Brian Paige is approaching midlife with a tangle of regrets, old mixtapes, and half-finished schemes. His latest idea—profiting off Nigerian currency exchange rates—fizzles, but it sparks a deeper reflection: how did his life, once so full of creative fire and youthful ambition, veer into so many dead ends?From the loss of his grandfather in the early '90s to a complicated friendship with a girl from Florida in the 2000s, as well as a fraught connection with a fellow nostalgia-obse...

Salvaged From the Flood is a candid collection of first-person stories chronicling the twists and turns of a life defined by curiosity, creativity, and resilience. From Babe Ruth League baseball and high school drama to college debate tournaments and indie filmmaking, each chapter reflects on a passion pursued and the lessons discovered along the way.Through adventures in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago, and more recent forays into the unpredictable world of cryptocurr...

Trump Tweets, the World Reacts: Understanding What Is Relevant and Why illustrates and articulates the intimate connection between theories presented in communication and the mediums through which President Trump communicates. Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this collection examines several transformations and implications of President Trump’s influence on the social sphere, within economies, among government entities, and on the communications profession.

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The Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding of the movement and its influence. The general tenor of recent scholarly work has involved an emphasis on inclusion and addition, exploring previously neglected texts, authors, regional variations, and international connections. Such work, while often excellent, tends to see various revivalist figures and projects as part of a unified endeavor, such as political resistan...

Reviews the impact of climate change on the increasing threat of biotic and abiotic stresses to the turfgrass industry, as well as the challenge of treating diseased turf in the face of fungicide resistanceConsiders the development of alternative, more sustainable management practices that utilise and/or optimise fewer agricultural outputs, such as fertilisers, pesticides and fuel to power agricultural machineryProvides a selection of case studies that detail the ...

Available for the first time as an MMF romance collection: the first three books in The Sizzle TV Series!This set contains the following audiobooks:-Sizzle: She works for him. He lives with me. I want them both.-Smoke: Three lovers. A second chance. One little white lie.-Sear: Enemies. Ex-lovers. Two fake relationships. What could go wrong?

Offering an interdisciplinary qualitative approach, this book examines and evaluates the role and benefits of a Learning Community (LC), a high-impact practice for student retention in higher education. Grounded in in-depth case studies and first-person student experiences, the authors studied four student cohorts (sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate students) who participated in a full immersion LC experience at an urban public four-year college in New York. Focusing on the maturity s...

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. Chapman and William I. Lutterschmidt make the case that the effort to preserve animal...