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Haven
Haven
I build a haven away from the pain I live in silence away from the hurt Dark forms reach for me I lie I cry for safe prayers away from my sickness Positivity falls from me I wonder I die for desire of love away from being alone But I live - J.S.
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From Dust to Man
From Dust to Man
A well-noted geneticist, Dr. Suzanne Wright defies nature, breaks all the rules, and produces an organically based life created by her secret process. Now there is hope. Wright has little time to revel in her accomplishments because she unearths a scandalous secret 600 years ago. All knowledge of man's extinction has been erased from history, science, religion right down to his DNA. It is an epic governmental cover up. Wright is secretly asked to bring a male child back but how can she bring the male back in a societal sea of females that don't even know that the creature ever existed? Will she succeed or is it too late for man?
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Decision Advantage
Decision Advantage
In Decision Advantage, Jennifer E. Sims examines the role of intelligence in international conflict throughout history to show that intelligence has been a measurable, buildable, and consequential form of power over centuries. Diving deep into the history of the 16th Century's Spanish Armada, two Civil War battles, the hunt for President Lincoln's assassin, and key diplomatic crises before the two World Wars, Sims develops insights into how competitors have created and used intelligence power to their advantage, including winning against otherwise stronger opponents.
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Everything Below the Waist
Everything Below the Waist
Elle's 30 BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER "A jaw-dropping investigation into the women's health industry." —Shelf-Awareness "A fascinating examination of the past and present of women's healthcare" —Delfina V Barbiero, USA TODAY "A must-read for women, especially any woman who might ever need to see a doctor. " —The Washington Post American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery; roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy. Feminism turned the world upside down, yet to a large extent the doctors' office has remained stuck in time. Block returns to the 1970s women's health movement to understand how in today's supposed age of empowerment, women's bodies are still so vulnerable to medical control—particularly their sex organs, and as result, their sex lives. In this urgent book, Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health. Everything Below the Waist challenges all people to take back control of their bodies.
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Vanished Villages of Elgin
Vanished Villages of Elgin
Located on the scenic north shore of Lake Erie, Elgin County was once home to over 40 vanished communities - filled with steam trains, ghosts, one-room schoolhouses, rowdy taverns, War of 1812 skirmishes and colourful characters, like Thomas Talbot. Jennifer Grainger chronicles the rise and fall of Elgin’s crossroad hamlets, lakeports and rail depots with contemporary photos, archival shots, and postmarks that remind us of the pioneers.
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Icarus Restrained
Icarus Restrained
The author cites that this is a study of the nature and origins of the dominant post-war approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted. The study ends with the early 1960s by which time the central t
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Web of Shadows
Web of Shadows
"Covers PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Micrsoft Xbox 360"--Front cover.
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Transforming U.S. Intelligence
Transforming U.S. Intelligence
The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look to the future as to the past and a focus more on the art and practice of intelligence rather than on its bureaucratic arrangements. In fact, while the recent restructuring, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, may solve some problems, it has also created new ones. The authors of this volume agree that transforming policies and practices will be the most effective way to tackle future challenges facing the nation's security. This volume's contributors, who have served in intelligence agencies, the Departments of State or Defense, and the staffs of congressional oversight committees, bring their experience as insiders to bear in thoughtful and thought-provoking essays that address what such an overhaul of the system will require. In the first section, contributors discuss twenty-first-century security challenges and how the intelligence community can successfully defend U.S. national interests. The second section focuses on new technologies and modified policies that can increase the effectiveness of intelligence gathering and analysis. Finally, contributors consider management procedures that ensure the implementation of enhanced capabilities in practice. Transforming U.S. Intelligence supports the mandate of the new director of national intelligence by offering both careful analysis of existing strengths and weaknesses in U.S. intelligence and specific recommendations on how to fix its problems without harming its strengths. These recommendations, based on intimate knowledge of the way U.S. intelligence actually works, include suggestions for the creative mixing of technologies with new missions to bring about the transformation of U.S. intelligence without incurring unnecessary harm or expense. The goal is the creation of an intelligence community that can rapidly respond to developments in international politics, such as the emergence of nimble terrorist networks while reconciling national security requirements with the rights and liberties of American citizens.
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Friend Or Foe
Friend Or Foe
Spider-Man- Friend or Foe allows players to choose a sidekick from Spider-Man's allies or fight against movie Super Villains and then convert them to join Spidey's list of sidekicks.
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Florence McRaven
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