Amber Jackson had just graduated with her degree in physical therapy and was excited to begin her new job in Jacksonville, FL. She was happy to be back in the house where she had grown up. On the first day of her job, she meets Lieutenant Commander Phillip Eaton. He had been medically discharged from the Navy due to a severe leg injury. Now, he was in therapy for his leg, and his injuries had left him bitter with nothing to live for. Could Amber help heal both his body and his spirit? Would Phillip be able to see past his injuries and find a reason to keep on living?
Second ChancesAfter escaping her abusive husband with her four-year-old daughter, Amber, Amanda Jackson now worked as accountant for the same women's shelter that she had lived in those many years ago. She was not prepared for seeing Antonio Ramirez in her office that afternoon. He was on the board of directors for the non-profit organization where she worked, and he was every woman's dream. After getting into an argument with her secretary, Antonio watched Amanda put the secretary in her place. It surprised her when Antonio asked her to take a ride with him. She had no idea that he found her just as intriguing as she found him attractive. Would Amanda be willing to have another relationship? Would Antonio be able to protect her when her life is threatened? Would Amanda ever be able to love again?When Antonio Ramirez walked into Care Transitional Shelter offices, he had no intention of getting into an argument with the secretary. When Amanda Jackson came out of her office, he noticed she was graceful, charming, and had a commanding presence with her secretary. He was intrigued after watching her look him over and never bat an eye. This made him even more curious as her expression never changed. He had no idea what he was thinking when he asked her to go for a ride, except that he wanted to get to know her better. Little did he know that his life was going to suddenly change. When her life is threatened, Antonio worries about her, but his job with the FBI takes him out of town. How will she protect herself with him not around? Another ChanceAmber Jackson just graduated with her degree in physical therapy and is excited to begin her new job in Jacksonville, Fl. She was glad to get a job close to home, and she was happy to be back in the house where she had grown up. On the first day of her job, she meets Lieutenant Commander Phillip Eaton. He had been medically discharged from the Navy due to a severe leg injury. Now, he was in therapy for his leg, and his injuries had left him bitter. Could Amber help him to heal both his body and his spirit? Would Phillip find a reason to keep on living?Phillip Eaton had never wanted anything but a Navy career. The accident on base had taken that career away from him, and he had no hope for a future. When he went to physical therapy and saw his beautiful new therapist, her pleasant attitude and beautiful smile irritated him. However, over the next few weeks, she was all he thought about. He remembered that she had told him that he needed to find a reason to keep living and something that made him happy. He knew that Amber made him happy. Would she be willing to see him when his therapy was over? Would they be able to find love and be happy together?
Madisyn is on the run from the corrupt police officers who killed her husband. Those officers framed him for the corruption in the department, but now, they believe that she has the information that her husband collected on their illegal activities. After almost getting caught in Atlantic Beach, she flees Florida and heads west. Counting on her husband's partner, Matt, to find evidence back in Miami, she hopes she can hide in Joplin. When she meets her new neighbor, Carter, she wonders if her running will ever be over. Will she ever find happiness and love without having to look over her shoulder? Or will Carter be the cause of her undoing?
Carter's twin sister, Chloe, has always thought of Roman as just another brother. After all, he is Carter's best friend and partner at the Joplin Police Department. It was the dance that they shared at Carter's wedding, that made her suddenly aware of him as more than just a second brother. Roman had liked Chloe since the moment he first met her, but she was his partner's sister. That meant she was off-limits. Besides, she probably just thought of him as a brother. Would Chloe ever come to think at him as more than a brother and would Carter even approve? What would they do if Chloe's safety is compromised, and would Roman be able to keep her safe?
After escaping her abusive husband with her four-year-old daughter fourteen years ago, Amanda Jackson now works as accountant for the same women's shelter that she had lived in all those years ago. She was not prepared for seeing Antonio Ramirez in her office one afternoon, especially in an argument with her secretary. He was on the board of directors for the non-profit organization where she worked, and he was every woman's dream. It surprised her even more when Antonio asked her to take a ride with him. She had no idea that he found her just as intriguing as she found him attractive. Another relationship had not been in her plans for the future, but when the two of them are continually thrown together, would Amanda be willing to open her heart once again? Would Antonio be able to protect her when her life is threatened? Would Amanda get a second chance at love and would she accept it?
