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Manipulating people is often looked at as a negative, unethical practice, but is it? When you manipulate people in a mutually beneficial way, you end up helping not only yourself but also those around you. There is nothing wrong with manipulating other people, as long as it is for the right reasons.

Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the 19th century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the public’s perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed.

Before Fire Island was a destination for New Yorkers and vacationers, it was so isolated that Captain Kidd the pirate considered it an excellent place to hide treasure - and some say, bodies. Several shipwrecks occurred on the island, creating even more legends of treasure and, of course, the ghosts that protected those treasures. Narrator Scott Nilsen makes these ghost stories and tales of the old Fire Island come alive.

Are you sure that everything around you is the result of your decisions? If you ever felt being manipulated or uncomfortable with some people, then keep reading. Family, friends, work colleagues, are the relationship that you have created during your life experience. Unfortunately, around you, there are some people who use deception as normal. They use hidden manipulative techniques to control others and situations in their favor. If you cannot master your emotions, you become vulnerable to those techniques.

Short fiction that is long on romance, Best Gay Romance 2011 encompasses the dizzying emotions of the human heart in love: delight, longing, relief, despair, anger, and deepest desire. From first times to brief encounters, to rediscovered missed connections and longtime companions, editor Richard Labont? has curated a classic on the subject of love between men. Each story unfolds the "possibility of happy-ever-after-the warm, beating heart of romantic desire".

Today, people have an increased interest in spirituality, yet they also face widespread cynicism, relativism, and despair. This series of interviews explores the opportunities and liabilities that confront Christians as they seek to live wisely in this confusing time. Gene Deward Veith, Richard Keyes, Robert Wuthnow, and Richard Lints take on relativism, cynicism, and the notion of postmodernity in this thought-provoking exploration of spirituality.