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Whether your goal is your next belt, competition or personal mastery, Advanced Taekwon-Do Kicks will equip you with the knowledge, confidence and physical tools to kick higher, faster and smarter.More than a technical manual this book is a must-have companion for every martial artist committed to mastering the art of Taekwon-Do kicking at the highest level.Advanced Taekwon-Do Kicks is your definitive how-to guide to the dynamic and challenging kicking techniques required to progress from blue to black belt. Packed with full-colour, step-by-step illustrations and expert instruction, this book is designed for serious martial artists ready to refine their skills and unleash their full potential.International competitor and experienced instructor Sally Gleaves shares her decades of experience to help you perfect advanced Taekwon-Do kicks with confidence, control and explosive impact. But this isnt just about technique; this is a holistic blueprint for peak performance. Whether you struggle with flexibility or want to sharpen your edge for competition, this book will empower you to train smarter, move better and kick stronger.

Wounded, thirsty and stranded in the desert after a job gone bad, Conan is desperate. To make it out alive, he bands together with his fellow surviving mercenaries.Conan trusts none of them, and the feeling is mutual. Fine. Everyone knows where they stand. But when a cursed treasure is discovered, distrust turns to suspicion. Conan knows enough about dark magic to leave well enough alone, but will greed get the better of his new friends?

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903. The novel is set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.The title is the nom de guerre of its hero and protagonist, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats before they are sent to the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life: apparently nothing more than a wealthy fop, but in reality a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist. The band of gentlemen who assist him are the only ones who know of his secret identity. He is known by his symbol, a simple flower, the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis). Marguerite Blakeney, his French wife, does not share his secret.She is approached by the new French envoy to England with a threat to her brothers life if she does not aid in the search for the Pimpernel. She aids him, and then discovers that the Pimpernel is also very dear to her. She sails to France to stop the envoy.

A few lines will suffice to explain why we have compiled the present volume, to what wants it responds, and what its sphere of usefulness may possibly embrace.In our teaching of plastic anatomy, especially at the Ecole des Beaux-Artswhere, for the past nine years, we have had the very great honour of supplementing the teaching of our distinguished master, Mathias Duval, after having been prosector for his course of lectures since 1881it is our practice to give, as a complement to the study of human anatomy, a certain number of lessons on the anatomy of those animals which artists might be called on to represent.Now, we were given to understand that the subject treated in our lectures interested our hearers, so much so that we were not surprised to learn that a certain number repeatedly expressed a desire to see these lectures united in book form.Edouard CuyerGENERALITIES OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMYOf the animals by which we are surrounded, there are some which, occupying a place in our lives by reason of their natural endowments, are frequently represented in the works of artistseither as accompanying man in his work or in his amusements

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. First published in 1919, the book consists of short stories about Sir Percy Blakeneys exploits in rescuing various aristos and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel.The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is the last book in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernels adventures. Again Orczy interweaves historic fact with fiction, this time through the real life figures of Theresa Cabarrus, and Jean-Lambert Tallien.Baroness "Emmuska" Orczy ( 1865 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.

Este clássico dos estudos de gênero questiona a posição subalterna das mulheres nos cuidados de saúde na segunda metade do século XX. Para responder por que os médicos eram quase sempre homens e as m

Grad student Liam Sutcliffe returns home for a summer job at Wutherford Heights, a senior care facility. His new boss, Greg Cowan, is his dads best friend and has known Liam since birth. Liams always had a massive crush on Greg, and the mans only gotten better with age.Greg has just come out, and falling for his daughter Gracies best friendand his own best friends sonwas certainly never in the cards. Despite a powerful mutual attraction, work and family pressures inhibit their relationship. At Gracies suggestion, Greg enlists Liams help to launch him into the gay dating scene, but watching Greg meet other men is driving Liam crazy. Is there any hope of romance for this mismatched pair?

Some places are built to obey.This one learned to listen.In The House That Learned to Listen, the twelfth volume of the Silent Command Rituals series, Cassian Ward shifts the axis of power once moreaway from imposed dominance and toward sovereign desire.After the collapse of the Gentlemans control, the manor awakens. No longer a passive structure of ritual and obedience, the house begins to respond, adapt, and learn. Walls rearrange. Doors hesitate. Pleasure is no longer commandedit is negotiated, shaped, and finally claimed.Elena is no longer tested for her capacity to submit. She is observed for her capacity to choose. As the house builds new halls in response to her presence, she confronts pleasure not as temptation, but as truthone that reveals identity, authority, and transformation.This novel blends dark erotic tension, psychological dominance, ritualized environments, and slow-burn intimacy into a story about evolution rather than obedience. Power becomes fluid. Control becomes mutual. And pleasure becomes a language that reshapes the world around her.The House That Learned to Listen is not about surrender.It is about what happens when desire is finally allowed to speak.For readers of dark romance, BDSM erotica, ritualized power exchange, and psychologically immersive erotic fiction. Adults only (18+).

