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YOU WILL KNOW WHEN THE END IS NEAR...A chosen few of us will understand that this is merely the end of a cycle and the beginning of something new. Only that handful will know what is truly happening. Some will be prepared and may even live on, while others will accept their fate with open arms. Be that as it may, whether one lives or dies, we were, each and every one of us, always headed for the same destiny all along anyway. Those who survive will have to fight to live, eat, and get through each day. They will have to exist in a devastated world. All the modern conveniences that we now enjoy will be no more. Eventually, those survivors will come to discover that, though they fought the good fight every living day, they were just prolonging the inevitable.

This compelling collection of poetry and photographs chronicles essential parts of a well-lived life, visually and verbally. The poems express the longing, vulnerability and triumph we all encounter and make no excuses. The beautiful photographs capture those moments in nature that we often miss. This book will make you joyful and sad, and intentionally affirms the wonder of living a colorful life.

When Two Become One, oneness, unity, testimony, miracles, journey, miraculous, power, visitation, revelation, freedom, calling, anointing, impossible, breaking chains, healing, repentance, deliverance, angelic forces, faith, destiny, design

Leaders, face new issues and challenges with confidence!In this time of rapid social and technological change "FORESIGHT" is a critical leadership characteristic. Vision helps leaders plan for the future, but foresight enables them to deal with inevitable future changes. Foresight can be developed through critical thinking, questioning biases and assumptions, looking from the outside in, and proactive, intentional anticipation. "FORESIGHT-LEADERSHIP LESSONS FOR THE 21st CENTURY" shares lessons and insights- some classical and some cutting edge- on this critical yet undervalued trait of effective leadership.FORESIGHT highlights concepts, theories, cases, and examples derived from the social and behavioral sciences and applies them to leadership qualities required in modern times. It is designed for current and aspiring leaders from all walks of life- business, the military, first responders, and other service-oriented volunteers and workers. It is written for front-line supervisors, middle managers, executives, and students of leadership and management. Ultimately, the book is designed to help YOU make a difference in YOUR organization as an effective, forward-thinking leader.The book is divided into 3-parts- INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCE- (Management Basics, Problem-solving & Decision-making, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Motivation, Stress, Learning; GROUP PROCESSES- (High-Performing Teams, Diversity and Multi-generational Teams) and ORGANIZATION DYNAMICS- (Strategy, Organization Culture, Organization Development/Effectiveness (OD/OE), Organization Conflict and Innovation, Ethics and Social Responsibility, and Organization Design.)The book includes in-text citations and extensive References that facilitate and encourage readers to venture deeper in their leadership/ management discovery.

This book is about two unknown gunfighters, Herman John (The Colorado Kid) Tomlin and Howard Price (The Utah Kid) Tomlin, who became the world's best and fastest gunfighters. It tells about their adventures while traveling on a wagon train from Illinois to Colorado. They both pan for gold on Clear Creek near Black Hawk, Colorado. In the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment, they fought in Indian wars against the Chiricahua Apache. Were gold guards on a stage from Deadwood, South Dakota, to First National Bank in Denver, Colorado? They were deputies in Deadwood, South Dakota. They were doing show performances in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. When they walked the streets or came to town, they never looked for trouble, but if you back them in a corner, with their lightning speed of fast draw and fire, you were dead before you could blink an eye.

This is a children's book teaching the ABCS in a spiritual way.About the Author: Michele Morris was born and raised in a small town in central NY United States. Growing up, she experienced firsthand the challenges of being a young black woman in a society that often undervalued and overlooked people of color. Despite the obstacles she faced, Michele was determined to make a difference in the world. She began studying philosophy and spirituality, exploring new ideas and ways of thinking that challenged her to reach for a higher level of consciousness. As she delved deeper into her studies, Michele began to see the world in a new light. She realized that there was a great need for positive representation and empowering messages for children of color, who too often lacked access to diverse and affirming media. Inspired by her own experiences as a mother, Michele decided to write a children's book that would celebrate and uplift black children everywhere. She poured her heart and soul into the project, working tirelessly to create a book that would resonate with young readers and help them on their journey to understanding their true selves starting at a young age. The result was "Osaze Learns His ABCs," a spiritual learning book dedicated to her son who will one day have to discover his own inner strength and resilience.

