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To avoid the traps of bias and irrationality and make better, productive decisions, we need to stop thinking in disciplines—and start thinking in graphs.Why do we feel confident as novices but question ourselves as experts? What makes some achievements feel more deserving than others? Do we really get happier the more wealth we accumulate? How do stress levels impact our productivity? Every day, we are overwhelmed by multitudes of choices and challenges—some clear and intuitive, while others are shaped beyond the scope of our awareness.

The eleven-year collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann is often called the greatest director-composer partnership in cinema history. Their eight films together include such classic thrillers as Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. In Hitchcock and Herrmann, Steven C. Smith delivers an intimate account of how the reserved, but deeply anxious, Hitchcock found his ideal creative partner in the cantankerous, but deeply romantic, Herrmann.

The Day the Sun Slept is a powerful fable about the delicate balance between humanity and nature. The Sun is hiding, not out of malice, but because the Earth is weary, wounded by years of carelessness and neglect. Raging wildfires, a result of human actions, have filled the skies and blocked the sunlight, becoming a stark reminder of the consequences of taking too much and giving too little.

These enjoyable, entertaining, and inspirational stories communicate positive values and principles for happy and healthy living without being preachy, teachy, or boring. By bringing an assortment of unique and appealing characters to life in these delightful tales, P. Michael Davis opens a gate into a world where things like kindness, compassion, hope, and perseverance live and thrive. He also clearly communicates important truths about how kids, young people, and grownups can build positive relationships and live in a meaningful and fulfilling way.

When the residents of the city of San Francisco settled down for the night on Tuesday, April 17, 1906, they had many reasons to feel optimistic. In the space of less than 50 years, San Francisco had transformed itself from a remote outpost to become the commercial metropolis of the Pacific Coast, a thriving trade center of America’s West Coast.

Kidnapped as a child into slavery, Equiano spent the rest of his life fighting for his freedom. After years of slavery, working on ships that carried him across empire and into battle during the Seven Years War, he eventually managed to purchase his own freedom, and went on to become a leading figure in the early abolition movement. Published to coincide with the first attempt to abolish the slave trade in 1789, Equiano's remarkable autobiography became a sensation and turned its author into the most famous Black person in Georgian Britain.

Every year the Imperium administers the Magi test as part of the ritual of becoming an adult at 18. All new Magi are then sent to the Academy where they learn the magic they need to defend the Imperium. The academy itself can be dangerous for those without the will and determination to survive. Young recruits die every year. Jack always thought he would be a legionnaire. He never expected to become a Magi, let alone a War Magi, one of the magical forces that help defend the Imperium against internal and external threats. Will he survive the trials that await him?

Does real love, great love, still exist? Or have online texting, sexting and ghosting ruined romance forever? Cupid, about to be kicked upstairs for lack of work, has one last chance to prove that love is alive and well. His targets? Two strangers who have sworn off romance. Eve, a once-famous ballerina now happily running her family farm in Vermont, was too busy dancing to be swept away by passion. Evan, a sought-after San Francisco anthologist, prefers all his passions without strings. When they meet, the sparks are otherworldly….

Sir Rigil Barak came to Land’s End expecting a routine mission: investigate some rumors, spy on some nobles, and above all, play the perfect knight. Instead, he is reunited with his less-than-shining past--the same past that has kept him on the road for years, fleeing his noble father's scorn and grieving the woman he thought dead.

In a near-future America where an iron-fisted theocracy weaponizes faith, Calvin has spent decades burying his true self, meticulously conforming to a system that demands absolute obedience. But when a profound, devastating encounter shatters his carefully constructed world, this disgraced former minister finds his authentic calling through an unexpected act of rebellion. Cast out and facing ruthless persecution, Calvin witnesses an act of shocking state-sanctioned violence that shatters his apathy.

