Danny T’s Easy and Memorable Meals

Danny T’s Easy and Memorable Meals
By Daniel T. Kamide

Published: 8/18/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 698
ISBN: 978-1-47599-878-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Danny T’s Easy and Memorable Meals offers a collection of classic recipes for author Daniel T. Kamide’s favorite foods. The recipes range from easy-to-prepare appetizers to impressive crudités and from breakfast to dinner and everything in between. Danny T drew them from family, friends, co-workers and acquaintances form all over the United States. And also has also included his own favorite dishes.

During his career, Danny T had the opportunity to relocate with his company across the United States; along the way, he had the pleasure of meeting hundreds of great cooks and the honor of enjoying their dishes. Many of these chefs graciously agreed to share their recipes with him for this collection. Over years of preparing these recipes, he has tweaked some of them or added a few new ingredients based on his experience, thus creating new and delightful dishes.

Danny has also included special chapters for major events throughout the year, such as summer, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Discover new and exciting recipes for all seasons in Danny T’s Easy and Memorable Meals.

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A Happy Dreamer

A Happy Dreamer
Short Poems from the Blueberry Fields
By Elissaveta Iordanova

Published: 6/28/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub and Mobi files)
Pages: 104
ISBN: 978-1-47598-848-2
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

A Happy Dreamer grasps the beauty of the different places and events author Elissaveta Iordanova has experienced in the past fi fteen years. Her collection of poetry presents a very personal response—a palette of reactions, feelings, and thoughts—to her journey. She has long been fascinated by short poems and the brevity with which her innermost thoughts can be expressed. They fulfill her desire to share a small part of these places, to encourage others to see things differently, and to understand that sharing is connection.

Her poems, inspired by haiku but not confined to the form, reflect her personal experiences with nature, dances of the heart, and happy dreams for the future. She views this as a way to choreograph images that are poetic canvases of places and people striving for meaningful lives. From poems that speak of the beauty of the sea crashing against the rocks to poems that speak of love found by the light of the moon and stars, A Happy Dreamer evokes the emotion and expectation of a journey to cherish for a lifetime.

“Elissaveta Iordanova’s poems capture small, fleeting moments with haiku-like compression and delicacy.” —Elizabeth Frank, PhD, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author

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I Can’t Hear What You’re Saying …

I Can’t Hear What You’re Saying …
Poetry, Shorts, and Shenanigans
By MJR

Published: 11/9/2012
Format: E-Book (available as ePub and Mobi files)
Pages: 189
ISBN: 978-1-47595-088-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

This new collection of poetry and prose by author MJR offers raw and honest insight into the poet’s thoughts. In a no-holds-barred journey that ranges from the serious and solemn to the unexpected and provocative, the poet exposes personal feelings and emotions through life experiences. From the melancholy “Sorrow” to the introspective “Weep Not, For Me,” the pieces in this collection capture the emotions of each unique situation.

I Can’t Hear What You’re Saying… seeks not only to invoke emotional responses like laughter and tears, but also provoke introspection, that we may find our own path—a personal adventure of selfdiscovery.

Evil

Evil is the entity which takes
Without compunction, compassion, nor end
Rarely gives, unless strategically; for their
image
Unconscious of the damage left in its wake;
or uncaring
Caveat emptor, business is business
What about me? self-centered in its
thoughts
It walks through life, a cancer, living upon
others
Devouring what it wants, what it needs, what
it takes
Even when still in use, not theirs, not dead
A mollusk, leaching, draining life from
others
Until they are just too tired to fight, give up
Devoured alive by the relentless selfishness
To take, take, take, resources, energy, love
Pervert it, alter its state
Forever damaging the former host beyond
recognition
Until it ceases to exist, is no more
Before moving to the next
Evil takes

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Toward a General Theory of Exchange: Strategic Decisions and Complexity

Toward a General Theory of Exchange: Strategic Decisions and Complexity
By Dr. Javaid R. Khwaja

Published: 10/21/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 592
ISBN: 978-1-47599-740-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

The new economy, under the impetus of the ever-widening outreach of the Internet, is undergoing a transition. In the meantime, thereΓÇÖs also been a shift to the information paradigm, with its emphasis on lack of foresight. These processes have almost completely supplanted the concept of market that was once one of the most cardinal features of conventional economic theory.

