Download or read book Screw It Go Ahead and Quit Cold Turkey written by Jennifer Mairo Akporehe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This story depicts resiliance, unconditional love, family and determination - all much needed themes in a reality TV world torn by alienation & violence." New York Times Bestselling Author Enitan Bereola Screw it. Go Ahead and Quit Cold Turkey is the enthralling story of a woman who had her share of a husbands bad behavior. When Mariam met Muttallab she thought she had met the man of her dreams and a gift from God to her. She was certain that she had met the father of her children but she was wrong because this man had an ulterior motive and wanted to marry her for a specifi c reason. One after the other all his plans begin to unveil and Mariam soon knew he was a wolf in sheeps clothing. This story shows the sufferings of a woman who would do anything to protect her marriage but when she saw that it was too much and couldnt take it anymore, she.
Download or read book Reagan and Gorbachev written by Jack Matlock and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Matlock’s] account of Reagan’s achievement as the nation’s diplomat in chief is a public service.”—The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing . . . authoritative . . . a detailed and reliable narrative that future historians will be able to draw on to illuminate one of the most dramatic periods in modern history.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and principal adviser to Ronald Reagan on Soviet and European affairs, gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and unparalleled access to the best and latest sources, Matlock offers an insider’s perspective on a diplomatic campaign far more sophisticated than previously thought, waged by two leaders of surpassing vision. Matlock details how Reagan privately pursued improved U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations even while engaging in public saber rattling. When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a willing partner in peace. Matlock shows how both leaders took risks that yielded great rewards and offers unprecedented insight into the often cordial working relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev. Both epic and intimate, Reagan and Gorbachev will be the standard reference on the end of the Cold War, a work that is critical to our understanding of the present and the past.
Download or read book WHO Housing and Health Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines' implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.
Download or read book Odd Jobs written by Karl Meade and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odd Jobs is a comic-caper love-story about a Mountie woman and entrepreneurial men, house and family, script-writers and cat-burglars. A modern tale of movie magic in the wrong hands: the Big Lebowski meets Elmore Leonard’s niece. When Marty Drysdale first meets Chick, a member of the Canadian Mounties, he has an ounce of marijuana in the backseat of the limo he’s driving and a breaking-and-entering offense on his record. He escapes that first meeting with a traffic ticket and a major crush on “Officer Beautiful.” After just a month of knowing her, Marty proposes, and against all odds, she agrees. But Chick grows frustrated with Marty’s laziness and oddities. One night, coming home from his latest job as a projectionist, Marty crashes his Flxible Flxette limousine. In the shower of sparks, glass, and twisted metal, he has an epiphany: he will make his own movie and prove to Chick that he’s a man worth having. It isn’t long, however, before Marty’s hair-brained script—the copy-cat cat burglars—makes him the target of angry investors, the police, and other unintended victims of his latest scheme. He’ll have a lot of explaining to do if he wants to get out of this mess and keep the woman of his dreams in Odd Jobs.
Download or read book Out of the Cold written by Isabel Morin and published by Isabel Morin. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spending the winter at a friend’s borrowed cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains was supposed to give Lucy Pond time to finish her novel and look for a permanent place to live after a big breakup. But being Florida-born and raised didn’t prepare her for dangers like mountain lions, bears, and hypothermia. Most of all, she didn’t expect the danger of living next door to a sexy mountain of a man whose muscled body makes her bones melt even when he’s glaring at her. Gabriel Mason isolated himself in a remote cabin to escape his grief. The last thing he wants is Lucy for a neighbor. Not only does she look like a strong wind could knock her over, she doesn’t know the first thing about surviving on a mountain in winter. But Lucy’s solemn eyes and wistful smile crack him open in unexpected ways, and soon he’s giving into the heat that blazes whenever they’re together. Still, Gabriel knows he’s broken. He may want Lucy, but he has no right to share her future.
