[PDF] Download Pawfect Love: Life Is Best with a Love Like Yours by Zondervan,Warren Photographic | Free EBOOK PDF English

Book Details Title: Pawfect Love: Life Is Best with a Love Like Yours Author: Zondervan,Warren Photographic Number of pages: Publisher: Zondervan (January 28, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 0310354137 Rating: 5     7 reviews

Book Description About the Author Warren Photographic combines the artistic talents of Jane Burton and Mark Taylor, a mother and son team based in Surrey, England. Their work has been published in books and magazines, on greeting cards and calendars, and on a wide range of stationery and giftware. Many of the animals featured in their photographs are born and raised at the studio and have been introduced to each other and to modeling at an early age, allowing them to feel relaxed in each other’s company on the set. Read more Customers Review: I ordered this book as a Valentine’s Day gift for my husband; it’s such a sweet way to express affection and celebrate the differences that prove opposites attract. The adorable animal photos are positively “aww”-inspiring, and the quotes range from thought-provoking to smile-eliciting, with plenty of warm fuzzies throughout. :)Each spread pairs a photo of an animal duo (or trio) and one brief accompanying quote, so this book makes for a very quick and easy read. At the front of the book, you’ll even find a dedication page where you can fill out the To, From, and Date lines to celebrate a special occasion. It makes a thoughtful gift for a loved one on a birthday, anniversary, or Valentine’s Day, or for a friend/family member to celebrate their engagement or wedding.My review reflects this book…short but sweet. “Pawfect”, indeed. Five stars from me (and my hubby) — we both enjoyed reading it together! The pictures in this book are just adorable. The texts are a bit gooey for my taste, but they might be just right for others. Still, buy the book for the photos. Most are of young dogs and cats; quite a few feature floppy-eared rabbits. There are some chickens and ducks. One photo is of a long-nosed fowl that, I confess, I have no idea what it is, but it surely is cute.This book would make a terrific Valentine’s Day present, or for the birthday of a dear female friend.The production quality of the book is first-rate, on good paper, well printed. I like the presentation page, a thoughtful touch.If you like puppies and kittens, this book is for you. – The photos are gorgeous, there is one on every other page with wonderful quotes on the facing page.- The photos are of kittens, ,puppies, ducklings, rabbits, guinea pigs, A couple of kid goats, a squirrel, and even a baby badger! My favorite:“Love is friendship that has caught FIRE. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers A book about love shown through pictures of unlikely couples. Every page has a pair of cute animals and a phrase about love by famous person. The book is hardcover, high grade paper with glossy bright pictures. Small enough to fit into a purse but heavy enough to merit the spot in the book shelf. It’s a wonderful gift for a loved one or for kids – to teach them about love in kid friendly images with wisdom uttered by great people known to all. Goodness gracious, this coffee table book is absolutely adorable! I got it for my daughter, who is in elementary school, but I was tickled to discover I liked it just as much (maybe even more) than her! It’s a book that will make you feel happy even when you are feeling sad. I love it! This is an adorable book! We gave it to our first grader for Valentine’s day and she has been bringing it up to show us pictures for days. The sentiments are gushy love tributes better suited for adults, but she doesn’t care at all. Such a cute book to have out on a coffee table/end table. It has pages and pages of adorable, high quality animal photos and quotes about love , life and companionship!

[PDF] Download When God Made the World by Matthew Paul Turner | Free EBOOK PDF English

Book Details Title: When God Made the World Author: Matthew Paul Turner Number of pages: Publisher: Convergent Books (January 28, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 0525650660 Rating: 4,9     276 reviews

Book Description About the Author Matthew Paul Turner is a blogger, speaker, and author of sixteen books, including the best-selling When God Made You and When God Made Light. Matthew, his wife, Jessica, and their three children live in Nashville, Tennessee.Gillian Gamble is the writer and illustrator of Darcy Daydream, amongst others, living in County Durham with her two young daughters. Read more Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. In the very beginningbefore anything was,before God started doing what it is God does,when all that existedwas wide-open space,God imagined a universe and began to create. Read more Customers Review: The author recommends this book for ages 3 to 7 and grades P to 2. The illustrations are superbly done by Gillian Gamble and accompany the text. They are bright and the little ones, I believe, will be enchanted with them. (One other item about the illustrations is that they depict children of different races which is indeed outstanding, as well).The book is in the Land Scape mode so is read horizontally instead of vertically on the Kindle. ( I read it on my PC and it was even larger than the Kindle would have been),In addition to the illustrations the text itself rhymes which I feel is always a bonus for the little ones. I appreciated the fact that there are ‘big words’ for the children to question. Words such as ‘asteroids, continents, apathy, plateaus, geysers, and krills’ come to mind. Just a multitude of teaching moments which is a so educational for the young audience.The following may be considered a spoiler but is intended for the parents reading this…The book itself tells of the order of creation. And, along the way, there are birds and animals (with the sounds they make; the day and night creation; the length of orbit of our planet; climate and plants…and much more.Each and every child of this universe is unique and special. God did indeed have a plan when the Earth was created.This has my highest recommendation for multiple reasons. Excellent presentation, educational aspects, and it also rhymes.Most highly recommended. This was a wonderful book to indoctrinate my children with creepy lies and nonsense. My children loved hearing me tell them how evolution is a lie just like the round earth is. We loved reading this on our flat earth. Tomorrow night we will read about the flying spaghetti monster. Although my children may be too young to hear about pirates, beer and strippers. Well, they did hear how god drowned every puppy in the word and also drowned everyone’s grandmother and best friend in the true story of Noah’s ark ( aka God commits genocide) so perhaps strippers and pirates won’t give them nightmares. May the flying spaghetti monster touch you and your children! I have read each and every one of Matthew’s books, and this one is absolutely my favorite. I am in love with the illustrations; Gillian Gamble really brings this story to life, and her simplicity and use of light and color has readers staring intently at each and every page.Matthew’s always been great with rhythm and language play in his books, but I really like how this book changes the rhyme pattern throughout. It keeps things moving and flowing in such a catchy, natural way, that listeners feel as though they’re on a magic carpet ride throughout God’s creation of the world.This is a perfect book for any occasion: baby showers, christenings, birthdays, holidays–you name it. It should be on every family’s shelf because the message: that God not only created the world, but He also created each and every one of us for a very special, very unique purpose. Matthew Paul Turner has done it yet again with this brand new book. Like his other three titles, When God Made The World, is incredibly written with beautiful illustrations.This book brings the creation of the world into a fun, understandable, and catchy light making it memorable for all ages. The illustrations bring the the story to life with enchanting imagery that depicts children of all races and abilities alongside the beauty of God’s world and animals.Matthew has a real gift in his stories of not only telling the story of God but really centering in the uniqueness of each and every person. Without fail, he has created a fourth book that I would consider a “must-have“ for any family bookshelf and the perfect gift for any little one on your list. In the short time I have had this book I have shared it with many others and they have all loved it! The being able to share at any time is a reason to have the digital as well as the gorgeous printed picture book!I so wish I had this book (& all the Matthew Paul Turner books) when my kids were young, but thankfully as a Pastor I still have the opportunity to read to kids these beautiful books during worship and education times.I’m so thankful that this book exists as creation is one of the stories that captures children’s imaginations over and over and they always want to know how they fit into creation.This book reflects my theology of a loving God that I want to pass along to the children I teach. The book does this “teaching” through lyrical poetry and gorgeous illustrations!! Matthew Paul Turner, author of “When I Pray for You”brings us a new story, centering on Creation: “When God Made the World.” This is a beautifully illustrated book (pictures by Gillian Gamble) that captures attention with its colorful palette and inclusive representation of all types of kids. The book is written in a poem form, with encouragement for kids to not only enjoy creation but to take care of it and ourselves.My son read it along with me and loved that it had so many unique illustrations and pointed out his favorite sections. It is sure to be a bedtime favorite for us!

