This short book leads the reader on a 'guided tour' of some of the great issues facing us in the 21st century, and differing views of the best way to adapt to them. Issues relating to global warming climate change and how to respond//issues relating to the environmental limits to growth and how to respond/displacement of workers by automation and how what to do/the high and rising debt ratios of governments and whether to tax the rich the same as everybody else/ differing views on the role...

The stock of accumulated fairy tale literature? Surprisingly it might be smaller/be fewer than you think/surmise. Searching the internet for “fairy tales the world cherishes”, the number came to no more than a “round ten” or so of the best and most familiar household names, ones. As also with poetry on specific subjects and themes, especially those themes that I choose for my poems, THE FIELD IS WIDE OPEN FOR LACK OF COMPETITION. Fairy tales being known to be good for kids in many a’ way, ...

'The Beautiful Silence' is the second collection of short stories to be published by Chris Nelson. It contains sixteen stories with each one focused around the impact of one event on its central character: some may be fantastical, some introspective and yet more haunting and disturbing.

Have you ever wondered how some of the highest-performing sales reps continue outperforming the rest of the pack month after month? I'll let you in on a little secret: it is not because they have some sort of God-given talent they were born with that you just don't. In most cases, elite-level performers will have significantly out-earned the rest of the pack or have been promoted and already moved on to the next level before you figure out what has given them such an advantage. They have a...

A universal need of all warm blooded mammals is: to love and be loved (in return). Paradoxically, in our modern, fast paced, society, it is a need which often goes unfulfilled. This is attested to/evinced by data on percentages of the population living alone and unattached: 50% alone, in Canada, where I live in a retirement community. Before industrial society came into being, in days of feudalism, the problem situation facing humanity was characterized/portrayed as being one of battles be...

The Beauty and the Yeast is a kind of unintentional satire, and play on words, of the famous French Novel,, by Jeanne Marie Lepeine de Beaumont (the "de" indicating a member of the feudal aristocracy), The Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bete), writing in feudal France of the mid-1700's. Both stories have in common a heroine, through whose capacity to see inner beauty in others, transcends the outward grotesqueness, or pathetic tinyness, of the protagonists, in her case, of la Bete,, ...

What is good about this book? Well, how about, that it reminds us not to forget about the things we love and admire: our beloved people and pets, the beauty of nature, the energy and excitement of sports and the sporting world, the desire to rise up to and meet the awesome challenges of our times - be they economical, ecological, epidemiological, achieving harmony of the races, meeting the concerns of the LGBTQ community, or the simple wish to make/see our leaders working together to build...

A cat named birdie - the author expresses delight and wonderment at the great range of behaviours, ranging from comical and hilarious, to tender and even moving, exhibited by his former budgie and his present rescue cat from the humane society of Ottawa. even though they are separated in time and space, and the persons who appear in the stories are not the same anymore, in the author's imagination, it is all just like yesterday, so that the lines become blurred between yesterday and today....

Our fundamental relationship is the one that we have with ourselves, master this and we master all else.We live in a world where stress and chronic disease are spiralling out of control. Our greatest need today is to learn how to relax and this begins with the mind. Wake Up and SOAR presents a clear and simple road map which empowers you to create a relaxed supportive lifestyle providing a stable base from which to pursue your heartfelt desires. The core tool S.O.A.R has its roots i...

A Single Rose Can be My Garden comes in three parts along with two short essays (Right Little Madam and Golden Nuggets). Part 1, A Penny for Your Thoughts, describes Chris's champion show beagle, Penny. The poems reveal an animal at one and the same time full of mischief, silliness, and fun, as well as one capable of amazing perception, having a sort of 6th sense, and being loving, loyal, and sensitive to an extraordinary degree. This is evinced by the poem, Dog's Will, where Penny is show...

This book is about fashion. It is about clothes - literally from all angles - front, back, and sideways - as well as angles defined as the whys and wherefores people wear the clothes they do and what needs clothes fulfill in people's lives. Always seeing those observed through sympathetic, smiling eyes. It is about how clothes can: make a woman! And how a woman can go about making clothes! Stylish, sensual clothes! It reflects my personal somewhat "fetishy" predilections/tastes. it is bias...

Winner of the 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western BiographiesJohn William Dear was born in 1845 into a close-knit farming family in Northern Virginia. After the Civil War, when he fought as a Confederate soldier with Mosby's Rangers, he went West. For fifteen years, until his premature death, Dear lived a tumultuous life in the West as one of the last fur traders on the Upper Missouri and as the longest serving, government-appointed Indian Trader to Red Cl...