A great designer offers you a virtuoso tour through the world of sailboatsBob Perry initiated the trend toward fast voyaging sailboats with his world-famous Valiant 40, which has been in production longer than any other cruising sailboat in history. But Perry is not only a leading yacht designer--he is also an accomplished wordsmith whose blunt, insightful, irreverent, and always entertaining boat reviews have captivated readers of Sailing magazine for 24 ...

"Murder, mayhem, and mystery! Every story . . . is filled with suspense, sizzle and startling twists. I loved it!" -Lisa Jackson, New York Times–bestselling authorCrime comes to the capital of country music in these all-new stories by mystery and thriller stars including Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Robert Dugoni, Donald Bain, Jefferson Bass, and many more."Settings include backwoods hollows, late-night recording studios, seedy dives, quiet suburbs,...

This is a book of 108 poems that were transmitted through the author. They were created and communicated by a range of organisms, minerals and planetary bodies. They offer insights about humanity, thoughts about humanity's potential to live in harmony with nature, and how organisms are themselves created.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - May 2022Dampening: Law enforcement from previously genocidal enemies are forced to work together to solve a possible murder.The Big, Immovable I: Daphne is institutionalized while trying to answer the question, "Why am I, I?"The Man Who Killed The Dog: A man slowly goes crazy because he is unable to come to terms with his past.

The Improvement Science Dissertation in Practice provides a narrative and illustration about the purpose and features comprising the Dissertation in Practice and how this culminating experience is well suited to using Improvement Science as a signature methodology for preparing professional practitioners. This methodology, when combined with the Dissertation in Practice experience in EdD programs, reinforces practitioner learning about and skills for leadership and change. As a gu...

HOW TO EXPERIENCE A LIFE DRIVEN BY PURPOSEEach day, is a day to encounter your destiny with purpose, and Living the Purpose Inspired life is a powerful, groundbreaking and inspirational book that offers a better way of discovering the purpose of living. While giving significance to the personality, choices, and the events of life. Defining and exploring the human identity and showing how to live a life driven by purpose, while embracing your imperfections.Daily we ...

This story was written to see your enemies eyes. Melvin was the typical black teen that was raised to dislike whites for his own personal reasons. He lived his life on the edge until he was forced into a world that he had never dreamed of, and now he must choose life over love of his enemies.

The comparative method is fundamental and critical for political scientists, and especially those interested in comparative politics. Such questions as how democratic is the United States, how rich is Germany, and how ethnically complex is Nigeria-and what effects these attributes have on important political phenomena-cannot be analyzed except comparatively. To understand politics we need to think in terms of concepts, processes, behavior and authority patterns that transcend specific regi...

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religious camps have shaped their identities according to particular interpretations of their shared history. As such, any re-examination and revision of Irish history has the potential to have a very real impact upon wider society. Defining revisionism in historiography as a reaction to contemporary conflict in Ireland, this book looks at how intellect...

The Blitz is at its height. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees a sinister silver sphere crash-land. He glimpses something emerging from within. The military dismiss his account of events – the sphere must be a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way. What else could it be?Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace embark on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi agents, and encounter some very old enemi...

A collection of fictional narrative tales with a unifying monologue told by "Robert," an expat retiree from the United States living in a small beach townon the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, ending with a novella set in the same place.

John Perry Barlow’s wild ride with the Grateful Dead was just part of a Zelig-like life that took him from a childhood as ranching royalty in Wyoming to membership in the Internet Hall of Fame as a digital free speech advocate.Mother American Night is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and often unbelievable (yet completely true) story of an American icon. Born into a powerful Wyoming political family, John Perry Barlow wrote the lyrics for thirty Grateful De...