Given the dramatic changes that have taken place in global politics in recent years (especially following September 11, 2001), it is time to examine a series of critical issues confronting the global political economy. One of the most important of these issues is terrorism and its relationship with weak states. This book examines the weak state-terrorism nexus with particular emphasis on Africa. Specifically, it provides an in-depth analysis of state weakness, poverty, and the opportunities offered by the latter for the breeding of terrorism and terrorists. It also looks at the part played by radical Islam in transnational terrorism in Africa. Emerging from this study is recognition of a need for the international system to analyze a wide range of issues that contribute to the weakening of African states.

Dilemmas of Weak States

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Oftentimes, young adults reach success by deliberately being their own worst critic and obsessively double-checking their work; or by pushing their feelings aside. This strategy is seductive because it does work, at least up to a certain point. The problems arise once you advance beyond school and early career stages. The higher you climb, the more complex projects and issues in your life become. Meanwhile, you may have become so good at putting your emotions aside in certain situations that it's hard to reconnect with them. This is when the old tools no longer suffice. The 'somewhat OCD' tendencies we pride ourselves on, or rather, the 'nervouse energy' we possess, can become mismanaged, and lead us down the rabbit hole of excessive self-criticism, anxiety, and pessimism. Dr Chloe Carmichael outlines 9 tools that can help you harness your nervous energy in order to lead a more productive life.

Nervous Energy

Variant: Nervous energy

Caroline lives a full, happy life - thriving career, three feisty children, enviable marriage, and a close-knit extended family. She couldn't have scripted it better. Except for one thing: She's about to discover her fundamental beliefs about them all are wrong. Sela lives a life in shades of gray, suffering from irreversible kidney failure. Her marriage crumbled in the wake of her illness. Her beloved mother, always her closest friend, unexpectedly passed away. She refuses to be defined by her grief, but still, she worries what will happen to her twoyear-old son if she doesn't find a donor match in time. She's the only one who knows Caroline is her half sister and may also be her best hope for a future. But Sela's world isn't as clear-cut as it appears - and one misstep could destroy it all.

A Million Reasons Why

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Ellie Agresti's not sure anything could be worse than being dumped by her boyfriend, Hunter, the first day of senior year. But sharing a 'life skills' class with him and his new girlfriend, Brynn? AND getting partnered with a 'family' of misfits (A.J., the loudmouth; Isaiah, the horse-racing obsessive; and Luke, the tattooed stunt-biker)? It's a recipe for certain disaster, until an in-class competition allows Ellie to channel her angst into beating Hunter and Brynn's team, and she unexpectedly bonds with her own group - especially Luke - in the process. But as Ellie soon discovers, it will take more than classroom triumphs to heal her broken heart - and find herself again.

The Secret Recipe For Moving on

Variant: The secret recipe for moving on

Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and she's going to win, goddamnit. Not that that's her slogan, although it could be. She's said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. There's just one problem: her grown children. Greta and Nick Harrison are adrift. Nick is floundering in his attempts to write a musical about the life of Joan Didion. And then there's his little sister Greta. Smart, pretty, and completely unmotivated, allowing her life to pass her by like the shoppers at the Apple store where she works. One morning the world wakes up not to Nancy making headlines, but her daughter, Greta. She's in Paris. With extremist protestors. Throwing a bottle of champagne through a beloved bistro's front window. In order to save her campaign, not to mention her daughter, Nancy and Nick must find Greta before it's too late.

Let's Not Do That Again

Variant: Let's not do that again

This picture book celebrates children finding their passions and embracing their own awesomeness. To a diverse and multicultural group of kids, all coming together on the final line of: 'You will always be awesome to me'.

All Kinds of Awesome

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Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs - interdimensional parasites who feast on human emotions like sadness and anger. Masquerading as a prim and proper ladies' social organisation, the Ladybirds brew poisons masked as teas and use knitting needles as daggers, at least until they graduate to axes and swords. Three years ago, Prue's best friend was killed during a hunt, so she kissed the Scouts goodbye, preferring the company of her punkish friends lovingly dubbed the Criminal Element much to her mother and Tía Lo's disappointment. However, unable to move on from her guilt and trauma, Prue devises a risky plan to infiltrate the Ladybirds in order to swipe a powerful amnesia spell. But old monster-slaying habits die hard and Prue finds herself falling back into the fold.

Scout's Honor

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An adventure about a boy and a giant - and a friendship that defies all odds.

