This book is written to attempt to assist anyone who wishes to ease some of the burdens that today's younger people face, providing proven methods, along with a dash of humor and a gentle prodding of the reader toward God.

If this is your first time traveling abroad, "The Smugglers of the Sulu Islands" may not be the guide for you. But if you've already roamed the planet a bit, this diverse collection of travel stories is a must read. It provides such useful tips as which conversations to avoid with the head of a Philippine smuggling gang or an undercover Hong Kong vice cop. It explains how to economize on Caribbean cruises by hitching a ride on a gravel barge. Some stories include history like Imperial mili...

The Genesis Plan: The atLan Chronicles IBy: Ken JacksonAfter a winter away from her Early Bronze Age community, Ishka the Healer returns with an infant son and a secret that no other living person knows. The boy was not given to her by the spirits of the forest, as she defiantly claims, but was fathered by a now-deceased cloud traveler, one of a mysterious people from another world whom her people fear but have never seen. Her plans to groom this special child for the leade...

"On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is... different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because sh...

I started off as a musician in high school playing guitar and bass. Coming out of high school, I know some of my own songs as well as other artists. I didnt start writing poems for a while though. Except in high school, for English class, I wrote a poem going Lets blow up the rotten school and build ourselves a swimming pool.. and that raised an issue of school threats similar to bomb threats of this day and age. Then there was this dirty poem I wrote in my early 20s. But I was still writi...

"Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first dramatized audiobook in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring the intriguing fantasy world of mercenary Kate Daniels.When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck merce...

Half Shakespearean Sonetts, Half Pantoums with a sestina and a 7 verse poem

SpiritwalkerBy: Ken JacksonSpiritwalker is a fantastical tale of a man who discovers he has the ability to change into different animals and his discovery of a new home among the Native Americans. Blending truth and myth into one tale, Spiritwalker hopes to inspire a new love Native American culture.

Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, the third edition of this popular book provides useful information to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. • Explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems • Describes the underlying representations used in system modelling and introduces the UML2 • Considers the relationship between requirements and modelling • Covers a generic multi-layer re...

Planet Comics launched in January, 1940 as a companion to the famous pulp magazine Planet Stories. Both features exciting tales of action-adventure in a "space opera" universe. This is the first issue of Planet Comics, reproduced from a surviving original copy of the comic book. .

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert’s providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor’s surprising decision to spare his son amidst the filial slaughters of Titus Andronic...

We live in a commercial world where much of our work is undertaken through a project -oriented approach. This has the advantage of determining the cost and time of the project to be undertaken, which in their turn are based on the knowledge of what the project is to deliver. Computing is no different in this regard, and so in order to organize our activities, we need to know what it is that is to be delivered. Hence Requirements Engineering, an organized approach to determining what is req...