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In the book How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan traces the eventful history of psychedelics, from Hofmann’s first encounter with LSD to the first surge of research into the field to the widespread abuse and misuse followed by a federal government ban and the recent resurrection of psychedelic research. This book contains a comprehensive, well-detailed summary and key takeaways of the original book by Michael Pollan. It summarizes the book in detail to help people effectively understand, articulate, and imbibe the original work by Pollan.

Are ready to discover the best ways to improve your focus?! Is it safe to say that you get irritated in light of the fact that you can’t seem to concentrate for long periods of time and are not keeping on top of things in your everyday life? You can't seem to get out of that never ending hole of switching between various different things? The only way to get over this is to take that leap into learning how to solve your focus problems. This book is ideal for somebody wanting to learn the best ways of how to organize your life and get everything back to efficient, working order.

The Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese war has left a strong legacy of hate and disgust among many Chinese today. Much of the atrocities committed by the Japanese are now known to most historians. Under the leadership of Dr. Shiro Isshi, the Japanese subjected three thousand to 250 thousand innocent men, women, and children to cruel experiments and medical procedures that were carried out by the brightest medical students and staff that Imperial Japan had to offer. In this edition, we expanded on the background info of Unit 731.

Are ready to discover the best ways to improving your focus? Is it safe to say that you get irritated in light of the fact that you can’t seem to concentrate for long periods of time and are not keeping on top of things in your everyday life? You can't seem to get out of that hole of switching between various different things? The only way to get over this is to take that leap into learning how to solve your focus problems. This book is ideal for somebody wanting to learn the best ways of how to organize your life and get everything back to efficient, working order.

A safety guide covering all aspects of horses and horsemanship. Novice equestrians and professionals alike will find useful tips concerning the welfare of horse and rider. Aimed to simplify the world of horses and help to prevent injury to the equestrian and the horse.

Kat, a lapsed Catholic and promiscuous stripper, never thought she would get into Heaven. Even as she stands there at the Pearly Gates, she naturally expects to be sent directly to Hell. She picks a fight with St. Peter just for fun, but rules are rules, and Kat makes it into Heaven on a minor technicality.

In the fourth and final book in the Before Watson series, Sherlock Holmes and his companion and assistant, Dr. Poppy Stamford, embark on their greatest adventure yet. They are charged with solving not just one case, but three.

A drone mission gone awry just blew up one bride's special day, and she calls on celebrated war hero and justice-hungry lawyer Christine Sussman to bring the responsible parties to justice. But while court cases fought solely on US soil are tough, this international battle is near impossible to navigate. Especially when big oil spills into the mix.

Once a decorated soldier, now a hero in the courtroom, Christine Sussman doesn't back down from a fight. But can one lawyer secure victory when the whole system seems rigged against her client? That's exactly what Christine will find out when she agrees to represent a young woman who was assaulted at a college party and then forced to relive the event over and over again, thanks to a media firestorm.

Jolene Jackson would rather be anywhere than Kickapoo, Texas. Sweltering in the bug-infested flatlands and dodging nosy locals is never fun, but with the mayor murdered and her 72-year-old mother locked up in the county jail because of it, Jolene's dragged back to her old hometown, like it or not. Lucille isn't shedding any tears over her boyfriend's untimely demise, and her antics put her at the top of the suspect list. But when a not-so-ex Mrs. Mayor shows up to claim her due, it's pretty clear that Mother Dearest isn't the only one who's been done dirty.

A family is devastated by the sudden, unexplained illness and death of their mother, Caroline. The cause of death is initially unknown, and tensions rise over a dispute for an autopsy.

Widowed, lonely, and angry, Claire feels that God has turned a blind eye to her. When her daughter becomes pregnant, she acts on her pride and vanity, forcing the teenage girl to get rid of the baby. This choice creates a wedge between mother and daughter—and further distances Claire from God. Believing that she’s a hopeless cause and peace is unattainable, she willingly accepts her probable death when a car accident leaves her sinking in the murky Jim River waters.

Warner Saint James is a decorated Navy Seal. He is also a brilliant artist. From his imagination, he paints the woman of his dreams; an olive-skinned, black-headed, brown-eyed beauty. But when he hangs the canvas in the window of his Key West gallery, he inherited from his late Aunt, a Mafia Capo storms in the door and demands to know where the woman in the painting is. He angrily tells Warner that the woman in the painting is real and alive. Her name is Olivia DiAngelo, and he has been searching for her for over 10 years.

Private Detective Angie Stallone opens her fledgling agency in the quaint town of Buxton, North Carolina on the Outer Banks. Struggling to establish a credible business, she teams up with local bookstore owner Mee Mee Roberts to solve a cold case from the 1960s.

Almost every society has professional judges, but from ancient Athens to modern Asia, cultures have wanted ordinary people involved in legal decisions. The use of juries comes with challenges; societies must determine how to select jurors, what cases jurors should decide and by what rules, and how to inform jurors about the law and evidence. This Very Short Introduction shows how and why societies around the world have used juries, charting the spread of the twelve-person jury from England to the British colonies in America, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean.

A deadly pathogen is missing from a clandestine US lab. The government is staying silent about the breach, even as they assemble a task force to track it down. Worse, other nefarious groups are searching for it too.

One year after the suicide, Carson Long still hates his father. He hates him for abandoning his sister Georgie and for turning his mother into a young widow. And he hates his father for leaving behind his stupid tree. Four of them are planted outside the restaurant, one for each family member. That is until Carson's mother hires a local landscaper to remove them in the middle of the night. This seemingly unremarkable act soon sets in motion a series of events that leaves more than just young Carson groping in the dark for answers.

In Literature and the New Culture Wars, Deborah Appleman calls for a reacknowledgment of the intellectual and affective work that literature can do, and offers ways to continue to teach troubling texts without doing harm. Rather than banishing challenged texts from our classrooms, she writes, we should be confronting and teaching the controversies they invoke. Her book is a timely and eloquent argument for a reasoned approach to determining what literature still deserves to be read and taught and discussed.

You've discovered that your husband has cheated on you. Maybe, you've discovered incriminating emails or text messages from his lover, or worse, you have actually seen them together. Your world is crashing down. You feel like a nuclear bomb just decimated your entire world, and you are trying to shield yourself from the fallout. This is very likely the most painful experience you've ever had. You've been sucker-punched in the soul. Infidelity in marriage makes you doubt everything, including your own judgement.

Your husband cheated on you, and now you don't recognize yourself. You used to be so together, so trusting. Now you're falling apart and doing things you would have never even considered doing.