WITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY—Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the ...

‘Some guys think yoga makes you less of a man, the truth is it makes you a better one.’In today’s society, being a man is overrated. There is a set of unspoken rules that govern the way men are supposed to act and behave – act tough, don’t cry, win at all costs and these Rules are passed down from generation to generation. BUT a shift has happened and the world has opened up to a more conscious way of living, a more compassionate way of living.Boys of Yoga’s Sit Down, Be Qu...

Harness the power of C++ to build smaller, faster, safer, and more predictable programs using the latest techniques and best practices to optimize performance and ensure reliability in your software development projects Get With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeKey FeaturesUse contemporary C++ features to enhance code safety and reliabilityDevelop a deeper understanding of memory management mechanisms in C++Write progr...

Exercise Personal Training 101 provides a message of empowerment for personal trainers who believe in the holistic development of their clients. The key philosophy of the book is to help personal trainers of exercise to empower their clients with good problem-solving and decision-making skills concerning their health and well-being. Good personal trainers become great personal trainers when they practise HELP with their clients and help them to become better problem-solvers and decision ma...

This book is about the so called “4S” challenge – how does or can or should someone say something to someone about something? This challenge is getting more intense day by day in our contemporary globalized world, increasingly connected by science and technology through telecommunication and all sorts of social media, where people are acutely aware of the diverse views on culture, politics, economics, religion, ethics, education, physical health and mental wellbeing, which are very often i...

A distinguished geoscientist and rising-star astrobiologist offer a stunning new theory upending 150 years of established science—and an inspiring new vision of our universe.Of the codified laws of nature, famously, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the disorder of a closed system tends to increase as time passes. New shoes eventually scuff, our bodies weaken and die. Yet our senses tell us that mi...

Of the codified laws of nature, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the disorder of a closed system tends to increase as time passes. New shoes eventually scuff, our bodies weaken and die. Yet our senses tell us that miraculous order constantly emerges, too: children grow and learn; spontaneous patterns manifest in murmurations of starlings. Can it be true that the laws of our universe mandate only dissolution?...

What does it truly mean to be alive?In the tech-laden shadows of Nuevo Diego, Maris—a synthetic operative entwined with the shadowy C.O.R.P.S.E.—grapples with the echoes of a past that's not entirely hers.She's been under the radar, aiding her comrade Spyder to cleanse their district of crime. But her covert pursuit of C.O.R.P.S.E. is on the brink of erupting into chaos.Who is the mysterious man who walks into Spyder's café, wearing darknes...

What happens when the world's deadliest operative is activated with no target to take out?Tina Hutchinson was a member of the black ops team known as C.O.R.P.S.E.—until she was killed.But her death triggered a secret program, activating an android that was trained to kill, yet is now confused about its mission.To survive, the android must learn how to blend in with society, acquire resources, and avoid detection—all while trying to ...

Collects Iron Fist (2022) #1-5.Who is Iron Fist? Danny Rand no longer wields his legendary power. He's just a guy who knows kung fu. So who will take Danny's place as the Iron Fist? A new heroic legacy begins as a young warrior in great pain turns to the martial arts masters of K'un-Lun for aid - and gets far more than he bargained for! Can this lost soul balance his chi, win the favor of Shou-Lao the Undying and join a long line of champions? The world had better hope so, because a dark g...

What does it mean to be human in a world where humans and machines collide?In the pulse-pounding third book of the C.O.R.P.S.E series, Maris is Public Enemy #1. A botched attack exposes her identity. Now C.O.R.P.S.E. manipulates the public against her, forcing her into hiding with Spyder.On the run with unlikely allies, Maris desperately counterattacks C.O.R.P.S.E.She's determined to clear her name and reveal their sinister plans. Dodging h...

In a world where androids fight for freedom, one stands apart.Maris, a rogue android with a mysterious past, infiltrates the Nexus, an underground organization promising liberation for her kind. Delving deeper into their secrets, she uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the future of both androids and humans alike.Joined by her loyal dog Hero and a skilled hacker named Spyder, Maris must navigate a treacherous landscape of rival gangs, powerful c...