Às mulheres cabe o cuidado tanto dos indivíduos como da humanidade. Suas ações são socialmente inferiorizadas e esquecidas na elaboração teórica, sendo que, no processo de sexualização da mulher, fic

In the glittering city of Port Astor, where fae roads criss-cross human highways and ghosts whisper to the living, nothing is ever as it seems.From Sunburst Award-winning author A. C. Wise, this utterly original dark fantasy tale of faith and fanaticism, doomed love and desperate bargains is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Ava Reid.Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation and Port Astor decided to forget.Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astors wraiths and spectres from consuming the city. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belizial; Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancee in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go.While investigating the glamorous and notoriously haunted Peony Hotel, Brix and Belle come across a young couple tangled up in one of the citys most infamous tales. Jimmy Valentine, silver screen idol and one-time favorite of a fae queen, has returned to haunt the Peony. But Jimmy is no mere ghost, and Brix and Belle soon realize his return is more intimately tied to their own hauntings than they could ever have imagined.The fae have not forgotten that Port Astor once belonged to them. And their Hollow Queen wont give up her kingdom so easily.

Discover the Beauty and Depth of Ordinary TimeMost days in Jesus life were ordinary. Most of ours are too. And thats exactly where the power of Ordinary Time lies. It reminds us that normal is necessary, and routines are for things that matterthings worth repeating.Ordinary Time by Amy Peeler invites Christians to see the beauty and significance in the longest, yet often overlooked, season of the church year. Far from being mundane, this season is a vital time for spiritual growth and maturitya time when the routine helps sustain and nurture faith. This time in the church calendar isnt just a placeholderits a vibrant and essential season in its own right.Amy Peeler skillfully explores the history and deeper meaning of what the church has historically called Ordinary Time, unpacking how this season fosters both personal and communal transformation. With pastoral wisdom and scholarly insight, this short but profound volume enriches understanding of the church calendar and inspires readers to engage deeply with their faith.In Ordinary Time, Peeler explores the history and practice of the season, inviting readers to engage more deeply with its observance, highlights how Ordinary Time fits within the larger context of the church calendar, and shows how the rhythms of the season teach us how to live faithfully in both the "normal" moments as well as the highs and lows of life. Whether youve long walked in the rhythms of the church year or are just beginning to explore them, Ordinary Time will open your heart to the quiet, steady growth God invites us into every day. Get your copy today!About the SeriesEach volume in the Fullness of Time series invites readers to engage with the riches of the church year, exploring the traditions, prayers, Scriptures, and rituals of the seasons of the church calendar.

"Taylors elegantly simple prose is compelling, and his attention to detail is the work of an expert storyteller. An unforgettable book that will resonate with readers of World War Il historical fiction." Library Journal starred review"A mans reverence for art leads to wartime defiance in the enchanting historical novel The Prodigal of Leningrad. Told with fabulistic claritya moving exploration of what it costs to uphold Christian virtues, including truth and beauty."Foreword ReviewsIn this World War II historical novel set during the harrowing siege of Leningrad, Daniil Aslanov, a docent at the Hermitage Museum, gives tours of empty frames. As the city starves, he battles a secret shame, while his grandfathera persecuted Orthodox priest exiled to the Gulagclings to faith.While bombs fall and starvation grips the city, Daniil Aslanov continues to lead tours of empty frames through the Hermitage Museum. Although the museums masterpieces have been hidden away for safekeeping, their presence lingers in memory and meaning.Daniils grandfather, an Orthodox priest exiled for decades to the brutal Gulag, embraces suffering as his sacred calling, thanking God for being allowed to minister to those around him. As Leningrads people perish, Daniil finds himself drawn to the story behind Rembrandts painting, "The Return of the Prodigal Son."Beautifully told and based on real historical events, including the extraordinary wartime tours of the Hermitages empty galleries, The Prodigal of Leningrad is a stirring and unforgettable story of human resilience, and a profound meditation on art, faith, forgiveness and healing. Readers of The Nightingale,A Gentleman in Moscow, and City of Thieves, and all those interested in World War II history will welcome this important contribution to the genre.