In Toward a General Theory of Exchange: Strategic Decisions and Complexity, author Dr. Javaid R. Khwaja traces the slow melting of the market, the most ubiquitous contraption and the summum bonum of economic science, as an organized manifestation of complexity, with its wide-ranging impact on the flow of funds. Using the historical background of economic theories, this study blends the interdisciplinary range and fills the vacuum that has existed among current conventional economic theory, the theory of strategic decision making, actor-network theory, the domain of law and economics, and the science of complexity.

An observer of economic development for several decades, Khwaja shows the relationship between technology and economics and how it affects social exchanges and trends.

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Beautiful Land of the Sky

Beautiful Land of the Sky
John MuirΓÇÖs Forgotten Eastern Counterpart, Harlan P. Kelsey
By Loren M. Wood

Published: 10/21/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 624
ISBN: 978-1-47599-447-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

John Muir is considered to be the supreme icon of western wilderness and preservation. His counterpart in the east is Harlan P. Kelsey, an often obscure and forgotten figure. In Beautiful Land of the Sky, author Loren M. Wood chronicles KelseyΓÇÖs journey from the humblest of beginnings to national prominence in horticulture and the establishment of national parks in the eastern United States. In this biography, Wood tells how, a century ago, Kelsey was the first to pioneer native plants for the American landscape and a leader in that process; how he was a leading participant in bringing all of America to our native plants in their finest original setting; and how he helped make a reality of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a zenith of horticultural biomass and diversity in America. In addition, this biography explores the parallels in the odysseys of Muir and Kelsey. Though primarily a biography of Kelsey, Wood compares the similarities, differences, and accomplishments of the two men. Including details gathered from more than fifty thousand items in KelseyΓÇÖs personal files, Beautiful Land of the Sky narrates the inspiring and entertaining story of how the idea of national parks was implemented east of the Mississippi.

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Getting Smart about Death

Getting Smart about Death
By Jane Filetic

Published: 10/6/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 96
ISBN: 978-1-49170-089-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

A death occurs about every twelve seconds in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau. What happens in the hours and days following a death is something most of us have no knowledge of. In Getting Smart about Death, author Jane Filetic changes that by sharing basic information that can make a world of difference. Using an efficient, need-to-know manner, she covers such topics as: • the four things needed immediately after a death occurs; • ten helpful suggestions to consider when a death is imminent; • answers to frequently asked questions following a death; • the times in life when it is essential to express our own final wishes. Getting Smart about Death is a simple, straightforward guide that will help you be prepared when a parent, spouse, partner, sibling, child, or best friend is nearing the end of life or has reached the end of life. Information is not just power; in the case of death, it is peace of mind.

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Dashell and Caroline

Dashell and Caroline
By Elizabeth Chanter

Published: 6/29/2012
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 356
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47592-666-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

For Caroline, a woman whose very identity is a mystery, nothing is certain—except the love she and Dashell share. Now that crucial missing documents have been found, she has the answer to one of her biggest questions: her name. With that information in hand, she and Dashell can now begin to plan their wedding and her future as Lady Lonsdale.

Dashell and his youngest brother, Maxwell, travel up to Yorkshire to find out what they can, and what they do discover greatly saddens them.

Another search commenced by Dashell’s aunt, Lady Smythe has uncovered one more surprise for Caroline—a blood relative. It’s a shocking revelation for both Caroline and her new family member. Once the man recovers from his surprise, he shares information that may hold the key to the truth. As answers emerge, it seems that every mystery of Caroline’s past will be revealed. But within the joy of discovery lies the heartbreaking story of how one person cruelly deceived Caroline’s mother, Isobel.

Will the truth set them free—or will the lovers find themselves ensnared in a bigger mystery than they imagined?

