Forget the drive-through, in Vegan Fast Food you’ll find mouthwatering junk food and comfort food classics, minus the meat and dairy.Whether you’re a brand-new vegan missing buffalo wings or a longtime vegan tired of the limited vegan options when eating out, Brian Watson, aka Thee Burger Dude, has been there. In fact, few food bloggers have thought more about what textures, tastes, and special sauces make iconic dishes so...

The 7 RINGS: A Journey to a Balanced Life of Peace, Passion, and Purpose combines the business and leadership acumen of a successful, global CEO with the inspiration and passionate motivation of a friend. Simply put, it’s an inspiring field guide for making life balance a reality, from someone who has had their share of struggles and disappointments. Bridging both the corporate and non-profit worlds, this book challenges readers to discover their life’s purpose and encourages them to live ...

Go along with the Colonel on this nostalgic trip back to the 1950's and life growing up in the Midwest. Follow him on his solo trek across Europe and the year that made him a man in the Aviation Cadet Program. Next it's many a day in Vietnam over the course of the war and the hardships faced by the aviators and their families on a daily basis. Life in the "fast lane" or five years in the Pentagon gives the reader a close look at the many challenges faced by the Staff Officer in the "buildi...

The late 19th century saw a dynamic growth of contacts between Western countries and the Far East. Along with the increase in travel came a wave of educational opportunities for Americans and Europeans to gain first-hand experience of living in countries such as China, India, and Japan. Likewise, adventurous individuals from the Orient made their way to the West.      Scholars, politicians, and business people became experts in their adapted culture. Some learned the native language...

Be the most effective CIO you can be—by learning from the best in the businessToday's Chief Information Officers must be an entirely new breed of technology leader. With ever-changing demands from the business, and in an increasingly technology-centric business environment, CIOs must find game-changing innovations and process improvements that make a real impact on the bottom line. Business executives need their CIOs to be real partners—speaking the language of the...

Representing Kink raises awareness about non-normative texts and non-normative erotic practices and desires. It defines “kink” broadly, encompassing a range of “inappropriate” texts and understanding it in frequent reference to non-normative erotic fantasies and experiences. Kink is treated as both a set of practices as well as a category of texts at the nexus of subject and form. In addition to canonical texts that take up erotic and marginalized themes, the collection also studies forms ...

The book will include separate chapters focused on CIO "case studies"-careful, detailed examinations of "All Star" IT leaders and their decision-making, with solid background on the business problem they were trying to solve and how they arrived at their decisions. The book will include candid personal reflections on those decision-making processes, and then provide analysis from a third party lens. It will be written in a narrative form to create a mystery-within-a-case-study feel and flo...

The smell of burning rubber and singed wood still clings to my memory...From the charged chaos of the fireground to the humdrum aisles of a grocery store, this powerful memoir traces a life lived between two worlds that couldn't seem more different - yet are bound by the same heartbeat of purpose, perseverance, and humanity.In Between Flames and Fluorescents, invites readers into the dual realities that shaped their life: the adrenaline-fu...

Sometime in 1866, a Spaniard named Josep Soler (1840–1906) arrived in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in Constantí in the Camp de Tarragona winemaking region south of Barcelona, Soler came from a winemaking family and was a winemaker himself before leaving Spain. He planted his first New Zealand vineyard shortly after arriving in Whanganui, and his business life was one of uninterrupted success. In 1880, the New Zealand Herald proclaimed him its “New Zealander of the Year” for “his f...

This is a revised and updated edition of the book, including more recent information, footnotes, a bibiliography, page numbers (print edition) and more beautiful fonts!In a groundbreaking reappraisal of European history, award-winning historian Brian M. Watson gives the secret history of smut through the literature, art, photography, and historical figures you didn't learn about in school. Watson combs the bawdy and forgotten corners of Western civilization to reveal the hidden sto...

Trapped by a Blizzard, Bound by Desire.When a winter storm strands famous country singer Peter Lexington at Kristina Cartwright's remote horse farm, neither expects the heat that ignites between them. She thinks he's delusional about being a star. He's never met a woman immune to his charm.As the snow piles up outside, so does the tension within. For Kristina, horses have always been enough—they never lie, cheat, or leave like the men in her life. For Peter...

Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained fame for advocating black economic empowerment and a repatriation movement, Horace wrote...