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RJ and Adina enter the world as fraternal twins, one raised by old-world, controlling immigrants in El Barrio, the other sold into a religious home filled with lies and scorn. Both are sociopaths. One is a serial killer.Turns out, RJ's got a secret that enrages him with the flip of a switch. Adina uses her sexual power to dominate every man in her life. They are on a mysterious trajectory to cross paths in New York City, where the end of their lives...
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The time for bold and decisive action draws near. My life is in ruins, but I have a plan. A plan hatched in desperation and with little foresight, but it is a plan.And while the world around me churns with confusion, anger, violence... my life heads towards a divergence. There is only room enough for two in my dreams, and this private place is too crowded.Soon I must choose.I have new friends, new allies, but I don't know who to trust. Everything...
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Differences between people are inevitable. Unfortunately, these can sometimes evolve into a serious conflict, drag on, or remain unresolved. Because the world shows up differently for each of us, leading to individual interpretations as to what is occurring, it is important to skillfully discuss differences with confidence and competence.
In a concise reference manual, Carl Welte relies on his experience as a successful entrepreneur and leader to...
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Two Roads Diverged: Trading DivergencesWhat you see on the surface is often deceptive, in trading, as well as in life. A trend may appear strong, while below the surface it may be weak and ready to reverse.This book will teach you to use indicators for measuring the internal power of trends. When they confirm an uptrend, they tell you it's OK to hold or add to long positions. At other times they signal that the trend is suspect: it is better to exit,...
5) Divergence
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The 2nd installment, of the Best Selling Nova Series- Divergence
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Sharyn Bradford Lunn's landmark saga of adventure and romance, spans almost 200 years of family history set against a backdrop of the rich and rugged wilds of Australia. In this sweeping story of love and loss, fortune and fate, this masterful storyteller recounts the journeys of the McCabe and Skye families, along with the people who shape their lives, as they strive to make good in the penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land during...
7) Divergence
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Part Mortal, Part Divinity, Fully Devoted. The gathering has begun. Six demigods embark on an epic journey of danger, mystical creatures, dark magic, and intrigue. When an ancient prophesy is triggered, the tale of six powerful immortals begins. Legend has it, the chosen six will triumph over evil and restore peace. But first, they must gather together and converge on the land where their parents were defeated. Time is running out, the Titans want...
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The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly,...
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Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton).
How religious barriers stalled capitalism in the Middle East
In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind-in living standards,...
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Legal sidebar volume LSB10982
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Congressional Research Service
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2023-
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Legal sidebar volume LSB10726
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Congressional Research Service
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2022-
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When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren't working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to LA to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue. It didn't take long for Pockets to realise there were two Joe Sues: The Joe Sue the public saw with her perfect life and her Hollywood husband. And the private Joe...
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2021.
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17) Triple Threat
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A relationship between three best friends is put to the test when diverging dreams meet the realities of adulthood.
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Argues that symbolism is an important and unique element of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology.
Merleau-Ponty says in his Institution and Passivity lectures that he wants to "consider criticism itself as a symbolic form" instead of doing "a philosophy of symbolic form." This invites the possibility of an unconventional thought: If critical philosophy is a symbolic form, it cannot disclose its own limits and is, in fact, uncritical. Furthermore, the symbolic...
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Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise in and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have faced rising rates of diabetes, but their social and biomedical responses to its ascendance have diverged. To explain the emergence of these distinctive strategies, Armstrong-Hough argues that physicians...