Adele Winthrop is raising her four year old daughter alone since her husband's death three and a half years ago. She is struggling to make ends meet, but when a stranger approaches her and her daughter, Analise, at the park, Adele cannot even begin to imagine the changes that will come to their lives. When CIA agent Steven Mayhugh approaches Adele in the park, he knows he has to keep her safe. He just hopes she will agree to his plan, and that means moving into her house. Will this be enough to keep Adele and Analise safe? Can two strangers learn to become friends?
Runaway LoveWhen Jessica Turner's wealthy father demanded that she marry Brandon, she fled New York. She did not need or want her father's money and she did not love Brandon. She only wanted her freedom. When he finds her and forces her to return, she realizes how ruthless he really is. After escaping and taking on a new identity, Jessica knows she cannot trust anyone. However, meeting Jonas Weber changed everything. She knows he can help her, but can she trust him with her past? Will her secrets keep them apart?Unexpected LoveMichael Hunt is the CFO of a large company. At 34 years old, he found himself wanting more from life than just long hours at work. When an unexpected employee shows up at his house one evening, he does not realize that she is going to turn his world upside down. Cassidy Akers is like a whirlwind, not only disrupting his dinner, but making accusations that someone is stealing money from the company. They must work together to find out who is responsible, but they end up finding much more than just the missing money.
Lauren's parents died in a car accident just before she turned eighteen, and she has been on her own ever since. She is just barely surviving, trying to make ends meet, and her beauty has made her a target in her neighborhood of Chicago. When tycoon Robert Stillwell has to take a wife before turning thirty in just a few months, due to the unfortunate clause his father put into his work contract, he advertises for a wife. He doesn't want the emotional involvement. When he sees how beautiful Lauren is during her interview, but also sees the bruises in the shape of a handprint on her arm, he knows she is the right choice. He can provide her with protection and not have to worry about a clingy wife. By marrying her, he has rescued her, but he never counted on how attracted he would be to her. To Lauren, it seems that everything she does makes Robert mad. She never knows when he will get upset or why he is angry. Can they ever learn to get past the obstacles holding them apart and turn their marriage of convenience into a real one?
Put the power of Haskell to work in your programs, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell daily to get practical work done efficiently. Leverage powerful features like Monad Transformers and Type Families to build useful applications. Realize the benefits of a pure functional language, like protecting your code from side effects. Manage concurrent processes fearlessly. Apply functional techniques to working with databases and building RESTful services. Don't get bogged down in theory, but learn to employ advanced programming concepts to solve real-world problems. Don't just learn the syntax, but dive deeply into Haskell as you build efficient, well-tested programs. Haskell is a pure functional programming language with a rich ecosystem of tools and libraries. Designed to push the boundaries of programming, it offers unparalleled power for building reliable and maintainable systems. But to unleash that power, you need a guide. Effective Haskell is that guide. Written by an engineer who understands how to apply Haskell to the real world and uses it daily to get practical work done, it is your ticket to Haskell mastery. Gain deep understanding of how Haskell deals with IO and the outside world by writing a complete Haskell application that does several different kinds of IO. Reinforce your learnings with practice exercises in every chapter. Write stable and performant code using Haskell's type system, code that is easier to grow and refactor. Leverage the power of pure functional programming to improve collaboration, make concurrency safe and easy, and make large code bases manageable. Implement type-safe web services, write generative tests, design strongly typed embedded domain-specific languages, and build applications that exploit parallelism and concurrency without fear of deadlocks and race conditions. Create and deploy cloud-native Haskell applications. Master the performance characteristics of functional applications to make them run faster and use less memory. Write Haskell programs that solve real-world business problems. What You Need: Intel based Mac, M1 Macs, Linux PC, or Windows with WSL2 ghcup (http://www. Haskell.org/ghcup/) An active internet connection will be required for some projects.
