Go to a meeting, seminar or presentation, in business, education, sports, even personal growth. Whats the first thing you hear? Change! Everything is change. And we all have to, need to -- and get to -- change.And whats the very first thing Jesus tells everyone? Change! [Greek metanoeite, Mt. 4:17]So, whats the difference? Whats so special about what Jesus says? Change! is what everybody says.Discover how surprisingly hard it is for Christians and non-Christians ali...

Written primarily for those responsible for the reliability of equipment and the production operation, this innovative book centers on developing and measuring true Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). The author demonstrates that true OEE correlates with factory output, provides a methodology to link OEE with net profits that can be used by reliability managers to build solid business cases for improvement projects, and draws on his own experience by presenting successful improvement ap...

A spectacularly illustrated field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of CaliforniaCalifornia is home to more than 200 species of reptiles and amphibians that can be found in an extraordinary array of habitats, from coastal temperate rainforests with giant redwoods to southeastern deserts offering dazzling wildflower displays each spring. California Amphibians and Reptiles covers every species and subspecies in this biodiverse region of the United States,...

The earth has experienced a catastrophic environmental disaster that has left much of the world uninhabitable. Antarctica, Greenland, and Siberia are temperate climates, and the polar ice caps are no more. In response, humanity has begun to colonize the solar system, and offworld postings are at a premium. This year, Moon Base has two openings—and six candidates. The testing of these candidates is usually routine, but not this time. This time, Meg Arnold is involved….

The winter is close at hand, and Angus is looking forward to a few long months of study in Hellsbreath's Wizard School with Embril. Unfortunately, Commander Garret has other plans for the banner. The fishmen are missing, and the king wants to know where they went. One possibility is The Lake of Scales, a large body of water in a fiercely independent region south of the kingdom. The Guard can't go there without provoking war, but a banner can. Their mission is simple: Find out if the fishme...

Installments is a complex, multi-tiered literary narrative. The frame (outermost level) is about Harry, a mystery writer struggling with a new story, and his interactions with the writers' group helping him through those struggles. The story-within-the-story (innermost level) is a mystery about Detective Jonathan Starks, who is undergoing art therapy to help him deal with the repressed emotions associated with a serial killer investigation. The dynamic interplay between these two levels sh...

Most of the stories in this fantasy collection are set in the world of Skein, and some of them involve characters who appear in the Angus the Mage series. Three are prequels to the series: "Weary" predates it by several centuries and involves Sardach and Argyle, two characters who play a significant role in The Viper's Fangs and The Golden Key; and the other two relate to The Banner of the Wounded Hand prior to Angus joining it ("A Fool's Errand" foreshadows the series by highlighting how ...

Dujab's day begins like most days do: with a hot bath. He expects it to continue with breakfast, a few clients seeking his spells or knowledge, and a bit of research. But this isn't a normal day. His bath is interrupted by a mysterious visitor who makes a simple request that sets in motions events that may lead to both of their deaths. But Dujab is not the average wizard: He has skills and knowledge and resources that most don't. The question is: will they be enough?Weary is a prequ...

Many of the poems in the second edition are the same as they were in the first edition. However, while I was rereading them, I tweaked some of the stanzas to make the meter more consistent (mainly in "A Bard Out of Time") and twiddled with the wording of others. The rest of the poems were moved from my other collections while I reorganized them or were written after I published my last poetry collection in 2016. These additional poems led to splitting the original "Other Poems" section int...

This is the first four books of the second edition of the Angus the Mage series. It also includes Weary (a prequel of sorts to the series) as a bonus at the end of it.

When Detective Frank Primrose woke up this morning, he never expected to investigate the disappearance of cats. Police detectives simply don't do that sort of thing. But when it's the chief's niece's cat that's gone missing, what else can he do? Besides, it isn't just her cat that's gone missing; all of the cats in her building have disappeared. They aren't even the first ones he's heard about, either. So, what happened to them? Where have the cats gone? Who took them? Why did they take th...

On their way back to Hellsbreath, the banner gets sidetracked by Giorge's family curse. They know little about it, but their learning curve needs to be steep if they're going to survive it—even with a little help from Voltari. Unfortunately, a part of Angus wants Giorge dead, and it's growing. Will he be able to contain it? Will the curse kill Giorge for him? Will Angus let it? And what about Fanzool? Will he find what he's looking for? Find out the answers—and more!—in The Viper's Fangs.