[PDF] Download Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain | Free EBOOK PDF English

Book Details Title: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America Author: Marcia Chatelain Number of pages: Publisher: Liveright; 1 edition (January 7, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1631493949 Rating: 4,1     7 reviews

Book Description Review “[A] smart and capacious history. . . . Throughout this impressively judicious book, [Chatelain] is attuned to the circumstances that encouraged increasingly intricate ties between McDonald’s and black communities across the country. This isn’t just a story of exploitation or, conversely, empowerment; it’s a cautionary tale about relying on the private sector to provide what the public needs, and how promises of real economic development invariably come up short. . . . Franchise is a serious work of history. . . . [Chatelain’s] sense of perspective gives this important book an empathetic core as well as analytical breadth, as she draws a crucial distinction between individuals actors, who often get subjected to so much scrutiny and second-guessing, and larger systems, which rarely get subjected to enough.” – Jennifer Szalai, New York Times“An impeccably researched examination of McDonald’s and how the franchise was once intended as a path to economic freedom in Black communities. A fascinating, overlooked perspective on a US institution.” – Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine“Well-written… Emphasizes how today’s conversations around fast food in America were shaped by government policies, and examines how the fast-food industry is connected to Black Lives Matter and other social change movements…. Invaluable for those studying the intersections of race, economics, and business in the United States.” – Sarah Schroeder, Library Journal“Chatelain makes a convincing case that racial tension, the civil rights movement, and fast food all combined to change the dynamic of mostly black communities ignored by white power structures. Chatelain’s impressive research and her insertion of editorial commentary will prove educational and enlightening for readers of all backgrounds. An eye-opening and unique history lesson.” – Kirkus Reviews“Franchise is a stunning story of post-1960s urban black America, a tale of triumph and good intentions, but also of tragic consequences for race relations, poverty, and dietary health. Marcia Chatelain has done superb research and writes as a great storyteller. This is an important book, showing that civil rights successes led to burgers under black ownership as much as ballots for social change. Chatelain makes us see black capitalism in all its mixed blessings.” – David W. Blight, Yale University, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom“Thanks to Marcia Chatelain, I’ll never look at fast food the same way. She pairs burgers and fries with civil rights and black wealth, showing readers exactly what ‘opportunity’ in America really looks like.” – Alexis Coe, author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington“Marcia Chatelain uses the complex interrelationship of black communities with McDonald’s to explore the history of American racism and the struggle for civil rights. Franchise is an eye-opener for anyone who cares about why diet-related chronic disease is more prevalent in these communities and what it is really like to be black in America.” – Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, emerita, and author of Food Politics Read more About the Author Marcia Chatelain is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University.  She is a leading public voice on the history of race, education, and food culture. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration, Chatelain lives in Washington, DC. Read more Customers Review: I enjoyed reading this. The author admits in the Acknowledgements that she essentially grew up at McDonalds. If you want the story of how fast food, and McDonalds in particular, came of age inside the black neighborhoods of America, look no further, you’ve picked up the right book, written by the right author.Or have you?On the plus side, you get the history of all boycotts, profiles of several franchisees, the role played by all prominent leaders of the civil rights movement, the victories and the price of the victories.The author takes you from what she calls “Genesis” in St. Bernardino, CA, all the way to the present time, via the speech Martin Luther King gave days before his assassination regarding how “civil rights” should give their place to “silver rights” the very same year as Herman Petty opened the first black-owned McDonalds’ franchise.You get chapter and verse on• the Hough Uprising as a preamble to Operation Black Unity’s McDonald’s boycott in mayor Carl Stokes’ Cleveland,• the Black Panthers’ alleged blackmailing of white franchisee Al Laviske’s to contribute to their Free Breakfast for Schoolchildren in the Albina neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, which ended up with riots and bombing• the Ogontz Neighbor Association’s resistance to the establishment of a white-owned McDonalds’ restaurant in 1970 North Philadelphiabut also on the extension of Hamburger University to the South Side of Chicago, the successful efforts of the National Black McDonald’s Operators Association to bring ownership of franchises to black businessmen, the ingenuity of Tom Burrell in promoting McDonalds to a black audience and the irony in (racist) Nixon’s “bridges to human dignity” speech, which hardly differed in message from the tropes emanating from Jessie Jackson and Louis Farrakhan, if not from the admonishments issued by George Schuyler (p. 150)Ultimately, however, the book lacks a clear message. The history is there, and this is a great place to read it, but should somebody ask me “what was the main idea of this book?” or “what do you think prompted the author to write this history?” I would be at a loss.Most importantly, I did not get a sense of whether the author believes the Golden Arches were a force for good or not.I thought the concluding chapter, the one where Marcia Chatelain gets a chance to reflect, would at the very least mention that from 2012 to 2015 McDonalds would have in Don Thompson its first black CEO. Not that this would erase a history of racism, not that everything is best in this best of possible worlds, but that hard work and determination is still helping black America reach milestone after milestone on a voyage that started with slavery and will eventually lead to full equality. Instead, I got some Naomi Klein mumbo jumbo.That was very disappointing. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America is a surprising study of how McDonald’s restaurants assisted black entrepreneurs. It is written by a fine historian of the black experience, Marcia Chatelaine, a professor in the History Department at Georgetown University. It is a well-written narrative that will attract general readers as well as historians of American cultural studies. This niche of history is interesting: a blend of civil rights in the 60’s, 70’s, … with McDonald’s business model of franchising. But – the author comes across as angry about the wrongs – ALL the wrongs – most not perpetrated by McDonalds done to African American’s from the beginning of their time in America. She has a right to be angry, but that’s not what this book is supposed to be about. It makes the book quite tedious.

[PDF] Download A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II by Simon Parkin | Free EBOOK PDF English

Book Details Title: A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II Author: Simon Parkin Number of pages: Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 28, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 0316492094 Rating: 4,5     8 reviews

Book Description Review “In this engaging history…Parkin paints a vivid picture of training sessions in which seasoned sailors chafed at being tutored by ‘an inexperienced girl,’ and captures each maneuver in the ensuing sea battles with zeal.”―The New Yorker“A thoroughly absorbing book, drawing upon archives and oral histories. It reads like a thriller, with its accounts of nerve-wracking battles, extreme weather, icebergs, and ships sunk in a matter of minutes.”―The Wall Street Journal“This stirring history…redresses a balance: none in this doughty sisterhood has ever been publicly honoured.”―Nature“Through assiduous research and well-paced narrative, Simon Parkin has given us an extraordinary, little-known story from World War II. . . . A Game of Birds and Wolves is a work of nonfiction that reads in part like a thriller.”―Pittsburgh-Post Gazette“Parkin’s book is extensively researched, well written, and tells an engrossing story of a little-known topic.”―Science“History writing at its best.”―Booklist, starred review“Parkin does a masterful job of evoking the sweep of this vital piece of naval history in both broad strokes and the telling detail. Every war buff will want to read this book. And anyone interested in strategy would be wise to read it as well.”―New York Journal of Books“Simon Parkin’s book rips along at full sail and is full of personality and personalities. Above all, it brings a barely known aspect of the sea war out into the light. Which isa triumph in itself.”―Sunday Express (U.K.)“Like a well-designed game, A Game of Birds and Wolves is fun, informative and intense.”―BookPage“A vivid glimpse of a little-known World War II effort…Parkin weaves this history together like a novel, switching back and forth among various characters and storylines to reveal a fascinating fight for freedom; both for Britain and the young women who defied contemporary norms to serve their country.”―Library Journal Read more About the Author Simon Parkin is an award-winning British writer and journalist. He is a contributing writer for the New Yorker, game critic for the Observer newspaper, and a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Long Read. He is the recipient of two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and his work has been featured in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He lives on the south coast of England. Read more Customers Review: This is a must read for one of those rare nuanced views of WW2. The historical non fiction shows how easily history and lessons learned are easily forgotten with the people who lived it all. The Battle of the Atlantic was touch and go until the middle of 43. The contribution of these wrens and WATU can not be overstated. If The Germans had been successful at sinking sufficient number of cargo ships to England the war could have ended very badly An absolutely fascinating book. Not only does it give insight in the tactics that won the battle of the Atlantic, and the incredible story of how those tactics were evolved, but the book is wryer in such a way that it is difficult to put it down once you start it I have not read the actual book yet. However, I read an extended excerpt from Time on the story behind the book. I also listened to an audio sample to get a feel for the writing style (excellent.)This book is a good reference for anyone interested in the history of the time. We always get stories like what happened a Bletchley Park or Operation Mincemeat. However, there are intriguing stories, like this book, that seems to have slipped through the cracks.Not only is the story interesting about how the tactics of u-boat detection and dispatching were accomplished, but the learning process itself is unique. Books about women in World War II are popular these days, and the latest one I’ve come across — A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin — is a good one, up to a point. Parkin tells the story of several dozen mostly very young women who participated in a little-recognized but vital aspect of the Allied victory. They were recruits to an auxiliary of the British Navy known as the Wrens (Women’s Royal Navy Service). However, in reality, A Game of Birds and Wolves is, more properly, about the man who founded and commanded the top-secret unit in which they served. Unfortunately, partly because the women were never publicly recognized or rewarded for their service and were forced to keep their work secret for fifty years following the war, and partly because apparently the publisher felt the need to mislead readers to boost sales, the subtitle is The Ingenious Young Women Whose Board Game Helped Win World War II. Still, the book really does tell the tale of how wargames helped win World War II, and Parkin tells it well.World War II hung in the balance in the Battle of the AtlanticMost accounts of the war in Europe dwell on the conflict on land, focusing on such pivotal events as the Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, the Normandy Invasion, and the Battle of the Bulge as well as the secret war carried on by intelligence agents and partisans. The Battle of the Atlantic is all too often lost in this narrative. Yet in the early years, when Great Britain was struggling to survive in the face of a threatened Nazi invasion, the British came perilously close to losing World War II because Germany’s U-boats were sinking prodigious numbers of merchant ships carrying essential food and fuel to the island — 2,603 merchant ships and 175 of their escorts.At the time, however, both the Germans and the British tallied losses not in numbers of ships sunk but in the tonnage of food and supplies lost, a bloodless conception reminiscent of the “body count” of the Vietnam War. The threat was so great that for years the British government kept secret how enormous the losses had been. Even some members of Churchill’s cabinet were kept in the dark — yet the people of the UK came perilously close to starvation. And A Game of Birds and Wolves is the story of how the British Royal Navy eventually prevented that by winning the Battle of the Atlantic.A strategy born out of desperation won the Battle of the AtlanticParkin tells the tale of a top-secret unit established deep underground in Liverpool. There, a small staff developed wargames to help develop new antisubmarine tactics, eventually training thousands of British naval officers who commanded escort vessels protecting the convoys of merchant ships who traversed the Atlantic throughout the war. A retired officer turned game designer named Gilbert Roberts masterminded the effort, working with a staff composed largely of young Wrens, some of them barely out of secondary school. The Western Approaches Tactical Unit (WATU), as it was called, arose out of desperation. Winston Churchill personally set WATU in motion, ordering Roberts to “‘Find out what is happening and sink the U-boats.”WATU’s wargames helped win World War IIIn fact, “the first fruits of WATU’s work began to be seen in summer 1942, when escort ships sank four times as many U-boats as the previous month, beginning an upward trend that would continue, broadly, for the rest of the year.” And by March 1943, the inventive tactics WATU had designed allowed the British to win “‘the greatest convoy battle of all time.’” In May of that year, Admiral Karl Doenitz, the supreme commander of the German Navy and the architect of the “wolfpack” strategy that had proved so deadly, admitted that he had lost the Battle of the Atlantic and recalled his boats to shore.The critical role of the WrensThroughout A Game of Birds and Wolves, Parkin valiantly tries to highlight the experiences of the young women who served with Roberts (and later his successor) in WATU. He dwells on the contributions of several individuals, but there is now apparently little information available. “Not one of the Wrens involved was to receive public recognition for her contribution,” so there is virtually nothing in the official record. And, as he notes, “captains at sea and the anxious admirals at home were all granted special dispensation to tell their stories soon after the war; everyone else involved, including the Wrens, was forbidden from talking or writing about their work for fifty years.” By which time, of course, many of them had died.However, Parkin makes absolutely clear that the Wrens’s contributions were huge. As one example, he tells the tale of a nineteen-year-old Wren recruit who had gained such expertise in playing the games they devised that she beat the most celebrated submarine ace in the Royal Navy — five times in a row. WATU was Roberts’s masterstroke, but the intelligence and resourcefulness the Wrens brought to the unit made its success possible.The long history of wargamesAs Parkin reports, “archaeologists have unearthed sets of miniature soldiers that represent Sumerian and Egyptian armies. Many of the earliest board games that, like chess and go, are still played today are either military-themed, or explore concepts of strategy and tactics.” Chess is believed to have originated in the early years of the first millennium CE in northern India, while go was first played in China in the fourth century BCE. But the first board game specifically designed to explore military strategy and tactics was invented in Prussia in 1780. Ever since then, armies and navies alike around the world have organized wargames to test new tactics and probe for weaknesses in their strategies. The British Navy’s effort in World War II continued a long tradition.About the authorSimon Parkin has been a contributor to the New Yorker since 2013. Much of his writing is about technology. He is also a video game critic: his first book was Death by Video Game. A Game of Birds and Wolves is his second.

