Start your own organic cannabis farm with this complete how-to manual written by two farmers with a decade of experience growing cannabis in the field.Cannabis is rapidly being decriminalized across the United States, causing a surge in consumer demand and enabling growers to cultivate cannabis in the open, rather than secretly in greenhouses. Whether you’re a small-scale vegetable farmer who wants to add a high-value crop or a home cannabis grower who wants to exp...

Transform Your Self-Talk MonsterYou're in the middle of a complicated project. As a leader, you are astutely aware of what you're saying to yourself when no one else is listening. Your mind is playing tricks on you, whispering doubts that shrink your self-confidence. Worse, those negative mind games are starting to impact your team.Suzy Burke, PhD, Ryan Berman, and Rhett Power have devoted their careers to examining how and why our minds work against us. An...

Media discourses play a powerful role in shaping public understanding of inequality-yet they often obscure, distort, or individualize its causes.Critical Explorations of Media and Inequality examines how mainstream media systems reproduce and legitimize unequal social structures by marginalizing, sensationalizing, or blaming those most affected. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this edited collection explores the persistent gaps, tensions, a...

There is a widening divide between the data, tools, and knowledge that international relations scholars produce and what policy practitioners find relevant for their work. In this first-of-its-kind conversation, leading academics and practitioners reflect on the nature and size of the theory-practice divide. They find the gap varies by issue area and over time.The essays in this volume use data gathered by the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project over a fifte...

Bottomless Dreams is a fearlessly inventive story collection—a philosophical tapestry woven with imagination, wit, and guts. Each story presents a unique world, wildly different from the last. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, travelling through the past, present, and future. The writing is fierce yet playful, full of hooks and twists, and always riding the edge. The characters, flawed and human, navigate moments in their lives that alter them forever: an arctic explorer for...

In "William Harvey," Sir D'Arcy Power delves into the life and contributions of the renowned 17th-century physician, best known for his groundbreaking discovery of the circulation of blood. Power employs a meticulous literary style, weaving together biographical narrative, historical context, and scientific analysis, which creates an engaging yet scholarly exploration of Harvey's work and its impact on medicine. The text places Harvey's achievements in the broader context of the scientific...

Transform Your Self-Talk MonsterYou’re in the middle of a complicated project. As a leader, you are astutely aware of what you’re saying to yourself when no one else is listening. Your mind is playing tricks on you, whispering doubts that shrink your self-confidence. Worse, those negative mind games are starting to impact your team.Suzy Burke, PhD, Ryan Berman, and Rhett Power have devoted their careers to examining how and why our minds work against us. An...

Pastor Sheldon Long was born of the woods, raised in a secluded cabin by a mute mother and an abusive father who preached God's vengeance. Forced to take control of his own destiny, Pastor Long found God in his own way, melded with the mythologies of his mother's tribe. Now he's out to send the wicked, as he has judged them, to heaven.Steven, Pastor Long's son, is simultaneously pining for his former babysitter who has moved to Hollywood and crushing on nearly every girl he goes to...

**Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead.**This thoroughly revised and updated ninth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors provide a commanding overview of the latest global developments and new ideas in this fascinating subject. Classic debates are also given careful coverage, with even the most complex ideas explained in a st...

This book provides a step-by-step guide to successfully cultivating cannabis and an informative read about all aspects of this healthful plant. It is not a gardening tips book, but a guide to help you through each stage of a project that is not rocket science, but has it's pitfalls. Additionally, this ebook serves as a reference/guide to the overwhelming jargon you will run into if research the topic online, for example: What are HPS, CFL, and LED lighting? What is the significance of ligh...

The original must-read, bestselling guide to becoming the best leader you can be from the critically-acclaimed author of Atlas of the Heart, Braving the Wilderness and The Gifts of Imperfection.‘A practical and insightful guide to courageous leadership’ Sheryl Sandberg, former Facebook COO and bestselling author of Lean In‘The ultimate playbook for daring leadership’ Scott Harrison, founder and CE...

"What I am really anxious to hear is the final cause of your monstrous fiction. For your false invention seems to have no purpose. What reason can you give me for the circulation of the blood?"William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around the sun. Unleashing intellectual anarchy, derailing established ideas, & gaining currency far beyond the walls of the College of Physicians, Harvey's revolutionar...