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The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans. In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction.

Are you at a crossroads? Do you feel that there has to be more to life than your current existence? The sole purpose of this beautiful book is to reconnect you to what truly matters. Each chapter offers a simple step towards letting go of what no longer serves, and liberates you to create a life of authenticity and meaning.

It’s true that everyone wants to get laid. The only trouble is that it’s not as easy as most people would like. This book is going to show you that the secret of getting laid is not in finding some sort of mystic mojo that will put you through to the next level. The secret is that it’s all up to you. Along with the basic knowledge of knowing where to look for easy, available women, the secret mainly lies in how a person presents himself when he finds himself in the right place at the right time. If you’re looking for a serious relationship, this is not necessarily the book for you. ...

Angela Leigh Tucker had not expected death that day. Newlywed, thirty years old and a successful public relations professional, she and her husband were driving home when a semi-truck hurtled over the center-lane divider and crushed their SUV. Her husband died on impact. She was left hanging onto life by a thin, golden thread. With her brain severely injured and her neck, shoulder, and ribs broken, she had instantly lost everything but her will to live.

The second edition of this book appears two years after the first. I deliberately left the body of the book unchanged other than add a new introduction. if only to underscore the point: there were plenty of warnings! The significance of the timing of the first edition book is obvious to anyone who has lived through our strange times: September 2020. That was six months following the lockdown of most of the world during which places where people might “congregate” were shut by governments. The reason was to avoid, mitigate, eliminate maybe, or otherwise diminish the disease impact of the...

Do you want to pray with strength and purpose? Do you want to explore the hidden secrets of prayers? Do you desire to begin to grow in your prayer life? Learn how to get more consistent positive answers to prayers when you unlock the secrets of moving heaven with your prayers. You don’t have to keep feeling frustrated and disappointed because your prayers seem to just bounce off the ceiling. No need to give up and doubt God’s ability to intervene in your life.

The title story of this collection might have been dubbed "Mother Knows Best". Kathryn Tucker Windham has always had a healthy respect for wisdom, but her true love has always been humor. The stories in this collection reflect her appreciation for traditional values and traditional ways, but they also beguile the listener with that most enchanting of Southern traits, a keen sense of humor.

Trying to earn $100k from your real estate business? You thought passing your real estate exam, closing deals, and working harder than ever before would jump-start you to earn $100k. But now you’re confused as to why your real estate sales have flatlined, you’re concerned over the stalling state of your real estate business, and you have serious doubts about whether a real estate career is the right choice. Become a Rock Star Real Estate Agent is designed to guide real estate salespeople who are truly ready to earn the profits they were born to make.

In Why Pray? Tucker studies some of the prayers that appear in Scripture and explores what they teach us about prayer and worship—and the character of God. He examines biblical accounts of worship services, since prayer and worship are inextricably linked. And he highlights miraculous answers, great disappointments, and unexpected benefits of prayer.

Tanja Davia Tucker’s evocative second novel, Three Days in Amsterdam, is the story of Beth, a woman forced to examine the ruins of her life during a trip to Amsterdam. At thirty-eight, Beth feels her life is spiraling out of control. Her marriage of seventeen years has left her feeling empty and unfulfilled, though she’s spent all her time and energy trying to be a good wife and mother. When their sixteen-year-old son, Troy, the one bright spot in Beth’s life, gets into a mysterious accident, Dennis, her older husband, insists she cannot see him and prevents them from having contact. ...

Leo is a drifter, a man looking for opportunity. Always. He has a fascinating background, but not exactly the salt of the earth. Ducking the law, traveling the desert, he stumbles onto a town war, where one side or the other wants control of the silver mines. Ugly, black silver. Or is it? Leo sees opportunity, all right. Whoever is the last man or the last woman left in town, owns it all. Will it be him? Maybe one of the professional gunslingers? No one can tell until the last battle is fought. And it runs for better than ten years! Adventure and romance, the heart of any good story. Enjoy!...

*Intensa, profunda y divertida. *Una historia de amor de otro planeta. Taya no esperaba ser secuestrada de su cama en plena noche. Mucho menos ser enjaulada como un animal, pero, como el día no había empeorado lo suficiente, se encontró con que había sido abducida por seres horribles y subastada junto con su amiga. ¿No pueden dejar de pasarle cosas malas? Después de unos cuantos infortunios, acaba siendo arrastrada a una gran selva, una en la que acaba siendo cazada por un gran hombre. Espera. ¿Hombre? Es guapo, es fuerte, es grande, pero muy azul y con unos cuernos gigantescos. Y ...

Dave Tucker is a veteran of 26 years in the green industry. In this book, he combines his own knowledge and experience with that of his network of over 12,000 lawn companies to reveal one of the "biggest keys of success" in the green industry - piecework.

How It's Made Podcast is tasked with recapping every episode of the Discovery Channel show "How It's Made". That's 32 seasons and 416 episodes total. Once we do that, the podcast will end.

Is victory worthwhile if it comes at the expense of everything you love? To avoid seeing the River Cities destroyed in their efforts to defeat Irella, Acharsis and his friends set forth on a quest that will take them from the darkest depths of hell to the perilous heights of the Gods' Mountain.

Irella's undead armies are on the march, and only Jarek and Acharsis are aware of their fell intent. Fleeing the empire with their ragtag band of allies, they set their sights on distant Magan in the hopes of warning the rival nation of the impending catastrophe. But crossing the monster-strewn Golden Steppe may prove the least of their worries, for they have but days to convince the Maganian royal court of the imminent and impossible invasion by the dead.

Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook explores the practice of legend tripping, wherein individuals or groups travel to a site where a legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is a common, informal practice, depicted in epics, stories, novels, and film, throughout both contemporary and historical vernacular culture. In this collection, contributors show how legend trips can express humanity’s interest in the frontier between life and death, and the fascination with the possibility of personal contact with the supernatural, or spiritual.

Twilight for the Gods: The Art and History of Film Editing is a passionate exploration of the important role played by editing in the process of filmmaking and a functional guide to using editing most effectively. The book explains how an editor is, in many ways, responsible for the final rewriting of a script - and that editing is in reality a pictorial form of writing.

When was the last time you took a course to make yourself more marketable, and found yourself wondering just what in the world you were doing? Or watched "square peg" employees dropped into "round hole" positions only to fail miserably as revenues tumbled? There's a lesson to be learned in... Animals, Inc.

Kathryn Tucker Windham begins this montage of stories with the sounds of summer and ends with a joyful Christmas memory. The mixture of tales, from the mouth-watering description of good Southern food to the story of a governor more familiar with Tom Sawyer than Tom Jefferson, comes together to evoke the image of a happy childhood.