Cycle Cycling

Providence is flooded. An agoraphobic artist watches from his window as the sea takes the streets. But the ocean has brought more than storms, as the presence of something alien prods and grasps his mind. Can he find the courage to flee, or will his mind and body be taken by the storm and the creatures within? Even as the skies open and the streets fill, an international art thief takes one last job to steal from the legendary Miskatonic Library. His mission is the Incendium Malificarum, powerful enough to end the world, or to save it. But is he simply a pawn of powers greater than he knows?

Black Hollow is a town with a dark secret. For centuries, residents have foretold the return of the Dreamwalker - an ominous figure from local folklore said to lure young women into the woods and possess them. Yet the boundary between fact and fable is blurred by a troubling statistic: Occasionally, women do go missing. And after they return, they almost always end up dead.

En ce début de treizième millénaire, l'Empire n'a jamais été aussi puissant, aussi étendu à travers toute la galaxie. C'est dans sa capitale, Trantor, que l'éminent savant Hari Seldon invente la psychohistoire, une science nouvelle permettant de prédire l'avenir. Grâce à elle, Seldon prévoit l'effondrement de l'Empire d'ici cinq siècles, suivi d'une ère de ténèbres de trente mille ans. Réduire cette période à mille ans est peut-être possible, à condition de mener à terme son projet : la Fondation.

Is it hard to manage your carbohydrate intake? Do you have trouble with diets that cut out carbs entirely? Would you like to find a better way to slim down and avoid binging? If so, Carb Cycling: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Transformation is the book you’ve been waiting for! It explains how this powerful method helps you lose weight, increase your sports performance, and build up your muscle mass.

From his army of the undead, Xar, Lord of the Nexus, learns of the existence of the mysterious Seventh Gate. It is said that this gate grants whoever enters it the power to create worlds—or destroy them. Only Haplo knows its location—but he doesn't know he knows it. Now an ex-lover has been sent to betray Haplo and bring back his corpse. Meanwhile, the assassin Hugh the Hand is also after Haplo, wielding the Accursed Blade. With his old companion Alfred, Haplo must seek sanctuary in the Labyrinth—a deadly prison maze whose inhabitants are condemned to death.

Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors, Eragon and Saphira narrowly escaped with their lives. But more awaits the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by promises he may not be able to keep, including his oath to cousin Roran to help rescue his beloved Katrina. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes, Eragon must make choices that take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.

Are you feeling devalued, controlled, or confused by your partner? Unlike overt narcissists, covert narcissists use subtle, passive-aggressive manipulation tactics. This insidious form of psychological abuse can be difficult to identify and even harder to escape. Unmasking the Covert Narcissist is the comprehensive tool you need for understanding, breaking free, and recovering from covert narcissistic abuse. In this empowering guide, you’ll discover: Critical insights into the causes and characteristics of covert narcissism How to recognize red flags for covert narcissistic abuse A ...

While the industry continues to undergo growing pains, transitioning to value-based care from fee-for-service, hospitals and providers are also fielding new challenges that have emerged on the regulatory, technology, and patient-consumer fronts. Hospitals and providers are in a race against one another to find new ways to attract and retain patients. Now that patients are assuming greater financial responsibility for their healthcare costs, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, their expectations are high about having a positive clinical and financial experience. Therefore, the engagement ...

After Rihanna and Alanis Morissette and Amber Smith and Rachel Uchitel, we've all heard about love addiction--people who feel they can only be happy when they are deep in an all-consuming love. There are a handful of books about it (including Facing Love Addiction by Pia Melody, Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood, Love Addict by Ethlie Ann Vare, and others), and many rehab and recovery centers are now advertising that they help clients with love addictions and codependency. But no one has approached the subject of its equally damaging cousin--relationship addiction. Relationship ...

The seventh and never-before-published book in USA Today best-selling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive postapocalyptic series about a soldier's mission to save the world.

Are you trapped in a never-ending cycle of deadlines and demands, feeling disconnected from the job you once loved? Is your organization turning a blind eye to burnout, despite your colleagues and team experiencing similar struggles? While workplace burnout is gaining recognition, executives remain slow to act, skeptical of the need for change. It's time for you to take meaningful action, not only to prevent burnout for yourself, but also to foster a thriving work environment.

With one army defeated in a victory that will be remembered through the ages, now the Red Knight must fight again. For every one of his allies, there is a corresponding enemy. Spread across different lands and on sea, it will all come down to one last gamble. And to whether or not the Red Knight has guessed the foe's true intentions. With each throw of the dice, everything could be lost.

At age 20, Thomas Dekker was already earning €100,000 a year - as an amateur bike racer. The next year, he turned pro and his salary quadrupled then rose again to €900,000 as he established his position as a super-domestique among Europe's wealthiest superteams. The sport world marveled at Dekker's rise as the young racer set his ambitions on capturing cycling's biggest prizes for himself. Before long, though, Dekker found himself corrupted by money, dazzled by fame, and cracking under the relentless pressure to perform at a superhuman level.

Covering interesting and varied philosophical terrain, Cycling - Philosophy for Everyone explores in a fun but critical way the rich philosophical, cultural, and existential experiences that arise when two wheels are propelled by human energy.

When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his 'Pirate' nickname, replied: 'To shorten my agony.' Drawing on the fervour for these men of the mountains, Climbers looks at what sets these athletes apart within the world of bike racing, about why we love and cherish them, how they make cycling beautiful and how they see themselves and the feats they achieve.

You never thought you'd experience burnout. Even worse, you can't seem to find a way out. Yet, responsibilities and commitments too often cause women to neglect their health. If you've been saying to yourself, one more year and I'll slow down, there's something you should know. According to studies, nearly 50 percent of women confess to experiencing burnout. They report that stress levels increase every year, and have intensified following the pandemic

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

After six years of laying rubber on racetracks and immersing herself in the high octane, adrenaline pumping sport of motorcycle racing, Tiffani was yearning for something new from her life on two wheels. Fortunately (or unfortunately), losing her comfortable office job was the perfect opportunity to do exactly that.

They wiped out humanity's ancestors. They laid waste to the Terran Empire. They destroyed Earth. Now, they have come to harvest what remains. The Conclave has been preparing for war, but no one guessed the scale of what waits on the edge of the galaxy.

Embark on a luminous journey through Norse mythology with "Máni: The Moon's Eternal Journey" by Jón Vaningi, a standout title in the "Norse Heroes" series. This book offers an unparalleled exploration of Máni, the Norse god of the moon, whose silent passage across the night sky has fascinated humanity for centuries. From his origins as a mortal named by Mundilfari to his divine role as the moon’s charioteer, Máni’s story is one of transformation, duty, and destiny. Accompanied by the celestial children Hjúki and Bil, and eternally pursued by the wolf Hati, Máni’s nightly voyage ...