When a teacher exclaims, "Clap if you can hear me," students are meant to clap once in unison in answer to demonstrate they are attentive, focused, and processing what is being said. The essential ingredient in enhancing education is paying attention.This book presents practical solutions to empower students and parents in education. Clap If You Can Hear Me is a navigational guide that exposes critical deficits in PreK through higher education programs. It also illuminates best pra...

There are 15 people buried underground for every 1 person living. The living are outnumbered and the dead are killing us. Kelly Mitchell takes a Tour of Insanity in the business of dying and discusses alternative methods to dispose of your dead body in a way that leaves the world better than you found it. This book provides practical solutions for your final disposition as well as the insane history surrounding what has been done with bodies and what is being done with bodies. You may neve...

Kelly’s superpowers: Wicked creative writer with a flair for satire. Matt’s superpowers: Combines creativity with the ability to see what the world needs. Kelly and Matthew have strong and opposite views of the world and spend a great deal of time and energy trying to convince each other who’s right. It is in the spirit of these heated debates that we have arrived at the first book in our Tour of Insanity series. We hope you find this book entertaining and debate-worthy. www.tourofinsanity...

Debasing the price of gold to protect the dollar has failed. A new system is now inevitable.The Western media fixation on Bitcoin—price, memetics, and volatility—ignores the strategic resurgence of gold. The narrative framing of the rise of gold ignores the cause: an underlying structural shift. In 2023 and 2024, Chinese gold imports surpassed most Western central banks’ entire holdings. China doesn’t need to announce a gold standard. It only needs to create conditions where gold b...

Pandora grew up in hardship, child abuse, sexual abuse, rape, drug abuse, and jail. Pandora was taken from her mother when she was ten years old. Her parents were on drugs. The choices she made in her life turned her life upside down. Pandora learned how to amend her oppressed life; she learned how to deal with life in a positive way. This novel is all about empowerment and showing people how they can overcome negative situations without having to continue on a self-destructive path that l...

Growing up without a mother is hard. Worse is having a stepmother who controls Dad. Brittany Myerson is so ready for high school to end. She knows that life is going to get a whole lot better when she gets her driver's license, the car she's always wanted and a ticket to college away from home. But her new stepmother has decided what's good enough for Brittany: a beat-up, mustard-colored piece of junk and enrollment in the local community college. Brittany thinks it can't get much worse un...

What do you do when something magical happens...in your own backyard? Linda and Earl are a happy couple. Although married for many years, they have never had children. Still, they are content being together, and watching reruns of "I Love Lucy" keeps them close. That, and a magical garden that never seems to grow what they plant. One day Earl finds a set of infant toes in the loam. He and Linda plant them and watch in amazement as the garden produces an enormous baby. Now Earl and Linda ha...

Overstimulated and stressed, that’s how we often feel in today’s society. And to no surprise: the speed at which the world has changed over the past 30 years is much higher than your brain can keep up with. From early in the morning to late at night, your brain has to deal with a large number of stimuli: through your work, your phone, and social media.In this book, Brain Balance Expert Charlotte Labee provides you with practical tools to balance your mind, and your life. Charlotte ...

At seventy-three years old, Antonina Duridanova is asked all the time how it is she looks twenty years younger. After all the comments and questions, Duridanova has decided to record her daily routine and goals to obtain a fit and healthy lifestyle. In this insightful read, she emphasizes the importance of a healthy diet, finding types of exercise that work for you, maintaining rich, fulfilling hobbies, and doing all of the combined through travel. Duridanova explores first the role of die...

Is Love Worth the Wait? is a book of hope, romance, and truth based on the author’s dreams. He hopes to inspire others to voice their true feelings of love. This can be done in order to avoid having sleepless nights caused by thoughts of what could have been. This story is one of the Logans and the Hunts, who are best friends of different races in the segregated south. Their children, Greg, Wayne, and Sandra grow up as family. Soon Wayne develops feelings for Sandra that he is afraid to sp...

In Is the Swing High or Low? author Wilma Cotten reveals the struggles she had with her bipolar daughter Andrea, who succumbed to the evils of drugs as a method of self-care.While trying to be a supportive and loving mother, Wilma struggled for years to find some solution to her daughter’s problems. Counseling, medication, rehab—nothing seemed to help. So she did what any mother would do—she loved her unconditionally anyway.It is important to remember that mental health iss...

After her bad divorce, Rhonda Wheeler is now a businesswoman ready to fall in love again. After a move to Houston and getting back into the dating scene, she found herself struggling to find the qualities she was looking for in a man: professional, educated, and self-motivated. As she traversed the landscape of modern dating through apps and messages, she recorded all the lessons learned and compiled them into a single book to help other women on their search for Mr. Right.Wheeler ...