This book is written for those in a modern day and age where patience may not be a word we like to hear but it is very vital to accomplishing our goals without letting set backs stop our forward progress. This is a short essay style book that will give keypoints on how to activate the wonderful gift of patience and how to allow it to help us mature and grow our charecter along the way. I guess you could say this is a relevant guide to patience and producitivity.

A fantastical book written in the early 1980s - an adventure of mythical, magical, mystical and fairy tale challenges by two contemporary couples starting from a holiday in West Africa. In their crazy adventures they come across many other supernatural characters and personalities who jump out of the pages. Reading this book is like dreaming awake. A book in two halves - the first partially a nostalgic visit to childhood reading and childhood itself. The second part is post-apocalypse and ...

Extinct Dream is a bizarre, adventurous journey written as an epic poem. Reading it is like dreaming awake.

Technology is set to transform the world. Its likely impact is both terrifying and incredibly exciting. We all need to understand the great changes that are just beginning to re-shape the human domain and our daily lives. Then we need to draw up plans.There are few challenges more important.This book is for:People who want a job in ten years' time.Employers who want to hire the right talent for the future.Students of business and business professionals ...

Since the mid 1800s the rural land surrounding Des Paire, Texas has been known outwardly for two things; fine Monastic wine and the sport of hunting wild pigs. The French and German immigrants who settled this part of Texas brought the boars and mating sows with them from their homeland for sport and sustenance. Little did they realize that years later the seed of their good intentions would mate with the nuisance of the modern day feral hog to produce an aggressive offspring that would st...

Clinical Ultrasound has been thoroughly revised and updated by a brand new editorial team in order to incorporate the latest scanning technologies and their clinical applications in both adult and paediatric patients. With over 4,000 high-quality illustrations, the book covers the entire gamut of organ systems and body parts where this modality is useful. It provides the ultrasound practitioner with a comprehensive, authoritative guide to image diagnosis and interpretation. Colour is now i...

New short fiction by some of Michigan's well-known and highly acclaimed authors.Bob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series but also of the rich history of writing and storytelling in the region. As series editors Michael Delp and ...

Letters from Abu Ghraib, a collection of email messages sent by Joshua Casteel to his friends and family during his service as a US Army interrogator and Arabic linguist in the 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion, is the raw and intimate record of a solider in moral conflict with his duties. Once a cadet at the US Military Academy at West Point and raised in an Evangelical Christian home, Casteel finds himself stationed at Abu Ghraib prison in the wake of the prisoner abuse scandal. He i...

A pair of thriller series from prolific radio writer Wally K. DalyAward-winning dramatist Wally K. Daly penned numerous plays for BBC Radio across a range of genres, including the beloved sci-fi ‘Scream Trilogy’ and the sitcoms Anything Legal and Give Or Take. Featured here are two of his gripping thriller series: the tense spy serial Orphans in Waiting and the eerie supernatural story The Children of Witchwood.

1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget: a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is ...

2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willi...

2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve.For Joshua Valienté, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by radio astro...