Armchair Travel is a charming collection of culturally-rich short stories from Award-Winning author V.M.Karren (The Deceit of Riches) that will help relieve the cabin fever of restless wanderers everywhere who have been confined to their armchairs for the last year.Go get lost in Lisbon’s oldest neighborhood searching for that beautiful, elusive voice singing the sad songs of Portugal’s past, as they echo through the winding, narrow alleyways.Go cycling up the windy Dutch s...

The objective of this book is to stimulate your awareness of Spirituality and Consciousness.The analogy of currency to our basic life’s capital is a representation of the wealth of our spirit and the height of our consciousness. The book will take you on a journey to explore your belief systems regarding a variety of topics, including Trust, Gratitude, Acknowledgment, Relationships, Sex, Energy, Presence...Included is the bonus compilation The Book of Y.O.U...

Montgomery has a fun and fascinating assortment of restaurants dating back more than two hundred years. Some landmark dining establishments, like Fleming's, are gone, but others, like Chris' Hot Dogs, are still serving their signature dishes. Such notable figures as Hank Williams, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Elvis, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. have all enjoyed delicious meals in Montgomery. Traditional favorites such as Pop's "Shake Ice," the Parkmore's Chicken in a Basket and ...

This book looks at the changes in Alabama's "Capital City of Dreams." During World War II, Montgomery residents opened their homes and hearts to pilots at Maxwell and Gunter Air Force Bases. During the postwar boom, downtown flourished as homes and shopping centers emerged in suburbia. In the 1950s and 1960s, Montgomery became an important site of the civil rights movement. The 1970s brought urban renewal, while the 1980s focused on the arts with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the const...

From the Heartstrings of the Inner Children is a collection of one hundred poems written between 1982 and 2025, tracing the author’s decades-long journey of self-discovery and healing. Through poetry, she sought to understand who she was—and why she once believed something was inherently wrong with her.The collection is divided into four sections: Karren’s Poems, Addiction, Codependency, and Inner Children. The author’s first therapist, Dr. Ed Dietker, who treated her for ...

Designed to help nurses excel at every stage of your leadership path, The Leadership Trajectory: Developing Legacy Leaders-Ship, 2nd Edition, follows a five-element framework that addresses the core attributes of a leader — character, commitment, connectedness, compassion and confidence. This unique and practical text offers strategic guidance on the actions you need to take to become more influential in any environment to move yourself and your team to greater contributions. Nurses will l...

This book provides a comprehensive examination of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices across developed and emerging markets, highlighting how corporations integrate sustainability and ethical governance into business strategy. It explores the evolution of ESG principles, the frameworks that guide disclosure and accountability, and the contrasting realities between mature and developing economies. Through seven well-structured chapters, the book reviews global ESG performa...

From Womb to Bloom: Integrating the Inner Child/Children, third in The Autobiographical Trilogy of Kae K. series, is as a cross between the saying, “I make plans, and God laughs,” and the book The Little Engine who Could—also described as, “Florance Nightingale meets Professor Higgins.”This book will especially be of interest to readers who are in any twelve-step fellowships, have loved ones dealing with addiction, or are addiction and mental health professionals....

Finally, a book that an attorney may pick-up and thumb through the table of contents to find direction to help her figure out how to navigate the unchartered waters associated with long-term care No matter what practice area an attorney may be in, because they are a trusted member of a person’s network they will be asked for advice on how to proceed when catastrophic events occur in the life of a client, friend, or family member. Increasingly, people are being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Di...

The Deceit of Riches: Russia's experiment with democracy hangs in the balance as corruption and crime bring the country to its knees. When Peter Turner, an idealistic American exchange student becomes helplessly intertwined and used in a complex power play of foreign spies, ruthless businessmen and corrupt agents, he must quickly get out Russia before one of the three catch up with him...but which way is out?From the Rooftops: Corrupt capitalists have replaced the Communist Party i...

Designed to help you excel at every stage of your leadership path, this unique and practical text is organized around a nursing and health care leadership trajectory of three core areas — The Strategies, The Personal, and The Environment. The Strategies covers necessary actions that you need to take to become more influential in any environment to move yourself and your people to greater contributions. The Personal relates to the concepts that you must develop and hone to increase your inf...

Paratuberculosis, also referred to as Johne's disease, affects principally cattle, goats, sheep, buffalo, deer and other ruminants. It is common worldwide and responsible for significant economic losses in the ruminant livestock industries. A timely follow up to the first book on Paratuberculosis, this new edition is still the only comprehensive text providing both historical context and the latest developments in the field. Examining the epidemiology of paratuberculosis, the organism that...