Death Defied, Life Defined is the true story of Paul E. Perkins, a heart and kidney organ recipient who died at least two medically confirmed times, yet lived to tell his fascinating tale.What does it feel like to die?Paul Perkins expected the final breaths of his life to feel different. Prior to a long-term illness that led to his double organ transplant, Paul didn’t want to waste his life obsessing over his death.However, there were some after-life things he wonde...

Katherine Shaw. Rich girl? Check. Spoiled and obstinate? Check. A sexy fireball who pushes every button ex-SEAL Jason Garrett has? That was not listed on the dossier he received when he was assigned as one of her bodyguards. The last thing he ever expected was that his tempting client would prove to be more sinful and dangerous than those he’s protecting her from. It’s been five years since a family tragedy tilted her world off its axis, and Katherine Shaw still relives the nightmares of t...

Drawing on detailed qualitative research, this timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities for young children.The authors examine what prompts these arrangements, how fathers adjust to their caregiving roles over time, and what challenges they face along the way.The book asks what would encourage more fathers to become primary or equal caregivers, and how we can make things easier for those who do. Offering new academi...

Practical Tips and Real-World Solutions for Administering Microsoft Intune.Key Features● Acquire hands-on expertise in device enrollment and management.● Develop robust security and compliance strategies with Intune.● Gain insights into application deployment, monitoring, and reporting.Book DescriptionUltimate Microsoft Intune for Administrators is the resource for mastering Microsoft Intune and its full suite of features. No matter what device platform you manage, whether configuring secu...

This Element explores approaches to locating and examining social identity in corpora with and without the aid of demographic metadata. This is a key concern in corpus-aided studies of language and identity, and this Element sets out to explore the main challenges and affordances associated with either approach and to discern what either approach can (and cannot) show. It describes two case studies which each compare two approaches to social identity variables – sex and age – in a corpus o...

Brought to you by Penguin.War Dragons. Fearsome Raiders. A Daemonic Warlord on the Rise.When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep's warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a d...

In "The Invisible Lodge," Jean Paul crafts a rich narrative that blends elements of fantasy and philosophical reflection, encapsulated within his signature whimsical and satirical prose. This work, published in the early 19th century, explores themes of imagination, the nature of reality, and the intricate interplay between the self and society. With its elaborate metaphors and playful language, the novel invites readers into a surreal world where the boundaries of perception blur, mirrori...

Seven radio dramas from one of the defining playwrights of his generation, starring Martin Freeman, Ruth Wilson, Robert Glenister, Frances Barber and David SchofieldAcclaimed by The Observer as ‘a poet of the east end overspill’, David Eldridge ranks among Britain’s most exciting contemporary dramatists. His plays have been performed in the West End and on Broadway, and he has twice won the Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best New Play (for Festen ...

The November/December 2016 issue of the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli, Navah Wolfe, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Keidra Chaney, and Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), poetry by Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, and Sofia Samatar, interviews with Jennifer Marie Brissett and ...

A team of lawyers uses a little-known legal writ to fight and overturn the conviction of Fred Korematsu, unjustly sentenced for resisting the WWII mass incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The play draws much inspiration from Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and his Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai (University of Washington Press 2015) and Justice Delayed by Peter Irons (Wesleyan University Press 1989).Includes a conversation with playwright Jeanne S...

Written by a team of business and fi nance experts, Starting & Running a Business All-In-One For Dummies is a complete guide to every aspect of setting up and growing a successful business. Featuring straight-talking advice on everything from business planning and marketing, managing staff and dealing with legal issues, to bookkeeping and taking care of tax obligations, this book is your one-stop guide to turning your business plans into profit.

Heres a little info about my book. I have always been a dreamer, and it was usually that my imagination was the greatest while working and fishing. In my childhood days, things that I saw would get my attention so easily. And as always, they would give me ideas to further my imagination. As I carried on through my working years, some things in nature and places that I had been had gotten my attention, and they brought out ideas. And one day . . . it all came together. I started seeing thes...