After two divorces (and the financial ramifications they entail) Calvin Bennett just wants to be free. As a wealth management executive, he is well equipped to steer himself back to financial stability but quickly comes to realize that he is not the only one struggling. Many of the people in the Lakes, his townhouse complex, are in similar situations. As Calvin helps his neighbours, he learns more about what financial freedom actually means and comes to see what is truly important. Calvin has advice for everyone, from young adults to retirees. Together, they plan for retirement, learn how to invest safely, stay out of debt, and even save for a house. Join Calvin and the other Lakes residents over drinks and barbeques to navigate a myriad of financial problems and learn what financial freedom means to them (and to you)!
Set by a beautiful lake in a housing development, Life at the Lake tells the gentle and easy-to-read story of the many different animals who live in or around the lake. As the story unfolds, each character has an adventure, often risking his or her own life to save a friend's life. The animals' personalities and skills help them get through the tasks before them, but they all pull together in the final chapter when they are faced with a tremendous storm. Sometimes coming in contact with the humans, whom they refer to as Two Feet, the animals are often wary of them. However, they tolerate them, often outfoxing them and using them to catch a meal! Life at the Lake will make you happy, sad, excited, and maybe even make you laugh, but most of all, you will be cheering for the animals.
God wants us to have the life of our dreams. We just need to listen to the messages within. In Dear Bonnie, My Life at Lake of the Ozarks, author Chris Goin shows how God speaks to us through our bodies. She shares information that has the ability to reveal the truth of Gods extraordinary world, bring healing to those in pain, and bring families and couples closer together. Using her personal journey to self-healing and rebirth as a guide, Goin describes several healing modalities, such as muscle testing to reveal the hidden aspects of ourselves, EFT to reprogram the subconscious, and Reiki for connecting with the divine. She discusses how our bodies are designed to heal fully and completely and give us clues to our strengths and weaknesses. By learning to listen to what the body says, we can learn to embrace our weaknesses so they dont hold us back. Complete with simple exercises and experiments, Dear Bonnie, My Life at the Lake of the Ozarks shows different ways you can help yourself heal and live a more magnificent life. These techniques may hasten healing, amplify joy, and bring mental, physical, and emotional balance.
Are we alone in the universe? How did life arise on our planet? How do we search for life beyond Earth? These profound questions excite and intrigue broad cross sections of science and society. Answering these questions is the province of the emerging, strongly interdisciplinary field of astrobiology. Life is inextricably tied to the formation, chemistry, and evolution of its host world, and multidisciplinary studies of solar system worlds can provide key insights into processes that govern planetary habitability, informing the search for life in our solar system and beyond. Planetary Astrobiology brings together current knowledge across astronomy, biology, geology, physics, chemistry, and related fields, and considers the synergies between studies of solar systems and exoplanets to identify the path needed to advance the exploration of these profound questions. Planetary Astrobiology represents the combined efforts of more than seventy-five international experts consolidated into twenty chapters and provides an accessible, interdisciplinary gateway for new students and seasoned researchers who wish to learn more about this expanding field. Readers are brought to the frontiers of knowledge in astrobiology via results from the exploration of our own solar system and exoplanetary systems. The overarching goal of Planetary Astrobiology is to enhance and broaden the development of an interdisciplinary approach across the astrobiology, planetary science, and exoplanet communities, enabling a new era of comparative planetology that encompasses conditions and processes for the emergence, evolution, and detection of life.
A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical and visually expressive qualities of films produced in New England between 1915 and 1960 and held in the collections of Northeast Historic Film, a moving image repository and study center that was established to collect, preserve, and interpret the audiovisual record of northern New England. Contributors from diverse backgrounds examine the visual aesthetics of these films while placing them in their social, political, and historical contexts. Each discussion is enhanced by technical notes and the analyses are also juxtaposed with personal reflections by artists who have close connections to particular amateur filmmakers. These reflections reanimate the original private contexts of the home movies before they were recast as objects of study and artifacts of public history.
