Wish you knew more about choosing wines than which one has a cool label? Follow a wine enthusiast through his personal journey into the world of red, white, and beyond.Avid taster David Klein didn't start out as a wine expert. His appreciation for spirits began with his Italian-Jewish childhood and continued through adulthood as he discovered a passion for this enduring beverage. Now 30 years later, he's here to share his tasting adventures so you can hold your own...

David Klein, the original inventor of Jelly Belly® jelly beans, shares the deeply personal and eye-opening story of his life-from humble beginnings and sweet success to betrayal and heartbreak. It's Time to Spill the Beans is more than a tale about candy; it's a revealing memoir about the man behind the beans and the high price he paid for trusting the wrong people. With raw honesty and sharp insight, Klein explores the impact of greed in business. This powerful account offers ins...

A riveting tale of psychological suspense about a woman who finds herselfin an impossible situationLured by the hope of a better life for herself and her son, Celeste Vanek mustdeal with the emotional and physical resistance of her compulsive gamblerhusband when she asks for a divorce. Though she hopes she is on the verge ofmaking a clean break, her husband demands his family back, and things getviolent.Ja...

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This second volume in Palgrave’s SCOTUS series explains and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending 2019. With a close look at cases involving key issues and debates in American politics and society, SCOTUS 2019 tackles the Court's rulings on the census citizenship question, partisan gerrymandering, religious monuments, the death penalt...

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This inaugural volume in Palgrave’s new SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending in 2018, covering issues such as gay rights, religious liberty, public sector unions, coerced speech, digital privacy, voting rights, and the Trump travel ban. Bringing together notable scholars of the Court in one volume, the c...

Readers say it best: "This book covers all aspects of estate settlement in a complete and thorough manner.", "The book is written in easy-to-understand terms, with lots of good practical advice.", "I actually bought it to place in my file cabinet along with my Trust documents, Living Will and other documents", "We liked it so much, I bought this book for a friend who was handling a new estate."Acting as the executor, representative, or administrator of an estate is a complicated an...

This book explains and develops the Dirac equation in the context of general relativistic quantum mechanics in a range of spacetime dimensions. It clarifies the subject by carefully pointing out the various conventions used and explaining how they are related to each other. The prerequisites are familiarity with general relativity and an exposure to the Dirac equation at the level of special relativistic quantum mechanics, but a review of this latter topic is given in the first chapter as ...

Once largely ignored, judicial elections in the states have become increasingly controversial over the past two decades. Legal organizations, prominent law professors, and a retired Supreme Court justice have advocated the elimination of elections as a means to choose judges. One of their primary concerns is interest group involvement in elections to state supreme courts, which they see as having negative effects on both the courts themselves and public perceptions of these judicial bodies...

Fire Your Shrink and Read this Book Instead is a call to action. It will empower you to fix your life without getting bogged down by psychoanalysis.The time to start changing your life is now. All you need is the right mindset and the right set of tools. Fire Your Shrink and Read this Book Instead offers practical, honest, true-to-life advice, not psychoanalysis, in order to help you make changes that directly affect your happiness now. It provides you with an action-based approach...

Whether you're searching for your first job or apartment, navigating the treacherous waters of office politics, or just trying to figure out how to file your tax return, Gradspot.com's Guide to Life After College tackles the most common issues facing twentysomethings as they find their feet in the "real world."Authors Chris Schonberger, Stuart Schultz, David Klein, and Tory Hoen (twentysomethings themselves) have been through it all before, and they maintain a sense of hum...

Learn how to prepare your estate and settle the estates of loved ones.What needs to be done at the death of a loved one? There are four basic steps that must be followed. First is the arrangements for burial or cremation. Then the assets of the deceased have to be inventoried, followed by getting all debts paid and legal requirements met, followed by distributing the assets to the people who are supposed to get them according to the person’s will, trust, or state l...

With an experienced CIA officer as your teacher, you’ll gain the knowledge and necessary tools to protect yourself and the ones you love.No matter where we go, we leave tracks and clues of our existence without even knowing. Our electronic footprint becomes our invisible trail. In this day in age where the world seems to be at our fingertips and social media plays a huge role in our daily lives, it’s hard not to leave part of our digital selves for others to find.