Fourteen Months in Thao Dien documents the author’s first fourteen months living in the Thao Dien district of Saigon, Vietnam, weaving street and travel photography into a unified visual narrative.The street section lingers within the neighborhood, observing daily life with patience and proximity—capturing gestures, quiet routines, shifting light, and the subtle textures of place. The travel section extends beyond Thao Dien to other regions of Vietnam, tracing movement, co...

What if the most important changes in our world didn’t arrive with noise —but with comfort?Mile Marker 2026 is not a book about technology.It is a book about attention.Written as a quiet reflection rather than a warning, this work pauses at a single moment in time — a point on the road where humanity has gained extraordinary tools while slowly surrendering effort, responsibility, and presence without fully noticing the trade.Moving through visible wo...

This book connects teaching practical strategies and ideas with educational theories to give you techniques to use in the classroom to capture students' attention and engage them with instruction.Drawing on the literatures of adult education and of teaching skills, Engaging Diverse Learners: Teaching Strategies for Academic Librarians presents a wide range of methods to improve how you teach. Coauthors Mark Aaron Polger and Scott Sheidlower argue that in o...

Whether trying to land that first big gig or working to perfect the necessary skills to fill a game world with sound, Aaron Marks’ Complete Guide to Game Audio 3rd edition will teach the reader everything they need to know about the audio side of the multi-million dollar video game industry.This book builds upon the success of the second edition with even more expert advice from masters in the field and notes current changes within the growing video game industry. ...

This audible contains three complete books. His Secret #1 Her Secret #2 Secret Enemy #3 bundled together to complete The Secret Series.Julia: I don’t know what to expect alone at this isolated manor. I’m a nanny for a ten-year-old little girl. Her father is gone. I’m not sure he even exists. Things don’t seem right. There are strange calls, and I hang up. Then, one dark, stormy night, he enters my life. I watch his strange behavio...

This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.The approach of this book is in direct contrast with those that either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality threatening democratic society and thus requiring certain sorts of response, or argue, equally simplistically, that the invocation of terror is merely the ideological veil for continued capitalist exploitation. While closer in spirit to the se...

Discover how your greatest trials are the key to your greatest opportunities."Life's not fair!" You've heard it a million times--and probably said it yourself. But what if your greatest difficulties were stepping stones to a greater destiny? What if seasons of unbearable pain turned out to be pathways to unbelievable purpose?In The Unfair Advantage, pastor Aaron Burke takes a closer look at the seven unfair seasons Joseph endures i...

Read by the author.Discover how your greatest trials are the key to your greatest opportunities."Life's not fair!" You've heard it a million times--and probably said it yourself. But what if your greatest difficulties were stepping stones to a greater destiny? What if seasons of unbearable pain turned out to be pathways to unbelievable purpose?In The Unfair Advantage, pastor Aaron Burke takes a closer look ...

An innovative anthology of pieces that have either won or been considered for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award on the occasion of the award's fiftieth anniversary.The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford's Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is given annually to an American writer, preferably early in his or her career, whose fiction is considered signifi...

In the annals of Canadian history, the construction of the transcontinental railway stands as a monumental achievement. "Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders" by Oscar D. Skelton chronicles this epic endeavor, capturing the spirit of innovation, determination, and sacrifice that shaped a nation. From the visionaries who conceived the project to the laborers who toiled tirelessly, Skelton paints a vivid portrait of the challenges and triumphs that marked this transformative...

There are monsters in this world. And they used to be us. Now it's time to euthanize to survive in a hospice where Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible.Post-infection Chicago. Christmas.Inside The Hospice, Emily and her fellow nurses do their rounds. Here, men and women live out their final days in comfort, segregated from society, and are then humanely terminated before fate turns them into ma...

There are monsters in this world. And they used to be us. Now it's time to euthanize, to survive in a hospice where Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible.Post-infection Chicago. Christmas. Inside The Hospice, Emily and her fellow nurses do their rounds. Here, men and women live out their final days in comfort, segregated from society, and are then humanely terminated before fate turns them into marrow-craving monsters known as ...