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The California of Where You Live might have sun, surf, and sand, but it s more densely populated with cracking marriages, accidental pregnancies, and shitty jobs. Andrew Roe s Californians face sharp points of change: Stay or go? Love or leave? Run or get stuck? Their choices, like our own, reveal life s stark limitations and its wide-open vistas all at once.

Full of lush prose and unforgettable imagery, the stories in Where You Live shine an unforgiving yet shimmering light on longing, loss, and the everyday catastrophes of life.

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A guide to the internal martial arts exercises of short-form Wu-Style Tai Chi

- Details the 8 core forms of Wu-Style Tai Chi with fully illustrated instructions

- Ideal for older practitioners as well as those with health disabilities due to the "small frame" primary stance, slower and smaller movements, and conservation of energy

- Explains how Wu Style provides a natural introduction to martial arts boxing

- Reveals how Wu Style eases stiffness, relieves back pain, and reduces abdominal fat

Following the flow of chi energy, rather than directing it as in traditional Tai...

A fully illustrated guide to the most advanced Kan and Li practice to birth the immortal spirit body and unite with the Tao

- Explains how to establish the cauldron at the Heart Center to collect cosmic light, activate the Cranial and Sacral Pumps, and align the Three Triangle Forces

- Details how to merge energy at the Heart Center to birth the immortal spirit body, allowing you to draw limitless energy from the Cosmos

- Discusses the proper Pi Gu diet and herbs to use with Kan and Li practice

- Reveals how to expel the three Worms, or "Death Bringers," that can imbalance the...

This book explores the effects of racial microaggressions on Asian American (AA) faculty members currently at higher education institutions utilizing the frameworks of the Model Minority Myth and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype. The book delves into how AAPI faculty members were able to individually navigate and transcend at college and universities. Chapters offer original insights into faculty members’ experiences through their own personal testimonies. The author also introduces the new concept of Model Minority Tokenism. The book concludes with recommendations for next steps in research...

Schoolteacher Dorothy Nti believes she is living a happy life with her husband, Alex, and their two-year-old son, Kofi, in a suburb of Accra, Ghana. She has no idea that a dramatic illness is about to change their lives forever.

One Friday evening, when Alex is out late, Kofi becomes violently ill. Not knowing what to do, Dorothy turns to a nearby revival church for help. The pastor prays over the sick boy, who begins to improve. But when Dorothy offers to pay him, he instead coerces her into having sex with him, which haunts her for several months. As she recovers through prayer and...

The current technology and its applications in flow cytometry are presented in this comprehensive reference work. Described in explicit detail are the instrumentation and its components, and applications of the technology in cell biology, immunology, pharmacology, genetics, hematology and clinical medicine. Methods for data analysis, including both hardware and software, and explicit experimental techniques for making specific measurements are presented.
Material is divided by topic into two volumes: Volume I covers instrumentation, genetics, and cell structure; Volume II contains...

Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 (WF) is a significant part of .NET Framework 4.0. WF makes workflow technology available to every single programmer that uses the .NET Framework 4.0. It is easy to create long running and distributed programs using WF with the right knowledge. With this book, you will discover that working with workflows is easy. This book provides both step-by-step recipes and relevant background information. It covers all the important aspects of Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0. The best thing about this book is that all recipes are based on real-world experiences of Andrew...

Starting from the fundamentals of brakes and braking, Braking of Road Vehicles covers car and commercial vehicle applications and developments from both a theoretical and practical standpoint.

Drawing on insights from leading experts from across the automotive industry, experienced industry course leader Andrew Day has developed a new handbook for automotive engineers needing an introduction to or refresh on this complex and critical topic.

With coverage broad enough to appeal to general vehicle engineers and detailed enough to inform those with...

The story happened a thousand earth years after the Singularity(Artificial Intelligence) had conquered earth, it considers itself the Messenger of God, the Last Prophet. With those believes it hammered the human population into Medieval life peasantry of the New Dark Age, from there it drafts its crusading army. Mars was the only place where Free Human still lives freely, except there was this Martian Singularity war that happened every 15 to 17 earth years when Mars and Earth were at their closest, it happened as exact and stubborn as 0 and 1. Martians are the descendants of Human settlers,...

This book celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.

During 2013, Doctor Who, the world's longest running science fiction show, celebrates its 50th birthday. Published to celebrate the Doctor's anniversary, this book provides a valuable record of the Matt Smith Doctor, who arrived in 2010 and is set to bow out in this year's Christmas special.
This first book devoted solely to the Steven Moffat/Matt Smith era is written by experts on the Doctor. It is wide-ranging and varied in viewpoint and explores such issues as the performance of the Doctor, the gothic and fairy tale genres, the portrayal of history on screen, gender and...