[PDF] Download CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library by Wendell Odom | Free EBOOK PDF English

Book Details Title: CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library Author: Wendell Odom Number of pages: Publisher: Cisco Press; 1 edition (January 10, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1587147149 Rating: 3,9     46 reviews

Book Description Cisco Press has the only study guides approved by Cisco for the new CCNA certification. The new edition of the best-selling two-book value-priced CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library includes updated content, new online practice exercises, more than 600 practice exam questions, and more than 2 hours of video training–PLUS the CCNA Network Simulator Lite Editions with 34 free Network Simulator labs (available via download on the companion web site). CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library is a comprehensive review and practice package for the latest CCNA exam and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. The two books contained in this package, CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1 and CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2, present complete reviews and a more challenging and realistic preparation experience. The books have been fully updated to refresh the content for the latest CCNA exam topics and to enhance certain key topics that are critical for exam success. Best-selling author Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. This complete study package includes the following (note digital content is available on the companion web site): ·         A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exams ·         Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section ·         Chapter-ending Key Topic tables, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly ·          The powerful Pearson Test Prep Practice Test software, complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed performance reports ·         A free copy of the CCNA 200-301 Network Simulator Lite software, complete with meaningful lab exercises that help you hone your hands-on skills with the command-line interface for routers and switches ·         Links to a series of hands-on config labs developed by the author ·         Online interactive practice exercises that help you enhance your knowledge ·         More than 2 hours of video mentoring from the author ·         An online interactive Flash Cards application to help you drill on Key Terms by chapter ·         A final preparation chapter, which guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies ·         Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study time Well regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, hands-on labs, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success. These official study guides help you master all the topics on the CCNA exams, including ·         Networking fundamentals ·         Implementing Ethernet LANs ·         Implementing VLANs and STP ·         IPv4 addressing and subnetting ·         IPv4 routing ·         Implementing OSPF ·         IPv6 addressing, subnetting, and routing ·         Wireless LANs ·         IP access control lists ·         Security services ·         IP services ·         Network architecture ·         Network automation   Includes Exclusive Offers For Up to 70% Off Video Training, Practice Tests, and more Pearson Test Prep online system requirements: Browsers: Chrome version 73 and above, Safari version 12 and above, Microsoft Edge 44 and above. Devices: Desktop and laptop computers, tablets running on Android v8.0 and iOS v13, smartphones with a minimum screen size of 4.7”. Internet access required.   Pearson Test Prep offline system requirements:  Windows 10, Windows 8.1; Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Client; Pentium-class 1 GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB disk space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam; access to the Internet to register and download exam databases   Includes 34 free CCNA Network Simulator labs on the companion web site: Volume 1 1. Configuring Local Usernames 2. Configuring Hostnames 3. Interface Status I 4. Interface Status II 5. Interface Status III 6. Interface Status IV 7. Configuring Switch IP Settings 8. Switch IP Address 9. Switch IP Connectivity I 10.     Switch CLI Configuration Process I 11.     Switch CLI Configuration Process II 12.     Switch CLI Exec Mode 13.     Setting Switch Passwords 14.     Interface Settings I 15.     Interface Settings II 16.     Interface Settings III 17.     Switch Forwarding I 18.     Switch Security I 19.     Switch Interfaces and Forwarding Configuration Scenario 20.     Configuring VLANs Configuration Scenario 21.     VLAN Troubleshooting   Volume 2 1. ACL I 2. ACL II 3. ACL III 4. ACL IV 5. ACL V 6. ACL VI 7. ACL Analysis I 8. Named ACL I 9. Named ACL II 10.     Named ACL III 11.     Standard ACL Configuration Scenario 12.     Extended ACL I Configuration Scenario 13.     Extended ACL II Configuration Scenario   CCNA Network Simulator Lite System Requirements: Windows system requirements (minimum): Windows 10 (32/64-bit), Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit), or Windows 7 (32/64 bit); 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor; 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit); 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit); DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver; Adobe Acrobat Reader version 8 and above   Mac system requirements (minimum) macOS 10.14, 10.13, 10.12, or 10.11; Intel core Duo 1.83 GHz; 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended); 1.5 GB hard disk space; 32-bit color depth at 1024×768 resolution; Adobe Acrobat Reader version 8 and above   CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library Companion Website Access interactive study tools on this book’s companion website, including practice test software, more than 2 hours of video training, CCNA Network Simulator Lite software, memory table and config checklist review exercises, Key Term flash card application, a study planner, and more!   To access the companion website, simply follow these steps: 1. Go to www.ciscopress.com/register. 2. Enter the print book ISBN: (Volume 1: 9780135792735, Volume 2: 9781587147135). 3. Answer the security question to validate your purchase. 4. Go to your account page. 5. Click on the Registered Products tab. 6. Under the book listing, click on the Access Bonus Content link.   If you have any issues accessing the companion website, you can contact our support team by going to http://pearsonitp.echelp.org. Customers Review: I wasn’t planning on writing a review on this since it’s just books and some extras. Everything came as expected. And I love all the extras that came with it. But therein lies the the reason for this review..Many have stated on the reviews that they didn’t get any software, or any of the extras advertised. There have even been a few that have picked up on the fact the extras are not physically in the box. There was, in fact, a card in an envelope in the back of the books that had to code to active the product on the PearsonTestPrep site, with some discount codes for some upgrades if you wanted them. They were not a requirement to purchase.What I think a lot of people miss, or assume should have been a physical dvd in an age where media like that is becoming obsolete, is that there were also instructions on that same sheet of paper to goto the ciscopress website to activate the products using the ISBN code located on the back cover of each of the books, which then unlocks all of the extras on their website.So you didn’t get robbed or bamboozled out of the free extra stuff, you just failed to read all of the instructions carefully. Which in itself should concern you if you’re trying to study for this test. For those of you that picked up on the instructions, congratz and enjoy 🙂 I am happy and excited both volume 1 and 2 came in this package. i made a good choice! thank you… I’m deducting a star because you need to register your books at ciscopress dot com to gain access to all of the additional content. The description makes it sound like you will get a DVD included with the books – you do not. The cardboard DVD holders in each book contain a piece of paper with this info, various discount offers and a discount code.To get PDF copies, you’ll need to purchase the Premium versions from the Cisco Press site at a greatly reduced price. But be careful applying the discount codes, as you can only apply one code per purchase. So buy the Premium version of Volume 1, apply the discount code, and complete the purchase. Then go back in and buy the Premium version of Volume 2, apply its discount code and complete the purchase. The Premium version also includes ePub and Mobi formats if that’s your thing.I don’t intend to buy another set of these but if I were looking at buying other official Cisco books I think I’d check the Cisco Press site first and compare editions and prices. The book arrived perfecly, i had no issues activating the codes at CiscoPress. Just as a hint for future buyers, this new book does not come with DVD material, but rather activation code for all the online material at ciscopress.com. The Cisco box the library came in was already opened and the cardboard cover torn off. Same as another reviewer mentioned, the companion software was missing. Seems someone is opening these boxes and taking the software out. I’ve been wanting to earn my CCNA for a while now and took the initiative to start the long journey to get Cisco certified. Even though the packaging states “New Item” it looks like someone opened the binding and removed the “Network Simulator Lite Software” from the package which really sucks but I mainly use Packet Tracer that Cisco offers for free and mainly use that for my simulations so it isn’t a huge loss really, but seeing a lot of other reviewers saying the same thing is real troublesome so I did remove a star for that. Apart from that mishap the books do appear to be new with the CD material in the back. I’m definitely gonna update this review to see how the material holds up and In hopes review back on how the studying goes. —1/26/20— My Volume 1 and Volume 2 set arrive with the seals still in tact. There was no CD. I don’t think there is supposed to be a CD. The lab software is on the companion website. Once you register your book, you have access to the companion website and can download the network simulator lite.Now that i’m getting started in my studies, I’d like to point out some things: take the time to read the study plan section and get everything set up, which takes a while. Do the packet tracer course and get to know packet tracer, especially before you go drop a couple hundred on VIRL. Good luck! I just purchased the book set. I’m also looking for a PDF format so while I’m on the go I can study via my ipad. There is no disc. The sleeve has small leaflet with links to videos, labs, test practice questions but no mention of a link to a PDF download of the two volume books. 🙁

