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How do we remember things? How does a low voltage current passing through the brain improve our ability to do math? How is brain size and shape related to intelligence? Do smart pills really work? This essay discusses these and other issues relating to brain function.

Updated for the 2016 election. Every four years citizens of the United States cast their vote in the election process of their Chief Executive - the President of the United States. But many students and adults alike do not understand the process by which we elect our president. Are we really casting a vote directly for one of them or for an elector, and what is the difference? And going backwards from November, how did those men and/or women end up on the November ballot in the first place?

Feelings of anger are pervasive, since it is often comes from fear or confronting an obstacle to a goal. While it often has negative consequences, such as problems in a relationship or at work and escalating conflicts, at other times, it can fuel creative and positive change in oneself, in one's relationship, and in society as a whole. So a good strategy is to control and manage that anger by acting from choice and wisdom. For anger can contribute to one's survival and success when used effectively.

Jacob Thorne wakes in a locked room, his arms and legs handcuffed to a chair, an IV in his elbow attached to a bag of saline solution. A note informs him to make the liquid last, as that it is all he gets. Emma Kane is abducted by armed mercenaries and told that unless she finds the missing daughter of a ruthless billionaire, her partner and lover, Jacob Thorne, will die of thirst trapped in a hidden room. She has 11 days before his fluid runs out to crack a three-year-old cold case that no one has yet been able to solve.

Do you want your children to be soft-minded? No. You do not. Soft minds are for liberals, and they are the weaklings we are fighting in the east. You want your children to be strong, liberty-loving, free-thinking patriots who will do as we say. You will begin listening to chapters from this audiobook when the precious little fetus being carried by one of your wives is in the first trimester of its life, which began the moment you, the father, soaked her woman parts with your sinful fluids.

When Jason was released from the mental hospital he became convinced that the peoples of the world are a destructive virus that must be eliminated to save the Earth. This was confirmed to him by the voices and visions that flooded his brain. With the help of an evil mentally disturbed doctor who has developed a deadly virus and a disgruntled female cyber-warfare department programmer, they set out to wipe out what they consider to be the human virus.

Who are the Medici brothers? And who is trying to assassinate them? Why was the Pitti Palace never completed? And what part did Leonardo play in all of this? Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as an artist and inventor. But who was he before anyone knew his name? This family-friendly novel explores the history and the legends of his early years in Florence. It also weaves a mystery of politics and power.

Meet Colt Unsworth. A man of few words, but many fears. Fears that keep him wide awake at night. These particular fears have followed him around since childhood. A traumatic incident when he was seven haunts him to this day. But he can't make out what the memory is. All he can see are shadows.

What did it mean for Christmas, now that Krampus would be taking the reins? Nothing good, everything bad. That's what.

I Peed in Your Stocking is an educational, fun-filled, gross fact book all about urine. Learn what causes you to urinate, weird facts about urinating, fun animal facts about urine defense mechanism, and much more.

In Becoming a Father: What New Dads Should Expect & 103 Baby Tips to Survive Your Baby's First Four to Six Months, you'll learn everything an expectant father needs to know when caring for his newborn child during months four through six. This is the sequel to Clayton Geoffreys' first hit book on fatherhood, which covered months one through three.

In Body Language 101: The Secret to Analyze Anyone's Nonverbal Body Language, you are going to learn how to have better communication and social skills, and better self-esteem. You will learn to attract the people in your life who interest you, inspire you, and make you want to be a better and more loving person. In Instant Charisma: A Quick and Easy Guide to Talk, Impress, and Make Anyone Like You, you'll discover strategies for initiating conversations and letting everyone you meet know that you are a stunning conversationalist.

This book was written to help you overcome tribulations in life by engaging resilience, determination, and courage.

In all my years of reporting on the human condition, this has to be the most bizarre, and (if true) history shattering interviews I've ever conducted. This story is told by Billy "Big Rig", a pseudonymous truck driver I met over sausage gravy and biscuits in the late 1990s when I was driving a truck to make ends meet. We struck up a friendship, although I think I maybe spoke 10 words to him the whole time I knew him. He did most of the talking. And the way he spun a yarn caused me to be transfixed.

The war happened, but only Bobby Booclear remembers it. It lasted less than a day but, in less than six hours, an 11-year-old boy became a war criminal. In Westchester County, New York. It's that kind of story. And Bobby is, finally, telling his version of what happened on that day, in 1954.

Success isn't something that we can just happen upon. Very few individuals have attained success without having to work hard every day. Even once you become successful, you must work hard to maintain that success. In this audiobook, you will learn several qualities that will contribute to your success and build a solid foundation for your life. By focusing on key areas in your emotional, physical, spiritual, social, and financial well-being, you can create a lifetime of success!

As a mental disorder, madness lurks within us all. This essay deals with the links between madness, genius, and the self. It takes a look at some famous scientists and mathematicians and their eccentricities. This is a quick guide to how madness arises and more importantly, how we can make sense of madness.

You asked for it; by popular demand, here are more secrets of the life and customs of the Jews. What do Jews do in their homes every day? What do they eat? How do they keep the Sabbath? What are the Jewish holidays all about? And so much more! You will find enlightenment and great delight as you discover the hidden secrets of what goes on in the Jewish world.

What is Schizophrenia from the Hip: A point of view about Schizophrenia from the source (my brain in a state of recovery from my own ailment). A little tale for everyone who has dealt with a mental illness. A small rant why I think mental illness does not equal Evil.

Dr. Maurice Ovierto was proud of his handiwork. He removed his little trophies with great care from his victims, wrapped them in surgical gauze and sent them by Express Mail only. Human flesh was much too delicate for regular mail.... He wanted them to arrive in good condition for FBI Inspector Donna Thorpe. She alone understood his special talents, despite the pigs she worked with. He'd killed her partner to make her notice his genius, Now, it was time for her family. Soon Dr. O would have his greatest triumph: Her pain.