Chris Williams
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Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle changes, yet the scale of the crisis requires far deeper adjustments. Ecology and Socialism argues that time still remains to save humanity and the planet, but only by building social movements for environmental justice that can demand qualitative changes...
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A teacher is hurt by a hit and run driver in the parking lot after January exams. His schedule has to be filled by others. The protagonist, Claire Hébert, the inveterate planner, gets a last minute timetable change. The same day her boyfriend has given her a puppy, which she only reluctantly to accepted because she already felt overwhelmed by schoolwork. She struggles to do her best with the new workload, but she's a workaholic and it causes problems...
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On a cold February night in 2007, a devoted father of four and a seventeen-year-old drunk driver both received life sentences. In one violent, devastating instant, both faced a drastically different-and uncertain-future. But as Chris Williams sat in his demolished vehicle, staring at the car that had just caused the death of his wife, his unborn baby, his nine-year-old daughter, and his eleven-year-old son, he committed to do something extraordinary:...
4) Antibody
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Alice needs a vacation to escape her family, unemployment, and a global pandemic. When the world shuts down due to a newly discovered virus, Zenith Pharm, a major drug manufacturer, reveals a breakthrough in vaccine development and offers individuals an all-expense-paid trip to a remote resort with an on-site testing facility. The catch: a little blood work, a little medicine-no big deal, right?
Between the constant parties and poolside recreations,...
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J. F. C. Harrison has written that 'for each age there is a new view of Mr Owen', which is proof of the fertility and continuing relevance of his ideas. Not just in Britain and America but today around the world anti-poverty campaigners, birth-controllers, collectivists, communitarians, co-operators, ecologists, educationalists, environmentalists, feminists, humanitarians, internationalists, paternalistic capitalists, secularists, campaigners for...
6) Customers Are the Answer to Everything: How to Get and Keep All the Customers Your Business Wants
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Do you dream of a bigger business, leaving your W-2 for your own thing or advancing your marketing or sales career? "Customers are the Answer to Everything" unravels the mystery of getting customers. This book explores and brilliantly illuminates the happy point where customers understand why they should choose you...over and over. Here are just a few discoveries in "Customers are the Answer to Everything": Find out what your customers really need...
7) Dead Meat
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The city of River's Edge has been quarantined due to a rodent borne rabies outbreak. But it quickly becomes clear to the citizens that the infection is something much, much worse than rabies…The townsfolk are attacked and fed upon by packs of the living dead. Labeling the infected residents "bees" for their tendency to travel in swarms, Gavin and Benny attempt to survive the chaos in River's Edge while making their way north in search of sanctuary....
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Bert Coombes settled in south Wales in 1909, where he worked as a miner for more than forty years. He was motivated to write after witnessing the death of two work mates underground, and he determined to tell his truth about the lives of miners and their families. His first book “These Poor Hands” was acclaimed by critics such as J. B. Priestley and Cyril Connolly and is considered to be among the most authentically vivid accounts ever written...