Looking for inspiration to launch that new project or career? Have a great idea but can't figure out how to move it forward? Drawing on Brian's years as a Walt Disney Imagineer, global innovation consultant, and college instructor, Creative Cross-Pollination encapsulates his unique process and idea-generating techniques for tackling life's challenges and achieving your biggest dreams.Sounds lofty? It's not. Anybody looking for fresh ideas, trying to get out of a rut, or wa...

If you like money, have or are starting abusiness, you need to read my book.www.stepofftheporchandstartyourown business.com. Not just another self help business book. Many of today's books on business are written in a self help manner; this isn't one of them. This is an edgy and honest recollection of business ventures written with 6 rules by the guy who risked it all. There are 4 real world business ventures, all started for less than $10.00 each, and each follow my 6 rules ...

Robert Eisler, the polymathic Jewish Austrian scholar and Holocaust survivor, faded into obscurity after his death in 1949. A contemporary and associate of Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and Gershom Scholem, Eisler spent his early years in fin-de-siècle Vienna and trained as an art historian and economist. In this book, the first in English devoted to Eisler’s life and thought, Brian Collins takes us through the development of Eisler’s ideas about the philosophy of values, comparative mytho...

What if we suffer things from before we were born?A man writes to console his heartsick daughter with a wild tale about sadness like that. "It's half of what ails us," he tells her, "someone else's grief."It all began with young Tom Hedderman and his wanting a little love. Love needed land in old Moyloo, a bit of dirt for spuds, and there was none but rathground, where the ghosts of the Old People never let up. What follows is a fantastical test of spirit. The ghosts keep k...

In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man’s sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging study of Hindu texts read through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also performs a careful r...

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of V****iṣṇu with a much darker reputation.The Other Rāma presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of Viṣṇu best known for decapitating his own mother and annihilating twenty-one generations of the Katriy...

Brian "Essince" Collins and Quincy "Big Heff" Taylor are two self-made music and media figures who have come together to share their experiences working with multi-platinum musicians, major record labels, and booking international tours to educate readers on how to Make It in the Midwest. Learn the basics of copyrights and royalties to advanced strategies on booking tours and generating income in the music industry from the Midwest all over the world and back. Quincy Taylor got his start p...

This book addresses the fundamentals and practical implementations of antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)In this book, the authors discuss the various aspects of GNSS antennas, including fundamentals of GNSS, design approaches for the GNSS terminal and satellite antennas, performance enhancement techniques and effects of user’s presence and surrounding environment on these antennas. In addition, the book will provide the reader with an insight i...

Data-Driven Quality Improvement and Sustainability in Health Care: An Interprofessional Approach provides nurse leaders and healthcare administrators of all disciplines with a solid understanding of data and how to leverage data to improve outcomes, fuel innovation, and achieve sustained results. It sets the stage by examining the current state of the healthcare landscape; new imperatives to meet policy, regulatory, and consumer demands; and the role of data in administrative and ...

Kenkey for Ewes & Other Very Short Stories' is a collection of 50 stories that are considered to be some of the best published works on the Flash Fiction Ghana Blog (flashfictionghana.com).'Kenkey for Ewes' is based around themes of modern African identity, love and respect for the dead, cruelty and greed and the enigmatic influence of fate and fortune.From worlds inhabited by ghosts and talking twigmen, forlorn immigrants and greedy fetish priests -to the perennial, humoro...

Vampires, zombies, shadowy government agencies, and creatures of the Fae, even the Monster under the bed, populate the pages of Tipping Point. Two groups of people-one tossed together by blood and circumstance, The other, organized and well supported-follow different paths to the same place in time. The first group chased by creatures they rarely see and don't understand, run and hide, then run some more. Led by William Burkett, this rag tag band made up of family and others gathered along...

In the course of their 20+-year engineering careers, authors Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman have picked up a treasure trove of wisdom and anecdotes about how successful teams work together. Their conclusion? Even among people who have spent decades learning the technical side of their jobs, most haven’t really focused on the human component. Learning to collaborate is just as important to success. If you invest in the "soft skills" of your job, you can have a much greater impact...