Download or read book When the World Stopped to Listen written by Stuart Isacoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Piano, the captivating story of the 1958 international piano competition in Moscow, where, at the height of Cold War tensions, an American musician showed the potential of art to change the world. April of 1958--the Iron Curtain was at its heaviest, and the outcome of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition seemed preordained. Nonetheless, as star musicians from across the globe descended on Moscow, an unlikely favorite emerged: Van Cliburn, a polite, lanky Texan whose passionate virtuosity captured the Russian spirit. This is the story of what unfolded that spring--for Cliburn and the other competitors, jurors, party officials, and citizens of the world who were touched by the outcome. It is a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most remarkable events in musical history, filled with political intrigue and personal struggle as artists strove for self-expression and governments jockeyed for prestige. And, at the core of it all: the value of artistic achievement, the supremacy of the heart, and the transcendent freedom that can be found, through music, even in the darkest moments of human history.
Download or read book Lacey written by Frank Paul and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Lacey Stone from the age of eleven through fifteen. The most beautiful, the smartest, everyone's favorite teenager, and beneath it all a psychopathic killer. No one is safe from her, no one knows about her, no one that is except Detective Sergeant Jake Dolan. Jake Dolan the ex-drunk cop who happens to fall in love with Lacey's mother, Faith. Jake Dolan who thinks all his prayers have been answered. But answered by what...heaven or hell.
Download or read book How to Stop Cold Sore Outbreaks and Hsv 1 While Getting Youthful Skin written by Samantha Rollins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get this Revolutionary Book Today-before Your Next Outbreak!! Stop coldsores in their tracks before the outbreak! My secret protocol and remedy also stops canker sores and mat herpes fast! This groundbreaking method has worked well for me over 30 years! One newly discovered secret of my Rollins protocol and remedy with immune builders is that two of the supplements together create a youth enzyme internally. This exciting element called (SOD) is also used in a breakthrough, international wrinkle cream and is attributed to youthful skin! Beyond that the amino acid that stops the HSV-1 virus also repairs skin and has collagen to help prevent wrinkles. Just goes to show youthful skin truly starts within. My protocols and remedies contain an essential amino acid, certain minerals and vitamins, along with a supplement the ancient Chinese considered nothing short of miraculous-that keeps your immunity strong and your body healthy! If it worked for me why wouldnt it work for you? And the best part of the protocol and remedy is its affordable for everyone. For me, the basic Rollins protocol and remedy even stopped the dreaded shingles-before the outbreak!
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Download or read book The Man with the Golden Arm 50th Anniversary Edition written by Nelson Algren and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 1999-11-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work. On the 50th anniversary of its publication in November 1949, for which Algren was honored with the first National Book Award (which he received from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt at a ceremony in March 1950), Seven Stories is proud to release the first critical edition of an Algren work. A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope. Special contributions by Russell Banks, Bettina Drew, James R. Giles, Carlo Rotella, William Savage, Lee Stringer, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.
Download or read book The Giants of Mogo written by Don Wilcox and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between men of tremendous stature and ordinary men is peculiar at best --and on the planet Mogo, events dwarfed even the imagination --and brought death!
