The Curse of Bigness


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From the man who coined the term "net neutrality" and who has made significant contributions to our understanding of antitrust policy and wireless communications, comes a call for tighter antitrust enforcement and an end to corporate bigness.




The New Adolescence


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Parents of teenagers need a new playbook—one that addresses the new challenges they face today. Teens are growing up in an entirely new world, and this has huge implications for our parenting. Understandably, many parents are baffled by problems that didn't exist less than a decade ago, like social media and video game obsession, sexting, and vaping. The New Adolescence is a realistic and reassuring handbook for parents. It offers road-tested, science-based solutions for raising happy, healthy, and successful teenagers. Inside, you'll find practical guidance for: • Providing the support and structure teens need (while still giving them the autonomy they seek) • Influencing and motivating teenagers • Helping kids overcome distractions that hinder their learning • Protecting them from anxiety, isolation, and depression • Fostering the real-world, face-to-face social connections they desperately need • Having effective conversations about tough subjects--including sex, drugs, and money A highly acclaimed sociologist and coach at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and the author of Raising Happiness, Dr. Christine Carter melds research—including the latest findings in neuroscience, sociology, and social psychology—with her own (often hilarious) real-world experiences as the mother of four teenagers.







New Age & the Last Days Deception


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Some would say New Age refers to those flower loving, freewheeling people in the 60's who wore tinfoil triangles on their head. Others will remark it has to do with those who fear for the ecosystem. Still some will give you a blank stare and say they have no idea what you're talking about. Yet, little do any of these people realize that the beliefs and teachings of the New Age Movement have not only permeated virtually every sector of our society, but they are leading mankind towards the greatest time of deceit this planet has ever seen. Therefore, this book, New Age & the Last Days Deception, seeks to give you the reader an in-depth insight into the background and beliefs of the New Age Movement and how they are attempting to lead and deceive our planet. Here you will discover such shocking facts as: The Basics of New Age, New Age in Society, The Beliefs of New Age, New Age & Astrology, The History of New Age, New Age & Mediumship, Oprah Winfrey & Her New Age Friends, and New Age & Divination.




THE RIGHTEOUS SERVANTS OF GOD REVEALED IN THE LAST AGE


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Table of Contents 1. We Should Be Aware of and Be Loyal to the King of All Kings (Luke 19:12-27) 2. Let Us Thank the Lord for His Grace in Choosing Us (Luke 19:28-40) 3. The Lord Has Need of You (Luke 19:28-40) 4. Let Us Become Those Who Quench the Lord’s Thirst (Luke 19:28-40) 5. Do You Have Hope for the Millennial Kingdom? (Luke 20:27-38) 6. Believe in the Word of God’s Righteousness (Luke 21:5-38) 7. Jesus Is the Almighty God (Luke 22:7-38) 8. Pray to Jesus to Defeat Great Temptations to Come by Faith (Luke 22:39-46) 9. Do Not Weep for Me, but Weep for Yourselves and for Your Children (Luke 23:26-38) 10. He Who Endures to the End Shall Be Saved (Luke 23:26-49) 11. The Resurrected Lord Has Given Us the Hope of Resurrection (Luke 24:13-53) 12. Think of the Work of God (Luke 24:36-53) It is Jesus Christ who moves all the history of this world. Our Lord came to this earth to save us all humans from the sins of the world, and He has also become the bread of new life for those of us who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. In fact, it was to give this new life to us, who were all destined to hell for our sins, that our Lord came looking for you and me. The New Life Mission https://www.bjnewlife.org







The Last of an Age


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In The Last of an Age, Sooyong Kim explores the relationship between social change and the development of an Ottoman literary canon in the course of the sixteenth century by examining the work and reception of a popular poet, Zati (1471–1546). Kim argues that a newly emergent group of bureaucratic literati, through the production of authoritative biographical dictionaries, ultimately relegated Zati to a lesser literary age, driven by a self-fashioning that privileged broad linguistic ability, above all else, with poetry serving as the main vehicle for demonstrating that. This study is interdisciplinary in approach, taking insights from literary studies, cultural history, and social theory. It adds to the scholarship on the rise of early modern Ottoman canons in the fields of visual arts and music and complements recent work on court patronage. Framed by ongoing critiques of canon formation among specialists of early modern Europe and late imperial China, the study offers a comparative perspective on those issues.




