Jim Christley

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

The Fast Attack

"Silent but deadly" - Osprey's US Nuclear Submarines: The Fast-Attack takes a fresh look at the controversial design and development of the nuclear submarine of which the United States Navy operates the largest fleet in the world. The advent of nuclear power transformed the submarine from a slow underwater vessel, incapable of staying submerged for long periods, into a weapon of stealth and endurance. Jim Christley, a former submariner, uses his own experience of serving aboard these vessels, and a wealth of technical information, to explore the many engineering issues and trade-offs, as well as the high risks of running a nuclear reactor at sea, which have dominated the intriguing story of the US nuclear submarine.

US Nuclear Submarines

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Mark Biltz

What the Bible Says and What the Future Holds

Will the real Antichrist please stand up? For the last two thousand years people have been anxiously trying to analyze who the Antichrist might be and when he might be revealed. Many people have made preposterous claims, and of course, they have been wrong. If you're not careful, you can get caught up in the debate and spend so much time arguing with other Christians over the details that you don't accomplish anything for the kingdom! To make matters worse, we now live in an era when, for the first time, we have the possibility of an artificial intelligence Antichrist, a human computer hybrid that will demand to be worshipped. Have you ever wondered if it's OK to have Alexa, Siri, and other forms of artificial intelligence in your home? We know that the Bible says great deception is coming, so what is a concerned believer to do? Author and minister Mark Biltz wants you to understand the methods of the Antichrist so you won't be deceived. This book will help you know the big picture of what has happened historically, what is unfolding this very moment, and what the future holds concerning the Antichrist based on the unfolding purposes of God.

Decoding the Antichrist and the End Times

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Susan Sleeman

Cold Dawn

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Marin History Museum Staff

The Coast Miwok and the early friars of Mission Dolores chose San Rafael both for its good weather and running streams, and the mission was named after the Archangel Raphael, the patron saint of bodily healing. When looking for a country estate, many wealthy San Franciscans sought the clean air and ideal weather here to escape the city's damp fog. San Rafael grew fast thereafter--it was the first city in Marin County to incorporate, the first to build a railroad, and the first to build a luxury hotel. San Rafael is the seat of county government, the center of commerce, and a cosmopolitan community in a natural setting. The dusty village of long ago was refined by fine schools and churches, the coming of the library, and by the ambitious efforts of the San Rafael Improvement Club. These early efforts made this a charming place to live, with Victorian homes, sylvan streets, and historic buildings in the business district. The pioneers would be pleased with the state of today's San Rafael.

Early San Rafael

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Brooke Keefer

For the first time ever, a patient-driven book has been written about Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (SOD). The Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction Survival Guide is a groundbreaking resource every SOD patient, friend or family member of an SOD patient, GI doctor, primary care physician, naturopath, and functional medicine practitioner should read. Regardless if your SOD is mild or severe, you will find this guide helpful. This guide is a culmination of patient experiences, research, and the author's own personal experience with having SOD for 17 years. For 13 years, the author was misdiagnosed, unable to find a doctor to help her. Read about how she found good doctors, treatments that worked, and coping strategies that helped. In this book you will find information about: The science behind SOD, including information about anatomy, the three types of SOD, prevalence (affects women the most), and symptoms. The most common symptoms are pain in the upper right quadrant under the rib that sometimes radiates to the back and shoulder, and nausea or vomiting. The potential causes of SOD. SOD is most prevalent in people who had their gallbladders removed (post-cholecystectomy syndrome). Also learn how hormones and medications may contribute to SOD. Finding an SOD doctor and obtaining a diagnosis. Learn how to NOT waste your time with mediocre doctors or doctors who refuse to diagnose or treat SOD. Learn how to find the best doctors and about the most common tests used to diagnose SOD. SOD treatments, including natural remedies, medications, and procedural and surgical treatments. How to cope with SOD and live a quality life utilizing support groups, mental health therapy, spiritual support, and staying positive. Dealing with hospitals and healthcare professionals and how to become an empowered patient. The TRUTH about SOD your doctor and medical journals won't tell you.

The Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction Survival Guide

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Kenton L. Sparks

Biblical Authority and the Dark Side of Scripture

The Bible is a religious masterpiece. Its authors cast a profound vision for the healing of humanity through the power of divine love, grace and forgiveness. But the Bible also contains "dark texts" that challenge our ethical imagination. How can one book teach us to love our enemies and also teach us to slaughter Canaanites? Why does a book that preaches the equality of all people -- male and female, slave and free, Greek and Jew -- also include laws that permit God's people to trade in slaves and to persecute those of a different faiths or ethnicities? In Sacred Word, Broken Word Kenton Sparks argues that the "dark side" of Scripture is not an illusion. Rather, these dark texts remind us that all human beings, including the biblical authors, stand in need of God's redemptive solution in Jesus Christ.

Sacred Word, Broken Word

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Anthony Porto

Dina DiMaggio

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Practical Answers to Your Questions on Nutrition, Starting Solids, Allergies, Picky Eating, and More (for Parents, by Parents)

A comprehensive manual for feeding babies and toddlers during the crucial first years of life, written by a team of medical experts who are also parents.

All Your Questions about Feeding, Answered.

The choices of when, how, and what to feed your baby can be overwhelming. With The Pediatrician's Guide to Feeding Babies and Toddlers, you have the expertise of a team of pediatric medical and nutritional experts--who also happen to be parents--in a comprehensive manual that takes the guesswork out of feeding. This first-of-its-kind guide provides practical, easy-to-follow advice to help you navigate the nutrition issues, medical conditions, and parenting concerns that accompany feeding. With recipes, parenting stories, and recommendations based on the latest pediatric guidelines, this book will allow you to approach mealtime with confidence so you can spend more time enjoying your new family.

