This cyber-erotic romantic thriller, written by two queer icons in the 1990s, has been "rebooted" for today's readers.In this rowdy cyber-romance originally written in the 1990s, two people meet online and fall in love in every guise they can manage. As Scratch and Winc go from anonymous lovers to accidental heroes and gender outlaws, they expose the shadowy Web stretched between technology and capitalist greed, nearly becoming roadkill on the internet superhighway...

Some of these viewpoints to save money will surprise you!I am fairly certain that you have thought of some ways to save yourself a dollar or two. But there are many more ideas that can save you thousands of dollars. Knowledge is power. It can help you live the life you want to live. There are many people who have been rich but lost it all because they didn't know how to save up, cut corners, or make the pennies scream. In this book, you'll find 100 ways to live like a cheapskate an...

Does happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero’s exploration of a timeless question“Of course, we all want to be happy.” So wrote the Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. He and his fellow Greek and Roman philosophers agreed that the secret to happiness—or what they called the “good life”—is pursuing the “greatest good.” The only problem is that they couldn’t agree on what the greatest g...

Being overweight or obese is a huge problem in society today. In this book, you will hear about the physical conditions and problems you can avoid by losing weight, the benefits of fat loss techniques, and some handy-dandy tips you might not have thought of before. This book series is unique, full of useful content, and great analytic strategies to help you lose fat.You'll learn:10 delicious fat loss drinks.10 yummy fat loss smoothies.10 tasty fat ...

From a shy pastor's kid growing up in Texas in the 1950s to cofounder of Generals International in the 1980s to a prophet, preacher, pioneer, intercessor, mentor, and advocate for other women leaders, Cindy Jacobs has had an incredible life. Now, in this deeply personal and remarkably practical book, she not only shares her life story but mines it for the hard-won lessons she longs to pass on to the next generation.As Jacobs takes you through the twists and turns of her life as a w...

If your confidence is always holding you back from achieving what you really want in your life, or if you have always been super shy with no confidence then read on.Your about to discover how to be confident in any situation. Find out how to make a great first impression and keep the conversation going, without appearing awkward. Learn to stop thinking negatively about yourself and conquer your fears to gain unstoppable confidence at anything. Even if you don't have low confidence,...

This stunning novel explores desire and anxiety, beauty and youth, memory and power."By writing down what happened, by telling the story . . . I'm trying to bring them together into one body—the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don't know if it can be done."Paris, a winter's night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Al...

An Annual Holiday Celebration!Read a holiday story per day from American Thanksgiving to New Year's Day...or binge the entire collection.This volume contains 39 stories—from mystery to romance to time travel, that range in tone from joyful to strange and even dark. All stories center around the traditional holidays such as Christmas and New Year's but also explore some weird holiday traditions, past, present and future.Featuring works from award-winning and bestsell...

A fascinating study of the legal underpinnings of capitalism, reasons why the system must be transformed, and actions we can takeEven though capitalism has been conventionally described as an economic system, it is actually a deeply entrenched legal regime. Law provides the material for coding simple objects, promises, and ideas as capital assets. It also provides the means for avoiding the legal constraints that societies have frequently imposed on capitalism. Oft...

With the increasing complexity of modern cloud-based systems, an effective enterprise architecture program is more critical than ever. In this practical book, author Tanu McCabe from Capital One provides proven frameworks and practices to define an effective enterprise architecture strategy—one that will enable software and enterprise architects to create and implement great architecture strategies.You'll learn how to create shared alignment across business and technology, embed ar...

The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary...

Dierenarts Lisa heeft Amsterdam en haar beste vriendin Tess achtergelaten voor een droombaan in het dorpje Brentwood op het Ierse platteland. Maar eenmaal daar dringt tot haar door dat als ze alleen maar hard werkt en met doorgewinterde boeren op leeftijd omgaat, de kans klein is dat ze ooit nog de liefde van haar leven gaat vinden.William keert na de dood van zijn ouders terug naar het enorme familielandgoed. Daar krijgt hij te horen dat de erfenis hem pas toekomt als hij kan aant...