An opthalmologist’s guide to everything from lutein to Lasik: “Valuable tips, unique insights. . .Dr. Abel is a healer for the 21st century.”—from the Foreword by Mehmet Oz, M.D.Is it true that Alzheimer's can be predicted through the eye?Sleep apnea can cause blindness?Computers and texting are creating an epidemic of nearsightedness?Retina chips and stem cell therapy offer promise for macular degeneration patients?Your prescription drugs can give you cataracts. ....

Seven Brothers. Seven Brides. A revenge seven years in the making.Eight years ago, my family was betrayed by those closest to us. Now we’re back in Sabine Valley, staging our return during the feast of Lammas, where I step into the ring and ensure we’re given what we’re owed. Who we’re owed.Our enemies send their seven best warriors against me. With each victory, I win a Bride for each of my brothers. And for me? I’m saving the best for last. My Bride is Ha...

DHA is an essential building block of the membranes of brain cells and indeed each and every cell membrane in the body gains strength and flexibility from this omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid. DHA has been shown to deactivate the enzymes that destroy cartilage and is therefore useful as protection against arthritis. This book shows how to use DHA to help counteract the negative effects of refined sugar and flour, saturated fats and oils, alcohol and pollutants.

Ghost Traps is a collection of twelve stories about characters who are on the edge and under duress, individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires.In the title story, Harper learns to fish from a man whose son is “catching hell” in the Korean War. When the son returns, he begins stealing lobsters from Harper’s traps, and Harper, out of a sense of obligation and guilt, teaches him to fish, vainly...

"Sabine Valley is the wicked, tangled, horny world of my heart, and I devoured Abel in one sitting! Raw, sexy, queer, and polyamorous AF, this is for anyone who loves their HEAs charged with lust power, and revenge. In fact, I'm ready to pack my bags and move to Sabine Valley right the heck now." -- USA Today bestselling author Sierra SimoneSeven Brothers. Seven Brides. A revenge seven years in the making.Eight years ago, my family was betrayed by ...

A Useless Book is a laugh-out-loud rhyming picture book for kids who love silliness, randomness, and a bit of mischief. It pretends to have zero educational value - proudly claiming to teach nothing at all - yet sneaks in real facts about animals, numbers, and the world around us. With Seuss-style humor and playful rhymes, it's the perfect gift for curious minds who learn best when they're laughing.Made-up reviews (for fun): -

This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of language content or social conditions alone. Judgments rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental dimension to them. Judgments are related to ...

Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on work—and for planned anthologies...

The Story Summary: When a unique North Korean formula falls into the hands of a rogue German industrialist, a strange chain of events begins to unfold. Gerhardt Kruger wants to see Germany return to its rightful place in the world. This fast-paced international thriller will involve two governments and a unique plot that could change the course of history. The rates of cataract triple in the Washington metropolitan area, and bizarre votes are made in the Senate Armed Services Committee. Th...

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they have created inviting classrooms; established friendly educational experiences both within and beyond the classroom; engaged faculty and enhanced the teaching experience; and developed instrumen...

Au cours de l'année 1996-97, l'École des Sciences philosophiques et religieuses a organisé une conférence et une journée d'études axées sur ce couple de notions qui condensent nombre de questions fondamentales de notre temps. Les profondes tribulations de notre époque semblent bien liées au déclin des références absolues et des idéologies sûres d'elles-mêmes et monolithiques. Mais au désenchantement moral et au désarroi de la pensée que redoublent les incertitudes économiques et politiques...

EN POLITIQUE, TOUT EST BIOLOGIQUE.Pourquoi les débats s'enveniment-ils ? Pourquoi les camps se radicalisent-ils ? Pourquoi suivons-nous des leaders autoritaires quand nous prétendons défendre la raison et la liberté ? Parce que le moteur de la politique, en deçà des programmes, des partis et des institutions, est l'évolution de notre espèce.Selon Pascal Boyer, anthropologue et spécialiste des sciences cognitives, l'évolution biologique explique en effet les ...