Protect yourself from the next financial meltdown with this game-changing primer on financial markets, the economy—and the meteoric rise of carry.The financial shelves are filled with books that explain how popular carry trading has become in recent years. But none has revealed just how significant a role it plays in the global economy—until now.A groundbreaking book sure to leave its mark in the canon of investing literature, The Rise of Carry exp...

Entity is, at its core, a story about a young guy and his car. It is kind of like "Knight Rider" on steroids. Bobby Jamison is an average guy in his early twenties, working at a junkyard. His life changes when an alien entity, an orb of light, transforms a cheap Impala he bought into a supercharged 1970 Dodge Charger and chooses to be the Charger, in a sense, and becomes his friend. Entity is a screenplay, not a novel, but it is still a story and is in a less strict format than a screenpla...

This story is for anyone who is a gearhead or has an interest in cars on some level. It has strong female characters and should be inspiring in some way to those who decide to read it. Carrie "C.J." Baker is a girl who loves cars and enjoys working on them, doing custom airbrushing and other things. She is a teen in high school and encounters those who feel that only men should work in automotive-related jobs. She perseveres and focuses on succeeding, and does succeed, despite the unpleasa...

"It's a perfect circle, Chris. The god receives his audience, the grid receives the power—and we light up Chicago."After the perilous retrieval of a long-dormant god from Iraq, Chris Copeland—professional god hunter and company troubleshooter—is about ready to quit his job. But his employers at the Registry have other plans…plans to build a power facility on the shores of Lake Michigan. Adam Shailer, a rising star at the Registry, thinks he can cage the god, drain its energy, and p...

In the newest Field Ops adventure, god hunter Chris Copeland must track down an enigmatic figure distributing shards of deities to unwitting citizens across the countryChris Copeland has a bizarre job, seeking out gods to convert into energy, but when hes tasked with retrieving a deity from an elderly woman in New York, hes truly out of his element. Before he can learn who sold her the dangerous object, she swallows a piece of it and goes into painful convulsions in fron...

Nick Rudolph is a young guy sentenced to death. He is a free spirit, determined not to be another victim of the execution process. While on death row he formulates a plan to escape, and he does so successfully, taking three other death row inmates with him. They are smart, sticking together and going to a place to lay low for a year and a half, not being seen, then eventually they go their separate ways.

`This is the first really thought-provoking book that I have read on management development. It is a book primarily addressed to students, but in this field, we are all students. It merits a wide readership both among practising managers as well as among those responsible for developing them′ - Max Boisot, ESADE`Mabey and Finch-Lees inject a breath of fresh air into the management development field by expanding upon its heretofore functionalist base. They offer an informative criti...

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century.His creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of Berners-Lee's grand scheme has yet to be fully realized.Now, this low-profile genius tells his own story of the Web's origins--fro...

The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential figures in world history.From ancient times to the American Revolution to as recently as this past century, Fort Raphael Publishing has here collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time. Featuring such disparate historical characters as Cicero, St. Francis of Assisi, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Emmet, Jane Addams, Mohandas K. Ga...

Raise your young children to always do the right thing and leave a legacy for generations.It’s up to you as the parent to try and prevent life, people, and circumstance from transforming your kids into lesser individuals.And this mission is both simple and tricky.Simple because all you need to do to ensure your kid grows up a good, kind, helpful person is to nurture their instinctive desire to be good.The tricky part is kn...

I hope the title of this book is not misleading. If you are expecting an entire volume of spinoffs from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, complete with consciousness-swapping across the aeons, cone-shaped scholarly beings compiling their archives while dinosaurs roam outside their cities and some nameless doom threatens them from below, this isn't it. I did indeed include a few stories of that sort, as such titles as Robert Guffey's "Toward a General Theory of Yithian Psychology" and Rob...

Shae Shanahan has no idea how to sew a button or steam a shirt. How he ends up as the assistant to the famous wardrobe stylist Rowan Abernathy is beyond him. But his need for stable employment in an expensive city is as dire as Rowan's need for an assistant to actually stick around. Or maybe an assistant he can order around and mold to his ridiculous standards. So much so that Shae has threatened to quit dozens of times—at least in his head.Rowan's love life is as much a disaster a...