Here is a little about SOUTH TEXAS LINEMEN, it is a fiction book about a high voltage line crew of five, Pat, Dwayne, Randy, Ty, Mr. Bill (the villain) and the beloved Kenny. Kenny the hard living, beer drinking, skirt chasing, that likes to kiss and tell. The crew start’s a project on a south Texas ranch for a so-called oil company. That turns out to be a terrorist group calling themselves “The Peoples Republic of Texas”. The PRT is trying to take over Texas and make it a sovereign nation...

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naively—that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead to adapt to it.Never have so man...

The most comprehensive book about COVID-19 is now available. It contains 150 pages created from more than 400 hours of research. (Updated on March 14, 2020)The coronavirus outbreak has been a topic of frequent contention since it began in December of 2019. The virus, also referred to as the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, is not the first coronavirus we have seen; the virus that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was also a type of coronavirus, as was ...

This book provides an outline of the Buddhist shunyata principle (the inherent emptiness of all phenomena), and presents a Western philosophical base by which to logically support its integration into the western mindset. Buddhim and Western philosophy are surprisingly compatible. Buddhist Existentialism outlines the influence of existentialists, such as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, and introduces us to the ideas of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist thought.

What lurks beneath the waves?Krakens. Sea serpents. Megalodons. Spirits of storm and tide.In Tentacles and Tides, the ocean is anything but empty. Sailors glimpse impossible shapes below their hulls. Coastal towns bargain with ancient powers. Great whales guard secrets humanity was never meant to find.And sometimes…the monster is the one telling the story.These speculative tales explore the creatures of the deep as heroes, v...

This is a roadmap to help pancreatic cancer patients get into the battle with their doctors to fight this terrible disease. The advice is not only for pancreatic cancer patients but for any cancer patients.

In the darkest corners of space…They protect the galaxy.When chaos strikes and the unknown threatens, only one force stands between civilization and destruction: The Space Coast Guard.Rescue. Defend. Survive.Elite officers face hostile aliens, deadly storms, and intergalactic warfare in a fight for survival. No mission is ever routine. No sacrifice too great.The stars are waiting. Answer the call. Are you ready to

"Readers of all levels and backgrounds will appreciate the clarity with which Roberts-Miller approaches a topic so often driven by powerful emotion."— ChoiceIt's easy to say that racism is wrong. But it's surprisingly hard to agree on what it is. Does a tired stereotype in your favorite movie make it racist? Does watching it anyway mean you're racist? Even among like-minded friends, such discussions can quickly escalate to hurt feelings all around—and when...

A clear-eyed guide to demagoguery—and how we can defeat itWhat is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who reduces all questions to us vs. them.Why is it dangerous? Demagoguery is democracy's greatest threat. It erodes rational debate, so that intelligen...

In the late summer of 1894, Sultan Abdülhamid II ordered several battalions of Ottoman soldiers to destroy Armenian 'bandits' operating in the remote mountains of Sasun. Over a three-week period, these soldiers systematically murdered men, women, and children, beginning a chain of events which led directly to the Hamidian massacres of 1895 to 1897 and prefigured many of the patterns of the Medz Yeghern (Great Crime) of 1915–1917. Taking a microhistorical approach, Owen Robert Miller examin...

Transform Your Life in Just 5 Minutes a Day—No Equipment, No Gym, No Complexity Required!What if the secret to unshakeable calm, boundless energy, and bulletproof stress resilience was literally at your fingertips? What if you could access your body's most powerful self-healing system with techniques so simple a child could master them?The Daily Vagus Nerve Exercise Bible isn't just another wellness book—it's your personal trainer for the most important ner...

What if everything you thought you knew about your anxiety, depression, and emotional struggles was wrong?For years, you've been told that racing thoughts, overwhelming emotions, and the urge to withdraw from life are problems to be fixed, managed, or medicated away. But what if these responses aren't flaws in your character or chemical imbalances in your brain? What if they're actually your nervous system doing exactly what it's designed to do—trying to keep you s...