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Have you ever wondered what mysteries the ocean holds? Prepare to explore the ocean from sunlit shallows to the deepest, darkest depths. Along the way, you'll meet many incredible creatures that are brand new to science. Dive to a coral reef and spot a new species of pygmy octopus. Travel deeper and discover fragile, nearly transparent jellies as they drift past. Then head down into a world of eternal night. You'll encounter animals that make their own light and zombie worms that feast on the bones of dead whales. Your adventure is based on the real journeys of scientists involved in the Census of Marine Life. From 2000 to 2010, more than two thousand researchers from eighty-two countries carried out the most extensive investigation of ocean life ever attempted. Author Rebecca L. Johnson takes readers to research sites around the globe, showing how ocean scientists do their work. Stunning photographs throughout bring readers face-to-face with some of the most mesmerizing creatures on Earth.
In Classical American Philosophy: Poiesis in the Public Square, Rebecca Farinas takes seven major figures from the American philosophical canon and examines their relationship with an artistic or scientific interlocutor. It is a unique insight into the origins of American philosophy and through case studies such as the friendship between Alain Locke and the biologist E.E. Just and the collaboration between Jane Addams and George Herbert Mead, Farinas provides a new insight into these thinkers' ideas. Her new perspective allows her to move beyond relational aesthetics to consider these theorists' phenomenological, metaphysical, religious and cosmological ideas and reapply them to the modern world. Indeed, the partnerships she examines have proved especially valuable to newer philosophical fields like value theory, ethics, pedagogy and semiotics. Her links between art and science also provide new vantage points on our society's continuing artistic endeavours and technological advances and introduce an exciting new perspective on early American philosophy and its ensuing movements.
Obesity has become a global crisis. Although most would agree that eating better and being more physically active are the answer to the problem, researchers have recently become aware that the problem goes beyond just changing individual behaviors. We can convince people of the benefits of healthful eating and regular physical activity, but what happens when they go home to a neighborhood where fresh vegetables are not available and opportunities for physical activity are hard to find? If the environment doesn’t help support healthy lifestyles, the change will be next to impossible to sustain. In Reversing the Obesogenic Environment, leading researchers Lee, McAlexander, and Banda introduce the concept of the obesogenic environment—an environment that leads people to become obese—and explore ways that changing our environment can encourage healthier choices. Although most of the current literature focuses on the food supply and dietary habits, Reversing the ObesogenicEnvironment takes a broader view of the current obesity problem. It looks at all of the elements that combine to create the obesogenic environment: •The ways that the built environment, access to resources, and active transportation systems can either foster or discourage regular physical activity •The multiple factors that encourage consumption of calorie-laden, nutritionally inadequate foods that can lead to obesity •The positive and negative impact of public policy •The influence of family, culture, socioeconomic status, and other social factors on an individual’s health behaviors as well as access to physical activity opportunities and healthier food options •The role that media and marketing play in food purchasing decisions With Reversing the Obesogenic Environment, readers will get a cutting-edge view of this emerging body of research with applications that can be realistically implemented in their communities. The book goes beyond defining the issues that contribute to the obesity epidemic—it offers tools that will help practitioners start to reverse it. Throughout the book, the authors incorporate practical recommendations based on the latest research. Sample programs and policies, checklists, and potential solutions offer readers a starting point for changes in their own communities. The obesity epidemic is a multifaceted issue influenced by factors ranging from international trade and national policy to individual behaviors. Reversing the problem will take coordinated multilevel efforts. These efforts may take years to come to fruition, but it isn’t too late to take action. Reversing the Obesogenic Environment is the ideal guide to taking the first steps toward change. Reversing the Obesogenic Environment is part of the Physical Activity Intervention Series (PAIS). This timely series provides educational resources for professionals interested in promoting and implementing physical activity and health promotion programs to a diverse and often-resistant population.
