"Alex has a truly unbelievable story: this is a wild journey to motherhood, filled with hard-won insights into how society can help families struggling with infertility." - Gillian Deacon, host of CBC's Here and NowFifteen years ago, when Alex first started trying—and struggling—to get pregnant, she received outdated medical information and erroneous advice. Unfortunately, this incorrect information is still widely offered to women today, and barriers to accessing ...

Do you want to use your wealth for good? The world is on fire with financial, social, and political challenges. Philanthropy has an important role to play, yet many donors give without lasting impact—or remain on the sidelines.In Money with Meaning: How to Create Joy and Impact through Philanthropy, Alex Johnston empowers you to maximize your impact and your joy as a donor. Through four key concepts—Getting Visionary, Getting Real, Getting Together, and Getting Better—Alex offers a ...

They had settled a bloody score and put the turncoat McAfferty to rest in the snowbound Rockies. Slowly, painfully, the wounded Paddock and Scratch found their way back to the Crow village, where they were welcomed as brother and son. The people of Chief Arapooesh offered rest, healing, and home to the mountain men.Then a misunderstanding over a beautiful Crow woman drove the friends apart, propelling Scratch into the unforgiving wilderness on a lonely, dangerous quest. Paddock, to...

Action, Adrenalin, AbenteuerNach dem Tod seines Onkels Ian wird der vierzehnjährige Alex vom MI6 rekrutiert. Innerhalb nur weniger Tage wird so aus einem einfachen Schuljungen der Top-Agent Alex Rider. In einer ersten Mission soll er als "Praktikant" die Organisation des obskuren Mulitmilliardärs Darrius Sayle infiltrieren. Und es schaut fast so aus, als wäre sein erster Einsatz auch sein letzter.Die unvergesslichen Abenteuer von Alex Rider als Graphi...

Ever found yourself being fascinated by the idea of being able to hack into any system? While modern culture has pushed hacking to a screen-based villainous role that can do miracles, there is much more to hacking that remains untold. Hardly anyone feels it necessary to mention how hacking can be an illustrious career option. Similarly, the ease with which cyberatta...

Learning the Python programming language is not difficult; it is one of the easiest of all the programming languages to learn. By working through my in-depth yet straightforward guide, you, too will master Python and start putting your knowledge to good use.There are plenty of Python programming books for beginners, so why should you purchase mine? I’ll tell you why – many of today’s guides are too complex, and they don’t follow a ...

Sixteen-year-old Titus Bass fears one fate more than any other: never to experience the great wilderness or the wildness inside himself. So late one night he snatches a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, flees into the woods, and doesn’t look back.From Louisville past the Chickasaw bluffs and the Natchez Trace all the way to New Orleans, he plunges into the rough-and-tumble life along the banks of the Mississippi. It is a volatile, violent country of boatmen a...

In Buffalo Palace, the young Titus Bass sights and then sets out into the vast Rocky Mountain country.This is where he has his initial experiences with trapping beaver, surviving the freezing winter, fighting fierce Indians and even fiercer fellow mountain men, and celebrating at the hard-earned summer rendezvous. Most memorably, we walk with Titus as he first sees the immense herd which originally fueled his wanderlust and which now feeds, clothes, and ho...

Carry the Wind is a gripping historical saga set in the Old West during a time when the horizon never ended and a nation was being born.Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis in 1831, didn’t have much hope of survival. Winter was coming to the Rocky Mountains, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn’t kill him, grizzlies or Indians would. Then his luck turned. He stumbled across the trail of Ol’ Scratch, a solitary mounta...

In "Lion and Dragon in Northern China," Reginald Fleming Sir Johnston offers a profound exploration of the cultural and political landscape of early 20th-century China. Characterized by eloquent prose and rich descriptive narratives, the book captures the intricacies of local customs, geopolitical tensions, and the impact of colonialism on Northern China's indigenous populations. Johnston's keen observations and vivid accounts illuminate the dynamics between the Western powers and the resi...

High in the Rockies lay the Bayou Salade, a lush beaver–rich valley so untouched that the few white men who had seen it called it paradise. But for Scratch Bass, his young partner Josiah Paddock, and the two Indian women they loved, this paradise would open up a hell of violence. Pursued by a vengeful Arapaho raiding party, Scratch will lead his small band through a flurry of arrows all the way to Taos itself. Yet the trail of blood will not end there. For in St. Louis an old enemy waits, ...

Ever found yourself being fascinated by the idea of being able to hack into any system? While modern culture has pushed hacking to a screen-based villainous role that can do miracles, there is much more to hacking that remains untold. Hardly anyone feels it necessary to mention how hacking can be an illustrious career option. Similarly, the ease with which cyberattacks can be diverted often remains untold. Luckily for you, we're here to tell you all about it in a quick and simple guide tha...