[PDF] Download Topological Data Analysis for Genomics and Evolution: Topology in Biology by Raul Rabadan,Andrew J. Blumberg | Free EBOOK PDF English

Book Details Title: Topological Data Analysis for Genomics and Evolution: Topology in Biology Author: Raul Rabadan,Andrew J. Blumberg Number of pages: Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 16, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1107159547 Rating: 5     4 reviews

Book Description Review ‘The time is right to bring new approaches to the analysis of biological data. Topological data analysis reveals the structure of data. This book shows how algebraic topology opens new doors, presenting ideas and directions that make testable predictions and explore life processes.’ Arnold J. Levine, Institute for Advanced Study, New Jersey’This fascinating book describes how advances in mathematics, especially in fields such as topology, are transforming our understanding of biology. Rabadan, one of the founders of the field, shows us how the evolution of cancer, and of viruses and bacteria, can be deeply understood through these novel mathematical techniques. Rabadan’s capacity to create a synthesis of many threads, and lay out future challenges, makes this an intriguing and compelling read.’ Siddhartha Mukherjee, Columbia University Medical Center, New York and author of The Gene: An Intimate History and The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer’This is a very important work that shows the way to applications of topological data analysis in genomics. It should be studied carefully by anyone working on the biomedical applications of topological data analysis.’ Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University, California’This is an important book. Modern experimental biology produces large amounts of data and of many disparate types, requiring new methods of analysis. In explaining biology to mathematicians and data scientists, and subtle new statistical analyses based on the flexible form of geometry called topology to biologists, carefully and clearly, without sacrificing accuracy, the authors have written a unique book that is cutting edge, truly interdisciplinary, and a resource for both communities. I found it fascinating, and will insist that my students read it.’ Shmuel Weinberger, Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago Read more Book Description Algebraic topology is particularly suited for the analysis of high dimensional large data sets, including those in modern biology. The book introduces geometric and topological methods, including statistics, as well as applications to biology – including cancer genetics, single cell studies and reconstructing evolutionary relationships from genomic data. Read more Customers Review: This is a must book for anyone interested in topology and its applications to genomics, evolution, biology and beyond. The authors did a great job simplifying complex ideas making the subject accessible to wide audiences with some mathematical background. The combination of theory with applied research in this book make it particularly enjoyable. As a data scientist, I found the book eye-opening and would highly recommend it. This is the first book that introduces Topological Data Analysis and its biological applications under 1 cover. Previously I had to go to topology textbooks for the math background. Here the essential material is presented coherently. The book cries out for a sequel with detailed worked examples, in the style of Bioconductor Vignettes and F1000 how-to articles. The authors are leading researchers in the field and they know their stuff.

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Book Details Title: Jinxed Author: Amy McCulloch Number of pages: Publisher: Sourcebooks Young Readers (January 7, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1492683744 Rating: 4,7     14 reviews

