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When the corporate monolith PortSys brought porting to the masses, CEO Emilia Kirsch and her son, Jason, accomplished what every other start-up company had failed to deliver.They really did change the world. They reversed climate change. They created a multitrillion-dollar industry out of thin air, curing economic woes across the globe. They made it so that anyone could be anywhere simply by touching a screen...including the man who murdered Sarah Huff.Now,...

Now with three bonus chapters read by Teddy Hamilton. Re-download the title now to listen to the extended version!A #1 New York Times bestseller • TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society • Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 • NPR “Books We Love” 2023 • Audible Best...

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity." Xaden RiorsonEveryone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College-Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously b...

A Olot, entre la ferreria i la fira, s'alça un drama ple de vida popular, orgull artesanal i passions amagades. Jordi, ferrer i daguer, comparteix l'escena amb Rosa, la seva filla, en una relació marcada per la tendresa, el treball i una tristesa que no acaba d'explicar-se. L'arribada de Biel, Boy, l'Esquerrà, Arnal, Agneta i la baronessa desplega un mosaic de rivalitats amoroses, complicitats, bromes i contrastos socials que fan avançar l'acció amb ritme i enginy. L'obra combina humor, li...

This volume offers a holistic understanding of the interconnections of language, specifically English, scholarly publishing, and knowledge production and circulation through a sociolinguistic lens in contemporary academia across different European settings for research purposes.The volume is organised around three parts: the first part explores individual factors underpinning knowledge production and their role in shaping scholars’ academic careers; the second part critically refle...

The volume presents a small selection of state-of-the-art approaches for studying transposable elements(TE). Chapters guide readers through HTS-based approaches, bioinformatic tools, methods to studyTE protein complexes, and the functional impact on the host. Written in the successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols, and...

Brood parasitism has become one of the most flourishing areas of research in evolutionary ecology and one of the best model systems for investigating coevolution. This subject has undergone remarkable advances during the last two decades, but has not been covered by any book in the 21st century.This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the fascinating field of avian brood parasitism. The topics covered include conspecific brood parasitism; evolution and phylogenet...

You already know the rules. Bájale dos rayitas. De eso no se habla. Los trapos sucios se lavan en casa. You've lived by them your whole life. And they have cost you more than you know.Denise Soler Cox was on a conference call when she felt the blood. She speed-walked to the bathroom, miscarrying her baby into a DIY pad she'd rigged together because God forbid she admit that she needed to go home. On her knees scrubbing blood from the grout with wet paper towels, sh...

Reading Across International Boundaries, edited by Roger Openshaw and Janet Soler, clearly demonstrates these broader characteristics of debates about the teaching of reading. It sets the educational issues firmly in the context of the social, cultural and political dynamics that inform and animate them and give them their meaning. It does so by setting out to understand their historical and comparative dimensions. Establishing the historical context highlights the origins and also the lon...

What happens when the life you thought you had does a 180º turn? Everything, and yet…nothing.Us is Sara and Diana’s love story, as well as the story of Diana’s gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity, this graphic memoir speaks to changing conceptions of the world as well as the self, at the same time revealing that some things don’t really have to change.Written, drawn, and colored by Sara S...

In this first book of her series, catching waves on her board, Joss Kendrick is all in, 100%.When the surf’s up, Joss pops out her hearing aid, hops on her board, and paddles into the waves. Joss is stoked to enter a surfing video contest with her surf sister Sofia and Murph, the surfing bulldog. If she can master a killer aerial like the frontside air and get her brother Dylan to catch it on video, maybe she’d even have a shot at winning. But Dylan throws her a cu...

You already know the rules. Bájale dos rayitas. De eso no se habla. Los trapos sucios se lavan en casa. You’ve lived by them your whole life. And they have cost you more than you know.Denise Soler Cox was on a conference call when she felt the blood. She speed-walked to the bathroom, miscarrying her baby into a DIY pad she’d rigged together because God forbid she admit that she needed to go home. On her knees scrubbing blood from the grout with wet paper towels, sh...