The Pediatrician's Guide to Feeding Babies and Toddlers

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Aryeh Kaplan

Meditation and the Bible

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Sheri Davis

A Natural Approach to ADHD and Other Related Disorders

Do you have a child with ADHD? Are you looking for natural alternatives? Or do you just want to learn how to make better choices in food? All Natural Mom's Guide to the Feingold Diet explains how avoiding dyes, artificial colors, and certain harmful preservatives can hugely affect a child's behavior and overall health. Sheri Davis explains how to avoid these harmful chemicals which is the foundation of the Feingold Diet. She shares how her own family started the diet nine years ago, and details the ins and outs of the Feingold Diet. This book is a great resource for parents, offering hope and encouragement, and practical steps to get started. Topics covered in this book include: -What Is the Feingold Diet? -What Changes Might I See? -How Do I Start the Diet? -What Are Salicylates? -Is It Expensive? -Is It Difficult? -How Do I Read Labels? -Can I Do This Diet On My Own? -Where Do I Find This Food? -Is a Feingold Membership Worth the Money? -Does It Help Kids With Autism? -Does the Diet Really Work? ....recipes and more!

All Natural Mom's Guide to the Feingold Diet

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Richard N. Bolles

Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million copies sold! For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. Whether searching for that first position, recovering from a layoff, or dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? has shown millions of readers how to network effectively, compose impressive resumes and cover letters, interview with confidence, and negotiate the best possible salary—while discovering how to make their livelihood part of authentic living. More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles’s timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish. With the job market in constant flux, people everywhere have found that understanding who they are—what they care about, where and how they do their best work, and the most effective way to express their abilities—is the best compass to navigating an ever-changing and challenging professional landscape. It is also how their work can become part of a life filled with passion and purpose. Using the trailblazing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover—and land—the work, and life, most meaningful to them.

What Color Is Your Parachute?

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Navaz Habib

Unleash Your Body's Natural Ability to Heal

Learn how exercising your vagus nerve, which regulates automatic functions in the body, can help you take control of your health Anatomists were stumped. How could the vagus nerve, a single nerve beginning in the brainstem, be so long and connect to so many different organs? What effects could this nerve possibly employ? With such a vast array of potential functions, what would happen if this nerve was injured or cut? This helpful guide provides all the tools you need to understand and heal your vagus nerve, the rest, digest and recovery system. You'll learn simple yet powerful techniques to address a variety of ailments health challenges, like inflammation, gut sensitivity and brain fog, from their root causes originating with the vagus nerve. Author Dr. Navaz Habib lays out easy-to-follow daily and weekly routines to help on the path to healing, including: Breathing Techniques Exercises for Mindfulness Tools to Improve Your Digestion Functional Medicine Testing Acupuncture and Massage and more

Activate Your Vagus Nerve

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Ichiro Kishimi

Fumitake Koga

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day

In this follow-up to the international phenomenon The Courage to Be Disliked, discover how to reconnect with your true self, experience true happiness, and live the life you want.

What if one simple choice could unlock your destiny?

Already a major Japanese bestseller, this eye-opening and accessible follow-up to the "compelling" (Marc Andreessen) international phenomenon The Courage to be Disliked shares the powerful teachings of Alfred Adler, one of the giants of 19th-century psychology, through another illuminating dialogue between the philosopher and the young man.

Three years after their first conversation, the young man finds himself disillusioned and disappointed, convinced Adler's teachings only work in theory, not in practice. But through further discussions between the philosopher and the young man, they deepen their own understandings of Adler's powerful teachings, and learn the tools needed to apply Adler's teachings to the chaos of everyday life.

To be read on its own or as a companion to the bestselling first book, The Courage to Be Happy reveals a bold new way of thinking and living, empowering you to let go of the shackles of past trauma and the expectations of others, and to use this freedom to create the life you truly desire.

Plainspoken yet profoundly moving, reading The Courage to Be Happy will light a torch with the power to illuminate your life and brighten the world as we know it. Discover the courage to choose happiness.

The Courage to Be Happy

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Susana Martinez-Conde

Sandra Blakeslee

Stephen L. Macknik

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions

"This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield--it will also change the way you think about the mind." --Jonah Lehrer, author ofHow We Decide andProust Was A Neuroscientist

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. Magic tricks fool us because humans have hardwired processes of attention and awareness that are hackable--a good magician uses your mind's own intrinsic properties against you in a form of mental jujitsu.

Now magic can reveal how our brains work in everyday situations. For instance, if you've ever bought an expensive item you'd sworn you'd never buy, the salesperson was probably a master at creating the "illusion of choice," a core technique of magic. The implications of neuromagic go beyond illuminating our behavior; early research points to new approaches for everything from the diagnosis of autism to marketing techniques and education.Sleights of Mind makes neuroscience fun and accessible by unveiling the key connections between magic and the mind.

Sleights of Mind

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Paul Kalanithi

Abraham Verghese

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

When Breath Becomes Air

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A. Naomi Paik

Understanding U. S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century

"Just days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders targeting noncitizens-authorizing the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. The new administration's approach towards noncitizens was defined by bans, walls, and raids. This is the essential primer on how we got here, and what we must do to create a different future. Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that these features have a long history and have long harmed all of us and our relationships to each other. The 45th president's xenophobic, racist, ableist, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political, economic, and social culture. Further, as A. Naomi Paik deftly demonstrates, the attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women, people of color, workers, ill and disabled people, queer and gender non-conforming people. These attacks are neither un-American nor unique. By showing how the problems we face today are embedded in the very foundation of the US, this book is a rallying cry for a broad-based, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all"--

Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary

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