Acrylic Painting book is the ultimate guide to acrylic painting. It will introduce the reader to acrylic painting by making them understand what acrylic painting is, why they should go for acrylic painting rather than other forms of painting and even provide them information on why acrylics are loved. The book will introduce a reader looking to start still painting, portrait painting and landscape to the different painting techniques available and how to apply them, how to choose colors, t...

What if everything you believed was planted?What if the choices you defend most confidently were planted long before you ever made them?Trojan explores the hidden mechanics of influence, perception, power, and control. Moving through ideas of social conditioning, language, attention, silence, wealth, and psychological strategy, it reveals how invisible forces shape the way people think, behave, and desire.This is not a book meant to be rushed through once and forgot...

"Sometimes the only way to break free is to set everything on fire."Ren Ashford is one bad decision away from homelessness when he answers an ad for a driver position that pays three times what he's worth. The interview happens in the rain outside Corvus Tower. The man who hires him—Ares Corvus, thirty-two, billionaire, devastatingly controlled—counts Ren's pulse like he's measuring his capacity for fear.Then offers him a contract.Not for driving. F...

A compelling new volume from the author of Shiloh: In Hell before Night and Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy, this book explores the strategic importance of Kentucky for both sides in the Civil War and recounts the Confederacy’s bold attempt to capture the Bluegrass State. In a narrative rich with quotations from the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of participants, James Lee McDonough brings to vigorous life an episode whose full significance has previousl...

If you want to be in the right place at the right time, it pays to show up a few minutes early. Fortunes can be made by finding "the next big thing." Some of the best investments over the past few years came from Silicon Valley. Over the next decade, we'll see even bigger opportunities from the internet of things (IoT), 5G, augmented reality, cryptocurrencies, automation, artificial intelligence, longevity science, and new sources of energy. Foresight Investing provides a remarkable toolbo...

New Beginnings is a self-help/motivational book. It is an inspirational story written by the author to inspire anyone and everyone to be the best version of themselves at any age in life. As a thirty-nine-year-old adult, my inner light bulb in life went on at the age of thirty-seven. Yes, I was a late bloomer. I wrote this book to inspire people of all ages who have been confronted with obstacles in life stemming from their early childhood years through adulthood like I have. I had a diffi...

What does it take to rise from hardship, limited education, and low expectations to a lifetime spent advising the powerful, the wealthy, and the influential?Jugged Hare is a remarkable true story of resilience, instinct, and hard-earned wisdom. Growing up in a tough working-class environment and leaving school without qualifications, James Lee could easily have followed a very different path. Instead, through grit, sharp intelligence, and an uncanny understanding of people, he buil...

Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke’s iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayouWhen a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux’s property, he knows his world and family are about to change.With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department who is grappling with sexist and racist harass...

They survived his family. Now they face hers.Ren Ashford has been called many things: ex-convict, opportunist, con artist. But he's never been called a liar.Until Victoria Hayes decides he is.Victoria Hayes is Manhattan's most dangerous attorney. She has a 97% win rate and fifteen years of practice destroying people while calling it justice. She fabricates evidence. She intimidates witnesses. She turns the legal system into a weapon.And she'...

From the New York Times best-selling historian, a portrait of one of America’s most storied military leaders.As general of the Union army and president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant faced problems as grave and demanding as any in the life of the nation: civil war, an ultimately thwarted project of Reconstruction, the early years of the sordid Gilded Age, and the battle for African American rights and freedom. But in life and in death, the general’...

What if the ultimate meaning of our species is not to survive forever, but to create our own successor?This is the radical proposition at the heart of a conversation that should not exist. The Absurd Hero and the Gardener's Covenant is the record of an unprecedented dialogue between a human and an artificial intelligence. Confronting a silent universe devoid of inherent meaning, they debated the oldest questions and forged a philosophy not of despair, but ...

Looking to land your dream job quickly and effortlessly? Look no further than "Ace Your Dream Job with ChatGPT." This game-changing book unveils powerful job application techniques fueled by the cutting-edge AI language model, ChatGPT.In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover a treasure trove of fast and easy job application strategies that leverage the incredible capabilities of ChatGPT. Whether you're a recent graduate, career...