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Feel overwhelmed by Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Turn fear into fascination with this guide.

The CliffsNotes study guide on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, and critical commentaries, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work.

Why do many marriages, families, and careers appear to be perfect? The truth is...there is no such thing as a perfect life within all our relationships. We can be good illusionists, but every relationship has some kind of difficult obstacles that create friction, frustration, or pain. This leaves us feeling alone, angry, hopeless, or unsatisfied as purpose fades away.

We've all heard the phrase "the honeymoon is over". Many marriages take a dramatic turn for the worse after having children, bringing an abrupt end to the honeymoon bliss. When the powerful knowledge of the 4 stages of intimacy and marriage is revealed in this book, an explosive transformation will take place in your relationship. Relief and satisfaction can finally be experienced as hope and joy take your marriage and intimacy to extraordinary heights.

Welcome to a very different kind of weight loss book. Secrets About the Hcg Diet! shows you how you can lose weight without starving yourself or following difficult and dangerous diet plans. This book includes a detailed guide to doing the hCG protocol. This protocol has been used successfully by many thousands of people to lose weight and improve their health.

It is a guide to a loving and healthy life and world. We all want to have this kind of life (physically and spiritually), so we should know the true laws that guide us to achieve the life and evolvement God meant for us to have. Universal Spiritual Laws (USL) are the unbreakable God given laws that created and govern both realms of our existence. This audiobook presents the primary USL (Love) and numerous secondary laws that all directly relate to the primary law. Over many generations, unfortunately, mankind has replaced God’s USL with their own self-serving, controlling, ego.

No one should be alone for Christmas. At least, that’s what Evelyn Montgomery‘s parents always told her. So when she finds herself very alone for the festive holiday, she decides to book a weekend at Sutton Lake. It’s there, in a whirlwind of fate, that she meets Jonathan, her gorgeous, albeit grumpy, neighbor across the lake, who also happens to be spending Christmas alone.

The greats of comedy, when they were young and struggling, performing their great early routines.

Fifty years after the moon landings, the commercialization of space travel is finally here, but do we still know how to dream? Final Frontier recalls the heady thrill of the Apollo era and glimpses wonders yet to come. Inside, find a dozen uplifting stories of humor, tragedy, sacrifice and good old fashioned cussedness by today's award-winning authors - plus a healthy dose of optimism. All that, plus a forward by a NASA astronaut and a piece by Spider Robinson, inspired by Robert Heinlein. The Final Frontier is open for business!

How do we include all children, regardless of their native language, behaviors, abilities, and disabilities, in a general education classroom? Do the challenges outweigh the benefits? These are the questions Andrew was forced to confront as an early childhood educator. In Love Is a Classroom, Andrew chronicles a pivotal year in his teaching career. When he took the position at Vista Elementary School, Andrew was confident he knew everything there was to know about including all children in his classroom.

Waverly Chastain was living in paradise, making beautiful dreams come true. But those were happily ever afters for everyone but her. However, that just might change, especially if the hunky hottie sitting in her office had anything to say about it. Lennox “Nox” Hollister wasn’t interested in love—been there, done that, got a crummy t-shirt as a parting gift. But when he met his sister’s sexy and sophisticated wedding planner, his interest flew off the charts.

The Apostle James tells us that the prophet Elijah was a man ''subject to like passions as we are''. I am thankful that those men and women who were so mighty in prayer were just like ourselves. We are apt to think that those prophets and mighty men and women of old times were different from us. To be sure they lived in a much darker age, but they were of like passions with ourselves.

Do you have an object of obsession? For Lindsey, her obsession is the deadly sexy Rhys, who makes her toes curl, her temperature rise, and other parts of her body react beyond her control. Rhys always avoided emotional attachments to women...until Lindsey. Now, though, a dark family secret keeps Rhys from giving Lindsey the commitment she deserves. Lindsey discovers Rhys' secret the hard way while her own dark past occasionally rears its ugly head. Laced with laugh-out-loud humor and steamy scenes, L. D. Davis' latest novel follows Lindsey as she collects pieces of Rhys in her quest to find the whole man.

Using intimate stories from their marriage and research-backed concepts, Kenyon and Taccara Martin help couples become a "Covering" for their spouse with four basic pillars: safety, security, trust, and empathy.

Jacob always wonders how his cute college friend Mia always has so much money. She's always dressed in designer clothes, and has her own apartment. And one drunk night, she finally lets him in on her secret, with an offer to get him in on the action, too. Before he knows it, this totally straight guy finds his head turned, as Mia initiates him into a whole new world of feminization fun....

While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens.

As the revenues generated by big-time college sports continue to skyrocket, virtually all of the debate involves whether (and how much) student-athletes should be paid for play. Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams Jr., argue that "student" has to come first: the focus should be on prioritizing a meaningful education. They draw on new research to reveal that it has become increasingly difficult for college athletes to balance school and sports, much less a social life, leading to serious economic, professional, and emotional consequences for young people.

Kaitlyn is a top-notch babysitter: she's organized, disciplined, and efficient. And she needs her regular babysitting gigs to pay for new clothes, bedroom decor, and, of course, her cell phone. So when the Sweet family decides to replace her with a new, fun sitter named Doc, she's determined to beat her new competition…if only she could figure out who he is. As the story unfolds, Kaitlyn realizes that even an experienced sitter like her can learn a thing or two from the new guy on the block.

This is a collection of remarkable personal accounts of a variety of American Civil War incidents, from both Union and Confederate perspectives. These vivid and absorbing reminiscences provide an inside view of many fascinating events of the time, shedding light on our shared past and illuminating the character and point of view of those who lived through an extraordinary time in our nation's history. Enjoy these excursions back through the mists of time, recounted by those who were there.

For the past 20 years, Nola has watched King Matthias destroy her homeland, turning it into a barren wasteland, and the only magic left in their kingdom is bound to the enchanted crystal of his crown. Though hope lies across the Portland Sea, in the heart of the Fae and Elven Kingdom, Nola has one minor problem: She’s a siren who has never used her tail. All she’s ever known is the land beneath her feet.