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Unstrung

Unstrung
A Blanchard House Mystery
By Cynthia Morrow

Published: 4/28/2012
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 238
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47591-112-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Althea Stewart has had it with Holly-wood. Fed up with the dog-eat-dog life of a classical musician, her alcoholic ex-husband, and the shallow dating pool known as Los Angeles, Althea heads north to Washington State with nothing more than her violin, viola, and a quirky but determined attitude.

Althea soon convinces her best friend and colleague, cellist Grace Sullivan, to join her in opening a private music school in a rambling historic property in Kirkland, Washington. Anxious to uphold their outstanding reputations as hostess-es with the most, Althea and Grace are determined to pull off their first holiday party in grand style. But instead, they unwittingly set the stage for the gruesome murder of a once-powerful Hollywood studio concertmaster. As a police investigation unfolds and one murder leads to another, Althea and Grace soon realize that their hopes for a quiet life in the Pacific Northwest have been dashed.

In this mystery tale filled with a symphony of blackmail, cold-blooded murder, and the possibility of love, Althea and a group of eclectic characters must tune into their detective instincts in order to find a killer—before another life is sacrificed.

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Beyond Atheism, Beyond God

Beyond Atheism, Beyond God
The Quest for Transcendent Being
By Philip A. Stahl

Published: 8/20/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 412
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47599-824-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In his new study, Beyond Atheism, Beyond God, author Philip A. Stahl uses atheism as a rational stepping stone to arrive at an emergent conception of the universe, exposing features that might be described as transcendent.

He presents an impersonal approach to Being that is devoid of any specific religious overtones or affi liations. Each person becomes a quantum-based co-creator in his or her own right, according to physicist Henry Stapp. As such, we are able to thereby see ourselves and our humanity in a new light, as opposed to being merely reactive cogs in a vast mechanical-reductionist machine. Effectively, we emerge as much more than assemblies of molecules.

This volume, the fourth and final entry in Stahl’s series on atheism, seeks to arrive at a transcendent concept of being that also surpasses absolutism and naïve or dogmatic deity templates. It considers the development of a more realistic, cogent and effective ethics and morality less likely to be exploited by the power mongers or sacred source apologists, and it answers the question of whether God exists—though not in the way one would normally assume.

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The Will’s Harmonic Motion

The Will’s Harmonic Motion
The Completion of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy
By Fadel Sabry

Published: 5/1/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 326
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47598-734-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Are human beings born with a moral character, or does our character form and change as we experience life? In The Will’s Harmonic Motion, author Fadel Sabry sheds light on this age-old question.

An extension of Arthur Schopenhauer’s work, philosophy, and discussion, The Will’s Harmonic Motion puts forth an extensive discussion of how moral character is obtained and on what basis. It provides an overview of Schopenhauer’s treatment of metaphysics and introduces the concept of the will. It also explains the nature of morality and intelligible and empirical characters and investigates movements in nature, especially harmonic motion, and reviews the scientific laws that govern it. The study extends the concepts of moral characters and curves to animals, explains the mysterious qualities of creative power and healing power, explores the topic of pleasure, and addresses the mystery of existence.

This study approaching metaphysical subjects scientifically, seeking to apply rational thinking to all topics considered, including morality, death, and religion. Bringing new ideas to philosophy, Sabry considers these themes and more in his search for the truth about moral character.

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The Guard Hill House Mystery

The Guard Hill House Mystery
By Edie Becker

Published: 5/27/2007
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 96
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-59543-598-2
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

When Jaime Escobar gets a disturbing e-mail asking for help from a woman claiming to be his best friend Michael's sister, he begins an adventure that takes him to a sleepy Southern town full of dangerous secrets.

After arriving in Michael's hometown of Front Royal, Virginia, Jaime soon meets Michael's sister, M Forester. M believes her brother has mysteriously disappeared and may be in trouble. Since Jaime hasn't heard from Michael in months, he's inclined to think it's just one of his friend's practical jokes.

But everyone in the town-and even other family members-are reluctant to talk about Michael. The only useful piece of information Jaime can glean from the residents is about Michael's home, Guard Hill House. It's haunted, they say, and when ominous drums begin to sound in the house, something terrible is about to happen.

