Have you planned for the life that comes after the success you worked so hard to build?By mid-life, many people have already reached the version of success they once imagined.The house. The career. The family. The savings. The independence.But what happens next?How to Be a Successful Ninety-Year-Old is not a book about getting older as much as it is a book about preparing to live well for as long as life allows. Marguerite Lorenz, a Professional Trustee and ...

Luck or Control is a practical and deeply personal guide to understanding estate planning as more than paperwork. Marguerite Lorenz shows that an estate plan is not just about money, death, taxes, or legal documents. It is about love, dignity, preparation, and making sure the people you care about are not left guessing when you can no longer speak for yourself.If your wishes are not written down in a meaningful legal way, you are relying on luck. If your preferences, people, assets...

Mois�s lives with his father and sister in a Brazilian village dominated by the local monastery. His mother having died mysteriously, Mois�s is raised by his sister Luzia, a young woman rumored to be a witch and despised by the villagers. Luzia seeks protection from the monastery, where she gets a job as a laundress and where Mois�s receives an education. In time, something triggers her brother to rebel and run away from home. Luzia finds herself wholly alone, fighting for the family's lan...

**Researcher and lecturer Carl Lorenz Cervantes explores the timeless wisdom, ancestral worldviews, and spiritual tools of Filipino psychology and culture—and offers Indigenous ways of knowing for all readers, Filipino and non-Filipino alike.Drawing from folklore, language, ethnography, and personal story, Sikodiwa is a mind-opening exploration for readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and Fresh Banana Leaves**Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggal...

What if the future of humanity wasn’t driven by Silicon Valley’s vision?At the edge of its dissolution, European humanism faces profound challenges as AI, biotechnology and posthuman theory reshape what it means to be human. The classical ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty — once the moral and aesthetic compass of the European tradition — are being twisted.This book introduces the reader to Euro-Transhumanism—a distinctive, philosophically rich alternative to the individ...

THIS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER DARK PSYCHOLOGY PLAYBOOK.THIS IS THE ULTIMATE MASTER COLLECTION.8 BOOKS IN 1 - MORE THAN 20 HOURSWhat if the people around you were influencing you… without you even realizing it?Most manipulation does not look like manipulation.It looks like charm.Confidence.Attention.Seduction.Authority.Trust.And by the time you re...

Dr. Victor Harlan spent his entire career trying to conquer death.A world-renowned regenerative biologist, Victor believes every human problem can be solved with enough intelligence, technology, and determination. But when a horrific car accident leaves his wife Emily dead and mutilated beyond recognition, science becomes something far more dangerous: obsession.Unable to accept her loss, Victor secretly steals Emily's body before burial and hides it in the underground labor...

In the shadowed alleys of Los Angeles, the homeless are dying in ways no one can explain.They are found posed as if in prayer, eyes open to the sky, faces frozen in expressions of pure peace. No signs of struggle. No drugs in their systems. Only a faint, glowing spiral mark on their foreheads that disappears by morning.Journalist Jordan Hale has seen too much of the city's darkness. When his own brother becomes one of the victims, Jordan refuses to accept the official story...

The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Fortified borders to prevent citizens from leaving emerged first in the interwar USSR and then in socialist post-WW II Europe. Fortifications occurred both at borders between socialist states and at their external boundaries to the non-socialist world, but not in all cases. The most well-known case – the Berlin Wall – was both an extreme example as well as a latecomer. But since 1947, Y...

Arts and Cultural Sponsorship connects the cultural engagement of companies with strategic corporate and marketing communication. It is based on external cooperation with cultural institutions and internal collaboration with various communication departments within the company. The aim of this book is to present the full range of diverse applications of cultural sponsorship as a component of integrated communication. The systematic presentation of the individual steps for developing a spon...

Ontographies proposes a radical shift, moving beyond the crisis of representation by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspective for understanding our media-saturated world.In light of recent media developments in algorithmic, digital and picture-based mediaspheres, we must accept that received models of representation (in politics, in the realm of signs, in philosophies of consciousness) have long since collapsed. Nothing stands for anything ...

Darkly hilarious, wildly bizarre, and completely unpredictable, this novel plunges readers into a twisted world where crime, chaos, and absurdity collide.At the center of the story are three very different brothers whose lives are entangled in ways none of them fully understand. One is an FBI agent obsessed with bringing his criminal sibling to justice. Another thrives in a dangerous underground world filled with secrets and shady dealings. The third, naïve and often bewildered, fi...