In Gardasil: Fast-Tracked and Flawed, the author argues that there is no evidence of how much cervical cancer the HPV vaccine will prevent. What is emerging, however, is evidence of its harmful effects. In the nine years since the experimental HPV vaccination program began, there have been 255 deaths worldwide and 43,000 adverse events. Gardasil was fast-tracked through the FDA, a process usually reserved for serious diseases where a new drug is required to fill an unmet and urgen...

My Life As A Monk is a spiritual pilgrimage into the heart of longing, longing for God, not as an idea, but as a living presence. If you’ve ever felt restless, weary, or like you’re searching for something just beyond reach, Scott’s story offers an invitation, not to piety or perfection, but to transformation through surrender. He opens the monastery gates and welcomes you into a life shaped by silence, prayer, and the sacred rhythm of obedience. This book listens to the ache of the soul, ...

The industry is currently facing a multitude of challenges on production lines that must be systematically addressed in order to improve quality and productivity. One commonly utilized methodology by companies is DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control), which has been proven effective through various case studies and is now considered a standard problem-solving approach. However, existing books on DMAIC often focus solely on defining concepts and tools, as well as showcasing...

“Astonishingly beautiful . . . It’s a revelation.”—Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of WeatherFrom the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut novel of a young Brazilian woman’s first year in America, a continent away from her lonely mother, and the relationship they build over Skype calls across bordersIn a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young woman set...

Meet Nettie the knot Un-tier. She is a clever young girl whose special talent is untying knots. 'Nettie' is a must-read fer parents, kids, teachers, gym teachers, and introducing children to shoes, laces, and problem solving in a fun story.

Meet Nettie the knot Un-tier. She is a clever young girl whose special talent is untying knots. 'Nettie' is a must-read fer parents, kids, teachers, gym teachers, and introducing children to shoes, laces, and problem solving in a fun story.

This is the third of five volumes of a compendium of the global distribution of about 3571 aquatic macrophyte species occurring in inland freshwater and brackish waterbodies worldwide. In addition to descriptions and maps, the volumes together highlight aspects of their ecology such as endemism, world rarity, endangered status, ecozone/macroregional occurrence, ploidy state, species age, and uses. This book provides a novel resource on the distribution and ecology of macrophytes around the...

This edited collection offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of how the EU has addressed violent radicalization as a key precursor to terrorism.Set against the backdrop of the post-9/11 security landscape and the evolving threats of jihadist, far-right, online, and lone-actor extremism, the volume analyzes the gradual shift from state-centered counterterrorism to preventive and cooperative frameworks. The book combines international, legal, and policy analyses with ...

An incisive, intimate diary of the life of a travesti sex worker in Brazil, with a foreword by Charlotte ShaneSo What If I’m a Puta, originally published on author Amara Moira’s popular blog of the same name, consists of forty-four crônicas that wryly portray her experiences as a trans sex worker in Brazil. In a brazen, funny, and at times heartbreaking voice, Moira explores the political and personal textures of her encounters with the men who buy sex fro...

**Caio is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation. —Ítalo MoriconiFor Abreu, writing is a form of salvation: from madness, from death, from invisibility, and, especially, from the self. —Bruna Dantas Lobato**The thirteen stories of No Dragons in Paradise are about love. "Love and sex, love and death, love and abandonment, love and joy, love and memory, love and fear, love and madness," Caio Fernando Abreu writes in his epigraph. The stories can be...

If you are asking yourself Why are my engineers unable to deliver?, Why are so many engineers leaving? or Why is our software riddled with bugs?, then you've come to the right place. This book acts as a concise, practical guide on how to lead successful agile projects in a remote environment.The authors draw from industry experience and a wide range of fields and disciplines--from software engineering to criminology and sociology--to teach you how to main...

A translation of the Brazilian classic O Presidente Negro ou O Choque das Raças, by Lobato Monteiro. The plot involves a young man and woman in Brazil who use a high-tech scope that can see into the future. They follow events in the United States in the year 2228 as Black and white voters vie to elect a president of their own race. It's close until a feminist candidate pits men against women regardless of race. The book, originally published in 1926, is prescient in many ways, fro...