Two deserving girls. One adorable beagle puppy. Who gets Liberty For Christmas?All 11 year old Alexis Hartman wants for Christmas is Liberty, an eight week-old orphaned beagle puppy. All 10 year old Casey Taylor wants for Christmas is Liberty, as well. All Liberty wants for Christmas is love and a family. After a mix-up at a local pet store results in competing adoption claims for Liberty, the perfect Christmas visions of Alexis and Casey are threatened.When neither family ...

In everyone's life, there is a story, narrow that down, but you will have a chapter full of information. I have been fortunate I make no mistakes about that. I was born during the Second World war was being fought. On reflection, I found my Storey extremely exciting I'm almost sure you would do the same with your Life Story. The odds were against me from day one, at about the age of 8 to 9. I think it was my mother who was called to the bedside of a hospital. I had tetanus. The doctors dec...

This book combines the secret formula to personal and business coaching with the worlds best strategies. You will find meaning and passion in work and your personal life that will increase your happiness and lead you to success. This easy-to-read and extremely informative book will help you; - increase your happiness at work and play; - take control of your finances, health, and career; - discover how to succeed without sacrificing your personal life; - increase your motivation and discove...

Aim for conversational wisdom — part motivational, part reflective. Think Mark Manson meets Robin Sharma: accessible but sincere, with stories and personal insights illustrating each point.Life doesn't hand us opportunities neatly wrapped in clarity; most come disguised as small challenges, unexpected detours, or quiet moments of doubt.A life goal isn't just a dream you repeat to yourself — it's a direction you live by. Th...

Combining a stimulating blend of academic authority and senior practitioner experience, this book tackles the principle of openness to official documentation and information flow. It covers important areas such as the Hutton Report into the death of Dr David Kelly, the freedom of speech in democratic societies, the value of the freedom of information and international comparisons. The book is a must read for courses on public policy and governance and information law.

Memes Incitement & Gun Control demonstrates how the memes we consume on social media can occasionally exert unconscious bias and be a factor in inciting mass shootings such as has occurred recently in Gilmore California, El Paso Texas and Dayton Ohio.Most memetic content is safe but some can be thought of as similar to a safety catch on a gun. The case study traces the development of the ‘ABC’ meme and its history of incitement from the writings of Nobel prize winner Rudyard Kiplin...

This insightful book focuses on state-of-the-art retirement communities in the United States today. Experts from the fields of urban planning, architecture, and aging present in-depth profiles of a variety of retirement communities. The changing function and character of retirement communities--resulting from changes in supply and demand, alternate lifestyles, and other environmental needs of an ever-increasing aging population--are explored. The timely discussions in this useful resource ...

Two deserving girls. One adorable beagle puppy. Who gets Liberty for Christmas?All 11 year old Alexis Hartman wants for Christmas is Liberty, an eight week-old orphaned beagle puppy. All 10 year old Casey Taylor wants for Christmas is Liberty. All Liberty wants for Christmas is love and a family. When a mix-up at a local pet store results in competing adoption claims for Liberty, the perfect Christmas visions of Alexis and Casey are threatened.When neither family can agree ...

Perfect Turkeys is the second in a series of books, that examines (through short stories) the often hilarious, and always funny life and times of Michael Devin Hughes. Whether searching for the Perfect Turkey for Thanksgiving, or trying to locate the Fig Queen's House in Brewster Hollow, or reserving a hotel room with a chain hotel, Michael Devin Hughes complicates the most simple of tasks. Though quadruple-divorced, Hughes maintains relations with his ex-wives and children, as th...

For sixty-five million dollars, would you be willing to do whatever was necessary, including killing one or more people? Don't answer too quickly. Everyone has a number that would turn him/her from saint to sinner. Paragraph Thirty-Eight provides the opportunity, and Glennis Saint John's ghost-mimicking software provides the means to secretly extract hundreds of millions of dollars slated for transfer to the City's solid waste franchise hauler. Saint John is a brilliant, ...

A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created by recent U.S. policy: what road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, Michael Hunt demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America’s ascent. In an analytic narrative that illuminates the past rather than indulges in political triumphalism, he provides crucial insights into the country’s problematic place in the world today.H...

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Michael H. Hunt's Lyndon Johnson's War reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders more comprehensible--if no less troubling--the tangled origin...