Thanksgiving with her fault-finding mother has Odelia Grey stewing in her own juices. But her husband's cousin Ina—who shows up to dinner alone with ugly bruises—clearly has it worse. Things quickly go downhill after Odelia's mother decides to extend her visit a few extra days to attend a storage auction with Ina, who owns a consignment shop. The day of the auction, the thrill of bargain hunting gives way to tragedy when Ina's husband is found inside a storage locker—dead.

It took me too long to wake up. I let life drag me, beat me, break me. I walked into hell with open arms, made choices that chained me to the worst consequences. Then I had the nerve to feel sorry for myself, as if I wasn't the one who put myself there. I was. This wasn't fate. There was no grand design, no cruel god twisting the knife. It was me. My own hands built the prison I rotted in. And the worst part? I let it happen. I let myself be used. I let myself be broken. I became something less than human. Shame wrapped around my throat like a noose, whispering that I was nothing.

A merger at Odelia Grey's law firm has put her job in jeopardy, and her new icy-cold boss, Erica Mayfield, has it in for her. The humiliation doubles when Erica dumps her three-year-old niece with Odelia and disappears for the weekend. The nerve! Primed for a confrontation, Odelia impulsively goes to her boss' house in the middle of the night and finds Erica's sister murdered. Before she knows it, Odelia's madcap misadventure to prove her own innocence ends up in a cuddly cradle of crime.

Skip the debt. Build the man. What if you could trade four stagnant years in lecture halls for four years of adventure—emerging as a debt free EMT, pilot, welder, web/app builder, rancher, and entrepreneur all in one? The Preparation is the field manual for young men (and the parents who love them) who know the old college formula is broken and want a roadmap that actually forges competence, confidence, and real world value.

I never set out to uncover a headline—I was simply following a quiet curiosity, tracing the branches of my family tree. What I discovered was something magical: a connection to the legendary Lucille Ball. This book reflects my journey through ancestry, identity, and joy. It’s about the unexpected beauty of finding ourselves woven into something greater, and realizing that legacy lives not just in public figures, but in the hearts and stories of ordinary people.

Discover the remarkable life of Josephine Earp... She was supposed to marry for security, settle down, and disappear into domesticity. Instead, Josephine Earp ran away to the Wild West, fell in love with a famous gunfighter, and spent almost haft a century chasing adventure across the American frontier. From the dusty streets of Tombstone to the frozen rivers of Alaska, Josephine Earp lived a life that defied every expectation of 19th-century womanhood.

This is the story of the whoreson of a wealthy family, of a transmigrator that had no purpose in his previous life, of a demon that will make power his reason to keep on living. Noah Balvan, after he transmigrated, will have to fight against his social status and the many difficulties of the world he was reborn in to obtain the power to stand free in the sky above anyone!

Electric Katieland is the memoir of how I liberated myself beyond the misleading construct of Western medicine with the use of alternative modalities and plant medicine. Listeners dive into my story of being raised by a patriarchal father and a mother suffering from the oppression hidden within privilege. I went on a quest to heal the root cause of trauma and embrace clairvoyant abilities while searching for my truest form of Self. In order to manifest a new reality, I had to expose the old one that was filled with systemic oppression and the loss of the Divine feminine in motherhood.

What if love was the only thing that could save the world? In a time when artificial intelligence is learning faster than humanity can understand it, two souls—Tim and Cindy—are called beyond the veil of ordinary life. What begins as a classified assignment inside a covert agency known as VINE becomes something far more extraordinary: a revelation about ancient resets, spiritual inheritance, and the true cost of forgetting who we are. As global systems prepare to unleash AI into every corner of daily life, the couple uncovers a dangerous truth—machines can learn logic, but not conscience.

Este libro ofrece una colección de cincuenta relatos breves presentados en formato bilingüe, con cada historia disponible en inglés y español en columnas paralelas. El contenido abarca una amplia variedad de situaciones cotidianas y temas universales, como las rutinas diarias, las interacciones sociales, las actividades familiares, las compras, las experiencias escolares y los eventos comunitarios.