John Cerasani was excited to get a job in the "real world." After attending two prestigious universities, Northwestern and Notre Dame, he was geared up and ready to enter white collar America. He got a job in business-to-business sales and quickly rose as a top performer, later pivoting to another end of the same industry with another employer. He was doing well and was respected. He had the job title, the assistant, the office with a view, but he also started developing doubt. Major doubt. He was only 27 years old when he realized that Corporate America was filled with smoke and mirrors. There was evidence of brainwashing that suggested employees couldn't achieve this type of success as an entrepreneur, and John discovered that everything was put in place to trick both employees and clients to believe that bigger is better when, in fact, that isn't the case at all. This eventually led to his selling the company he started from his kitchen for tens of millions of dollars. In 2000 Percent Raise, John uses his experiences in leaving Corporate America to compete on his own as a step-by-step guide for the reader, giving them the ammunition to pull the trigger in not only reevaluating the pitfalls of working for someone else, but also how to be successful against much larger employers when working for themselves.

We have been hearing it for decades: our planet is riding a deadly wave toward climate devastation. But current actions to reduce carbon emissions are insufficient. In The Green Nuclear Option, William Donald Needham, MIT and Duke graduate, nuclear engineer, and advocate for the Sierra Club, describes what some might consider a radical way to turn the tide but that Needham sees as the most powerful, science-supported way: with nuclear power, the only proven carbon neutral means of generating electricity.From a history of nuclear power's beginnings with the Manhattan Project through detailed accounts of the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, Needham does not shy from the ugly side of nuclear power. In being blunt, he addresses the environmental dismissal of nuclear reactors as dangerous and dirty. Needham also explains what has been done to prevent recurrence and makes a financial case for nuclear energy. Needham concludes with hope for the reader: that proven nuclear technology can bridge the gap to a much-reduced fossil fuel future.

In this nostalgic memoir, American author Alexander Rassogianis celebrates his Greek ethnicity and the joy of having two cultures from which to draw enrichment. The book is a collection of vignettes from Alexander's childhood that will entertain and amuse. From creating a nickname, Al, in elementary school (what could be more American than that?), ditching Greek school to play Ping-Pong at Columbus Park, and finding his mother's Greek pastry after she spent hours trying to hide it, Alexander shares what it was like Growing Up Greek in Chicago.

Dino Doug has wanted to see a dinosaur his whole life...and finally his dream is coming true. He's built a large refuge for prehistoric animals, and with the time machine he's had built for him, Dog is going to bring the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals back from extinction. He and his carefully chosen team of experts will travel far into the past to search for an ancient hornless rhino, the Aceratherium. Amongst the ancient Miocene scrublands Doug and his team will encounter animals very similar to ones on the moderns Serengeti. But, unlike today's lions and hyenas lurk cooler even hungrier predators.

Robert had given up on his dreams and was just going through his life day by day, one day his life took a change and when he awoke from a dream state, his dreams mixed with his reality.

Miss Liberty's Monologue and Meditations is a book of poems and images reflecting American conflicts over gender roles, cultural politics, and our relation to the natural world. There are seven poems in the collection, one with twelve sections each printed over a color image by the author. The poems were originally drafted during the energy crisis of the 1970's, when President Carter urged the nation to begin serious efforts to conserve energy and assert some control over our consumer culture. The themes and observations contained in the narratives and images resonate powerfully with the concerns facing the nation in 2022 and beyond.The book's narrative involves a character who refers to himself as Lump, who has brought himself as an out-patient to a mental facility in the mountains of North Carolina. Here he befriends a long-term resident, an aging woman who refers to herself as Miss Liberty. The poems contain his record of his conversations with Miss Liberty, including transcriptions of her elaborate accounts of her dream life. In addition to the narrative poems relating her longer dreams, there are twelve shorter pieces - almost like haiku - which provide Miss Liberty's images of meditation. These are printed over full-color reproductions of abstract watercolor paintings that support reflection on the poem's implications and meanings.While the images of meditation offer one approach to the book's themes, these reflections are contextualized for the reader with the other poems which give Miss Liberty's back-story to illuminate the grounds from which the meditations have grown. While the book offers thoughts on political and cultural issues, it also remains sensitive to the human realities of its main characters. Given current political and cultural upheavals, Miss Liberty's dreams seem all too relevant to contemporary life.