Book Description Review “A solid series starter for tinkerers and adventurers alike.” – Kirkus Reviews“McCulloch’s riveting tale will speak to children interested in STEM as well as any reader interested in intelligent, rapidly paced sf mysteries.” – Booklist“[A] vividly imagined Toronto-set middle grade series opener intertwines smartphone technology with the hallmarks of classic science fiction via a fun, insightful narrative and bright voice…With a sharp eye toward the rising awareness of device addiction and a keen sense of wonder, McCulloch’s tale is a feast for the imagination that celebrates women in STEM fields.” – Publishers Weekly“An enjoyable read with just enough genuine friendship and suspense to draw readers in.” – School Library Journal“This is a swift moving story that takes the time needed to develop its characters and relationships to the point where readers will genuinely care about the outcome…Recommended.” – School Library Connection“Readers will cling to the edge of their seats.” – The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Read more About the Author Amy McCulloch was born in the UK, raised in Canada, and currently lives in London. She is also the author of The Oathbreaker’s Shadow duology and The Potion Diaries series. She loves traveling the world, researching extraordinary settings and intriguing stories for future books. Find her online at amymcculloch.net Read more Customers Review: This is the first book by Amy McCulloch that I have read and it will not be the last. The is the first book in a new series; meet Lacey Chu a talented tinkerer who lives in a company owned complex. MONCHA is the largest tech company in the world. Their main products are robot animals that are leashed to their owners – think smart phones that are personal companions. Eagles, cats, dogs, tigers, etc. Lacey is obsessed with getting into the top school as a gateway to being an engineer at MONCHA. She is rejected and getting ready for her alternative path when she encounters a broken robot. She fixes the robot cat and starts an adventure that is reminiscent of a mash up of Harry Potter and Ready Player One.. The themes in this book are similar to other popular books, but have a unique spin that makes this book an exciting read. The only reason it is 4 stars instead of 5 is Lacey’s interaction with her old friends or lack of. Her obsession with her new life affects her relationship with her best friend Zora. There is also a mystery involving Lacey’s father, one of MONCHA original engineers. I look forward to the next book in this series.Thank you Netgalley and Sourcebook Kids for this ARC. Thank you to NetGalley, Amy McCulloch, and Sourcebooks Kids for the opportunity to read Jinxed in exchange for an honest review.I haven’t read a riveting middle-grade page-turner in quite some time; this book has left me on the edge of my seat, breathless, and extremely eager for the second installment.Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2018, Jinxed makes its debut in the United States in January 2020. Sure, this book has some elements seen in many middle-grade and young adult novels, but it brings just the right blend together to make something fun, intriguing, and absolutely unique.Told in the perspective of Lacey Chu, a seventh-grader with the dream of being a companioneer at Moncha Corp, this world has cell phones, sure, but also something much greater. Monica Chan, the founder and head engineer at Moncha, had a brilliant idea. What if people had all the same capabilities as smartphones–calling, texting, net searching, etc.–in the shapes of animals? They can move around with their intricate structure and form the basis of this society’s lifestyle.Lacey wants to get into Profectus, a school that Moncha takes all of its new-hires from, a school for only the most advanced students. It’s more like a university than a middle/high school. Lacey has the highest grades of anyone, but for some reason she didn’t get accepted into the school of her dreams. She can never become a companioneer, someone who builds bakus, for her favorite company if she doesn’t go to Profectus. Bakus are the name for the smart animal tech that accompany many of the people in society. When Lacey doesn’t get accepted to the school of her dreams, she doesn’t get the scholarship she was hoping for in order to buy a higher level baku. Instead, she’s stuck with a level one baku, which is all she can afford.On her way home from the store, her school rival picks on her and her friend, and she goes down into a ravine to save her friend’s new baku. Out in the trees, she finds the remains of another baku. When she takes it home, she sees that it is a high-level cat baku. This level three baku allows her into Profectus. After spending the whole summer repairing the cat baku (and waiting to see if someone was looking for it), Lacey finds out her baku isn’t quite normal. It has a will of its own. Jinx, as she calls it based on its serial number, can speak to Lacey telepathically, is a master hacker, and does not follow directions.Lacey must hide these strange features from everyone around her, or people might start asking questions that may lead to her expulsion from Profectus.There are also the baku battles, a secret competition between selected teams to battle their bakus against each other. Part of the challenge is being able to not only control their baku in battle, but to be able to efficiently repair the mechanics if they seek a job at Moncha. It’s these battles that might ultimately expose Lacey’s secret about Jinx.There’s a whole lot more going on in the story than that. Monica Chan hasn’t been seen in some time, causing suspicion from Lacey and others. The corporation is currently being run by a potential tyrant with sinister motivations for the direction of Moncha. A rival corporation called BRIGHTSPRK seeks to steal Moncha’s tech secrets. Lacey has been caught up in the middle of this intense corporate scandal. Let’s not forget the basic struggles of a seventh-grader building both romantic and friend relationships…An absolutely fantastic novel packed with excitement from page one. The cover for the U.S. release is a perfect fit for the target audience as well. A book I will highly recommend to all ages that explores potential ideas that we may just see in our own technological future. Lacey Chu is twelve years old living with her mom. She lives in a “mini corporate city.” The city has grow up around the Moncha Corp., developer of baku which are robotic companions that blend companionship with a smartphone utility. Lacey has applied to the Moncha Corp. school as she wants to become a companioneer. As a companioneer, she would develop, innovate and build bakus. Lacey finds a destroyed baku and decides to take it home to “fix” it. It’s a cat that she calls Jinx. Jinx is unlike any other baku in that it is independent— thinks and does things without any instruction from Lacey. This causes Lacey some problems but also helps her. Jinx gets her into this school after she has been rejected. Why does Jinx do this? How is he able to do this? Will Lacey get to meet her idol — Monica Chan, the owner and first companioneer of Moncha Corp.? Jinx is kidnapped and Lacey must get him back. Who kidnapped Jinx? Why? Will Lacey be able to find Jinx?The novel reminded me of how people today are so addicted to their cell phones. It appears that cellphones have replace one-on-one interaction. There is a sense of wonder in this first novel of a series. It made me think of women in the STEM fields. This story is more than about cellphones, it has mystery, challenges and surprises. There is a little romance thrown in.Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the author/publisher from Netgalley. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review or any review at all. The opinions expressed are strictly my own. I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley.This tense, smart middle grade book establishes a near-future Earth where only the poorest people have smart phones. Anyone who’s anyone has a baku, which is a companion robot, computer, and accessory all in one. Lacey Chu is a brilliant young engineer with her hopes set on getting into an elite school that fast-tracks graduates to the Moncha corporation, where Monica Chan invented bakus. Lacey is devastated when she isn’t accepted, and embarrassed when all she can afford is a measly level one scarab baku. But when she finds a piece of junk and hauls it home to her workshop, she’s stunned to find it’s a cat baku unlike any other. She fixes it up. Suddenly, her school rejection is undone. She’s in! But as she starts her dream school, she realizes her baku, Jinx, is truly unique. He doesn’t obey orders, as if he…. is alive.This book is so much fun. You can’t help but love Jinx. He’s such a cat. Lacey is a great heroine, a kid with dreams and genuine drive. I found the book breathless in pace. I didn’t want to put it down! My only complaint is that the book ends on a tortuous cliffhanger.

[PDF] Download Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group by William Rosenau | Free EBOOK PDF English

Book Details Title: Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group Author: William Rosenau Number of pages: Publisher: Atria Books (January 7, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1501170120 Rating: 3,7     6 reviews

