**BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD WINNER • An enlightening guide to how infants, toddlers, and children learn and why play is the key to enhancing your child’s development—now revised and updated with a new chapter on the impacts of screen time“An authoritative, up-to-date playbook on why we should raise our children to be learn-it-alls, not know-it-alls—plus practical advice on how parents can do that!”—Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit

Roberta Gellis has reimagined the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, in all its colorful intensity. Persephone has been restless under her domineering mother, Demeter. When Hades kidnaps her to his Underworld and teaches her what “gift” she has, he is threatened by the other mages to return her to Demeter. But Demeter realizes that her grown daughter has a will of her own… 1st of the Myth trilogy by Roberta Gellis; originally published by Pinnacle

Escaping communist Romania, activist and doctor Anca Rodescu is dismayed to discover she has been abandoned, pregnant and alone in America, by the man she loves. Years later, at the height of the Ceausescu dictatorship, change is coming to Romania, and Anca is receiving messages from her past that draw her back to Transylvania.A story of love and forgiveness in war-torn Romania, and a portrait of communism and the people who are trapped within it.

The creator of the Unmistakable Creative podcast makes a counterintuitive argument: By focusing your creative work on pleasing yourself, you can increase your productivity, happiness, and (eventually, paradoxically) the size of your audience.Creating for your own pleasure--whether you're writing a novel, composing songs, or painting a landscape--can seem pointless. It's tempting to focus on pursuing money and fame, rather than the process itself. But as Srini Rao w...

**THE THIRD PART IN THE ADDICTIVE NEW 4-PART EBOOK-SERIAL FROM ROBERTA KRAY.NO ONE KNOWS CRIME LIKE KRAY**I'm keeping an eye on Ava Gold just in case her routine changes. The attack will be swift and silent, a lesson in efficiency. If you're going to do a job, you have to do it properly. It's a satisfying feeling having everything in place. I know there's always room for error, but careful planning goes a long way towards a successful outcome. The devil, as they say, is...

Client side JavaScript for enterprise Oracle applications. Key Features\[\*\] Develop resilient and robust client-side applications\[\*\] Explore the power of popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, RequireJS, and custom Oracle JavaScript libraries\[\*\] Integrate JavaScript for Oracle developers\[\*\] Easily debug and secure your cloud interfacesBook DescriptionThis book will give you a complete practical under...

Explore the power of distributed computing to write concurrent, scalable applications in JavaKey Features? Make the best of Java 9 features to write succinct code? Handle large amounts of data using HPC? Make use of AWS and Google App Engine along with Java to establish a powerful remote computation systemBook DescriptionDistributed computing is the concept with which a bigger computation process is accomplished by splitting ...

**An instant New York Times Bestseller!A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen**It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice," but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture?As the founders of Race2Dinner, an ...

WHO CAN YOU TRUST, WHEN YOU CAN'T TRUST FAMILY?'Well into MARTINA COLE territory' Independent'A cracking good read' JESSIE KEANESheltered and naïve Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life. But when Rex announces his retirement and plans to leave his vast wealth to his three daughters, Carmen doesn't thank her father as effusively as he'd like, enraging him. Ca...

In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government.In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King’s daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy?literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts.With climate change raging, Athena...

In this final installment of the Transylvanian Trilogy, childhood friends Marina and Cristina become amateur investigators, traveling from New York City and Paris to Istanbul to learn more about a web of crime among the countries' leaders. Romanian leader Ceausescu had traveled to Tehran three days before he was executed on Christmas day, 1989, with suitcases filled with gold—gold that was never found. In their travels, the women risk their lives but deepen their friendship. T...

**What does yoga have to do with caste, gender, and power?This groundbreaking work explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation.**Yoga as Embodied Resistance illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga. Bridging scholarship, history, and cultural analysis, yoga educator and practitioner Anjali Rao exposes how caste oppression, patriarchy, and colonization impact contemp...