Silver is bite-sized fun – sort of like your favorite cereal for a long breakfast. It will also only take that long consume the whole book. Each poem goes after just one main thought. Some are very direct, some a bit cleverer, but all easy to "get it." Twenty-five nuggets of silver for your pleasure.

The phrase "toxic assets" burst into ugly view, along with "subprime mortgages" during 2007. Thinking people knew, though, that every toxic asset was still an asset! Toxic Assets talks about almost five dozen "assets" which, in spite of their seeming toxicity, all have value in them; all but one (readers, can you find it?).

"Penny, Passed By" is the evolution of a successful life. Success is always the "getting there" – the excitement of committing to a real and defined destination, the love of excellence over mere participation, the certainly of one's own powers regardless of outsiders. "We don't need no stinkin' lucky pennies."

Looking at the soldier's life from the Vietnam era and earlier, the author wonders how a soldier accepts himself day-to-day. There is no good answer. Read, and understand why a soldier's real pay is simply to be left alone. Could there be a more powerful antiwar statement than a snapshot of a soldier after a battle?

Hall of Fame, Rod Walters, has enjoyed a wonderful career in sports. As a youth, he knew he wanted to be in the health care industry. During the summer of his ninth grade year, his parents scholarshipped him to the North Carolina All-Star Student Athletic Training Clinic in Greensboro, North Carolina. Little did he know that at this clinic he would meet some of his favorite professionals who would mold and direct his professional career while being exposed to his professional calling. The ...

The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been instrumental in creating and shaping CBNRM describe their model programs; the countermapping movement and colle...

The discovery of iron ore near Chateaugay Lake in 1831 started the settlement later known as the town of Dannemora. In 1832, several local businessmen entered into partnership to mine the ore. St. John B.L. Skinner, a lawyer in Plattsburgh, owned most of the land and named it Dannemora. Dannemora's history is intertwined with iron ore and the development of the prison. The town is located in Clinton County in the foothills of Dannemora Mountain and is within the Blue Line, which marks the ...

Facets of Liberty is a collection of historical articles by well-known liberty activists and theorists from the early days of the libertarian, voluntaryist, classical liberal and individual anarchist movements, which first emerged during the turbulent 1960s. These articles lay a foundation to understand the early works of a diverse group of students and scholars who were attempting to rediscover and redefine the early ideals of the original liberalism kindled by John Locke, revolutionary l...

IN "Wild Spain" we endeavour to describe a little-known land from a point of view hitherto almost unoccupied—that of the sportsman-naturalist. Many books have been written on Spain—some very good ones: but recent volumes chiefly confine themselves to the history, antiquities, architecture, &c., of the country, with their authors' impressions of the Spanish people. Such subjects find no place—save incidentally—in the present work, which systematically avoids the beaten track and essays to d...

An episode from Rod Serling’s The Zero Hour radio program entitled “Face of the Foe” and starring Jessica Walter, Judy Carne, Joseph Campanella, and Richard Dawson.