“Engaging, well-researched and frequently hilarious, From Shy To Social is one of those rare self-help books that feels like you're being coached and encouraged by a trusted friend. An absolute must-read for all of the love shy men out there.”- Sofi Papamarko, Relationship Columnist & Contributor toThe Huffington Post and The Globe & MailDating and courtship are complex learned behaviors so it's no surprise some men could use help, especially...

In search of the High King. The Great Creator made the stars and planets in order to fill the vast emptiness of Space. When He had placed them, and was satisfied he had but one task left. He threw a myriad of Blue planets randomly into His created Universe and allowed them to fall and settle where they would. The Blue planets were his true master pieces. On them the inhabitants were created to echo in an infinitely smaller way, the Master architects persona. The intention was that on these...

Combe Dingle Wood can be found (if you look really hard) in the heart of the Somerset countryside. It exists in that twilight time between myth and reality. It belongs to the era when walkabout scarecrows and Aunt Sallies wandered the hills and vales of the English West country. The local folk can tell you stories of their experiences when entering the wood. Most people that wander in wander out again with a smile on their faces and a sense of well-being. No one has ever quite put their fi...

For all who dare to go off the beaten track, this is the inspirational, power-packed playbook for transforming your life and your world—from a young, Black social entrepreneur whose dorm-room tech startup has helped millions pay for college and access unprecedented opportunity.Gray, the son of a single working mother who had him at age fourteen, grew up in deep poverty in Birmingham, Alabama. An academic star, he had every qualification for attending a top college—...

For all who dare to go off the beaten track, this is the inspirational, power-packed playbook for transforming your life and your world—from a young, Black social entrepreneur whose dorm-room tech startup has helped millions pay for college and access unprecedented opportunity.Gray, the son of a single working mother who had him at age fourteen, grew up in deep poverty in Birmingham, Alabama. An academic star, he had every qualification for attending a top college—...

Dieses Hörbuch hat einen Vogel!Dr. Augustus Huff, Dozent in Cambridge, hat plötzlich einen Vogel – und ein Problem: Einer seiner Studenten ist beim Fassadenklettern in den Tod gestürzt. War es nur ein tragischer Unfall? Oder Mord? Augustus vermutet Letzteres und geht auf Spurensuche – unterstützt von Gray, dem Graupapageien des Verstorbenen. Der sprachbegabte Vogel erweist sich als vorlautes Federvieh, und zuerst stolpert Augustus bei seinen Ermittlungsversuchen von...

Dieses Hörbuch hat einen Vogel!Dr. Augustus Huff, Dozent in Cambridge, hat plötzlich einen Vogel – und ein Problem: Einer seiner Studenten ist beim Fassadenklettern in den Tod gestürzt. War es nur ein tragischer Unfall? Oder Mord? Augustus vermutet Letzteres und geht auf Spurensuche – unterstützt von Gray, dem Graupapageien des Verstorbenen. Der sprachbegabte Vogel erweist sich als vorlautes Federvieh, und zuerst stolpert Augustus bei seinen Ermittlungsversuchen von...

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceTheatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference is dedicated to the growth and improvement of all forms of theatre throughout a twelve-state region encompassing Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mic...

The success of individual nation states today is often measured in terms of their ability to benefit from and contribute to a host of global economic, political, socio-cultural, technological, and educational networks. This increased multifaceted international inter-dependence represents an intuitively contradictory and an immensely complex situation. This scenario requires that national governments, whose primary responsibility is towards their citizenry, must relinquish a degree of contr...

One last Christmas dinner. That's what Greg promises himself as he sets out the feast on his mother's grave. One last festive meal to honor the legacy of abuse, addiction, and trauma that she left her children.There was a time when Greg and his brother Joey thought they would grow up to be the good guys. No way they would end up like their mother. But now Greg drinks alone at her grave, completely estranged from his own family, without even a brother to console him. Joey didn't sur...

What is said can be understood only when seen in the context of what is not said. Many ancient and medieval philosophers use this dynamic of presence and absence. Plato always recognizes that his expressions are energized by being set before other people. Aristotle’s dialectic between different sorts of public activity does the same. Anselm sees his writing as a test case for what it says. Bonaventure approximates his distance from trinity by finding its images at large. Aquinas makes lega...

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O’Regan, this collection includes the following stories:“The Bully” by Jeffery Deaver“Dead Weight” by Fiona Cummins“Like a Glass Jaw” by Mark Billingham“On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man