This book is a concise and faithful summary of Scott M. O’Neil’s Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving, a personal development and leadership guide that emphasizes mindfulness, presence, and intentional living. It shares practical principles drawn from the author’s experiences in sports and business leadership, showing how staying focused on the present moment improves performance, relationships, and emotional balance.The summary highl...

This book is a concise and faithful summary of Michael A. Singer’s The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection, a memoir that explores the author’s decision to let go of personal resistance and allow life to unfold without constant control or interference.It describes how surrendering to circumstances—rather than forcing outcomes—led him through unexpected opportunities, including building a business, working in healthcare systems, and engaging in spiritual practice...

This book is a concise and faithful summary of Tori Dunlap’s Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsht to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love*, a personal finance guide that combines money management with discussions on gender, inequality, and empowerment. It explains how cultural and systemic factors have historically influenced women’s financial independence and encourages readers to take control of their finances through budgeting, saving, investing, and negotiating ...

A quiet lakeside town in the Adirondacks is ripped open when a young coed, Dana Shelly, is kidnapped from her stepmother's lakefront home. Her adoptive mother, Tara Kaneko, a high-end internet security specialist, and close friend and neighbor, Denny Corning, scramble to find her while confronting an extortion plot that entangles them in a financial heist and a shocking murder of a local ski bum.

MacOS is unquestionably the best operating system available. it's innovative, beautiful, and extremely efficient at getting things done. However, it is feature-rich and can be a little overwhelming if you have never used it.It's not difficult to learn, but for many people there is a small learning curve. This is where this guide comes in handy! If you want to learn how to use MacOS's Monterey most powerful features, this guide will walk you through the process.I dedicated t...

A 1967 refinery explosion outside of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plants the seed for a covert plan that threatens the town of La Salle, Louisiana, a small farming town north of Baton Rouge.Forty years later, a late night phone call sends Arizona civil engineer Daniel Hartwick on a business trip to La Salle. Sabotage threaten to flood La Salle, which sits in the shadow of the massive Mississippi River levee. There he joins up with two colleagues from Kansas City, his friend Yanus Fauton...

A young runner from Mexico, Cara Montero, is shot on a Phoenix canal path on an early June morning. Daniel Hartwick, walking nearby, narrowly escapes injury. Daniel's attempt to help Cara draw him into a dangerous spy ring operating in his upscale Phoenix neighborhood. An escalating chain of break‑ins, shootings, kidnappings, and hidden tunnels, drag Daniel into Cara's secretive world, exposing a deadly conspiracy to smuggle critical data among foreign operatives, leaving him trapped in th...

The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's March 2010 remake of Alice in WonderlandAlice?s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as blue caterpillars who smoke hookahs, cats whose grins remain after their heads have faded away, and a White Queen who lives backwards and remembers forwards? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under ...

Take a magic carpet ride through Disney’s wonderful world of films and entertainment experiences, and discover the wisdom within its most popular and enduring storiesPhilosophy begins in wonder, and there’s no question that Disney’s immersive worlds and iconic characters have enchanted generations of children and adults alike, inviting us to escape the mundane into a world of fantasy, imagination, and infinite possibility. In Disney and Philosophy...

Philosophy and Christianity make truth claims about many of the same things. They both claim to provide answers to the deep questions of life. But how are they related to one another? And are they always in conflict?Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy introduces readers to four predominant views on the relationship between philosophy and the Christian faith and their implications for life. Each author identifies the propositional relation between phi...

This book brings together scholars to unpack the religious ideas, themes, motifs, texts, traditions, and practices that suffuse anime. Immensely popular with Western audiences since the 1980s, anime continues to be a prominent medium through which contemporary people, especially younger generations, are engaging ideas about God or ultimate reality, the world, and the self. This volume brings an academic lens to anime and shows the central role that religion plays in the intellectual and vi...

The three-volume set LNCS 13980, 13981 and 13982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 45th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2023, held in Dublin, Ireland, during April 2-6, 2023.The 65 full papers, 41 short papers, 19 demonstration papers, and 12 reproducibility papers, 10 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 489 submissions. The accepted papers cover the state of the art in information retrieval focusing on user aspects, system and fo...