Chowdhary's Tea Shop was not found on any grand maps, nor celebrated in any city guides. It was simply… present. A quiet cornerstone at a humble crossroads within the casbah, as unassuming as the dust that perpetually powdered its worn wooden benches, and yet, as utterly vital to the life of the mohalla (place) as the very air the mohalla-walas (local residents) breathed.For, within its unassuming space, something far richer than mere tea was brewed each day – stor...

The Secrets to Self-Help SuccessYou know you have insights worth sharing, and readers who desperately need them. But converting that wisdom into a best-selling self-help book has felt impossible—until now.From veteran self-help editors and ghostwriters Hilary T. Smith and William Solow comes The Self-Help Author's Toolkit, the definitive step-by-step guide to transforming your expertise into a book that resonates, sells, and establishes your career ...

Note: The publisher does not guarantee quality or access to digital components if purchased through a third-party seller.Maria Leik's AGNP Certification Intensive Review, Sixth Edition, is everything you would expect from the #1 selling AGNP review book—and more. This high-yield, guided review steps you toward success on the AANPCB or ANCC Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner exam.Elevated by the meticulous editing of Karen Myrick, DNP, AP...

Pandemic Pondering: A Poetry Collection, written in April 2020 speaks from the heart, in real time, as Covid spread exponentially across the country and around the world. Each poem offers an up close and personal perspective into how the pandemic effected one woman and her family with themes that will resonate with readers as they think back on those uncertain and frightening times. Thoughts and feelings expressed within the poetry may help others process how Covid impacted them a...

Since opening in 1925 as the Hillsboro Theatre, the Belcourt has stood at the center of Nashville’s changing cultural life. Over the course of a century, it has been a neighborhood movie house, a stage for live performance, a home for community theater, an art-house cinema, a music venue, and a nonprofit film center. Its story is also the story of a city shaped by shifting technologies, urban change, grassroots activism, and evolving ideas about what cultural institutions are for.

The rich diversity of Arkansas’s amphibian and reptilian species comes alive in this thoroughly updated second edition of The Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. An indispensable resource for both professionals and enthusiasts, and praised for its accessible language and scientific rigor, this field guide not only reflects the latest in taxonomic research but also celebrates the surge in herpetological studies in Arkansas over the past two decades, showcasing a thriving academic ...

A first-person account of neuroscience discoveries, including their relevance to AI and to the development of better treatments for brain and mental disorders.Neuroscientist Edmund Rolls’ research interests include computational neuroscience, emotion, memory, vision, decision-making, and mental disorders. In Neuroscience Discoveries, he describes how our brains implement emotion, decision-making, memory, and vision, showing how one research idea and discov...

Sometimes called the Mexican Joan of Arc, Teresa Urrea was a renowned folk saint and religious healer in northern Mexico and the US borderlands in the 1890s. Though she was never canonized, many believed that she possessed miraculous powers—and thousands of pilgrims sought out her cures and divine intervention. Her nickname, “Santa de Cabora,” became a rallying cry in pre-revolutionary uprisings, prompting the Mexican government to arrest and deport her. She later supported Sonoran immigra...

Sometimes called the Mexican Joan of Arc, Teresa Urrea was a renowned folk saint and religious healer in northern Mexico and the US borderlands in the 1890s. Though she was never canonized, many believed that she possessed miraculous powers—and thousands of pilgrims sought out her cures and divine intervention. Her nickname, “Santa de Cabora,” became a rallying cry in pre-revolutionary uprisings, prompting the Mexican government to arrest and deport her. She later supported Sonoran immigra...

#1 CrushTia Monroe was smart, sassy and successful. Sure, she could get a little crazy at times—life around Tia was never boring—but that was part of her appeal. And while she didn't see herself as 'classically beautiful', she had no shortage of options in the boyfriend department. She just hadn't found one who held her interest.Until she laid eyes on Eric Larsson, and then it was lust at first sight.He packed the perfect mix of smoldering sexy and unapologetic cool...

The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.You're too pretty to die.Astarion Ancunin was supposed to be a magistrate, not a vampire spawn. He was supposed to serve the law, not the vicious vampire lord Cazador Szarr. And he was supposed to drink fine wine, not rat blood. Alas—the city of Baldur's Gate ca...

A comprehensive synthesis of the thought of Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty.Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty sets out to answer a simple question: "What kind of phenomenologist is Merleau-Ponty?" While debates regarding the status of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology typically fall along transcendental or existential lines, author Andrew Kirkpatrick shows how Merleau-Ponty's thought fails to fit neatly within either category. Drawing on Whitehead's process metaphysics,...