Take back your energy, one small step at a time.In today's fast-paced, high-stimulus world, we are constantly fatigued, maxed out, and stressed, leaving many of us with little to no energy to really live. Meditation teacher and mindfulness trainer Dr. Volker Hack has a simple message: The sooner you tune in to your energy, the sooner you can reclaim your vitality.Packed with real-life stories, science-backed tools, and powerful practices for unders...

New stories means new scares in this hauntingly good collection!Step back into the shadows as the newest installment of the acclaimed horror anthology series delivers a brand-new round of chilling tales from some of comics’ most exciting voices, each offering their own twist on horror, suspense, and the uncanny!From creeping supernatural dread to the horrors that lurk inside the human psyche, these tales span the full spectrum of terror sure to delight even...

Ebook Volume 1 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.Ebook Volume 1 of 3.Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the art and science of designing settlements on the land—encompasses a range of activities undertaken by architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and engineers....

Ebook Volume 3 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.Ebook Volume 3 of 3.Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the art and science of designing settlements on the land—encompasses a range of activities undertaken by architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and engineers....

Howard Hughes (1905-1976) was a true American original: legendary lover, record-setting aviator, idiosyncratic film producer, talented inventor, ultimate eccentric—and, for much of his lifetime, the richest man in the United States. His desire for privacy was so fierce and his isolation so complete that even several decades after his death, inaccurate stories continue to circulate about him. Richard Hack explodes the illusion of Hughes' life and exposes the man behind the myth--a playboy w...

With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and sentences in specific settings, and new patterns or styles of reasoning within those sentences. In its lucid and tho...

Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction, and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Hacking invokes a wide intellectual framework involving the growth of science, economics, ...

The Malayan Emergency of 1948–1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they played out at local level. Drawing on oral history, recent memoirs and declassified archival material from the UK and Asia, Karl Hack offers a comprehensive, multi-perspective account of the Ma...

This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities. The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are all considered. 'Intervening' presents the first sustained treatment of experimental science for many years and u...

Are you struggling to grasp the complexities of French grammar? Does learning French feel like a daunting task? Do you find yourself confused by unfamiliar grammar rules? Are you searching for a simpler way to learn French?Stop feeling overwhelmed by French grammar rules and start mastering the language with confidence. French Grammar For Beginners is here to transform your language-learning experience by simplifying French grammar through relatable English comparisons.

Tired of not knowing which news stories in the media are real, and which are fake? Then read TRASH NEWS, a collection of humorous and satirical spoof news stories and articles to tickle your funny bone, and provide some light relief from all the doom and gloom in the 'real' news. TRASH NEWS: 100% fact-free news!

Memoir of a Hockey Nobody is the unlikely true story of an average Canadian kid who grew up playing street hockey. Although he didn't learn how to skate until his late teens, he took a shot at entering the world of professional ice hockey with, shall we say, haphazard results.This is an "against all odds" tale of one man's journey from Vancouver, to all over Western Canada, California, The Yukon, and Alaska. Seemingly blocked at every turn, from managers who believed that someone w...