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Since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, demand for housing has consistently outpaced supply in many US communities. The failure to construct sufficient housing—especially affordable housing—in desirable communities and neighborhoods comes with significant social, economic, and environmental costs. This book examines how local participatory land use institutions amplify the power of entrenched interests and privileged homeowners.

Create a Life You Love—One Choice at a Time What really makes us happy? Is it money, success, relationships, or something deeper? In a world filled with distractions and pressure, lasting happiness can feel out of reach. But the truth is—happiness is not something you find; it’s something you create. Create Happiness is a transformative, science-based self-help guide that uncovers the real truth about happiness and gives you the tools to build a joyful, fulfilling life. Drawing from the latest research in positive psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, nutrition, and personal ...

Big Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. This book presents the Lambda Architecture, a scalable, easy-to-understand approach that can be built and run by a small team. You'll explore the theory of big data systems and how to implement them in practice. In addition to discovering a general framework for processing big data, you'll learn specific technologies like Hadoop, Storm, and NoSQL databases.

An NFL tight end for the New Orleans Saints and a widely read and followed commentator on social media, Watson has taken the Internet by storm with his remarkable insights about some of the most sensitive and charged topics of our day. Now, in Under Our Skin, Watson draws from his own life, his family legacy, and his role as a father to sensitively and honestly examine both sides of the race debate and appeal to the power and possibility of faith as a step toward healing.

The author of The Celebration Chronicles - an exposé of Disney’s small town community development - returns to the outskirts of the Magic Kingdom with Sunbelt Blues, an eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban homelessness crisis, told through a searing portrait of precarious living in Disney World’s backyard.

US relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but, under the Trump Administration, tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism in this accessible and fascinating story.

Pay attention, people of faith. Dark clouds are gathering. The winds of intolerance are blowing. There’s a great storm approaching. American Christians are facing uncertain times. Our nation’s values are under assault. Religious liberty has been undermined. We live in a day when right is now wrong and wrong is now right. The vicious left-wing attack against the recent traditional marriage stance of Chick-fil-A should serve as a wake-up call to people of faith. It’s not about a chicken sandwich. It’s about religious liberty. It’s about free speech. It’s about the future of our nation.

Women make up less than 10 percent of national leaders and behind this lies a pattern of unequal access to power. In conversation with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women, Women and Leadership explores gender bias and asks why there aren't more women in leadership roles. Using current research as a starting point, Gillard and Okonjo-Iweala form questions and hypotheses, then test them on the lived experiences of women leaders such as Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Bachelet and Theresa May.

44 Hours & 21 Minutes: A Woman’s Truth and Power is a journey of and testimony to courage. It is for every woman who wants to be cherished, know they matter, live with whole-self-acceptance, experience profound love, and make choices that communicate self-honor. The experiences shared in this audiobook gives you the opportunity to learn more about yourself and gain insight into the questions: Why aren’t I fulfilled? Why do I allow myself to be marginalized and kept silent? Why do I stay in relationships that demean me? Why don’t I know and regard my own value?

Noah and the ark makes it on everyone’s list of top-10 favorite Bible stories - right up there with Jonah and the whale, and David and Goliath. No biblical account has raised as many questions and has generated as much controversy as Noah and the ark. The story in the Bible is just the beginning! Was the massive ark seaworthy? Did the Flood cover the whole Earth? Has the ark been found on Mount Ararat? Where can you see the ark today? These questions and more are answered in Noah: The Real Story.

The simulation hypothesis presents an intricate intersection between scientific inquiry and philosophical contemplation, reviving age-old queries concerning the nature of reality and human existence. At its core, this hypothesis postulates the compelling notion that the universe and all its constituents, including human consciousness, might be products of a simulated construct rather than existing within an objective, external reality.

About the Authors: Dr. Khaled Kamel is currently a Professor of Computer Science at TSU. He worked as full-time faculty and administrator at the University of Louisville Engineering School. Dr. Kamel was a professor and the chair of the Computer Engineering and Computer Science department. He also worked as Instrumentation Engineer at GE Jet Engine. He served as the founding dean of the College of IT at the United Arab Emirates University and the College of CS & IT at the Abu Dhabi University. Dr. Kamel received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, a BS in Mathematics from ...

When a shocking mutation of the super-virulent coronavirus starts changing healthy, adult men into fully grown women, America goes into a panic and locks the country down, but not before 90 percent of the male population has been transformed! Justin Watters is just an average guy who was one of the lucky 10 percent that managed to avoid the strange new plague which experts dubbed FEMVI-1, and the newly-established FEMPOL government agency pays him handsomely to do his part to repopulate the country. But when a jilted ex knowingly exposes him to the virus, everything changes for him....

Nev Schulman is the host of the wildly popular TV series Catfish which investigates online relationships to determine whether they are based on truth or fiction (spoiler: it's almost always fiction).

Eine gefährliche Reise in ein geheimnisvolles Rätsel beginnt! Realistisch, Spannend, Visionär ... und nicht ohne Humor. Auf der ganzen Welt werden plötzlich nur noch seelenlose Hüllen geboren. Ein Arzt, ein Priester, ein Bestattungsunternehmer und ein reicher Scheich, die das Schicksal zusammengeführt hat, versuchen eine Katastrophe abzuwenden und finden die unfassbare Wahrheit über vier Alien-Fraktionen heraus, die seit 7000 Jahren die Erde heimsuchen.

Are you ready to revolutionize your financial future with the power of artificial intelligence? "ChatGPT Cash Machine" is your ultimate guide to harnessing the game-changing potential of AI technology to create real, scalable income streams. This book takes you step-by-step through the exciting world of ChatGPT, an advanced AI tool that’s reshaping industries and empowering everyday individuals to turn their ideas into wealth. Whether you're a freelancer, entrepreneur, content creator, or aspiring business owner, this book reveals actionable strategies to unlock AI-driven opportunities.

There is a lot of misinformation thrown around today, especially Online. Headlines tell us to do this, not that - all in the name of living longer, better, thinner, younger. In Hype, Dr. Nina Shapiro distinguishes between the falsehoods and the evidence-backed truth. In her work at Harvard and UCLA, with more than 20 years of experience in both clinical and academic medicine, she helps patients make important health decisions everyday. She’s bringing those lessons to life here with a blend of science and personal stories to discuss her new definition of “a healthy life”.

Both sides in the debate agree that abortion is a miserable choice. How can we help women find real choices? This book examines resources and difficulties, and lets women who have had abortions talk about their reasons, and what could have made it possible to consider other choices.

The Right is coming back. After decades of humiliation and political failures, the opposition is reorganizing, catching up with the times, and getting itself in order. It is none too soon. Europe faces numerous challenges, challenges which the entrenched, incompetent elites of politics, academia, and the mass media are unable and unwilling to confront. Uncontrolled immigration, the mindless waste of resources, and destruction wrought by consumer society upon the very core of Western man - these are problems posing questions which the "establishment" cannot answer.

The story is inspired by real dreams and a variety of moments in life that remained to vivid to forget. It is a Mythical Fictional Story of Crystal Powers and the Origin of Time. For Lena, in her dreams, sometimes she would touch the surface of the crystal and time would stop. It allowed her to go anywhere and only she was moving. In the story, the dreams continued and became a passion of hers to try and understand what the meaning of these dreams were.