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Jon's days are numbered. The mine will consume his life any day. Will this offer to farm inside a game be any better? He wants nothing but to farm in the real world, and he's given that chance in a VRMMORPG. With a new lease on life, he accepts it. But when he's robbed of his only tool to farm sufficient quota, he has no other option but to enter the deadliest forest of the region and die at the hands of a druid to obtain a skill that will help him reach his goals. However, death awaits at every step in the forest, and he can't die more than thrice. What will Jon do?

Womack and Jones, the authors of The Machine That Changed the World and creators of the "lean enterprise" theory, take leanness to the next step with a focus on what the customer really wants, not what it is possible to get him to accept. This is the management book for the next business generation.

Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production model pioneered by General Motors and predicted that lean production would eventually triumph. Indeed, they argued that it would triumph not just in manufacturing but in every value-creating activity from health care to retail to distribution.

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.

Li Wei never sought riches nor beauties. All he wanted to do in this new life was to cultivate peacefully and save the friends he lost in his previous life. But history has repeated itself, and because of him, the Chen clan has suffered a tragic, early demise.

Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known church doctrine emerged that shaped the way five centuries of European Christians would understand the “discovered” world and the people who populated it. From this vantage point, Jones illuminates how the enslavement of Africans was not America’s original sin but, rather, the continuation of acts of genocide and dispossession flowing from the first European contact with Native Americans.

“An indispensible study” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for White Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.

Allen Ming awakens in an unfamiliar realm, trapped within an unfamiliar form—feeble in body and spirit. Thrust into a world of cultivation, Allen Ming finds himself grappling with a reality of a wastrel body, and a world filled with danger and killing. With an AI-enhanced eye, he seeks his way through the dark world of cultivation. But with his newfound family haunted by a looming threat, he has to take charge of the situation even before he gets familiar with the new body.

After reincarnating in his younger self, Li Wei wants to use the knowledge of the future to live a carefree life as a lazy immortal. But every new path taken is a path not yet explored. And every path not yet explored has a chance to be a perilous path. Walking on such a path, Li Wei has to forge his own way with a unique body cultivation method and fix his dantian to cultivate qi and learn alchemy. But when a choice comes that could either save his whole clan or destroy it, what choice will Li Wei make?

Linda P. Jones, America's Wealth Mentor (TM), has written this book in a way that is simple to understand and easy to implement. You will learn how to shave decades off the time it takes for investing success by potentially earning some of the highest compounding rates ever in history. Adding just 5 percent of cryptocurrency investments to your portfolio can create life-changing wealth. You can reach financial freedom, early retirement, or generate your next millions.

Jon thought it was over...he was wrong. It was just the beginning. When he defeated the beast tide, he thought peace would come. But whatever he thinks never happens. The expansion he triggered attracted a much larger threat that he can't control.

With regenerative abilities, a badass tail and the potential to evolve his body, how could Art resist choosing a lizard man as his avatar? All’s well until he accidentally joins forces with an acid-spitting, enemy-consuming shadow-bound grub, causing his light-bound guild members turn against him, and a deadly fire mage to wage a vendetta against him.

Jon successfully killed Belphegor...but he forgot that everything comes with a cost. The cost may need to be paid with money...or life. With his archenemy alive in the game, Jon's days are going to be troublesome. But killing Kurush in-game is not simple as killing Kurush was in real life. Here, Kurush holds power. The power of a whole second-tier guild. With his puny prowess, can Jon go against a second-tier guild and complete his mission that put him in prison in real life? Find out where Jon's life will take him next.

With regenerative abilities, a badass tail and the potential to evolve his body, how could Art resist choosing a lizard man as his avatar? All’s well until he accidentally joins forces with an acid-spitting, enemy-consuming shadow-bound grub, causing his light-bound guild members turn against him, and a deadly fire mage to wage a vendetta against him. Venturing through enchanted forests, into mage enclaves atop ice-capped mountains, through thief-ridden sewers and into ancient temples, Art must defeat the Legendary Beasts and claim their gems of power before his enemies can stop him.

It doesn't matter if you are a Millennial, Gen-Xer, or Baby Boomer. If you are a woman who wants to transform her life, you'll find the answers in You're Already a Wealth Heiress. Linda debunks current wealth-building myths and replaces them with concrete advice that gets results. You will be given a road map for wealth called your Millionaire Action Plan (MAP) and a Wealth Heiress Checklist of action steps for financial freedom.

After escaping the Beast Origin Realm, Li Wei enters Five Firmament City to participate in the Heavenly Firmament Sect’s disciple selection with the hope that following his previous life's path will bring him some peace. But Li Wei and peace are not compatible things. With the ghosts of his past coming back to haunt him, he is faced with mounting difficulties that will test his patience and tenacity. Join for some auction fun, dangerous fights, alchemy, arrays and more system shenanigans.

After the city-shaking battle, Li Wei has gained wings. Wings with which he can fly anywhere. Wings that the Wang clan have used to paint him as a devil. Through all the things that have happened to him since his reincarnation, Wei has learned that without power he can’t do anything, and to gain more power in a short amount of time, he has to walk on the path of arrays once again.

Allen Ming has conquered the first hurdle by finding a cultivation path uniquely his own. Yet, the real challenges are only beginning. Tasked with the delicate mission of regaining his grandmother's trust and ensuring his friends' safety, his responsibilities are immense. Compelled to oppose a clan as formidable as his own, he has no choice but to seek help from new allies.

Ming's win turns into a nightmare when he's ripped from his world and thrown into the dark realm of the Netherworld. Stripped of his cultivation powers, he must navigate this dangerous landscape to survive and find his way back to his home world. However the path home is riddled with secrets that could cost him everything. With only his wits and determination, Ming must unravel the mysteries of the Netherworld and confront the shadows that threaten to consume him forever. Can Ming escape the darkness and reunite with Fiona, or will the Netherworld claim him as its own?

It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all Americans would join together to realize the founding ideal of equality. The power of the speech created an enduring symbol of the march and the larger civil rights movement. King's speech still inspires us fifty years later, but its very power has also narrowed our understanding of the march.