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Dearly Departed (An Amy's Travel Mystery #2)
Par Hy Conrad. 2016
Fanny and Amy Abel, the dynamic mother-and-daughter owners of a NYC travel agency, have just booked their biggest trip yet.…
But with danger in the air, the itinerary may include murder... Paisley MacGregor, a maid to the rich, made a dying request to send all of her wealthy employers on a first-class wake to spread her ashes around the world. Amy has her suspicions about these "mourners," especially when one has a life-threatening "accident" at the first stop in Paris. And when a mysterious American stranger tagging along with the group has his ticket punched in the shadow of the Taj Mahal, Amy knows she may have a killer on her tour. Who was this stranger, and what's the connection to someone in her group? Digging for clues while continuing on with the trip is a lot for Amy to manage, especially when another mourner has a possibly fatal encounter with a Hawaiian volcano. Back in the States, Fanny and Amy start to piece together a secret worth killing for, but someone is hot on their trail, and ready to send them on a one-way trip--to the morgue!
A Bitch Named Karma (Karma Kollection #1)
Par Stephanie Haefner. 2010
Karma may be a bitch, but sometimes she knows what she's doing. When author Lexi Marshall's perfectly fabulous life of…
designer clothes, nights on the town with her sexy boyfriend, and a successful writing career literally go up in flames, she must take on Karma and fight to gain control over her life. Lexi believes her cliché-filled novels are the reason for Karma's wrath and after a high calorie pity party, she's determined to rebuild her life to what it once was...that is, until her gynecologist utters a phrase she never expected or wanted to hear: she's pregnant. Unfortunately, the father is her fresh out-of-the-closet best friend and not the new man in her life..74,187 Words
Standing Firm: The Doctrinal Commitments of Moody Bible Institute
Par John A. Jelinek and Bryan O'Neal. 2019
Why We Believe What We BelieveLike most Christian institutions these days, the Moody Bible Institute has a doctrinal statement. Yet…
sometimes we need a little more, because sometimes a paragraph just isn&’t enough—because you want to dig deeper, you want to know why. In Standing Firm, professors from Moody break down, expand, and elucidate the 11 theological topics of Moody&’s doctrinal statement, and why they each matter for you and me. These topics include:Theology ProperGeneral and Special RevelationAuthorityJesusCreation & FallSoteriologyThe ChurchEschatologySign GiftsGender RolesSexuality
The Book of Lost Names
Par Kristin Harmel. 2012
&“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.&” —Kristina McMorris, New…
York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this &“sweeping and magnificent&” (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker&’s Wife.Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it&’s an image of a book she hasn&’t seen in more than sixty years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin&’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don&’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer, but does she have the strength to revisit old memories? As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris and find refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, where she began forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears. An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.
