Why do so many farm businesses struggle to survive, let alone thrive?It’s because they don’t make clear strategic choices that reward them with a competitive advantage. Instead, most entrepreneurs start with a boilerplate business because they think they're supposed to.Boilerplate business plans offer little help in guiding strategic choices that determine if your business thrives or dies. Given how much there is riding on your business success there should...

The ultimate guide to personal preparedness. No scare tactics. Just a 10-step guide to practical preparedness for every family.You don’t like to think about it, but deep down you know it can happen. Disaster can strike without warning, leaving your family without water, food, or electricity, and without medical or police support.How will you survive when that happens?How will you protect your family from threats of violence?Buying insurance, ...

Wouldn't you like to escape the hectic pace of modern life and enjoy a worry-free, self-reliant lifestyle? A lifestyle where your family shares lasting memories of living self-sufficiently instead of being slaves to digital devices and traffic jams. Whether you hope to move to the country or simply stay closer to the city, this book will show you:How to create streams of self-sufficient and passive income wherever you areThat you can live a vibrant,...

The best emergency preparedness book for kids!Today’s children can recognize over 1,000 corporate logos but can’t identify 10 plants native to their region. They live in an artificial world—one where they spend less than seven minutes per day playing outdoors and over seven hours per day staring at a digital device. But the threats our children face are real, from random violence and terrorism to natural, manmade, and accidental disasters.What skills do tod...

When Tim and Liz Young decided to leave their comfortable suburban life and become first-time farmers in rural Georgia, they embarked on a journey that would change their lives. The Accidental Farmers reveals how the couple learned that hamburgers, bacon, and eggs don't come from the supermarket but from real animals that forge emotional bonds with their human caretakers. Seeking a middle path between a meatless lifestyle and the barbarism of factory food, the Young's created a sustainable...

On a cursed Cherokee mountainside, young Ozzie and his family are held captive in decrepit shacks as they await an unspeakable deadly fate. Blake Savage, a disgruntled former football star, is desperate to claim the wealth and fame he lost, but his mystical wife, Angelica, longs for a simple life that honors her Cherokee tradition.When an egocentric restaurateur offers Blake a fortune to turn Ozzie's family into a delicacy for his network of supper clubs, Blake can't resist the tem...

I Hate Democrats/I Hate Republicans is a different kind of political commentary.Tim Young uses his trademark snark and outrageous personal stories to break down how both parties have their failings, and how our political system has been tainted by bias from all sides. He then engages you, the reader, in the hopes that you’ll understand that the ultimate check and balance on our American political system is to first, check yourself.In this funny, intellectual, and c...

Come and take a journey with me through the pages of my personal failure, defeat, lost expectations, and my final devastation. Heartstone is a story about a people who faced the giants that we all face, and the keys God gave them (and has given each of us) to deal with those giants and turn theirs and our broken solitude into a field of dreams.The truth of God's word is that He has already written the story of your life. It is time for you to read that story and find your road home...

Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it comprises and is best understood on its own terms. To this end, Youngs...

The Little Books Of Big Business series follows four friends in Main Town, USA, on their journey into business. In books 1 - 4, Cat, Emma, Max, and Nick each start their own business and learn key entrepreneurial principles and financial literacy lessons along the way. Now that they have developed their skills, they are helping other kids in the town do the same!Book #5-Meet Tim, the boy who turns his daydreams into coins. With the help of his twin sister Tori and family and friend...

Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are drawn from subjects and genres that include philosophy, politics, anthropology, sexuality, travel, fiction and autobiography. Through a time-span from Ancient Greece to the present day, and a geographical coverage from Australia and Europe to the Caribbean and the United States, the collection investigates the importance of place, moment, cultural fo...

A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.