The Triumph of Technique isn't an ordinary account of the industrialization of agriculture. It is a wake-up call, a warning, and a call to action. And it isn't just about the structure of agriculture but about the potential collapse of civilization and the need to restore human-scale to human enterprise and to emphasize cooperation over competition.The book's premise is that the rural crisis is a manifestation of the larger crisis in our civilization. The immediate cause i...

Forget the one-size-fits-everyone financial advice out there.Many business owners lose money regularly due to taxes eating away at their revenue. Yet the topic of taxes isn't fully addressed in most financial plans. Thankfully, there is a system that helps you avoid paying more than your fair share of taxes, and Asset Coach and Tax Strategist Robert Wolf shows you how.His Asset Buddy System's unique approach has helped hundreds of business owners keep mor...

The FOUR "silent destroyers" of your money.Trying to get ahead financially can be a struggle. You might have heard the phrase "the wealthy keep getting wealthier." This phrase divides us, makes us feel bad about our situation, and doesn't offer solutions. Author Robert Wolf has identified the problem-Economic Termites. Understanding how the Economic Termites affect our hard work is the difference between those that have accumulated wealth and those that struggle. T...

The Fossils of Iowa field guide is written primarily for amateurs in geological exploration and collecting. Robert Wolf provides a comprehensive coverage of more than 150 sites in Iowa and adjacent areas of Minnesota and Nebraska with the types of fossils that can be found and precise directions. Excellent illustrations by Carol Ann Ratcliff aide in identification. For an update in site conditions and geological names since the book was first published contact the author at midnig...

Hungary, 1944. Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the outside world and forced to endure inhumane brutalities and servitude. Once freed, a new oppression took hold as communist rule under Stalin turned friends to foes, enveloped the nation in fear and suspicion, and tested everyone’s character and st...

The first part of Volume 1 of 3 volumes includes hundreds of pages and photographs presenting the richness of Okinawan martial traditions, from the original combatives to those influenced by Chinese and mainland Japanese martial art styles. The variety of topics shown in the table of contents indicate the depth and breath in the chapters, along with the authors who are well-known for their meticulous research and practical skills in specific arts. Each volume will prove enjoyable reading a...

Billy Smith is having a rough first day of high school. The new kid at exclusive Francis Drake Prep, Billy embarrasses himself in front of fiery, beautiful Lexi Aquino. He makes an instant enemy in Kurt Novac, the school’s surly star quarterback. Then suddenly Billy, Lexi, and Kurt are mysteriously transported to an underworld teeming with goblins, strange animal hybrids, and powerful magic—the fact that they’re stuck there is probably Billy’s fault, too. With help from an unlikely goblin ...

A collection of stories by commercial fishermen, towboat captains and people living along the Mississippi. Men work together on a winter sein haul; a father and son check their nets; a crew drive fish into a seinenet on a backwater slough as a storm approaches; men are caught on island in a freak summer snow storm that kills many.

Heartland Portrait is the first self-portrait of a region to be written by its residents. This ground-breaking book is drawn from 18 years of Free River Press writing workshops in innesota, Wisconsin and Iowa wirth farm famiies, small twn and village residents, commercial fishermen, towboarts captains and pilots, and other living in the upper Mississpp Ruver Valley. It is a record of transformation of rral America, an ensemble of personal stories and reflections that document not ...

YOU GET 2-BOOKS-IN-1A FUN KIDS BOOK THAT'S A COLORING BOOK TOO!My name is Cody and my best friend is Bob.We are happy boys and we love to laugh and have fun.We have been all over the country.We have met so many nice people and animals.We have made so many good friends.And we have so many stories to tell you.We are going to have so much fun!So open the pages and come along with us inside our book...We are taking...

“If kinging were easy, everyone would do it.”With help from his friends, Billy Smith—the unlikeliest of heroes—overthrew the corrupt General Sawtooth and claimed the Goblin Crown. But his perilous journey to save the goblin race has just begun. The powerful Hanorian Army is gathered at the gates of Kiranok, threatening to invade the goblin city and wipe out everyone within. So the inhabitants of Mother Mountain must draw on their deepest strengths for the battle to come: B...

YOU GET 2-BOOKS-IN-1A FUN KIDS BOOK THAT'S A COLORING BOOK TOO!My name is Cody and my best friend is Bob.We are happy boys and we love to laugh and have fun.We have been all over the country.We have met so many nice people and animals.We have made so many good friends.And we have so many stories to tell you.We are going to have so much fun!So open the pages and come along with us inside our book...We are taking...