...