The Giant From the Fire Sea

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Lambda Literary Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a best book of 2019 by Parade The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history    This stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . The Light Years is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender. --Kate Tuttle, The L.A. Times    Rush is a fantastically vivid writer, whether he's remembering a New Jersey of 'meatballs and Windex and hairspray' or the dappled, dangerous beauty of Northern California, where 'rock stars lurked like lemurs in the trees.' Read if you loved... Just Kids by Patti Smith. -- Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly    "As mythic and wild with love, possibility, and danger as the decades it spans, you'll read The Light Years with your breath held. Brutal, buoyant and wise to the tender terror of growing up, Chris Rush has written a timeless memoir of boyhood in the American wilderness." --Emma Cline, author of The Girls Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade.    His older sister Donna introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on twelve-year-old Rush's tongue, proclaiming: "This is sacrament. You are one of us now."    After an unceremonious ejection from an experimental art school, Rush heads to Tucson to make a major drug purchase and, still barely a teenager, disappears into the nascent American counterculture. Stitching together a ragged assemblage of lowlifes, prophets, and fellow wanderers, he seeks kinship in the communes of the west. His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what Rush confronts on his travels--from ordinary heartbreak to unimaginable violence--it is a miracle he is still alive.    The Light Years is a prayer for vanished friends, an odyssey signposted with broken and extraordinary people. It transcends one boy's story to perfectly illustrate the slow slide from the optimism of the 1960s into the darker and more sinister 1970s. This is a riveting, heart-stopping journey of discovery and reconciliation, as Rush faces his lost childhood and, finally, himself.

The Light Years

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Eighteen-year-old Amelia Griffin is obsessed with the famous Orman Chronicles, written by the young and reclusive prodigy N. E. Endsley. They're the books that brought her and her best friend Jenna together after Amelia's father left and her family imploded. So when Amelia and Jenna get the opportunity to attend a book festival with Endsley in attendance, Amelia is ecstatic. It's the perfect way to start off their last summer before college. In a heartbeat, everything goes horribly wrong. When Jenna gets a chance to meet the author and Amelia doesn't, the two have a blowout fight like they've never had before. And before Amelia has a chance to mend things, Jenna dies in a freak car accident. Grief-stricken, and without her best friend to guide her, Amelia questions everything she had planned for the future.

Amelia Unabridged

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The first coloring book for witches, with inspiring magickal art    Whether you're a hedge witch, a green witch, or a witch who defies all labels, this transcendent collection lets you celebrate all things mystical, magickal, natural, and inspiring. With more than 60 unique illustrations from full moons and natural herbs to healing crystals, you can turn coloring into a satisfying daily ritual, adding peace to your life and making room for magickal thoughts. Clear your mind, set bold intentions, craft new spells, and showcase your independent spirit with Color Magick.    - Enjoy a mystical collection of more than 60 images honoring the spirit and practice of witchcraft - Take a creative and reflective pause so you can set intentions and manifest change in your life - Celebrate your love of nature and the ancient tradition of witchcraft - Flaunt your creative powers and celebrate your craft with this enchanting coloring book!

Color Magick

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Manly P. Hall was a leading writer on the occult and the esoteric during the 20th century. His work, including the legendary 'Secret Teachings for All Ages', has proven to be timeless, inspiring and fascinating readers for decades. 'The Initiates of the Flame' explores a spectrum of occult subjects - from Egyptian rites and Arthurian myths to alchemy and the mysteries of arcane methods. Hall writes about the deep secrets of the mystery schools of antiquity, revealing their practices and meaning.

The Initiates of the Flame

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"In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there's always something to worry about. While on a much needed camping vacation with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, Casey hears a baby crying in the woods. The sound leads them to a tragic scene: a woman buried under the snow, murdered, a baby still alive in her arms. A town that doesn't let anyone in under the age of eighteen, Rockton must take care of its youngest resident yet while solving another murder and finding out where the baby came from - and whether she's better off where she is. #1 New York Times bestsellin

Alone in the Wild

Variant: Alone in the wild

When Molly and her family move to the moon, they can only pack the essentials - limited to one toy each for Molly and her little brother Luke. But luckily, Molly has a big imagination. A packing crate becomes a fort, a tarp becomes a witch's cape, and some cans become a tea set. Baby Luke, on the other hand, has nothing but a few blocks. Soon, big sister Molly discovers that whether you have all the toys in the universe, or just a few, playtime is more fun when you share it with someone you love.

