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A Sick Life by Tionne T-Boz Watkins
epub | 21.92 MB | English | Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins | 2017 | Rodale | Page: 256
About A Sick Life by Tionne T-Boz Watkins :
A candid memoir of fame, strength, family, and friendship from the lead singer of TLC
As the lead singer of Grammy-winning supergroup TLC, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins has seen phenomenal fame, success, and critical acclaim. But backstage, she has lived a dual life. In addition to the balancing act of juggling an all-consuming music career and her family, Tionne has struggled since she was a young girl with sickle-cell disease-a debilitating and incurable condition that can render her unable to perform, walk, or even breathe.
A Sick Life chronicles Tionne's journey from a sickly young girl from Des Moines who was told she wouldn't live to see 30 through her teen years in Atlanta, how she broke into the music scene, and became the superstar musician and sickle-cell disease advocate she is today. Through Tionne's tough, funny, tell-it-like-it-is voice, she shares how she found the inner strength, grit, and determination to live her dream, despite her often...
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Breathing Slower and Less - Artour Rakhimov
mobi | 2.44 MB | English | Rakhimov, Artour | 2014 | Page: 166
About Breathing Slower and Less - Artour Rakhimov :
Tired of endless diets and dieting for weight loss or less medication? Want a health therapy that is based on exact goals (with numbers to achieve!) that provide a guarantee of ideal health and absence of chronic disease and symptoms? Want to know more about the method that was used for the best ever known clinical trial on cancer and 6 most effective trials on asthma?
If you answered yes to some or all of these questions, you are on the right page.
You can eat tons of supplements and super foods, drink canisters of super drinks, have 100's of colonic irrigations, and practice yoga for hours every day, but, if your breathing remains unchanged, your symptoms, chronic insomnia, and other health problems will likely to remain unchanged too.
This is because breathing brings vital oxygen, and less than 95% of modern people have right breathing. Modern people, including so called "normal subjects", simply breathe too much air day and night. (Exact charts, graphs, studies and numbers are inside the book). Overbreathing reduces O2 levels in cells.
The most successful clinical trial in the whole history of cancer research was conducted using the Buteyko breathing method. The results of this trial on 120 people with metastatic cancer (early metastasis) were published in the Ukrainian Oncology Journal. The group that practiced reduced breathing exercises had 6 times less mortality in 3 years in comparison with the control group.
Here is another fact: 6 most effective Western clinical trials on asthma were conducted using the same Buteyko method that targets elimination of chronic hyperventilation. Diets, yoga and any other "natural" or holistic therapy is not even remotely close to these clinical results.
What is common for cancer and asthma? Symptoms and development of these health problems correlates with O2 levels in body cells.
But this is true not only for cancer and asthma, we need more oxygen in body cells to prevent and fight over 150 most popular modern diseases! The conditions are ranging from heart disease and cancer, the main killers in the west, to hormonal and digestive problems, diabetes, and asthma. Natural weight loss is a common side effect of breathing normalization known to any Buteyko breathing teacher.
This book provides an introduction to the Buteyko breathing method and breathing retraining. For topics covered in this book, see titles of chapters and sections.
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C++20 Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach by J Burton Browning
pdf | 16.45 MB | English | J. Burton Browning | 2020 | Apress; 2 edition | Page: 645
About C++20 Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach by J Burton Browning :
Discover the newest major features of C++20, including modules, concepts, spaceship operators, and smart pointers. This book is a handy code cookbook reference guide that covers the C++ core language standard as well as some of the code templates available in standard template library (STL).
In C++20 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, you'll find numbers, strings, dates, times, classes, exceptions, streams, flo, pointers, and more. Also, you'll see various code samples, templates for C++ algorithms, parallel processing, multithreading, and numerical processes. It also includes 3D graphics programming code. A wealth of STL templates on function objects, adapters, allocators, and extensions are also available.
This is a must-have, contemporary reference for your technical library to help with just about any project that involves the C++ programming language.
What You Will Learn
- See what's new in C++20
Write modules
- Work with text, numbers, and classes
- Use the containers and algorithms available in the standard library
- Work with templates, memory, concurrency, networking, scripting, and more
- Code for 3D graphics
Who This Book Is For
Programmers with at least some prior experience with C++.
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Dead Land
epub | 1.16 MB | English | Sara Paretsky | 2014 | HarperCollins | Page: 229
About Dead Land :
"V.I. Warshaki is as dogged and ferocious as ever. So is Sara Paretsky, who is at the top of her crime novel game."
- C.J. Box
Chicago's legendary detective, V.I. Warshaki, kno her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky.
Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play." Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects.
Chicago PI V.I. Warshaki gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir's life fell apart when her lover was murdered next to her in a mass shooting at...
