In modern corporate culture, we frequently equate the value of an outcome with the amount of suffering required to achieve it. If a project required all-nighters, immense stress, and sacrificed weekends, we unconsciously assume the final product is superior to one completed easily in half the time. This irrational correlation between pain and quality is a deeply ingrained cognitive trap. Behavioral economists call this the Martyrdom Effect. Humans possess a psychological blind spot that as...

With many businesses struggling to survive, and less consumer spending to go around, its no longer a question of becoming the next Google, IBM or Coca-Cola - it's all about knowing what your competitors are doing. This book will help managers and leaders devise better strategies and get better execution from emploees. T.J. Walker has turned his experience collecting and analyzing competitive intelligence for the CIA into strategies for businesses wanting to stay on the leading edge of thei...

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the woods. Some are from our past, an...

The tale of a man and the memory that haunts him, River City One is the poetic and compassionate story of John Walker, a lawyer and ex-Marine adrift in a nameless city. Home from the war, he has become a man on the edge, quietly raging against the people he must now work for and live among—the kind of people incapable of understanding the terror he felt in combat and the guilt he carries in his heart.When he meets Ruth, a beautiful, famous singer traveling through the city, John di...

Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness. Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct their methods o...

This book starts with a paradox and ends with a riddle. The paradox notes that the mammal specie with the most capable adults is the mammal specie with the most helpless of babies. Is there a connection? The author contends that there is. He attempts to show how the evolution of the helpless baby has led to reciprocal genetic and behavioural adaptions of the nursing females. In addition, the increasing length of the baby's helplessness resulted in the development of the hominid multi-age b...

In 1975, John Waters had a brainstorm. A simple enquiry into career prediction led to fascinating and disturbing insights, with the potential for profound consequences. After a varied career in surveying, mining, and transportation, the author has decided to publish his second book. This work was originally written in 1976, following a short-lived sojourn into the world of career prediction. The book was submitted for publication to over forty publishers, all of whom turned it down. For fu...

A hands on workbook describing the steps and ideologies behind controlling your happiness. This guide includes the authors view point on how society relates happiness to instant gratification from external sources rather than long term satisfaction caused by internal sources.J.B. Waters is a self-proclaimed self-mastery writer and orator who is heavily involved in realigning the personal development culture in his community. Coining the terms "motivational listener" and "true self-...

Serendipity, WA is filled with Christmas cheer, beautiful mountain views, and trans man Will's feminist Wiccan family. Home for the holidays, he avoids their clumsy attempts at support by hiding in the local coffee shop and flirting with Bea, a friend from high school.The beautiful landscapes can't make up for the the realities of being queer in a small town, and Bea wants out. Will grabs for a prosperity spell, and finds a new way to connect to the magic he's become estranged from...

What happens when an eccentric, germophobic actress with an excessive need for cleanliness meets her messy match? A very untraditional Opposites-Attract sapphic romance that not even Hollywood—or Shakespeare—could script.Cordelia Wainwright is a superbly capable actress but a supremely incapable adult, who is plagued by decisions from her past that prevent her from accepting both love and her sexuality.Aubrey Taylor is a bold and vibrant up-and-coming younger actress, who u...

Meet three princes unlike any you've met before... They're big, bad, and oh-so-good.Book 1: Bad PrinceWhat if Cinderella went to the ball...and got pregnant?The invitation is meant for someone else.The dress is borrowed.The clock is ticking.What Elle should do is sneak right back out of the Royal Ball and ...

Flex investigative methods that only witches can wieldAs a witch, your ability to manipulate energy allows you to interact with ghosts in ways that other investigators can't. Discover how to use your magical toolkit to identify and resolve the four main types of haunting—residual, poltergeist, human earthbound, and inhuman entity. J. Allen Cross guides you through the basic principles of a haunting, while building a foundation of paranormal investigation, witchcraf...