The Warsaw Orphan: A WWII Historical Fiction Novel
Par Kelly Rimmer. 2022
Instant New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!Inspired by the real-life heroine…
who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan is Kelly Rimmer&’s most anticipated novel since her bestselling sensation, The Things We Cannot Say. &“Gripping… This one easily stands on its own.&” —Publishers Weekly&“Heart-stopping.&” – Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author&“A surefire hit.&” – Kristin Harmel, #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorIn the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality--and that it's the reason she must conceal her true identity. But in befriending Sara, a nurse who shares her apartment floor, Elzbieta makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism.Using Sara's credentials to smuggle children out of the ghetto brings Elzbieta face-to-face with the reality of the war behind its walls, and to the plight of the Gorka family, who must make the impossible decision to give up their newborn daughter or watch her starve. For Roman Gorka, this final injustice stirs him to rebellion with a zeal not even his newfound love for Elzbieta can suppress. But his recklessness brings unwanted attention to Sara's cause, unwittingly putting Elzbieta and her family in harm's way until one violent act threatens to destroy their chance at freedom forever. From Nazi occupation to the threat of a communist regime, The Warsaw Orphan is the unforgettable story of Elzbieta and Roman's perilous attempt to reclaim the love and life they once knew.Don&’t miss Kelly Rimmer&’s newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family&’s innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light! For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for: Before I Let You Go The Things We Cannot Say Truths I Never Told You The German Wife The Midnight Estate
Somatic Practice in Yoga Therapy: Explorations of body, movement, mind, and self
Par Jaime Stover Schmitt. 2024
One value of yoga therapy is its ability to bring us to our senses-figuratively and literally. Inner body sensing and…
the knowing it evokes is a large part of how we become aware of what we need to attend to and work on in our growth as individuals. In Spanda (R) Yoga Movement Therapy-the yoga therapy method from which this work arises-embodiment practices are as vital to the process of self-understanding as they are to understanding anatomy, anatomical concepts, and physiological processes. This book shares a host of somatic practices that can readily be used in teaching, therapy, yoga practice and other avenues of personal exploration at the physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. A wealth of illustrated step-by-step directions are given for somatic practice at each koshic level. The practices shared have been in use in clinical yoga therapy, in workshops and in classes for the past thirty years. They've resulted in greater knowledge, insight, and awareness of the body and the wisdom it can reveal.
Somatic Ego State Therapy for Trauma Healing: Whole Again
Par Silvia Zanotta. 2025
This book integrates Ego State Therapy with body-based therapies to present a multidimensional approach to working with clients who have…
experienced trauma.Drawing upon a range of important modalities, including Somatic Experiencing®, Polyvagal theory, Hypnotherapy, and Ego state therapy, Silvia Zanotta lays out a practical view of what it means to navigate the internal and external world in the aftermath of trauma. She provides an up-to-date applications-oriented view that prepares the practitioner to move beyond a one-size fits all treatment formula to meet the complexity of human experience. This approach holds that issues such as resistance, guilt and shame, rejection, and rage should be anticipated as a part of, more than an obstacle to, PTSD treatment. Case vignettes, transcript content, and step-by-step instructions for specific interventions and activities take the content of the chapters from theory to practice. This is a practical, experiential book that will appeal to all professionals working with trauma, including psychotherapists, counsellors, body workers, and social workers.
Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives
Par Stephen W. Porges, Herbert Grassmann, Maurizio Stupiggia. 2025
An innovative collection of research and theory from leading voices in the fields of trauma and somatic therapies. Somatic-Oriented Therapies…
represents a significant consolidation of innovative research and clinical approaches aimed at addressing trauma through various somatic modalities. In the past six decades, a multitude of therapeutic methods have emerged globally, revolutionizing trauma treatment and existential distress management. However, these approaches have often diverged, hindering the development of a cohesive, distinct field independent of traditional paradigms. This volume of collected work from some of the world’s leading experts in trauma aims to delineate this novel domain of research and clinical intervention. It elucidates the common thread linking the contributing authors and introduces a new clinical perspective. Central to this perspective is the recognition of the profound significance of the body-to-body relationship between therapist and patient; the critical role of trust establishment within the clinical context as a prerequisite for deep transformation; and the possibility to “question” the body, finding “unthought-of” avenues of transformation. Contributors include: Michael Allison, Martina Ardizzi, Ken Benau, David Berceli, Sue Carter, Cristiano Crescentini, Francesca Ferroni, Aaron Freedman, Vittorio Gallese, Jeltje Gordon-Lennox, Susan Harper, Molly Boeder Harris, Bach Ho, Steve Hoskinson, Hanneke Kalisvaart, J. David Knottnerus, Jacek Kolacz, Aline La Pierre, Rabih Lahoud, Francois Le Doze, Chairaa Marazzi, Alessio Matiz, Emily Newcomer, Pat Ogden, Antonia Pfeiffer, Betsy Polatin, Alessandra Pollazzon, Robert Schleip, Arielle Schwartz, Raja Selvam, Jane Shaw, Marlysa Sullivan, Jennifer Tantia, Chantal Traub, Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz, Ruby Jo Walker, Jan Winhall, Zabie Yamasaki, and Silvia Zanotta.