Jaime brushes aside their warning and heads to Guard Hill House to try to find clues to Michael's whereabouts. But after one horrifying experience almost kills him, and M has an unexplained, nearly fatal accident, the two realize the power of the old house. Did Michael somehow succumb to its frightening pull-and will they be next?

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She-Wolf - The Den

She-Wolf - The Den
Love at First Sight - My First Mate
By Melanie Mayes

Published: 7/5/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 146
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47599-143-7
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

A werewolf, shape shifter, and witch, Melanie rules as the queen of her kingdom. After her parents’ deaths years ago, she was entrusted to the care of her father’s war chief, Devilman. Now, Melanie is old enough to run the kingdom, and as the last of her bloodline, she takes her role seriously.

Tough, determined, and brave, she gets what she wants—and that includes her new mate. Melanie challenges the vampire Silent Killer to a battle, and her prize for winning is Dark Wolf. They return to her kingdom, where Dark Wolf becomes an integral part of her life at the castle.

Melanie faces many tests and challenges as she rules her kingdom. She has a lot of heart and love, but is that enough to ensure that her warriors, friends, and villagers have enough to eat, are warm, and safe? Only the time will tell.

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Blue Destiny

Blue Destiny
By James R. Mesich

Published: 10/24/2012
Format: Dust Jacket Hardcover
Pages: 282
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47594-736-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

During the 1870s, both life and travel are slow-paced. As Kyle travels lonely dirt roads outside St. Louis, planning to find a beautiful wedding dress for his future bride, Maggie, he decides to rest his weary body at Fort Harding. He sits down to participate in a late-night poker game with a devious sergeant and wins a blue amulet—an object that will change his life forever.

After securing the amulet around his neck, Kyle sleeps restlessly and dreams of a wolf attacking a village. The next morning, he rides away toward home, feeling uneasy. As it turns out, Kyle’s gut feeling is right. When Kyle is killed an Indian medicine man who takes the amulet, Kyle’s brother, Jessie, is propelled into a perilous fight of desperation to find the trinket before his brother’s soul vanishes into eternal damnation forever.

In this compelling fantasy tale, time is of the essence as one man must rely on his budding psychic powers and the ghosts of his brother and parents to combat an Indian medicine man and his ancient magic—before it is too late.

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Not All Bid Farewell

Not All Bid Farewell
By Tracy MΓÇÖCwabeni

Published: 8/2/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 306
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-47599-730-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

In 1978, the white government in Rhodesia is holding on to power while losing its grip on the war-torn countryside. The war has been ferociously fought in the rural areas for a number of years, and now those living in the cities are gripped with fear as the momentum gathers and threatens their own backyards.

At this same time, Ruva GandaΓÇöliving in Harare, the capital of what would soon become an independent ZimbabweΓÇöis losing her own personal battle with a fifth miscarriage. Ruva; her husband, Mukai; and their twin daughters donΓÇÖt have much, but they are content with their lot. The familyΓÇÖs life changes drastically, however, when Mukai is murdered. Ruva takes a job working for a liberal white family and then moves on to manage the farm of Brian Sanderson, a white lawyer. While RuvaΓÇÖs daughters are away at school, a lasting romanceΓÇöone that crosses racial and social boundariesΓÇödevelops between Ruva and Brian.

Meanwhile, the lives of her talented daughters move on radically different paths, as Hilda pursues her doctorate while Matie lies about her education. She takes a job on a cruise ship, marries a rich playboy, and moves to London, ignoring her family back home.

RuvaΓÇÖs personal growth continues as she becomes an activist for womenΓÇÖs issues, one that carries dangerous consequences. When tragedy strikes again, her family bonds are tested and bring her full circle. Once again, she is reunited in love with those who bid no farewell.

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Sensible Small Business Advertising

Sensible Small Business Advertising
Successfully Building Your Business with Effective Advertising
By Jack Stephens

Published: 8/18/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 174
ISBN: 978-1-47599-501-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Businesses fail with and without advertising, but the survival rate is dramatically higher for a business that knows how to effectively advertise. In Sensible Small Business Advertising, author Jack Stephens offers a clear, simple guide for any business owner who wants to make the most efficient use of time, cash, and effort in building, maintaining, and evaluating the effectiveness of an advertising program.

