Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Being Brett is a memoir that chronicles the author's daughter's harrowing struggle with Hodgkin's disease."Hobbie's harrowing account of Brett's last days is a shattering portrait of how a family struggles through the loss of one of its beloved members." - Publishers Weekly
Secret societies exist for one purpose – creating power, maintaining power and growing power. In-order to do so they have to control you and me. They have to manipulate markets, media, government and religion. This is how they do it.Show book
Love Unveiled: Secrets to Building Extraordinary Relationships ⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide with Explanations ⭐⭐ Are you looking to strengthen your connections and solidify lifelong relationships by uncovering the secrets to extraordinary bonds? Seeking a comprehensive guide that provides all the necessary elements to master the art of relationship building? Your search ends here! This guide serves as your definitive companion for deepening your understanding, applying your skills, and engaging in hands-on exercises. With this, you're geared for success. Updated for new insights on building lasting relationships. Key features of this enriched guide: - Profound insights about unlocking deeper connections and lifelong relationship success - Detailed explanation of relationship dynamics - Fruitful strategies for fostering meaningful bonds Our guide distinguishes itself through comprehensive coverage, essential for your success in relationship building. Concepts aren't merely skimmed; they are delved into with precision. Please note that this guide is not affiliated with any official relationship entity and is purely an independent resource for your benefit. Designed with a clear structure and easy-to-understand language, our Relationship Success Guide ensures smooth transitions between topics. Say goodbye to dense jargon and welcome clear, precise, and technically accurate content. So, why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your guide, and begin your journey to relationship success!Show book
Gaslighting? People Pleasing? Guilt Trips? Stonewalling? Have you been emotionally, verbally, or psychologically abusive to someone you love AND you really want to change? …welcome. Abuse isn’t just physical. More often, its hurtful words, insults, being yelled at or threatened. Abuse can also be emotional – being neglected, lied to, or manipulated. The truth is: No form of abuse is okay Someone was manipulative or abusive to you. At first it just felt "unfair" or "difficult." It may have started with your Mother, or Father. Even a sibling. Or maybe you had great family relationships and then fell in love as an adult and discovered too far in that this person was manipulative and every argument was a no-win. The truth is, If you've been in an abusive relationship, you need insight and knowledge to heal the scar and prevent it from happening again. Relationships are meant to feel safe, secure and loving. Do you know the difference between a difficult time and emotional manipulation or emotional abuse? Most people don't. The good news is that I can teach you: - How to identify verbal and emotional abuse - The causes of abusive behavior - How to set boundaries with abusive people - What is gaslighting? - What is narcissistic abuse - What is PTSD - Why guilt trips are toxic and how to avoid them. - Why you are attracted to Narcissists. - How to identify your own role in manipulative cycles. - Whether you are co-dependent. - How to tell if you are being controlled or unknowingly controlling others. If you're exhausted from toxic cycles in your life, Stop Them For Good. Discover the Map that takes you from loneliness, heartbreak, fear or divorce... to the confidence and clarity to succeed in love.Show book
A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline “87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder.” These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment. Tremblay also digs in to the way the Borderlands game franchise ― which has sold more than 26 million copies ― disrupts traditional notions of heroism, creating nuanced and compelling storytelling that highlights the strengths and possibilities of this relatively new narrative medium. The latest entry in the acclaimed Pop Classics series, Ain’t No Place for a Hero is a fascinating read for Borderlands devotees as well as the uninitiated.Show book
Risqué Business serves up the breastaurant industry, where food service, sex appeal, identity, and gender politics mix. Risqué Business explores the rise and ongoing cultural reckoning of "breastaurants": sports bar–style restaurants like Hooters and Twin Peaks, which have long relied on the sexualized presentation of female servers to attract a mostly straight, male clientele. Ty Matejowsky, professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida, is uniquely positioned in America's foundational, breastaurant-saturated landscape. From this vantage, he offers a well-balanced account that draws on pop culture, media analysis, and contemporary gender politics. He delivers a smart, layered analysis of how breastaurants commodify youth and femininity, uphold retrograde masculinity, and serve as symbolic battlegrounds in today's highly charged political environments, including America's deeply polarized Red State/Blue State divide. With case studies, cultural critique, and a critical lens on labor and sexuality, Matejowsky reveals how these restaurants are more than just risqué marketing gimmicks. They reflect deeper anxieties about gender, identity, and the uneasy fusion of sex and service in American consumer culture. Risqué Business is a high-spirited study of an industry that thrives at the intersection of appetite and identity.Show book
On October 7, 2023, Israel was ambushed by the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas. The attack, underwritten by the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashed unspeakable terrors on the Israeli population. Most of the world reacted with horror. But many commentators labeled the Jewish people, and Israel as a nation, as oppressors. The Palestinians, according to their Marxist calculus, were the oppressed. A legion of figures in academia, the media, and the United States then declared support for Palestine, the perpetrator of the atrocities. Many American institutions have been indoctrinated and transformed into puppets who propagate hateful antisemitism. Why does Israel exist? Why is it worthy of remaining a critical ally of the United States? Why have critical race theorists identified Israel and the US as the most pernicious examples of "settler colonialism"? Answers to these questions were developing during the first term of President Trump. But they were abandoned by the Biden-Harris Administration, imperiling Israel and the United States. In The Battle for the Jewish State, Victoria Coates shows how the conflict in Israel is not a regional issue to be resolved through an interminable diplomatic peace process. Rather, it is a broader military and cultural war that must be won for the sake of Israel and the United States.Show book
