A practical guide to simple stone building projects for your yardNothing matches the look and feel of stone structures in and around your home. Yet most people are intimidated by the very thought of masonry, despite the obvious rewards. In Stone Building, Kevin Gardner distills his decades of experience building and maintaining iconic New England–style stone walls into this concise, informative guide. Gardner offers step-by-step instructions for building e...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.As surveillance technologies become more sophisticated and data breaches more frequent, the threats to your online privacy are escalating at an alarming rate.The consequences of this erosion of privacy can be severe: identity theft, financial fraud, personal blackmail, and even physical danger for those living under oppressive regimes. The internet, once hailed as a bastion of free speech and open communication,...

Everton has been on a journey to find his true love in an unprecedented journey that took him from the city of Kingston, Jamaica, to the United States. There is an old proverb that says a man cannot be perfect without trials. Everton was just that guy. It was almost two years since he asked Blessica to marry him when the two met each other in the small town of Twickenham City, Mississippi. He once told her that she captures his heart like no one else. That was not enough to stop her from d...

One of the biggest hurdles to treating alcoholism or addiction is the fact that those who suffer from this disease often don't want to admit they've got a disease. On top of that, there is a set of unfair beliefs in society about people who cannot control their use of alcohol or drugs. That stigma stops people from seeking life-saving treatment. That stigma is why Kevin J. Gardner wrote this book.Stigma: Understanding Alcoholism and Addiction for Addicts, the Sober Curious, and...

This is THE handbook for Clergy of the Wiccan faith. Additionally, this work would also prove to be a great aid to all other Pagan paths. There is currently no other book of this sort on the market. With Handfasting, and funeral services, guided meditations and spiritual messages this book will be used again and again. A Handbook For Wiccan Clergy" is a valuable tool for all High Priests and High Priestesses of whatever tradition to have and utilize. Far from being a Wiccan 101, or "spell"...

"The Wiccan Minister's Manual, A Guide For Priests and Priestesses, " was inspired as a training aid for those who would like to become Wiccan Ministers, as well as an aid for Wiccan/Pagan Priests and Priestesses. The Craft is evolving, becoming more and more accepted by society, and there is beginning to be a definite distinction between Wiccan Laity and Wiccan Clergy. Part One - Guidance - Making the spiritual connection to personal deity through love, prayer, meditation, ritual, and myt...

The past is difficult to forget, but to live your desired life, you can't let regrets or accomplishments be a stopping point. They're your starting point. Instead of letting the past define you, Staying Lit! helps you determine how to use the past as a springboard for forward momentum.In his first book, Change Your Thinking, Ignite Your Life, Kevin J. Gardner taught us how to build a satisfying life. In this follow up, we get the Owner's Manual that—in simple to understand...

"I am Happy! I am Healthy! I am Wealthy!" versus, "I am a fat, miserable loser." What are you telling yourself about yourself?You become the person that the voice in your head says you are. So, shouldn't those thought patterns be positive, healthy, and forward-focused? In Change Your Thinking, Ignite Your Life, I share my shortcuts to retrain your brain and transform your life. Through stories taken from my own experiences of recovery and renewal, I will show you exactly how I crea...

Captured by Tripoli's Barbary pirates, Stephen Fletcher was first enslaved, then assigned to guard the Pasha's harem. Surrounded by sultry, sloe-eyed beauties whom he dared not touch under pain of torture, Fletcher lived only to escape -- until he met lovely Eve Doremus. An American like himself, Eve had been bought by Marlani, the Pasha’s favorite, to bedevil Fletcher for rejecting her advances. Together, Fletcher and Eve fought their way through every temptation and indignity in their fr...

Studio-Based Approaches for Multimodal Projects examines a cross-section of strategies for studio approaches and models that enable process-oriented multimodal projects and promote student learning. This collection features seven chapters authored or coauthored by leaders and innovators in studio-based approaches. These scholars explore studio models and provide vivid examples of ways in which they are realized as students pursue, design, and create multimodal projects, including ePortfoli...

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representatio...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...