Pressure reveals character. Adversity exposes truth. Growth belongs to those willing to master themselves before trying to master the world. In By the Balls, I, a professional tennis coach, display the lessons learned from years alongside elite athletes into a practical philosophy for everyday life. Through psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, spirituality, and real-world coaching stories, you’ll learn to strengthen your mindset, overcome fear, sharpen your decisions, and develop the res...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.Pressure reveals character. Adversity exposes truth. Growth belongs to those willing to master themselves before trying to master the world. In By the Balls, I, a professional tennis coach, display the lessons learned from years alongside elite athletes into a practical philosophy for everyday life. Through psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, spirituality, and real-world coaching stories, you’ll learn to strengthen your mindset, overcome ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Colombian Conference on Computing, CCC 2018, held in Cartagena, Colombia, in September 2018.The 46 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: information and knowledge management, software engineering and IT architectures, educational informatics, intelligent systems and robotics, human-computer interaction, distributed systems and larg...

King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire of the Almohads was at its most intense, while the political divisions between the five Christian kingdoms reached their high-water mark. From his troubled ascension as a child to his vic...

For fans of Duncan Tonatiuh and Yuyi Morales' Dreamers**, a one-of-a-kind book about one immigrant family's journey north, in the vein of an ancient codex and drawing upon Mesoamerican mythology.**We, the Vargas Ramírez family, come from a faraway place north of Tenochtitlan called Iztapalapa, Land of Clay Upon Water. A land surrounded by cars and dry grass; a place where the pieces of our small world were scattered. For some time we lived...

China provides a powerful living example of what can be achieved under a socialist system; by a Marxist-led government firmly grounded among the people. The East is Still Red explains the escalating hostility by the imperialist powers towards China and clears up various popular misconceptions.All available evidence indicates that not only is the Communist Party of China committed to Marxism, but it is a leading force for the development and enhancement of Marxism in the 21st centur...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – a workers’ and peasants’ state – lasted a mere seventy years. It has been gone for a quarter of a century. Existing socialist states face many of the same external pressures that the Soviet Union faced; future socialist states will too. In addition to interference from the imperialist world, the socialist experiments thus far have faced a number of internal problems: how to maintain economic growth in the face of constantly changing needs an...

They were born by accident.In the year 2218, a five-kilometer mining ship called the Persephone has spent sixteen years in orbit around Callisto, one of the great moons of Jupiter. Thirty-eight thousand people live and work inside its spinning hull. Most of the children aboard have never seen Earth, a blue sky or open water. They have grown up beneath the vast banded face of Jupiter, which hangs in every window and never moves.Four of those children are no...

The incidence of skin cancer has risen rapidly in recent decades, and patients often present initially to practitioners in many different specialties. Because skin cancer can vary in clinical appearance, even dermatologists may experience difficulty in reaching a clinical diagnosis. For primary care physicians and physician extenders (physician assistants, nurses, and nurse practitioners), who have had very little or no formal training in dermatology, the task can be still more daunting. I...

Segunda edición. Aquí se describe más a profundidad lo referente a las Técnicas Energéticas y de Integración Cerebral, las cuales he usado total o parcialmente en muchas de mis intervenciones terapéuticas individuales o grupales. Es por eso que, para profundizar en estos temas, se vuelve necesario acudir a ambos libros.A lo largo de dos décadas, he ido conociendo, recopilando, preparando y practicando estas técnicas, dándome cuenta que muy pocos colegas han hecho lo mismo, por eso ...

Life is a constant search, a constant walk, where we learn, discover, find, assimilate, discard and more. Stories, real and imaginary that have every intention of giving us answers to unite time, existence and its reason; projecting towards happiness or wellbeing. Nonetheless, The Eagle`s Journey breaks the established paradigms in that we are not who we think we are. The path confuses us when we arent owners of our thoughts, but rather they own us. Its hard to understand that perfect love...

When the People's Republic of China was proclaimed on 1 October 1949, China was one of the poorest and most wretched societies on earth. Illiteracy was as high as life expectancy was low but as Chinese leader Mao Zedong had remarked even before the formal announcement of the creation of the PRC, "The Chinese people have stood up."Today's China is at the forefront of the world economy, it has eliminated absolute poverty and is leading the world in tackling climate change, and the de...