Release tension and heal from traumatic experiences with therapist-approved activities in this easy-to-use guide to somatic therapy.Enjoy a great reading…
experience, with a $3 credit back to spend on your next Great on Kindle book when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. The effects of a traumatic event are more than just mental. Trauma can manifest in the body as chronic pain, sluggishness, and even depressed mood. Somatic psychology is an alternative therapy that analyzes this mind-body connection and helps you release pent-up tension and truly heal from past trauma. The Somatic Therapy Workbook offers a primer to this life-changing approach as a means for personal growth, designed for beginners or those already using somatic techniques in their current therapeutic process. Ideal for those suffering from PTSD and other trauma-based afflictions, this safe and approachable look at somatic therapy includes: - journal exercises - body-centered prompts for personal inquiry - movement exercises - real-life experiments Discover a new ability to process and accept your emotions—and an understanding of how to live a somatically-oriented and embodied life.
This insightful workbook introduces you to somatic therapy, an approach that helps release emotional and physical stress that is trapped…
in the body, so you can process your trauma and begin to heal.Heal from trauma and find inner calm using somatic therapy. Trauma lives on in both the mind and the body, and focusing on the body-mind connection is a powerful tool for healing. Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma provides:Evidence-based techniques—Learn what somatic therapy is, how it works, and the key methods.Somatic therapy in practice—Use writing prompts, bodywork, and breathing exercises to regulate the nervous system and bring the mind and body into balance.A sense of calmness—Discover how somatic therapy can help you feel calmer, happier, and more anchored.Release the effects of trauma from your body and mind with somatic therapy by reading this mental health workbook!
Wild Houses: A Novel
Par Colin Barrett. 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE • Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award • One of The Guardian&’s Best Books of the…
Summer and Best Fiction of 2024 • One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024 • Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New York TimesFrom the award-winning writer of Homesickness and Young Skins, a darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and small-town secrets that won&’t stay buried.As Ballina in the west of Ireland prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer Cillian English and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night, he finds Doll—Cillian's bruised, sullen, teenage brother—in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins, goaded by his dead mother's dog, and struck by spinning lights, Dev is unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy.Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has happened to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover, reeling from a fractious Friday night, and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina.The beautifully crafted, thrillingly-told story of two outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in chaos and violence, Wild Houses is the long-anticipated debut novel from award-winning and critically-acclaimed short story writer, Colin Barrett.
Wellbeing, Values and Lifestyles: Towards a New Development Paradigm
Par Sachin Chaturvedi, Sabyasachi Saha, K. Seeta Prabhu. 2025
This open access book with contributions by leading global experts from diverse specialization defines a new development paradigm built on…
Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE). The volume outlines the contours of LiFE across five facets namely ethics and value system; sustainable consumption and production; modalities of systemic transformation; financing for resilient infrastructure, cities and societies; and wellbeing measurement going beyond GDP. The book prepared as part of the Think 20 (T20) India Task Force 3 on “LiFE, Resilience and Values for Wellbeing” presents deep insights on socio-economic transformation and ecological balance from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It highlights the importance of normative frameworks in economic thinking, equitable access to finance and technology, role of social enterprises, and imperatives for measuring wellbeing. The book is a must-have resource for political leadership, legislators, policy makers, diplomats, and international organizations in addition to the academic community.
