A no-nonsense Zen approach to our economic realities can change everything and help us regain our freedom.Is it possible to be personally fulfilled, and also make a difference within our current financial system? If you're skeptical, business coach and Zen practitioner Kai Romhardt proposes a minimalist, awareness-based strategy that totally reconfigures our core economic relationships: work, consumption, and money.How do we do that? We need to pause, breat...

From bloomers to boxers, everyone wears underwear! One part humor, one part history, A Brief History of Underpants explores the evolution of fashion's most unmentionable garment.Gain a whole new understanding of underthings as you:Learn which ruler was buried with over 100 pairs of underwear.Discover how people kept their underclothes from falling off before elastic was invented.Find out why some underwear was made from fe...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - March 2021Bill And The Tooth Fairy: An adult loses a tooth and attempts to appease the tooth fairy.Sienna's Monster: A trouble girls leaves for college and is forced to come to terms with the monster that haunts her nightmares.Soon The Sentence Sign: A bar fight turns into a brush with the colonial AI driven judicial system....

Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth.Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features 50 different voices from across the Portsmouth community and beyond. Our readers range from teenagers to those in their nineties, including experienced actors, writers and volunteers from the pub...

This is a fascinating account of the early life of Daniel Van Acker as he recognizes he has the ability to see the future through glimpses of things to come, while looking at his refection. While still a young man the glimpses change a future that could have been riddled with disaster. Only by learning to read the glimpses in more detail does the path continue that would put Daniel in a position to go on the most exciting trip of all time. A glimpse of the future that over time he develops...

After Arizona police detective Daniel Saviano confronts and kills his mobster father, Jack, he is plunged into decades of family memories and secrets that he had managed to bury deep in his subconscious. At the same time, despite Jack's apparent death, a string of local murders carrying his modus operandi continues with increasing brutality. Is it possible that Jack survived and is continuing his murderous ways? Or is someone he knew taking on after him? Facing a plethora of twists and tur...

The twenty-first century is facing worldwide disintegration. The spiritual systems falling apart, revealing the lack of all that used to sustain humanity as notions of separation prevail. However, inclusion essential for survival. Profound love more powerful than hate, but those in power amplify hate and fear, destroying humanity in the process.After the collapse of Western civilization in North America, survivors grounded in healing love flee south. Seven millennia later, an isola...

Discover Your Identity as an OvercomerThe Christian life is one of the most challenging and rewarding journeys we can undertake. If we embrace it fully, we can see God's victorious plan through the trials, opposition, and spiritual battles that define our earthly experience. The believer's walk is not just about surviving life's struggles-within it lies a message of triumph, supernatural empowerment, and God's ultimate design for extraordinary living.In Bor...

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving...

In a rickety, 17th century converted farmhouse in Dorset, England, a group of authors teaches a creative writing seminar. One of them—a brash American novelist—finds he’s got more to learn about writing and romance than he ever dreamed possible.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Ian Abercrombie as Jeremy Dean, Michael Brandon as Leo Rapkin, Christine Estabrook as Maude Locket, Jeremy Geidt as Henry Locket, David Hunt as Simon St. Clair, and Melanie van Betten as...

A guide to a textbook-free approach to world languages curriculums that will improve learning outcomesOpen architecture curricular design (OACD) is a textbook-free curricular design framework for teaching and learning world languages that integrates all the best practices in world language education to enhance learning efficiency and effectiveness. As editors and pioneers of this method, Corin, Leaver, and Campbell define OACD for world language instructors and sec...

The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a common interest in the future study of aging and media. This anthology of original articles int...