Jack shares tips and observations from a decade and a half of advertising experience to help small business owners properly employ advertising media. He discusses the two essential types of advertising, focusing on why they are so important, what their strengths are, how they work together to create leads, and how to best use them in a growing business. Sensible Small Business Advertising underscores the importance of developing a good working relationship with ad salespeople and teaches you the way to spell SUCCESS that will stick from start-up to mature business. Informative, useful, and written in an easy, casual, nontechnical format, Sensible Small Business Advertising helps business owners maximize results while minimizing costs through a no-nonsense advertising program.

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Journey to Heaven Knows Where

Journey to Heaven Knows Where
By Linda Sealy Knowles

Published: 8/18/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files)
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-1-49170-031-0
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

To escape the unthinkable, twenty-year-old Rae Rodgers does the impossible: she disappears into the night with only a few meager belongings, even fewer dollars, and her three-year-old sister, Hope. Leaving the only home she’d ever known was the hardest thing she had ever done in her twenty years on this earth, but she has no choice. She has to get her sister and herself out of the home of her stepfather before it is too late.

With only her strong will and determination, she and Hope travel on a stagecoach as far as her last dollar will take her—Limason, Texas. With the last of her coins depleted and without means to purchase food, she faints at the feet of another passenger, the striking cattle rancher Jesse Maxwell.

Jesse takes an immediate liking to the young woman and offers her a job at his ranch. Rae, instantly attracted to Jesse, leads him to believe she is a young widow traveling with her child. Although she is vulnerable, she will do whatever it takes to make a new home at the ranch. She pulls out all the stops to win their hearts, and, despite the mischief and trouble young Hope brings, she begins to feel as if the worst is behind her.

But her new life is threatened when she sees posters in town that offer a reward for Hope’s return. Grimly determined, she devises a plan to keep Hope safety concealed, even at the risk of losing her own life.

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Take Charge of Your Life

Take Charge of Your Life
How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology
By William Glasser, MD

Published: 3/20/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 252
Size: 5.5x8.5
ISBN: 978-1-93890-832-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

“A game changer for anyone ready to become the captain of their own ship.”

—Dr. Phil McGraw, host of the nationally syndicated series Dr. Phil

“Take Charge of Your Life urges readers to stop blaming and start accepting responsibility for choices.”

—Jeannine Chartier Hanscom, ForeWord Reviews

Are you seeking a happier and more satisfying life? In Take Charge of Your Life, author Dr. William Glasser explains choice theory—a science of human behavior and principles for regaining and maintaining a life you control—and how it can help you find personal freedom from relationship-destroying external control.

Take Charge of Your Life, a revision of his 1984 book Control Theory, explains choice theory using personalized examples and illustrative stories that allow you to learn how to improve your relationships and take charge of your actions. Topics include marital and relationship problems, parenthood, addictions, pain management, and psychosomatic disorders. For each situation, Dr. Glasser ties behavior to the pictures people create in their minds of what they want. He explains how the pictures got there and how people can choose new behaviors to get what they really want.

In Take Charge of Your Life, Glasser offers a real model of empowerment. He shows how you can become a part of the equation that adds happiness and connection to the world in which you live now and to the world of future generations.

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Stay Out of Real Estate Jail

