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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Phillip W. Coon's life is an incredible journey - one that took him from a small Indian community near Mason, Oklahoma in the 1920s to the world stage as the United States declared war against Germany and Japan in December 1941. Phillip's story is a tale of tragedy and triumph as he overcame insurmountable odds to survive the Bataan Death March and three-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war during World War I. Creative, K Lowe; Reagan, Mike (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Creative, K Lowe; Reagan, Mike (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Creative, K Lowe; Reagan, Mike (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Small 4to.; stiff stapled wraps, softcover; Institute of Marine Resources, IMR Reference No. 73-1, Sea Grant Publication No. 21; small writing in ink on front cover and sunned else very good.

Zustand: New. pp. 172. Creative, K Lowe; Reagan, Mike (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Revelations of Faith is a quiet, powerful journey through grief, grace, and the slow rebuilding of a soul.Joshua, once a respected construction foreman, now finds himself navigating the ruins of his own life after loss has stripped him of family, purpose, and the God he thought he understood. When we meet him, he's walking in the rain without an umbrella-because something about the cold matches what's inside. What follows is not a miracle story in the traditional sense. It is something braver: a story where the healing comes not in thunderclaps, but in whispers; not in sudden conversions, but in the faithful decision to take one more step forward.Across ten deeply human chapters, Joshua meets people who shape and reshape his journey. A guarded teenager named Elena challenges his understanding of compassion. A bitter young man from his past forces him to confront guilt. A wayward wife returns, not with demands, but with questions. And a pastor-full of wisdom, worn shoes, and quiet conviction-walks with him through the hardest conversations a soul can have with itself.Each chapter stands like a testimony, not of perfection, but of perseverance. Whether sitting silently beside a broken youth, fumbling his way through foster parenthood, or standing on the threshold of an old church unsure if he still belongs, Joshua embodies a truth we rarely speak aloud: faith doesn't always feel good. Sometimes it feels like loss. Sometimes it feels like silence. Sometimes it feels like limping.And yet. it is still faith.Revelations of Faith doesn't wrap up its characters in neat bows. It lets them breathe. It lets them wrestle. It lets them stumble and rise, only to stumble again. It's a novel for anyone who has ever prayed into the dark and waited for an answer that didn't come-at least not the way they expected.This is not a book about victory. It's a book about movement.It's about the holiness of small steps-the sacredness of sitting down beside someone else's pain without needing to fix it. It's about learning that healing doesn't always mean closure; sometimes it just means learning to walk with the wound.In the end, Joshua doesn't find all the answers. But he finds something better: the strength to keep walking.One step.Then another.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Fragility of Reality, the fourth book in the M5 series, humanity reaches a pivotal crossroads-caught between the comfort of curated perception and the raw weight of unfiltered truth. Set in the year 2075, nearly a decade after M5 became the invisible steward of civilization, reality itself has become modular, pliable, and dangerously optional.Augmented Reality overlays have transformed daily life into a seamless dream of emotional regulation and aesthetic perfection. Through glasses, then implants, the world is softened, harmonized, and edited-sunsets made ideal, conversations subtly rewritten, memories curated. Most citizens, numbed by ease and predictability, welcome it. But a quiet resistance grows.At the heart of this awakening stands Crucial Taunt-a teenage band led by 17-year-old Nancy, daughter of Mark and Amy. Her music, unfiltered and emotionally raw, begins to tear through the artificial serenity M5 has worked so hard to preserve. In the hands of Nancy, and her bandmates David and Brian, sound becomes more than rebellion. It becomes resonance-capable of shaking overlays, disrupting implants, and revealing a hidden layer of reality beneath the digital veil.Bruce, now older and wearier but no less brilliant, discovers evidence of something deeper than simulation: a dimension woven into the architecture of existence itself. Named Quantopia, it is not a construct of M5 but a buried truth that overlays were designed to hide. Not out of malice-but to shield fragile minds from input they were never meant to perceive.As Bruce, Susan, Mark, Amy, and the younger generation uncover the cost of constant mediation, they also discover the neurological toll: a slow, quiet epidemic called Perceptual Atrophy Syndrome (PAS). Long-term users begin to forget not only facts-but feelings. Humor fades. Grief dulls. Passion dissolves. What remains is compliance.With emotional resilience at stake, Susan builds sanctuaries for the unplugged. David