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Slow growing brain tumours change lives forever.This readable and moving non-technical guide is about living with a low grade tumour, a diagnosis given to thousands of people every year.Featuring dozens of personal testimonies from those dealing daily with the impact of their tumours, this book offers information, support and reassurance for those with a low grade brain tumour, their family and friends.Father of two Gideon Burrows was told he had an...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday TimesFrom Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world.**The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of Easternization....

A funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated, and timely history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist—"Perfect for fans of Atlas Obscura " ( Publishers Weekly )."Defoe writes in revv-edup prose a bit like Hunter S. Thompson's, but more jokey and with an English accent. . . . I enjoy it immensely." —Michael Dirda,

The Public Health Official's Crisis Communication Guide Applying DBT Emotion Regulation and "Check the Facts" to Deliver Clear, Calm Information During a Public Health EmergencyConsider what you're asking one sentence to survive.It has to pass through frightened minds. Compressed attention. Noisy channels. Institutional distrust that predates you by decades. And genuine, irreducible uncertainty about the thing itself.Then it has to arrive i...

Science fiction stories of ingenuity, grit, and inspiration.This new volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series of science fiction anthologies presents stories that envision how science and technology--existing or speculative--might help us create a more equitable and hopeful world after the coronavirus pandemic. The original stories presented here, from a diverse collection of authors, offer no miracles or simple utopias, but visions of ingenuity, grit, and incremental...

To Kill Again Agent (Rom)antics 1: Svetlana Simonov is an agent for Omega Force, with a license to kill... and so much more. Unbridled passion and savage violence mix pleasure and pain as she sets out from Washington D.C. on her latest mission to deal with America's most brutal enemies.Deadly Secrets Agent (rom)Antics Book 2: When secret agent Svetlana Simonov is given the mission to find out whether a former agent was murdered or committed suicide, it puts her in a deadly confront...

Agent Svetlana Simonov of the top secret Omega Force is on a new and deadly assignment for her government. Two high-ranking American politicians—one a Senator, and the other a Congressmen—hold Top Secret clearances and are leaders in the most critical committees. They’ve got to be stopped, because every day that goes by, they’re selling the country’s most sensitive and guarded secrets to enemy governments. Once again, Svetlana is assigned to work with her protégé, the young and lovely Tati...

Write for Charity is your easy-to-use guide to creating compelling copy for your charity's publications and online presence.Divided into simple-to-follow tips and advice, the emphasis is on small changes you can make to your writing that will generate more interest, more impact and more income for your charity.It covers how to write for your organisation's newsletters and magazines, your marketing materials, your annual review and reports, your website and ...

Mariella is in her mid-thirties, and looking backward at a bad divorce and an uncertain future. Then she meets Jakob and Lucas, two cowboys who own the largest cattle ranch in the territory. The handsome men introduce Mariella to a new world of uninhibited passion that she never dreamed was possible. But modern-day cattle ranchers put dark clouds on the horizon…

She was seconds away from pulling the trigger…when the stranger strode out of the storm and witnessed her failure to take out her brother's killer. His eyes, his gaze…everything about him stirred a response in Hayley Tavistock. But he'd interfered in her plan for vengeance. And for that, Cooper Webb had some explaining to do.He was a lone wolf who operated outside the law to see justice done. Now Hayley had stumbled into his mission to right a terrible wrong. The last thing Cooper n...

To Kill Again Agent (Rom)antics 1: Svetlana Simonov is an agent for Omega Force, with a license to kill... and so much more. Unbridled passion and savage violence mix pleasure and pain as she sets out from Washington D.C. on her latest mission to deal with America’s most brutal enemies.Deadly Secrets Agent (rom)Antics Book 2: When secret agent Svetlana Simonov is given the mission to find out whether a former agent was murdered or committed suicide, it puts her in a deadly confront...

Agent Svetlana Simonov of the government's top-secret Omega Force is sent from Washington D.C. to Mexico City to get inside the organization of two of the country's deadliest and most well-protected underworld kingpins―the brothers Rico and Tomas Santiago. They have created a fortress for themselves that is impenetrable by military force. But maybe, if Svetlana uses her all her sensual charms, she can get past their defenses. This is critically necessary because the kingpins have hired thr...