From slim thick to curvy and voluptuous, Lyric Larson's a force behind the pen that she pushes as an author.But behind closed doors, she battles with insecurities which are always triggered by her unfaithful husband.While she's grinding and staying loyal to her marriage, her husband Chadd not only slides into bed with another woman but also gets himself mixed up with a mob. The consequences of his actions will fall back on Lyric, but oblivious to what's goi...

When Velina was young, she was never foolish enough to wish for a family. Longing for something she was cleary never meant to have seemed like a waste of time when she was already busy with trying to survive.But then a dragon bowed to her in a land where a dragon should never bow. He claimed her before all to see as a Bendegón, a human with dragon blood, and the leaders of their kingdom.In a matter of seconds, her entire world flipped upside down and backwards. This meant m...

Almost two decades later, the Luchiano family still reigned as the most feared and respected mob family.Logan branched off and became his own boss while partnered with his uncle, while Lyric blossomed with her writing career and became a publisher who then moved into the movie industry. Busy with their careers, they never neglected their number one priority, their twin son and daughter, LJ and Legacy.LJ was an all-American basketball player who had never ex...

Cortical Evolution in Primates provides a stand-alone resource for neuroscience graduate students and established neuroscientists who have an interest in cortical evolution and primates. Discussions of both cortical evolution and primates often rely on terms and concepts unfamiliar to many neuroscientists, but such readers will have no need to look elsewhere to understand the text or figures in this book. As well as reviewing the pertinent terminology and taxonomy, Wise explores t...

We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a mark on modern memory, complemented by unique forms of memory that emerged in humans. This book tells an intriguing story about how evolution shaped human memory. It explains how a series of now-extinct ancestral species adapted to life in th...

The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of modern humans could overcome periodic food shortages. These developments laid the foundation for w...

Agile Readiness is designed to provide guidance to the manager or business leader in establishing a successful environment to enable fast moving agile and lean project methods focused on business systems transformation. Agile and lean offer huge potential as methods for reducing risk and costs, delivering early benefits and ensuring IT projects genuinely deliver the business transformation benefits that they promise at the outset. The conundrum for many organizations is that without a chan...

Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical observations and animal experiments. This doctrine holds that the medial temporal lobe subserves one memory system for explicit or declarative memories, while the basal ganglia subserves a separate memory system for implicit or procedural memories, including habits. Cortical areas outside the medial temporal lobe are said to function in perception, motor control, attention, or other aspects of executive function, but not in m...

As projects become more complex and the project teams are more geographically and culturally dispersed, so strong, trusting relationships come to the fore. Trust provides the security that enables project teams to work together effectively, even when they face project-threatening problems and challenges. Because today’s team members work virtually as much by choice as by geographic necessity, business leaders must understand how team relationships such as trust, cross-divisional projects, ...

If the word "betrayal" was a person, who would it be, Chadd or Logan?A night that was supposed to be a celebration of all her success ended up being a devastating one. The last person Lyric saw before being snatched was Logan. Once she woke up, she was confused as to what was going on until everything was laid out on the table for her. Shocked and scared, Lyric tried her hardest to keep her sanity while being held hostage due to her husband Chadd's selfish actions....

All secrets are out in the open. What's everyone's next move?Logan just wanted to live a regular life, or at least close to it. He knew being a mobster's son would come with a lot of trouble, but he didn't imagine it being from within his own circle. Not willing to accept the betrayal and wrongdoing towards him, he took it upon himself to leave his life behind, but not without the new love of his life.Lyric was just trying to survive her abduction, but when...

The cerebellum is an intriguing component of the brain. In humans it occupies only 10% of the brain volume, yet has approximately 69 billion neurons; that is 80% of the nerve cells in the brain. The cerebellum first arose in jawed vertebrates such as sharks, and early vertebrates also have an additional cerebellum-like structure in the hindbrain. Shark cerebellum-like structures function as adaptive filters to discriminate 'self' from 'other' in sensory inputs. It is likely that the true c...