Up Against The Clock covers the essential gamut of time management wisdom, and provides useful information about attitude and self-evaluation, organizing a clear and streamlined workspace, running effective meetings, getting the best out of employees, and generally “greasing the wheels” of an optimally efficient work environment. The book’s purpose is to effectively double your time efficiency with tested and proven time-saving methods that apply to a variety of day-to-day situations. If the ideas presented in this book are practiced diligently, they will lead to success both on and off the job. Up Against The Clock can be used as a handy reference manual or a primer to be read straight through. It is also a workbook, with written exercises to be filled in and completed.
A positive look at how talking computers, VIVOs, will make text/written language obsolete, replace all writing and reading with speech and graphics, democratize information flow worldwide, and recreate an oral culture by 2050. Text is an ancient technology for storing and retrieving information; VIVOs will do the same job more quickly, efficiently, and universally. Among VIVO’s potential benefits: 80% of the world’s people are functionally nonliterate; they will be able to use VIVOs to access all information without having to learn to read and write. VIVO’s instantaneous translation function will let people speak with other people around the world using their own native languages. People whose disabilities prevent them from reading and/or writing will be able to access all information. Four “engines” are driving us irreversibly into the VIVO Age and oral culture: human evolution, technological breakthroughs, young people’s rejection of text, and people’s demand for textless, universal access to information. Future generations, using eight key VIVOlutionary learning skills, will radically change education, human relations, politics, the arts, business, our relation to the environment, and even human consciousness itself. Worldwide access to VIVO technology looms as a key human rights issue of the 21st Century.
The book assists parents in navigating toy and play options, offers tips on evaluating toy safety, and suggests innumerable diverse activities. The book identifies educational and age-appropriate toys, important craft supplies for playtime and offers hundreds of useful ways to make play a life-long and nurturing experience. A great addition to the library of anyone who cares about children! This book is a valuable resource for parent, grandparents, teachers, toy store personnel, toy designers and anyone in the toy industry! The book has been published in 12 countries.
A great American city is destroyed under mysterious circumstances,wasted by explosions and fire. A lone survivor wanders, lost, among its ruins. Out of a whirlwind of language appear the images of a boy, a youth, a middle-aged man exploring lives he might have led had he made different choices in early manhood, of an old man in a hospital, paralyzed and dying – and of a young girl, a young woman, an old woman, alone, abandoned, longing, in an ever-renewed and ever-frustrated search for love. Christopher Bernard’s debut novel, anticipated by his literary admirers for more than eight years, offers a portrait of a society in turmoil, at war, divided and afraid, a world driven from its moorings, in quest of significance in a chaotic time – a world like our own, inhabited by people finding what purposes they can, in the creation of meaning out of the chaos of experience.
Repression, Imprisonment, Escape . . . Ivey Jane Doede is about to turn eighteen and is trying to leave home. She lives with her younger brother, Louie, and parents in Kansas with nothing but miles of cornfields in every direction. Ivey’s mom is abusive and her father is an alcoholic. Family life gets worse after a religious cult comes into the neighboring town, offering salvation. “Escape to Anywhere Else” connects to that part in all our lives when numbing is no longer enough. Ivey Doede must take a stand if she is to make it out alive.
California NORML Guide to Drug Testing is the authorative and indispensable guide to: dealing with drug testing on short notice; drug test detection times; medical marijuana and drug tests; drug tests and DUI, and what’s wrong with drug testing. Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML writes, “This booklet arms cannabis consumers with the knowledge they need to protect themselves from discrimination in the workplace and provides activists with the information they need to effectively lobby against these pernicious policies.”
Scarlett Thresher doesn’t like humans. She’s an immortal warrior. She’s lethal with a sword. And she can hold her whiskey better than most men. But visiting the human realm gives her panic attacks.
Too bad her baby brother is getting married there and skipping the wedding isn’t an option.
But when Scarlett stumbles across FBI Agent Greyson Derrington at a murder scene, she realizes that his killer is quite literally inhuman. And he’s going to need cooperation from the faerie realm to have any hope of stopping the monster.
As they close in on an insidious evil that’s stalking human women through their dreams, Grey begins to awaken parts of Scarlett that she long believed were shattered beyond repair.
Can he help her to release her fear and let go of the past, before time runs out for the next victim?
*GREY’S MAGIC is a full length adult fantasy romance novel.
Passion…
When Violet Hendrickson takes a tour in The Florida Keys and meets sexy boat captain, Doyle Thresher, the attraction is instantaneous. The warm summer sun, the mystique of the ocean, and the charming, chiseled Irishman are more than she can resist.
Magic…
But something evil is lurking beneath the waves, lying in wait for Violet. And when she nearly drowns on Doyle's boat tour, he knows it’s no ordinary accident. In order to keep her safe, he will be forced to reveal his most deeply held secret.
Will Violet be able to accept the magical truth of his identity? And will he be able to convince her of the existence of the evil that hunts her…before it’s too late?
*PASSIONATE MAGIC is a full length adult fantasy romance novel.
What would you do if you met a sexy djinn who offered you three wishes? Before you get too excited, you’d better read the fine print—because after he grants your third wish, he gets to claim your soul. Forever.
Sydney Corrigan has just made the second biggest mistake of her life—she’s agreed to join the evil Unseelie Court on the Hell Ride. If she’s lucky, the trail of clues will lead to the final piece of the puzzle that could save her soul…if she can survive the night.
As she fights to overturn an ancient death djinn covenant and keep her mortality, Sydney will be forced to decide what’s more important to her—love or freedom.
Picking up where Book 1, A RISKY PROPOSITION, left off, SOUL SEDUCTION is the exciting and sensual conclusion of Sydney’s adventures in the Faerie Realm.
*SOUL SEDUCTION is a full length adult fantasy romance novel.