An anthology about pirates and the open seas.Stories included:Alongside the Coasts of Sumatra by Sergio PalumboCaptain Bs By Pyle HazardLa Conquista by Rob NesbitIn the Name of Free Enterprise by HL DowlessOf Squalls and Sailors by John ToresPirates and Mutiny by Laura NelsonRiders to the Sea by Prabir Kumar RathSail Away by Mariah LyndeThe Salt Cartographer by Ky-oh RangiPoetry By:Dr. Thomas S....

A true love story with history as to how and when we met and Ann's life before and Paul's life before right up till we met and how , a "TRUE LOVE STORY" with all details.

When the stakes are high, your calm becomes your credibility.The difficult conversation. The upset client. The frustrated parent. The disengaged employee. The team that's unraveling. These are the moments that define leadership—not because they're easy, but because how you communicate determines what happens next.Most people are told to "stay calm." Few are ever taught how.In Communicate Under Pressure: Calm, Clarity, and Influence When the ...

Devotions on F.I.R.E. Year Two invites Christians to continue their journey through the complete Bible with another full year of daily readings from both the Old and New Testaments. Building on the foundation of the first volume, this second year provides assigned Scripture readings and a brief daily devotion using Dr. Ken Burge’s proven F.I.R.E. method of Bible study.F.I.R.E. stands forFamiliarity: Learn to ask probing questions and beco...

This is the dramatic and gripping story ofDr. Sakena Yacoobi and her lifelong mission toimprove the lives of girls and women inAfghanistan. She has faced tremendous obstaclesevery step of the way as she set up women' shealth clinics and schools for girls. But even whenit' s dangerous and seemingly hopeless, Yacoobinever stops. Dr. Yacoobi has a mission, to help at least a few ofa lost generation of Afghan girls learn to read,write, and think critically, and she' s done this overthe years i...

'A science-based approach for doing your best work without sacrificing your health or wellbeing' NIR EYAL**'**What a great book. Ultraproductive is science-backed, actionable, and genuinely transformative' ALI ABDAALThe only self-help book you'll ever need: a simple, proven 90-minute method to achieve more and stress less.How many notifications do you receive a day? How many news articles do you see? How muc...

Find the renewal, rest, and healing that your mind and your spirit need in this 90-Day devotional from New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned psychologist Dr. Henry Cloud.Many of us can go months, years, or even decades without experiencing true rest that reaches beyond our bodies into our heads and our hearts. Our days are filled with a steady stream of information, responsibilities, and demands that can dri...

Bad Faith and the Culture War retraces recent campaigns against “wokeness” to a convergence of colorblind ideologies that insidiously entrench traditional racism beneath a veneer of “common sense.”Probing interconnections between legal originalism, cultural invocations of “Western tradition,” and reactionary backlash to Critical Race Theory and antiracist activism, Amien Kacou devises an eclectic political psychology approach that exposes ...

This book offers a concise history of modern Vienna, tracing the city's social, economic, and cultural development from 1815 to the late twentieth century. It pays particular attention to the period between the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and the end of the Second World War, with a special focus on the fin de siècle around 1900.Adopting this perspective, Modern Vienna provides a compelling reassessment of the established view that Vienna around 1900 was the 'birthpl...

The first detailed discussion of Richard Rorty's understanding of literature and aesthetics, which engages with a broad range of writers, including Emerson, Nietzsche, and Proust.For most of his career, at least since the publication of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature in 1979, Richard Rorty called his readers' attention to the importance of the poet's work. Indeed, Ulf Schulenberg argues that Rorty's version of pragmatism should be regarded as a poetic...

A literary-historical study of one of the most recurrent motifs in French and Francophone literature – the arrival in Paris – focusing on how it has been employed to explore the idea of Paris as a site of liberation.For centuries, people have attached various dreams to Paris. It is the capital of light, love, intellectualism, fashion, gastronomy, and revolution. Paris is also associated with freedom – whether sexual, social, intellectual, individual, or political. ...

Eric Manuel Rodriguez argues that revolutionary rhetoric operates as insurgent infrastructure rather than symbolic performance.Examining the Young Lords, a revolutionary nationalist organization forged from conditions of colonial displacement, racial capitalism, and urban neglect, this book argues that rhetorical studies requires recalibration to account for rhetoric's material dimensions and its capacity to coordinate collective survival. Through sustained analysi...