Download or read book Shattering the Porcelain written by Carly LeBaron and published by Embracing Authenticity. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfectionists and people-pleasers put in enormous amounts of time and energy trying to be the best, the brightest, and the nicest. They twist themselves in knots trying to be what they think they should be in order to get approval or avoid rejection from others. But at what cost? In Shattering the Porcelain, Dr. Carly LeBaron explores what perfectionism and people-pleasing are, how they negatively impact your life, and how to break free from those perfectly pleasing patterns to embrace who you truly are. In this book you'll learn: -How perfectionism and people-pleasing negatively impact your mental, emotional, and relational health. -Where your perfectionism and people pleasing originated and how to use that knowledge to guide your journey to becoming the real you. -The type of perfectionist and/or people-pleaser you are and how that influences your life experiences. -Practical tips, tricks, and techniques to use in changing the way you think, how you feel, and what you do that keeps you stuck. -How to shatter your perfectionism and people-pleasing and start embracing authenticity.

Download or read book High Voltage Engineering written by Farouk A.M. Rizk and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a new revival of worldwide interest in extra-high-voltage (EHV) and ultra-high-voltage (UHV) transmission, High Voltage Engineering merges the latest research with the extensive experience of the best in the field to deliver a comprehensive treatment of electrical insulation systems for the next generation of utility engineers and electric power professionals. The book offers extensive coverage of the physical basis of high-voltage engineering, from insulation stress and strength to lightning attachment and protection and beyond. Presenting information critical to the design, selection, testing, maintenance, and operation of a myriad of high-voltage power equipment, this must-have text: Discusses power system overvoltages, electric field calculation, and statistical analysis of ionization and breakdown phenomena essential for proper planning and interpretation of high-voltage tests Considers the breakdown of gases (SF6), liquids (insulating oil), solids, and composite materials, as well as the breakdown characteristics of long air gaps Describes insulation systems currently used in high-voltage engineering, including air insulation and insulators in overhead power transmission lines, gas-insulated substation (GIS) and cables, oil-paper insulation in power transformers, paper-oil insulation in high-voltage cables, and polymer insulation in cables Examines contemporary practices in insulation coordination in association with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) definition and the latest standards Explores high-voltage testing and measuring techniques, from generation of test voltages to digital measuring methods With an emphasis on handling practical situations encountered in the operation of high-voltage power equipment, High Voltage Engineering provides readers with a detailed, real-world understanding of electrical insulation systems, including the various factors affecting—and the actual means of evaluating—insulation performance and their application in the establishment of technical specifications.

Download or read book written by Jeff Rosenplot and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shatter Me written by Tahereh Mafi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping first installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series. One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. An opportunity for a deadly weapon. Juliette has never fought for herself before. But when she’s reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, she finds a strength she never knew she had. And don’t miss Defy Me, the shocking fifth book in the Shatter Me series!

Download or read book Monster Tamer Volume 12 written by Minto Higure and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maclaurin Provincial Army, led by Louis Bard, launches an attack on the elven reclamation village Kehdo, claiming to be there to defeat the fake savior Majima Takahiro. Takahiro, however, is down for the count from being poisoned with Holy Water, and he’s fighting his own battle against Travis Mortimer, the sadistic commander of the Holy Order’s Fourth Company. Without their leader, Takahiro’s group decides to take the surviving elves and flee the village. A desperate chase ensues, and as things get more and more dire, Rose decides to make a stand as her master’s shield.

Download or read book Chaka written by Martin Kerkhof and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While researching Mayan culture an archeologist unleashes an evil so powerful that it threatens his life and the world around him.

Download or read book Old Limoges written by Barbara Wood and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant contributions of original scholarship on French ceramics in a generation, this study of first-production Haviland design and dcor combines a carefully researched text with 450 illustrations, including full-color photographs of previously unidentifiable porcelains, as well as many unpublished documents from archives in France and America. This beautiful volume is an indispensable reference. Readers will find their views of nineteenth-century European porcelains enhanced and transformed.