Chinese Maritime Cases: Selection for Year of 2018 (Volume 3) (Chinese Maritime Cases Series)
Par Martin Davies, Jiang Lin. 2025
China (the Mainland of PRC) trades with other states in trillions of USD every year, and about 95% of the…
cargoes are carried by ocean-going ships calling at hundreds of Chinese ports each singe day. Due to the enormous trade volume and shipping activities, foreign ships, companies and professionals are often caught in the Chinese maritime law and court. The foreign parties involved in Chinese litigation or dispute resolution and their lawyers are more and more enthusiastic to study Chinese maritime cases in order to deal with their own cases properly or, if possible, predicate the potential risks and avoid the disputes outright. However, to date, no Chinese series casebook has ever been published. Now, for the first time, the authors offer this series casebook of delicately selected Chinese maritime judgments. Each year, the book selects a number of leading, innovative and influential Chinese maritime judgments and presents full English translation of them, together with summary, to the readers so that they can have insights of how the Chinese maritime judges interpret, apply and develop Chinese maritime law in practice. The book will benefit the worldwide students, academics, practitioners and industrial people who may be engaged in international trade, shipping, insurance and other transactions concerning China. The book will also indemnify to certain extent the situation that there is lack of authoritative sources available to foreign personnel to look into how Chinese justice system functions and grows in real life.
Chinese Maritime Cases: Selection for Year of 2018 (Volume 1) (Chinese Maritime Cases Series)
Par Martin Davies, Jiang Lin. 2025
China (the Mainland of PRC) trades with other states in trillions of USD every year, and about 95% of the…
cargoes are carried by ocean-going ships calling at hundreds of Chinese ports each singe day. Due to the enormous trade volume and shipping activities, foreign ships, companies and professionals are often caught in the Chinese maritime law and court. The foreign parties involved in Chinese litigation or dispute resolution and their lawyers are more and more enthusiastic to study Chinese maritime cases in order to deal with their own cases properly or, if possible, predicate the potential risks and avoid the disputes outright. However, to date, no Chinese series casebook has ever been published. Now, for the first time, the authors offer this series casebook of delicately selected Chinese maritime judgments. Each year, the book selects a number of leading, innovative and influential Chinese maritime judgments and presents full English translation of them, together with summary, to the readers so that they can have insights of how the Chinese maritime judges interpret, apply and develop Chinese maritime law in practice. The book will benefit the worldwide students, academics, practitioners and industrial people who may be engaged in international trade, shipping, insurance and other transactions concerning China. The book will also indemnify to certain extent the situation that there is lack of authoritative sources available to foreign personnel to look into how Chinese justice system functions and grows in real life.
Building Generative AI Agents: Using LangGraph, AutoGen, and CrewAI
Par Tom Taulli, Gaurav Deshmukh. 2025
The dawn of AI agents is upon us. Tech visionaries like Bill Gates, Andrew Ng, and Vinod Khosla have highlighted…
the monumental potential of this powerful technology. This book will provide the knowledge and tools necessary to build generative AI agents using the most popular frameworks, such as AutoGen, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, and Haystack. Recent breakthroughs in large language models have opened up unprecedented possibilities. After years of gradual progress in machine learning and deep learning, we are now witnessing novel approaches capable of understanding, reasoning, and generating content in ways that promise to revolutionize nearly every industry. This platform shift is as significant as the advent of mainframes, PCs, cloud computing, mobile technology, and social media. It’s why the world’s largest technology companies – like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Meta – are making enormous investments in this category. While chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have demonstrated remarkable potential, the years ahead will see the rise of generative AI agents capable of executing complex tasks on behalf of users. These agents already exhibit capabilities such as running test suites, searching the web for documentation, writing software, answering questions based on vast organized information, and performing intricate web-based tasks across multiple domains. They can autonomously investigate cybersecurity incidents and address complex customer support needs. By integrating skills, knowledge bases, planning frameworks, memory, and feedback loops, these systems can handle many tasks and improve over time. Building Generative AI Agents serves as a high-quality guide for developers to understand when and where AI agents can be useful, their advantages and disadvantages, and practical advice on designing, building, deploying, and monitoring them. What You Will Learn The foundational concepts, capabilities, and potential of AI agents. Recent innovations in large language models that have enabled the development of AI agents. How to build AI agents for launching a product, creating a financial plan, handling customer service, and using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Essential frameworks for building generative AI agents, including AutoGen, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, and Haystack. Step-by-step guidance on designing, building, and deploying AI agents. Insights into the future of AI agents and their potential impact on various industries. Who This Book Is For Experienced software developers
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2025, held…
in Delphi, Greece in June 2025. The 24 full papers and 4 brief announcements included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 57 submissions. They focus on innovative methodological and solution approaches in structural knowledge, communication, and computing in decentralized systems of multiple comunicating entities.
