Holy Crap!The History and Evolution of Human Waste and SanitationEvery human being does it. Every society has had to deal with it since the beginning of civilization. And yet we rarely talk about it.Holy Crap! is the fascinating, disgusting, surprising—and often funny—history and evolution of sanitation: how humans have dealt with their waste from ancient cesspits and primitive toilets to modern sewers and sewage treatment.Along th...

Harness the Business Writing Process: E-mail – Letters – Proposals – Reports – Media Releases – Web Content. Ideal for anyone who has to write email, letters, proposals, reports, and web content. Do you find yourself feeling blank when you face the blank page? Do you have a lot to say but don't know where to, or how to, start? Do you suspect your writing tends to go on too long and is not as organized or as focused as it could (or should) be? Have you ever used ASAP in an email me...

Geri: A Post-Pandemic LGBTQ+ Novel About SomethingGeri, a talented but unknown non-binary stand-up comedian and carpenter, navigates their LGBTQ+ life in the city with three LGBTQ+ roommates. The novel is, in some ways, a parody of the heterosexual series, Seinfeld, but it is its own story. Geri will be published mid-October 2020.Main CharactersGeri Sender: a non-binary stand up comedian and carpenter who lives in a house f...

MS & ME: From First Signs, To Diagnosis, To Living With Chronic Illness. What Multiple Sclerosis Is, How It Manifests Itself And What Can And (Unfortunately) Cannot Be Done About It. If you are newly diagnosed with MS, know someone who is, or if you are a caregiver of someone with MS, no doubt you have a lot of questions about MS. MS & ME has a lot of answers. it answers questions about: what is and why is MS, different types of MS, various MS symptoms and medications. It looks at...

Six-Figure Freelancer: How to Find, Price, and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments - Revised & Improved! With more ideas, more detail, more examples, more inspiration and more exercises to get you started and keep you going!Paul Lima was a busy technology freelance writer, earning a six-figure income, during the dot-com boom. When it went bust, so did many of his Information Technology corporate clients. Paul developed new business and marketing plans and within 18 months...

Love. Sick. by Paul Lima.Rachel and Amil were colleagues and friends whose connection hinted at something more—but when Amil admitted his daily, unrelenting headaches and withdrew, they parted ways, each nursing their own struggles. Rachel, secretly battling multiple sclerosis, never revealed her condition, leaving both with unspoken questions and unresolved feelings. Life moves on, and when Rachel takes over as manager of a credit union branch on Roncesvalles Avenue in To...

Chronic: A Sick Person Writes is dedicated to everyone living with a chronic condition. There are more of us than one might imagine. We just don’t make a lot of noise about it.There are many books about overcoming adversity. This is not one of them. There are far fewer books that simply say, “This is what living with chronic illness is really like.” This is one of them, and it is a perspective you may appreciate because it is genuine rather than an attempt to be artificial...

The Other Half by Paul LimaThe end of the world doesn’t arrive with fire—it begins with absence...It begins as “an incident.” A few cities. A few unexplained cases. Then the truth becomes impossible to deny...For Daniel, an ordinary man living an ordinary life, the catastrophe unfolds through television screens, anxious phone calls, empty streets, and the slow realization that nothing—from relationships to governments to civilization itself—can survive unchanged.

Before there was a Toronto, there was a town called York. Before the Town of York, or Muddy York as it was called, the area belonged to indigenous people. Hence the Pre-York name in my subtitle. Toronto grew and was surrounded by five suburbs. A provincial government merged Toronto with his suburbs, creating the Mega City. Hence the Post-Amslgamation in my subtitle. In short, this book is the History of Toronto, from before it became the Town of York until after it becsme the Mega City it ...

The Tree Was A Symbol of the World: A Sick Poetry Chapbook is dedicated to all those who struggle with a chronic illness, or chronic illnesses, of any kind. You have my sympathy. And I know that my sympathy and a dollar, or a Loonie as we call the one dollar coin in Canada, won’t buy you a cup of coffee or tea (unless Tim Hortons or McDonald’s is having a fabulous sale) or make you feel any better. Regardless, you have my sympathy.

Seasons of Stillness: A Collection of (Mostly) Sick Haiku is dedicated to all those who struggle with a chronic illness, or chronic illnesses, of any kind. You have my sympathy. And I know that my sympathy and a dollar, or a Loonie as we call the one dollar coin in Canada, won’t buy you a cup of coffee or tea (unless Tim Hortons or McDonald’s is having a fabulous sale) or make you feel any better. Regardless, you have my sympathy.

the bible: Demystifying the Divine. It is my intention here is to explore biblical views, admittedly from the perspective of atheism, in a series of essays. I invite readers to discuss, support, counter, and even condemn the views expressed here in this book.But read them first.After all, to write this book, I had to read The King James Bible from cover to cover, which means that I have now read it more times than many Christians have. All I ask is that you read th...