Marco Vasquez has spent thirty years learning exactly what he is worth to his father — not as a son, but as a resource. A thing to be positioned. A variable in someone else's equation. He has always known the reckoning was coming. He just didn't know it would arrive in the form of a contract signed without his consent, binding him in marriage to the most controlled and most dangerous man in the Chicago underworld.Dante Conti didn't ask for a husband either. He asked for a political...

Roman Farm Management: The Treatises Of Cato And Varro presents a detailed guide to agricultural practice built from practical instruction, observation, and rural philosophy. The work explains how successful farming depends on discipline, planning, and careful supervision of land, labor, and resources. It describes methods for organizing estates, maintaining tools, managing workers, and selecting profitable crops and livestock. Strong attention is given to efficiency, record keeping, soil ...

Varro proved to be a highly productive writer and turned out more than 74 Latin works on a variety of topics. Among his many works, two stand out for historians.Varro`s only complete work extant, Rerum rusticarum libri tres (Three Books on Agriculture), has been described as "the well digested system of an experienced and successful farmer who has seen and practised all that he records."The compilation of the Varronian chronology was an attempt to determine an exact year-by-y...

Renowned in the Roman world for his vast learning, Varro was an antiquarian, historian and agriculturist. Of Varro’s more than seventy works, his treatise ‘On Agriculture’ survives complete and a significant part of his magnum opus ‘On the Latin Language’, revealing his deep interest in antiquarian matters. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts. This comprehensive eBook ...

Frank Varro, author of 'Stories from the Boxcar,' is a retired Methodist pastor, prison and hospice chaplain, missionary, teacher, counselor, and musician. He is from a three-generation family of China missionaries. This 'Quilogy' (five-books-in-one) is the story of his paternal Hungarian-immigrant heritage, and his maternal-missionary heritage. It relates to his father's boyhood home-a boxcar on a siding in Regina, Saskatchewan-from which came his father's many stories and life's lessons,...

Cupcake lovers rejoice!With more than 50 recipes for any and every cupcake occasion, as well as the secrets for the most decadent, delicious cupcakes imaginable, cupcake lovers and bakers everywhere will fall in love with this beautiful, easy-to-use book from the famous Prairie Girl Bakery.Known for having the best cupcakes in Toronto, Prairie Girl Bakery takes fans and readers behind its kitchen doors to share recipes, tips and techniques in the pages of th...

"Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro" presents the agricultural wisdom of two prominent Roman figures, Cato and Varro. Cato, known for his practical approach, emphasizes the importance of efficient farming techniques and the management of resources. His treatise offers insights into crop cultivation, livestock care, and the economic aspects of running a farm. Varro, on the other hand, provides a more theoretical perspective, discussing the principles of agriculture and t...

Cillian Byrne photographed a building on Imlay Street on a Thursday afternoon. Ninety minutes, exterior shots, beautiful 1930s brickwork. He didn't know what was inside it. He does now, or enough of it to understand why two men in good coats are waiting for him on a quiet Red Hook street on a Tuesday night.He doesn't run. He's his father's son — he reads the geometry of situations before they complete themselves, and this one is Italian, disciplined, and making no attempt to be vio...

A spiritual journey of the author, based on both his international paternal and maternal heritage as a pastor, counselor, and child of three-generational China and Alaska missionaries, pastors, teachers and musicians and counselors; the exciting story of Hungarian and Chinese influences, even a fictitious tie-in to the biblical story of a runaway Sythian slave who becomes a follower of 'The Way' with the Apostle Paul, to later becoming the Bishop of Ephesus - the real live story of the aut...

This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in six workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016.The six workshops whose papers are included in this volume are: DataMod, GCM, HOFM, MELO, SEMS, and VeryComp. The 33 full and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. They focus on practical and foundational...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to make your ideas stick.“Anyone interested in influencing others—to buy, to vote, to learn, to diet, to give to charity or to start a revolution—can learn from this book.”—The Washington Post**Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspirac...

Have you been searching for that "Something" that's going to finally change your life. Book after book, cd program after cd program. The workshops, the webinars...The never-ending e-mails...The PROMISES!I've read all the books...I've listened to the CD's...I've been to the workshops and seminars...And you know what? I finally got this stuff to work for me. And it turned out to be pretty easy!I figured out why people struggle with these ideas and concepts, and decided...