This is the story of the amazing Hunter J. Marcus (my "four-legged son"). Hunter lived for 15 years and three months. He was a golden retriever and the typical lifespan for a "golden" is 10-12 years, so he definitely had high mileage. His death was not sudden, violent nor unexpected–but was nonetheless very sad.I could not be more miserable because of the loss of a human child.I never thought of Hunter as a pet, and certainly not as a possession. He was a housemate, playmate...

In 2016, like many millions of Americans, I had voted for Hillary Clinton to become our 45th president. And, like many millions of Americans, I assumed that there was no way that Donald Trump could beat her. In 2008 Trump wrote, "I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president." During the 2016 presidential campaign he said, "She has to go to jail."If it were not for our peculiar and archaic Electoral College–plus last-minute interference from FBI Director James Comey just ...

LAUGH & LEARNThis bestselling book is a collection of amusing anecdotes and useful advice on a wide range of subjects: money, relationships, parenting, business, work, cars, food & drink, life & death, education, health, technology, media, aging, time, animals, baseball, sailing, sex, writing & publishing and law.The book is the sad—and also humorous and helpful—story of what the author did wrong over a lifetime and what he learned from his mistakes, plus what he learned fr...

In the distant Vega system, Perry Rhodan and his crew are trapped on a strange world that is under attack. To have any hope of saving the Ferrons, they must reach the aliens’ leader in the central city, but getting there will be a treacherous road filled with betrayal and self-sacrifice.His crew aren’t faring much better, with teleporter Tako Kakuta leading a group that learns sanctuary in a hospital isn’t as safe as they expected. As one of their number fights for survival, the in...

This SpringerBriefs employs a novel approach to obtain the precise asymptotic behavior at infinity of a large class of permanental sequences related to birth and death processes and autoregressive Gaussian sequences using techniques from the theory of Gaussian processes and Markov chains.The authors study alpha-permanental processes that are positive infinitely divisible processes determined by the potential density of a transient Markov process. When the Markov process is symmetri...

Organized Home Office: Discover Proven Techniques On How to Set Up Your Home Office for Maximum Productivity, Efficiency and SuccessPeople decide to open their own home business for many reasons. You may want to spend more time with your family, be your own boss, or make more money than a 9 to 5 job can offer. In a job that has you working for others, your entire work life and sometimes your home life is strictly scheduled for you. From the time you begin and end work, to breaks, v...

The Organized Home Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Clean House and Mind and Organized Home OfficeDo you shudder when you think of people coming over to visit unannounced? Do you panic when you get a message on your answering machine that family is coming—and they left 4 hours ago (and it’s a 5 hour trip)? Do you find yourself feeling discouraged, frustrated, and thinking it’s just impossible when it comes to cleaning? Even if nobody can see it, it’s still important to maintain a clean house...

Conversations With a Deaf Cat is the story of how Yolande and Michael taught English on a Canadian Indian reservation and cared for Yolande's mother for five months in the Netherlands until her death from ALS. It also tells about Michael's experiences as a native English speaker in a home with people who tried not to speak English whenever possible.Michael and Yolande are English teachers and writers who travel the globe teaching non-English speaking students how to sound and write ...

First Time Dad: Find Out All You Need to Know About What to Expect From Your Partner’s Pregnancy to Being the Best Dad You Can Be! Becoming a first time dad can bring a lot of pressure on anyone regardless of the capacity or capability you may think you have mustered in the past. This is because for the first time in your life, you will be directly and whole-heartedly engaged in another person’s life your newborn child. You are now tasked with the responsibility to provide, protect, rear, ...

Are you struggling to manage your emotions?Are you destructive emotions proving to be an obstruction in your personal, professional and social success?Are you suffering from social anxiety, which is preventing you from enjoying fulfilling social relationships?If yes, this is your book. Emotional intelligence or awareness is the number one skill needed for success in today’s emotionally complex and c...

Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has written during his forty-plus years as a journalist. From combative interviews with Frank Zappa and Tom Waits to essays on how Jack Kerouac influenced Bob Dylan and the lasting importance of San Francisco’s first punk rock club, Goldberg, as novelist Dana Spiotta wrote, “shows us how consequential music can be.”Contained within these pages: interviews with Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, ...

A revised edition of the bestselling classicThis book covers strategy for organisations that operate more than one business, a situation commonly referred to as group-level or corporate-level strategy. Corporate-level strategy addresses four types of decisions that only corporate-level managers can make: which businesses or markets to enter, how much to invest in each business, how to select and guide the managers of these businesses, and which activities to centra...