The inside story of the founding and growth of Taylor Guitars, one of the world's most successful guitar manufacturersBob Taylor mixes the details of his experience as a tradesman and cofounder of Taylor Guitars, a world-famous acoustic and electric guitar manufacturer, with philosophical life lessons that have practical application for building a business.From the “a-ha” moment in junior high school that inspired his very first guitar, Taylor has been living the American dr...

What I offer in this book is a comprehensive alternative to the concepts we have all been taught, based on improper, unintelligent sources. This book teaches you how to unlock the amazing mental potentials in your dog. It gives you an inside look into the mentality of your dog, and shows you how to use the dog's natural mental abilities to transform them into the dynamic, intelligent, useful dog, you've always wanted. It answers questions about your dog's mental capabilities and processes ...

More veterans died from suicide in a ten-year period than during the entirety of the Vietnam WarThere is a very large problem in our veteran community. Every day, 640 veterans attempt suicide, 22 veterans die, and over 5,500 are thinking about committing suicide. Approximately 48% of all military members struggle after transitioning from military service'Äîbut these struggles don'Äôt have to be the end of their story. There is a bright and successful future available for every vete...

More veterans died from suicide in a ten-year period than during the entirety of the Vietnam WarThere is a very large problem in our veteran community. Every day, 640 veterans attempt suicide, 22 veterans die, and over 5,500 are thinking about committing suicide. Approximately 48% of all military members struggle after transitioning from military service—but these struggles don’t have to be the end of their story. There is a bright and successful future available f...

I am a dog trainer and behaviorist who, as a National and World Dog Sport Champion traveled throughout the world. I did so competing with my dogs, and being invited by different countries, to do work with their dogs. Therefore as the California Superior Court K9 Expert, and Behaviorist, I have been deeply involved in training dangerous, and aggressive dogs. This book is the true account of several such dogs, and their dog training. It involves dynamic case studies of several dogs, and an i...

As will be illustrated and shown to the reader throughout this writing, there are several different areas, as well as specific issues and situations where the services and performance of a trained Service Dog are now only capable of enhancing the ability to provide for the caregiving, dignity, and functionality of a person affected by Dementia, but have been proven to be essential to those abilities as well. There are several reasons that will be presented to the reader, showing the validi...

This book provides a comprehensive foundation anyone can use to raise their puppy as a real working dog. It was written by a trainer who spent years raising hundreds of dogs that he used to compete in International Dog Sports, supply top quality Police Canines, Anti-Terrorist Canines, and Psychiatric Service Dogs for hundreds of families, businesses, Police Officers, and Governments, world wide. The book is written to help the millions of people around the world are raising working dog pup...

A romance hatched in 1968 in war-torn Vietnam comes to a violent end when enemy guerrillas attack the U. S. Naval Hospital at Da Nang, taking the life of Navy nurse Angela Robbins and stealing her opal engagement ring, given to her by Marine pilot Warner Nichols in contemplation of marriage. Time and the War continue and Warner's private focus remains on the missing ring and the identity of the perpetrator. His life is almost destroyed except for Vic Tobias, his wingman who monitors his ev...

Stories, mostly humorous, some nostalgic, about Marine Corps Boot Camp. What wasn't funny then can be humorous now. Marines, relatives, and friends submitted over 400 first-hand stories. The best of these are in this book. As one new Marine said to the author, "Nothing's funny in Boot Camp." But it is, years later.

Getting Our Wings is a non-fiction aviation book filled with pictures, facts, humor, nostalgia, sadness, and honor. Specifically, it THE NAVAL AVIATION TRAINING story, a non-fiction book about brave men and women spanning our first one hundred years as they learned to fly the Navy way. I would wager my last nickel that many former flight instructors and students who read this book will remember that some of these memories also happened to them during their flight school days. I believe tha...

Confederate soldier Homer Lusta returns to Earth 150 years after the Civil War, the War Between the States, or as Homer would say, the War of Northern Aggression. He remains invisible as he searches for an author to write the "real story" of that war. Finally Homer selects "Old Bob," materializes himself, and convinces Bob to write the story according to his memory. Homer's adaptation is reasonably accurate and loaded with "Homer humor" as he recalls his endeavors to save the South and pro...

Children's story of a lonely misfit frog, who is not liked by the other frogs, until one day he learns to play guitar and transforms into a rocker frog, that all the other frogs learn to love. He searches the neighborhood for other frogs, so he can start a band. He becomes best friends with a young girl named Jenny. The two become inseparable, and they end up forming a band called Way of the frog.