Ye Ole Thinker Manual may help you live longer, improve your sex life, make you more independent, give you power and happiness, put self-respect, success, and truth back into your life, give you irreplaceable knowledge and tell you what's for supper! As a matter of fact, no matter what you want or need; you're more likely to get it if you're healthy. All Thinker lives are driven by the condition of their model. You cannot imagine what a powerful determinant health is, until you lose it. You may feel daring, carefree or even angry when you say "I don't care if what I eat is unhealthy; I have to die from something anyway." Are you willing to run around to the other side of that thought and look at it from a different angle? All Thinkers are destined to die at some point. But why spend the rest of your short life destroying the vehicle in which you travel? Healing is not rare. It happens every day. It's a fact that you create your own health (or lack of it) every day. Because we Thinkers, despite our delusions of grandeur, are vessels full of nothing but water, electricity, math, chemistry and bugs. You feel the way you feel because of them. Fortunately, you can control your water, electricity, math, chemistry and bugs by what you eat, drink, breathe, and think. If you want to make your life better in any way; eat, drink, breathe and think in better ways. Maybe you don't need to be afraid of what's going on inside of your model any more. Maybe it's time you peeked behind your walls of misconceptions, ignorance and stubbornness. Maybe it isn't really cute, popular or smart to ignore the incredible machine that allows you to live. Maybe it's time to grow up and stopping pleasuring yourself to death with food. Maybe it's time to change your deadly thoughts and habits. Maybe your young will thrive and excel when they are fed only nutrient-dense foods. Maybe the magic of food will work for you. Ye Ole Thinker Manual introduces you to The 100 Perfect Foods which will keep your model running like a well-oiled machine and help you in hundreds of ways without causing harm. The 100 Perfect Foods can be purchased from just 6-8 aisles in your local grocery store, are cheaper than unhealthy foods, and can easily be used to create thousands of yummy recipes. No dieting! No measuring! No calorie counting! No meetings! No weighing (you or the food)! No recipes! Ye Ole Thinker Manual will introduce you to the story of Lilly the Liver. She's brave, funny and fiercely dedicated. She embarks on a journey, alone and vulnerable, to save herself and her friends from certain death! On this journey, Lilly grabs the opportunity to make a big difference and ends up discovering a whole new world. You just will not believe the tasks she's capable of performing! You're gonna want her on your side! Ye Ole Thinker Manual proudly presents The Uncle Carb Radio Program hosted by Uncle Carb; that cantankerous and funny guy who bullies you into changing your deadly habits! He tells it like it is, gives you the information you need to save yourself and makes you chuckle and moan. In his live radio program, he talks with interesting characters such as Bulky Middleton, Husky Muffintop and Skip Breakfast! Join Uncle Carb as he wades through acid, fungi and stress hormones, at least! Ye Ole Thinker Manual gives you the confidence to believe in your own healing. There are no short cuts. It will require practice, patience and pondering. If you're interested in saving your own race; you'll have to start with yourself. It's tempting to look for someone else to save. And it might make you feel good or heroic. But it won't save you from a lack of self-interest. Save yourself! Live healthy every day. Or at least die tryin'.
