The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

A three-time winner of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, Cristiano Ronaldo's status as a footballing superstar is unquestionable. His insatiable desire to succeed and to improve himself year-after-year has seen him win almost everything there is to win in the game, including his first international silverware: a Euro 2016 winner's medal. Here, Madrid-based journalist Luca Caioli tells the inside story of the global superstar, featuring insights from those who know him best: coaches, teammates, girlfriends and even the man himself. Updated to include all the action from the 2016/17 season, the year after he claimed his third Champions League winner's medal and became the tournament's all-time top goalscorer. Ronaldo lays bare the career of a modern footballing icon.

In Cameroon life isnt only like living in limbo, it is like living in the very centre of a hellish junkyard where dreams are dumped and wishes shattered at will by forces which can barely be controlled or understood. It is in this junkyard of dreams that Jude Maimo finds himself after years of studies and obtaining a university degree that could not even procure him a decent job. Reluctantly living under his brothers care after having failed grossly in an attempt to be independent, and doing a job that is more than an insult to him, he still hopes to one day live his simple dream; furthering his education long enough to have a respectable and decent job that could make him truly independent. Entangled in a relationship he can barely understand and weighed down by the daily temptations of natural life, a long lost friend from back in his school days suddenly appears as a light to lead him to the end of the tunnel. But a little too late, he discovers that the promised light of salvation is just another face of darkness, a darkness that wants more than his soul, a darkness that can only lead to tragedy.

In this searing feminist compilation, Carlip illuminates the worries, hopes, dreams and experiences of girls ages 13 to 19, through their stories, poems, letters, and notes. In this pages of this book, Hillary Carlip -- an American author and visual artist, whose work has been featured alongside Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst -- spotlights the inner workings of the teenage mind, as expressed through personal writings. The girls' voices come from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives -- cowgals, lesbians, teen mothers, sorority sisters and girls in gangs -- and reveal the depth, vulnerability, wisdom, and power of the writers.

From going AWOL to collaborating with communists, assaulting fellow servicemen to marrying without permission, military crime during the Cold War offers a telling glimpse into a military undergoing a demographic and legal transformation. The post-World War II American military, newly permanent, populated by draftees as well as volunteers, and asked to fight communism around the world, was also the subject of a major criminal justice reform. By examining the Cold War court-martial, Defending America opens a new window on conflicts that divided America at the time, such as the competing demands of work and family and the tension between individual rights and social conformity. Using military justice records, Elizabeth Lutes Hillman demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission, ideological goals, fear of homosexuality, and attitude toward racial, gender, and class difference. The records also show that only the most inept, unfortunate, and impolitic of misbehaving service members were likely to be prosecuted. Young, poor, low-ranking, and nonwhite servicemen bore a disproportionate burden in the military's enforcement of crime, and gay men and lesbians paid the price for the armed forces' official hostility toward homosexuality. While the U.S. military fought to defend the Constitution, the Cold War court-martial punished those who wavered from accepted political convictions, sexual behavior, and social conventions, threatening the very rights of due process and free expression the Constitution promised.

Rousing, bullsh*t-free advice for aspiring career changers What is a careergasm? Does it feel as good as it sounds? You bet your ass it does. A Careergasm happens when your work feels good. Really good. Like a groovin’ Marvin Gaye song. Like you and your work belong together, and you can’t help coming back for more. But how do you get your mojo back when you’re in a passionless relationship with your job? In Careergasm, Sarah Vermunt leads the way. This playful, empowering book for wannabe career changers is a rally cry, a shot of courage, and a road map charting the course to meaningful work. Filled with real stories about brave people making great stuff happen, this how-to book will help you step out of your career rut and into action. It is written with love and punctuated with laughter. The snorting kind. And the occasional F-bomb. It’s a warm hug and a kick in the ass delivered by a straight-talking spitfire who walks the talk and has hundreds of thousands of people sharing her work online. It’s time to feel good again.

Lion, bear, and wolf shifters and their mates heat up the pages in these swoonworthy romances. From crime bosses with hidden agendas to evil doers with plans for a shifter types and brave and curvy women who are ready for their mates, the stories in this series will melt your heart. JACE A lion shifter. In a clan of shifters, the lions are considered most powerful and respected. Jace is headstrong, willful, has fun with women but doesn’t see the big rush to find a mate. His father lays it on the line: If he’s to head the clan one day, he needs to find his bride. He resents being told what to do. A desperate hottie. Gemma’s got her own set of problems, and saving Jace from a group that collects shifters for sport and research shouldn’t be one of those problems. So what made it her problem? A mutual problem and raging hormones. LEVI A tiger shifter. Levi just wanted to have a good time. Or so he thought. A sex club for shifters. What could go wrong? A frantic hottie. Becca shouldn’t have taken the job. Never let desperation guide your decisions, right? Wrong. Sometimes one wrong move can lead to all the right things. Or can it? Now she’s frantic to escape the sex club she never should have taken a job at. Except that she’s considered property, and her owner isn’t eager to have his property stolen. CORD A bear shifter. Being protective isn’t something Cord does, it’s who Cord is. That’s his greatest quality, and his most devastating flaw. An inquisitive hottie. Lucy can’t resist a good story. So she asks her editor if she could look into the shifters, maybe do a story or a series. Against hired assassins, against territorial clan leaders, against all odds… Lucy won’t be kept from her bear. Her bear shifter Cord won’t be denied his mate. Can a war between rival clans keep them apart? TREK A wolf shifter. Tucker doesn’t do rules. He should have. Nearly being killed put him in the lust crosshairs of a very sexy nurse that he can’t stop thinking about. A healing hottie. Nurse Rachel’s got a fine life—okay, maybe a boring life is a better description. Until she nearly kills a wolf shifter. A clan war gives rise a very unlikely union. Rachel can’t deny her nightly dreams about the wolf shifter she saved. Tucker can’t deny that Rachel makes his blood travel south. This shouldn’t happen. It shouldn’t. But God, it is. And oh man, is it ever. DEMON A wolf shifter. Damien’s always followed rules. He’s nothing like his twin, Tucker, the rule-breaker. Until he breaks one rule. And damned if it isn’t a big one. A rogue hottie. Fox shifter Sierra had this great social life—drinking, partying, shopping. Until she had a rude awakening, one that shoved her out the door and into the swamps. The Paris Hilton of shifters went from manis and pedis to scavenging and practically dumpster diving. An explosive unearthed secret forges an unlikely union. When Damien and Sierra learn of the secret which could bring the clans’ hierarchies to their knees, they find themselves in a unique position. Not to mention, the positions they find themselves in when they yield to their mutual desires. PATRIARCH A lion shifter. Vincent’s oldest enemy is his brother. And now he’s brought before the Council of Elders to determine his fate and Vincent is called as the solitary witness. A lioness shifter. Veronica’s first love is back. That was a lifetime ago, before he left his clan and her behind. She’s built a new life, and clearly so has he. Why can’t she convince herself of that? Sometimes the past refuses to stay in the past. Once upon a time, these two shifters were fated mates. Then circumstances parted them. Has it brought them back together just to keep them apart again?