Meet Alan Dyson, a research scientist experimenting with the longevity effects of a newly discovered bristlecone pine tree gene. He thinks he's being watched and followed. He's right. When his secret formula is stolen, and all notes are wiped from his computer, his friend--the firm's computer programmer--secretly tracks the thief to a P.O. Box in Zion, Iowa. Under suspicion, and with his project canceled due to a bizarre death, Alan visits Zion to discover that he's not the only stranger i...

A biomedical student at ASU, whose dad mines rare earths in Brazil, cooks a formula that mimics LSD, and produces unique dreams. His buddy is an unemployed business journalist, not quite the geek, but willing to pool talents to test what they have before approaching Big Pharma. In the party town of Tempe they decide to use girls, but not quite like the jocks do. What happens next is beyond the expected, as one girl begins to have similar dreams…of the future. Diaries of the dreams are reco...

Question: when do sewer rats in suburbia acquire intelligence and cunning? Answer: when they begin calling each other names. For Duff and Tuff, newly arrived on Conner's lawn after being ejected from a drain culvert during a flood, their I.Q. soon begins to rise while Conner's falls. Conner, you see, is obsessed with TV. Now the plan is to keep this bachelor from going through with his vow to change his life (and their situation) by pretending to be his supposedly deceased ex wife. Inspire...

Jude Johnstone and his photographer buddy Grover once traveled together for magazine articles. Times have changed. Jude is now a tabloid reporter in Miami, and Grover runs a dying camera store. Then Jude gets a tip leading to the location of a disappeared Powerball winner of $900M, and finds him in hiding in a South Beach penthouse. Howard Rosen was a bowling alley accountant who has erased his identity with the plan to reemerge a hero after financing a coup against a corrupt Caribbean isl...

Troubled by dreams of hell and Rapture, Michael Rivers fights to overcome his visions by keeping a diary and staying awake. But his nightmares can only be dispelled by facing the preacher who so terrorized his childhood. The psychologist treating Michael, Veronica McCord, has her own problems. She is an atheist fighting for custody of her son while her ex-husband, a federal judge and new religious fanatic, is mesmerized by the same preacher who has affected Michael. Now Michael and Veronic...

ABC of Transfer and Retrieval Medicine provides the key information required to help health care professionals involved in the movement of critically ill patients to do so safely, correctly and with confidence.Beginning with the practical and clinical considerations to be taken into account during patient transfer and an overview of transfer equipment, it then addresses pharmacological aspects of patient transfer, the roles and responsibilities of the transfer team, and th...

As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this volume provide original scholarship to steer debates and expand the historiography surrounding Nazi racial and occupation policies, Polish and Jewish responses to them, persecution, police terror, resistanc...

Every business wants to convert their clients or customers into amazing fans. Not only will such clients stay with you for the long-term, they will also be your best ambassadors through their enthusiastic free word-of-mouth advertising for your organisation.Needless to say, these amazing fans of yours will provide a constant and growing stream of income and win more loyal customers for your business – a source of business sustainability and prosperity.The key question is "H...

Meet Alan Dyson, a pharmaceutical scientist who lives for his work. He thinks someone has been watching him, following him. He's right. He shouldn't have told a woman pretending to be interested in him on the internet his secret: that he's developed an experimental drug which may extend life by decades. Now that he's in the crosshairs, he's about to learn it wasn't a woman after all.

This book is designed to accompany my NRA Defensive Pistol course. I start with the basics, because much of what people know is false. I describe tactics and techniques for self-defense with the pistol. This is not a target shooting book though marksmanship is covered. Competence with the pistol is a survival skill as is swimming or first aid. So, we take a serious tone and go into detail.