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In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early 21st century. Drawing together perspectives from critical musicology, gender studies, and adjacent scholarly fields, the book presents extended case studies of five well-known artists: Zayn, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Take That.

Entrepreneur Ethan DeTournay has devoted his life to two things: solving the problem of clean energy, and achieving full membership in the elite philanthropic Order of the Global Brotherhood. At last, he has an opportunity to potentially achieve both objectives at once. The only problem is, their mining operation would result in an environmental poison to the neighboring rural Mexican community. The Order considers this a reasonable sacrifice in the name of ‘the greater good.’ If he refuses, he’ll lose everything.

Discover powerful meditation techniques to transform your life. Do you want to improve your physical and mental health? Do you want to increase your awareness and consciousness? Do you want to live happy for the rest of your life? Do you want to gain better health? If you answered "yes", this meditation audiobook is for you. This audiobook has lots of actionable information on meditation techniques that can help you to relieve stress and anxiety for good and unleash an era of peace and happiness.

The illegitimate son of a peasant, Rion of Tryferos has very limited prospects with only one remarkable talent: when he plays the lyre, he ushers in the supernatural balm of peace to all who hear. This turns out to be his ticket into the palace, where he nightly plays for the restless, rejected king. King Hector of Tryferos is paranoid, because he knows his days on the throne are numbered. What he doesn’t know is that his anointed successor is Rion.

Jake Mean never had the time to grieve his wife and unborn child. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and members of the Border Kings decided she was a liability. Months later, they walk free, the legal system failing to bring consequences to those responsible.

PFC Carl Yeager, a rookie infantryman, is on his first tour of Vietnam. Like most new arrivals to war-torn South Vietnam, he has no idea of what he’ll be up against. Going on his first patrol with mixed feelings, his platoon runs into a VC ambush. Fighting off an enemy who appeared from nowhere, he gathers together a scratch unit and pursues the Vietcong ambush party deep into the jungle. Until they disappear, melting into the gloom like ghosts.

Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

After 10 years in prison for his wife’s murder, Brian Armstrong is free. When a freak accident with the prison transport gives him and two others an opportunity to escape, they seize it. With revenge in his heart, Brian disappears into the storm-filled city. After an ex-schoolteacher is found dead, Detective John Steel is brought in to investigate.

Chance Hardway wants revenge. His woman was wronged by the Russian Mafia, and he has every intention of hunting them down for it. But information doesn’t come free. He’s got to get his hands dirty to find the men he’s looking for, so he jumps cities, doing odd jobs no one else wants. With someone on his tail, trying to beat him to the punch, Chance realizes he’s in a different position than he’d thought, and he’s running out of time. The Romano crime family, the Russian Mafia, the Muñoz Cartel, and every law enforcement agency in and around Las Vegas is after him and the woman he loves.

An hour after Randolph Spiers quits his job as a mechanical engineer, he finally approaches the woman he’s eyed at the supermarket, only to watch it explode minutes later with her trapped inside. The old Randolph would have gone home to his adulterous wife and forgot about it.

Akuleh—Ku to his friends—thought his life would get easier after he learned his destiny wasn’t inescapably bound to his people’s death demon, Machitew. Then the enemy Supremacy gained a new ally that pushed the Resistance Pact forces into a two-front war across the galaxy. To halt the enemy’s advance and liberate a captured world, Ku’s unit, the 15th Aerospace Combat Wing, deploys to a planet aptly named for the destination of condemned souls. The terrain is rugged; the fighting worse.

The green house is more than a greenhouse. Seven flowers, seven colors, seven meanings, and one 37-year-old secret - the green house is the keeper of it all. Its creator, Girard Remington, is a fragile elderly man whose life was shattered by a tragedy nearly four decades ago. And when tragedy strikes again - this time to his beloved wife, Miriam - he struggles to cope.

Michael Monroe had a perfect life...until Robert Elliott Lang decided to destroy him. Michael has it all: A fulfilling career, a loving family, a beautiful home. When a disgruntled employee sends a devastating e-mail to thousands university students and co-workers, Michael’s hard-won reputation goes up in flames. In a matter of hours, Michael's life is completely shattered, and the whole world seems aligned against him.

In a place like Las Vegas, people can find themselves in complicated situations with difficult and dangerous people. Chance Hardway is a debt collector, bounty hunter, assets-recovery specialist, and anything else needed—if the money is right. He’s a retired Green Beret, a former police officer, and a man who knows how to deal with difficult people his way, the Hardway.

After the cataclysm known as The Last Stand, humanity fled to the stars. Earth has now been lost to the Gimfa, giant alien creatures bent on destruction and chaos. The benevolent Galactic Alliance gave humanity a colony world—Lewa—to call our own, but they have given humanity one condition: our Guardians must remain unarmed as they aren’t allowed to join the elite Alliance Corps military force.

With his career as a fighter pilot ended, Akuleh—Ku to his friends—is accepted into training for the Qaletaqa, the fulfillment of his childhood ambition. Once a territorial militia on Ku’s home world, the Qaletaqa are now the most sought-after special operations force in the Soliennese Commonwealth. The training regime is brutal, but Ku is motivated by his duty to his friend, King Mogen, who vanished when the enemy Supremacy occupied Solienne.

Pain is a burned ex-mercenary. Agony is a burned ex-cop. Together, they might just find out. The only problem? They can't stand each other. Trust, it seems, doesn't come easily between a black-ops mercenary and an ex-police detective. What could make it worse for her? He doesn't like using guns. Will Pain and Agony be able to dodge the criminals trying to take them out and avoid killing each other in the process? Will the criminals be able to handle the two of them together?

The Resistance Pact's attack on the Supremacy's ally world, Jassem, has succeeded in taking the Jax out of the fight—for now—and as the newly appointed commander of the 15ths 1st Fighter Squadron, Ku makes preparing his pilots for the inevitable next battle his top priority. With its defensive forces scattered to protect its allies, though, the Resistance Pact's homeworld of Solienne has been left open to attack, and the Supremacy swoops in to capture it. Solienne's deployed units—including the 15th on Tobe—are left to fend for themselves.

In Stoneham, Massachusetts, not far from Boston, Marco and his friend Antonio are after a mysterious artifact hidden somewhere inside a Victorian house in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The house has new owners, so getting their hands on the artifact is more challenging than they bargained for—and more dangerous. The artifact itself holds secrets Marco and Antonio don't even know about, and to make matters worse, they're not the only ones after it. Meanwhile, Marco's pizzeria-owning uncle dials up the pressure to retrieve the artifact. And he's not the only one breathing down their necks.

This audiobook is about the basics of psychology and how these principles affect your life. Varying subjects are covered, including the difference between psychology and psychiatry, some history of the field of psychology, personality differences, how to live as an empath, as well as many other topics. Has psychology ever seemed like a vast and mysterious topic? In this audiobook, we make understanding psychology easy by breaking it down into understandable concepts. The quick, easy way to master all the basics of psychology.