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Although the ancient Chinese text Laozi--also known as the Daodejing--is highly popular worldwide, few Anglophone readers are familiar with the history of how the Chinese themselves have interpreted it. This volume aims to introduce students and general readers to the two earliest surviving commentaries on the Laozi, through translations that are approachable for non-specialists and can be read on their own. These two commentaries, the "Jie Lao" (Explaining the

Presentations are the air we breathe in business, and for decades it’s been polluted with unexamined habits. Slides are stacked with data, logic is airtight, and effort is unmistakable. But still the idea stalls. Nobody changes their mind. It dissolves somewhere between the conference room and the parking lot.The problem isn’t your idea. It was never your idea. The problem is how your idea was treated.The Campfire Method makes the case that the slide deck has failed as a to...

This work prepares America's current teenagers for a future in which cannabis/hemp is a viable plant for clothing, tools, and other key, sustainable products (e.g., plastic replacements). It focuses on the year 2040 as a theme, suggesting that today's teenagers will be the adult policymakers, industry professionals, and builders of tomorrow; and that America's current thinking about the plant must change. The book showcases conversations between a father and daughter that end each chapter,...

Have you ever had so much to say but didn't? Have you ever try to vent about your feeling but it never came out right? I realize how hard it's was to talk to people so I decided to write poetry about my life. Even though this book is basically about my life. I decided to design my poems to help you as well. How? Open & please find out.

MADNESS HAS GONE VIRALThe world is not the same since the Pandoravirus outbreak changed the essence of human nature. Those affected by the disease are consumed by adrenal rage. They erupt in violence with the slightest provocation. And now, infected scientist Emma Miller is forging them into an army of merciless killers marching across America.Emma’s twin sister, neuroscientist Isabel Miller, is desperate to avert the chaos that threatens to engulf...

Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore the ineffable quality of “sleaze” in relation to a range of issues, including the production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the ever-shifting ter...

Maximize your anesthesiology exam score!This powerful, results-oriented study guide delivers everything you need to improve your knowledge, confidence, and recall. Featuring a rigorous quick-hit Q&A format consisting of short clinical questions with briefanswers, this is truly your most effective weapon when preparing for the anesthesiology in-service and board exams.The unique question and single-answer format of Anesthesiology Board Review eliminates theguesswo...

A series of military and political disasters has swept the globe. The Russian government has fallen to anarchists. The Chinese have marched into Siberia and are poised to take the continent. And, in one final master stroke, the newly elected president of the U.S. is assassinated. Now it's up to an untested leader, Vice President Gordon Davis, to step forward and stop it. But with his nation divided, his allies paralyzed, and a small U.S.-U.N force the only thing standing between the Chines...

A powerful portrait of modern-day politics gone wild. U.S. Republican President Bill Baker is thrown a curveball when China puts its plan of world dominance into action. After invading Asian, European and finally Caribbean territory, it's obvious that four thousand miles of ocean is not enough to keep North America safe from China. The siege begins, and Baker retaliates by declaring war on China. As if this staggering situation weren't enough, Harry juxtaposes this scenario with the person...

12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.Every village wants a Hunter—one of the warriors ...

THE BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWNScientist Emma Miller was the first American infected in the Pandoravirus pandemic, which triggers violent rages and sociopathic homicide. No longer fettered by morality or emotion, she has attracted millions of followers, both infected and uninfected. But is she America’s worst nightmare—or its only hope?Emma’s twin sister Isabel and brother Noah struggle against the threats posed by rampant infection, deadly civil unrest...

In a scenario terrifyingly close to today's headlines, Harry's debut novel opens with a North Korean invasion of South Korea that leads, through a series of tragic errors and decisions, to a Russian nuclear attack on military bases in the U.S.Like techno-thriller master Tom Clancy, Harry offers a sprawling narrative that focuses on a small army of soldiers, politicians and their families, American and Russian. National Security Advisor Greg Lambert must keep and te...