Book Description Review “I was blown away. Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol is simply one of the most entertaining and intriguing books I’ve read in quite some time.” — Sean McFate, author of The New Rules of War“Bill Rosenau has unearthed the extraordinary tale of a group of ordinary American women who became terrorists and went to war against the United States government. It’s a deeply researched and well-written account of a group of true believers who waged a terrifying terrorist campaign in America.” — Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad“Terrorism has a long history in the United States. And no one has done a better job than William Rosenau in recounting one of its more fascinating episodes—the bombing campaign waged by a terrorist group of white American women known as M19. Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol is a gripping account of this hitherto forgotten terrorist campaign that culminated in the 1983 attack on our most revered edifices. Rosenau has produced the authoritative account of the group, its members, operations, and consequences.” — Bruce Hoffman, author of Inside Terrorism and professor, Georgetown University“This book is a journey both delightful and horrifying through a story that was never even remembered by most, much less forgotten. Anyone interested in terrorism and the modern security state, or just a good yarn, will love this book.” — Ryan Evans, CEO and editor in chief of War on the Rocks and publisher of Texas National Security Review“William Rosenau’s Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol is . . . a reminder that, while right-wing extremism may be plaguing our nation now, there was a time when the left was just as dangerous. And far more invisible.” , NY Daily News”The author relies on skilled, detailed research to outline both the goals and violent practices of the revolutionaries… An intriguing history that holds relevance to domestic terrorism in our current era.”  , Kirkus Reviews”This fascinating chronicle of a dark slice of American history deserves a wide audience. ”  , Publishers Weekly”This multifaceted work will appeal to readers with an interest in U.S. national security, U.S. domestic terrorism, radical left-wing militancy, and U.S. law enforcement.”  , Library Journal”Written by counterterrorism expert and former RAND political scientist William Rosenau, Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol tells the compelling and sobering tale of M19 with hardly a hint of the sensationalism its bombastic title promises. . . . It’s to Rosenau’s credit that his account of deeply sobering political violence proves consistently compelling without ever striving to titillate, exploit, or entertain.”, New York Journal of Books Read more About the Author William Rosenau, PhD, is a senior research scientist at CNA, a nonprofit research and analysis organization, and a fellow in the International Security program at New America. His articles have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He has appeared on CNN, BBC World News, CBS Evening News, and elsewhere. He lives in Washington, DC. Read more Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol 1 KEEPERS OF THE FLAME . . . our dreams will be the shell casings that pierce the enemy as our love, and resistance continue. —Susan Rosenberg, “Compañera” (Fall 1986)1 NEW YORK, 1979 There is no record of the founding of May 19th. The closest thing to a formal beginning was a fiery manifesto the nascent group issued in 1979: “The Principles of Unity of the May 19th Communist Organization.” Their creed was “revolutionary anti-imperialism,” and like other millenarians, they wrapped their faith in reason. “Our science is Marxism-Leninism,” they wrote.2 The United States, according to May 19th, was the ultimate “white oppressor nation,” a “parasite on the Third World,” a poisonous spider at the center of a noxious global web. May 19th believed that national liberation wasn’t just an international challenge: the United States had its own internal colonies filled with blacks, American Indians, and Puerto Ricans, who were just as ruthlessly exploited as the denizens of any sweltering tropical dictatorship. And it wasn’t just racial minorities who were subjugated. The oppression of women in general, and lesbians in particular, was another symptom of a national sickness. Imperialism, capitalism, and racism were strong, but still, May 19th saw some hopeful signs. They heard revolutionary rumblings inside the guts of the American monster and detected systemic weaknesses that were ready to be exploited. May 19th insisted that the “oppressed nations within the U.S. are preparing themselves to wage a full-scale people’s war against the enemy that has entered its final decline.”3 The women offered apocalyptic visions and end-time prophesies: a “much more brutal fascist regime,” the liberation of captive peoples, and the destruction of the United States.4 How could their tiny band of middle-class intellectuals contribute to the global struggle, and bend the arc of history to speed up the destruction of the “parasite” nation? One of their lawyers later described the women as “Revolutionaries. Dreamers. Lovers of Freedom. . . . Some are lesbians. All love women, people fighting everywhere for self-determination and dignity.”5 But ushering in the new world required more than just good intentions and beautiful dreams. Mao Zedong had made that point back in 1927 when the Chinese Communist Party had been fighting for power. The revolution, Mao said, “is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”6 According to May 19th’s analysis, the ruling class would never give up peacefully, and May 19th, one member said later, wanted to “ensure that all the shooting didn’t come from one side.”7 May 19th said that the First World mass movements of the 1960s had taken a wrong turn. Instead of doing all they could to support national liberation struggles in places such as Vietnam, South Africa, and Palestine, sixties radicals thought they were leading a global revolution. May 19th pledged to avoid that mistake. They vowed to shed their “white-skin privilege” and work as “North American anti-imperialists” under the leadership of black and brown people. “We, white women, say NO to amerika where white is a badge of acceptance of daily murder,” they declared.8 May 19th didn’t immediately reach for bombs and guns. They started off with nonviolent agitation and propaganda: demonstrations, picketing, speeches, film screenings, and politically informed graphic art. May 19th had a number of affiliated groups that promoted its agenda and served as recruitment pools.I The all-women Madame Binh Graphics Collective pumped out propaganda posters. Other affiliated groups raised funds for Robert Mugabe’s wing of the Zimbabwe African National Union, a guerrilla movement fighting to end white minority rule in Rhodesia. They raised hell about imprisoned Puerto Ricans they called “freedom fighters.” There was an “everlasting spiral of activity, urgency, and exhaustion,” former May 19th member Mary Patten recalled.9 Two women were the heart and soul of the new formation. Although a decade apart in age, they had much in common: a solidly middle-class New York upbringing, early ideological commitment, education at elite institutions—and an unwavering dedication to revolution, new values, and sexual self-actualization. Judy and Susan: sisters in arms. • • • Judith Alice Clark was born to Joseph and Ruth Clark in New York on November 23, 1949. She described her childhood as happy, but it was an unusual upbringing, at least in her early years. As a young man in Brooklyn, Joe had been a member of a Marxist-Leninist microsect that had followed the Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky into anti-Stalinism. Later, Joe concluded that Trotsky and his worshippers had been all wrong. Comrade Joseph Stalin, not Trotsky, was the true communist godhead. Joe switched sides and joined the Moscow-dominated Communist Party USA. He rose quickly through the Party’s ranks, and before long he was a full-time high-level Party functionary, and an editor of the Party’s newspaper, the Daily Worker. Unsurprisingly, FBI Red hunters kept tabs on the Clarks. They had a sense they were being watched, but it didn’t rattle them—they were on the right side of history, after all. Stalin’s Soviet Union was their alpha and omega. They were utopians, like Tillie Olsen, a true-believing American poet who wrote in 1934 that the Soviet Union was “a heaven . . . brought down to earth in Russia.”10 In 1950, Joe got to see his revolution’s control center firsthand. He moved Ruth, their son, Andrew, and baby Judy to Moscow, where he took up a position as a Daily Worker correspondent. The relocation represented a remarkable devotion to the communist cause, given the harsh conditions that prevailed in the Soviet capital and the anticommunist sentiment that saturated postwar America. After a three-year stint, the Clarks returned to New York, and Joe and Ruth continued their Party work. The family lived in Brooklyn: first in Bensonhurst and then in solidly lower-middle-class Flatbush. In the summer they would often go out to Mohegan Lake in Westchester County, where there was a colony of fellow communists. The folk singer Pete Seeger, a supporter of the Communist Party, made occasional appearances at lakeside hootenannies. Those annual excursions to the cozy summer community reinforced social bonds among Party members—being a communist meant total commitment. But by the mid-1950s, Ruth and Joe had growing doubts about the communist cause. Even as pampered guests of the USSR, they had seen the pockmarked face of Stalinism up close. As with many other Party members around the world, the bloody Soviet suppression of a nationwide uprising in Hungary in 1956, and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret” speech in 1957 denouncing Stalin’s crimes, forced the Clarks to reassess their slavish devotion to Moscow. Ruth’s Party-related activities dropped off, and in 1957, Joe finally checked out of the Party. There were repercussions: former comrades denounced him as a “deserter” and “liquidationist,”11 and it was tough for him to find work. Being a former Communist Party member, Daily Worker editor, and onetime Moscow resident was not exactly a formula for success in late-1950s America. But he managed to eke out a living at the Direct Mail Envelope Company and then at the American Cancer Society. Ruth helped support the family with odd jobs, including door-to-door interviewing for Trix cereal. Although only a pre-teenager, Judy was developing a political consciousness, and she didn’t like her parents’ growing anticommunism. Weaned on Marxism-Leninism, she was a classic “red-diaper baby,” who’d loved the Party’s warm embrace. “Until I was about eight years old,” she recalled, “I had lived in a home and in an extended ‘Party family’ that encouraged important ideals, like tolerance of diversity in the world; awareness of history, of racism, of other forms of injustice.”12 That all got yanked away. “I couldn’t bear the loss of community and ideology and purposefulness in my life.”13 According to Judy, Ruth turned rightward, trying to bring the family into the American mainstream. She was “getting more and more into wanting her family to be like from Father Knows Best.”14 But unlike the stereotypical 1950s mother, Ruth pursued a serious career. By the 1970s, she was a senior executive at Daniel Yankelovich’s polling firm and the de facto inventor of the exit poll.15 Joe remained a man of the left, a socialist, but a staunch anticommunist and opponent of Stalinism. He was a cofounder of Dissent magazine, a lone voice of democratic socialism in midcentury America. In pungent prose, Joe attacked Stalinism, communism, and Fidel Castro, the tropical Spartacus, whose unfolding revolution in Cuba displayed a “distinctive, often mad character.”16 • • • Judy, however, kept the far-left faith. “I would be the ‘keeper of the flame’ in my family,” she recalled.17 By the time she was fifteen, she was politically active in her own right: she marched on a Congress of Racial Equality picket line outside a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Queens. “I was always drawn to the most militant groups,” she said. “And if the group I was in wasn’t radical enough, I would push at the edge.”18 Judy attended the academically rigorous Midwood High School in Brooklyn,19 then the University of Chicago, where she joined Students for a Democratic Society. Agitation was part of the on-campus zeitgeist, and in January 1969, she and hundreds of other students occupied an administration building, demanding the rehiring of a sociology professor denied tenure and insisting on a permanent student voice in the faculty-hiring process. The university’s president, Edward H. Levi—whose diminutive frame, low-key manner, and modest lifestyle belied a formidable persona—weighed his options. He could have followed the lead of his Columbia University counterpart, Grayson Kirk, who had faced a similar challenge the year before. Kirk had called in the police, who’d kicked out the protestors and restored a semblance of order. But Levi was a shrewder character than Kirk: cops meant cracked skulls, bad press, and more anguish for his beloved university. Levi decided to wait it out, and sure enough, after two weeks, the militants voted to leave the building. After the demonstration, the university disciplinary committee voted to expel forty-two protestors, including Judy. Though she and her father had bitter ideological differences (thirty years later, she wrote that he had subjected her to his “fits of fury and political harangues”), Joe was a loving man who wanted to help his only daughter.20 He asked Irving Howe, Dissent’s coeditor, to reach out to the novelist Saul Bellow, who had deep Chicago ties. Bellow intervened with Levi, asking him to please give the Clark girl a second chance. “No. She’s a bad one,” the university president said.21 Judy was out. No matter. By now she was a self-described revolutionary. “I felt that my parents had kind of failed, and so, if they failed, I had to do something different,” Judy said in an interview in 2017. “I romanticized the revolutions going on around the world, and I sort of felt like I had to show I could do whatever was necessary.”22 Including violence. As the Students for a Democratic Society self-destructed, Judy became part of what would become known as the Weather Underground. She lived in a collective of a dozen or so radicals—mostly women but led by men—and she was an enthusiastic part of violent Weather street actions, including the notorious “Days of Rage” rampage on the streets of Chicago in 1969. On March 17, 1970, the feds issued a warrant for her arrest. The charge: interstate flight to avoid prosecution for “mob action.” According to the FBI wanted poster that soon was hanging in post offices around the country, Judy was five feet, three inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes and a medium build. And she had “sparkling eyes,” according to one fellow activist’s poetic tribute.23 Judy Clark: A “red-diaper baby” who kept the faithJudy was on the run until December. Bureau men eventually nabbed her in New York at an Upper East Side movie house, where she was watching Yellow Submarine. She served nine months in the Cook County Jail, and after her release, she moved back in with her parents in Brooklyn. Judy was eager to return to activism. She joined the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, or WITCH, a loosely connected feminist network founded in 1968 by the writer Robin Morgan and future Weather Underground member Naomi Jaffe. According to WITCH, men as such weren’t the enemy. The true evil was late capitalism—corporations, consumerism, and commodification—as the group explained in a 1968 manifesto: WITCH is a total concept, a new dimension of women. It means breaking the bond of woman as a biologically and sexually defined creature. It implies the destruction of passivity, consumerism and commodity fetishism. . . . Who is the enemy? WITCHes must name names, or rather we must name trademarks and brand names.24 WITCH loved to put on a good spectacle—one Halloween, thirteen women dressed as witches went to lower Manhattan to “hex” the temple of modern capital, the New York Stock Exchange. WITCH also conducted what it called “invisible actions,” such as the ex post facto “snuffing out” of Lurleen Wallace, the wife of Alabama governor George Wallace, who had succumbed to breast cancer in May 1968.25 During the mid-1970s, Judy edited Midnight Special, a publication for convicts sponsored by the far-left National Lawyers Guild. Her readers included Congressman Larry McDonald, a leader of the ultraright John Birch Society known for his fanciful conspiracy mongering, his rabid commitment to fighting communism and subversion, and for his tenuous hold on reality. But the Georgia congressman stumbled upon the truth when he said in 1982 that Midnight Special “served as an inter-prison communications service by publishing messages from militant inmates and providing inflammatory accounts of prison strikes and disturbances.”26 By the late 1970s, Judy had earned just about every radical credential. But the path of radicalism that lay ahead of her was likely beyond anything she imagined. • • • Susan Rosenberg: Barnard dropout, acupuncturist, “North American anti-imperialist”Susan Lisa Rosenberg was born in New York on October 5, 1955, the only child of Bella and Emanuel. Bella was a theatrical producer and Manny a kindly dentist who treated indigent patients at his clinic in Spanish Harlem. Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg were classic New York liberals. “We were always liberal, always into causes, taking part in Civil Rights demonstrations and anti-war marches,” Manny recalled. “Susan asked to go with me even though she was only 11 or 12 at the time. I never pressured her.”27 Susan’s parents sent her to the private but progressive Walden School, not far from their Upper West Side apartment. Students were on a first-name basis with their teachers, no grades were handed out, and the school stressed personal expression over competition.28 Susan was politically precocious and moving steadily to the left: in an eleventh-grade essay, she expressed a proto-Marxist notion when she wrote that “capitalist production does not begin or end with people’s needs. It begins and ends with money.”29 By age fourteen, she was a member of the High School Student Union, the youth branch of Students for a Democratic Society.30 She was teargassed at an antiwar demonstration, and she started hanging out with the Black Panthers and their Puerto Rican analogue, the Young Lords.31 Susan was part of a political demographic, summarized by one neoconservative scold as “liberal parents, radical children.”32 Susan was an excellent student. Before her senior year, she was admitted to Barnard, entering in 1972. Her academic career flourished: in the back of a blue book, her English professor scribbled “very funny and perceptive exam.” She got involved in the burgeoning women’s liberation movement. A legendary professor of American history, James Shenton, ignited her interest in abolitionism and in the life of John Brown, the fiery white insurrectionist who believed that the evil of slavery could be ended only through armed rebellion. She also found inspiration in the revolutionary women of Vietnam. “I saw the women of Vietnam rise up as part of their nation to say, ‘We’re going to have our own destiny,’?” she said in 1989. “I had never seen anything like that. And I wanted to be like that.”33 Susan switched though from the well-heeled Barnard to the grittier City College of New York. Slender and with “magnetic green eyes” (as an interviewer later noted), Susan now coiffed her hair in an eye-popping foot-high Afro.34 In the mid-1970s, she doubled down on the revolution. She went to Cuba in 1976 as part of the Venceremos Brigade, an organization founded in 1969 by New Left fidelistas in solidarity with the Castro revolution.35 Like other youthful leftists, Susan idealized Cuba and the bearded ex-guerrillas who were building socialism on the island. Venceremos participants cut sugarcane, smoked as many Havana cigars as they liked, and fraternized with Partido Comunista de Cuba dignitaries. If the North American pilgrims got lucky, Castro himself—the all-powerful Líder Máximo—might mingle and yuck it up with the visiting gringos.36 Venceremos veterans typically returned from their island excursion even more dewy-eyed about Cuba’s Marxist-Leninist experiment. • • • After she returned from Cuba, Susan found work as a drug counselor at the city-run Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. From its beginning in the early 1970s, conflict swirled around the hospital’s drug treatment program, known as the Lincoln Detox Center. The program included an “acupuncture collective” run by Mutulu “Doc” Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams), who was close to the Black Panthers and the Young Lords.37 Shakur was also involved in the Republic of New Africa, or RNA, a pan-African revolutionary movement trying to carve out an independent black homeland from five states that made up the old “Black Belt” in the Deep South. The RNA saw itself as a state in being, complete with elected officials and its own “consulates” in cities such as New York, Washington, Chicago, and Los Angeles.38 Their slogan: “Free the Land.” In 1970, RNA minister of defense Henry Hatches declared, “WE HAVE ENTERED THE ERA OF SELF-DEFENSE.”39 Mississippi attorney general A. F. Summer was apoplectic about the RNA. There was the whole “homeland” business, but much more troubling was the RNA’s audacity to carry weapons in public—for people like Summer, the Second Amendment applied to whites only. There was an armed insurrection under way, Summer insisted. He appealed to the Nixon White House for help. Some functionary called over to the FBI. The Bureau’s boss, J. Edgar Hoover, hated black separatists and all other disrupters of the racial status quo, including nonviolent organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Bureau called the RNA and the Panthers “black nationalist, hate-type organizations” and deemed them worthy of heavy surveillance, electronic eavesdropping, and aggressive counterintelligence measures designed to disrupt their operations. The Bureau knew about Doc. Back in 1969 he’d spoken at length—and apparently wittingly—with an FBI special agent, telling the agent all about the RNA’s convention in Detroit the previous year, when a local cop had been shot in a scuffle outside a church meeting hall.40 Shakur said he’d told the Motor City cops that he had nothing to do with it, but they hauled him off to jail anyway. However, the police couldn’t make anything stick, so he was released and soon he was back in Jamaica, Queens. Shakur had a doctorate from an organization called the “Institut d’Acupuncture du Québec” in Montreal. His instructor, a Romanian refugee named Oscar Wexu, taught an acupuncture style the Chinese had used to fight the mass opium addiction that had come with British imperialism. In the Bronx, Doc touted the technique as a powerful nonchemical alternative to methadone, an opioid used to wean addicts off heroin, which was ravaging the South Bronx and other parts of the city. Methadone, Shakur and others claimed, was the poisonous fruit of an ongoing conspiracy to chemically enslave poor black and brown people. According to White Lightning, an organization of ex-addicts, “armies of slum-lords, script doctors, organized crime, greedy drug companies, methadone pushers, corrupt cops, and producers of rot-gut wine are plundering our communities.”41 Susan learned acupuncture under Doc’s tutelage and eventually earned a degree from the institute in Montreal. She was one of Doc’s favorites, a youthful protégée who shared his medical interests as well as his political ideology. Doc’s agenda included more than getting ghetto residents off heroin; he also wanted to turn them into forces for the revolution. Toward that end, Shakur and his comrades handed out tracts such as “The Opium Trail: Heroin and Imperialism” and lectured drug-addled patients about the systemic political and social evils that underlay their addiction. National liberation in Africa was also a hot topic: Lincoln organized concerts and fund-raisers for the Zimbabwe African National Union, or ZANU.42 Robert Mugabe, a leader of one of the movement’s factions, would come to power in 1980. Lincoln Detox started attracting attention, much of it unwanted. Lyndon LaRouche, the leader of an increasingly violent right-wing political cult, learned about the detox program from one of his followers who worked on the hospital’s staff. Like the left-wing acupuncturists at the South Bronx hospital, LaRouche believed there was a conspiracy afoot—but in his view, Lincoln Detox was a product, not a victim, of the master plan. He believed that the treatment program was part of an elaborate demonology that included the Central Intelligence Agency, Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s political henchmen, the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and even the British royal family. One of LaRouche’s many obsessions was brainwashing, a technique he believed his enemies were using to create Manchurian Candidate–style automata programmed for political assassinations. LaRouche personally handled the “deprogramming” of one hapless disciple suspected of being part of an assassination plot against him. A tape recording of the session captured sounds of sobbing, retching, and a sinister voice that issued a chilling command: “raise the voltage.”43 According to LaRouche, Lincoln Detox had created legions of “ghetto zombies” poised to be exploited by his many perceived enemies on the left. Like Shakur and his comrades, LaRouche hated methadone, but for starkly different reasons. According to one LaRouche publication, white communities were under threat from gang members, “welfare loafer[s], and methadone-crazed dope fiend[s].”44 On May 15, 1974, members of a LaRouche group, the U.S. Labor Party, or USLP, held a press conference at the hospital to “expose” the sinister doings inside its walls. Predictably, a fight broke out. The USLP claimed that Lincoln Detox staff members “led a crowd of 50 zombies to attack the Labor Party organizers, shooting, stabbing and clubbing them.”45 Lincoln Detox personnel said they had merely been defending themselves against LaRouche’s goon squad. LaRouche and his underlings didn’t succeed in shutting down the program. That came four years later, after Brooklyn democratic assemblyman (now U.S. senator) Charles E. Schumer, among others, accused Lincoln Detox of widespread waste and fraud, including no-show jobs, dubious expenditures, and “leakage” of methadone from the hospital’s inventory. (Back in 1975, Lincoln Detox staffers had trashed the lower Manhattan offices of the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation after the agency threatened to cut the program’s funding. Three years later, hospital administrators and city officials feared sabotage and more violence if they took any steps to rein in the program.) But Shakur and his friends had gone too far. By now, mainstream opinion considered Lincoln Detox a taxpayer-funded playpen for left-wing lunatics. Mayor Ed Koch had had enough. He said that Shakur and his comrades had run Lincoln Detox like a Red reeducation center, with “Che Guevara as their patron saint, with his pictures all over the wall. It wasn’t a hospital; it was a radical cell.”46 In November 1978, the mayor ordered city funding cut off and sent in the cops to shut the place down. After Lincoln Detox shuttered, Susan moved with Shakur to his new enterprise, the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America, or BAAANA, whose offices were on the second floor of Shakur’s four-story brownstone at 245 West 139th Street in Harlem. Barbara Zeller, a medical doctor and activist, served as BAAANA’s medical adviser. Her husband, Alan Berkman, also a physician, was another friend of Susan’s from her stint at Lincoln Detox, and he dropped in from time to time. There were parties at the place, where Susan met black nationalists, assorted activists, and former Weatherpeople, including Judy. Lincoln Detox was a bust, but for Susan and the others, the struggle would continue, and their vehicle would be the May 19th Communist Organization. I. The FBI, among others, sometimes referred to these as “front groups,” that is, nominally independent organizations with little or no apparent link to May 19th. Read more Customers Review: I saw the author of this book on C-SPAN, and I thought he was a very ineffective public speaker but I ordered his book anyway because the subject matter interested me. I had been a federal prosecutor in Maryland in the 80’s when the bombers’ apartment was searched.Going into this book with a lot of knowledge about other radicals afoot from 1960 to mid 1980’s, I did not need the recaps of radical history that did not directly involve the subjects of this book. I found the writing and content very uneven. The narrative jumps around in time, with no coherent reason why. Some people featured are given detailed biographies, and others none at all. Because the author was unable to talk with any of the surviving subjects of his book, he admitted he didn’t have anything to offer from their mouths. Perhaps he should have abandoned this project when he realized that none of them would cooperate with him.I found his use of first names maddening, as it made it difficult to follow the tale. And, he seemed to use females’ first names more than he did when referring to males. The tone of the book suggested a familiarity with the women that the author did not have, and the disparity in naming people depending upon gender felt patronizing and sexist to me.I found glaring editing errors in dates and place names. Hard to believe a major publisher let this thing to out this way.Overall, I wish I had saved my money and I would recommend that others not spend time or money on this book. I cannot fathom what book the positive reviewers read, because it could not have been the one I did. Major disappointment. Who knew there was a female terror group operating in Washington DC in the 1980s? It’s makes one wonder if such a thing could happen today, even with all the extra security. The answer is probably yes (there seems to be no lack of crazy in the world). M19 is the inevitable conclusion of the Weathermen group, and Rosenau does a masterful job of telling the story. It’s both fast paced and accurate. As a trained historian and terrorism expert, he doesn’t take liberties with he material. What you get is true crime history, and he has a knack for the story telling too. What’s more amazing is that this story is only being told now. Recommended. “Tonight we bombed the U.S. Capitol” reads like a novel. This tale of home-grown lesbian terrorists asks fundamental questions about American life and society. It features larger-than-life characters betting everything to become hard-core revolutionaries…but in places like Ohio, Texas, New Jersey and New York. The characters’ path to violent action is a cautionary story which is relevant today, and a great read. The swords of Mid-Twentieth Century liberal activism were foraged in the fires of the civil rights movement and anti-war protests of the 1960s. By the 1980s, most such activists settled down into conventional, middle class lives. But there was a small percentage of protesters who became increasingly radical, eventually evolving into Marxist terrorists. These oddballs naively thought that their bombings, robberies, kidnappings and killings would, somehow, trigger a proletarian uprising that would overturn Ronald Reagan’s capitalist America. The story of one of the most unusual of these fringe groups is told in Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol. The May 19th Communist Organization was founded and dominated by women. All were middle class, college educated children of liberal parents. Fueled by a sincere desire to improve the lot of minorities and to end the war in Vietnam, along with a healthy does of liberal guilt, the May 19th women began associating with violent groups like the Weather Underground and the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. As those organizations were broken up by the FBI, May 19th (named in honor of Che Guevara’s birthday) went solo. Never a large group, May 19th pulled off seven bombings in the early 1980s, including a late-night attack on the U.S. Senate that did over a million dollars in damage. Their most violent action was the 1981 killing of two police officers and a Brinks truck guard during a robbery in coordination with the Black Liberation Army. Developing new techniques in counterroism, the FBI and AFT eventually tracked down and arrested all the May 19th terrorists except for two who remain at large. The group was defunct by 1985. The fall of the Soviet Union and the adoption of capitalism by the Chinese Communist Party cut the ground out from under Marxist terrorism. Today, as we all know, it is the far right and Islamic fundamentalism that have emerged as the greatest terroristic threats. Author William Rosenau, was an antiterroism expert at the RAND Cooperation. Unfortunately, Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol reads like a think tank position paper rather than an exciting work of popular history. Roseenau, keeps interrupting the narrative with detailed biographies of all the players. He often makes lengthy asides into the background of other, mostly European, terrorist outfits which have no connection to May 19th. Group. None of the surviving members would agree to be interviewed, so we are denied insight into how their views might have changed over the decades. Rosenau suggests that they all remain unrepentant for their actions, though some have abandoned their youthful Communist affiliation. Rosenau compiled a huge amount of information on this minor band of kooks, and he buries the story in masses of insignificant detail. We don’t really need to know what food the women scarfed down as they plotted their next bombing. But caveats aside, Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol provides a perceptive look at a forgotten outlier element within conservative 1980s America. Brilliant and stunning. An incisive look at a unique domestic terrorist cell in the US by a leading expert on political violence. Rosenau tells a compelling story with the combination of an analyst’s dispassionate eyes and a story teller’s superb narrative. Chung Min Lee, author of The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un.