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Everything Is Under Contro
epub | 457.3 KB | English | Phyllis Grant | 2020 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Page: 238
About Everything Is Under Contro :
One of Esquire's 10 Best Cookbooks of 2020 (So Far)
"What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir this is . . . Like the best chefs, Phyllis Grant kno how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth, taste, poignancy, and love."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat, Pray, Love
"Phyllis Grant has the voice of a poet and the sensuality of a cook. This very brave book makes you want to experience the world with equal intensity." -Ruth Reichl, author of Save Me the Plums
Phyllis Grant's Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant's story follo the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City, to falling in love...
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Gardening
epub | 176.29 KB | English |978-0760362853 | Celine Walker | 2018 | Celine Walker | Page: 272
About Gardening :
Gardening has Never Been Easier
Love gardening?
Hate chemicals?
Are you looking for a comprehensive guide that will help you to set up your own organic vegetable garden?
This book will give you a crash course on what it takes to start growing your own organic produce. This book contains information on plants, soil, tools and troubleshooting tips on how to get started as an organic gardener.
7 Reasons Why You Should Start a Garden
- Commercial Produce is Laced with a Huge Variety of Chemicals
- These Chemicals are Incredibly Harmful to us and the Environment
- Growing Your Own Products is the Only Way of Knowing Exactly What is in Your Food
- It Will Change Your Way of Looking at Food and You'll Live a Much Healthier Life
- You are Doing Something Good for the Environment
- It's Good for Your Budget, and Good for Your Family
- Gardening is a Great Way...
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Geeky Chef Cookbook
pdf | 14.75 MB | English | Cassandra Reeder | 2015 | Race Point Publishing | Page: 163
About Geeky Chef Cookbook :
Geek out with recipes inspired by books, movies, television, and video games!
You've conquered comic con. You binge watch Star Wars regularly. Now, it's time to get your geek on in the kitchen!
Cassandra Reeder loves to cook, and she's a bona-fide mega-geek. Comic-lover, avid gamer, and sci-fi and fantasy lover, she started The Geeky Chef in 2008. She creates real-life recipes for all the delicious foods you've seen in your favorite sci-fi and fantasy movies, TV sho, and video games. From Game of Thrones and the Hunger Games to Doctor Who, the Legend of Zelda and the World of Warcraft, this book features over 60 recipes and photos that you can re-create right in your own home for the geek in your life. Finally learn to create Butterbeer and Pumpkin Pasties from Harry Potter. Indulge in the Lemon Cakes from Game of Thrones. Sip from a bowl of Plomeek Soup from Star Trek and enjoy with Peeta's Cheesy Bread from the Hunger Games right in your kitchen! Fantasy foods are fantasy no longer...
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Girl and the Stars
epub | 1.25 MB | English | Mark Lawrence | 2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | Page: 380
About Girl and the Stars :
A stunning new epic fantasy series following a young outcast who must fight with everything she has to survive, set in the same world as Red Sister.
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Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers, 2nd Edition
pdf | 27.43 MB | English | Catia Bastioli | 2011 | Wiley-VCH; 1 edition | Page: 734
About Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers, 2nd Edition :
A comprehensive overview of biodegradable polymers, covering everything from synthesis, characterization, and degradation mechanisms while also introducing useful applications, such as drug delivery systems and biomaterial-based regenerative therapies. An introductory section deals with such fundamentals as basic chemical reactions during degradation, the complexity of biological environments and experimental methods for monitoring degradation processes.
The result is a reliable reference source for those wanting to learn more about this important class of polymer materials, as well as scientists in the field seeking a deeper insight.
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Jira Quick Start Guide by Ravi Sagar
epub | 5.54 MB | English | Ravi Sagar | 2019 | Packt Publishing | Page: 162
About Jira Quick Start Guide by Ravi Sagar :
Leverage Jira's powerful task management and workflow features to better manage your business processes
Key Features
[*]The book covers all major applications of Jira, which are Jira Software, Jira Core, Jira Service Desk.
[*]Configure project workflo and the fields that will be used in the project with the help of Jira's features
[*]Create tickets for issues and manage your projects using the Jira software Book Description
Jira is an issue tracker and project management system. With their latest release, the Jira team has now expanded their user base to agile teams as well as business teams. This book provides a comprehensive explanation covering all major components of Jira, including Jira Software, Jira Core, and Jira Service Desk.
This book starts with an introduction to Jira's unique features and how it can be used as an issue-tracking tool. It will then teach you about how a new project is created by a Jira administrator, what...
