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Remmie Miken is starting over after a bad run. He's got himself a crappy apartment in the big city and a job hustling burgers and fries. One night Remmie makes nice with a neighborhood gangster. So begins his quixotic pursuit of a whore-on-the-run and ten grand in cash. Heading south into Baja, Remmie brushes shoulders with lowdown crooks, a Catholic priest, cartel enforcers, a strawberry picker, and a wild-eyed expat.The Bad Kind of Lucky is ...

Dr. Vuong does it again with this unique book. In early 2018 he had this realization that if reading books is going the way of television, MySpace, and the dodo bird, then he better give people something other than long narrative to help change their lives. But in our hectic world of head-down and swipe-up, what medium could Dr. V use to capture and HOLD the attention of his audience?Then it occurred to him...people want (and need) easily acce...

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Contemporary power manifests in the algorithmic. And yet this power seems incomprehensible: understood as code, it becomes apolitical, understood as a totality, it becomes overwhelming. This book takes an alternate approach, using it to unravel the operations of Uber and Palantir, Airbnb and Amazon Alexa. Moving off the whiteboard and into the world, the algorithmic must negotiate with frictions-the 'merely' technical routines of distributing ...

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Nach Jahren des wilden Lebens, Ende 20, zwei Hochschulabschlüssen aber keinem Geld und erfüllendem Job, befindet sich Toni in einer Sinnkrise. Eine Erbschaftsangelegenheit dient als willkommener Grund ihr kosmopolitisches Leben hinter sich zu lassen und wieder in ihr Heimatdorf zu fliehen, dessen Enge sie ursprünglich hinter sich lassen wollte. Doch dieser Neuanfang geht gründlich schief. Als Praktikantin für den Heimatteil einer Lokalzeitung ...

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God's word to Noah was to prepare NOW for a worldwide flood. God's word to Joseph was to prepare Pharaoh and Egypt NOW for seven years of famine. God's word to Jeremiah was to prepare the Jews NOW for seventy years of exile into Babylon. The key word in these historical examples was NOW! What does God's Word say for us to prepare for NOW? What are the tough decisions we need to make? The NOW Prophecies book identifies the biblical prophecies t...

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With each new beginning comes new lessons to help us grow. This message will stick with Drew throughout the series: "The Dynamite Adventures of Drew Sketcher." A tale about a boy whose world was turned upside due to an unexpected special gift. After years of growing up and finding comfort in his hometown, Drew has no other choice but to face new beginnings due to his parents' decision to pack up and relocate to a different state. While adjusti...

Advanced technology meant new and easily concealed never seen before Weapons of Mass Destruction distributed to billions globally to unsuspecting masses. Torture and genocide at unprecedented levels. The inadequacies of the current global justice system and it's collapse after the realization that these institutions were created and are funded by the very people who are secretly committing genocide and breaking the Jus Cogens laws. The need fo...

One of the most imperative parts of the many acts of worship carried out on the day of Jumuʿah is the delivering of the khuṭbah prior to the ṣalāh. This book is a selection of forty easy-to-read fully referenced Friday khuṭab (sermons) delivered by the author at the Islamic Society of Cumberland (Masjid Bilal) in Ottawa, Canada, over a number of years. It is intended to provide the reader with inspiration and motivation to enhance one's faith,...

Venerated as a Dalit icon, Kanshiram (1934-2006) is regarded as being next only to Ambedkar today. This book illuminates his journey, from the early years in rural Punjab and with Ambedkarites in Pune, to his launching BAMCEF, and eventually the Bahujan Samaj Party in 1984.Drawing on myriad oral and written sources, Badri Narayan shows how Kanshiram rouses Dalits' self-respect with his homespun idiom, cycle rallies and, uniquely, the use of lo...

Meghnad Desai reflects on Indian democracy as it completes seventy years of colourful, eventful and energetic parliamentary existence. Pulling no punches, Desai looks at the history and evolution of Indian democratic institutions, pinpointing their achievements, but also their repeated failure to live up to the standards envisaged by the nation's founders. Drawing on his own career as a Labour peer in Britain's House of Lords, Desai has the ra...

The Realm of Spirit: The Connected Be-ing, the third book in a trilogy about Mind, Body, and Spirit written by Mary Shurtleff, takes you further into the realms of intuitions and the mystery of life.

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The importance of didactic training in conference interpreting has become the subject of increased discussion. This collective volume provides overviews of theories and examples of training practices and tools for a didactic approach to the development of interpreting competence. This book is geared towards new institutions offering interpreter training, teachers just starting out in conference interpreter training and who lack experience, as ...