Download or read book A Single Shard written by Linda Sue Park and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery Medal-winning tale of an orphan boy whose dream of becoming a master potter leads to unforeseen adventure in ancient Korea. Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean village renowned for its ceramics. When he accidentally breaks a delicate piece of pottery, he volunteers to work to pay for the damage. Putting aside his own dreams, Tree-ear resolves to serve the master potter by embarking on a difficult and dangerous journey, little knowing that it will change his life forever. "Despite the odds against him, Tree-ear becomes courageous, brave and selfless, a hero as enduring as the porcelain Park so lovingly describes." (New York Times) “Intrigues, danger, and a strong focus on doing what is right turn a simple story into a compelling read. A timeless jewel.” (Kirkus starred review) *A broken piece of pottery sets events in motion as an orphan struggles to pay off his debt to a master potter. This finely crafted novel brings 12th-century Korea and these indelible characters to life." (School Library Journal starred review) "Tree-ear's determination and bravery in pursuing his dream of becoming a potter takes readers on a literary journey that demonstrates how courage, honor and perseverance can overcome great odds and bring great happiness. Park effectively conveys 12th century Korea in this masterful piece of historical fiction." (Kathleen Odean, chair of the Newbery Award Selection Committee)

Download or read book To Make a Marriage written by Cheryl Anne Porter and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Redmond, of the Savannah Redmonds, must be married off to the next suitor as quickly as possible when she is caught in a compromising position with a completely unsuitable man. Her father ships her off to England with the promise of wealth to the next Englishman who in turn promises marriage. That man is John Spencer Whitfield, the Duke of Moreland, a complete stranger--albeit a devastatingly handsome one... If he wants to keep possession of his ancestral home, John Spencer Whitfield, tenth Duke of Moreland, must wed the very wealthy Victoria Redmond. Determined to enjoy at least one aspect of their union, Whitefield introduces his beautiful new wife to the pleasures of the marriage bed--and discovers passion like no other. But this marriage ends up being anything but convenient when Victoria gets word of trouble from her family back in America and flees England without even so much as a good-bye to her new husband. But Whitfield isn't about to let her get away from him so easily. Now it's high time that his independent wife learns a thing or two about what it means to have and to hold, in Cheryl Anne Porter's riveting nineteenth century romance To Make a Marriage.

Download or read book Until It s Gone written by Jenna van Berke and published by Brake Books. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect love. An unforgivable mistake. I could be happy. After my knee accident, I’ve risen from the ashes of my football career to become a successful landscaper, creating gardens for Hollywood’s rich and famous. My bank account has never looked as good, and California’s it-girls keep trying to seduce me. As I said, I could be happy. But I’m not. My success is tainted, my money dirty. I don’t deserve any of it. Because the foundation of my success rests on the ruins of my relationship with the only woman I want: Layla with the irresistible green eyes, the adorable blush. Layla with the green thumb—the only one who knows more about plants than I do. Layla, mother of my daughter. It’s been almost a year since she kicked me out, and so far all my attempts at winning her back have failed. But I have one more ace up my sleeve… ***Romantic Garden Tales is a series of sweet romance standalones*** Also read the free prequel Meeting Her!

Download or read book Simon Bolivar written by Maureen G. Shanahan and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Latin America's most famous historical figures, Simón Bolívar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and revolutions, used to support wildly diverse--sometimes opposite--ideas. From colonial Cuba to Nazi-occupied France to Soviet Slovenia, the image of "El Libertador" has served a range of political and cultural purposes. Here, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows how Bolívar has appeared over the last two centuries in paintings, fiction, poetry, music, film, festivals, dance traditions, city planning, and even reliquary adoration. Whether exalted, reimagined, or fragmented, Bolívar's body has taken on a range of different meanings to represent the politics and poetics of today's national bodies. Through critical approaches to diverse cultural Bolivarianisms, this collection demonstrates the capacity of the arts and humanities to challenge and reinvent hegemonic narratives and thus vital dimensions of democracy.

Download or read book Flash Marriage CEO s Wild Love written by Feng QiuHuang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite all the betrayal, as long as you have full confidence in your life, maybe someone who loves you will be waiting for you at the next corner. It wasn't until the day when her ex-boyfriend and sister got married that she knew that the boyfriend she had loved deeply had been cheating on her sister, and she ruined their wedding in anger, which made her expelled from the family. Just when she was at a loss, the prestigious CEO of the city turned to her to sign a contract. The contract stated that she would be his wife and he would help her revenge. No matter what she wanted to do, he tried his best to help. She asked why, and he said, "Because I love you, can't you see it?" ☆About the Author☆ Feng Qiu Huang, an excellent online novelist, her novels have a high degree of attention on the Chinese literature website, and her novels are rich in plots, smooth writing, and very popular.

