Showing Up as a Healing Force in a Fractured WorldIn a world that's loud, divided, and constantly shifting, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, lost, or cynical. For many, finding a home between the right and the left can seem impossible. But what if this tension isn't something to escape but a space to grow into?In Embrace the Tension, pastor and trusted ministry voice Tommy Nixon offers a pathway for those feeling untethered in today's divisive landsc...

*Empires have fallen, and the land is broken. The great oathmarks that once stood as testaments to the allegiances and might of nations have crumbled into ruin. In this lost age, fealty and loyalty are as valuable as gold and as deadly as cold iron, and war is ever-presentOathmark: Second Edition* is a revised and expanded version of the popular mass-battle fantasy wargame, Oathmark. Featuring new and expanded rules, units types, and a whole host of other revisions from ye...

Hiroshima. The March on Washington. The fall of the Roman Empire. August is where the world changes -- permanently.August is history's pressure cooker -- where the heat of summer ignites civil rights movements, ends world wars, and topples ancient empires. No month carries more weight per day.Nomical History: August delivers one extraordinary historical event for every day, told with powerful narrative prose and reflections that make you see today's world through history's ...

Clayton Reid, a would-be playwright and sometimes bartender, is downtown St. John’s iconic man-about-town. Near-crippled by booze, drugs and dirty sex, Clayton, amongst the dozens of other burnt-out ghosts of Water Street, stumbles up and down the road of self-destruction, holding out a shallow hope that real life will one day fall from the sky. Then Clayton meets Isadora, a woman who stirs something achingly human in him, sending him on the ultimate bender of his life.Told with th...

The one-stop, comprehensive resource for students considering a career in medicineIn recent years, applying to and getting accepted to medical schools in the U.S. has become increasingly difficult. In 2020–2021, only 38% of the 53,370 students who applied to U.S. medical schools were accepted. For the most prestigious medical schools, the acceptance rate was just 1.4–2%. Pre-Medicine: The Complete Guide for Aspiring Doctors by Joel Thomas, Phillip Wagner, ...

The one-stop, comprehensive resource for students considering a career in medicineIn recent years, applying to and getting accepted to medical school in the U.S. has become increasingly difficult. In 2020–2021, only 38% of the 53,370 students who applied to U.S. medical schools were accepted. For the most prestigious medical schools, the acceptance rate was just 1.4–2%. Pre-Medicine: The Complete Guide for Aspiring Doctors by Joel Thomas, Phillip Wagner, R...

Can Christians take seriously the claims of modern science without compromising their theological integrity? Can theology contribute to our understanding of the natural world without reducing the doctrine of creation to a few flashpoint issues? While there is no shortage of works that treat the intersection between science and religion, little attention has been paid to the theological reception of developments of modern science. Yet a deeper look at the history o...

Would you like to read some of my poems for my words they are all over the page? Some dark, some gray, some as light as the sunray. Words of sadness, ones of heartfelt memories, ones of love and passion. Your eyes might be full of years of memories gone by. You might smile as your heart flutters and skips a beat of excitement to come, my words of poems will stop you in silence for a moment. Just to heal or for the possibilities that are yet to come.

After a few years of married life, Suzie and Tom thought that they had a normal sexual relationship. Yes, it was pretty "vanilla", but wasn't that the norm in our culture? They were shocked when they learned that their best friends were deeply into BDSM, but curiosity led them to delve into the details. This is the story of how they learned about and experienced the world of power exchange.

Microeconomic policies in particular, industrial and innovation policies are appraised and enforced within the framework of the rules relative to free movement and competition. This book introduces the current wave of innovative industrial policies in France. By giving a historical context to their development, the evolution of key economic concepts and theories are put into perspective. In addition, with the aim of articulating horizontal and vertical interventions, this book analyzes...

The Millville Trilogy - Book 2.Only recently introduced to BDSM, Suzie and Tom continue to be educated by their best friends and mentors, Bob and Julie. As they explore further into the world of bondage, pain, and pleasure, they also learn surprising things about their own egos and sexuality. What at first shocked them now has them craving more.

Industrial Network Security: Securing Critical Infrastructure Networks for Smart Grid, SCADA, and Other Industrial Control Systems covers implementation guidelines for security measures of critical infrastructure. The book describes an approach to ensure the security of industrial networks by taking into account the unique network, protocol, and application characteristics of an industrial control system, along with various compliance controls. It offers guidance on deployment and configur...