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Who does not crave having a loving, emotional relationship with their autism spectrum disorder (ASD) child? What is the most important problem that every parent deals with, while parenting their child? It's communication! Nothing is more satisfying than communicating, even more importantly when parenting a child with special needs. A Complete Guide to Autism: How to Connect with Your Autistic Child will show you the way.

Part self-help guide and part social commentary, this witty expose takes a hard look at America’s obsession with consumerism, how it’s ruining our lives, and how we can eradicate this toxic behavior in ourselves. Employing the term “affluenza” to define our current state of obsession with materialism and the pursuit of wealth, de Graaf and Wann demonstrate how this form of cultural extremism is detrimental not only to our wallets, but to our hearts, relationships, and minds.

In today’s modern world, every political regime, even the most authoritarian or repressive, describes itself as democracy or a democratic people’s republic. The concept of rule by the people and on behalf of the people has come to be accepted as the norm. Very few would overtly espouse the cause of dictatorship, absolute monarchy, or oligarchy as the most desirable political system upon which to base the government of any country.

This audiobook will help you learn to hack in an easy and step-by-step method. Previously, only computer networks were getting hacked, but in today’s modern world, technology has grown immensely, and now, many other fields are vulnerable to hacking. From laptops to smartphones to printers, our devices are getting more prone to hacking, as hackers target common users to get access to their confidential information or bank details.

Even if you are a beginner in the real estate business, this book guides you, step by step, to avoid losses due to lack of experience, and answers all the questions that those who enter the investment of real estate can have, giving the most profitable solutions. If you are already an expert in this field, this book can give you interesting insights, refine your techniques, and explain the latest investment strategies for real estate, to be ahead of the competitors and maximize profit.

Born on a rural farm in Idaho to strict Mormon parents, Tara Westover spent her childhood and teen years working in her father’s junkyard and helping her mother create herbal medicine while attending a small, devout church. Tara’s parents were skeptical of public education, medical institutions, and the government’s role in the lives of its citizens. This skepticism led to their self-sufficient lifestyle, homeschooling their children and even tending to serious burns and injuries with herbal remedies. Going against her father’s wishes, Tara attended Brigham Young University.

The city of Heliopolis was one of ancient Egypt’s most important religious centers, the focus of the civilization’s solar cult, and a destination for pilgrims for nearly 3,000 years. Heliopolis’ origins were quite humble though, and it does not appear that it was ever planned to be a great city. The city began as a small settlement in the late 4th millennium BC, but within a couple of hundred years it became the center of Egypt’s solar religion, due to several fortuitous circumstances.

You've read about "The Signs of Our Times" heralding the Rapture of Christ's Church. Now, hear about what comes after the world-changing event. For those reading this pre-Rapture, you will finally understand the Book of Revelation. For those left behind, this book will prepare you for what is to come. Everything is about to change.

Tres is about to be born...with the biggest burden any has ever had to bear. He is beginning again - as an ageless adult trapped in an infant body. He and his teenage mother face life filled with extraordinary challenges as they strive to protect, nurture, and hide how truly different he is. But Tres alone must solve the greatest mystery of all: Who is he? The answer is linked to the one question he's too afraid to ask: Why am I?

On the surface, the Galápagos could have been plucked out of the imagination of a vastly creative author of adventure fiction or perhaps, a starry-eyed spinner of fairy tales. But of course, the astounding archipelago is indeed real, a picturesque product of Mother Nature's endless mastery, and the archipelago has become almost synonymous with British naturalist Charles Darwin, who produced several groundbreaking theories about natural selection and evolution based on his time there.

QuickRead.com presents a summary of Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan: The perfect book for learning why saying phrases like I don’t know and tell me more is important for turning the wheels of life and coping with the stresses of everyday life.

Since the debut of HBO’s Chernobyl, fans of the show have been wondering what the television series got right, and what it got wrong. With Serhii Plokhy’s book, you can now know what the television series got right. With extreme detail in how nuclear reactors work and the events leading up to the explosion, Plokhy has researched the topic in great detail to give listeners an inside look of what happened in the days leading up to the disaster, followed by the events immediately after, including the denial of Soviet officials who refused to accept the gravity of the situation.

At one point in antiquity, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen, but aside from its role in the Greco-Persian Wars and its collapse at the hands of Alexander the Great, it has been mostly overlooked. When it has been studied, the historical sources have mostly been Greek, the very people the Persians sought to conquer. Needless to say, their versions were biased.

While he was one of the most influential men in the ancient world, research on Cyrus the Great is simultaneously fascinating and frustrating. Of course, this reality has deepened the mystique that surrounds Cyrus even to this day, and it has elevated his status from conqueror and king to enlightened humanist monarch and ideal ruler. Whatever the underlying issues, the incredible achievements of Cyrus distinguish him as one of the greatest kings in history, and his life, conquests, reforms, and rule continue to be of great interest over 2,500 years later.

Although the city had been destroyed, the legacy of the Persians survived, even as they mostly remain an enigma to the West and are not nearly as well understood as the Greeks, Romans, or Egyptians. When considering this empire’s rulers, the two most often referenced are Xerxes, the leader of the Persian invasion of Greece which caused the heroic sacrifice of the Spartans and their allies at Thermopylae, or Cyrus the Great, the man who created the Persian Empire.

Lying in the middle of a plain in modern day Iran is a forgotten ancient city: Persepolis. Built 2,500 years ago, it was known in its day as the richest city under the sun. Persepolis was the capital of Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest empire the world had ever seen, but after its destruction, it was largely forgotten for nearly 2,000 years, and the lives and achievements of those who built it were almost entirely erased from history.

Since its creation, Facebook has generated a following of millions of users around the globe. This largest social media platform has dominated pop culture and has its own contextual marketing prototype buster. With billions of pictures and videos, posts, status updates, check-ins and web link shares, it is not a surprise that most businesses are now on Facebook trying to find different and unique ways to reach out and connect with this vibrant community. Whether it is a local or enterprise level brand, “Like us and follow-up on Facebook” has become the common mantra.

The word “mafia,” Sicilian in origin, is synonymous with Italy, but Italy is home to several different mafias, with three being particularly notorious. While the Cosa Nostra of western Sicily is the most infamous, other powerful groups include the ferocious ‘Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Camorra, the third-largest mafia, which is active in Naples and the Campania region.

Machines are able to interpret and understand human beings and also interpret the data that is fed to them because of artificial intelligence (AI). So, what is artificial intelligence? If you have been trying to learn the basics of artificial intelligence, you will know that it is a human being’s attempt to make a machine smart enough to handle processes that a human being would normally do.

The Robert Louis Stevenson Collection is a must-have addition for anyone’s library of classic literature. Robert Louis Stevenson has been a pillar of classical literature since the late 1800s and has brought us tales that have exhilarated and scintillated readers for more than a century since their publishing. This collection brings you three classic tales that are suitable for a range of tastes and ages.