*** LEON, the home of naturally fast food, has created a collection of more than 100 fuss-free, full-of-flavour recipes for main course dishes that you can create with only one cooking pot, pan or baking tray. Simple-to-follow, satisfying recipes that are perfect for any occasion, whether you are looking for a mid-week supper, a quick weekend lunch or something posh (but easy) to impress friends or family. From one-pan pastas to warming tagines, fragrant tray-baked fish and veg to Asian-inspired stir-fries, LEON Happy One-pot is all about the food and not the washing up. Includes recipes that are Naturally Fast, Fresh & Easy, Cosy & Warm, Posh, Low & Slow and Simple Suppers. - 'Leon is the future' - Giles Coren, The Times
The cookbook companion to the groundbreaking fertility book It Starts with the Egg. A wealth of scientific research shows that adopting a Mediterranean diet can help you get pregnant faster and boost success rates in IVF. This book helps you put that research into practice, with over 100 recipes inspired by the Mediterranean diet, along with answers to all your questions about nutrition and fertility. Recipes include • Smoked Salmon and Leek Frittata • Baked Falafel with Lemon Tahini Dressing • Chicken Souvlaki with Avocado Tzatziki • Pan-Fried Snapper with Salsa Verde • Dairy-Free Chicken Alfredo • Low-Carb Rosemary Flatbread • Blueberry Almond Cake • Pecan Chocolate Chip Blondies
Smitten by Scotland since childhood, travel writer Rebecca Gibson moved to Moray and started exploring her new home region on foot to produce this new title in Bradt’s award-winning series of Slow travel guides to UK regions. Walkers, cyclists, wildlife lovers, families, history and folklore enthusiasts, and foodies are all catered for, with coverage of a wide range of attractions. As the only comprehensive guidebook to North East Scotland in print, it also contains all the practical information you could need to plan and enjoy time in this thrillingly diverse yet largely under-explored part of Britain. This region of mountains and coasts, ancient Caledonian pine forests and salmon-rich rivers harbours much to enthral and surprise. Long famous among hillwalkers, mountaineers and nature lovers, the Cairngorms is the UK’s largest National Park and holds five of its six tallest summits – but also abounds in fairy folklore. Balmoral Estate has been a royal residence since Queen Victoria’s reign, while Aberdeenshire – with its unique language, Doric – has Scotland’s highest density of castles and numerous Pictish stone circles among an astounding 30,000 sites of historical and archaeological interest. Between Inverness and Aberdeen lies the less-familiar region of Moray, which hosts the world’s most northerly population of bottle-nosed dolphins, Scotland’s oldest independent museum, and Forres, where Shakespeare’s Macbeth met the three witches. Here the Scots language and culture are celebrated through gatherings such as fire festivals. This guidebook’s Slow approach to travel fits with a growing ethos of sustainability in this part of Scotland, from Findhorn Ecovillage to a celebration of locally sourced, artisan and organic food alongside the well-known products of whisky, Aberdeen Angus beef and River Dee salmon. Key heritage attractions are described in intimate detail – but so too are opportunities to see some of Scotland’s most special wildlife, from pinewood-dwelling crested tits to high-altitude specialists like ptarmigan. Whether you are keen to visit castles or indulge in whisky-tastings amid Britain’s highest concentration of distilleries, to hike among Cairngorm’s remote mountains or to stride boldly along miles upon miles of coastline, discover North East Scotland with Bradt’s unique Slow guide.
Save the Planet: Protecting our Natural Resources applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers. Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving—all critical thinking skills—while learning about ways to care for our planet.
Increasingly, political scientists use the term 'experiment' or 'experimental' to describe their empirical research. One of the primary reasons for doing so is the advantage of experiments in establishing causal inferences. In this book, Rebecca B. Morton and Kenneth C. Williams discuss in detail how experiments and experimental reasoning with observational data can help researchers determine causality. They explore how control and random assignment mechanisms work, examining both the Rubin causal model and the formal theory approaches to causality. They also cover general topics in experimentation such as the history of experimentation in political science; internal and external validity of experimental research; types of experiments - field, laboratory, virtual, and survey - and how to choose, recruit, and motivate subjects in experiments. They investigate ethical issues in experimentation, the process of securing approval from institutional review boards for human subject research, and the use of deception in experimentation.
This book sits alongside turkey, chipolatas and stuffing as a Christmas essential.' Tom Parker Bowles From the award-winning Ginger Pig butchers, here are all the recipes you need for the most important meal of the year, plus all the other get-togethers of the festive season. In addition to delicious dishes there's a wealth of helpful advice, from how to stuff a bird to the art of building a festive cheese board. 'Much though we love it, Christmas day is not just about poultry, so although this book has recipes for turkey and goose, we've included plenty of alternatives, like stuffed porchetta, rib of beef or celeriac steaks. Because families and friends get together before and after the big day, we have included ideas for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, canapés and puddings for the days between Christmas and the New Year, together with advice on alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. For New Year's Eve itself, choose between our recipes for a formal dinner or a more relaxed get-together.' Tim Wilson, Founder of Ginger Pig Packed with recipes for every possible Christmas, whether you're feeding a crowd or cooking for just a few, this is the ultimate culinary guide for a stress-free, luxurious Christmas.
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