Brian "Essince" Collins and Quincy "Big Heff" Taylor are two self-made music and media figures who have come together to share their experiences working with multi-platinum musicians, major record labels, and booking international tours to educate readers on how to Make It in the Midwest. Learn the basics of copyrights and royalties to advanced strategies on booking tours and generating income in the music industry from the Midwest all over the world and back. Quincy Taylor got his start p...

Robert Eisler, the polymathic Jewish Austrian scholar and Holocaust survivor, faded into obscurity after his death in 1949. A contemporary and associate of Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and Gershom Scholem, Eisler spent his early years in fin-de-siècle Vienna and trained as an art historian and economist. In this book, the first in English devoted to Eisler’s life and thought, Brian Collins takes us through the development of Eisler’s ideas about the philosophy of values, comparative mytho...

If you like money, have or are starting abusiness, you need to read my book.www.stepofftheporchandstartyourown business.com. Not just another self help business book. Many of today's books on business are written in a self help manner; this isn't one of them. This is an edgy and honest recollection of business ventures written with 6 rules by the guy who risked it all. There are 4 real world business ventures, all started for less than $10.00 each, and each follow my 6 rules ...

Looking for inspiration to launch that new project or career? Have a great idea but can't figure out how to move it forward? Drawing on Brian's years as a Walt Disney Imagineer, global innovation consultant, and college instructor, Creative Cross-Pollination encapsulates his unique process and idea-generating techniques for tackling life's challenges and achieving your biggest dreams.Sounds lofty? It's not. Anybody looking for fresh ideas, trying to get out of a rut, or wa...

Bollywood Horrors is a wide-ranging collection that examines the religious aspects of horror imagery, representations of real-life horror in the movies, and the ways in which Hindi films have projected cinematic fears onto the screen.Part one, “Material Cultures and Prehistories of Horror in South Asia” looks at horror movie posters and song booklets and the surprising role of religion in the importation of Gothic tropes into Indian films, told through the little-known sto...

In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man’s sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging study of Hindu texts read through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also performs a careful r...

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of V****iṣṇu with a much darker reputation.The Other Rāma presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of Viṣṇu best known for decapitating his own mother and annihilating twenty-one generations of the Katriy...

Data-Driven Quality Improvement and Sustainability in Health Care: An Interprofessional Approach provides nurse leaders and healthcare administrators of all disciplines with a solid understanding of data and how to leverage data to improve outcomes, fuel innovation, and achieve sustained results. It sets the stage by examining the current state of the healthcare landscape; new imperatives to meet policy, regulatory, and consumer demands; and the role of data in administrative and ...

Kenkey for Ewes & Other Very Short Stories' is a collection of 50 stories that are considered to be some of the best published works on the Flash Fiction Ghana Blog (flashfictionghana.com).'Kenkey for Ewes' is based around themes of modern African identity, love and respect for the dead, cruelty and greed and the enigmatic influence of fate and fortune.From worlds inhabited by ghosts and talking twigmen, forlorn immigrants and greedy fetish priests -to the perennial, humoro...

Vampires, zombies, shadowy government agencies, and creatures of the Fae, even the Monster under the bed, populate the pages of Tipping Point. Two groups of people-one tossed together by blood and circumstance, The other, organized and well supported-follow different paths to the same place in time. The first group chased by creatures they rarely see and don't understand, run and hide, then run some more. Led by William Burkett, this rag tag band made up of family and others gathered along...

Clark Howard is a media powerhouse and penny-pincher extraordinaire who knows a thing or two about money. A lifelong entrepreneur who is now the hugely popular host of a talk radio program and television show and the bestselling author of several books, Clark consistently delivers expert financial advice to his wide and devoted fan base.Living Large in Lean Times is Clark's ultimate guide to saving money, covering everything from cell phones to student loans, coupon websit...

Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evilIn the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire, the fiction of Kafka, and the findings of modern physics and evolutionary biology to examine who we really are, and to rest in the uncertainty that we may never know. Like his...