A book that turns your hardest moments into your strongest comebacks.What if everything you've survived wasn't a setback, but preparation for the strongest version of you?Echoes of Growth is a powerful personal development and mindset transformation book for anyone who has felt stuck, underestimated, overwhelmed, or quietly carrying more than most people see. If you know there is more inside you, but life's pressure, doubt, or di...

José Martí, great Cuban patriot, wrote Spanish articles on the United States during the eighties. In the present sketch, the author has presented Martí to the country he interpreted so sympathetically and has made a living portrait of a rich and complex personality.Originally published in 1953.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out ...

Ever wonder what the road is trying to tell you?From the "Sleeping Alligators" on the asphalt to the "Round Table" of the driver's seat, The Road Signs takes you on a 2,000-mile journey through the eyes of a trucker. This collection of poems captures the humor, the grit, and the hidden magic of the highway. Whether you're racing the "Tic Toc" of the clock or dodging a "Smashed Bug" fate, this book is for the drivers, the dreamers, and the families who know that home is just one mor...

Hundreds of new exercises and training principles claim to build muscle faster than the traditional regiments. "MuscleGate: The New Science of Gaining Muscle Faster" reviews each of these exercise principles and compares them to peer-reviewed studies. The overwhelming number of resistance programs promising faster muscle gain has led to "program jumping," in which a person changes exercises, sets, rest periods, etc., based on the newest exercise trends. "MuscleGate" is an evidence-based ap...

Awaken the power that has always lived inside your breathThis book reveals how conscious breathing becomes the bridge between science, inner awareness, and personal transformation. Through deep, practical insight, you will learn how breath reorganizes your nervous system, reshapes your emotional field, and reconnects you with your most authentic inner power.Strengthen your inner power, because your breath already knows the way.This journey i...

**The inspiration for the Peacock series starring Matthew MacFadyen and Elizabeth BanksIn the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.**The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In “The Artist’s Voice” we meet one of the world’s fo...

**Read it!” —Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins"[R]ollicking good fun.” —New York Times Book Review"A tour-de-force." —Laura Miller, SlateIn a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization—the Regional Office—and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation.**At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root o...

**The inspiration for the Peacock series starring Matthew MacFadyen and Elizabeth BanksIn the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.**The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In “The Artist’s Voice” we meet one of the world’s fo...

The Regional Office and its band of super-powered female assassins protects the world from annihilation. But a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now the Regional Office is under attack…Rose is a young assassin leading the assault, eager to stretch into her powers and prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah - who may or may not have a mechanical arm - fiercely devoted to the organisation that took her in...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Regional Office is Under Attack by Manuel Gonzales, read by Sarah Scott, Natasha Soudek, Susan Hanfield and Mike Chamberlain.The Regional Office and its band of super-powered female assassins protects the world from annihilation. But a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now the Regional Office is under attack…Rose is a young assassin leading the assault, eager to stretch ...

Energy in Agroecosystems: A Tool for Assessing Sustainability is the first book on energy analysis that is up-to-date and specifically dedicated to agriculture. It is written from an agroecological perspective and goes beyond the conventional analysis of the efficient use of energy. The book provide a methodological guide to assess energy efficiency and sustainability from an eco-energetic point of view.Case studies from both Europe and America, which are represent...

Responding to shifts in the political and economic experiences of Mexicans in America, this newly revised and expanded edition of Mexicanos provides a relevant and contemporary consideration of this vibrant community. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their In...