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MVP is the story of two best friends and business partners. Jonathon Parker and Coltrane Jones have a history The best friends and business partners have been involved in everything from murder to blackmail, whatever it took to rise to stardom they did. Now that they're sitting on top of the world, heading up the two largest and most infamous strip clubs in the nation, the duo has the world at their feet. But now they both want out for different reasons.

Coltrane is tired of the drug game, the seedy underworld lifestyle that playas dream of. He's hoping to settle down with the new woman in his life. Jonathan, who is now a top sought after criminal attorney, is ready to get out of the game, too. But that's because he has his eye set on the Governor's Mansion. And now, with the backing of major political players, he just might get it. There's only one catch. Jonathan has to make a major coup... bring down his best friend, the notorious MVP, Coltrane Jones.

As two longtime friends go to war, parallel lives will collide, shocking family secrets will be unveiled and the game won't truly be over until one of them is dead..
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This extraordinary book features significant works of art from the Kobe City Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Japan Envisions the West considers how Japan encountered the West and learned about and adopted their arts, culture, and science, and how the West discovered Japanese arts and culture.

Maps bear important witness in telling the story of how each region recognized and understood the lands of the other. Selected maps mark milestones in illustrating each state of understanding between Japan and the West.

Portuguese and Spanish missionaries and merchants from the late sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries conveyed Western culture, religion, art, food, and music to the Japanese, and they were the first Westerners to have a strong impact in Japan. Namban refers to Japanese art created under the influence of Portugal and Spain.

After Christianity was excluded from Japan in the 1630s, Nagasaki became the only port open for trading with Dutch merchants. Artists in this region, especially painters serving the government, had the opportunity to see foreign people, culture, and art firsthand. They made visual records, copied important objects, and studied these records for their work.

When the Tokugawa Shogunate Yoshimune relaxed restrictions on imported Western books in 1720, with the exception of Christian books, scholarly artists and scientists were free to study them, leading to Komo, Japanese art created under the influence of Holland, and to more popular paintings, prints, and decorative arts that demonstrate the fusion of Japanese and Western styles. At the same time, objects were made specifically for trade with Europe through the East India Companies established in European countries.

Finally, visual images produced in the nineteenth century show the effort, surprise, and curiosity of the Japanese as they tried to understand America and Americans..
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A concise and practical guide, Envision teaches core skills in analysis, argument, and research, using both contemporary examples to capture reader interest and key principles from classical rhetoric.

Teaches core skills in analysis, argument, and research

Analysis, argument, and research

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Concise, flexible, practical, and innovative: Envision is the first brief argument rhetoric designed for students learning to write in today's visual world.

Flexible three-part organization. Instructors who want to focus on argument and rhetorical analysis can emphasize Part 1. Those who want more intensive work in research and source-based writing will focus on Part 2. For innovative courses that include visual design, oral presentation, and multimedia writing projects, Part 3 offers the most fully developed textbook coverage available in a brief rhetoric.

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This book presents a defined process for saving and investing over one's career to ensure a secure retirement, or even retiring rich. The author presents the need for LifeSpan Financial Mapping, explaining why this is so important for young people today in the new DIY pension environment they are entering. The author explains what must be addressed to have a successful savings and investment plan and identifies the savings alternatives available. The characteristics of savings alternatives are further explained in terms of potential returns. The author walks the reader through the LifeSpan Financial Mapping process to the point where readers can then do their own LifeSpan Financial Mapping. A LifeSpan Financial Mapping tool on CDROM is provided as a supplement to the book that may be used to create personal financial roadmaps for tracking progress across a person's career. Probably nothing is farther from a young person s mind than retirement, yet failing to address how retirement will be funded may mean there will never be a real retirement for today's young adults. As US businesses move away from traditional pensions to employee ownership of retirement funding through 401k's and IRA's, it is paramount that employees understand the challenge they face. A young person needs to be able to answer these questions? What level of annual income will be needed for a comfortable retirement, adjusted annually for inflation? How much accumulated savings is needed to have this comfortable retirement? Where will the money come from for retirement? How many years of retirement will follow their career? How will inflation impact retirement planning? What will their annual income be at retirement age? Is there a way to plan and track retirement savings? When a person can answer the above questions, then they know how much of their income they must save and how much they can spend. A person would not set out on a trip without a specific plan on where they are going and the route they will take to get there. In a similar way, everyone needs a lifespan roadmap toward their retirement, and this book shows a person how to develop this LifeSpan Financial Map..
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A surreal story based on historical facts, great works of art, and a real study called The Isis Thesis. The story begins in 1983 when Dr. Lucia Farrell, a university professor, conducts a biotechnology experiment that will support her thesis on the hidden meaning of ancient Egyptian signs. Her research decodes the chemical path used by the Pharaohs to clone the Dead King into a unique species.

Believing she could perform the same genetic experiment on a living human being, Lucia enlists the talents of two undergraduate students. If they can prove that the hidden Egyptian wisdom is threaded through the works culture has cherished as great art, then Lucia's thesis will have support from History's greatest minds. Her biotechnology experiment will provide the practical evidence, that is, if the students survive the cloning.

Curious about the effects of mind-expanding drugs, the students agree to ingest an alchemical white powder secreted from the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. Questing to discover the Pharaohs' lost knowledge, they also experience the primal meaning of the work of art..
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This study of eight Ancient Egyptian texts spans 2000 years of Egyptian history and reveals a biophysical basis for pharaonic literature, architecture and art. In the consistent model, the value or meaning of each sign emerged not by choice, but rather from an analysis of each sign's interaction within a matrix of 870 interlinked thematic signs. The code mirrored a complex knowledge of modern sciences, while explaining a human's potential for horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Excluding the eight primary English translations studied, References include over 318 scientific citations, with 35 of these being references to books..
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A sweet insight for children of all ages--"Cancer Rhymes with Dancer" provides a unique overview of how a life can be affected by cancer. Full of fun illustrations and delightful text it is ideal for any home and school library..
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