Stay Out of Real Estate Jail
Your Lifeline to Real Estate
By Barbara Bell-Olsen

Published: 7/31/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 246
ISBN: 978-1-47599-204-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Stay out of Real Estate Jail is for both seasoned and new real estate professionals. The statements, subjects and property specifics can be adapted to any real estate marketplace in the world. If you follow the guidelines your career will soar, and you will be amazed and excited by the positive changes you will face. You will wonder what you have been doing all these years—or, if you are new, you will realize just how easy and profitable your professional and ethical career in real estate can be. Do you want to become the crème de la crème? How successful do you really want to be? Do you want to write five or ten times more Contracts per day without even thinking how to do it? It’s easy and Bell-Olsen has done all the work for you. Your contracts will be extraordinary and protect all parties to the transaction. Grasp the modern, unique and superior structured concepts, suggestions, action plans and procedures in this book and use them to make yourself absolutely indispensable — no more paralyzed fear for your clients or you. You will have so much knowledge, confidence and skill that you will easily take your clients to the successful closing of their purchase or sale, and you will retain them for life. Your business will explode. Pilots do not set out on a flight course without first following their checklists and procedures and verifying that they have done everything perfectly and it is the same for you as a dedicated real estate professional. Barb shares a nuts-and-bolts, a step by step look at the industry, offering timesaving, unique and inspiring concepts as well as a host of forms, checklists, sample letters, addendums, amendments and contract clauses with full explanations and reasoning’s behind their use. So go out and create some business, because when your clients are ready to write, so are you! Knowledge is power. Excellence is a habit. Your name is your reputation. Protect it and promote it.

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Adolescent Depression

Adolescent Depression
Outside/In
By Kathleen Keena

Published: 11/7/2005
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 132
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-59535-993-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Adolescent Depression: Outside/In is an innovative book for adolescents, parents, and clinical professionals. Keena, a licensed addictions and mental health counselor, takes her readers inside the depressed adolescent's imagination, and insecurities.

Using a combination of narrative, poetry, and prose, Ms. Keena has taken her personal experiences with depression and has woven a masterful work. Through her own experiences, Ms. Keena has shown a way to understand the sense of lost helplessness of depressed adolescents. She then shows us the path towards hope and recovery.

This book will help adolescents, parents, and clinicians understand the difficulties and challenges that can arise as the treatable illness of depression begins to emerge in adolescence.

Samuel M. Silverman, MD
Fellow of the American
Psychiatric Association

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Too Big to Succeed

Too Big to Succeed
Profiteering in American Medicine
By Russell J. Andrews, MD, DEd

Published: 2/28/2013
Format: E-Book (available as ePub, Mobi, and PDF files) What's This
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-1-47597-130-9
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Medicine in the United States is big business. We spend 50 percent more on health care per capita than other developed countries, but a multitude of measures indicate that we are not getting health-care value for our money. In Too Big to Succeed, author Dr. Russell J. Andrews details why health care in America has become more expensive but less effective and outlines a new paradigm for health-care delivery.

Too Big to Succeed describes how American medicine is on an unsustainable course: costs are increasing while benefits are deteriorating in comparison with other developed nations. Beginning with the Hippocratic Oath and the the premedical student, Andrews traces the myriad ways in which the profit motive has infiltrated American medicine—including medical school training, current models of health-care delivery, medical professional societies, medical research, and medical drug and device development.

Presenting an insider’s look into the current crisis in health care, Andrews demonstrates that until both the physician and the patient return to the relationship that underlies medicine, physicians will not experience the joy of healing those who seek their help and patients will not appreciate that a good physician is a permanent part of their lives.

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The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide

The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide
Where to View the World’s Great Masterpieces
By Henry P. Traverso, PhD

Published: 7/24/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 900
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47599-088-1
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Art lovers are passionate seekers, but locating the works of the great masters can often present a challenge. In The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide, author Dr. Henry P. Traverso offers a guide to locating the works of the most popular and well-known Western visual artists worldwide.

Featuring diverse artists such as Joseph Albers, Picasso, Monet, Francisco de Zurbaran, and a host of others, this comprehensive handbook provides essential biographical information and historical context for more than 250 visual artists. It follows with an orderly list of each artist’s works and where those works are located throughout the world, including museums, galleries, churches, monasteries, athenaeums, universities, parks, and libraries in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Both an easy-to-search database and a crash course in art history, The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide provides an enhanced understanding of the arts along with the tools needed to plan an art history trip and to better navigate museums.

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Getting Your Affairs in Order

Getting Your Affairs in Order
How to arrange things to simplify your life so that others can easily pick up where you left off
By Edward Mendlowitz, CPA

Published: 12/21/2011
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 140
Size: 8.25x11
ISBN: 978-1-46207-089-3
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

How to declutter your life, what happens if die without a will, uses and purposes of essential trusts, the responsibilities of trustees and executors, a dire warning to your IRA beneficiaries, how to provide protection if you become incapacitated, your other wills, business buy-sell agreements, what records you need to keep, ethical wills and statement of values, estate liquidity, how to choose a guardian and arrange for an allowance for them, how assets can be left to a minor and a priceless gift you can give your children.