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Book Details Title: Success from the Inside Out: Power to Rise from the Past to a Fulfilling Future Author: Nona Jones Number of pages: Publisher: Zondervan (January 21, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 0310357608 Rating: 4,9     23 reviews

Book Description About the Author Nona Jones is an international speaker, preacher, author, and the head of global faith-based partnerships at Facebook. Previously, Nona held executive leadership roles across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. A graduate of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, Nona was named one of Essence magazine’s Under 40 Women to Watch. Nona and her husband lead a church together in Gainesville, Florida. You can follow Nona at www.nonajones.com. Read more Customers Review: Nona shared so much of herself in such an authentic way that it’s easy to relate to the content! So much of Nona story is different from mine but she presents it in a way that I could clearly see the places where our stories crossed paths. Success from the Inside Out helped me to see the flaws in the way that I think about work. I’ve had a rough year with my current job and have been trying to figure out what needs to come next and was often pointing my fingers to those with the leadership titles as the problem. But it’s time for me to lead me!”Good success is born from leading ourselves first, and the way we lead ourselves inspires others.”Success starts from withIN! If you’re in a position where you: 1. are ready to reevaluate what success is and reroute your path to success and 2. are ready to have a look in the mirror and address what you see…. THIS IS FOR YOU! Nona is so honest and transparent in this book about her past dealing with physical, sexual, and emotional abuse from a young age. She tells about her journey toward success and overcoming her past in a way that invites the reader in, and I honestly couldn’t stop once I started reading. Even though I haven’t experienced what Nona went through, I still feel as though I can relate to her and her story, and her advice and empowerment is for everyone. No matter what pain or trauma you may have faced, Nona shows how success can be achieved, and it starts on the inside. Highly recommend this book! Wow! Transparent, authentic, and inspiring. It is amazing to see how God uses the challenges in our lives to shape us into who he wants us to be. Kudos to the author for using real life events to inspire and uplift others. A must read! Nona has produced a powerful ministry tool with this book! Her transparency about her transformation is sure to connect with many who have experienced or are experiencing similar difficulties and setbacks. This book reminds us all of the power of God’s love to heal, forgive and restore. What I love about this book is – it’s not just about what happened, it’s about what’s possible. I believe every reader will be empowered to choose a different future than the one, perhaps, she or he envisioned from their place of brokenness. Nona’s transparency and personable style of writing feels like a conversation with a best friend who has been frantically waiting to spill the tea… “THIS is how you find your worth and true success, friend!” This easy to read, hard to put down, book by Nona Jones was the best read in a very long time for me. Although the trauma experienced by Nona was different than my life experiences and past hurts, the applicable truths and principles she writes about through her teachings and the ultimate resolve in moving forward are fully in line with the Word of God. Sometimes we ‘know’ what to do but we don’t know ‘how to do it’. I found that this book was the perfect tool that bridged the gap between knowing and doing and as a result I have found victory in successfully overcoming my past and look forward to a brighter future because of it. To sum it up in one word, LIFECHANGING! Order yours today and be blessed! ~ Suzan G. If you are seeking a book that will challenge you to look inside yourself. Develop yourself and become a better self. This book is for you. Nona Jones takes transparency to another level by disclosing her journey, rising from her past to fulfilling her future. This book will make you cry, laugh and cheer. This book is a great read, I highly recommend it! This guidebook is written from the heart. Totally authentic. The messages of how to overcome personal traumas are relatable to us all. Recognizing how God helps with this process in transformational.