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A Small Revolution

In this powerful, page-turning debut, Jimin Han deftly shows that revolutions – whether big or small, in the world or of the heart – can have an impact that lasts through time and spans the oceans.

On a beautiful Pennsylvania fall morning, a gunman holds college freshman Yoona Lee and three of her classmates hostage in the claustrophobic confines of their dorm room. The desperate man with his finger on the trigger – Yoona’s onetime friend, Lloyd Kang – is unraveling after a mysterious accident in Korea killed his closest friend, Jaesung, who was also the love of Yoona’s life.

As the tense standoff unfolds, Yoona is forced to revisit her past, from growing up in an abusive household to the upheaval in her ancestral homeland to unwittingly falling in love. She must also confront the truth about what happened to Jaesung on that tragic day, even as her own fate hangs in the balance.

Through scenes of political upheaval and protests in South Korea, spirited conversations in cramped dumpling houses, and the quiet moments that happen when two people fall in love, A Small Revolution is a moving narrative brimming with longing, love, fear, and – ultimately – hope.

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Portrait Revolution: Inspiration from Around the World For Creating Art in Multiple Mediums and Styles

Based on the popular international collaborative art project, Julia Kay’s Portrait Party, this book features hundreds of portraits in multiple mediums and styles teamed with tips and insights on the artistic process.

The human face is one of the most important subjects for artists, no matter their chosen medium. Pulling from 50,000 works of portraiture created by the artists of the international online collaborative project Julia Kay’s Portrait Party, Portrait Revolution presents a new look at this topic—one that doesn’t limit itself to one medium, one style, one technique, or one artist. By presenting portraits in pencil, pen, charcoal, oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, mixed media, digital media, collage, and more, Julia Kay and co. demonstrate the limitless possibilities available to aspiring artists or even to professional artists who are looking to expand creatively.

Along with works in almost every conceivable medium, Portrait Revolution shines a spotlight on different portrait-making techniques and styles (featuring everything from realism to abstraction). With tips, insights, and recommendations from accomplished portrait artists from around the globe, this all-in-one inspiration resource provides everything you’ll need to kick-start your own portrait-making adventure.

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Thomas Jefferson: 100 Quotes on Revolution, Determination, and Freedom

“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.”

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Portrait Revolution: Inspiration, Tips and Techniques for Creating Portraits from the Artists of Julia Kay’s Portrait Party

Julia Kay’s Portrait Party is an international collaborative project in which artists all over the world make portraits of each other and share them online. After years of exchanging portraits, tips and techniques within the group, in Portrait Revolution these artists are now sharing their art, their words, and their inspiration with everyone who is interested in or would like to get started with portraiture. Here you can find information on using different media, how to handle difficult portrait issues, and more.Portrait Revolution showcases 450 portraits by 200 artists, in a wide variety of media from oil painting to iPad art, watercolour to ballpoint, linocut to mosaic. There is a range of styles from realistic to abstract and interpretations by multiple artists of the same subject.

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The R.U.S.H. Revolution: Revving Up Self-Happiness through the Power of Intentional Living

In this empowering, down-to-earth how-to guide, former 300 mph jet car drag racing sensation turned wellness and success strategist, Jessie Harris Bouton, shares her seven powerful Infinity Factors designed to help you to rev up your self-happiness (R.U.S.H.) and create your own R.U.S.H. Revolution through the power of intentional living.

Using personal anecdotes, practical techniques, and easy exercises, Bouton guides you down the path of personal success by teaching you how to live life by choice and not by chance. Revealing her personal struggle adjusting from being a nationally known jet car driver to being a wife and mother who wanted more in her life, Bouton offers you the ability to harness the power of intentional living to cultivate your own happiness and create a life that you love with no guilt.

Discover the power to change your life—and your family members’ lives—for the better. Be the hero of your own story. Don’t just live your life story—write it!

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100 Affirmations for Revolutionaries: An Inspiring Coloring Book for Anti-Capitalists of All Ages (Color the Revolution) (Volume 1)

There are plenty of coloring books intended to help us achieve serenity or express our creativity. But none to address the needs of those of us working for revolution to overthrow global capitalism. Until now. These 100 Affirmations (two per page), combine cute animal and plant drawings with serious revolutionary messages to accompany you on your journey to being an effective and successful revolutionary. After coloring, cut them out to display or to share with comrades to spark conversations. Start a local coloring group and discuss revolutionary strategy!

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The Healthy Habit Revolution: Create Better Habits In 5 Minutes A Day

Learn How to Create Habits That Stick In Just 5 Minutes A Day

Is there something you know would change your life for the better, but you’re missing out because you can’t get motivated to do it consistently? Do you ever find even if you have temporary success making good choices, you fail to make lasting change and eventually go back to your old ways? The problem isn’t that you’re weak-willed. The real problem is you’re taking the wrong approach. You’re not utilizing the proven scientific insights discovered in modern psychological research that show how you can transform your habits in the shortest amount of time possible and get a truly lasting change. “The Healthy Habit Revolution” takes cutting-edge research from behavioral, cognitive, and human needs psychology and puts it into a simple daily step-by-step blueprint for creating better habits. Even if you only have five minutes a day, you can add these steps to your daily routine to almost effortlessly improve your habits.

