Relieve pain, tension, and stress with this definitive guide to acupressure, the centuries-old technique that utilizes gentle pressure from your hands to jump-start your body’s self-curative abilities.“A faithful and thoroughly incisive book on the ancient art of healing. With clarity and inspiring instructions, this is a welcome gift for all who seek health and well-being.”—Chungliang Al Huang, author of Quantum SoupWith your hand...

Captain Julian de Marque has spent eight years burying the past beneath discipline, duty, and the cold precision of a swordmaster's life at the High King's castle. But when the grieving mage Zachary de Mordenkine summons him to investigate the murder of his long-lost son, Julian is forced to return to the coastal village of Weslan — the place he swore never to see again.At the center of the mystery lies Sorrow's Isle, a forbidden island that rises from the sea only once every sever...

Increased stress and traumatic events in our lives have resulted in many millions of people who suffer from insomnia, nightmares, anxiety attacks, depression, and tension headaches. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers relief at your fingertips, quickly and safely, for a wide range of emotional problems. It explains how emotional distress becomes lodged in the body as muscular tension and blocked energy, and shows how acupressure can relieve not just the resulting physical symptoms, bu...

What does it take to manage a workforce that isn't human? The Chronicles of Aigent Catburger - raw_aigents "Name" {catburger}is the definitive historical record of a groundbreaking and perilous experiment: one human, known only as catburger, attempting to build a complex software project from scratch using nothing but a team of autonomous AI agents.This is not a story about tools. It is a story about a new kind of team, where each AI agent possesses its own uniq...

When charter-boat skipper Jack O'Connor finds a gold piece of eight off the Florida Keys, he decides to go in search of a legendary hoard of Spanish doubloons sunk during the "Hundred Years Storm" of 1783. For, as Jack's friend Cap'n Billau reveals, the coin bears a clue to the treasure's whereabouts – one of four islands etched by the infamous pirate, Jacques Un-Oeil upon the original doubloon. At Billau's urging, Jack tracks down the two beautiful women who unknowingly hold the remaining...

There's Something in the Woods.As a virtual prisoner in her suburban DC home, Rhonda faces a chilling reality: she's failed to protect her gay son, Joey, from the brutality of his own father, Max. As Max's violent hatred escalates, Rhonda's maternal instincts scream for her to act before it's too late.During an emotional phone call, Rhonda's sister, Elizabeth, offers to shelter Rhonda and Joey when they come to her home in West Virginia for Thanksgiving. Bu...

This is a small piece about the use of "good" microbes in the environmental and health fields. It consists of a small essay, with references and hyperlinks for articles. You can read this essay to learn about why we need to perform further research into these organisms.

People have been long-fascinated with birds, and their scientific study has been central to advances in evolution, animal behavior, biogeography, population dynamics, and community ecology. Research questions in these fields have been driven in part by innovations in technology. Ornithologists even 20 years ago could scarcely imagine the detail and precision with which we can now monitor bird populations on a global scale, whether through digital tools like eBird, indirectly through remote...

Raised in a world of drugs, pain, and having to become a man before time. Two and a Quarter is going to take you on a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, street tale of power and street smarts. Enjoy!

The Places That Built Me is a literary memoir about growing up working class and learning life beyond the classroom. Born into poverty and marked early as a child who did not fit the system, Michael Reed finds his education in the world around him-through labour, movement, risk, and responsibility.From cramped homes and schoolroom corners to fairgrounds, boxing tents, and long stretches of road, Reed's life is shaped by environments that demand attention a...

Following the flood and the rainbow, Genesis 9 has one final story about Noah. The patriarch gets drunk, strips naked, and passes out. One of his sons, Ham, sees Noah naked. When Noah wakes up, he utters a curse of slavery against not Ham, but one of Ham's sons, Canaan. Why is Noah's reaction so severe? And why does he curse Canaan, who did nothing? For more than two thousand years, interpreters have tried to make sense of what seems like an injustice in Noah's reaction. The goal of good i...

This book is the first of a multivolume series devoted to an exposition of functional analysis methods in modern mathematical physics. It describes the fundamental principles of functional analysis and is essentially self-contained, although there are occasional references to later volumes. We have included a few applications when we thought that they would provide motivation for the reader. Later volumes describe various advanced topics in functional analysis and give numerous application...