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Jonas Watcher had no memory of how he got there. As he started climbing up the ladder to the wharf, he found he was tangled in some sort of net. Suddenly a large heavy object dropped onto him and he fell into the bay still snared by the net, which had also captured the object. Luckily, the weight of the object had tightened the net, so he was able to pull himself out of the water and climb up to the wharf.

Wilting is a short story about a man named Michael. After being accused of murdering his family, Michael was committed to Shriekville Asylum to live out the rest of his days alone. A year passed, and Michael encountered another patient named William. After losing a simple card game, Michael agrees to teach William the ropes to survive the unethical treatment of the asylum in hopes that they escape back to their lives on the outside.

The law will protect you. Until it doesn't. When Peter Garrison's failed defense of a client leads to a retribution plot against him, he's forced to confront a nemesis intent on destroying him. Jason Felding seeks payback after his teenage brother winds up sodomized and mentally scarred during an unfair incarceration. He targets the restaurant owner who put his sibling behind bars and the lawyer who couldn't get a simple underage drinking case dropped.

Otto Binder reports on the strange disappearances and deaths of several UFO researchers. He also zeroes in on the mysterious Virginia psychic and UFO percipient Ted Owens, who claimed to be in direct telepathic contact with the "space intelligences" and the men in black (MIB). Could Owens, wonders Binder, hold the key to understanding and dealing with such dangerous cosmic interlopers?

New Saucerian presents a fine reprint of the rare flying saucer classic, "Gray Barker at Giant Rock," a colorful look at the UFO contactee conventions held at Giant Rock, California in the 1950s and '60s.

This audiobook was originally inspired by Harry Truman, who said, "Give me a one-handed economist!" As an empiricist I advocate that no ideology is right or wrong but that conditions and data are all that should drive our policymaking decisions. Every policy has a place where it will or will not work. My view on economic policymaking and world poverty is unique to the literature, since it is precisely opposite to Harry Truman's desire. The world is complex; Harry Truman needed a Three Handed Economist; one hand was never enough.

All women wonder what other women experience when they see their OB-GYN physician. All men wonder what his girlfriend or wife will be subjected to when exposed in front of their "gyno". The stresses and strains of a busy professional life on an obstetrician gynecologist are revealed in intimate, true detail.

The United States has fought a war against drinking and driving for more than 100 years. Many battles have been won, but DUI still kills more than 10,000 people in America every year, and injures tens of thousands more. "More Americans have been killed in alcohol-related traffic crashes than in all wars the United States has been involved in since it was founded," according to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

During our study of the Titanic catastrophe it became clear to us that the leadership lessons from the Titanic clearly apply to businesses today as much as they did to the ships at this iconic event more than 100 years ago. This book will draw parallels between the Titanic catastrophe and today's contemporary business world. As our reader will hopefully see, there are many lessons to be learned by today's business practitioners.

Reshoring is essentially the opposite of offshoring, it is a term used to describe the act of bringing back offshored manufacturing to a country. In the beginning of 2011, for the most part, most people thought that this was just impossible, that there would be no reshoring to the U.S. or UK, that everything was going to China, manufacturing was leaving both countries and it will never come back and I think the striking thing is how much that’s changed in the last three years.

Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall Street tycoons, including August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Andrew Freedman, the brothers formed the Wright Company.

Revealing how seemingly race-neutral urban sites contain hidden racial assumptions and imperatives, Lipsitz examines the ways in which urban space and social experience are racialized and emphasizes that aggrieved communities do not passively acquiesce to racism. He recognizes the people and communities that have re-imagined segregated spaces in expressive culture as places for congregation.

If you want to write more compelling stories and books...if you want to write faster and with less effort...if you want to sell more of your work...then this is the audiobook you've been looking for. Write Well, Write Quickly, Write for Money starts by teaching you how to write skillfully, because every honorable writer wants to write to the best of his or her ability. I'll show you how to write clearly, accurately, and yet concisely. I'll also show you how to conduct your research and interviews, how to write ethically, and much more.

Jacob is an old man who has secluded himself in an apartment convinced that something is after him. As he retells strange coincidences throughout his life, maybe he's right.

Unlock the secrets to mastering global talent acquisition and management in the modern era with Winning the Global Talent War. This insightful guide delves into the strategies used by top organizations to attract, retain, and develop the world's best talent. Combining rigorous analysis, real-world case studies, and expert insights, the author reveals how to navigate the complexities of an interconnected, technology-driven world.

Nothing feels greater than taking your 10 first steps in America. The biggest step is getting here to America. Now that you’re here and learned America’s language, the third most important step is here inside this book for you. The third most important step is credit. Credit is going to determine what you will make out of your time here in America. Life can be hard, especially without any guidance. But life is always better with credit, and I’m here to offer guidance to you.

We are all indebted to Carl Watner for uncovering an unknown work by the great Lysander Spooner, one that managed to escape the editor of Spooner’s Collected Works. Both the title and the substance of “Vices are not Crimes” highlight the unique role that morality and moral principle had for Spooner among the anarchists and libertarians of his day. For Spooner was the last of the great natural-rights theorists among anarchists, classical liberals, or moral theorists generally.

Through an engaging and spot-on fishing analogy, author Tony Demechees explores what dating means in various life stages and contrasts the dating experiences of men and women. This dating guide will show you that—perhaps—we don't have all the time in the world to choose a partner.

This book serves as a guide to clearer thinking and finding motivating activities to form healthy routines and better habits in your life. It briefly dives into strategies but mostly explores the science behind why we avoid discomfort and struggle to keep pushing forward when confronted with things we don't want to hear. "Happiness" or fulfillment in life comes from having clarity about your goals and the reasons why you are pursuing them. There will always be people who discourage you or tell you how bad your ideas are.

Phase III of DNA Consultants' Cherokee DNA Studies adds more than 50 new participants to what has become a classic project. They'd all been told there was no way they could be Indian given their DNA haplotype or mother's direct line.