Discover Why You Can Upgrade Your Habits Even If You’re Completely Unmotivated

11 years ago, I was eating fast food every single night and I never exercised. You couldn’t have paid me to change my ways. Trying to force myself to change wouldn’t work because I would have rebelled against giving up my comforts. Then there was a process I went through that shifted everything. I gave up the junk, started eating a healthy diet, and got in the best shape of my life. Most importantly, these habits have easily stuck for the past 11 years. What I learned was how to “flip a switch” in my brain so I could go from dreading to desiring healthier habits without a lot of willpower or self motivation. I’ve applied these tactics to develop a daily meditation habit, a morning routine, and skyrocket my productivity as a writer – things I used to constantly struggle with. I wrote this book because I want others to benefit from the methods that helped me so much.

What to Expect from Your 21 Day Healthy Habit Challenge

You’ll be given step-by-step program that will show you… – Day 1: The #1 thing that will sabotage any chance of lasting success if you don’t address it first. – Day 3: How 6 human needs drive all of your habits, and why they’re the keys to reprogramming your behavior. – Day 5: Why trying to get motivated first often doesn’t work, and a simple “can’t fail” alternative that automatically generates motivation as a side effect. – Day 7: How the wrong type of reward actually prevents you from developing permanent habits. – Day 9: Why changing a single word in one’s vocabulary took success in making a healthier choice from 39% to 64% in a research study, and how to get even better results using this principle. – Day 11: How the force stronger than willpower determines how far you can take your healthy habits. – Day 16: 3 magic words to effortlessly overcome overwhelm and annihilate procrastination. – Day 18: A hidden psychological barrier most people never even think about that puts the brakes on creating better habits, and a quick and easy process to conquer it. – Day 21: What to do when need to create major transformations fast to virtually guarantee your success. – The Ultimate Secret Lesson Most Habit Books Never Talk About… Why even the best habits can be incredibly destructive if you don’t have one thing to keep them in check.

Are You Ready To Join The Challenge?

Download The Healthy Habit Revolution now to get started today. Scroll up and click the buy button. Note: Although you’ll learn a bit about getting rid of bad habits, that’s not the purpose of this book. This is for developing good habits that last a lifetime like reading, meditating, eating better, exercising, increasing productivity, and whatever other personal development will change your life.

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Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

This program is read by the author and Mark Ruffalo, an award-winning actor, director, producer, and social activist.

When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a “fringe” campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an independent senator from a small state with little name recognition. His campaign had no money, no political organization, and it was taking on the entire Democratic Party establishment.

By the time Sanders’s campaign came to a close, however, it was clear that the pundits had gotten it wrong. Bernie had run one of the most consequential campaigns in the modern history of the country. He had received more than 13 million votes in primaries and caucuses throughout the country, won twenty-two states, and more than 1.4 million people had attended his public meetings. Most important, he showed that the American people were prepared to take on the greed and irresponsibility of corporate America and the 1 percent.

In Our Revolution, Sanders shares his personal experiences from the campaign trail, recounting the details of his historic primary fight and the people who made it possible. And for the millions looking to continue the political revolution, he outlines a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that will create jobs, raise wages, protect the environment, and provide health care for all―and ultimately transform our country and our world for the better. For him, the political revolution has just started. The campaign may be over, but the struggle goes on.

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Agony and Eloquence: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution

The drama of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is the foundational story of America – courage, loyalty, hope, fanaticism, greatness, failure, forgiveness, love. Agony and Eloquence is the story of the greatest friendship in American history and the revolutionary times in which it was made, ruined, and finally renewed.

In the wake of Washington’s retirement, longtime friends Thomas Jefferson and John Adams came to represent the opposing political forces struggling to shape America’s future. Adams’ victory in the presidential election of 1796 brought Jefferson into his administration – but as an unlikely and deeply conflicted vice president. The bloody Republican revolution in France finally brought their political differences to a bitter pitch.

In Mallock’s take on this fascinating period, French foreign policy and revolutionary developments – from the fall of the Bastille to the fall of the Jacobins and the rise of Napoleon – form a disturbing and illuminating counterpoint to events, controversies, individuals, and relationships in Philadelphia and Washington. Many important and fascinating people appear in the book, including Thomas Paine, Camille Desmoulins, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Tobias Lear, Talleyrand, Robespierre, Danton, Saint-Just, Abigail Adams, Lafayette, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Dr. Joseph Priestley, Samuel Adams, Philip Mazzei, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, and Edward Coles. They are brought to life by Mallock’s insightful analysis and clear and lively writing.

Agony and Eloquence is a thoroughly researched and tautly written modern history. When the most important thing is at stake, almost anything can be justified.