Forget the nine-to-five...for good.Whether you dream of taking more time off, learning a foreign language, or traveling fourteen weeks a year, there's no time like now to become an entrepreneur.Experience the freedom that starting your own business brings with Slow Burn Entrepreneur as your roadmap.In this step-by-step guide, Michael Weber shares the life hacks of successful entrepreneurs, showing how to break rules for maximum profit and utilize r...

Follow John Michael Weber as he chronicles life at the bottom of a heroin addict. This true story of his addiction sheds light into the darkness of addiction and a brighter light on the Salvation that saves many like himself.

The Abracadabra Hotel, built by and for magicians, has long been know to locals as the Hocus Pocus Hotel. Charlie Hitchcock has never stepped inside until Tyler Yu tells him to meet him there ...or else. As if the hotel's storied past isn't enough, it turns out that the place is inhabited by magicians, and while Charlie and Ty solve magical mysteries, the bully and the brain form an unlikely friendship.

Technological advances in computerization and robotics threaten to eliminate countless jobs from the labor market in the near future. These advances have reignited the debate about universal basic income. The essays in this collection offer unique and compelling perspectives on the ever-changing nature of work and the plausibility of a universal basic income to address the elimination of jobs from the workforce. The essays address a number of topics related to these issues, including the p...

What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? What role does emulation play in forest management? Representing a range of geographic perspectives from across Canada and the United States, this book looks at the escalating public debate on the viability of natural disturbance emulation for sustaining forest landscapes from the perspective of policymakers, forestry professionals, academics, and ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Urban Mobility, SUMO 2013, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 2013. The 12 revised full papers presented tin this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in two topical sections: models and technical innovations and applications and surveys.

Upon his death, nineteen year-old Aikata finds himself in an afterlife to which he does not belong, one reserved for a legendary order of Heroes fighting an endless war against Demonic invaders.Unable to leave, and unwelcome by the Heroes who dwell there, the self-proclaimed 'otaku-loser' learns his very presence may summon even more Demonic hordes to that already beleaguered realm.As talks of Aikata's imprisonment – or execution – ensue, a simple request from the world's c...

This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary phenomenologist James R. Mensch, exploring his oeuvre and thought. Mensch's extensive body of work spans several decades, often concretely engaging with three intersecting conditions of dialogue: Alterity, Intersubjectivity, and Embodiment. By intertwining these concepts, Mensch exposes the ever-threatening soliloquy of modern reason, calling upon us to deconstruct the conflation of human freedom with sovereignty that f...

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world’s various environmental crises.Packed with keen observations and analyses, the volume brings together research from seasoned scholars and rising stars to cast important new light on urgent issues engendered by humankind’s disruption of environments, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. It tackles the question of exactly what has been d...

The challenge was to write a short story for a charity anthology to be called Adventures Without Clothes - 20 people rose to the challenge!The guidelines were as follows: "Your story can be set anywhere in this world or any other you wish to create. Some of the people on this adventure must be without clothing for all or part of the undertaking. You should seek to include some elements of either quest, journey or rescue and some physical risk or danger for your protagonists. Gender...

The temporal structure of Wuthering Heights has long been regarded as opaque or even flawed. This is explained by the fact that the years 1778, 1801 and 1802 do not entirely cohere with the numerous relative time references in the novel if, as scholarship contends, the years 1801 and 1802 refer to Ellen Dean’s narration of the story. By means of mathematically precise calculations and a grammatical analysis of the text, this critical new approach argues that the time frame of ...

Forget the nine-to-five…for good.Whether you dream of taking more time off, learning a foreign language, or traveling fourteen weeks a year, there’s no time like now to become an entrepreneur.Experience the freedom that starting your own business brings with Slow Burn Entrepreneur as your roadmap.In this step-by-step guide, Michael Weber shares the life hacks of successful entrepreneurs, showing how to break rules for maximum profit and utilize rest and reflection t...