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What if an ancient Sanskrit text holds the answers to today's deepest problems? What if the past-the ancient past-can help us unlock both our present and our future? That's the dilemma facing Justin Davis, a brilliant but greatly troubled West Virginia teen, struggling with his father's brutal murder and his once-wealthy family's loss of money, status, dignity, and hope. Broken, angry, and bitter, Justin has all but given up on life. But then, on his fifteenth birthday, his mother presents him with a mysterious gift: a copy of The First Avat?ra, a lush, beautifully illustrated book relating the immemorial legend of Kr??a. When evil Asura forces attacked the idyllic planet of Bh?-loka and thr...
How safe is your marriage? The answer may surprise you. The biggest threat to any marriage isn’t infidelity or miscommunication. The greatest enemy is ordinary. Ordinary marriages lose hope. Ordinary marriages lack vision. Ordinary marriages give in to compromise. Ordinary is the belief that this is as good as it will ever get. And when we begin to settle for ordinary, it’s easy to move from “I do” to “I’m done.” Justin and Trisha Davis know just how dangerous ordinary can be. In this beautifully written book, Justin and Trisha take us inside the slow fade that occurred in their own marriage—each telling the story from their own perspective. Together, they reveal the mistakes they made, the work they avoided, the thoughts and feelings that led to an affair and near divorce, and finally, the heart-change that had to occur in both of them before they could experience the hope, healing, and restoration of a truly extraordinary marriage.
Finite State Machine Datapath Design, Optimization, and Implementation explores the design space of combined FSM/Datapath implementations. The lecture starts by examining performance issues in digital systems such as clock skew and its effect on setup and hold time constraints, and the use of pipelining for increasing system clock frequency. This is followed by definitions for latency and throughput, with associated resource tradeoffs explored in detail through the use of dataflow graphs and scheduling tables applied to examples taken from digital signal processing applications. Also, design issues relating to functionality, interfacing, and performance for different types of memories common...
Justin doesn't see the world the way typical people see it. His special needs make some things harder for him, but his imagination and love of animals make his life uniquely beautiful. This engaging, rhyming story allows readers to see the magic and beauty of Justin's world. Follow Justin on his magical river adventure with his new friend the fish and see the animals that live around the beautiful Boise River.
"[G]enuinely funny, heart-wrenching . . ." - Kirkus Reviews "[A] moving journey of self-discovery and a gratifying coming-of-age story." - Publishers Weekly "Husky . . . is a superb addition to the middle grade literary canon." - VOYA Reviews "There is not a false note in the writing . . ." - Lambda Literary A beautifully voiced debut captures an intimate story of change and acceptance. Twelve-year-old Davis lives in an old brownstone with his mother and grandmother in Brooklyn. He loves people-watching in Prospect Park, visiting his mom in the bakery she owns, and listening to the biggest operas he can find as he walks everywhere. But Davis is having a difficult summer. As questions of sexu...
E se um texto Sânscrito antigo contém as respostas para os problemas atuais mais profundos?E se o passado - o passado antigo - pudesse nos ajudar a destrancar ambos, nosso presente e futuro?Esse é o dilema diante de Justin Davis, um adolescente brilhante, mas imensamente perturbado, de West Virginia, que encara o assassinato brutal de seu pai e a perda de dinheiro, status, dignidade e esperança da sua família antes rica. Machucado, raivoso e amargurado, Justin já desistiu da vida. E então, em seu aniversário de 15 anos, sua mãe lhe presenteia com algo misterioso: uma cópia de O Primeiro Avat?ra, um livro exuberante, lindamente ilustrado, relacionado a lenda imemorial de Kr??a. Quan...
A brother and sister meet for the first time in college
What if an ancient Sanskrit text holds the key to solving today’s deepest problems? That’s the question Justin Davis is faced with as he embarks on a hero’s journey to save the world in this thrilling spiritual fantasy. Justin Davis is a brilliant but greatly troubled West Virginia teen, struggling with his father’s brutal murder and his once wealthy family’s loss of money, status, dignity, and hope. Broken, angry, and bitter, Justin has all but given up on life. But then, on his fifteenth birthday, his mother presents him with a mysterious gift: a copy of The First Avatara, a lush, beautifully illustrated book relating the immemorial legend of Krsna. When evil Asura forces attacke...
Lily, a thirteen-year-old girl and the last of her kind thrust into a world of dark magic and violence, where supernatural forces pull at the threads of reality, and shadowy characters lurk in the corners. Lily relies on her loyal friend Robert and the guidance of Lord Cecil to navigate the treacherous shadows of a world on the brink of collapse, pursued by a powerful and atrocious wizard named Abaddon and his followers. But not everything is as it seems.