Previously published as To the Far Green Mountains: No Place for Cowards. This is the story of a group of five rugged mountain men of the 1820's; trappers and traders with the natives in what was then called the Continental Divide. The main character is Davie Meadows, who just happens to be the grandfather times five of the main character in the novels 'Vigilante Justice' and 'Sharpshooter: Sins of Greed'. His friends are Jaxon, Abe, Bendigo and Grizz and together they had become legends o...

This revolutionary new look at vision will broaden your understanding of how you see and how you can see without your glasses or contact lenses.Take Off Your Glasses and See shows you how to free yourself from the crutch of prescription lenses, to build your self-confidence and awareness, and to open up your inner and outer vision in order to see more clearly.Jacob Liberman, an internationally recognized authority on holistic vision care, explains ...

Teddy Deere is a young overweight girl who marries Max Baer. She is wrongfully convicted of robbing her father’s bank of cash and bearer bonds by the prosecutor Maxwell Mason who hates bad girls. He makes her serve her full term in prison. Teddy’s father disowns her. She breaks her nose in a prison fight, looses massive amounts of weight and her hair goes white. All this while in prison. When she gets out Teddy’s entire existence is changed. She is alone in the world. She divorces her husb...

The long-awaited follow-up to Making Thinking Visible**, provides new thinking routines, original research, and unique global case studies**Visible Thinking―a research-based approach developed at Harvard's Project Zero - prompts and promotes students' thinking. This approach has been shown to positively impact student engagement, learning, and development as thinkers. Visible Thinking involves using thinking routines, documentation, and ef...

Learn how to write grants that win funding fast!The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and phila...

This essay is based upon a speech given at Stanford University in 1906, William James’ last public utterance and is the original expression of the idea of non-military national service. While acknowledging the horrors of war and its motives, he also acknowledges the benefits that accrue when groups of people address themselves to a common purpose evident in military behavior. The modern reader will no doubt find certain attitudes regarding sex, race, and conquest of nature outdated. Noneth...

Neil Douglas-Klotz, bestselling author of Prayers of the Cosmos and The Hidden Gospel, brings together forty years of research to update his pioneering work on the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes. Through expansions of Aramaic's multiple meanings as well as guided contemplations, The Aramaic Jesus Book of Days provides a guide to transformation through the way of the prophet. It shows how the deepest teachings of Jesus address contemporary challenges, such as ou...

Listeners are probably familiar with dozens or even hundreds of stories about characters who get summoned to magical worlds or transported to them by the will of the gods. And those characters inevitably end up gaining extremely useful fighting abilities, unique weapons, and other items, if not immortal deities as companions, all of which allow them to survive in their new world and lead a generally carefree existence.But what if you got sent to a dangerous and unfamiliar world wit...

In recent years, there has been an increase of public employees being fired for inappropriate behavior on social media. This research explores social media conduct of public employees that have been adjudicated through the federal and state court systems. The arguments of these cases are based upon the question of an employee's first amendment rights versus the rights of the employer to maintain a desired work environment. The research found that widespread negative publicity, disruption o...

James Naismith invented the game of basketball as a physical education instructor at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. That December of 1891, his task was to create a game to occupy a rowdy class during the winter months. Almost instantly popular, the game spread across the country and was played in fifteen countries by the end of the century. And yet basketball never had an overriding presence in Naismith’s life, as he was also a minister, doctor, educa...

This volume established Isabella Valancy Crawford as one of Canada's principal poets. Coupled with an introductory collage of viewpoints and reactions to her work by James Reaney its provides a vivid glimpse into the literary past of this country.Although her poetry reflects the patterns of her time, Isabella Valancy Crawford was able to accept the raw and vigorous Canadian landscape on its own terms. She was the first of our poets for whom it became the setting for struggle, passi...

What are the most important things an investor needs to know when evaluating a prospective company? What questions do fund managers ask in meetings with the C-Suite that the lay shareholder won't ever learn? How do you short a stock properly without losing your shirt? These are a few of the most pressing questions investors must consider when approaching a potential buy or sell position. With insights culled from 15 years of experience writing for The Street, this book will help you make s...