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RJ and Adina enter the world as fraternal twins, one raised by old-world, controlling immigrants in El Barrio, the other sold into a religious home filled with lies and scorn. Both are sociopaths. One is a serial killer.Turns out, RJ's got a secret that enrages him with the flip of a switch. Adina uses her sexual power to dominate every man in her life. They are on a mysterious trajectory to cross paths in New York City, where the end of their lives...
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Differences between people are inevitable. Unfortunately, these can sometimes evolve into a serious conflict, drag on, or remain unresolved. Because the world shows up differently for each of us, leading to individual interpretations as to what is occurring, it is important to skillfully discuss differences with confidence and competence.
In a concise reference manual, Carl Welte relies on his experience as a successful entrepreneur and leader to...
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[2022]
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When researchers asked employees what their supervisor could do to help alleviate the uncertainty that arose from the pandemic, the data revealed five categories of actions managers can take to help workers cope. The study also found that different employees want different kinds of support delivered in different ways during a crisis, including some that managers can’t realistically provide. Consequently, managers must prioritize two behaviors:...
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"Ideas are everywhere, but those with the greatest problem-solving, business-transforming, and life-changing potential are often hard to identify. Even when we recognize good ideas, applying them to everyday obstacles--whether in the workplace, our homes, or our civic institutions--can seem insurmountable. According to Matthew Syed, it doesn't have to be this way. In Rebel Ideas, Syed argues that our brainpower as individuals isn't enough. To tackle...
5) Divergence
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The 2nd installment, of the Best Selling Nova Series- Divergence
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Sharyn Bradford Lunn's landmark saga of adventure and romance, spans almost 200 years of family history set against a backdrop of the rich and rugged wilds of Australia. In this sweeping story of love and loss, fortune and fate, this masterful storyteller recounts the journeys of the McCabe and Skye families, along with the people who shape their lives, as they strive to make good in the penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land during...
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The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly,...
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Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton).
How religious barriers stalled capitalism in the Middle East
In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind-in living standards,...
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Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise in and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have faced rising rates of diabetes, but their social and biomedical responses to its ascendance have diverged. To explain the emergence of these distinctive strategies, Armstrong-Hough argues that physicians...
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In the bustling city of Medina, where the aroma of spices and the call to prayer filled the air, lived two young men named Ahmad and Bilal. Both were devoted Muslims, but their paths of faith diverged as they faced different challenges on their journey towards righteousness.
16) Pedodiversity
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[2013]
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"Soil diversity (pedodiversity) is part of our natural and cultural heritage. The preservation of the pedosphere is essential for the protection of the biosphere and the Earth's systems, the regulation of climate, and for world food security. In this book, reputed international experts discuss the state of the art of pedodiversity analysis--analyzing the relationships among biodiversity, pedodiversity, landform diversity, lithodiversity, and land...
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Great Courses volume 9
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Franklin lived during a great age of rationality and questioning, but also through one of the greatest religious revivals in world history. Franklin himself was a close friend of both George Whitefield, a famous evangelist, and David Hume, a powerful skeptic. Find out what Franklin made of these divergent intellectual movements.
18) More Than Music
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This is the third part of a joint autobiographical trilogy based on the letters and diaries of two professional singers Christopher Davies and Barbara Kendall-Davies. It also relates to their young son, Giles and his blossoming career as a singer.
There is a good deal of music, of course but also many unexpected and divergent paths as well, including a major Hollywood movie.
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Gérard et Patrick, amis d'enfance, prennent des chemins de vie divergents lorsque Patrick est muté à New York. De son cté, Gérard, après un mariage malheureux avec Corinne, se lie d'amitié avec Sébastien à Biarritz. Ensemble, ils construisent une existence riche en couleurs à Toulouse. Cependant, cette harmonie sera bouleversée par l'épidémie de Covid. Trouveront-ils un parfait équilibre malgré ces tumultes?
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