The 40 “recipes” in this book are extremely simple, and basically provide some food for thought. All the rest of the ingredients - all of the flavor, fun, and spices - all of the dreams, and goals, they’re already on your shelf, or better yet - they lie waiting to be discovered. Bricolage is an under-appreciated word for this approach of making due with what you’ve got on hand. It comes from the French verb bricoler, meaning "fiddle, tinker" and, "to make creative and resourceful use of wh...

Jessica O'Connell and Sam Barrett from Kananaskis, Death in the Rockies and Spirits of Minnewanka, are back in another high adventure.Their story is set when Jessica first becomes a Banff Park Warden. She discovers that there is much to learn in her chosen career. She first meets Sam as her mentor while discovering the many sides of becoming a Warden. This, despite pressure from her mother and former boyfriend to adopt more lady-like activities appropriate to her home in the elite V...

Jake Neilson, despite everything that had recently gone before, has a comfortable life as a technical reader for one of the biggest data warehouses in Canada. That is until he gets his legs and his heart kicked out from under him by Nicole Browning.In Jim Walker's one hundred and four thousand word Science Fiction novel, Convergence; Jake and Nicole discover that there are unseen forces that wish to capture them. They find out that they appear to be unstoppable. The only way to get...

Convergence is about cloning and abuse of power. The contrast could not have been more extreme. Jake Nielsen is a lowly analyst working for a Globe spanning enterprise run by The Chairman, Phillip Thompson from his aerie overlooking Ottawa, Ontario.When Jake's martial arts sensei, Nicole Browning and his friend, Marcia Proust mysteriously disappear, Jake discovers that he is only on who can rescue them setting off a life and death conflict with global implications.While on ...

Jessica and Sam from Kananaskis, Death in the Rockies, are back in another high adventure.The Banff Park Wardens become embroiled in the death of an anthropologist friend of Jessica's. Sam and his bride Nicole, along with their friends are aboard the "Minnewanka Queen," a sternwheeler, celebrating their wedding when a wet suit encased body is caught up in the ship's paddles. The couple's honeymoon diving trip to Mexico is set on the back burner when Nicole volunteers Sam to help Je...

Berwick Upon Tweed Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Northumberland. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of the well-known streets and famous faces, and what they meant to the people of this area throughout the 19th and into the 20th Century. Looking beyond the exquisite exterior of these well-kept photos, readers can see the historical context in which they are set, and through the author's factual captions for every pictu...

Before I Go is unique in the memoir genre. Not only is it a book about growing up in Ohio in the 1950s and "coming of age" in the 1960s, it recounts the authors decade-long struggle against Creationists as a public school science teacher.Before I Go also presents jim walkers astonishing theological perspective which melds the worlds religious traditions with late 20th-century physics and it briefly outlines his radical ideas about educational reform.Quite ...

Sixteen-year-old Diana is a genius. She has, for the past two years, endured a habitat with gravity six times that of her comfortable, familiar life in Luna. All so that she can go to school on Earth where her heroes, Albert Einstein and Marie Curie had worked and studied. That is until she and her family are forced to flee the moon – in a kilometre long solar sailing tree named Minerva.As Diana and her family voyage to the outer reaches of the solar system, she must learn to cope w...

This book looks at what has actually happened when new technology has been deployed in an industrial and commercial environment. It considers the economic impact of new technology on three groups of organisations: firms, governments and trade unions.

This book contains three short stories/fiction. One is a dream, one is a detective story, and one is a bulletin for a missing person.

The crew of the Victoria Rover are back. This time it is not the International Space Station that is in jeopardy, it may be the human race.An international manned mission is approaching Mars when a US Navy ballistic missile submarine mysteriously appears on a plain near the planet’s equator. Critics of the American administration both foreign and domestic raise the specter of global warfare at this supposed breach of international agreements on the proliferation of weapons in space,...

Sometimes in a world of high-charged political action, an average man can make a difference. Art and Rhonda McLeod lived a simple life, something that they believed most people wanted, until an accident complicated things beyond anything that was reasonable. Due to his affliction, Art lost his job in information technology and an chances of ever working again. They ran the very real risk of ending up on the street. He and Rhonda decide on a dangerous way out of their mess that would take t...