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Jira Quick Start Guide by Ravi Sagar
pdf | 6.53 MB | English | Ravi Sagar | 2019 | Packt Publishing; 1 edition | Page: 156
About Jira Quick Start Guide by Ravi Sagar :
Discover JIRA's powerful task management and workflow features to better manage your business processes
Key Features- Understand the major applications of JIRA, including JIRA Software, JIRA Core, and JIRA Service Desk
- Configure project workflo and the fields that will be used in the project with the help of JIRA features
- Create tickets for issues and manage your projects using the JIRA software
Book Description
JIRA is an issue tracker and project management system that can help software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With its latest release, JIRA has expanded its user base to agile teams as well as business teams. This book will help you get to grips with all the major components of JIRA, including JIRA Software, JIRA Core, and JIRA Service Desk.
Starting with an introduction to JIRA's unique features, you'll understand how it can be used as an issue tracking tool. You'll learn how administrators and managers create new projects on the JIRA console and use relevant schemes in your project. The book will take you through configuring JIRA workflo and fields for project screens. As you advance, you'll understand the different permissions used in projects, the importance of project roles in JIRA, and how project administrators can add or remove users in different roles. This JIRA book also covers versions and components, and how they can be used when handling issues or creating tickets. Finally, you'll focus on analysing data using built-in reports and creating dashboards in JIRA, and implement best practices for better maintenance of your JIRA instance.
By the end of the book, you'll be well-versed with all the core features of JIRA and be ready to implement them in your projects.
What you will learn- Implement JIRA as a project administrator or project manager
- Explore a variety of JIRA functionalities
- Configure projects and boards in your organisation's JIRA instance
- Understand how and when to use components and versions in your projects
- Manage project configurations and JIRA schemes
- Apply best practices for managing your JIRA instance
Who this book is for
If you're a project manager or any JIRA user, including developers even outside the software development industry, this book will guide you in using JIRA for project management.
Table of Contents- Introducing Jira
- Getting Started with Jira Core and Basic Usage
- Using Jira Software for Development Teams
- Using Jira Service Desk for Help Desks
- Jira Schemes and Configuring Project Workflow
- Configuring Project Screens and Permissions
- Reports and Dashboards
- Best Practices
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Mindset by Carol Dweck
epub | 560.79 KB | English | Carol Dweck | 2006 | Little, Brown Book Group | Page: 288
About Mindset by Carol Dweck :
The updated edition of the book that has changed millions of lives with its insights into the growth mindset.
After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she sho how success in college, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset-those who believe that abilities are fixed-are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset-those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.
In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love-to transform their lives and your own.
Praise for Mindset
"A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine." -Robert J. Sternberg, co-author of Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success
"An essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment." -Library Journal (starred review)
"Everyone should read this book." -Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick
"One of the most influential books ever about motivation." -Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock
"If you manage people or are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset." -Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start 2.0
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Shattered Snow by Rachel Huffmire
epub | 1.76 MB | English | Rachel Huffmire | 2019 | Immortal Works | Page: 340
About Shattered Snow by Rachel Huffmire :
"Rachel Huffmire is an exciting new voice who takes familiar ideas about fantasy and time travel and SHATTERS those expectations!! 'Shattered Snow' is a beautiful reimagining filled with engaging new characters and fresh new ideas. Literary escapism achieved!" -Brian Crosby, Creative Director of Themed Entertainment
In 2069, time-travel is restricted to observation and research. But Keltson Grammar doesn't mind breaking a few la. Known only as "The Mirror", Keltson runs an underground empire that rescues unfortunate souls throughout history. However, a single misstep could send an entire agency to reinstate his clients to their original dismal fates.
Lilia Vaschenko is a Russian mechanic surrounded by cinderblock towers, ladders she cannot climb, and a glass ceiling that holds her down like a casket. She'll do anything to escape--- even work for the world's most wanted renegade.
Margaretha is a young countess, destined to be poisoned at twenty-one. But when she discovers a mysterious mirror in the woods that transforms the world into shado and ice, her future shatters. Chased from her familiar home, will she ever find where she truly belongs?
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The First Time by Colton Underwood
epub | 18.11 MB | English | Colton Underwood | 2020 | Gallery Books | Page: 287
About The First Time by Colton Underwood :
From former football player and star of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette comes a fascinating and eye-opening behind-the-scenes look at his drama-filled season on the hit reality show.
Before Colton Underwood captured the hearts of millions on The Bachelor, he was a goofy, socially awkward, overweight adolescent who succeeded on the football field while struggling with personal insecurities off it. An All American gridiron hero, he was also a complex, sometimes confused, soft-hearted romantic wondering how these contradictions fit together. Old-fashioned and out of step with the swipe right dating culture of today, he was saving the most intimate part of life for the love of his life. If only he could find her...
