An easy-to-implement blueprint from the mathematician who reverse-engineered OkCupid and met the woman of his dreams in 90 days. Christopher McKinlay has been featured in Wired Magazine and Good Morning America for his groundbreaking analysis of OkCupid. For the first time he's showing non-experts how to turn Internet dating on its head. This concise guide will show anyone (straight, gay, male or female) the procedure McKinlay used to meet his fiancee and how the same ideas can transform their lives and bring them from browsing to contact. One summer evening while logged into a supercomputer in Colorado waiting for a large computation, McKinlay was killing time on OkC when he was troubled by a problem: what if large groups of people responded to OkCupid's personality questionnaire in statistically similar ways? He created custom software to scrape data from the site, collecting over 6,000,000 answers to OkC's “match questions” from more than 20,000 real users. This data made clear he'd been using the site the wrong way. Based on his findings, McKinlay (a mathematics PhD), optimized his own profile. The transformation was profound. He went from showing a “match percentage” of 90% with a few hundred women in the L.A. area to showing 90% or higher with over 30,000 local women. Unsolicited messages from attractive strangers began flooding his inbox. With a foreword by Jon Finkel, McKinlay's insightful how-to will teach you how to benefit from the buried statistical patterns of online romance.

Cupid is on a mission. He wants to find a young couple and make them fall in love. But things go horribly wrong when a demon attacks Cupid, transforming him into a human with no memory prior to his attack. Cupid wakes up in 1880s New Mexico in the bed of a beautiful but troubled woman. In this strange and confusing world, Cupid tries to establish himself, but cannot displace the feeling that he does not belong. Neither can he rid himself of the thought that something is terribly wrong. Despite his disturbing thoughts, Cupid quickly falls for his beautiful caregiver, Shae, even though she is also being romantically pursued by a controlling and overbearing man named Leon. Cupid then learns that he must return to heaven and complete what he has done for thousands of years: bring love to the world. Cupid is torn between his duty and his one true love. He is forced to take a path that leaves him heartbroken. The message of this story is that no matter how bad things seem to be, there is always hope. The stunning novel Cupid is part romance, part fantasy, and all heart. About the Author: Stephanie Jetton is working on her next book, a paranormal romance set in the 1870s.She is a correctional officer and lives in Clio, Alabama. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/Cupid.htm

One morning on vacation in Las Vegas best friends Luke and Pierre wake up with rings on their fingers but without any recalling of the previous night. How can they have gotten married when they don't love each other? While Pierre has to explain it to his ex-boyfriend who he wants to win back, Luke goes on solving the mystery about 'that night'.

Writer Andie M. Long returns with a further book in her hilarious supernatural dating agency series. The Withernsea gang are back! Author note: Samara's part of this storyline previously featured in Crazy, Stupid, Lazy, Cupid. However it has been re-edited and thirty thousand words added to this new story. At cupid school there are lessons in love. Tired of his representative’s reluctance to make love matches, Cupid takes drastic action. With the assistance of Fate, Samara is sent back to training school. However, Samara’s frustration that Cupid won’t listen to her gets pushed aside when she realises someone’s out to get her… but who? Back in Withernsea, Shelley is busy helping her daughter plan her wedding while looking for new premises for the dating agency. When Samara asks for her assistance with changing the future of cupiding, Shelley has an idea. But can they get Cupid to move his targets from statistics back towards hearts, and will Samara discover who’s behind the vendetta before it’s too late? SUPERNATURAL DATING AGENCY SERIES #1 The Vampire Wants a Wife #2 A Devil of a Date #3 Hate, Date, or Mate? #4 Here for the Seer #5 Didn't Sea it Coming #6 Phwoar and Peace #7 Acting Cupid #8 Cupid Fools - out April 2023 ​​​​​​​#9 Dead and Breakfast - coming 2023.

When thirteen-year-old Erin discovers she is the daughter of the love god Cupid, she uses her newfound ability to sabotage her rival Trevor by making him fall in love with her, but she soon realizes love has a funny way of complicating things.

