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The Roman Republic is one of the most breathtaking civilizations in world history. Between roughly 500 BCE to the turn of the millennium, a modest city-state developed an innovative system of government and expanded into far-flung territories across Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. This powerful civilization inspired America's founding fathers, gifted us a blueprint for amazing engineering innovations, left a vital trove of myths, and has inspired the human imagination for 2,000 years.

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power

You weren't looking for romance, but a person appears in your life and turns your world upside down. Your heart beats uncontrollably, you have a deep sense of home, and you feel as if you could stare into their eyes forever. The person may not even be your type. In fact, you may find that he/she is way older or younger than you. Upon knowing the person, you encounter huge obstacles such as religious, cultural, socio-economic, or martial status differences. Yet, you both find something magical in this connection. Chances are you've met your twin flame.

In an instant, life as it was known is gone, replaced by a System called The Connection. It doesn't come quietly as earthquakes rock the planet, the chosen survivors falling unconscious as the Connection takes their bodies and Adapts them. Lochlan Brady and his family were on their way home from a camping weekend when the Connection appears. He awakens with a new Adapted body, finding his wife missing. Now Loch must survive and thrive in this new world with his two teenage daughters, Harper and Piper. All Loch wants to do is protect his daughters and find his wife.

High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby woods: the screams of animals, the cries of children, and the mad babble of a hundred mournful voices. A dark figure looms near the windows in the dead of night, whispering to Faye. As the weather turns deadly, Felix discovers that his terrified fiancée isn't just mumbling in her sleep—she's whispering back.

Throughout history, military engagements have altered the course of historical events. In these 36 dynamic lectures, Professor Aldrete leads you in discovering the military conflicts that have had the greatest impact in shifting the direction of events and defining our world. Across 4,000 years of history, you'll explore nearly 40 key military engagements, from the milestone battles of Western civilization to their counterparts in the Middle East, India, and Asia.

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition is OA’s keystone book—created specifically as a study of the OA 12-step recovery program. If you think you may have a compulsive food behavior—including but not limited to compulsive eating, undereating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, overexercising, and purging—give yourself the chance of recovery. Listen how, through working the 12 steps and studying the 12 traditions, OA members have found “physical, emotional, and spiritual healing".

Demons scheme in the shadows. A myth golem wreaks havoc across the continent. Trouble is brewing in the Yixine empire. All of these cataclysms are eclipsed by an apocalypse greater than them all—Neave's arrival at the capital. Torn between rehabilitating the profoundly sick cultivator society and wiping the slate clean, Neave gathers power on his journey to find the right solution. He grows suspicious of even his own thoughts, however, and it soon becomes clear that it won't be easy.

This groundbreaking book includes four books that will teach you from start to finish, everything you need to know about Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting, Codependency and Complex PTSD, as well as how to recover from each one of them.

Brother Lawrence was a 17th century Christian who had a dramatic spiritual awakening at the age of 18. Seeing a tree in winter, his soul suddenly opened to the presence of God. Within six years he had entered a Carmelite monastery in Paris, where he worked chiefly in the kitchen, cooking and cleaning. He practiced a simple and natural method. He merely turned his attention to the Divine Presence available at all times during any activity. He reports that he was as fully present with God while washing dishes in the kitchen as he was when partaking of the sacrament in worship.

Kai had survived the treacherous Mage trying to kill him in his own house. But new enemies loom over the horizon. Having increased his personal strength and taking control over the City of Veralt, Kai had just began to learn the ropes of being a noble lord when trouble knocks on his door. Summoned by the Archine Tower that may or may not be the one trying to kill him, he moves to the capital with his trusted subordinates to dip his toe in the muddy waters of capital politics. To make matters worse, a beast wave threatens to crush over his city.

In the 21st-century West, identity is everything. Never has it been more important, culturally speaking, to know who you are and remain true to yourself. Expressive individualism—the belief that looking inward is the way to find yourself—has become the primary approach to identity formation, and questioning anyone's "self-made self" is often considered a threat or attack. Prompted by his own past crisis of identity, Brian Rosner challenges the status quo by arguing that, while knowing yourself is of some value, it cannot be the sole basis for one's identity.

This spiritual classic has long been beloved by Catholics for its wondrous distillation of the teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux into a listener-friendly set of meditations. It's perfect as a personal retreat when you have only a few moments to spare each day and for spiritual listening anytime and anywhere.

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. Now modern listeners will have easier access to St. Augustine's deeply personal meditations. Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this classic.

It still takes a major effort of historical imagination to enter the minds of those who lived during the Reformation Era; who were willing to suffer martyrdom or martyr others for what we would regard as minor doctrinal differences. These 36 lectures are designed to take you inside the minds of those who supported the Reformation and those who resisted it.

Kids are going missing in the town of Shady Hills. Whispers circulate. Rumors fly. Everybody seems to know somebody who knows someone who has gone missing. Yet they never expect it to happen to them or somebody they love. When Zirreah’s friend goes missing and she suspects the creepy neighbor next door, nobody will listen to her – so she’s forced to take matters into her own hands. She makes the decision to break into her neighbor’s house, hoping to discover any clues that might reveal where the missing kids have gone – but nothing could’ve prepared her for the horrors that await inside.

Loch, reunited with Kelly, have dealt with the leadership of the invading Silver Bark elves. Now they must deal with the rest of the elvish forces. That will deal with one of the many threats facing the growing Clan Brady. But the biggest threat is coming. Winter. Loch and the Clan must scramble to prepare for the coming snows and cold, afraid that the System will bring challenges along with the weather. The Clan isn't prepared. They are lacking in food and shelter.

With this program, you'll have the tools, the techniques, and, just as importantly, the unflinching confidence to influence your readers and listeners decisively - both at work and at home.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him. “A meticulously reported volume that clearly benefits from the author’s...

Lovecraft’s most famous story of an investigation into worldwide terror—be careful what knowledge you seek!