It's launch time for the hotly anticipated video game Alien Liberator 2, and who better to invite along than top gamer Ali-A? Ali is promised the biggest game launch ever - but what he doesn't count on is just how real the action is about to get!When a merciless band of aliens turns up to spoil the party, it's up to Ali to transform from gaming icon to real-life hero. Can he defeat the end-of-game boss and save the day? With a little help from his fans and a very special d...

John Greenwood was born into a 300 billion dollar empire, but to his father, he is just a broken promise. David Greenwood is dying. Before he leaves this world, he wants to see his son become a man worthy of the family legacy. The ultimatum is cold and clear: take a stable company like SkyRock and increase its value by a hundred million dollars in a single year. If John fails, the entire fortune vanishes into charity.But John does not follow anyone's rules. Instead...

The highest stakes are never on the table. They are in the heart. To protect the woman he secretly loves from a devastating truth, mastermind trainer Jack stages the ultimate lie. He publicly declares his love for Jacqueline, sealing the deception with a kiss that shatters multiple lives in silence. For Jessica, the lie brings immense relief. For John, it is another beautifully executed pawn move in his quest for a three-hundred-billion-dollar empire.But illusions dissolve quickly ...

Many years ago, a group of people established a secret organization to protect the world from the devil thoughts, corruption, human traffic, slavery, ignorance, etc.With time, this secret organization started to be known as the TEMPLE, and the people who are serving inside it was called the KNIGHTS.The only way to get inside the TEMPLE is to be recruited from inside, the advisors each year was and still recruiting people from all around the world to achieve the Temple high ...

This book is a transcription of extensive interviews between Professor Ali A. Allawi and Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri, conducted in South Africa during January-February of 2014.In them, Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri discusses his life story, the spiritual journey and the path he has been on ever since.Professor Allawi’s questions highlight Shaykh Haeri’s life-changing encounters with Sufi Masters and other spiritual teachers and his travels and teaching with Sufi communities.Dra...

In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of religion in Muslim culture has forced a new generation of non-believing Muslims to face the heavy costs of abandoning their parents' religion: disowned by their families, marginalized from their communities, imprisoned, or even sentenced to death by their governments.Struggling to reconcile the Muslim society he was living in a...

Surgery of the lumbar spine is one of the most common operations in neurosurgery and orthopedic spine surgery. This new text presents the current principles and techniques of lumbar spine surgery, including pathology, biomechanics, cutting-edge techniques in navigation and robotics, augmented and virtual reality, and much more. Comprehensive yet practical, it covers the most common pathologies and their surgeries instead of focusing just on one disease, providing a deep dive into diagnoses...

This book joins four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study financed by the World Bank. The first paper prepared by Sherine Al-Shawarby reviews the studies on inequality in Egypt since the 1950s with the double objective of illustrating the importance attributed to inequality through time and of presenting and compare the main published statistics on inequality. To our knowledge, this is the first time that such a comprehensive review is carried. The second paper pr...

ALEXIS LERIGER DE LA PLANTE and NATASHA TARA PETROVIC bring their popular webcomic OPHIUCHUS to Image Comics! OPHIUCHUS is the story of the lone sentry of an ancient, inactive gate. One day, a strange being breaks through and infects her with a virus. And shortly after, she is approached by two machines, who implore her to follow them to the center of the universe to put an end to that virus a malevolent being which rots all worlds.

Ramadan is almost here! It's Zain's favorite time of the year.Well, it usually is. After a recent move and with no mosque or Islamic school in his new neighborhood, will Zain find a new Muslim friend to celebrate with him?Children will learn what makes the ninth Islamic month special from pre-Ramadan decorating, the importance of fasting and volunteering in the community, and the festivities and prayers that continue through the month, ending with ...

This book is a critical analysis of religion in general and Islam in particular. It covers some common misconceptions about Islam that both Muslims and non-Muslims have. The book starts with a little introduction of the author—how and why he became an ex-Muslim—and it is followed up with the importance of writing the book. The first chapter covers the importance of critical sense over common sense and how we should always invoke critical thinking when it comes to looking at the world aroun...

In this book we study The Tabligh Jama’at, an Islamic revivalist movement which, through participation in its preaching tours, provides satisfaction to individuals experiencing the crisis of modernity. Preaching tours enable Muslims to become workers for Allah and involved in the renewal of Allah’s world. We explore the ideological underpinning of preaching and working for Allah through the application of Frame Theory. Through an analytic framework comprising framing tasks and framing proc...