In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far. Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they're feeling on any given day. They share tips on the most efficient ways to tie shoelaces and load the dishwasher; they employ a tomato-shaped kitchen timer as a time-management tool.They see everything as a system composed of parts that can be decomposed and recomposed, with algorithmic rules that can be understood, optimized, and subverted. In Hacking Life, Joseph Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods. Life hacking, he writes, is self-help for the digital age's creative class. Reagle chronicles the history of life hacking, from Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack through Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek. He describes personal outsourcing, polyphasic sleep, the quantified self movement, and hacks for pickup artists. Life hacks can be useful, useless, and sometimes harmful (for example, if you treat others as cogs in your machine). Life hacks have strengths and weaknesses, which are sometimes like two sides of a coin: being efficient is not the same thing as being effective; being precious about minimalism does not mean you are living life unfettered; and compulsively checking your vital signs is its own sort of illness. With Hacking Life, Reagle sheds light on a question even non-hackers ponder: what does it mean to live a good life in the new millennium?

Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Instead, Margaret Morris argues, we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways—uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity. Morris, a clinical psychologist and app creator, shows how people really use technology, drawing on interviews she has conducted as well as computer science and psychology research. She describes how a couple used smart lights to work through conflict; how a woman persuaded herself to eat healthier foods when her photographs of salads garnered “likes” on social media; how a trans woman celebrated her transition with selfies; and how, through augmented reality, a woman changed the way she saw her cancer and herself. These and the many other “off-label” adaptations described by Morris cast technology not just as a temptation that we struggle to resist but as a potential ally as we try to take care of ourselves and others. The stories Morris tells invite us to be more intentional and creative when left to our own devices.

Tired of striking out with online dating? Tired of sending out hundreds of messages only to walk away empty handed and frustrated? What does it take to succeed? Without the right profile you are a deer in the headlights, that's where "The Perfect Profile" comes in. Anyone can easily personalize and replicate my methods to succeed at online dating. In this book you will learn: - How to craft an original, eye catching profile. - How to answer OKCupid's profile questions for maximum success. - How to exploit the female psychology that pollutes online dating sites. - How to select the correct pictures to paint a cohesive profile "image," building her trust in the process. - What it takes to attract better looking women with your profile, and how to close them. - Techniques for building interest and challenge when responding to messages. - How to avoid the dating site pitfalls that will sink your chances of success, waste your time, and make you appear to lack confidence. - All that and more... "The Perfect Profile" gives you the edge you need to increase your response rate and convert your profile views into unsolicited messages. It will teach you how to handle those critical initial messages that build her interest and seal the deal, along with many other tips, tricks, and ideas to maximize your success! Keywords: online dating, online dating for men, dating advice, dating advice for men, relationship advice, pof, of advice, okcupid, okcupid advice, online dating guide, online dating help, pua

We don’t have all the answers—but we can help you choose a partner. Choosing a romantic partner is one of contemporary life’s biggest adventures. But other aspects of modern living—being globally more mobile, a fall in religious belief, social liberalization, and more job opportunities (but longer working hours)—mean relationships have rarely been so challenging, and so important. In How to Choose a Partner, Susan Quilliam guides us through the process of finding the right partner for us as individuals. The real challenge is that we grow. Drawing upon rich cultural material, psychology, and her background in relationship therapy, Susan presents partner choice as a journey toward self-development, driving us to learn more about ourselves, about other people, and about life and the way we want to live.

Fully updated to meet the demands of the 21st-century surgeon, Craniofacial, Head and Neck Surgery and Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Volume 3 of Plastic Surgery, 3rd Edition, provides you with the most current knowledge and techniques across your entire field, allowing you to offer every patient the best possible outcome. Access all the state-of-the-art know-how you need to overcome any challenge you may face and exceed your patients’ expectations. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Compatible with Kindle®, nook®, and other popular devices. Apply the very latest advances in craniofacial, head, neck, and pediatric plastic surgery and ensure optimal outcomes with evidence-based advice from a diverse collection of world-leading authorities. Purchase this volume individually or own the entire set, with the ability to search across all six volumes online! Master the newest procedures in pediatric plastic surgery, including conjoined twinning. Apply the latest clinical evidence and surgical techniques to facilitate the decision-making process for craniofacial patients, and optimize outcomes in the correction of congenital, oncologic, traumatic, and acquired deformities. Know what to look for and what results you can expect with over 2,000 photographs and illustrations. See how to perform key techniques with 28 surgical videos online. Access the complete, fully searchable contents online, download all the tables and figures, and take advantage of additional content and images at www.expertconsult.com!