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A meditation on music as a non-sensory experience.

DISRUPT THE PROCESS OF DRUG ADDICTION WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE. Drug addiction is a process; thus, disrupting this process can lead to positive outcomes. Furthermore, by simply listening to this audiobook, you have already taken the initial step toward altering the course of your life.

A pilot of calculated courage, "Trap" entered the Navy when test pilots were more like stuntmen than engineers. Airplanes had not yet come into their own as weapons of war, and they had an undeveloped role in the fleet. His vision and leadership shaped the evolution of naval aviation through its formative years and beyond. When the threat of war in 1940 raised an alarm over the Navy's deficiency in aircraft - especially fighters - Trap was appointed to lead the Flight Test Section to direct the development of all-new Navy airplanes.

Positive Psychology and Well-Being: Applications for Enhanced Living introduces listeners to well-being from a positive psychology perspective, one of the original missions of psychology as a science, and encourages adopting proactive approaches to healthy living. It provides guidance for enhancing and maintaining life-long well-being.

Volume one of the 12-book Visit the Zoo series opens the world of animals you see in your nearest zoo. Vivid descriptions describe the lifestyles of these fascinating animals - what they eat, how they survive, how they thrive, where they come from, and how they live their day-to-day lives. One hundred and twenty animals are described in the entire Visit the Zoo series, and if you love nature, wildlife, and the animal world, these books provide a primer on each animal described in these 12 books.

Visit the Zoo: Volume Three continues our journey of discovery in today's modern zoo. The marvelous aspect of this series is that in each animal description, you learn something fascinating, new, and even astonishing about animal anatomy or animal behavior. You learn new elements of understanding and facts about these animals that can be enlightening or sometimes repulsive. Our exploration through the zoo moves on.

Visit the Zoo: Volume Two is a continuation of our journey, exploring the fun and adventure at the modern zoo today. There are more unusual creatures we discover in this edition of the Visit the Zoo series. Fascinating descriptions help makes us feel as if we are really there at the zoo on a beautiful sunny day. There are more editions in the series coming soon.

After almost a year in deep space, Narigo is in need of some company. Encountering Earth, he is eager to learn more about humanity and their fascinating ways. However, the people on this planet are far different than anything he's ever encountered before. One thing leads to another and the young alien begins to wonder if maybe he's gotten in too deep. Meanwhile, Jennifer is an unassuming high school student trying to come to grips with her sexuality.

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. During service to masters cruel and kind, he nevertheless learned to read and write. After suffering whippings, hunger, heat, cold, and grueling labor, he escaped from slavery in 1838. In 1841 he addressed an Anti-Slavery Society convention and spoke so eloquently that they immediately employed him as an agent. He was such an impressive orator, numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave.

When Madeline heard that her lover, Alexander, was a demon summoner, she took her young son, Charlie, and ran. But Alexander caught up with them, turning her into a wolf and stealing their child to be raised in the mansion, filled with demons, dark mages, and peril. Lost and alone in the Grimhold forest, Madeline searches for her son. Only, there is another peril far more dangerous than feywights and willy-wisps.

A 12-year old boy, Noah, goes to the zoo with his mother and father and is swept away on a seven-continent fantasy adventure. He meets and talks to dozens of animals and learns about them in their true habitat. His guide and personal docent, Manny Meercat, teaches Noah about the animals' lives. He also teaches him about the possibilities in life and how to grieve for his brother's recent death.

In May 1373, the English mystic Julian of Norwich was healed of a serious illness after experiencing a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin and of Christ's suffering. Her account, A Revelation of Love, is considered one of the most remarkable documents of medieval religious experience. In this book, Frederick Bauerschmidt provides a close and historically sensitive study of Julian's Revelation of Love that addresses the relationship between our understanding of God and our vision of human community.

Achieve monumental success by thinking smaller! That's correct. Sometimes the thing that's blocking you from achieving monumental success is the fact that you're not thinking small enough. The power of setting goals is nothing new to anyone who has strived to succeed. From New Year's resolutions to meeting monthly quotas, almost everyone knows that setting goals and success go hand-in-hand. Unleash the power of incremental planning. Move toward success one step at a time while building belief in your dream, no matter how big that dream might be.

It is 2109 in Chicago and a double murder is discovered in Ping Tom Memorial Park. Investigating the crime is Frank Campanelli, a blind homicide detective who relies on bio-electronics to see and do his job. Together with his partner, Marcus Williams, a former Navy SEAL, the pair discovers that one of the two victims is the son of the local boss of the Tong, the most powerful Chinese gang in the city. Tensions among the Tong, the other Chinese gangs, and factions of the mob rise as no one truly knows who is responsible.

Debt has ruined the lives of millions of Americans, but that doesn't mean you have to be one of them. There are ways to get out of tough financial situations, even if sometimes it seems hopeless and bleak. People have done it before you, and are continuing to do it right now. So why can't you? You can. Of course you can, you just don't know how yet. However, with the right guidance you can liberate yourself from the modern day slavery of debt.

Do you know that you need the skills to manage your time but you're not sure what they are or how to start? If so, this book has the much-needed answers you are seeking. Many people are not currently using their time wisely but this book can show you how to engage the skills you need to not waste another minute. If you want to learn to use your time to the fullest and be able to use more time for hours of enjoyment, you need to listen to this book today.

The Elephant Man is Treves' own firsthand account of how he met and befriended Joseph Merrick (whom he mistakenly calls John Merrick), a young man with very severe physical deformities, who was being exhibited as a sideshow freak, as half man, half elephant. Treves initially invited Merrick to his rooms in the London Hospital so as to examine him, and to ensure Merrick's admittance he gave him his card.

All three of The Chesapeake collection of tall tales, fishing stories, and tidewater turmoil are combined in one set.

Once upon a time, Cat Starr lived with her astronaut mom in Houston. But when her mother gets sent on a long-term mission, Cat has to move to a faraway land - her dad's house, halfway across the country - and share a room with her real-life evil stepsister, Olivia. Just when Cat can't take it anymore, Great Aunt Abyssinia comes to the rescue. And things go from bad to cursed. The next morning, Cat opens her mouth and a toad hops out! What's more, when Olivia speaks, diamonds and flowers appear. How unfair is that?

It's a dream come true for Megan, who's jet-setting to Paris for Fashion Week with Gigi. Meanwhile, back in Concord, Mrs. Wong decides to run for mayor, so Emma and Stewart team up to make her campaign a success. Jess and Cassidy are also hoping for victories - Jess in the a cappella finals with the MadriGals, and Cassidy in the national hockey championships with her teammates. In the midst of it all, the girls - along with their Wyoming pen pals, who drop in for a visit over spring break - dive into Charlotte Brontë's classic Jane Eyre.