This book provides readers with essential toolkit and real-world examples of predictive models developed for strategic planning purposes. This book explores all aspect of futurecasting, a field that generates actionable data for businesses and organizations to deploy in their internal strategizing. By extrapolating data on past and current large-scale trends in a given industry or operating sector, entities can effectively learn to prepare and weather or even thrive, through certain likely...

In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt - or in this case, the dirty water - on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the areas where the crew works and lives, leaving readers gasping with laughter as they’re assaulted nonstop with events that range from the absurd to the utterly bizarre. Stewards fighting over food. Cutlery allowances and other nonsensic...

Charles had no idea of how some men were so lucky with women and others were just duds.He was a dud! All through high school, not one girl except his lovely young sister would look his way.That is until his first year in a private college. There he learned the power of suggestion, the power of hypnosis. With this power, Charles learned to control women and men through the power of suggestion. After four years in college, he had hundreds of women and men to use for his sexua...

A UNIQUE BLEND OF CHEEKY HUMOR, QUIRKY HISTORY, AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT DISGUISED AS BIGFOOT LORE.Do you know which A-list Hollywood actor smuggled a yeti finger out of Nepal… via underwear? Or which member of our U.S. Congress writes Bigfoot erotica? Finding out can improve your life in tangible ways!Learning about Bigfeet—Sasquatch, yeti, and others—reveals what really makes happiness so elusive: engagement....

Brian David Michaels is a part-time Ride Share driver. Brian is your average guy. He has never been a ladies' man.However, from his job as a Rideshare driver, he has gained a new ability. He has learned to listen to women. By listening, Brian has learned some new tricks. These new tricks enable Brian to pick up women at ease. In fact, women usually ask Brian for sex. Brian does say the right things to get them to ask.Brian may sound like a womanizer to some of you, but he i...

"You will be mine, little darling: for death is my life."When fate draws together the lives of two young women, their mutual attraction quickly flourishes into a bond which threatens the boundaries of social etiquette in 1860s Styria.As their relationship continues to develop, they remain oblivious to the growing horror which surrounds them. Throughout the province other young women are dying in mysterious circumstances. Meanwhile, people begin falling vict...

A UNIQUE BLEND OF CHEEKY HUMOR, QUIRKY HISTORY, AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT DISGUISED AS VAMPIRE LORE.How did corpses become sexy? Why do vampires hate garlic? Did you know that everything you've heard about vampires came from government paperwork? Or why the earliest vampires hungered not for blood, but beef stew?Learning about vampires reveals what really shapes our world—manipulation. The M...

A UNIQUE BLEND OF QUIRKY HUMOR, GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT DISGUISED AS GHOST LORE.Is a ghost a spirit, an energy, or a banana? What if I told you it's all three? Why do European ghosts wear white sheets? Why do Asian ghosts have bad hair? Why aren't ghosts souls or invisible flying eyeball wheels? Hint: it's in the Bible. And what kind answered Edison's ghost phone?Answering "What is a ghost?" reveals what really

Surviving this mission may mean losing each other . . . or their lives.In the summer of 1992, Trey Carter—Southern, evangelical, and deeply closeted—accidentally outs himself at a pool party. This spirals him down a dark path and into the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency, but Trey’s skills are in football and gymnastics, not guns and espionage. He’s not the first twenty-one-year-old to make a mistake but may be the first to fall involuntarily into a dark ops protoc...

Most visitors leave your website without taking action.After all the work you put into creating the site and driving visitors to it, the majority of them will close the tab within seconds.And among those who stay, only a tiny fraction will actually buy. But ...You can improve your site, change visitor behavior, and get better resultsRemoving distractions, clarifying language, eliminating annoying usability issues ... all of ...

YOUR FUTURE STARTS NOWBy the time you reach the end of the book, I promise you will understand your Future You better than ever...you will be able to see yourself in the future you want and know the steps needed to get there.Brian David Johnson has spent a quarter century helping governments, schools, corporations, and small businesses shape the future—now, he wants to help you.In The Future You, Johnson distills his work as an applied futu...

"Basics and Benefits of Worm Composting" gives you all the information you need to start your own organic worm composting. This is a short book that gives you a quick and practical introduction to vermiculture (worm composting). Learn how you can get high-quality compost from red wigglers / red worms in a short time.Wouldn't it be nice to grow great vegetables and at the same time be able to dispose of your organic waste in an easy way? Develop your garden to a great place for heal...