Academic English

Monica Nassif didn’t just build a brand—she bottled a legacy. I Bottled My Mother is the gritty, hilarious, heartfelt origin story behind Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day, the cult-favorite cleaning line inspired by Monica’s real-life mom, Thelma Meyer: a whip-smart, no-nonsense Midwesterner who raised nine children with little more than elbow grease, common sense, and a garden full of geraniums. Part startup manual, part memoir, this is the candid story of how one woman turned domestic skills into corporate strategy, and a small soap company into a household name.

ADVANCED ENGLISH is a short, no-nonsense, reader-friendly bank of academic "expressions" written for both graduate and undergraduate students who already know the basics of academic English but find difficulty using a higher level phrases or words. ADVANCED ENGLISH is a collection of the most common and essential idioms, phrasal verbs, vocabulary and phrases which are indispensable for every student in terms of using English effectively whether for speaking or writing purposes or taking academic tests such as Toefl, Ielts, Gre and the like. The book is designed in a very practical and ...

An inspiring story of music and history, as well as community and connection! Minnesota journalist and essayist Joy Riggs probes her own family history to reveal how 20th century Midwestern towns once competed for respect, recognition, and renown by mustering talented bands of youth and other musicians. Through times of war, peace, economic hardship, and personal tragedy, Riggs's "Crackerjack Bands and Hometown Boosters" follows the career of her great-grandfather G. Oliver, his talented wife Islea, and their children. The bandleader and former "Conn man"—a sales representative of the C.G.

Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. This acclaimed biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem". Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, and who invented the crèche. Yet Francis also acknowledged the mystic responsibility to communicate his divine experience.

In this final volume of her memoir trilogy, Dr. Erica Elliott begins her medical training as an enthusiastic, wide-eyed student but soon becomes a disillusioned doctor, sick from toxic chemicals at the clinic where she works. This health catastrophe, followed by a near-fatal accident and the harrowing, experimental brain surgery that saved her life, forces Erica off the path of mainstream medicine and onto a path that leads to her profound healing. More than a half-century after a Navajo grandmother offered a prophecy about her life, Erica fulfills it in ways she never could have imagined.

Academic writing is not magic. It is a skill built from clear thinking, clean structure, and honest use of sources. Many students struggle because they were never taught a workable process. They are told to “be critical” and “use sources” without being shown how to plan, draft, and revise in a way that earns marks. This guide teaches academic writing as a repeatable craft. It shows you how to read an assignment prompt, build a thesis that actually answers the question, write paragraphs that stay focused, and use sources with control through paraphrase, quotation, and synthesis. It ...

Special Agent Eric Balliet worked in the shadows of the US–Mexico border—tracking cartel bosses, chasing human traffickers, locking up drug smugglers, confiscating truckloads of drugs, and prosecuting the violent offenders who sustained billion-dollar criminal empires. His career culminated in a covert operation that brought down the world's most notorious drug kingpin: Sinaloa Cartel boss El Chapo—twice.

Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband, George, encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud and startled owners of a near-derelict croft house - a farmer’s stone cottage - on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse.

Sarah Hiscox’s deep self-esteem and addiction issues began in childhood when she was given powerful sleeping pills for her nightmares. Then, as a young woman, a toxic relationship with food morphed into a full-blown heroin dependency that neither a loving marriage nor a new baby could halt. After years of cycling through relapse and new starts, Sarah’s relationships were wrecked. In rehab she was confronted with herself and all that she’d lost. But it would take repeated attempts for her to understand even her worst day of abstinence was better than the days she relapsed.

Why are so many doctors miserable in their work? Where has that sense of joy and meaning gone that we had at the start of our careers? What is it like for patients and doctors when the best traditions of medicine are fully realized? The path to reclaiming our love of medicine requires discovering our true professional heritage, reflecting on our own experiences, and reconnecting with our sense of wholeness.

A breezy look at creating and managing a high-tech company. Mike goes through his childhood in PhD-dense Livermore, California, his foray in fast food, which he seems, in retrospect, to have enjoyed, and college, where he struggled. He goes through all the things that nobody told you about running a small business, particularly the stuff you don't learn getting an MBA. A little self-help is included. He provides the obligatory insults about HR.

An instant New York Times bestseller! “An emotional lightning strike of a book…In Stormy Weather is utterly unputdownable.” —Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author From bestselling indie author Chelsea Curto comes an academic rivals-to-lovers romance about storm-chasing...

In the shadow-draped halls of Blackwood University, some secrets are worth dying for - and some loves are worth every risk. When Isabelle receives a mysterious crimson-sealed invitation to join the Order of the Eclipsed Sun, she thinks she's found her academic calling. But this isn't just any scholarly society - it's a clandestine organization guarding ancient manuscripts that hold power enough to reshape history itself. Each forbidden text whispers of knowledge that empires have fallen to possess, and every page turned brings her deeper into a world where intellect is currency and secrets ...

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months.

“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true-crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga - the story of a young lawyer fresh from the public defender's office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation's history. This is a gripping true crime narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation.

With 30 years of backcountry patrol experience in Florida, Bob Lee has lived through incidents of legend, including one of the biggest environmental busts in Florida history. His fascinating memoir reveals the danger and the humor in the unsung exploits of game wardens.

Many students fear research because they think it is only for experts, or only for people with expensive software, perfect data, and quiet offices. But research is not a luxury skill. It is a disciplined way of asking honest questions and earning the right to answer them. This book is written for the student who wants clear steps, clean reasoning, and a method that works in real conditions. It walks you from the first idea to the final report, showing you how to choose a research approach, plan fieldwork, protect participants, manage your data, analyze it with integrity, and write results ...

Heartwarming and gloriously eccentric, Dr Tom's stories capture the beauty of the Lowlands, the joys and sorrows of its inhabitants and the richly rewarding experiences of life as a Scottish country doctor.

In 2005, after working for ten years in a comfortable but mundane corporate job in San Antonio, Texas, Vincent Sellers successfully managed to leave behind a dreary cubicle landscape and begin the exciting challenges of a crime-fighting FBI agent. His journey is chronicled in Eyes Pried Open: Rookie FBI Agent. Listeners will experience both the highs and the lows of an FBI agent working bank robbery, kidnapping, murder-for-hire cases, and border-related crimes in San Diego, California.

Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.