It all ends with the Fae Queen.The fragile peace pact between humans and Fae has been shattered. Once again, magical forces terrorise the streets of Jacobean London under the command of their queen, Titania. To save her beloved city, seventeen-year-old Joan Sands must banish the Fae, just as her ancestors did two thousand years ago. As a child of the Orisha, Joan is armed with gifts from the gods. She will need her trusted magical sword and the power to manipulate metal in the war that is coming. But when Titania unleashes a spirit bent on annihilating all who worship the Orisha, Joan discovers the unsettling truth behind the original pact. Faced with the lies of the past and the formidable power of the Fae, Joan must decide if her world is worth saving or if it is time to forge something frighteningly new?Praise for the series:Perfect for anyone looking for a fresh take on faerie magic.Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shadow & BoneA groundbreaking addition to the fantasy genre.Ayana Gray, New York Times bestselling author of Beasts of PreyEvery sentence will thunder through your bones.Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Gilded WolvesWildly imaginative and refreshingly diverse . . . taut with intrigue. J. Elle, New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Ebony

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch fur Alle und Keinen, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "Eternal Recurrence of the Same", the parable on the "Death of God", and the "Prophecy" of the Ubermensch, which were first introduced in The Gay Science.Described by Nietzsche himself as "The Deepest Ever Written", the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.Thus Spoke Zarathustra was conceived while Nietzsche was writing The Gay Science; he made a small note, reading "6,000 feet beyond man and time," as evidence of this. More specifically, this note related to the concept of the eternal recurrence, which is, by Nietzsches admission, the central idea of Zarathustra..

The Elusive Pimpernel By Baroness Orczy First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also produced under the title Nouveaux Exploits du Mouron Rouge. It was adapted into a silent film The Elusive Pimpernel in 1919.It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Chauvelin travels to England as an official representative of the French government tasked with looking after the interests of French citizens, but this is only a cover and his real purpose is to trick Sir Percy Blakeney into returning to France, where he can be captured and put to the guillotine.The plot is hatched at a gala on Richmond Green, with the help of a young French actress, Desiree Candielle, whom Chauvelin has enlisted with promises of money, pardon and fame if she succeeds.

The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table."Mysteries!" he commented. "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation."Very much astonished Polly Burton looked over the top of her newspaper, and fixed a pair of very severe, coldly inquiring brown eyes upon him.She had disapproved of the man from the instant when he shuffled across the shop and sat down opposite to her, at the same marble-topped table which already held her large coffee (3d.), her roll and butter (2d.), and plate of tongue (6d.).Now this particular corner, this very same table, that special view of the magnificent marble hallknown as the Norfolk Street branch of the Aerated Bread Companys depotswere Pollys own corner, table, and view. Here she had partaken of eleven pennyworth of luncheon and one pennyworth of daily information ever since that glorious never-to-be-forgotten day when she was enrolled on the staff of the Evening Observer (well call it that, if you please), and became a member of that illustrious and world-famed organization known as the British Press.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the worlds first collected descriptions of what builds nations wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.The Wealth of Nations was published 9 March 1776, during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. It influenced several authors and economists, such as Karl Marx, as well as governments and organisations, setting the terms for economic debate and discussion for the next century and a half. For example, Alexander Hamilton was influenced in part by The Wealth of Nations to write his Report on Manufactures, in which he argued against many of Smiths policies. Hamilton based much of this report on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and it was, in part, Colberts ideas that Smith responded to..

Tuco nunca foi exatamente um exemplo de maturidade: vive sustentado pelos pais, é um tanto inconsequente e ainda acha que "já fiz catequese aos 13" conta como bagagem espiritual. Mas tudo muda quando ele conhece Saramaria, estudante de serviço social, filha de pastor e dona de um senso de humor to preciso quanto inesperado. O problema? Para impressiona-la, Tuco decide fingir que e crente. E dai começa o desastre anunciado. Entre cultos de jovens que coincidem com finais de campeonato, oraçes que ele obviamente no domina e uma avalanche de novos amigos da igreja, Tuco descobre que sustentar um personagem da mais trabalho do que simplesmente colocar Romanos 8 na bio do Insta.

Para escrever esta história radical da crise climática, Francisco Serratos recorreu aos momentos-chave da caminhada humana — ou melhor, de uma pequena parte dos seres humanos, a verdadeira causadora

There are moments when the world does not speak in words, but in tone, color, and breath.Where the Sky Hums in Gentle Blue is a quiet, atmospheric fantasy about listening, belonging, and the subtle language of calm. Told in lyrical, soothing prose, this book follows a gentle journey through meadows, forests, rivers, and hidden sanctuariesplaces where the sky hums softly and the world reveals itself in shades of blue.These stories are not driven by conflict or urgency. They unfold slowly, like dawn learning how to breathe. Lanterns glow without haste, landscapes listen without judgment, and silence becomes a companion rather than an absence. Each chapter invites the reader to pause, to soften, and to reconnect with a quieter rhythm of being.Perfect for evening reading, moments of reflection, or winding down before sleep, this book offers a peaceful refuge from noise and speed. Readers who love cozy fantasy, poetic storytelling, and gentle magical realism will find comfort and clarity within its pages.Where the Sky Hums in Gentle Blue is a standalone collectionmeant to be read slowly, felt deeply, and returned to whenever the world grows quiet enough to listen.