For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Electronic parts designers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into...

Would you recognize a Neanderthal living among us? Watch closely; they may be out there.A halfling boy and his Neanderthal uncle are the only survivors from their strange, prehistoric culture. Now they are struggling to survive in modern society, with often violent, sometimes humorous, and always exciting results. Follow their exploits from the steppes of Siberia to exotic Kashmir, India, amid the clash of armies, religions, and criminal gangs. The half-Neanderthal boy matures into...

Nightmareica is the sometimes anguished, frequently sarcastic, often ironic, response to America's political and social absurdities by Michael Baldwin, a former professor of American Government, civil rights activist, and concerned citizen. His critical and satirical poetry powerfully illuminates how American government has been usurped by BigBusiness and the ultra-wealthy to serve their own interests rather than the common good. Meanwhile the average citizen is distracted from co...

Love is and has been the most ubiquitous and intense subject of individual and social concern throughout human history. Moreover, love has been a primary topic for philosophers and religionists through the ages. Even as materialistic science came to dominate society in modern times, love became a major subject for scientific investigation through psychology, sociology, anthropology, archeology, biology, biochemistry, and most recently, neuroscience.Love has been the most compelling...

This is the fourth volume of my Passing Strange series of science fiction and weird short stories. It may be the last, since I think I've run out of titles that are variants of 'Passing Strange.' Well, I can always start another series.As with the stories in the other books of this series, I've kept these tales short and plot-based. Each story, tho strange and improbable, is based, in part, on hard science. In order to explicate the scientific aspect, I've appended the author's not...

Again Passing Strange is Volume 5 of the Passing Strange series.Delight your taste for strangeness with these 11 stories of the wild, weird, and wonderful. Let your reality bend and descend into these mind-bending stories of plausible unreality, many based on known science.Corona Chrono Tango combobulates the Coronavirus epidemic with our renewed interest in UFOs and the possibility of literal loops in spacetime.Catastrophic is a humorous take on the serious subject of...

Mantras From the Moon, by Michael Baldwin*,* consists of 53 Zen poems by Michael Baldwin and 66 full color, public-domain images, many from vintage Japanese woodblock prints. Baldwin also provides basic explanations of the concepts of Zen philosophy and poetry so the reader can better appreciate the poems. This book is a wonderful introduction to Zen and Zen poetry for anyone not familiar with Zen culture. For those who are interested in pursuing more information about Zen after r...

Fourteen Science-Fiction short stories that will add some needed spice and weirdness to your life, providing just the strange perspective you need to challenge your ordinary reality.Some of these new stories carry on my concern with contemporary social issues (such as global warming, bullying, abortion, animal rights, gun control, etc.) by extrapolating them into the future or exploring them thru unusual perspectives. Other stories here briefly ponder philosophical questions such a...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.In her essay on Jacquetta, Philippa Gregory uses original documents, archaeology, and histories of myth and witchcraft to create the first-ever biography of the you...

a loyal warrior. a dying cause. an epic race for salvation.As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior. Whittle would share command with a ...

This book is a comprehensive manual for decision-makers and policy leaders addressing the issues around human caused climate change, which threatens communities with increasing extreme weather events, sea level rise, and declining habitability of some regions due to desertification or inundation. The book looks at both mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and adaption to changing conditions as the climate changes. It encourages the early adoption of climate change meas...

With The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law, Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, unvarnished first-person account of family breakdown and the social, political, and legal forces that are fueling this national health emergency. It further exposes and condemns a gender bias that presumes that fathers are less effective caregivers.Family breakdown is the single greatest threat to American society. Every day, more than four thousand ch...