This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You've tried to quit before. Maybe more times than you can count.You've installed the blockers, deleted the apps, and made the Sunday-night promise that this time is different. And every time, sooner or later, you've ended up back where you started - feeling weaker and more convinced the problem is you.It isn't. The problem is that everything you've tried was aimed at the wrong target.The Clean Break takes a comp...

The Earth shook in what would become known as Pangea 2.0. The science was complicated, but simple. Every 3 million years the earth would experience, at its core, a swelling that would burst tectonic plates. The force would send out thousands of shock waves with the power to break landmasses.Follow along as skipper Zidane and his crew of the Santa Maria Dauphin endure the frigid arctic seas to find survivors following the aftermath of tsunamis that have ravaged the Alaskan coastline...

Have you ever seen a talented dressage rider performing an exquisite test, her seat seemingly melding with her horse's back, and his movements airy, animated, and effortless? Or, perhaps you have watched a great cutting horse at work, his direction and momentum changing on a dime as he reads his cow, his rider's body flowing fluidly above him as if they were one.We all dream of experiencing this kind of connection with our horses, and in this groundbreaking new book, James Shaw shows us ho...

1940, in the Nazi-occupied city of Rouen, France: Despite Germany’s stranglehold on the French, Benjamin Cohen, an introverted but musically talented adolescent, alters the course of his life when he defies his father to study the fifty-five bell carillon in the Catholic cathedral. A coming-of-age epistolary novel, this story explores wartime dynamics between Catholic and Jewish, boy and girl, father and son, and two estranged brothers on their journeys through love, tragedy and war. Can B...

Historical Diseases from a Modern Perspective: The American Experience is a must read for any physician, medical student, history buff, fan of historical novels, or individuals concerned about reemerging diseases. Every disease section contains fascinating historical insights relevant to the American experience, including how the 1900 outbreak of plague in San Franciso was contained, why the flow of the Chicago River was reversed, why “chicken pox parties” were once common, how th...

James R. Shaw offers a new 'bipartite' reading of Wittgenstein's treatment of rule-following and the foundations of semantics in his seminal Philosophical Investigations. On this reading, Wittgenstein's remarks are split between two logically distinct projects marked by different guiding questions, presuppositions, and methodologies. It shows how the attribution of this thoroughgoing bipartite structure resolves a number of internal tensions in the text and reveals Wittgenstein's ...

Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations.Captain James Kennedy, as he then was, served with distinction throughout the Peninsula War under both Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington as a regimental officer, on the staff, and as aide-de-camp of "Black Bob" Craufurd of the famed Light Division. During the Waterloo campaign, he was on the staff of the Third Division and was heavily involved in the fighting. After...

Things to Consider Before Calling Yourself a ChristianBy: James A. Shaw, MDDr. Shaw's, Things to Consider Before Calling Yourself a Christian, offers a critical examination of the historical origins of the Christian Church and insightful analyses of doctrine and metaphysical precepts embraced by the Christian faith. As noted by Shaw, factually unsupported faith-based beliefs form the basis of all religions, including Christianity. This short book provides the reader with a w...

Compiled by the general editor of The Oxford Shakespeare, and one of the best-known authorities on the playwright's works, this dictionary offers information on all aspects of Shakespeare, both in his own time and in later ages. The wide-ranging entries cover Shakespeare's plays, as well as everything from famous actors, writers, and directors connected with Shakespeare, to theatres, historical figures and places of particular interest relating to his life and work. The dictionary...

"With the spotlight on schools and the achievement of subgroups of students, educators need to read this book and reflect on the guiding questions. Then we need to take the challenge and do what we know is right so we are doubling student performance and closing achievement gaps."—Leslie Standerfer, PrincipalEstrella Foothills High School, Goodyear, AZ"This text is the product of considerable research and disciplined reflection on closing the student achi...

One of Saint Augustine's most important contributions to Christian Theology, "On Christian Doctrine" is essential reading for any serious believer interested in learning more about faith in God. The four books of St. Augustin On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana, iv libri) are a compend of exegetical theology to guide the reader in the understanding and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, according to the analogy of faith. The first three books were written ad 397; the fourth...

In one hand, small-time crook Stokes holds a backpack stuffed with someone else’s money—three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of it.In the other hand, Stokes has a cell phone, which he found with the money. On the line, a little girl he doesn’t know asks, “Daddy? Are you coming to get me? They say if you give them money they’ll let you take me home.”From bestselling author James Hankins comes a wrenching story of an unscrupulous man torn between his survival instincts an...