Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as producers and consumers by revising the long-established, hierarchical relation between adults and children. The chapters in this collection reveal that studying child-produced culture complicates our received understandings of children’s culture as culture by adults, for children, about children. They also underscore “children’s literature” as a cultural phenomenon th...

The stock markets. Whether you invest or not, the workings of the stock market almost certainly touch your life. Either through your retirement fund, your mutual fund or just because you work for a place that invests (or is invested in)—the reach of the securities markets is expanding, like an ever growing tidal wave.This book discusses what happens when that wave hits the shore. Specifically, this book argues that, given the mounting deluge from misplaced regulation, fast-paced te...

This audio book is intended for anyone who is required to generate income from a product or service. Highly Skilled or start up entrepreneurs Scholars considering a career in sales Active sales executives Sales managers Companies who need to increase the bottom line Why is this book different? It is based on coaching and looks at the basic scientific principles of sales, which coupled with psychological coaching principles, creates sales success. Coupling sales techniques with coaching pro...

Congressional ratings have fallen to single digits; citizens believe that Congress fails to do the things its members are publicly paid to do. What does Congress do for our dollars, and how has that changed in the last 50 years?What was the cost to taxpayers for Bill Clinton's impeachment hearings? What about the Benghazi investigation and efforts to obtain the votes required to repeal Obamacare while failing to consider Zika virus funding bills? What is the true c...

Innovation isn’t reserved for C-suite executives, entrepreneurs, or small business owners. It’s not an app, an engineering marvel, or the next big thing. Instead, innovation is what it takes to get there. It’s what happens at the intersection of skills and passions. And any woman, anywhere, has the ability to be ingenious.Why Women Innovate: Creating a Catalyst for Change explores those intersections within the context of women’s careers to demonstrate the power of an inno...

***Personally I never met anybody who didn’t like a good ghost story.***Haven’t you sometimes wondered what if I hadn’t been there at that particular moment? And what if I had been? What would have happen if I had been there with someone else or no one was there to help me? Would the same thing happen under different circumstances?I cannot say that I have like every ghost that I have met because in real experience there can be some very unpleasant ghosts. There many stories about f...

The desert keeps its secrets.The ocean buries its dead.And somewhere between the Namib dunes and the harbours of Durban, a war is being fought in silence.Gideon Marais has seen the worst Africa can offer — poachers with military training, syndicates with global reach, and governments too compromised to act. But this time, the enemy is larger, darker, and hidden beneath the surface: a network trafficking not only ivory and shark fins, but people, weapons, and somethi...

From Warzone to Police Beat: A Minnesota Man's Journey Through Global Events, Personal Struggles, and Unforeseen Heroism in the Heart of Chaos.In the heart of chaos, a seemingly ordinary man from a small town in Minnesota finds himself at the epicenter of world-shattering events. What the Hell Just Happened? is a gripping narrative that follows the protagonist's journey from the 3rd Infantry in Baghdad to the 3rd Precinct Minneapolis Police. This captivati...

Chinyelu Kunz is a childhood educational mentor and a leading parenting coach. Her expertise has supported thousands of families in their mission to nurture and encourage content, kind and thriving children, who continue to blossom into adulthood - and she distils it here into a must-buy book for parents seeking to raise emotionally healthy children.The Little Book of Parenting covers everything you need to raise happy, resilient children from preschool to adult. Focusing ...

This book traces and analyzes the transformation of the public discourse of science and technology in Mao-era China. Based on extensive primary sources such as science dissemination materials and technical handbooks, as well as mass media products of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution periods, this book delineates the emergence of a pragmatic approach to knowledge in society. To achieve the goal of fast modernization with limited financial, human, and material resources, th...

Kory Kunze's gritty and unforgiving debut adventure fantasy novelThree lives. Three losses. One truth they refuse to face.Brandon, a teen in 1990s Pine Lake City, discovers a cryptic note that may lead him to the source of the strange tentacle symbols he's seen all over town. Instead it leads him to a derelict riverboat where the boat's missing owner seems to have an obsession with Brandon's family. Determined to discover the connection...

Join Tristan T Mars in his 1980s type Space Sci Fi Action, B Movie adventure. If you love action and martial films made in the 80s this comics is perfect for you. With real Karate techniques and shaolin kung fu fighting forms. Sprinkled with the real cheesiness of the 80s Galaxy and space exploration.The year is 3081, Gioval T Byte is developing a new technology called the Eye project. He is aided by Ryja the last Ninja and his kung fu cyborgs. Gioval T Byte has 31 Million followers on his...