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Nev Schulman is the host of the wildly popular TV series Catfish which investigates online relationships to determine whether they are based on truth or fiction (spoiler: it's almost always fiction).

We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too. Online, on television, and in print, science is often communicated through shorthand analogies and phrases that obscure or omit important facts. Lifelong educator R. Philip Bouchard is a stickler for this kind of thing, and he is prepared to set the record straight. The Stickler’s Guide to Science in the Age of Misinformation unpacks the many misuses of terms we see used every day, revealing how these popular “scientific” concepts fall short of real science.

At 35, Mika Suzuki is struggling. She's been fired (again). Her last relationship went up in flames. Her fervently traditional mother is perpetually disappointed in her. And now, she's had a phone call from 16-year-old Penny Calvin. The baby she reluctantly gave up for adoption when she was just a teenager herself. Mika is desperate to meet her girl. But she barely feels like she can take care of herself. Is she ready to show Penny who her mother really is?

I needed a fake wife with no strings attached. But I Knocked her up, and now we are having a baby! I was born rich and loved to be a playboy. I had the looks, the body, and soon all of my family's wealth. Everything was going perfect until my father threw a stipulation into his testament. Fall in love, get married, or I would be out of his will. After weeks of searching, I remembered beautiful Cecile. The only woman to ever reject me. I reached out to her to help me out, and she agreed. Everything was supposed to be fake until we spent a wild night together. Now I genuinely want her as my ...

Huckleberry Finn is one of a series of retellings of classic literature by publisher Real Reads. True to the original plot, characters, and themes, Real Reads also imitate the original author's style. An intelligent, lively and enjoyable retelling of this classic tale.

After the detente's sudden and abrupt end in the late 1970s, owing to the planned deployment of Pershing-IIs and the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union; it was time for the West to strike back under a defiant Ronald Reagan, who vowed to take-on the Soviet overmatch over the West in conventional forces as well as nuclear weapons. The subsequent, massive arms build-up in the U.S. and the advent of a reformist Tsar, in form of Gorbachev, brought a U-Turn in the Soviet approach as the strategic focus shifted across both sides as Reagan outlined his focus of securing Americans from the ...

What if the porn star you always adored was secretly living right under your nose? Wes Mitchell, 49, is the best real estate agent in Urlack, a small Midwestern town. He has political ambitions, but he has secrets he thinks will destroy his life and his business. To protect all he has, he keeps his personal life private and his heart locked away. When Jesse Ekstrom, 32, meets Wes he slowly realizes why the handsome older man looks so familiar. Wes Mitchell is Wes Western, the hunky star of the porn videos that helped Jesse come out and deal with a rocky adolescence. Meeting Wes is like ...

This is the fifth in the series of Ella and Tom, who are brother and sister. Ella is 4 years old and Tom is 3 years old. This series of books follows their adventures and experiences as they live their lives, much like many children today. You can use these books to talk to your own children about what Ella and Tom have encountered and how they reacted to the different situations they have found themselves in. In Ella and Tom visit Spain, they find out what it is like to go on holiday to the Iberian Peninsula. But first they experience their first airport with all its noise and activity and...

This is the fourth in the series of Ella and Tom, who are brother and sister. Ella is 4 years old and Tom is 3 years old. This series of books follows their adventures and experiences as they live their lives, much like many children today. You can use these books to talk to your own children about what Ella and Tom have encountered and how they reacted to the different situations they have found themselves in. In Ella and Tom go to France, they find out what it is like to go on holiday in the strange surroundings of France. They eat French ice cream, enjoy French food and stay in a caravan...

Imagine there was never a Laguna Beach, a Newport Harbor, the shimmering Hills. Imagine that your hometown - your school - is the first place XTV descends to set up cameras. Now imagine they've trained them on you. When Jesse O'Rourke gets picked for a "documentary" being filmed at her school in the Hamptons she's tempted to turn down the offer. But there's a tuition check attached to being on the show, and Jesse needs the cash so she can be the first in her family to attend college.

In Matthew 24:4-5, Jesus Christ warned His disciples to not be deceived, For many will come in My name saying I am the Christ. In this volume, the author examines both ancient and modern heresies that fit this warning that Jesus gave. He also demonstrates how modern archaeology has undermined the higher critics of the 19th and 20th centuries who claimed that very little could be known about the Jesus of history. In making this argument he demolishes the false dichotomy that was created between the Christ of faith and the Jesus of history. Finally, he demonstrates why the biblical accounts ...

Hugh Newman presents new research on how earth energies affect consciousness and explores how this all relates to the earth grid system. Newman is an earth mysteries researcher and writes for various magazines. He organizes Megalithomania Conferences and co-edits Avalon Rising Magazine amongst many other activities.

A remote island. Old secrets. And a cascade of unintended consequences. Long ago, four clans from earth's four corners were given magical abilities to help save humanity from oblivion. For generations, their descendants have lived in hidden communities and occasionally intermingled with regular humans—leading to whispers of unforeseen consequences. Now, in the present-day and for unknown purposes, one Clan quietly and desperately seeks the rumored, undiscovered offspring.

La maison est payée et les enfants sont grands. Vous avez passé votre vie à vous dire que vous deviez subir votre existence au lieu d'en profiter. Il est temps de brasser à nouveau les cartes, de repartir sur de nouvelles bases et de redevenir maître de votre destinée. Le choix vous revient : vous pouvez décider de faire de vos dernières années la meilleure période de votre vie ou de vous laisser sombrer dans la déliquescence. Si vous choisissez la première option, ouvrez vite ce livre.

Give your child the gift of Real Spaceships for Kids: Fun and Engaging Spaceship and Space Age Lessons for Kids Ages Five-13 by Z.B. Tucker, empowering them to explore a world filled with spaceships and space quests—all while expanding their minds for thrill and adventure!

I've always given Billy the odd bit of home-schooling but it kinda stopped once he went to college. After finding an unused condom in his gym bag though I'm called back to give him one last lesson ... in sex! I sit him down with the intention of teaching him but before long I'm giving him a practical lesson, wandering my hands over his toned physique before becoming even more adventurous. He's nervous at first but Miss. Scarlett will make it right.

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If you love reading imaginative short stories on hot topics that ...

Fifteen-year-old Joey Burkett wonders if he will ever be successful at anything. He always thought he would grow up to be a rodeo performer like his father, a world-champion cowboy, had been, but Daddy died in a rodeo accident. Joey hopes that whatever his future, Matthew Kane, the new man in his mother’s life, will not be a part of it. One day, Joey goes along with a friend to “borrow” an expensive sports car. They wreck the car. Matt Kane comes up with a plan for Joey to work on his ranch and raise beef calves for the summer to earn money to pay for the damages.

Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker® series offers unique application of effective business practices from the perspective of multiple authors – each offering a chapter based on their scholarly expertise. The Refractive Thinker® series provides doctoral scholars with a collaborative opportunity to promote and publish their work in an award winning peer-reviewed publication, which meets the university standard. Our goal is to provide an affordable outlet for scholars that supports the tremendous need for dynamic dialogue and innovation while ...

It's 1958 in rural Connecticut, and three boys between 10 and 11 years old - Tommy (from a stable, "normal" family), Jose (Hispanic, Catholic), and Jimmy (underfed child of a poor single alcoholic mother, has a severely retarded sister) - have been pals since first grade. But it's September, and the safe, cozy innocence of elementary school is behind them. Now they must enter the scary, new world of junior high school.