A breakthrough approach to optimize your brain, change your habits, and succeed in school, from a renowned neuroscientist and bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

Do you feel like you should be getting better grades? Are you spending more time studying than the A students in your class but not getting the same results? Are you heading back to school after a long break and need a refresher to get more done in less time?

With schools becoming more competitive and technology becoming increasingly distracting, today’s students face a minefield of obstacles to academic success. Doing well in school isn’t just a matter of smarts or more studying: It takes good habits, practical tools—and a healthy brain.

Brain health pioneer Dr. Daniel Amen knows what it takes to get the brain ready to succeed. Change Your Brain, Change Your Grades draws on Dr. Amen’s experience as a neuroscientist and psychiatrist as well as the latest brain science to help you study more effectively, learn faster, and stay focused so you can achieve your academic goals. This practical guide will help you:

- Discover your unique brain type and learning style

- Kick bad habits and adopt smarter study practices

- Get more out of your classes with less overall study time

- Memorize faster and remember things longer

- Increase your confidence and beat stress

For underachievers, stressed-out studiers, and students from middle school to college and beyond, Change Your Brain, Change Your Grades gives you the knowledge and tools you need to get the best out of yourself.

When Christopher Robin graduates from the first grade, he receives a diploma and an award. This makes him feel so good that he decides to hold an awards ceremony for his friends. Kanga is the best cookie maker, and Tigger is the best bouncer–but what is Pooh best at?

A gentleman's impulsive wager to marry a stranger. A young woman’s determination not to marry the man she wants.

When Isabel Cosgrove is informed by her father that he lost her hand in marriage while playing cards with Charles Galbraith—the gentleman she’s been admiring from a distance for years—she is filled with dismay. How can she agree to wed a man whose reason for marriage is part-revenge, part-indifference? Intent on avoiding a painful union where her regard cannot be returned, she concocts a plan.

Charles Galbraith didn’t intend to become engaged as a result of a drunken wager at cards, but after the woman he loves spurns him, what does it matter whom he marries? But even Miss Cosgrove, the fiancée he won by wager, seems intent not to marry him—a fact that both relieves and piques him. She instead suggests a plan that has the potential to temporarily appease her father’s demand of marriage while also winning back the love of the woman Charles truly wants.

But when Charles and Isabel are thrown into the midst of a brewing scandal and another man’s potential disinheritance, their plan begins to unravel thread by thread, challenging what Galbraith thinks he wants—and just how much more time with him Isabel’s heart can stand.

Most introductory textbooks in theology see their primary task as explaining Christian doctrines that no one quite understands anymore. While this is one of theology's jobs, it is by no means the only, nor even the most important, one. Theology has also been called to change the world, to help people connect deeply rooted beliefs about the world's source and goal to questions of personal meaning and communal thriving. Theology is here to help us make sense of the complex, flawed world into which we've been thrust and to assist us in our attempt to love our neighbors and live toward the common good.

For more than forty years, the Workgroup on Constructive Theology has brought the liberal and liberationist theological traditions into creative encounter with lived human experience. In this introduction to the methods and tasks of theology, they invite a new generation of readers, many who will have little or no exposure to Christian doctrine, to see theology as a partner in the struggle for a better world. They demonstrate how theological ideas have "legs," playing themselves out not only in religious communities but in the public square as well. Theology, the authors tell us, is constructive when it joins in God's work of building human lives and human societies. Readers will learn to think about all of life in light of their religious commitments and to see theology as an essential tool for a life well lived.

This easy-to-use guide is for the millions who suffer from fears, phobias or anxieties, for their families and friends, and for the professionals who help them. Written in an accessible style by a clinical psychologist with extensive research experience in fears and phobias, this book explains the many forms and causes of fears and phobias. Using real-life examples, Mansell outlines the therapeutic principles, strategies and tactics available, and offers readers a complete, easy-to-follow self-help program based on the clinically proven techniques of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT).

Music-hall singer Miss Christiana is in serious debt, and serious trouble. She owes more than she can pay to a notorious criminal, and now he plans to make an example of her. There's no way out.

But Christiana has an admirer. Stan Kamarzyn has watched her sing for a year and he doesn't want to see her get hurt. Stan's nobody special--just a dodgy bloke from Bethnal Green--but he's got useful friends. Friends who can get a girl out of trouble, for a price. Christiana's not sure what it will cost her...

The two slowly reach an understanding. But Christiana is no criminal, and she can't risk getting mixed up with the law. What will happen when Stan's life as the fence for the notorious Lilywhite Boys brings trouble to his doorstep?

A trans f/m asexual romance novelette (17,000 words), set two years before Any Old Diamonds.

Content warnings: Story opens with misgendering/transphobia and threat of violence.

This story is true. Not even the names have been changed. I may end up being kicked out of camp for telling “what happens at camp”, but it’s a risk I am willing to take. After all, I’m innocent!

Our deer camp, Camp Abahati, started in 1965. Since then we are in our 51st year of hunting the same piece of ground. Not many deer camps can lay claim to that. And two of the three original hunters are still hunting there. You would have to look hard to find that at any other camp. The group has grown over those 51 years to include two more Camp Elders, including yours truly, and their offspring which now numbers 15 children and grandchildren. All of whom have killed their first deer on that property or in the surrounding area.

There are stories that will excite you. Stories that will make you laugh. Stories that will make you shake your head and think, “did they REALLY do that?”

The foreword to the book was written by a good friend and outstanding writer, Daniel Lamoreux. Daniel and I have shared a lot over the years. A few hunts, some fishing trips, some fine cigars and some great whiskey. He is a friend tried and true, and his foreword is worth the price of this book.

If you are a deer hunter I know you will enjoy reading this tale. If you aren’t a deer hunter the stories of family and friends makes for some great reading. It’s not about the killing; it’s about the hunting, the friendship, and the camaraderie!

كفى يـا شعر ...
كفى يا شعر ..
ما غادرت في التاريخ ..
ما قصرت في التوبيخ ..
شكرا لك ..
لأنك حين قلت الحق كان القول مسجوعا فأرقصهم ..
ولما قلته بالنثر .. أربكهم ..
وكم حاولت من مسلك
فشكرا لك ..
ستبقى هكذا يا شعر مهراجا بباب القصر ..
درويشا على الطرقات
أو بوقا لحزب الـــلات ..
موضوعا لمن حولك ..
فقل ماشئت مهما قلت لن يتبينوا قولك ..
فشكرا لك ..

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A comforting companion for soul-searching individuals, Cracked Mirror, Clear Reflection challenges you to find purpose beyond idealistic standards of perfection. After wrestling with insecurity and a fear-based mentality, author Julie Barbera found the courage to live with authenticity. Julie shares her life experiences through transparency, reflection, and a poetic writing style. Inspirational quotes and faith-filled stories of struggle, triumph, and personal growth keep you engaged and encouraged to live with intention.

Find freedom with a purpose-driven mindset and keys to greater self-acceptance. Simplify your goals toward a vision-driven path, restoring your peace and courage. Believe in yourself, and discover the confidence to make your future bright.

Perfection is an illusion. Despite the cracks, your reflection can be clear. When you look in the mirror, in weaknesses, you may find your greatest strengths—and this is the clearest reflection of all when you see God's purpose for you.