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by Maria Morales
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
I started writing my book the first day that I started taking classes at College of the Canyons. I didn't write the book in printing, I wrote in my heart.
The title of my book is My Graduation, because I finished the day I graduated. I took my first class in the spring semester of 1989, my...
How to Build a Better Mousetrap
Recollections and Reflections of a Family Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In January of 2006, Abbie Johnson Taylors husband suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left side. After months of therapy in a nursing facility, he returned home in September of that year. Although he still had little use of his left arm and leg, it was hoped that through outpatient therapy,...
Leadership Peruvian Style
How Peruvians Define and Practice Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Leadership across cultural borders is the new frontier in leadership studies. Increased globalization means leaders are dealing with a variety of cultures in and out of their own countries. Leaders must be experts in understanding what cultural dimensions mean for being effective outside their own...
Conscious Evolution
The Dance of Intuition and Intellect.
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
With deep reading in myth and literature, ones cognition becomes as a rich mother loam wherein spirit can dwell and build that interior castle, from which the indwelling spirit begins to speak through the imagination, the body, and the intellect of the individual. Over time, body, mind, and spirit...
by Robert K. Wen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Everyone wonders, at least at times, about such questions as the purpose and future of his or her own life. Some would even trouble themselves with similar questions about the universe. In ReligionOne Mans Overview, a retired professor with a background in both Eastern and Western cultures, shares...
by Timothy J. Brill
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
What would you do if you only had only thirty days to live? What if that time was shortened to twenty-four hoursor even one hour?
You cant control the amount of time you have left, but you can control how you spend that time. Timothy J. Brill, a pilot, philosopher, and adventure seeker, examines...
Once in Kazakhstan
The Snow Leopard Emerges
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Keith Rosten leaves the United States to be a Fulbright Lecturer in newly-independent Kazakhstan. In Once in Kazakhstan, Rosten draws a sometimes humorous portrait of a critical period in the emergence of this Central Asian country, interweaving the...
After the Light
What I Discovered on the Other Side of Life That Can Change Your World
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
"Death is nothing to fear-and life without fear can be lived to the fullest."
This is Kimberly Clark Sharp's message from her extraordinary experience during the time after her heart suddenly stopped beating and she lay on the sidewalk, not breathing, and without a pulse. Swept into...
by Renee Wines
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
An inspiring story of a young girls courage to recover after a near fatal stroke at twenty seven.
I congratulate you on your dealing with your stroke. You have found the right way to deal with a crisis, think of others.
Good luck to you and your husband,
Kirk Douglas
by Ken Ewell
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR SAM MARLOWE travels to Paris in search of the Modern world, a valuable object that may or may not have gone missing. On the Right Bank, the philosophical investigator Honor de Balzac leads Sam through the French cultural experience of the last five centuries while instructing...
To Benin and Back
Short Stories, Essays, and Reflections About Life in Benin as a Peace Corps Volunteer and the Subsequent Readjustment Process.
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Just out of college seeking the adventure of his life and an opportunity to do good, Chris Starace joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Benin, West Africa for two years from 1995 to 1997. The challenge was great, and he was pushed to the limit in adapting to a starkly different culture while living...
Making the Invisible Visible
Gender in Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
All that is human is mediated through language. And because we learned the process of being human in a culture as we learned the language of that culture, much that we learned remains invisible to us. But even though invisible, it guides what and how we learn and remember, our perceptions, our behaviors,...
by Lee Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Although he has now chosen to only work part-time for the Department of State, counter-terrorist operative Bruce McGowan continues to debate himself whether it is time to abandon the action life he has lived for over thirty years and finally settle down with his new bride, the beautiful Adrianna Wolf,...
by Elvin C. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This memoir presents author Elvin Bells recollection of his own history and of his encounters with some of the most well-known movers and shakers of the times. He provides us with astonishing revelations based upon his discussions, meetings, and casual conversations with them. The Event Makers Ive...