These heroes might not be angels, but you know what they say...it's always better to trust the devil you know...Looking for a typical hero tale? Keep looking. These twelve tales explore the grittier side of what it means to make life's hardest choices and let their reputations pay the price.From back-alleys and ancient cities to graveyards and castle walls, these trouble-makers are out for themselves...or are they?Fiction-Atlas Press is proud to pre...

Veterinary School— the Holy Grail and brass ring for animal lovers the world over. An ex K-9 cop, a standardbred harness racer and a Brooklyn-born beauty queen walk into a bar... Add a rabbi, an Olympic gymnast, a loudmouth jerk, and a rough-hewn commercial fisherman from Maine and it must be Friday Night Happy Hour at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Come along with Jack, Hoss, Kerri and the other first-year students of the Death Row Crew as they navigate the irreverent, malodorous, dem...

Awaken your true self to happiness with the "yoga of sleep"In this moment of your busy day, you're invited to experience deep rest and relaxation. Yoga Nidra, or "yoga of sleep," bridges the conscious and unconscious, allowing you to reconnect to your true inner self. The 10-step course in Practical Yoga Nidra teaches everything you need to know to start experiencing the proven benefits of Yoga Nidra meditation: clearer focus, better sleep, decreased anxie...

The "highly addictive" international bestseller, "an amazing true-life thriller, one of the most suspenseful books written in recent years" (Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist o...

Nightwish: Theory and Practice. 'Nightwish' is a harmonious power alloy group as of Kitee, Finland. The group was created in 1996 by head composer and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitar player Emppu Vuorinen, and head vocalist Tarja Turunen. The group shortly selected up drum player Jukka Nevalainen, and then bassist Sami Vänskä following the discharge of its first public appearance collection, Angels Fall First (1997). In 2002, Vänskä was substituted by Marco Hietala, whoever as well t...

We were made exceptional, and however we resemble other people in some ways, we are additionally dissimilar to other individuals. If we were much the same as every other person, then everybody will be a duplicate of each other with no distinction or masterful sense. Humankind will go extinct, even monkeys and different creatures have unique species with confirmed differences.You and I are different, not at all like...

[2021 Revised Edition, New Cover Design] Free To Grieve – A Mother’s Memoir in Black and White is a powerful and compelling narrative about a mother whose life begins to quickly unravel when her 16-year-old son, a high school football player, is found lifeless in his bed. Her son had died without warning. After a harrowing plunge into the depths of despair and grief, she resurfaces with a greater sense of purpose to help spread awareness about the number one threat to young athletes. Inter...

The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces - burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas across the globe. And with climate change, rainfall will become more fickle, with longer and deeper periods of droughts and deluges. This report presents new evidence to advance understanding on how rainfall shocks coupled with water scarcity, impacts farms, firms, and families. On farms, th...

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival.In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant fr...

Napolitano’s shocking historical account of how a Republican and a Democratic president oversaw the greatest shift in power in American history, from a land built on the belief that authority should be left to the individuals and the states to a bloated, far-reaching federal bureaucracy, continuing to grow and consume power each day.“Either the Constitution means what it says, or it doesn’t.”America’s founding fathers saw freedom as a part of our nature to ...

This book is a collection of my all-time favorite stories from working with patients as a medical professional over the past seventeen years. I have witnessed and been a part of some amazing experiences ranging from hilarious to shocking to just plain disgusting. I've told these stories many times at family gatherings, parties, and in conversations with friends. After much encouragement, I took the time to write them down before they became distant memories. Each chapter of this book is de...

As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear of career backlash and reprisals have made them reluctant to talk to outsiders about their experience. Now Echo Heron, New York Times bestselling author of Intensive Care, draws truths far str...