In the city of Somnia, dreams possess extraordinary power, capable of molding reality itself. Within this enchanting realm, the citizens live in perpetual wonder, aware that their dreams can manifest in the waking world. But amidst the joy and excitement lies an underlying mystery.Enter Detective Samuel Blackwood, a renowned investigator celebrated for his sharp intellect and unwavering determination. With a remarkable track record of solving perplexing cases, he stands prepared to...

Growing up in a Christian church, the most prevalent consistent teaching about dating and sex is that it is a sin to have sex outside of marriage. Where does this come from? Is it actually in the Bible? While few actually live this, most are taught that both males and females are supposed to remain virgins until marriage. After decades of living with this guideline as it was taught to him, the author undertook an exhaustive Bible study to look for more concrete answers than he could find i...

Organized-(Black Mafia Tale)Organized, is a tale about a Mobster in his late 60's that's been in the game for a long time and wishes to depart the game a 'living legend', however, his men have plotted to assassinate Organized by implementing the ways of the Italian Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) in which is a violation of Organized family (The Nomolosa Crime Family).As Organized gathers this information from a series of informants, wire tappings, drones and seed planters, h...

Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of community and formed social bonds that lasted beyond its departure. In the sections that follow, ...

This book provides a historically informed reconstruction of the social practices that have shaped the formation of the modern subject from the early modern period to the present. The formal legal protections accorded to subjects are, and always have been, latent in social practices, norms, and language before they are articulated in formal legal orders.Vesting argues that in Western societies legal personhood is closely tied to three ideal types of social personhood – what he call...

Pampered, an interracial romantic saga, is packed with so much heat that it should require a warning label. Dramatic, fast-paced, erotic, and full of insane twists, this amazing love story is guaranteed to captivate the hearts of BWWM fans and women abroad who go crazy over alpha males.After an interrupted dance performance, Radiance Alexander is literally picked up and carried away, kicking and screaming, from her job at a popular Atlanta gentlemen’s club. Sexy multimilli...

Over the past few decades, significant changes have occurred across capital markets. Shareholder activists have become more prominent, institutional investors have begun to wield more power, and intermediaries like investment advisory firms have greatly increased their influence. These changes to the economic environment in which corporations operate have outpaced changes in basic corporate law and left corporations uncertain of how to respond to the new dynamics and adhere to their fiduci...

Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles's work, shedding light on aspects of his art that ...

The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners that are highly relevant to contemporary political challenges. The democratic vision that accompanied the collapse of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and East Central Europe has been replaced by a range of authoritarian, semi-authoritarian and democratic regimes, and growing division between Western and Russian influence. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to renewed tensions ...

Just as the Cetaceans are the Earth’s Record Keepers living in the Oceans, do you know that the TREES are the Record Keepers living on Land? The Trees comprise a “vast underground communication network” system that transmits information so that all Trees, everywhere on Earth, know instantly all that occurs. They are Living Libraries embodied in bark that we, as humans, can easily “tap” into (note the term “tap root” — we can tap into their vast library). Their “line” is always open to us, ...

Having returned from the Star Dragon Mountain Range, Souma heads to the next destination on his diplomatic tour, the Republic of Turgis. While he is there to investigate the possibility of forming cordial relations with a neighbor they currently have no interaction with, Souma finds his attention drawn to the high level of the local blacksmiths, and a plan occurs to him.Sensing that state level negotiations will be necessary to make his plan a reality, he succeeds in arranging a me...

Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the foremost ethnomusicologists, Timothy Ri...