Download or read book Hideaway Bay The Complete Series Books 1 7 written by Michele Brouder and published by Michele Brouder. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 2486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contains the complete collection of the popular women's fiction series, Hideaway Bay Series, Books 1-7. This poignant series explores the transformative power of family, friendship, forgiveness, and the enduring bonds that withstand the test of time. Sisters and friends navigate the ebb and flow of life that resonates with the universal truths of love, redemption, and the inexorable ties that bind us all. Included: Coming Home to Hideaway Bay Meet Me At Sunrise Moonlight and Promises When We Were Young One Last Thing Before I Go The Chocolatier of Hideaway Bay Now and Forever

Download or read book The Last Chinese Chef written by Nicole Mones and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhilarating story is the transporting tale of how the sensual, romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman.

Download or read book The Invisible Valley written by Su Wei and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lu Beiping is one of 20 million young adults the Chinese government uproots and sends far from their homes for agricultural re-education. And Lu is bored and exhausted. While he pines for romance, instead he’s caught up in a forbidden religious tradition and married off to the foreman’s long-dead daughter so that her soul may rest. The foreman then sends him off to cattle duty up on Mudkettle Mountain, far away from everyone else. On the mountain, Lu meets an outcast polyamorous family led by a matriarch, Jade, and one of her lovers, Kingfisher. They are woodcutters and practice their own idiosyncratic faith by which they claim to placate the serpent-demon sleeping in the belly of the mountains. Just as the village authorities get wind of Lu’s dalliances with the woodcutters, a typhoon rips through the valley. And deep in the jungle, a giant serpent may be stirring. The Invisible Valley is a lyrical fable about the shapes into which human affection can be pressed in extreme circumstances; about what is natural and what is truly deviant; about the relationships between the human and the natural, the human and the divine, the self and the other.

Download or read book Of Thorns and Curses written by Jesikah Sundin and published by Forest Tales Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was cursed at birth to marry him. He is cursed to never know love. Rhoslyn Gautier refuses to accept her fate. All her life she believed she was nothing more than a poor merchant’s daughter from Factory Row. Not an elven princess in an arranged marriage. But when thrown to the wolves as punishment after challenging her queen, she becomes trapped with Fentienne Beausoleil, an aristocrat in an enchanted chateau who is half-monster by daylight and full monster by moonlight. An ugly, tormented man from an enemy realm she was bound to in faerie blood from her first breath. And there is no escape. If she breaks their bonds, she will die. If she falls in love with him, she will die. Rhoslyn believes the chateau will be her tomb. Then a mysterious man appears in her dreams with claims that he, too, is a prisoner. A wickedly beautiful man with a sharp mind and even sharper heart who captures hers completely. Magic seals away his identity. Yet Rhoslyn suspects that appearances are not all what they seem. But to know for certain, she would need to revolutionize more than a realm on the brink of civil war. And trigger a curse that will claim her life. OF THORNS AND CURSES is a new adult elven fantasy spin on the romantic tale of Beauty and the Beast, blending faerie magic and pagan ritual with a French Revolution inspired setting. Guaranteed to please readers who love angsty, enemies-to-lovers villain redemption fated romances, twisted fairy tales, and strong found family themes. STANDALONE in a connected series / shared world. Books can be read in any order. Guaranteed happily ever after

Download or read book Those Pleasant Girls written by Lia Weston and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evie Pleasant, nee Bouvier, is back in town. In a figure-hugging skirt, high heels and a pin-up hairdo, she's unrecognisable from the wild child who waged war on Sweet Meadow in her youth. She's made a promise to herself: 'No swearing. No drinking. No stealing. No fires.' Trailing a reluctant 16-year-old daughter and armed with cake making equipment, Evie's divorce and impending poverty has made her desperate enough to return to Sweet Meadow to seduce her former partner-in-crime and start again. But the townsfolk have long memories and the renegade ex-boyfriend is now the highly-respected pastor. Evie's cakes have a job to do.