Now, in The First Time, Colton opens up about how he came to find himself and true love at the same time via the Bachelor franchise. Unencumbered by cameras and commercial breaks, he delivers a surprisingly raw,...
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The Good Hawk by Joseph Elliot
epub | 29.18 MB | English | Joseph Elliott | 2020 | Candlewick Press | Page: 337
About The Good Hawk by Joseph Elliot :
In a mythic Scotland, two unlikely heroes must make a dangerous journey to save their people.
Agatha is a Hawk, brave and fierce, who protects her people by patrolling the high walls of their island home. She is proud of her job, though some in her clan whisper that it is meant to keep her out of the way because of the condition she was born with. Jaime, thoughtful and anxious, is an Angler, but he hates the sea. Worse, he's been chosen for a duty that the clan hasn't required for generations: to marry. The elders won't say why they have promised him to a girl in a neighboring clan, but there are rumors of approaching danger. When disaster strikes and the clan is kidnapped, it is up to Agatha and Jaime to travel across the haunted mainland of Scotia to Norveg, with help along the way from a clan of nomadic Highland bull riders and the many animals who are drawn to Agatha's extraordinary gift of communication. Thrilling and dark yet rich with humor and compassion,...
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the Only SkillMatters
epub | 862.8 KB | English | Jonathan A. Levi | 2019 | Lioncrest Publishing | Page: 198
About the Only SkillMatters :
In the next ten years, every knowledge worker on earth will become one of two things: invaluable or obsolete. No matter the industry, the pace of progress and new information is faster today than ever before in human history-and it's accelerating exponentially.
In this new reality, how can we possibly hope to keep up? How can we learn, unlearn, and relearn fast enough to stay relevant in the world to come?
In The Only Skill That Matters, Jonathan Levi unveils a powerful, neuroscience-based approach to reading faster, remembering more, and learning more effectively. You'll master the ancient techniques being used by world record holders and competitive memory athletes to unlock the incredible capacity of the human brain. You'll learn to double or triple your reading speed, enhance your focus, and optimize your cognitive performance. Most importantly, you'll be empowered to confidently approach any subject-from technical skills, to names and faces, to foreign languages, and even speeches-and learn it with ease.
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This Is Big by Marisa Meltzer
epub | 1.23 MB | English | Marisa Meltzer | 2020 | Little, Brown and Company | Page: 305
About This Is Big by Marisa Meltzer :
The story of a cross-generational, beyond-the-grave and beyond-the-scale friendship, one that led to the first breakthrough Marisa Meltzer ever had in her quest for self-improvement.
Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of 5. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand.
Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, a contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, NY housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963.
Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with her own journey through Weight Watchers, Marisa chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament...
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Where Innocent Die
epub | 491.23 KB | English | M J Lee | 2020 | Canelo Books | Page: 320
About Where Innocent Die :
Nowhere is safe. No one can be trusted.
A bloodied body is found in a Manchester Immigrant Removal Centre. The investigating officer and the pathologist seem certain: a suicide. But for DI Ridpath something doesn't add up.
As the evidence starts to unravel, and with few leads, the pressure is on to find answers before the Inquest is closed. Caught between the security officer, the coroner and a system that doesn't care, Ridpath isn't making any friends.
And at the centre of the case Ridpath will find a heart of darkness. Innocent people are suffering. How many more will die before Ridpath discovers the truth?
The fourth instalment of the unputdownable DI Ridpath series is perfect fans of Mark Billingham and Patricia Gibney.
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Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind
epub | 924.87 KB | English | Terry Goodkind | 2000 | Tom Doherty Associates | Page: 702
About Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind :
Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy.
Emperor Jagang is rising once again in the Old World and Richard must face him, on his own turf. Richard heads into the Old World with Cara, the Mord-Sith, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Unwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, Kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the Midlands.
Separated and fighting for their lives, Richard and Kahlan will be tested to the utmost.
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How Contagion Works by Paolo Giordano
epub | 652.46 KB | English | Paolo Giordano | 2020 | Bloomsbury Publishing | Page: 48
About How Contagion Works by Paolo Giordano :
The groundbreaking, moving essay on the coronavirus pandemic shared over 4 million times in Italy and published in 25 countries around the world-which lucidly explains how disease spreads and how our interconnectedness will save us.
"Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here." -Evening Standard (UK)
In this extraordinarily elegant work written from lockdown in Italy as the crisis deepened day to day, Paolo Giordano, the internationally bestselling writer of The Solitude of Prime Numbers with a PhD in physics, sho us what this outbreak really is about: human interconnectedness.
Illuminating the big picture of how the disease spreads with great simplicity and mathematical insight and placing it in the context of other modern crises like climate change and xenophobia, Giordano reveals how battling the pandemic is ultimately about...
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