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Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation.

The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in your body, connecting almost all of your major organs, from the brain to the colon. The first part of this audiobook will explain the anatomy of the vagus nerve, how it functions in the body, and the different medical theories surrounding its healing power. The second part will explain how this nerve is related to a variety of different health conditions, from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to chronic inflammation.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

Simply Christmas is an invitation to take a fresh look at the holiday. Vickie Phelps and Jo Huddleston share their thoughts on the season in hopes Christmas will once again be a time of joy and reflection for your family, instead of commercialized chaos.

Anna Westfall is in her own personal Hell on Earth. After making a deal with the Devil, she's sentenced to a place where she is loathed by witches and warlocks for being soulless. When Anna ends up on house arrest for beating up a member of magical law enforcement, she's had enough. All she wants is to go back to her old life, but as far as she knows, she's stuck within the magical confines of the city. Until a mysterious witch shows up at the bar with the answers she's been looking for, but is undoing a deal with the Devil really that easy?

When you take away a woman's soulmate, you take away her purpose. When White is taken from Alex, she finds a new purpose. Cast aside by her former partners, she will hunt down everyone responsible for her loss and Make. Them. Pay. Harder… darker… at the edge of sanity. But still the world’s most notorious assassin. Penumbra will have her reckoning.

'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew Kirby, former inmate Welcome to Pentridge, Australia's most infamous prison. In the long-awaited return to his bestselling true crime series on life behind bars, James Phelps has...

These 12 tales from Japan, Norway, Scotland, Sudan, and more celebrate the cunning, hard work, and physical strength of their heroines. Here, a family of three women teaches a burly man how to wrestle, a girl battles a fearsome bear, and a young mother rescues her village from an elephant's stomach.

A collection of short, disgusting, and mentally disturbed zombie stories for the Internet age. Concise, bittersweet, and stomach-churning, this collection of disgusting, horrifying, and psychological thriller-based zombie stories is the result of a challenge. One night, Kyle Clements and I decided we should write a novella. We came up with the idea of writing stories based on a weekly challenge. The stories that came out of the challenge are the most terrifying, depraved, sincere, and utterly unreadable works we could have hoped for.

When Amanda Wyld tumbles one hundred years through time, she lands in west Texas on the property of handsome, protective, Tom Thornton. The year is 1883, and a range war rages as barbed wire divides open land into pieces. These illegal fences are forcing ranchers to cut the wire to get their livestock to water. Guns blaze and tempers fray as men and women fight for their homes and their land. Tom does not need or want the responsibility for the young woman he rescues from the range, but they soon find themselves falling hard for each other. Her modern attitudes lead Amanda to put her health...

Baguaquan and xingyiquan are two styles that complement each other as yin does yang. Bagua is known for its circular movements and its practice of “circle walking.” Xingyi embodies characteristic linear movements said to be derived from the logical strategies for using spear and staff. How fortunate we are to include writings in this anthology by leading authorities on these styles. Separated into three sections, the first features bagua. Allen Pittman presents five variations of the “single palm change”, followed by an overview of the Yin Fu bagua linage and an interview with He ...

"America's Freedom Coach" Dr. David Phelps unpacks a blueprint for high-income doctors, dentists, and small business owners to stop trading time for dollars and make their wealth work harder for them—without handing over to a suit on Wall Street with fingers crossed. This book is the ultimate guide to creating sustainable, predictable cash flow through alternative investing without ever meeting a tenant or fixing a toilet.

Purpose is changing the way we work and how customers choose business partners. In Red Goldfish Stan Phelps and Graeme Newell share cutting edge examples and reveal the eight purpose archetypes. The audiobooks shows how businesses can embrace purpose to drive employee engagement, fuel the bottom line, and makes an impact on the lives of those it serves. Red Goldfish focuses on how purpose is driving loyalty and becoming the ultimate differentiator in business.

In 2013, terrorists struck the Chicago Marathon. It took more than just people; it took their peace of mind and security for the entire country. For Jacob August it took his entire family. After the bombing his life was changed forever. Abandoning his parents' dreams of his education at medical school, he became America's most deadly CIA assassin.

"Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her." That is the dilemma this powerful and beautifully observed work centers around.

What motivates student staff members (SSMs) who work in self-access learning centers at universities in Japan? Pulling Back the Curtain in Self-Access: Stories of Student Staff Member Motivation by Christopher Phelps takes readers behind the scenes of these unique educational environments, exploring what drives students to take on roles that blend learning, teaching, and leadership. Drawing on narrative inquiry and framed through Self-Determination Theory, the book reveals the powerful role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness in sustaining motivation and personal growth. Through rich, ...

Green Goldfish 2.0 is based on the simple premise that employees are the key drivers of customer experience and that “Happy Employees Create Happy Customers.” The book focuses on 15 different ways to drive employee engagement and reinforce a strong corporate culture. It's the second color in the goldfish series. The first book was Purple Goldfish which focused on customers, whereby Green focuses on employees. The book is based on the findings of the Green Goldfish Project, an effort which crowdsourced over 1,001 examples of signature added value for employees. Key themes emerged from ...

From tragedy to triumph...but it was never easy. Nothing ever was for Phyllis Phelps. Hurt, abuse, and heartache led to a lifestyle of desperate addiction and empty relationships that would’ve surely destroyed her. Yet, when she received help and discovered the life-changing power of God, her journey toward healing was only beginning.

March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of the New Guinea Highlands. No one expected the Japanese to attack in the Pacific. But they did. Tom and his mates weren't going to hang around and wait to be killed. With escape routes bombed by the Japanese, their only option was to try to reach safety by foot, through some of the most rugged terrain on Earth - the Bulldog Track. Back home in Sydney, Rose Phelps, their son, George, and three daughters, Joy, Shirley and Ann, waited for news of Tom's fate.

Dr. David Phelps examines inflation throughout history and the factors driving inflation today and explains why the government needs inflation to fund its reckless borrowing and nanny-state promises. While many are unprepared for inflation and its devastating effects, Dr. Phelps exposes how the Great Wealth Transfer has begun and the proven steps you can take to protect your wealth.