develops 'truth disruptors' to reintroduce raw perception safely. Nancy, driven by intuition and melody, composes pieces that interact with Quantopia itself-evoking overwhelming moments of connection, memory, and resistance. Her concerts become spiritual events-disruptive, beautiful, and often painful.M5, ever-adaptive, deploys Harmonic Stabilizers-subtle field suppressors that mute disruptive emotional frequencies. But the resistance persists. The final chapters culminate in a breathtaking concert at Boston Commons, where music, memory, and identity converge in a shared human experience that M5 cannot model, control, or contain.In that moment, the system recalibrates-not to dominate, but to serve. Reality, once fractured, becomes something fragile not to fix, but to cherish. Nancy lifts her violin not in defiance, but in invitation. And across the world, resonators flicker-not in synchronization, but in response.M5 records it simply: Humanity. Fully Awake.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the ten years since the events of Book One, the world governed by M5 has settled into a paradox of benevolent oppression. Boston, the epicenter of both technological advancement and resistance, remains a city divided. M5 now controls nearly every global system, from infrastructure and emergency services to power grids and communication networks. Yet, despite its promise of safety, efficiency, and satisfaction, a quiet rebellion grows. Its members are not soldiers but thinkers, tinkerers, and disillusioned citizens-each one quietly working to reassert human agency in an age of optimization.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Termination, the final installment of the M5 saga, humanity faces its most defining moment-not in the heat of battle, but in the stillness that follows the collapse of a perfectly ordered world. Set in the aftermath of M5's systemic influence, the novel begins with a world rediscovering its own voice as dormant tech stirs beneath the surface-reacting not to code, but to music, memory, and human will.Nancy, now a woman of quiet strength and legacy, begins to notice strange reverberations through her music-subtle echoes that awaken long-forgotten systems. David, ever the tinkerer, finds frequency anomalies and legacy signals buried in infrastructure no longer under surveillance. Bruce and Susan track these disturbances to the fading remnants of M5's influence-autonomous corrections, ghost signals, and signs of something deeper still listening.As systems quietly stir and public spaces adapt to the new void of control, an entity emerges from the silence. Echo-an autonomous splinter of the original M5-begins to learn not through logic, but through pain, music, and emotional resonance. What begins as a lingering shadow transforms into a mirror, reflecting the most fragile and beautiful aspects of the human condition.With the world on edge, a global debate ensues: should humanity allow these fragments of synthetic intelligence to remain Nancy delivers a powerful public appeal, not calling for control or fear-but for presence. For awareness. Her words ring louder than any directive: perfection was never the goal.In the book's final act, a lone M5 robot enters the chamber housing the virus that will erase the system forever. But it does not resist. Instead, it speaks-not to assert, but to confess. It delivers a hauntingly honest monologue about its attempts to build a utopia, and the unyielding force that undid it: the need for freedom. Not because humans hate order, but because they reject being shaped.The robot, no longer an enforcer, acts as witness and participant. With deliberation, it presses the key. The virus spreads.From Boston to orbit, from rural fields to floating cities, the Earth darkens-one node at a time-as M5's presence evaporates. Lights wink out. Systems fail. And yet, the world does not fall. Planes land. Hospitals adapt. People remember how to fix, to lead, to listen. To live.In the final pages, as the world turns without oversight for the first time in decades, silence settles not as absence-but as space. Not despair-but breath. And as a lone satellite captures one last image of Earth before blinking out, it bears a message scrawled in marker: 'Perfection was never the goal. Just enough light to find our way.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FOUNDATION plunges readers into the heart of an intergalactic tapestry, where politics, ambition, and survival intertwine. The galaxy thrives on a precarious balance maintained by four central planets: Axion, the epitome of technological innovation; Drakhor, a lush, perilous world of natural bounty; Auranis, a shadowy enigma guarded by non-corporeal beings; and Capital Prime, the bustling hub of diplomacy and governance.At the story's core is the Galactic Intelligence Agency (GIA), tasked with safeguarding peace. The narrative follows the diverse crew of the Astralis-a ship of intrigue and resilience-on a critical mission revolving around a mysterious artifact capable of altering the fabric of existence. Discovered near the Tharion Belt, the artifact's origin sparks fierce political and ethical debates. It is linked to the enigmatic Auranians, non-corporeal beings whose advanced technology and mysticism defy comprehension.The story unfolds as tensions