According to the U.S. Census Bureau there are 18.8 million veterans, but only 4 percent of them have actually used their VA Home Loan benefits. The reasons they are not taking advantage of this opportunity tend to be lack of training, miseducation, and, most importantly, fear. This new book lays out a detailed, step-by-step procedure for veterans to navigate through difficult subject matter in a way that will eliminate any concerns or fears they may have about purchasing a home. The author...

"Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . . . It is essentially the Gacy story in reverse. Victims first."—Jeff Coen, author of Murder in CanaryvilleAs investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an ups...

"Emotional and Verbal Abuse Recovery Plan" is a consolidated resource of six insightful books, providing a comprehensive guide to overcoming the challenges of toxic relationships and codependency. The collection begins with Frank James' "Emotionally Abusive Relationships," which explores the psychology of abusers and their impact on victims, and "Overcoming Codependency," offering strategies for personal healing and transformation....

Countering the conventional narrative that Florida's tourism industry suffered during the Great Depression, this book shows that the 1930s were the starting point for much that characterizes modern Florida's tourism. David Nelson argues that state and federal government programs designed to reboot the economy during this decade are crucial to understanding the state today.Nelson examines the impact of three connected initiatives—the federal New Deal, its Civilian Conservation Corps...

Making music doesn’t have to be about dropping big bucks in the guitar shop or endlessly fiddling with expensive software. You can make good noise out of bits of wood and wire, plastic and steel. When you build your own instruments, creating your own sound comes naturally.Junkyard Jam Band is a step-by-step guide to making a full array of complete musical projects—no previous carpentry or electronics experience required. Each build includes tips on how to coax the best sou...

David Nelson wrote and compiled Konnakkol Manua l to assist teaching an advanced course in the rhythmic compositions of Karnatak (South Indian) music. This new instructional book picks up where his previous book, Solkattu Manual, left off. It includes advanced exercises for developing control of odd pulse divisions, such as three and five notes per beat. There is a chapter on the sources of Karnatak tāas (meters), and another on the evolution of rhythmic composi...

Solkattu, the spoken rhythms and patterns of hand-clapping used by all musicians and dancers in the classical traditions of South India, is a subject of worldwide interest—but until now there has not been a textbook for students new to the practice. Designed especially for classroom use in a Western setting, the manual begins with rudimentary lessons in the simplest South Indian tala, or metric cycle, and proceeds step-by-step into more challenging material. The book then provides lessons ...

This book is different. It seeks to answer a question Donald Trump asked voters, “What the hell have you got to lose?” by showing how our right to vote in free and fair elections and to have our vote counted, is under attack on several fronts – some obvious, some not. It shows how the U.S. Constitution gave us that right and so much more. But the January 6, 2021 violence was the first time in our history the right came under direct assault by our own citizens. It drove the message home – v...

While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson’s Moroni...

Imagine the story of Jesus told like never before--through the eyes of his enemies. In Why I Would Have Killed Jesus and You Might Have Too, we meet five characters, who state their case against the Galilean prophet and messiah. Deborah is a young widow eager to break the shackles of Roman oppression. Shem is a fisherman determined to keep a crowd. Sarah is a protective grandmother from Nazareth. Maximus is a Roman soldier devoted to law and order. Aaron is a Pharisee seeking righteousness...

God has not only created us with the ability to multiply through having children, he has also given us the power to multiply disciples who multiply disciples through the preaching of the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit. In Genesis and Acts, we read how God enabled man to multiply biologically and spiritually. We read how the number of disciples greatly increased and multiplied during the era of the early church. In his book, Dr. David Nelson, explains eight principles for building a...

Ghost Squadron II, The Adventure Continues, is the sequel of Peter Walker’s days with the prestigious RAF during WWII. Peter has grown to be an adult, has a family, and becomes the youngest RAF Ace in WWII. Peter’s friendship with his mentor, Roland Bauer, the WWI Ace that instructed him on how to fly an old WWII bi-plane, grows into a father-son relationship. The book goes through Peter’s dangerous adventures, flying over France, Belgium, and ultimately Germany at the war’s end. The book ...