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DNA is "life's blueprint", encoding our genetic inheritance for health and life expectancy. Throughout life, DNA reproduces and replaces itself continually. In optimal conditions, DNA copies itself, making perfect reproductions. But as people age and their DNA is gradually damaged by the environment, diet, and physical and emotional stress, the DNA begins to reproduce poorly and ultimately stops reproducing completely. The result is disease and aging. In this groundbreaking book, Vincent Giampapa, MD, presents a radical new theory on how we age.

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Vincent van Gogh is best known for two things – his sunflowers and his ear-cutting. But there are many other ways of knowing this remarkable son of a Dutch pastor, who left his chill homeland for the sunshine of Arles in the South of France; and left us over a thousand frank letters of struggle and joy, to help us glimpse his inner world. Vincent came late to painting after spending time in London trying to be a Christian missionary.

Here are more than 60 heartwarming stories of faith. These are stories about the true gifts of Christmas: answered prayers, real-life angels, and inexplicable miracles. They are the stories of people who gained a greater understanding of the true meaning of Christmas, some through a word or gesture from their fellow man, others through a miraculous event that could only have come from God.

In the winelands of 16th-century Germany, Obsopoeus witnessed the birth of a poisonous new culture of bingeing, hazing, peer pressure, and competitive drinking. Alarmed, and inspired by the Roman poet Ovid's Art of Love, he wrote The Art of Drinking (1536), a how-to manual for drinking with pleasure and discrimination. In How to Drink, Michael Fontaine offers the first proper English translation of Obsopoeus' text, rendering his poetry into spirited, contemporary prose and uncorking a forgotten classic that will appeal to drinkers of all kinds and (legal) ages.

In 1986, humanity experienced the Reaping - a nationwide slaughter of six-year-old children by their parents - one of the country's most horrific tragedies. From that day forward, the world would never trust another cryptid. Now, Delilah Marlow and a rogue group of cryptids are on the run. One morning, Delilah wakes up with dried blood all over her hands. Though she has no memory of it, she obviously went somewhere - and possibly killed someone - in her sleep. More killings follow, and there is something connecting her victims - perhaps something as dangerous as another Reaping.

When an EMP decimates the world’s power grid, the Arizona desert is plunged back into the lawless era of the Old West. Where electricity, cars, and cell phones had once dominated daily life, this disaster ushers in the return of outlaws, shootouts, and settling differences the old-fashioned way. For Vin, a former special-ops soldier turned bounty hunter, the change is a welcomed one.

When her life as a New York City attorney becomes an unbearable moral burden, Lois Golden packs up her teenage daughter Janet and heads to rural Vermont to fulfill her childhood dream of owning a small-town inn. However, this inn holds a wealth of dark secrets, full of deceit, death, and horrifying experiments that have left an undeniable mark of evil. When a vengeful spirit emerges, forcing all within the inn to experience their greatest fears, will Lois be able to fight back and salvage her dream from the nightmare it has become?

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Fast and Easy 30 Minute or Less Mediterranean Cookbook with 25+ Healthy and Delicious Recipes and learn about 30 minute or less Mediterranean recipes.

Whenever regular Janes and Joes look at the people who land on the covers of Men's Health or Sports Illustrated, they have a tendency to think to themselves that they could never get a body like that. However, this couldn't be farther from the truth. Anyone has the capacity to build their body to an optimal physical state. It's just a matter of knowing what you need to do and developing that drive to pursue such an endeavor. This audiobook is going to delve deep into the science and art behind building an optimal physique.

Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: Ezra Pound, "Old Men With Beautiful Manners"; W. B. Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"; Robert Graves, "A Last Poem"'; Edna St. Vincent Millay, "The Harp-Weaver"; Richard Eberhart, "The Groundhog"; Philip Levine, "Blasting from Heaven"; Marianne Moore, "The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing"; Stephen Spender, "What I Expected"; and Vachel Lindsay, "An Interpolation by Mr. Lindsay".

Blackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic civilization from its dependence on the electric power grid. In a nationwide blackout lasting months or years, the entire population of the US could be at risk. There would be no food. No water. Communications, transportation, industry, business, and finance - all of the critical infrastructures that support modern civilization would be paralyzed. Threats to the electric power grid are posed by cyber-attack, sabotage, a geomagnetic super-storm, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from the high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon.

In the book Finding Your Purpose In Life, author Vincent Santiago provides simple yet effective strategies to assist you in discovering who you are, your passions, and your life purpose. In addition, Finding Your Purpose In Life provides a system that can possibly shed years off the process of discovering who you are through practical application of the tips listed in this book. It is his desire to share with you the possibilities that can come when you discover your life's purpose.

Decades ago, three men started a war.... Today, I win it. I had a plan. Step one: Steal the ledger. Step two: Take over Cinco City. Simple, right? Nowhere in there was I supposed to fall in love with the men who knocked my plan off course. Saint, Cash, Brutal, and Mercer are everything to me. A fact I should not have let slip. A battle rages, and only the last man standing claims victory.

Time is a very precious nonrenewable resource, and this is what you'll hear from people who know the value of it. They say that the more you rush, the faster the time gets, and the more you wait, the slower it gets. The truth is that time will remain the same whether you rush or not. It really depends on the way you manage yourself. That is why self-management is key. It helps you become more organized, punctual, and a more effective person.

This collection brings together history, science, philosophy and comedy to explore our age-old search for meaning. We live in an age of self-improvement and self-examination - lifehacking, wellbeing, self-care, mindfulness retreats - but this seemingly very modern phenomenon is a pursuit that dates back for millennia.

Nobody in 16-year-old Beckett’s life seems to be telling the whole story. Her boyfriend Jake keeps hiding texts, which could mean he’s cheating on her. Her father lied about losing his job and so much more before his shocking death. And everyone in school seems to be whispering about her and her family behind her back. But none of that compares to the day Beckett finds the body of a newborn baby in a gym bag - Jake’s gym bag - on the floor of her high school locker room.

Liam ha undici anni quando i genitori decidono di lasciare Londra e trascorrere l'estate a Ginostra. A condurli a Stromboli è un seminario dei coniugi Mason, famosi in Inghilterra per gli esperimenti di psicoterapia di gruppo e i corsi di autocoscienza. Liam è un bambino dalla fervida immaginazione, ancora con la passione per i dinosauri, improvvisamente catapultato in un mondo primordiale fatto di mare profondo, lava, sentieri bui e scoscesi. Ben presto stringe amicizia con i ragazzini del luogo, in particolare Pietro, figlio di un pescatore dai modi bruschi e violenti.

For many people, corruption is a sound bite on the evening news. The reality is that corruption is more akin to a parasite, slowly drawing the lifeblood from a society. In Corruption in the Twenty-First Century, author Vincent E. Green shares firsthand insight into the effects of corruption and shows how it is not a victimless crime.

Rome, 133 BC. Gaius Marius is back from war in the West. They fought for the peace and prosperity of Rome, but the legions return to find the Eternal City far less peaceful and prosperous than they had hoped. People are starving, homelessness abounds, war after war has overtaxed the legions. And the revolutionary tribune, Tiberius Gracchus, thinks he has a solution for everything. Political parties are developing, the people are up in arms, the senate is enraged. And Tiberius is at the center of it all.