If you are one who looks for a logical explanation for most things, this book is for you. I believe the best way to describe it is to quote a few lines, such as the following: "Without gravity, there would be no building blocks; no stars, no galaxies, or no planets."--"This small amount of material avoided the fiery descent into the Sun because of the one natural enemy of gravity; inertia."--"This makes it very possible that we are not alone in the universe."--"This is why we have Leap Yea...

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilienceThe Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis.By introducing readers to a different kind of activism – based on universal patterns of Transformation, Expansion, Wholeness, a...

¿Quiere conocer una manera fácil de disminuir su presión arterial, prevenir un ataque cardíaco, vivir una vida más larga y saludable? El doctor Don Hall ha dedicado su vida al estudio de los efectos de la alimentación sobre la salud, y ha compartido sus conocimientos con miles de personas.

Many technology directors are initially tapped for the role because of their expertise in technology or instruction. However, they seldom receive training in how to be leaders and agents of change at the organizational level. Yet technology directors are increasingly being called upon to assume this mantle of leadership. Every organization and situation is different, and there are no silver bullets or onesize- fits-all lists of rules, but knowing the right questions to ask can mean the dif...

During the 1960s, an upstart Minnesota company, Control Data, made an enormous impact on the computer industry with the help of a handful of engineers and executives led by William Norris and Seymour Cray. The rise of Control Data from a company selling stock at $1 a share to a multi-national firm manufacturing the world’s fastest computers is an extraordinary story in itself. But author Donald M. Hall also examines how the success of Control Data primed the pump of local inves...

L’époustouflant polar de Don Winslow, Crime 101, adapté au cinéma avec Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan et Monica Barbaro.Un insaisissable voleur de bijoux sévit le long de la Highway 101, la mythique Pacific Coast Highway. Ses principes élémentaires : un lieu, un vol, une nouvelle vie.Alors que la police suspecte des cartels colombiens, l’instinct de l’inspecteur Lou Lubesnick le pousse à suivre une autre piste…

What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.Whole, a New York Times bestseller and an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, is a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful che...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When Arjun Malik — a first-generation Indian American student on a full scholarship — moves into Room 419 of Whitmore Hall at Eastern Vermont University, he expects the usual college experience. Bad food. Hard classes. Loneliness. What he doesn't expect is the knocking.Three knocks. Every night. From inside the wall.The fourth floor of Whitmore Hall is almost empty. The east wing has been sealed since 1987, bricked up af...

What's Your Excuse?Life becomes complicated when you realize that the motivation to start or delay a task is a tug-of-war between positive and negative emotions. Don’t blame lack of willpower, laziness, or low motivation if you aren’t achieving your goals.Motivation is not a skill. Like a muscle, it’s subject to fatigue when stretched. That’s why fascinating research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology has revealed another reason you may feel paralyzed to...

When Arjun Malik — a first-generation Indian American student on a full scholarship — moves into Room 419 of Whitmore Hall at Eastern Vermont University, he expects the usual college experience. Bad food. Hard classes. Loneliness. What he doesn't expect is the knocking.Three knocks. Every night. From inside the wall.The fourth floor of Whitmore Hall is almost empty. The east wing has been sealed since 1987, bricked up after a student named Robert Haines was found dead in hi...

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff offers a little direction to help you make it through the day!This collection represents some of the very best columns from Dr. Michael Mantell, a popular television, radio and print personality, who discusses friendship, sex, marriage, divorce, children, aging, health, drugs, stress and anxiety and just about every other topic that's important.Dr. Mantell has thoughtful and practical advice for all of us who take life too seriously. His wit and wisdom leave no ...

What's Your Excuse?Life becomes complicated when you realize that the motivation to start or delay a task is a tug-of-war between positive and negative emotions. Don’t blame lack of willpower, laziness, or low motivation if you aren’t achieving your goals.Motivation is not a skill. Like a muscle, it’s subject to fatigue when stretched. That’s why fascinating research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology has revealed another reason you may feel paralyzed to...