Molly on the Moon

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One day, Bearnard the bear and Gertie the goose were reading Brave Bearnard's Book. 'I wish you had your own book too, Gertie,' said Bearnard. Thus begins Bearnard's quest to write Gertie her own book. But Gertie wants danger and excitement - complete with dragons, volcanoes, and rampaging monsters - while Bearnard just wants his friend to be safe! What will become of Gertie's story?

Bearnard Writes a Book

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A father can't always be in the same place as his son, but their love is always present in this upbeat picture book from the team that brought us 'Chocolate Me!' and 'Mixed Me!'.

I Love You More Than...

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An inventor dreams of escaping his drab surroundings in a flying machine. A criminal, trapped beneath a frozen lake, fights a giant fish. A strange girl pledges to ignite a field of sorghum stalks. Rouge Street presents three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, the lauded young Chinese writer whose frank, fantastical short fiction has already inspired comparisons to Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami.

Rouge Street

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Some say vaping is a public health revolution that could help save millions of lives worldwide. But there is one big problem: teenagers. Instead of catering to adult smokers, the e-cigarette industry appears to overwhelmingly target non-smoking youth. 'Big Vape' uses the dramatic rise and fall of Juul to tell a larger story of big business, public health and youth culture. It shows how scientists can present opposing facts, and even the soundest studies can be means to questionable ends; how lack of regulation can be deadly, and the wrong regulations can be just as bad; how marketing communications can reverse steady national trends, and how an epidemic can break out in just a puff of smoke.

Big Vape

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The go-to sentence-building guide now includes a brand-new, fully comprehensive review chapter! You've learned the fundamentals of English grammar, like spelling, word meanings, and parts of speech. Now it's time to take the next step and put them all together to communicate complete ideas. Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder, Second Edition guides you through the process of putting the "parts" of English together correctly, from connecting words into clauses to writing original sentences to creating whole paragraphs. You'll get where you want in no time through Practice Makes Perfect's systematic, crystal-clear approach to building sentences. Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder, Second Edition features:  Clearl explanations of how to apply grammar to create well-formed sentences  Numerous examples of correctly-formed English sentences  Lesson reinforcement with copious practice exercises, include multiple choice, sentence-correction, and building new sentences from scratch  Answer key, including suggestions for creative exercises

Practice Makes Perfect English Sentence Builder, Second Edit

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Develop and cultivate the kind of robust, long-term customer relationships that power companies like Nike, Spotify, LinkedIn, and Target More and more companies are concluding that the potential rewards of subscription-based products and services are worth the risk of radically changing their business models. They're correct. The Membership Economy is here and it's here to stay-and if you want to compete for the long run, you need to join it. Strategy consultant Robbie Kellman Baxter has been helping companies excel in this business environment for more than a decade. Now, in The Forever Transaction , she reveals all her secrets. Whatever industry you're in, Baxter provides the inspiration, tools, and insight you need to build and execute a business model that will leave your competition in the dust. You'll find out how industry leaders like Under Armour, Microsoft, and Netflix have created an ever-expanding customer base of loyal subscribers?and are keeping them coming back. You'll learn how to lead your organization through every step of the process?from initial start-up to new product testing, scaling for long-term growth and sustainability to revamping your culture so everyone works together to optimize customer lifetime value. You'll also master all the essentials of succeeding in the Membership Economy, like subscription pricing, Software-as-a-Service, digital community engagement, and freemium incentives as a way to turn casual browsers into cash-paying super-users. With The Forever Transaction , you have everything you need to build durable, long-term relationships with every customer, and leverage them for ultimate business success?today, tomorrow, and forever.

The Forever Transaction

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From quick conversations to awkward interactions-learn the communication strategies you need to distinguish yourself in any situation and progress your success! First impressions are made in seven seconds or less-so it's imperative that you make every moment count-and The Communication Habit shows you how to do it. One of today's leading experts in business communication explains how to identify and break communication habits-even well-intentioned ones-that impede success, and replace them with time-tested communication techniques that have been utilized by some of the most successful executives and entrepreneurs in the world. It provides a practical roadmap for applying the right communication tools and strategies in the most common business settings and situations, and for rebuilding and recovering from mistakes, damaged relationships, or negative impressions. Specific topics include:  Building and Communicating Confidence  Having a Voice and Being Heard  Undermining Key Words and Phrases to Avoid  Establishing & Articulating Your Value  Acknowledging vs. Apologizing  Leading with Empathy  Strategies for Recovering, Rebuilding, and Re-Establishing

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