What if you could buy real estate without ever stepping foot in a bank?For most people, the path to property ownership is filled with roadblocks—strict lending requirements, high interest rates, credit checks, and endless paperwork. Deals fall apart. Opportunities are missed. And wealth-building gets delayed.But there's another way.Seller financing is one of the most powerful—and underused—strategies in real estate. It allows you to bypass traditional lenders and nego...

The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting a new business; however, in recent years, the term has been extended to include other forms of entrepreneurial activity. Corporate entrepreneurship is the process by which teams within an established company conceive, foster, launch, and manage a new business that is distinct from the parent company but leverages the parent's assets, market position, capabilities, or other resources. A new, but similar form of entrepreneurial ac...

Think you know your aughts? It's time to break out your Juicy velour, fire up your iPod, and vote for Pedro! Put your knowledge to the test with trivia that spans pop culture, tech breakthroughs, unforgettable fads, and defining moments from the dawn of the millennium. Time Machine Trivia: The 2000s is your ultimate throwback companion, packed with hundreds of nostalgic facts that capture the spirit of an iconic decade. Relive the drama of Y2K and the early days of social media when downlo...

Junior Achievement by William Lee.

In most boardrooms today, the pressure to continuously shrink the distance from gross revenue to net operating profit and consistently improve ROIC is acute. Many have realized and many more are beginning to realize that a well-integrated and managed supply chain is a major driver of continuously improving results. Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations clearly defines how to achieve and maintain a supply chain leadership position by focusing on real-world execution and detailed in...

Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri–Mississippi River Valley—in the midst of cows and wheat, pigs and corn, and grain elevators. Both were grandsons of farmers and sons of forceful mothers, and of fathers who knew failure; both were lower middle class, r...

The battle of Chickamauga brought an early fall to the Georgia countryside in 1863, where men fell like autumn leaves in some of the heaviest fighting of the war. The battlefield consisted of a nearly impenetrable, vine-choked forest around Chickamauga Creek. Unable to see beyond their immediate surroundings, officers found it impossible to exercise effective command, and the engagement deteriorated into what many participants later called “a soldier’s battle.” It was, explained Union Gene...

**"A page-turning, tragicomic memoir . . . By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Adams affirms a resilient idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time." —Thúy Đinh, NPRA memoir of glitz, glamour, geopolitics, and the power of pop music, following a misunderstood queer biracial kid from small-town Georgia who became the world's foremost Eurovision Song Contest blogger.**As a boy, William Lee Adams spent his days ...

The Legend of the Shadow Blade is a gripping tale of prophecy, power, and sacrifice. When a humble blacksmith named Kael discovers he is destined to wield the Shadow Blade, he embarks on a dangerous journey with unlikely allies. Together, they must confront a dark warlord and an ancient evil bound within the blade itself. With themes of betrayal, heroism, and the struggle between light and darkness, this epic fantasy explores the cost of victory and the enduring legacy of ...

The Army of Tennessee's grueling and costly victory against a fortified Union encampment is expertly recounted in this engaging Civil War history.In the fall of 1864, as William T. Sherman led Federal forces on his March to the Sea, Confederate General John Bell Hood chose to strike northward into Tennessee. There, he hoped to cripple the Federal supply infrastructure and strike the Army of the Cumberland under George Thomas. By defeating Thomas's army in detail, H...

The Ghost Ship: Legends of the High Seas is an epic tale of Captain Elias Storm and his cursed crew, doomed to wander the oceans for eternity. Battling mythical creatures, treacherous waters, and the dark forces that bind them, they seek to break their curse. With each harrowing chapter, the legend of the ghost ship deepens, culminating in a final, dramatic confrontation. This haunting narrative explores betrayal, redemption, and the undying lore of the high seas.

In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left by the nation's Founders, Lincoln struggled to find a balance between the universal ideals of Equality and Liberty and the monstrous ...