The Last Earthling: The Age of The Werewolves—Book 1


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THE LAST EARTHLING is book #1 in THE AGE OF THE WEREWOLVES saga. Even the last person on Earth has a destiny…. The Near Future: Eden Summers, a 16 year old girl with a special gift, is the unlikely last survivor of two world-ending calamities. The first was Wildfire, a deadly super-plague that wiped out all but a few hundred of mankind in two horrible weeks. The second was the massacre of the Foundation, an elite group of scientist survivors led by her father, by a mythical race of werewolves called The Caretakers. Now Eden, the last of the survivors, is alone. She misses her old life, especially Luke, her handsome first love and best friend, who she never had a chance to say goodbye to. The Caretakers are looking to be the new rulers of earth and they are coming for her, the last human left on the planet--and the last obstacle to their new Age of The Werewolves. Eden has some very unique friends: at her side are John, Paul, George, and Ringo, four intelligent bio-enhanced dogs entrusted to her protection by her brilliant father. And she soon discovers that although she is the last of her kind, that kind is not human. She is an Earthling, the last of an ancient race that has waged a secret war with the werewolves for eons. A race of beings that have unique powers and a special relationship with Earth’s animals. And as the last of her kind at the end of her world, she has been given a special destiny. A destiny to help forge a new one. And so begins Eden's epic quest as the Last Earthling. A quest to end the werewolves’ reign and bring harmony for all creatures of this brave new world. Book #2 in the series will be published soon.




HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA, From the Last Ice Age to The Mahabharata War (≈9000–1400 BCE)


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Most Indians believe that the Purāṇic accounts of Indian history are just figment of human imagination. They fail to explain why would thousands of people create dynastic king-lists of fictitious families consisting of thousands of names and then remember them for several millenniums. In reality they have left behind a record of their families/tribes and social. moral and religious customs. The Vedic-Purāṇic literature as well as archeological, geological, historical and linguistic accounts have been reviewed to establish ancient history of the Indian subcontinent. The chronological and geographical information related to the various cultures/tribes were established using the dates when farming, use of kiln-baked bricks or metalworking started; horses were domesticated; chariots were invented; Sarasvatī River dried up; and Mahabharata War took place.




Legends of Dark Age Wales: The Lion of Wales Series/The Last Pendragon Saga


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Myth and legend come to life in Dark Age Wales ... The Lion of Wales series: Love. Magic. Faith. By the autumn of 537 AD, all who are loyal to King Arthur have retreated to a small parcel of land in north Wales. They are surrounded on all sides, heavily outnumbered, and facing near certain defeat. But Myrddin and Nell, two of the king's companions, have a secret that neither has ever been able to face: each has seen that on a cold and snowy day in December, Saxon soldiers sent by Modred will ambush and kill King Arthur. And together, they must decide what they are willing to do, and to sacrifice, to avert that fate. This volume contains first three novels in The Lion of Wales series, published separately elsewhere as: Cold My Heart, The Oaken Door, and Of Men and Dragons. The Last Pendragon Saga: Rhiann knows that demons walk the night. She has been taught to fear them. But from the moment Cade is dragged before her father's throne, beaten and having lost all of his men to her father's treachery, he stirs something inside her that she has never felt before. When Cade is revealed to be not only Arthur's heir but touched by the sidhe, Rhiann must choose between the life she left behind and the one before her--and how much she is willing to risk to follow her heart. This volume contains the first three novels in The Last Pendragon Saga published separately elsewhere as: The Last Pendragon, The Pendragon's Blade, and Song of the Pendragon. Cold My Heart and The Last Pendragon are the first books in two different series set in Dark Age Wales!