In this continuing story of Greg and Doc, a young boy turned fossil hunter and an optometrist, author Gregory Hagenston tells the story of Makoshika, Montana's largest state park. Drawing on the real-life Dr. Hiatt's rich correspondence and news clippings about this "geological Disneyland," Greg and Doc, Two Souls Surrounded by Badlands: Part II Makoshika is a book like no other-a biography of a stunning place millions of years in the making.

After serving a 1 1/2 year tour in Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry Division and surviving a total of 8 years, 9 months and 21 Days in the US Army, Russ Warriner learned he had PTSD. Dealing with the Combat Memories he calls Combat Demons is a lifelong struggle. Writing about my combat life and the aftermath has become one of his outlets. Becoming a life member of many veteran groups as well as starting a group that served in my type of unit and starting a POW/MIA weekend event has served me well to deal with the demons. Everyone who has PTSD deals with these demons in their own way. If this book can help at least one person to understand PTSD or help them deal with their demons, I feel it was worth the effort I put into writing it.

Scenes from Spiceville is a 40-page, b/w comic book that depicts the daily lives of household spices. Set in the charming town of Spiceville, USA, a pun-packed book gives a taste of what life is like for many beloved spices and herbs.

Your obituary does not tell the entire story.You may be romanticized, but is that the true picture of your life? Others talk about your deep dark secrets in private.In "We Have Secrets ... Were We Rotten?", the person has a chance to explain how they developed their deepest, darkest secrets.

Jake Cahill is a pilot for the Los Angeles Police Department who has become restless and bored with flying over the City. He's torn between duty with the LAPD and a strange beckoning to return home and run his late parent's ranch, Tierra Del Puma, Land of the Cougar. But decisions come hard, and the dangers of the job continue. Jake's life suddenly takes a strange spin when, by a series of odd coincidences and a chance encounter, he meets a woman named Valerie Paige, who unknowingly possesses an ancient secret of Tierra Del Puma. However, powerful people seek ownership of the legacy mountain ranch, and they plan to get it by any means necessary. As Valerie and Jake's lives cross paths, they both become ensnared in a deadly confrontation that will test their bravery and will to survive. Dangerous events unfold as Valerie discovers a 175-year-old promise and the obligation that comes with it.

God desires a dignified, abundant life for each of us. The way to this life is through a personal relationship with him. Faith is first-and-foremost relational. It is not just an intellectual pursuit-knowing something about God-it is tangibly experiencing God, having hearts afire with love for Jesus Christ. Nothing will fill a weary soul or dispel darkness, confusion, and gloom like fervent Christian zeal. In this work, we focus on encounter, the spiritual or relational element of faith, to consider how God is near, active in his creation, and readily available to us. The offer is always there; we simply need to accept it. We are at an inflection point. With secular society rapidly drifting away from God, many people are left empty, weary, tired, and searching. It is time to evangelize with the urgency of the early missionaries who zealously spanned the globe to deliver the Christian message to the remotest corners. Today, these "remote corners" are much closer to home. Now, more than ever, it is time to return to the Lord, to reignite the fire within, to experience God who is always near, and reclaim the dignified life he intended for us.

"Huey Crew Chief memories of Vietnam"--Back cover.