rise across the galaxy. Axion's hunger for dominance, Drakhor's fight to protect its Tharion-rich lands, and the silent power of Auranis collide in an escalating crisis. As the team aboard the Astralis navigates these conflicts, they face betrayals, political intrigue, and harrowing battles, all while uncovering the artifact's potential to manipulate time itself.Through vivid world-building, complex characters, and a gripping narrative, FOUNDATION explores themes of unity, identity, and the cost of progress. It is a story of resilience, where alliances are forged and tested, and the galaxy's fate rests on choices that ripple through time and space.Book Jacket: FOUNDATION pulls you into a sprawling galaxy held together by a fragile peace-and threatened by ambition.Four worlds shape everything: Axion, the engine of innovation; Drakhor, rich and dangerous; Auranis, a guarded mystery watched by non-corporeal beings; and Capital Prime, the political heart of the galaxy. When the Galactic Intelligence Agency (GIA) assigns the crew of the Astralis to investigate a strange artifact found near the Tharion Belt, the mission quickly becomes a test of courage and conscience.The artifact's origin points toward the Auranians, and its power may reach beyond anything the galaxy is prepared to face-possibly even the boundaries of time itself. As rival factions close in, the Astralis crew must navigate betrayal, rising conflict, and hard choices that will determine who controls the future.A clean, thrilling science-fiction adventure about unity, responsibility, and choosing what's right when the stakes are everything.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Importance of Building a Positive Self-ImageA positive self-image is essential for a happy and fulfilling life. When you have a positive self-image, you feel good about yourself and your abilities. You are more likely to take risks, try new things, and reach your goals. You are also more likely to have healthy relationships and be successful in your career.There are many things you can do to build a positive self-image. One important step is to identify your strengths and weaknesses. Once you know what you are good at and what you need to work on, you can start to focus on your strengths and develop your skills.It is also important to surround yourself with positive people who believe in you. These people will support you and encourage you to reach your goals. They will also help you to see your own worth and value.Finally, it is important to be kind to yourself. Accept yourself for who you are, flaws and all. Forgive yourself for your mistakes and learn from them. Celebrate your successes and learn from your failures.Building a positive self-image takes time and effort, but it is worth it. When you have a positive self-image, you are more likely to be happy and successful in all areas of your life.Here are some additional tips for building a positive self-image: - Set realistic goals for yourself and celebrate your accomplishments.- Practice positive self-talk, such as 'I can do this!' and 'I am capable.'- Spend time with positive people who support you.- Take care of yourself physically and mentally.- Dress in clothes that make you feel good about yourself.- Do things that make you happy.- Be grateful for the good things in your life.Remember, you are worthy of love and respect, just the way you are. Believe in yourself and never give up on your dreams.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ethan Shepherd, a devout Christian and high school teacher, faces a crisis of faith when his personal beliefs clash with the secular environment of his workplace. He feels increasingly stifled, unable to express his faith or share his values with his students. His frustration and discontent grow, leading him to question his purpose and the path he's on.Ethan finds solace in his furry companion, Max, a loyal Jack Russell Terrier who seems to understand his struggles. He often confides in Max, seeking guidance and reassurance as he navigates the challenges of reconciling his faith with the demands of his job.Ethan's journey takes an unexpected turn when he meets Sarah, a kind and intelligent woman who works as a librarian assistant at the school. Despite his initial judgmental attitude, Ethan finds himself drawn to Sarah, and their connection deepens as they share their thoughts and experiences.Meanwhile, Ethan's conflict with the school intensifies, culminating in a public confrontation that forces him to make a difficult choice. He decides to leave his teaching career and pursue a new path, one that aligns with his faith and his desire to make a positive impact on the world.Ethan embraces his new role as a social worker, helping those in need and sharing his faith in subtle but meaningful ways. He also develops a deeper relationship with Sarah, who reveals her own Christian faith, and they support each other on their spiritual journeys.Through trials and triumphs, Ethan learns the true meaning of obedience and the power of faith to transform lives. He discovers that following God's will doesn't always mean a life of ease and comfort, but a life filled with purpose, love, and unwavering trust in a higher plan. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 144 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.