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The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts. The Carbon Almanac is a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between hundreds of writers, researchers, thinkers and leaders that focuses on what we know, what has come before and what might happen next. With thousands of data points, articles and charts explaining carbon's impact on everything in our society, it is the definitive source for facts and the basis for a global movement to fight climate change.

In the vastness of the human experience, we sometimes overlook the relationships most precious to our hearts. That of our sacred privilege and responsibility to nurture all children. Conscious Brain Training from your heart is a key to cultivating happiness.

Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can’t believe his good fortune. He’s heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it’s hard to know who’s a friend or foe.

Do you struggle with stress eating, binge eating, emotional eating and all types of overeating? Do you repeatedly go on diets, manage to lose weight, only to gain it all back? Yes? I know what it is to be overweight, tired, and sick all the time with what seems to be no end in sight. Life is too short and beautiful to be fat, sick and tired.

When Nola turns eight, her father gives her a wonderful present—a music box that belonged to her late mother. As the young girl studies her new gift, she is shocked to find someone living inside it! That’s when Nola shrinks down and enters the music box too. There, she discovers the magical world of Pandorient, and a pair of siblings named Andrea and Igor.

When Sam walks into work on Monday morning, she thinks it's just going to be an ordinary start to an ordinary week. But one quick and tense exchange is all it takes to change that. When her more than slightly passive-aggressive, hot-this-week-and-cold-next-week colleague randomly hurls a racial slur at her, Sam's previously comfortable life immediately turns into one filled with stress and anxiety.

Ci sono occhi che osservano, nascosti in un paesaggio spettrale... Piero Bianchi non è ben visto nel paese in cui vive. Sua moglie si è suicidata, lui ha fatto a lungo abuso di alcol, i compaesani lo considerano un assassino. E così, quando viene a sapere che a Villa Nebbia cercano un custode, si presenta per avere il lavoro. A riceverlo è un avvocato, Emidio, ex marito di Ilde, l'anziana proprietaria della villa. Di lei si occupa la nipote, Mariasole: le due donne sono le uniche a vivere nella grande casa.

The 518 Publishing Company’s fourth anthology A Guide to Useless Sidekicks contains 19 short stories by many first-time published authors from the US and Canada. The tales include creepy dolls, inspiring adventures, a few superheroes, one princess, and some unwitting villains, not to mention awesome sidekicks!

There are plenty of books and resources about how to properly care for your new baby, but what about caring for yourself? Maria Lianos-Carbone, founder of AMotherWorld.com, outlines the proper care and feeding of mothers during their baby's first year. From the physical and emotional changes a new mom will undergo to rekindling intimacy with her partner, Oh Baby! A Mom's Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year keeps the focus on moms.

Dopo il Capodanno Taormina si svuota. A scuotere la tranquilla vita della cittadina e la rassicurante routine del giornalista Giacomo Cassisi è la misteriosa morte, all'alba di un freddo giorno di gennaio, di Efre Vazzini, rampolla di una potente famiglia di imprenditori. Cassisi sceglie di indagare affidandosi al proprio intuito, cogliendo tracce che possono essere i versi di una canzone o il particolare di un quadro, il titolo di un romanzo o una ricetta culinaria.

The best educated and most prosperous have the most stable families, while working class families have seen the greatest increase in relationship instability. Why? The book provides the answer: greater economic inequality has profoundly changed marriage markets, the way men and women match up when they search for a life partner. It has produced a larger group of high-income men than women; written off the men at the bottom; and left a larger group of women with a smaller group of comparable men...

Destiny intervenes for Tucker Millis, a delusional writer who needs a purpose in life and a plot for his new novel. When he discovers his new phone number once belonged to a man on the verge of turning himself in for a twenty-five year old murder, it's a dream come true. Tucker uses the messages and calls intended for the murderer to manipulate lives and to craft his story. But he's propelled back to reality when he can no longer escape the full horror and dire consequences of the world he's created...

Due omicidi legati fra loro, tra le campagne di Vendicari e il mare di Portopalo, turbano l'equilibrio imperfetto del paesaggio del Val di Noto nel bel mezzo della primavera siciliana. Il giornalista Giacomo Cassisi segue gli sviluppi dell'inchiesta, nel groviglio reso ancor più ingarbugliato dal filo che lega la sua amica Elena a Gina, la sorella di una delle vittime. La storia è raccontata in 47 brevi capitoli legati tra loro dai titoli di famose canzoni italiane, come fosse una colonna sonora.

Virginia Laydon, an infant at the end of Blood on the River, has now grown up in a colony that is teetering dangerously on the precipice of conflict with the native Algonquins. Virginia has the gift, or the curse, of the knowing - an ability that could help save the colony and is equally likely to land her at the burning stake as an accused witch.

Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders—but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family around her. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her older sister, and her protective and loving parents are everything. And then one day, they are gone. Separated from her family by her master and shipped off as a housemaid, Ann learns something about independence and about love before the opportunity for escape arrives.

This guide from the American Academy of Pediatrics offers authoritative, accessible advice that parents can trust. Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Every Parent Needs to Know helps parents understand how ASDs are defined and diagnosed and offers an overview of the most current behavioral and developmental therapies. Topics covered include: symptoms, frequency, and types of ASDs; accessing care; services in the community; behavioral and developmental treatment; the role of complementary and alternative medicine; screening tools; and adolescence and transitioning into adulthood.

È una sera gelida, c’è il pericolo che la pioggia battente si trasformi in tormenta di neve. Un inferno per i tecnici della Scientifica. Giornalisti e curiosi si accalcano intorno alla zona del ritrova­mento: ben presto l’attenzione di tutto il Paese si concentra su quel macabro mistero. L’architetto Gabriele Moretti sta guardando il servizio alla televisio­ne. Ha trentasei anni, una bella famiglia a cui è molto legato e la sua carriera è decollata.

Samuel Collier de doce años, es un niño humilde de las calles de Londres. Cuando se convierte en el paje del Capitán John Smith y aborda el Susan Constant con destino al Nuevo Mundo, no puede creer su buena fortuna. Ha oído que por aquellos lados el oro llega a las costas con cada marea. Pero a partir del tormentoso viaje y su primer contacto con los nativos, se da cuenta de que el Nuevo Mundo no es nada parecido a lo que él imaginaba.

Edimburgo 1844. La bella Aileana Kameron sembra una giovane debuttante come tante, una frivola ragazzina dell'alta società. Di notte però dà la caccia alle malvage creature fatate che terrorizzano gli abitanti della città, in cerca di quella che le ha ucciso la madre. La sua missione di vendetta diventa però più complicata mano a mano che i suoi sentimenti per Kiaran MacKay, l'essere fatato che le ha insegnato a uccidere i suoi simili, si fanno più intensi e ambigui.

Edimburgo 1844. La bella Aileana Kameron sembra una giovane debuttante come tante, una frivola ragazzina dell'alta società. Di notte però dà la caccia alle malvage creature fatate che terrorizzano gli abitanti della città, in cerca di quella che le ha ucciso la madre. La sua missione di vendetta diventa però più complicata mano a mano che i suoi sentimenti per Kiaran MacKay, l'essere fatato che le ha insegnato a uccidere i suoi simili, si fanno più intensi e ambigui.