Download or read book No Summit out of Sight written by Jordan Romero and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan Romero climbed Mount Everest at age thirteen—and he didn’t stop there. In this inspiring young adult memoir that includes color photos, he tells how he achieved such great heights. On May 22, 2010, at the age of thirteen, American teenager Jordan Romero became the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. At fifteen, he became the youngest person to reach the summits of the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents. In this energizing memoir for young adults, Jordan, recounts his experience, which started as a spark of an idea at the age of nine and, many years of training and hard work later, turned into a dream come true. “The emotional pitch of the story remains high as Romero contends with extreme weather, frustration, exhaustion, and homesickness to reach, with almost palpable exhilaration, each peak” (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book Cross My Heart written by Cynthia Eden and published by Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some cases you never forget. Former FBI agent Elijah Cross tried to put the past behind him. For years, he spent his days and his nights tracking some of the most brutal killers in the US. Now? He protects the rich and famous while working at Wilde. Less danger, more glamour…and a whole lot more cash. His latest gig has taken him to the sandy beaches of Florida’s Gulf Coast, and it’s on one of those gorgeous beaches where he comes face to face with the woman who haunts his dreams. There are some people you can’t leave behind. She was the last victim he saved at the Bureau. Penelope Kostas. The woman who survived a nightmare. He’d carried her out of hell in his arms, and Elijah had sworn to always protect her. But that promise had been given before his job at the Bureau had imploded. Before he’d broken every rule that mattered…for her. Only to have Penelope run from him. There are some promises you must keep. The serial killer who targeted Penelope was never apprehended, and Penelope fears that he could be hunting her once more. But this time, she will not be his victim. She wants Elijah to help her hunt him. To help her stop the killer before he can strike again. And she will pay any price for Elijah’s help. He’s the only man she trusts…and, once upon a time, Elijah had offered to do anything for her…even kill to keep her safe. There are some desires that can’t be controlled. Elijah still wants her just as badly. Penelope still needs him just as much. Lust, obsession—they always twisted together for them, and the longer that they are together, the more that dark and consuming need just grows and grows. Elijah will do whatever it takes to protect Penelope. She’s not the same woman he knew before. Not lost, not afraid. She’s determined to fight, and he will be at her side every step of the way. The killer won’t escape again. And Elijah will not lose the woman who owns his heart. Author’s Note: Once upon a time, Elijah saved Penelope, and, though she didn’t realize it, she saved him, too. She stopped him from giving into the darkness that wanted to consume him, and now, he is ready for his second chance with her. Danger, desire—sure, they’re part of the deal, but Elijah can handle any threat that comes their way. He will handle the threats because there is no way that he will ever lose Penelope again. Prepare for action, twists, and a love that will not be denied. Things are going to be Wilde, and that is just Elijah’s style…
Download or read book Heller with a Gun written by Louis L'Amour and published by Domain. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Healy was in trouble. His theatrical troupe needed to get to Alder Gulch, Montana, and the weather was turning. Andy Barker promised Tom he could get them there safely, but Tom was reluctant to trust him: he had the lives of three actresses to consider, and his personal feelings for Janice further heightened his concern. Then King Mabry showed up. Although Tom didn’t like the way he looked at Janice, he could see that Mabry made Barker uneasy. So Tom invited Mabry to join them. Tom was right to be worried, because Barker had a plan. He knew that the wagons carried something more than actors and scenery. He and his men were going to steal it any way they could. And that included murder.
Download or read book Plows Plagues and Petroleum written by William F. Ruddiman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum has sparked lively scientific debate since it was first published--arguing that humans have actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years--as a result of the earlier discovery of agriculture. The "Ruddiman Hypothesis" will spark intense debate. We learn that the impact of farming on greenhouse-gas levels, thousands of years before the industrial revolution, kept our planet notably warmer than if natural climate cycles had prevailed--quite possibly forestalling a new ice age. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum is the first book to trace the full historical sweep of human interaction with Earth's climate. Ruddiman takes us through three broad stages of human history: when nature was in control; when humans began to take control, discovering agriculture and affecting climate through carbon dioxide and methane emissions; and, finally, the more recent human impact on climate change. Along the way he raises the fascinating possibility that plagues, by depleting human populations, also affected reforestation and thus climate--as suggested by dips in greenhouse gases when major pandemics have occurred. While our massive usage of fossil fuels has certainly contributed to modern climate change, Ruddiman shows that industrial growth is only part of the picture. The book concludes by looking to the future and critiquing the impact of special interest money on the global warming debate. In the afterword, Ruddiman explores the main challenges posed to his hypothesis, and shows how recent investigations and findings ultimately strengthen the book's original claims.
Download or read book The Space Opera Renaissance written by David G. Hartwell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-ever anthology of one of science fiction's most vigorous subgenres
Download or read book The Marne 1914 written by Holger H. Herwig and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany’s aggressive “Schlieffen Plan” as a carefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior coalitions. He paints a fresh portrait of the run-up to the Marne and puts in dazzling relief the Battle of the Marne itself: the French resolve to win, and the crucial lack of coordination between Germany’s First and Second Armies. Herwig also provides stunning cameos of all the important players, from Germany’s Chief of General Staff Helmuth von Moltke to his rival, France’s Joseph Joffre. Revelatory and riveting, this is the source on this seminal event.