"Soldier Chief, no Lakota braveheart forgets where he buries hatchet," said White Bull, a Cheshire-cat grin across his face. General Edward S. Godfrey (K Co., 7th Cavalry, Ret.) at the Little Bighorn Battle's 50th anniversary responds with surprise. A picture captures this moment at the burial of an unknown 7th Cavalry trooper- Bury the Hatchet Celebration-June 25, 1926. Horse-backed, Godfrey and Sitting Bull's nephew, White Bull, shake hands reaching across the open Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the battlefield. White Bull sneers. As Godfrey stares into the marble coffin, his face is in shock. Godfrey relives unspeakable horror of yesteryears' fighting. Out of context with the crowd's gaiety celebrating the grand occasion, Godfrey gasps seeing the headless corpse."We head-chopped thirty pony soldiers. We turned heads to face dancing-fire's heat, "goaded White Bull, gesturing to his neck with a cutting motion. Godfrey reached for a pistol no longer there. Remember the announcer's voice over the William Tell overture when the Lone Ranger TV show started? "Come with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear!"It's about Crazy Horse, tragic hero, real person - his foibles, his invincibility and incomparable hand-to-eye coordination. Readers meet his friends and adversaries who plotted his murder. Custer needed victory to become president.Lakota Headhunters is a novella, of the 5-book Talking Leaves series: The Crazy Horse Conspiracies. Taken together, these stories recreate the full-bodied character of Crazy Horse-where he stood, what he felt, and what he did-caught up as he was with intrigue, lust, betrayal, rage, and close-quarters-fighting against the U.S. Army. This is a character study long sought by avid Western history readers-a worldwide audience. It belongs in the library of those who must have every book on the subject of Crazy Horse's role in the American Plains Indian wars. Lakota Headhunters is a race to hide Crazy Horse's corpse.'Crazy Horse'-the very words invoke mystical intakes of breath, while Custer stands as the epitome of America's Western legend. The story line collides their myths-these warriors breathe again in full dramatic life as living human beings. This is a fictional history thriller which readers will want to believe is true, and it could be. No one truly knows how Custer died; save for secret Crow sect Curley confided in.The Crazy Horse People to this day do not "connect" with Red Cloud's followers. These Hunkpatila Oglala descendants of "nontreaty" Lakota-Sioux do not live at Pine River Reservation. If you get them to talk, Red Cloud and Spotted Tail are not heroes. Who killed Crazy Horse? A conspiracy continues even today to keep the story hidden from paleface Wasicus. Red Cloud's Oglala and Spotted Tail's Brule tribesmen want what happened kept secret.This story breeds contentious debate-it breeds antagonizing notoriety depicting Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and the Army's agents in a conspiracy that killed Crazy Horse.These books are controversial, presenting never-before-described conspiracies regarding Crazy Horse's murder and killing Custer-America's beloved "Boy General."I've walked campsites and battlefields, interviewed Crow and Lakota tribal historians, studied historic facts in museums and libraries as well as found Crazy Horse's Quest Site-near where his body's buried.These books provide new perceptions delving into historical figures' human side. Holding true to known facts-in-evidence, these books reach beyond, interpreting where people walked, what they felt, why they acted the way they did.Crazy Horse. Custer. Little Bighorn. They interconnect myth, legend, and emotion as no other story line in American history-a sad tale of the destruction of the Lakota horse culture, Custer's "Luck" and Crazy Horse's "invincibility."

A Poem for Each OccasionA collection of poems that deal with love, religion and death. Written by a retired software engineer.

Tengo mucha agilidad porque tengo una cola tan larga, más larga que el cuerpo. Muchas veces la cola es difícil manejar. I am very agile because I have such a long tail, much longer than my body. My tail is often difficult to manage.

I Lost, But I Learn is a great children's book that emphasizes the importance of teaching children that a loss is not the end result. A loss is just an opportunity for anyone to learn from their mistakes or failures. This young boy learns a good life lesson after experiencing a loss in a Track meet. His parents and coach helped him stay motivated in the midst of his failures. Brayden finally learns that he must give his best at all times and outwork his competition!

Life isn't always fair. Get over it!"Comedy of Errors" is the story of Stewart Little, a boy who grows up with some handicaps that might have led him to failure as an adult, but which actually propel him to a successful career as an innovative and renowned cartoonist and graphic novelist.Stewart began life without any obvious physical or mental flaws, but was given a name at birth that was similar to that of a mouse-like fictional child created by the essayist E.B White for a book written in 1946, the year before Stewart's birth.It was not until Stewart reached middle school in the early 1960's that he was ridiculed by a classmate familiar with the children's story who nicknamed him, "Mouse," at precisely the same time that an undiagnosed learning disorder kicked in, which led to Stewart to failures in school and contributed to a decline in his grades and his self-esteem.The story takes the reader on Stewart's pathway through a childhood of poverty and aimlessness, through his teenage years, as he stumbles awkwardly with little assistance from teachers or his parents to expand his goals. With little to guide him, Stewart approaches adulthood at which time he forges a successful career as a cartoonist and an innovative writer and illustrator of graphic novels.Despite, or because of, his mistakes and mishaps, Stewart adapts quickly to his circumstances and develops relationships that enrich his life as he uses every advantage presented to him along his journey."Comedy of Errors" is about persistence, passion and survival, and the ways humans can change the course of their lives by making positive use of their failings as well as of their assets, their loves lost as well as those that blossom, and goals dashed as well as those achieved, to attain fortunes that are often far richer than those achieved by individuals blessed by perfect genetics, wealth, and opportunities.