The man who wrote Taken and The Karate Kid was also an international hash dealer—and that’s not even the craziest part of this story.Before Robert Mark Kamen became the screenwriter behind some of the most beloved movies of the last forty years, he was living a life that would have been rejected from any studio pitch meeting as too implausible.A PhD student, martial artist, restless traveler, and world-class rationalizer of bad ideas, Kame...

This book shows Gods awesome power in todays chaotic world. Power is strength, strong natural or moral abilities, potency, possessing or exerting with great force, or an inward, God-given gift. At the end of The Wizard of Oz, we learn that Dorothy possesses the power to reach her happy destination, but didnt know how to use it! Such is the life of many Christians today. After the resurrection, Jesus said the following to His disciples: And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, all power ...

The man who wrote Taken and The Karate Kid was also an international hash dealer—and that’s not even the craziest part of this story.Before Robert Mark Kamen became the screenwriter behind some of the most beloved movies of the last forty years, he was living a life that would have been rejected from any studio pitch meeting as too implausible.A PhD student, martial artist, restless traveler, and world-class rationalizer of bad ideas, Kame...

The secret to boosting research productivity, managing workloads and responding to changing circumstances is to harness project management tools in the academic environment. With academics increasingly being asked to perform all of these feats at once, this book could not come soon enough. It sets out the basics of project management as a practical, step-by-step process for integrating the demands of research projects into the working life of today's academics.This...

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment. Tracing changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a fifth of humankind, Robert B. Marks illuminates the paradoxes inherent in China’s environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustain...

Ten millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today.Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a saline lake with picturesque tufa towers and flocks of phalarope birds. This is the Mono Lake Basin.In this sweeping history, Robert B. Marks examines the forces that have shaped the Mono Lake Basin's rich ecosystem. The story starts with the region's Indig...

All they wanted was to find their happy-ever-after... Instead, they met their deaths.Three women have been killed in Liverpool. The MO points to a stranger, and now DCI Eve Clay is on the trail of a vicious man who preys on lonely women on dating sites. He signs off the same way with each message: "Kiss kiss, night night."His crimes are escalating – and Eve has to stop him before another girl dies. But first she needs to find him. And that m...

With today’s hardware and software sequencers, it’s possible for anyone recording music on a budget to lay down professional-sounding grooves and produce music in the comfort of their home.Basic Rhythm Programming provides a guide to creating rolls, fills and paradiddles on your computer, explaining every aspect of the process, from connecting up your soundcard to producing material rivalling that of Fatboy Slim himself!If you’re making music, or you want to, this book is for you.

A kidnapped child. A coded message. A burning car...A nine-year-old boy crawls from a burning car and is left fighting for his life. Young children go missing in the dead of night. Something sinister is at work on this London estate.Then DCI David Rosen and his team find a sinister eye carved into the site of the wreckage. Nearby, mysterious markings are etched onto the wall. Every second counts. Can Rosen and his team crack the code in time? Or will these ...

Heme Inc. is a book that weaves biblical text about the creation of the world with sword and fantasy. It is a shadow world built into the fiber of the real world. Vampires, elves, dwarves and werewolves are all in abeyance to the highest, until one tribe chose to join Lucifer in his quest to make the almighty fall. In the middle of this is Remy Robon. Deep within his genes is a secret to a prophecy—a prophecy so old it has been forgotten by many. Part of that secret is the creation of huma...

Doomsday headlines warn that the age of "killer robots" is upon us, and that new military technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the annihilation of the human race. What's fact and what's fiction? In The Case for Killer Robots: Why America's Military Needs to Continue Development of Lethal AI, artificial intelligence expert Robert J. Marks investigates the potential military use of lethal AI and examines the practical and ethical challenges. Marks provocatively arg...

"Remarkable . . . If you want to double your happiness and your income, start using these powerful brain-changing exercises today!" -John Assaraf, New York Times -bestselling author and CEO of NeuroGymAdapted from a business school course they created for professionals, bestselling author Mark Waldman and Chris Manning present simple brain exercises, based on the latest neuroscience research, to...