Four young boys ages eight to twelve discover the beautiful country around them in the four corners area of the southwest. Their home in Navajo, New Mexico, is the center of an assortment of red rock and lush green valleys and mountains. There is a sprinkling of caves that they explore not only for safety and shelter but a wealth of mystery that leads them to become heroes as well as discovering their strengths and weaknesses.From their ability to have the knowledge and skills of the vast ...

Separated into 10 subject matters, the book contains numerous poems and short stories reflecting how my life experiences and the hundreds of books I have read. The subjects are relevant to everyone; Passing, Man, Wisdom, Time, Personal, History, Life, Woman, Metaphysics, and Religion.

Manipulation is a practice of using words strategically to make people think in your favor. The way you word yourself essentially makes it so that you make the option you don’t want someone to choose seem “negative” and the option you do want them to choose seem “positive”. The way you say it bypasses the conscious mind which will automatically say “no” and teaches the subconscious mind that it is okay to say “yes”. There are two strategies you are about to learn that will maximize...

The advent of sensitive high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation and their successful interpretation in terms of the standard cosmological model has led to great confidence in this model's reality. The prevailing attitude is that we now understand the Universe and need only work out the details. In this book, Sanders traces the development and successes of Lambda-CDM, and argues that this triumphalism may be premature. The model's two major components, dark...

Adam Decker, three former officers, and several members of their previous crew are reunited in this privateer’s sequel. The crew is once again offered ownership of a retired US Navy warship if they accept and complete the task of hunting down and capturing an old friend and their former weapons officer Cyrus Ko. Cy, now an international criminal, has organized and is leading a group of Somali pirates in raiding merchant freighters throughout the Gulf of Aden. Their adventures take the crew...

Separated into ten subject matters, the book contains numerous poems and short stories reflecting my life experiences and the hundreds of books I have read. The subjects are relevant to everyonepassing, man, wisdom, time, personal, history, life, woman, metaphysics, and religion.

Discover the fundamentals of human communication with this comprehensive and insightful resourceWritten in four sections, The Work and Workings of Human Communication identifies the underlying fundamentals that make our communication distinctively human. These fundamentals are the common ground that tie together the many topics and subject matters covered by the study and discipline of communication. They are also the basis of the unique contribution of th...

From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's displaced residents discuss the loss of homes and...

Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American literary works. His first novel, Disappearances (1977), signaled the arrival of a master craftsman harkening us back to Melville's Billy Budd and Moby-Dick, in terms of...

Straddling Europe and Asia, the Russian Federation is the largest country in the world and home to a panoply of religious and ethnic groups from the Muslim Tatars to the Buddhist Buryats. Over the past 40 years, Russia has experienced the most dramatic transformation of any modern state. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation provides insight into this rapidly developing country. This volume includes coverage of pivotal movements, events, and persons in the l...

In the mountains of West Virginia, chaos is never far away—especially when the Beechy Hollow Great Outdoors Club is on the trail!After getting fired from his big-city job, Rob Greenwood returns to his Appalachian hometown only to be swept up in the antics of a free-spirited outdoors club. From camping and fishing trips that go sideways to weird trailside encounters, these stories celebrate friendship, mischief, and the untamed spirit of Appalachia.Includes ...

Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified 'global village,' the new millennium has instead seen a proliferation of nationalism on the Web. Cyberspace, a vast digital terrain built upon interwoven congeries of data and sustained through countless public/private communication networks, has even begun to alter the very fabric of national identity. This is particularly true among stateless nations, diasporic groups, an...