At least, that's what Abby thinks. Unknown to her, her boyfriend is not just an accountant, but also the super-powered crime-fighter, the Crusader! See Mark tell Abby he's The Crusader. Find out how Abby deals with some of his super-ex-girlfriends. And learn the difference between a weakness and an allergy. Experience their first Christmas and beyond!

    Offered for free by Apple and Touchstone, a trademark of Simon & Schuster Inc., contains selections from the two books mentioned in the title.

    Now with twice the number of stories of stupidity coming to the hospital, emergency room and operating room. DR Payne has been taking care of patients for over 18 years in places from Alaska to the American South and she has seen her share of Stupid. Feel a little less stupid today after you read this book. Sections include: Stupid in Action Stupid in Word Stupid in Thought Stupid Baby Names Notable Tattoos A Final Thought

    You must first approach the subject with the proper sense of perception, with the ability to visualize the finished print before you commit a scene to pixels, but still be flexible and spontaneous. Master Fine Art photographer Vincent Versace has spent his career learning and teaching the art of perception and how to translate it into stunning images. In Welcome to Oz,  he delves into what it means to approach digital photography cinematically, to use your perception, your camera, and Photoshop to capture the movement of life in a still image. Features: Adapt your workflow to the image so you always know how best to use your tools Turn a seemingly impossible photographic scenario into a successful image Practice “image harvesting” to combine the best parts of  many captures to create an optimum final result Create black and white prints that have the look, feel and “richness” of traditional silver prints without ever leaving the RGB color space 224 pages.

    It was released with the first DVD & Blu-ray, on January 30, 2013, and tells the story of Sinbad's conquest of the first Dungeon, Baal.

    The Fantagraphics Free Comic Book Day 2013 offering! This full-color comic collects two 1950 Prince Valiant stories: "Home Again," an eventful ocean journey for our new family; and "The Challenge," a classic duel with Valiant!

    Head down and deep into a job, an eleven-year-old son, and a failing marriage, she hasn't got time for jury duty. Who does? However, the county court has other ideas. Serving on an all-female jury, she is forced to deliberate about more than the trial at hand. Old memories surface and Leigh makes a deliberate decision to take a hard look at her life and where it is going. I've certainly been there. Haven't you?

    Maybe the topic of how to please your husband in bed would have been too awkward a conversation, or perhaps talking about the emotional needs of a man was beyond his comfort level to share. Whatever the reason, your good old Dad probably never told you the ugly truth about what men want from women. But today that's all going to change.If you're clueless when it comes to understanding men in relationships or if you want to know what men want from women, this book is going to fill in the gaps of knowledge where your Dad might have failed to do so.Find Out Exactly What Men Want and Think About Women and RelationshipsIf you feel powerless when it comes to dating and relating to men, then you probably just don't understand what a good man really wants from a woman. The type of guys that make phenomenal boyfriends and spectacular husbands are rare, and their needs are quite different from average men.The problem with a lot of relationship advice books is that they give general advice to women about understanding men. The purpose of this book however, is to help women to understand not just any man, but high-quality, mature, masculine men. These are the men that prefer to be with high-quality, mature, feminine women. And these are the men that prefer a passionate, fun, committed relationship with a phenomenal woman instead of a one-night-stand.Become the Woman Men Adore and Never Want to LeaveIf you're interested in learning how to be a good wife or girlfriend to a high-quality man, this book will help you to understand what men really want from women. Even if you're trying to find Mr. Right, you're going to get an all-access pass into the minds of these kinds of men so that you can figure out how to please a man and keep him hooked on you...for good.You'll get an insider's look into what high-quality men want and think about women and relationships. But most importantly, you'll learn how to influence the man of your dreams because you'll know exactly what makes him tick.Here's what you're going to learn inside, 101 Things Your Dad Never Told You About Men:Find out how to find the RIGHT guy and keep him hooked on you. You'll discover the best way to go about finding Mr. Right to avoid unnecessary heartache.How to get a guy to like you by using your irresistible feminine influence over him.Insights into what men want in relationships so that you can better please your man and keep him happy (and loyal).How to make your husband (or future husband) happy and some key insights into what will make him more attentive to you.Discover how to make a man fall in love with you by getting him to open up emotionally. (Hint: He actually knows that if you can get in his heart, he's all yours)Learn how to keep a good man addicted to you so that your relationship continues to evolve to the next level.Tips on how to make him fantasize about you by making him feel as if you're the only woman in the world worth his time and attention.How to be a good girlfriend to a phenomenal guy and make him take things to the next level all on his own.And much, much more...Would You Like to Know More?Get started right away and learn how to make a man fall in love with you for keeps by becoming the only woman that truly "gets him."Scroll to the top of the page and select the 'buy button' now.

