Three thousand hours.Sixty-seven thousand in gross commission. Forty-one thousand net. About thirteen dollars and seventy-three cents an hour.Wade Roberts is at the end of year three in real estate, and that's what he has to show for it. His wife runs an ICU. His daughters are seven and five. His father - the hardest worker he ever knew - died eighteen months ago, and the line Wade can't get out of his head is the one his father always said: work can wait, family can't....

A unique take on modern life in Tokyo. A Japan of trains, every day to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. To be savoured through the Odakyu line. Pitched as creative text and line-graphics, Tokyo Commute offers on-track and off-track observations. Poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette.

For too long, professional services firms have relied on the producer-manager” model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today’s managing directors must balance often conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations of partners at all levels.When Professionals Have to Lead presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective ...

Why are we here? What is our purpose? Do we have a choice in what direction to go in life, or is everything preordained or left up to fate?Within the span of eleven months, Robert Lee asked these questions and received the answers through reading the Bible and praying to God. Precipitated by a divorce and subsequent move from Ottawa to Chilliwack, the answers were revealed to him through the Bible, his experiences, and the people he met.How we got to where we are in life is...

Scotland, 1746. The Jacobite dream lies bleeding on the moor of Culloden, and the English Redcoats are burning the glens to ash.Robert MacAllen and Duncan MacDonald—two hard-drinking, harder-fighting Highlanders from Wick—never asked to be heroes. All they wanted was one quiet night at the inn, a dram of whisky, and to forget the faces of the men they lost. But when English dragoons start throwing their weight around, insults turn to fists, fists turn to steel, and suddenly the two ...

People are deeply curious about origins. Cosmologists seek the origin of the universe. Biologists seek the origin of life. Genealogists seek their family history. Humans want to know their connections to the past. Most know their parents and the circumstances of their birth. But for many even that is veiled in a shroud of mystery. Dawn on the Northern Plains is a fictionalized account of a birth family search. It is set during the period of the Vietnam War at a time when secrecy was still ...

God Save the South: 40+ Memoirs of Defiance gathers a capacious, contentious body of Confederate-era recollection: military narratives, political testimony, diaries, domestic observations, and retrospective defenses of secession. Its varied styles range from battlefield chronicle and naval report to intimate journal writing and polemical memoir. Accounts of campaigns, imprisonment, supply, civilian hardship, and the collapsing home front make the volume valuable not as a unified history, b...

Chuck is such a naughty younger brother. Poor Charlie! He had to do everything around the house and he even had to put up with Chuck's games and amusements. But Chuck went too far when he tried to steal the rope used to keep the washed clothes on the line!

Naturalists notice things. Scientists attempt to explain the natural world. Religions attempt to give meaning to human life. Writing as first-person narrative history, a naturalist explores, noticing things and the inner struggle of growing up and living in a Christian culture while science continued to bring new discoveries and knowledge into human grasp. This work is about the joy of a free mind noticing things and breaking free of one of humanitys primal afflictions: the ide fixe. It is...

No idea how to start your book? Lost when it comes to planning and structuring your book? Say goodbye to writers block forever. Completely stuck and can not see the way ahead? Need a plan of action or a map detailing where your writing should go but have no idea how to produce and outline? You need to use this mind mapping system to Braindump.Learn how to use simple free tools to generate an outline and then go on to write the book you have talked about but could never start.

The latest in a series of brutal murders has left Detective Robert Park close to breakdown, his sense of failure being amplified when his only suspect seemingly becomes a victim of her own gruesome game. With the situation worsening, Park soon realizes that far darker forces are at work in his city than he could ever have imagined.As his sense of what is real is called into question, the emotional distance between himself and his wife grows ever wider, the guilt he feels over the de...

'Lee takes the oft cited belief that entrepreneurial endeavour lives and dies by the quality of the networks set in play, and subjects it to a rigorous and sustained analysis. In this he not only provides the reader with an authoritative theoretical and empirical foray into how entrepreneurs can create and sustain different forms of social capital, he does so with a strong sense of how power frames and taints its acquisition and use. Lee¹s book is a valuable contribution to our understandi...