What if you could walk into any room and instantly become the most interesting person there?101 Facts to Make You the Most Interesting Person in the Room gives you the edge in every conversation. Packed with fascinating, surprising, and conversation-ready facts, this book equips you with the kind of knowledge that captures attention, sparks curiosity, and keeps people engaged.From mind-blowing science and little-known history to intriguing insights about human beha...

Discover how something as natural and straightforward as sunlight can dramatically improve your health and well-being. This book explores the science behind the sun's role in promoting physical, mental, and emotional health. From boosting vitamin D production to enhancing mood, regulating sleep, and strengthening the immune system, sunlight is a powerful and accessible tool for living a healthier life.Ten engaging chapters will teach you about sunlight's impact on bone strength, sk...

He was unbeatable, but he never had to fight for his life...Caige is a young and powerful martial artist who dreams of following in the heroic footsteps of his father. Upon discovering the imminent return of the creatures his father fought so hard to destroy, he has no other choice but to rise up, and find a way to save his hometown from the oncoming horde. As impossible events unfold, Caige finds himself making unlikely allies, and enemies, forcing him to look at the world in a ne...

In Wing Chun Kung-fu Volume 3: Weapons & Advanced Techniques, the final Wing Chun book in this Chinese martial arts series, author Dr. Joseph Wayne Smith applies dynamic scientific methodology to Wing Chun training tools and weapons, providing a complete analysis of why and how each item is used. The reader is led step-by-step through the use of the Wing Chun Wooden-Dummy—a valuable training tool for developing trapping, striking, and kicking skills; the Wing Chun Butterfly Knives...

Not simply a training manual but a combat survival guide, Fighting and Grappling is a challenging book for all students of the martial arts.In this second volume of Wing Chune Kung-Fu: A Complete Guide, the techniques introduced in Basic Forms and Principles are shown in combat situations. The combat applications of Wing Chun's sticky-hand, sticky-leg, and grappling and throwing techniques are shown in detail and are fully illustrated.

Lightnin is on a mission of the heart. For ten years he has been relentlessly tracking the killer of his father and step father. His young half sister has also been kidnapped by the killer. All this happened ten years before at their family homestead on a branch of the Cimeron in New Mexico Territory. Lightnin joined the U. S. Marshalls service and while working under cover headed west in pursuit of justice and the killer. Along the way he met and befriended a rancher named John Delong and...

"The Verdict of History: From Antiquity to 2020" is divided into two sections. Part one embraces the history of humanity, and the author has tried to see the present in the light of the past. There was an attempt to examine what history has to say about the prospects for our human race. Part two is a timeline of human events. There was an effort to give different epochs a context, and make connections with the patterns of human behavior. Early humans have adapted to the Earth's changing co...

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that anxiety and depression are caused by incorrect thinking and the negative beliefs we hold about ourselves. Humans are not very good at interpreting situations in a positive way. Our brains are quick to impose some kind of meaning on events that leave us feeling bad. The first half of this book is about how CBT works. When we have irrational or negative beliefs, we start to tell ourselves stories that make us feel unhappy and anxious...

To wage the war in Vietnam, Johnson and Nixon turned the White House into a nest of criminal conspiracies. The war was the precondition for Johnson's not running for reelection and Nixon's ignominious resignation. The war was a good fit for their tyrannical tendencies, which were eventually rolled back because they overreached the limits of their power. The antiwar insurgency that brought America to its senses was so sweeping a challenge to authority as to reverberate for decades. A war th...

‘Powerful… Intense and unforgettable' MAX PORTER‘I’m blown away… An astonishing work' AMY KEY‘Amazing… Truly a feat' RAYMOND ANTROBUS‘Devastating, sharp with skilfully wrought language, this book is an ambitious leap into a lyricism that dissembles’ Guardian--A transfixing, heart-rending work which follows a mother and her young son living under the shadow of an all-co...

Ghost Stories features twenty-four short tales by twenty-three new international writers that are sure to make you laugh, cry, and send tingles down your spine.This anthology has something for everyone that entertains the idea that ghosts have unfinished business with the living.

A major study on the theology of Beloved Community.This long-awaited work by the church's top clergy, scholars, and thought leaders examines the theological foundation of Beloved Community and its threats. It addresses such important topics as the legacy and sin of white supremacy, economic disparity, racial healing, and the call for reparations. The committee's work sheds light on the societal and cultural implications of the largest obstacle to the core mission o...