    This chronicle of life in the skin trade follows the meteoric rise of Stacey Keith, a girl scarcely out of her teens whose eye-popping assets launch her from wet T-shirt contests to the catwalks of Houston, strip bar capital of the world. Almost overnight, she is discovered by a famous porn star, who Svengalis her onto the pages of Playboy, Penthouse, and dozens of other men’s magazines. While strutting her stuff onstage and across the country, Stacey makes the fateful decision to head to Hollywood. She’s got everything a girl could want: fame, attention, endless piles of cash...but no idea what awaits her. With Internet porn overtaking men’s magazines, everyone from her Mafia-boss road manager to her smarmy talent agent pressures Stacey to do more than just flash her flesh. Uber-boob filmmaker Russ Meyer verbally abuses her; rocker Don Henley tries to use her. Yet through it all, from the warped misogyny of Playboy to the S&M dungeons of the Pacific Palisades, Stacey’s dark, self-deprecating humor will leave you laughing, crying and rooting for her at every step of the way.

    It’s helpful for learning Agile and Scrum, and also for a basic preparation for the PSM I exam (Professional Scrum Master level 1). It can also act as a simple reference for Scrum practitioners.

    The madcap action-horror story of the world's toughest former pro-basketball player returning home with his daughter to learn about his destiny and his mother's mysterious past, while—right next door— Dracula and his goons are on the eve of their bloodiest holiday.

    Pictures’ Man of Steel major motion picture? Start here with the first chapter of the Superman: Last Son of Krypton graphic novel. And don’t a special sneak preview of the blockbuster new monthly series starring The Man of Steel by the all-star team of Scott Snyder and Jim Lee!

    Jimmy Rabbitte hates jazz, always has. But his wife Aiofe loves it, and Jimmy loves Aiofe. So when, in attempt to convert him, she buys him two tickets for a Keith Jarrett concert he decides to take Outspan, former member of Jimmy's band The Commitments, who has come back into his life after a chance meeting in the cancer clinic. Jarrett is famous for being intolerant of any noise at all - a cough, a sneeze, a wheeze - from the audience, stopping playing and shaming the perpetrator. And Outspan's diagnosis is lung cancer, it's pretty bad, and he needs an oxygen cylinder to breathe properly.Will Outspan create havoc? Will Jimmy learn to love jazz at last?

    Sally Burbank has seen everything---lunatics, criminals, hypochondriacs, and even a Cocker spaniel! By popular demand, she has penned a collection of humorous and inspiring true stories to forever capture these memorable encounters. The antics of a demented octogenarian and a dimwitted patient named "Bob" will leave you laughing out loud. Her disastrous attempts to combine medicine with motherhood will reveal a new side to ladies in lab coats. The inane ICD-10 codes and decisions of insurance companies will leave you shaking your head in disgust. Stir in a wheelchair-bound, legally blind dialysis patient who insists on serving others until her last dying breath, a comatose leukemia patient miraculously healed, and an unfortunate soul doomed to chopping onions forty-hours a week, and you are guaranteed to laugh, cry, and tell your friends about this amazing new book. Hilarious cartoons and quotations relevant to each story add icing to the cake, and make Patients I Will Never Forget a must-read for anyone who enjoyed All Creatures Great and Small.

     Together, this dynamic duo adjusts to sharing the spotlight, the toys, and the affections of Mom and Dad, while exploring nature and its majesty, the couch and its cushions, and the cookie jar and its contents.