The Danforth Puppy is based on a real dog with a sense of humor that could flatten a train. These are stories I wrote for a friend and her granddaughters. My friend read quite a few of the stories to the dog, who seemed to like them. That's my idea of a good review. The Danforth Puppy starts out alone and abandoned, trying to survive.

A short but hopefully brutal commentary on the increasing futility of conversation. The sheer scale of degradation of communications values is the main reason,

You're looking sane today is a simple, cynical individualistic look at human mindsets. Call it humor, call it realism, call it a shot at something repulsive.

When Macular degeneration has changed a life. A practical guide to give strategies for dealing with visual loss. This book explains a new way of understanding blindness, our number one fear in life. Why family and friends are critical to adaptation. Have fun as you step by step discover the secrets and get your loved one back to a life worth living. It explains a new way of understanding blindness later in life, containing information you will not hear from a GP or eye clinic. Discover the...

"Sheridan Derwydd" means "Wild man Oak". Sheridan is a very intelligent guy, with a brilliant sister, an intoxicatingly beautiful and equally intelligent girlfriend, and a sort of psycho-hedonist.Put it this way, this is a quote from the book:"I'm a sociologist.""Oh, I am sorry. How awful. Does it hurt?"Don't say you weren't warned. Sheridan and friends delve into Martian epidemics, consultant ants, the history of poverty, fungal plagues, dinosaurs.... Oh, y...

The Good Manager is a creative, efficient individualist. The Good Manager can fraudproof a business, turn every staff member into a high value asset and turn the janitor into a paying business while getting rid of sycophants, middlemen and careerists, then have lunch.The Good Manager is the virtual antithesis of the mythical management culture, and avoids it like a disease. You won't find Good Managers in endless meetings- They run successful businesses, not talkfests and bizarre r...

'Exciting. I absolutely recommend The Scars of Eden.' Erich Von DanikenFrom the author of the bestselling ESCAPING FROM EDEN. Do our world mythologies convey our ancestors' ideas about God? Or are they in reality ancestral memories of extra-terrestrial contact? How do ancient stories of contact, adaptation and abduction relate to people's experiences around the world today? The Scars of Eden will take you around the world to hear first-hand from ancestral ...

The familiar stories of the book of Genesis affirm that God made the universe, planet Earth, and you and me. However, various anomalies in the text clue us that we are not reading the original version of these stories. So what were the original narratives and what did they say about who we are and where we all came from? What was the earlier story of human origins, almost obliterated from the Hebrew Scriptures in the 6th century BC, and suppressed from Christian writing in the 2nd and 3rd ...

'This generation's 'Chariots of the Gods'', George Noory, Coast to Coast AMThe familiar stories of the book of Genesis affirm that God made the universe, planet earth, and you and me. However, various anomalies in the text clue us that we are not reading the original version of these stories. So what were the original narratives and what did they say about who we are and where we all came from? What was the earlier story of human origins, almost obliterate...

Using war memoirs, war journalism, and the personal experiences of John Paul Wallis as a Marine with two tours of duty in Iraq, Wallis and Mechling analyze the folklore shared by male warriors in the combat zone to understand how the traditional everyday practices of these men in groups serve as a form of psychological first aid for relieving the symptoms associated with the stress of living, working, and fighting in the combat zone. The authors study how boys and men are socialized in Ame...

What’s your entrepreneurial profile?Do you have what it takes to build a great business?In this book, three prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs-now venture capitalists and CEO advisers-share the qualities that surface again and again in those who successfully achieve their goals. The common traits? Heart, smarts, guts, and luck.After interviewing and researching hundreds of business-builders across the globe, the authors found that every on...

To most companies, efficiency means profits and growth. But what if your “efficient” company—the one with the reduced headcount and the “stretch” goals—is actually slowing down and losing money? What if your employees are burning out doing the work of two or more people, leaving them no time for planning, prioritizing, or even lunch? What if you’re losing employees faster than you can hire them? What if your superefficient company is suddenly falling behind?Tom DeMarco, a leading m...