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Business and Economics, iUniverse Bookstore,

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The Sixty Seconds

The Sixty Seconds
By Ted Jackson

Published: 2/25/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 108
Size: 5x8
ISBN: 978-1-47597-659-5
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

What would you do if, one day, you happened to discover that you were able to transport yourslef back in time for sixty seconds at will and redo things? Would you abuse that power or would you use it for the benefit of mankind? Jason Bricker is faced with that exact question and has some difficult decisons to make.

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Fiction, iUniverse Bookstore,

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Dragon Chaser

Dragon Chaser
A Memoir
By Mark Lloyd

Published: 6/18/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47599-454-4
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

When nineteen-year-old Mark Lloyd entered the US Army in Seattle, Washington, in 1968, he thought he was invulnerable. His induction that year marked the beginning of a long career in public service. In Dragon Chaser, he recounts his journey—entering the army, earning a green beret, serving in Vietnam, working as a police officer on the streets of south central Los Angeles, and joining the DEA.

In this memoir, Lloyd tells how he became an undercover narcotics agent and served in the world’s illegal drug hot spots—chasing the dragon of illicit heroin in Los Angeles, Guam, and Thailand. Dragon Chaser narrates how he led teams of DEA agents raiding jungle cocaine laboratories and ambushing clandestine airstrips in Peru, how he helped solve DEA’s worst case of corruption in Los Angeles, and how he managed some of DEA’s foreign operations while assigned to DEA headquarters. The stories include Lloyd’s deployment on a special mission to war-scarred Bosnia, and how he successfully handled a difficult narcotics case involving a DEA employee falsely imprisoned by the recalcitrant Pakistani government.

A remarkable memoir of a baby boomer’s adventures in public service, Dragon Chaser recounts Lloyd’s participation and observations in some of America’s actions, both major and minor, throughout the last four decades.

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Biography and Autobiography, iUniverse Bookstore,

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Animal Eye Colors

Animal Eye Colors
Yellow-eyed Stalkers, Red-eyed Skulkers & Black-eyed Speedsters
By Morgan Worthy

Published: 12/22/2000
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 164
Size: 8.25x11
ISBN: 978-0-59515-115-8
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

Eye colors are given for 5620 species of animals. This list includes information on thousands of species of birds and hundreds of species of mammals, reptiles and amphibians. A theoretical pattern is offered to show a correlation between animal iris pigmentation and behavior.

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iUniverse Bookstore, Nature,

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I Dreamed I Was Human

I Dreamed I Was Human
Awakening from the Illusion
By Carolyn Gervais

Published: 2/20/2013
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
Pages: 238
Size: 6x9
ISBN: 978-1-47597-313-6
Print Type: B/W

Overview:

From the time she was a little girl, author Carolyn Gervais has been haunted with questions about why she was here on Earth and why God created humans. Now after more than thirty-five years of study and research in metaphysical spirituality, Carolyn has discovered her own view of spirituality and its connection to the dream of life. In I Dreamed I Was Human, she tackles thought-provoking concepts that take us on an inner journey, stretching our minds beyond the limitations of belief and perception.

Through yoga, meditation, contemplation, study, and life experiences, she has synthesized, integrated, and expanded all her personal views of how life evolves within us and through us as spiritual beings. That culmination of experience and learning developed into her personal philosophy and understanding of how human life connects with soul and spirit—defining what is real and what isn’t. In this guide she shares that philosophy, exploring such topics as how the ego commits murder, whether or not we are influenced by parallel dimensions, whether our perceptions of God hold us hostage, and so much more.

The cumulative effect of her lifelong search for truth led her to unraveling complex metaphysical concepts and enabled her to describe them in a way that can benefit serious seekers. You can start your own spiritual journey to truth today with I Dreamed I Was Human.

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Body, iUniverse Bookstore, Mind and Spirit,

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