Ringworld's Children

Science Fiction & Fantasy

TOM PARKER

Science Fiction

Blackstone Pub

Whitener, Barret

Business & Money

Blackstone Audiobooks

Welcome to a world like no other. The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface of the Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe. Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war and a powerful new weapon threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous game in order to save Ringworld's population--and the stability of Ringworld itself. Blending awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun, Ringworld's Children is the perfect introduction for readers new to this New York Times bestselling series, and long-time fans won't want to miss it.

Literature & Fiction

New Book Offers Foundations a Safe, Game-Changing Investment strategy! In the last 16 years, Tom Parker, CEO of the Santa Barbara-based Hutton Parker Foundation, has made more than $100 million through and innovative, new financial strategy that involves investing in the local community instead of Wall Street. He shows how he did it - and how your foundation can do it, too - in his new book, The $100 Million Secret (Kele Books). This step-by-step guide could be one of the most important and exciting books you will ever read! It is an easy-to-follow blueprint of a unique, but stunningly simple and safe way of investing in local real estate that produced more than twice the amount of income of traditional Wall Street investments. In Parker's view, most charitable foundations in this country are living in the Dark Ages as they continue to invest their assets in the stock market rather than their own communities. In this book, Parker proves that community investing is not only more mission-oriented, it is less risky and more profitable! In these pages, you will find charts, explanations and the essential lessons Parker learned in his 35 years of experience in real estate, financing and banking. He proves that investing in community is an option that should be considered by nearly ever foundation in America. Not only are his strategies highly beneficial to foundations, they could also have a positive effect on the national economy. Foundations currently have a total of more than $600 billion invested in the United States, the vast majority in Wall Street stocks and bonds. If even a portion of those funds were shifted into local investments in America's communities, it could help create jobs and stimulate economic growth at the grass-roots level!

The $100 Million Secret

Kele Publishing

AVOIDING THE TERRORIST TRAP: WHY RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE KEY TO DEFEATING TERRORISM

For more than 150 years, Nationalist, Populist, Marxist and Islamist terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: Provoke the State into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society that result. 
 Faced with a major terrorist threat, States seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their arsenal and, in doing so, risk exacerbating the situation. This policy response seems to be driven in equal parts by a lack of understanding of the true nature of the threat, an exaggerated faith in the use of force, and a lack of faith that democratic values are sufficiently flexible to allow for an effective counter-terrorism response. 
 Drawing on a wealth of data from both historical and contemporary sources, Avoiding the Terrorist Trap addresses common misconceptions underpinning flawed counter-terrorist policies, identifies the core strategies that guide terrorist operations, consolidates the latest research on the underlying drivers of terrorist violence, and demonstrates how a comprehensive and coherent counter-terrorism strategy grounded in respect for human rights and the rule of law is the only truly effective approach to defeating terrorism. 
 Readership: Policymakers and researchers developing counterterrorism tactics.

AVOIDING THE TERRORIST TRAP: WHY RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE KEY TO DEFEATING TERRORISM (Insurgency & Terrorism, 12)

Constitutional Law

World Scientific Publishing Company

THE POWERFUL AND UPLIFTING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\nIn March 2022, much-loved pop star, father and son Tom Parker died from incurable brain cancer. This story is his legacy, in his own words.\nA proud working-class lad from Bolton, he rose to chart-topping fame with The Wanted and even took America by storm. A loving father to Aurelia and Bodhi and a devoted husband to Kelsey, his life after pop superstardom was all about family, friends and finding new purpose.\nAfter his diagnosis in 2020, he become a prominent campaigner for brain cancer research, appearing in the House of Commons as well as holding a massively successful concert in aid of Stand Up to Cancer in the Royal Albert Hall.\nThroughout it all, Tom had hope. This inspirational memoir shows how far hope and daring to dream can carry you, no matter what cards you're dealt.

Hope: My inspirational life

Arts & Photography

Music

BLINK Publishing

Hope

GOODMI

For more than 150 years, nationalist, populist, Marxist and religious terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: provoke states into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society that result. Yet, state after state falls into the trap that terrorists have set for them. 
Faced with a major terrorist threat, governments seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools at their disposal and, in doing so, risk exacerbating the situation. This policy response seems to be driven in equal parts by a lack of understanding in the true nature of the threat, an exaggerated faith in the use of force, and a lack of faith that democratic values are sufficiently flexible to allow for an effective counter-terrorism response. 
Drawing on a wealth of data from both historical and contemporary sources, Avoiding the Terrorist Trap addresses common misconceptions underpinning flawed counter-terrorist policies, identifies the core strategies that guide terrorist operations, consolidates the latest research on the underlying drivers of terrorist violence, and then demonstrates why a counter-terrorism strategy grounded in respect for human rights and the rule of law is the most effective approach to defeating terrorism.

Rules of the Thumb: Hundreds of Ways to Guess and Get Away with It

Equation

Manzanita's center of biodiversity is in the California Floristic Province, where they are the rock stars of woody shrub diversity. Ranging from the Sierra Nevada mountains to coastal bluffs along the Pacific, from temperate rainforests along the North Coast to arid mountain slopes in Southern California, a wealth of manzanita species and subspecies can be found in an astonishing array of environments. What is presented herein is an assimilation of images, descriptions, and range maps to better understand these plants through: -Color plates for identifying the world's manzanitas -Accurate and updated range maps -28 manzanita hot-spots for finding them in the field -Spectacular photos from across North America -Simplified keys by region -Discussion covering endemism, ecology, and evolution of the genus

Field Guide to Manzanitas

Science & Math

Michael Edward Kauffmann

Michael Vasey

Jeff Bisbee

Biological Sciences

Backcountry Press

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