The Hard Edge of Soft Power: Mega-Events, Geopolitics, and Making Nations Great Again (Mega Event Planning)
Par Sven Daniel Wolfe. 2025
This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic…
dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and societies through notions of unity and greatness, but also investigates local developments beneath the Potemkin surface of the global spectacle. Drawing on a global range of case studies from Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia, this volume features the sensitivity of grounded local research framed within geopolitical perspectives. Together, they present an international and transdisciplinary understanding of the local and global political implications of hosting mega-events. The volume reveals what hides under the mega-event spectacle: problems that – regardless of national context – most often occur to the detriment of host populations. This is an open access book.
Internalist Virtue Epistemology: A Stoic Model
Par Benjamin W. McCraw. 2025
This monograph works at the intersection of two of the most popular and growing fields in epistemology: epistemic normativity or…
value and virtue epistemology. By challenging two hitherto un- or under-explored sets of assumptions—epistemological orthodoxies—operative in those fields and, by rejecting them, the book develops novel approaches to current theories of epistemic value and virtue. The book argues that what is needed is an internalist (i.e. non-externalist) mode of epistemic virtue. To accomplish this, it draws on Stoic moral theory, whereby the deployment of virtue—no matter whether one has any &‘external&’ success—suffices for completely successful action.
The German-Soviet War: Combat, Occupation, and Legacies
Par Jeff Rutherford, Robert Von Maier. 2025
The German-Soviet War revises the conflict's generally accepted understanding through case studies, demonstrating the complexity of the war at the…
local level. The contributors assembled by Jeff Rutherford and Robert von Maier examine the multiplicity of experiences of individuals caught in this savage war, starting with the German war of annihilation launched against Soviet state and society in June 1941. This detailed collection shows that the particular nature of the war in the east resulted from an intertwining of military, ideological, and economic motives. The German-Soviet War puts Germany's murderous policies toward Soviet Jews and prisoners of war, and the justification for these policies and actions within the ranks of the army, into the larger context of battlefield events. The neglected topic of the destructive German scorched-earth retreats receives detailed analysis, demonstrating the importance of ideology and economic thinking in the German army's war. The difficulty in reconciling economic and ideological considerations also played a prominent role in Soviet attempts to rebuild after the war. The German-Soviet War not only brings attention to these devastating events but also revises the general narrative of the war. By internationalizing the conflict through examinations into the various Axis and Allied nations and peoples who participated in the fighting, this volume provides new ways of conceptualizing their motivations, actions, and importance in its eventual outcome. Together, the contributions to The German-Soviet War provide new ways of examining the defining conflict of the Second World War.
Q Methodology and Education (Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment)
Par Diane Montgomery, Steven R. Brown. 2025
This book introduces Q methodology, a method developed nearly a century ago and now recognized as a comprehensive approach for…
studying subjectivity in the human sciences. The text situates Q methodology historically and delves into its philosophical and technical aspects in relation to educational philosophy, both at collective and individual levels. It showcases Q methodology's relevance and value across numerous educational domains, including counsellor education, cultural foundations, instructional technology, leadership studies, education policy, teaching practices, educational psychology, assessment, measurement, and child studies. It further speculates on Q methodology's future in education research and offers insights for research across various educational fields. With contributions from diverse applications authored by international educational scholars, this edited volume offers a sophisticated introduction to Q methodology in education. It is applicable to the work of researchers across quantitative and qualitative disciplines in education.