What better way to flee your doldrums than in a muscle car covering Middle America. Corporate office captive Jared Moore has a plan: meet new people and see new places. If breaking routine was his plan, he would accomplish that, and then some. In this 159 page adventure, Jared mistakenly gives something to a free-spirited hitchhiker named raindrop, only to, miles later, be told by his admired brother Gene, to be sure to keep the little box in safe keeping. His backtracking journey to the g...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The world changed by a human-eradicating plague called the Great Silence. Cleopatra, is an Abyssinian cat with royal aspirations and an ancient ankh as "proof." She watches the new animal society rise from the ruins in the Pack of Shadows Saga. The saga begins as an epic struggle for survival in the packs. Abyssinian Queen continues in a quest for legacy, but evolves into a desperate struggle for survival when a malevolent, genetically-...

Pastor and Psychologist Adam Sutterland had answers, for others. Armed with traditional beliefs and Freudian theory, he had his found his high ground above a past of insecurity and disjointing of the world around him. After a move back home with intentions of making his mark in his small mountain hometown, Adam's wife and child are tragically killed.Finding his own advice and help lacking, and doubting that of others, he becomes consumed with heartbreak, resentment and fear, to be ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Acorn GameIf you ask a crow who invented the Acorn Game, he'll tell you it was crows. Ask a raven, and you'll hear a very different story.Young Zeni doesn't care who invented it. He simply loves the game.From his favorite perch on the Bench Branch of the Great Oak, Zeni has spent years watching every dive, every save, every spectacular crash, and every triumphant cry of "HOOOOOOOLE!" He knows...

Colder Weather is the story of Adam Sutterland, a young psychologist who, despite living in the city, has deep roots in the mountainous rural areas of Missouri. Eventually Adam brings his young wife and son back from the city to live in his birth home in the country. All is well until tragedy strikes and Adams family is killed. ---- Despite having counseled others on their problems for nearly a decade, Adam finds himself angry, delusional, anguished and unable to cope. Feeling betrayed by ...

This updated edition gives readers hands-on experience in real-time DSP using a practical, step-by-step framework that also incorporates demonstrations, exercises, and problems, coupled with brief overviews of applicable theory and MATLAB applications. Organized in three sections that cover enduring fundamentals and present practical projects and invaluable appendices, this new edition provides support for the most recent and powerful of the inexpensive DSP development boards currently ava...

This book describes the methodology and applications of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to studies of membrane proteins, membrane-active peptides and model biological membranes. As well as structural studies it contains coverage of membrane interactions and molecular motions. Advances in biological solid-state NMR are very pertinent with high-field developments seeing applications in biological membranes and whole cells. Many of the chapter authors and contributors are world-class experts and...

In the 21st century, it is impossible to avoid seeing atrocities. Pictures of grievous death populate the pages of newspapers and aggregators almost daily. Billboards and banner ads for humanitarian organizations routinely feature scenes of famine and forced displacement. With the spread of social media, our closest friends and relatives have become key sources of visual encounters with intolerable harms. Seeing Atrocities explains what we stand to gain from such encounters, and supplies c...

"Will 69 million baby boomers suddenly drop out of the workforce when they turn 65? It is difficult to imagine this generation, with its talent, education, and experience, idling away the last thirty years of life."—From the Foreword, by Robert N. Butler, M.D., The Mount Sinai Medical CenterOld age has been historically thought of as a period of frailty and dependence, yet studies show that with the help of advances in health and medicine, current populations will live longer and r...

A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love“Ferocious . . . glints with hard-won truths . . . Aron lights a path through the darkness of her past toward a better future.”—Los Angeles TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PARADE“The disease...

Essays by former editor of Gawker.com—and the new female voice of her generation. In And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the first decade of the twenty-first century, alongside bartenders, bounty hunters, bloggers, bohemians, socialites, and bankers. These are essays about failing at pet parenthood, suspending lust during the long moment in which a dude selects the perfect soundtrack from his iTunes library, and leav...

The winner of 3 book awards as best book in it's category, Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff’s first twenty years of unique and extensive work among homeless and street-involved youth and adults, in one of North America’s largest urban centres—Toronto, Canada. Bent Hope is a collection of thoughtful narratives birthed beneath crumbling bridges and in the hidden alcoves of darkened alleyways after midnight. These gripping true-life stories surface quietly from unforgiving corridors of fear...