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From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a plethora of insane screwups-otherwise known as SNAFUs. Coined during World War I...

It’s the summer of ’77 in New York City, and the only thing more unnerving than the scorching heatwave is the rampant murder, leaving washed-up homicide detective Richard Dietrich on edge. When Dietrich investigates a brutal mob hit the brass doesn’t want him to solve, he goes from phoning it in to getting in over his head. Caught up in a mysterious second homicide with an even more perplexing perpetrator, Dietrich starts to second guess his instincts—and his memory—as he searches for answers at the bottom of a bottle.

Buddhist philosophy tells us that all personal unhappiness and interpersonal conflict lie in the "three poisons": craving, anger, and delusion. With new high-tech devices, scientists can peer inside the brain centers that calm the inner storms of rage and fear. They also can demonstrate that awareness-training strategies such as meditation strengthen emotional stability - and greatly enhance our positive moods.

The history of the Prophet Mohammad, the development of Islam, implementation of Shariah Law, and views of Quranic interpretations are all presented along with three separate classical translations of the Holy Quran. Put simply, The Quran (Koran) is viewed as an unfolding revelation. Thus, the last statement in the Quran regarding a subject supersedes any statement that came before it. This is called ABROGATION. Thus, we list verses in chronological order and examine the list for the last verses written on a subject to see what instructions are to be followed by Islam today.

Tired of complicated spreadsheets, expensive financial advisors, and budgeting methods that never stick? Your smartphone already has more computing power than the computers that sent humans to the moon. It's time to put that power to work for your money. AI Money Manager reveals how ordinary people are using artificial intelligence tools to automate their finances, eliminate debt faster, and build wealth without becoming math experts or spending hours managing money.

Using personal anecdotes, Eddie finds hope in our desire to become whole, with some simple music lessons along the way. Life lessons through music. How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening or playing, we know ourselves more intimately, more honestly and more clearly with every note. And with every note, music offers us a hand to the beyond.

A no-nonsense, step-by-step strategy guide to max out your life and become an elite performer! #Maxout Your Life is for those that are serious about achieving their highest levels of life and evolving into the best version of themselves. Become the ultimate and best version of you. The you that you were born to be.

Course objectives: Define and discuss the six essential aspects of empathy—a scientifically validated human function that can be cultivated in order to improve our relationships and quality of life Discuss an empathic guide to emotions including the three basic levels of emotions, the...

God Talks is a simple process that will show you how to instantly break through any obstacle and create abundance in your life. By the time you are done, you’ll feel more energetic, more vibrant, and more alive. Your relationships will be better, stronger, and more meaningful. You will be more focused and fearless.

Agentic AI Explosion 2026 traces the rapid shift from prompt-based AI tools to autonomous, goal-driven AI agents that plan, act, collaborate, and learn with minimal human input. The audiobook explains how agentic systems work—memory, tools, reasoning loops, multimodality, and orchestration—and why they represent a structural break from traditional software and automation. It explores real-world applications across startups, enterprises, marketing, software development, operations, finance, and governance, showing how work moves from task execution to intent definition.

In this easy-to-listen-to and practical guide, you’ll learn how investing in property can achieve your financial goals at every stage of your life—from buying your first home, to building a portfolio and into retirement. Full of helpful case studies, useful data, and clearly articulated strategies, this is an indispensable read for anyone wanting to build a long-term wealth plan.

Islam is a socio-political system founded on a religion. Its laws are a set of irrevocable and unchanging religious commands written in the 7th century in a book called the Quran (Koran) by a man named Mohammed (Muhammad). Not all chapters in the Quran are valid because, even though the Quran is not written in chronological order, only the author’s last word on any subject stands. These facts and many more tend to obscure the true meaning and intent of Islam. Who was Mohammed? What did he teach? Was he a prophet or a warlord? Did Mohammed actually marry a six-year-old girl?

It was 1970 in a defeated Rhode Island fishing town. Vietnam and Nixon dominated the national news. Both the near and distant future looked bleak. But they were five inseparable high school friends with something incredible in common: an unwavering resolve to look after each other no matter what hell life threw at them. And they were on a mission. The plan was simple: Go off the grid before they turned 18 to avoid the draft. They’d sell some grass, stack some cash, then head west and start a commune. What could possibly go wrong?

Driving innovation in large organizations is as engaging and thrilling as a heist movie. Are you ready to embark on the adventure of transforming your ideas into impactful realities? In The Inside Job, Ed Essey, a senior director at The Microsoft Garage with decades of experience in driving innovation, offers just that: a game-changing guide for high performers and innovation leaders who refuse to settle and want to empower their crew so bold ideas flourish.

Stop wrestling with inconsistent AI responses. Transform Claude into your personal senior developer with 72 battle-tested custom commands. Are you spending more time crafting prompts than writing code? Do you know Claude can handle complex programming tasks but struggles to get reliable, production-ready results? 72 Claude Code Custom Commands delivers a practical toolkit that eliminates guesswork from AI-assisted development. This isn't theory. It's a curated collection of proven commands that turn Claude into a focused coding partner who understands your workflow.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Before 25) is based on Dr. Jesse Payne's and Daniel Amen's work together with young people and parents and educators who work with young people. It is an owner's manual specifically written for the developing brain, packed with interesting information, relatable stories and easy-to-follow brain prescriptions and enhancement strategies. Its step-by-step instructions are tailored to optimize brain power while minimizing brain interference.

Ed Le Brocq invites you on a journey through a living tradition that spans millennia – the tradition of Western classical music. With Ed, you will roam its magnificently bendy path, from the Mesopotamians to the mediaeval age to music composed just last week by Australia's most creative minds. You will discover how notes from the Indus Valley influenced the development of scales by Pythagoras and his mates in Ancient Greece, finding their way through the Romans into church music of the Middle Ages, and why some of those notes were banned.

Without the TV censors knife, here is more comedy from the irascible team that put the smut back into TV. With the addition of Ed Byrne, Rhod Gilbert, and David Mitchell.

It's not eggsactly easy being Jimmy Baxter 'cause: � The real Jimmy's hiding inside � Ned Kelly's giving him the evil eye � Mum's stopped going to work and stays in bed � There's no eggs in the fridge - or anything else. AND there's new jobs, bad-at-school brains and a whole lot of...

The period between Bloody Sunday in 1972 and Good Friday in 1998 was one of the most troubled, turbulent, and triumphant periods for the Irish. The island went from financial depression to quietly becoming an economic powerhouse, while at the same time, bridging the violent divide between past and present, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Republicans, North and South. Join famed historian and master storyteller Edward Lengel to trace the roots and evolution of the Irish Troubles.