How to Become a Commercial Truck Driver in Less Than a Week, Even If You Haven´t Studied in YearsYou're heading to the office for another day that is inexplicably both mind-numbing and stressful. But the repetitive administrative work, unreasonable deadlines, and aggressive office politics easily explain this dreadful dynamic. Sigh…Perhaps not so surprisingly, your long drive into work is now a highlight of your day. You pass through some spectacular nature...

Achieve your goal of a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle with instruction on a range of basic garden and trail techniques inspired by old time country living.Achieve your goal of a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle with instruction on a range of basic garden and trail techniques inspired by old time country living, no matter where you live. As big box stores and foreign-made, disposable goods take over commerce, the drive to get back to the origins of wha...

Half the world’s population lives in rural places, but education scholars and policy makers worldwide give little attention to rural of education. Indeed, most national systems, including in the developed world, treat their educational systems as institutions to 'modernize' the global economy.The authors in this volume have different concerns. They are rural education scholars from Australia, Canada, the United States, and Kyrgyzstan, and here their focus is the dynamics of social ...

As science and politics engage in a never-ending battle over the environment, A Life of Grace for the Whole World re-claims the theology of salvation and redemption for all creation. Using the House of Bishop’s Pastoral Teaching on the Environment -- the first statement on the environment from The Episcopal Church leadership -- as a guide, A Life of Grace engages participants in understanding how the call to care for Creation informs and deepens appreciation and love for ...

The first section of the book includes information about how tourism-related infrastructure and activities promote biological invasions, including key pathways for non-native invasive species introductions. This section provides case studies of different organisms that are known to be introduced and/or promoted by tourism in different ecosystems or regions. The second section elaborates on known and potential impacts of invasive species on tourism and recreation, including how they may aff...

Dr. Joe Green, a software engineer, is leading a team developing a defense against cruise missile attacks. He is given unexpected assistance from a Russian physicist, who is falling for Joe. The Iranians have purchased an old Russian submarine, now retrofitted to fire cruise missiles - and they have developed a couple of nuclear bombs for the missiles. Can Joe get his blasters in place before the Iranians can reach America's shoreline, and attack? Will the blasters do the job, when if even...

The North Koreans decide to bomb both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, to throw the United States into disarray by wiping out the leaders from both parties.The Koreans create Radiological Dispersal Devices (RDDs), and with Iranian help smuggle the bombs into the United States. Domestic terrorists then disguise the bombs and hide them near the convention centers where the two political parties will meet to choose their candidates.Can the FBI, led by Chicag...

In this celebrated book, UP THE CREEK WITHOUT A SADDLE, award-winning poet Jerry Johnson has created a universal memoir of life experiences. Animals, the natural world around us, people, first loves, loss, joy, and so much more breathes in his poetry full of treasured images. The words portray life on many levels, the images stay with you, and there is a feeling of kinship with what is described. It is a joy to read this book, and to give it as a gift to others that will be treasured forev...

In this compelling block-buster guide discover hard-hitting facts about American History, The 22nd Amendment, The Bill of Rights, The Boston Tea Party, The Civil War, The Cold War, The Declaration of Independence and more.

Achieve your goal of a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle, no matter where you live, with instruction on a range of basic home skills inspired by old time country living.As big box stores and foreign-made, disposable goods take over commerce, the drive to get back to the origins of what we consume and how we sustain ourselves is becoming ever more compelling. Whether you are a country dweller or an urbanite, or somewhere in between, you can respond by l...

This professionally challenging volume--focusing on the performance and status of Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (COTAs)--serves as a basis for reexamination and redefinition of the relationship between occupational therapists and assistants. Experts offer constructive possibilities for resolving some of the ongoing conflicts about the appropriate functions and education of COTAs and promote examination of the appropriate levels of function and education for the occupational the...

People all around us are dying every day. People who have no hope, no understanding, and no assurance of what will happen to them when they take their final breath in this world. Countless people live in the paralyzing fear of death, fear of their unknown eternal destiny. It is an unfortunate fact that in this very unpredictable world we live in, none of us are guaranteed to still be alive tomorrow! You are going to die! I am going to die! And it could even be today! That fabled grim reape...