This focus in this book is on the way our mind works and how we can heal the mind and have a better outcome. It is a mental fitness exploration to find out how you can manipulate things with your mind and get a different result. The focus throughout is on the way the mind works. This is a practical and helpful book providing valuable insights and tips throughout towards change and healing.Topics covered include how to overcome difficulty, how we can get lost and how we can find our...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Sly, brave and truculent, the Qornt held all humans in contempt—except one! Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of science fiction’s true luminaries

A collection of Hugo-nominated author Keith Laumer's Retief stories, collected from Worlds of If magazine and published in the 1960s. Laumer served in the U.S. Foreign Service and called upon these experiences in creating Jaime Retief, a diplomat serving the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, an intergalactic bureaucracy which will drive you nuts! Retief navigates these bumblers with an ease which will make you cheer for him and shake your head at his superiors.

On the desert world of Adobe, Vice-Consul J. J. Retief is sent into a simmering border crisis with nothing but a sealed order and an exasperated superior who wants diplomacy without leaving the office. Human settlers and the native Flap-jacks are already trading fire over precious oasis farms, and the official plan is as unrealistic as it is tidy. Retief's arrival is anything but routine: he survives a guided warhead, a crash landing, and hostile fire before being mistaken for an enemy and...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Retief had just one job on Northroyal—to save the galaxy from madness and war. So with a frayed cloak and an old horse and a packet in his saddlebags—not to mention blood, guts, and brains he set out. Keith Laumer was a Hugo and Nebula award nominee! Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Retief knew the importance of sealed orders—and the need to keep them that way! Keith Laumer was a best selling author who was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of science fiction’s true luminaries

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The ceremonious protocol of the Yills was impressive, colorful, and, in the long run, deadly! It was up to Jame Retief to figure out how to respond to the Yill"s overtures in the correct manner; all the while keeping his superiors from making a deadly mistake. Only one man could think quickly enough to get the job done!

It is a thousand years since Alantis fell, destroyed by three power crystals that had gone mad. Now one of those crystals, the Eye of Fire may have been uncovered by the priests of Pharr who want to use it to make themselves the rulers of an empire. If they cannot control the Eye of Fire they risk destroying themselves and the city of Pharr. The Old Man of Nerak who once forced the crystals to stop their destruction a thousand years ago, knows only one person who has some hope of controlin...

Help me, I am Stuck! explores the reasons why people get stuck and as a consequence not being able to live their lives to the full. The author explores this area in broad detail and provides examples of areas where people get stuck and how to avoid getting stuck. The book looks at the full spectrum of challenges people face daily.This book provides valuable insights in how people think and respond when in crisis or in a rut. It also explores serious issues such as depression, divor...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Blast you, Retief! Your violent ways are the disgrace of Earth’s diplomatic corps—but your salty jokes are worse! Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of science fiction’s true luminaries

This book constitutes of the revised selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Society 5.0, Society 5.0 2024, held in Moka, Mauritius, during June 26-28, 2024.The 29 full papers presented in this book were thoroughly reviewed and selected from a total of 76 qualified submissions. These papers discuss the various challenges and opportunities for a Society 5.0 in different areas, including Business Information Systems, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Innova...

Retief knew the importance of sealed orders—and the need to keep them that way! Keith Laumer was a best selling author who was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Before becoming a science fiction writer Laumer was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the Foreign Service, adding a note of realism to many of his stories. One of science fiction’s true luminaries