Discover the ways you have been inadvertently communicating negative, positive, neutral, or mixed messages with the simple body movements you habitually make without even thinking about it. Know when someone is lying to you!Do you ever feel that someone's gestures are telling you something different than the words they are saying? Has a cashier asked you how you are without glancing up from the items he or she is scanning? Have you ever felt that the firmness of yo...

Continuing the saga of the refugees from Atlantis, Poseidon's Child brings us to the modern era where the line of the Daughters is in grave peril.When Aria, the heir apparent to the Atlantean throne, is murdered, her daughter Kirin must flee for her life. Though only a child, Kirin must find a way to evade relentless assassins. Cut off from the people who could help her, and with little knowledge of her own identity, Kirin must find a way to survive.To do that, she must dis...

In 1894, a 32-year-old Australian doctor named George Morrison donned Chinese robes, attached a false queue to the inside of his cap, and set off on an epic journey from Shanghai to Burma. Up the Yangtze, over stony paths across the wilds of Sichuan and Yunnan, through the Shan states to the frontier of British India, Morrison's trek was an extraordinary achievement, and the book he wrote about it, An Australian in China, is a travel classic. Written with a straightforward style and a keen...

It sounded so simple when Alex Righetti, the theater department head, explained it to Dewy Spearman who, at 43 years-old, is recently divorced, changing careers, and enjoying his renewed bachelorhood with female graduate students some of whom are only half his age; go to New Orleans, teach theater at a private college, and stage a production in a semi-professional theater in the French Quarter. He needed only to make one simple choice: stay in Memphis with his lovely ladies and kiss his ne...

What if you could make the sale every single time?How would it change your life and career to be able to sell to every single client, no matter who they are? Think it's impossible? Think again.Most salespeople are playing the game with a shotgun approach. They use the same, cookie-cutter tactics with every prospective client. And every once in a while they have a bit of success.The funniest part? They think they're skilled sales people.But what if you could ...

What better setting is there for a tale of revenge than the Spanish Inquisition?Set in the seventeenth century, Serpent's Teeth tells the story of a young woman pursued by the Inquisition. With her family murdered, her mind broken by torture and grief, she must run for her life - until running is no longer an option.Atlantis is real—or rather, it was real before it sank into the ocean. Centuries ago, the survivors of Atlantis were scattered throughout the Mediterranean, but...

Never give a sorceress an even break, or so say the Elder Gods who've locked Tairin up in a prison of ice. But when a demon threatens the world, the gods offer Tairin freedom if she kills it. The offer is tempting, but making a deal with a god is far trickier than making a deal with the devil...Burning Snow is a dark fantasy about a sorceress from a forgotten age. From the frozen wastes of northern Alaska to the smoldering snows of Mt. Fuji, Tairin risks divine treachery while wagi...

Something About Sugar by George M. Moffett is a comprehensive exploration of the sugar industry, tracing its profound impact on the economic, social, and political landscapes of the United States and the world. Published in 1917, the book delves into the fascinating journey of sugar from its early cultivation and trade to its pivotal role in shaping global commerce and colonial expansion. Moffett meticulously examines the evolution of sugar production, highlighting the technological advanc...

In "A Child of the Jago," Arthur George Morrison intricately weaves a compelling narrative that unfolds within the gritty streets of the East End of London, a setting steeped in both urban decay and the complex social fabric of Victorian society. The novel follows the life of young Dicky Perrott, a boy trapped in the cycle of poverty and crime, as he navigates a harsh world filled with vice and desperation. Morrison's vivid and almost documentary-like prose serves to immerse the reader in ...

In "A Child of the Jago," Arthur George Morrison crafts a vivid and harrowing narrative set in the impoverished district of the Jago, a fictional representation of London's slums in the late Victorian era. Employing a gritty, naturalistic literary style, Morrison intricately weaves the lives of the impoverished with a focus on social realism, presenting the struggles of the protagonist, a young boy named Dicky Perceval, amidst a backdrop of crime, despair, and the relentless cycle of pover...

Arthur George Morrison (1863, 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Morrison's best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago (1896).Tales of Mean Streets (1894)Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, (1895)A Child of the Jago, (1896)The Hole in the Wall, (1902)The red triangle, (1903)M...

Pharmacology is fundamental for therapeutics. This is well recognised in the field of internal medicine, for which pharmacological textbooks abound. Paediatric pharmacology however, has largely been viewed as a subsection of general medicine. This is incorrect: it should be seen as a separate and important entity. This book is written from the viewpoint of a paediatrician, but it is addressed to all who have responsibility for the care of children, parti cularly physicians and pharmacists....