It starts with heavy legs and shaking hands. Ketchup bottles almost drop to the supermarket floor; shampoo drips down my face as I wait to regain control of my arms. You can do it, I say to myself, crossing the street. Such tasks are no longer without effort. Her journey begins with a diagnosis: Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Follow Cathy as she perseveres through the unexpected jerks and twists of her illness, and redefines for herself who she is.

Lady A is the most notorious blackmailer in the city. With just a mask and a gown to disguise her, she sweeps into lavish balls and exclusive events collecting the most valuable currency in 1725 London-secrets. But leading a double life isn't easy. By day Lady A is just a seventeen-year-old girl named Arista who lives in fear of her abusive master, Bones, and passes herself off as a boy to move safely through the squalor of London's slums. When Bones attempts to dispose of his pawn forever, Arista is rescued by the last person she expects: Jonathan Wild, an infamous thief who moves seamlessly between the city's criminal underworld and its most elite circles. Arista partners with Wild on her own terms in order to save enough money to buy passage out of London. Everything changes when she meets Grae Sinclair, the son of a wealthy merchant. Grae has traveled the world, seen the exotic lands Arista has longed to escape to her whole life, and he loves Arista for who she is-not for what she can do for him. Being with Grae gives something Arista something precious that she swore off long ago: hope. He has promised to help Arista escape the life of crime that has claimed her since she was a child. But can you ever truly escape the past?

Your Defining Moment - For the Believer, there is no such thing as mere secular employment, only vocational calling. When we think of men and women of great destiny and calling, we typically think of those people that have helped to shape the events of history. In general, main line Christianity failed to bring the sense of divine mission down to the man on the street. Our culture has become such a circus of propaganda, larger than life personas, and image branding that we fail to recognize the strong prevailing influence of the everyday person. In this new book, Jen Tringale encourages and exhorts believers to live in a life defining moment of time. All throughout the Bible, there are amazing examples of how God sets people up for moments that allow them to become pregnant with purpose. People who live for the purpose of "getting ahead" are different from those who live with a sense of mission and calling. She explains that one moment of favor is worth more than ten years of labor and that paying attention to the timing and a rightly discerned moment can pick you up from one place and catapult you to a new level that would have taken years for you to get to in the natural progression of things. These moments have been prepared for you by your Creator! Your Defining Moment will ignite a passion for your destiny, giving you the ability to look above your current job, season of life, circumstances or challenges to truly pursue what God has uniquely designed you to do. This book will help you recognize the building block experiences of your life and the key people God has sent your way as doorways to your destiny. Young or old, educated or not, successful or seemingly insignificant, this book will propel you to new heights as you recognize the defining moment God has set in place for all His children.

For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream: the land of peace and plenty. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream. In America, they will be reunited with their only remaining relatives, Mai’s uncle and his family. They will discover the privileges of their new life: medical care, abundant food, and an apartment all their own. But Mai will also feel the pressures of life as a teenager. Her cousins, now known as Heather and Lisa, try to help Mai look less like a refugee, but following them means disobeying Grandma and Uncle. From showers and smoke alarms to shopping, dating, and her family’s new religion, Mai finds life in America complicated and confusing. Ultimately, she will have to reconcile the old ways with the new, and decide for herself the kind of woman she wants to be. This archetypal immigrant story introduces readers to the fascinating Hmong culture and offers a unique outsider’s perspective on our own.

Modern web applications are built on a tangle of technologies that have been developed over time and then haphazardly pieced together. Every piece of the web application stack, from HTTP requests to browser-side scripts, comes with important yet subtle security consequences. To keep users safe, it is essential for developers to confidently navigate this landscape. In The Tangled Web, Michal Zalewski, one of the world’s top browser security experts, offers a compelling narrative that explains exactly how browsers work and why they’re fundamentally insecure. Rather than dispense simplistic advice on vulnerabilities, Zalewski examines the entire browser security model, revealing weak points and providing crucial information for shoring up web application security. You’ll learn how to: –Perform common but surprisingly complex tasks such as URL parsing and HTML sanitization –Use modern security features like Strict Transport Security, Content Security Policy, and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing –Leverage many variants of the same-origin policy to safely compartmentalize complex web applications and protect user credentials in case of XSS bugs –Build mashups and embed gadgets without getting stung by the tricky frame navigation policy –Embed or host user-supplied content without running into the trap of content sniffing For quick reference, "Security Engineering Cheat Sheets" at the end of each chapter offer ready solutions to problems you’re most likely to encounter. With coverage extending as far as planned HTML5 features, The Tangled Web will help you create secure web applications that stand the test of time.

Presents a history of physics, examining the theories and experimental practices of the science.