Technology is set to transform the world. Its likely impact is both terrifying and incredibly exciting. We all need to understand the great changes that are just beginning to re-shape the human domain and our daily lives. Then we need to draw up plans.There are few challenges more important.This book is for:People who want a job in ten years' time.Employers who want to hire the right talent for the future.Students of business and business professionals ...

Since the mid 1800s the rural land surrounding Des Paire, Texas has been known outwardly for two things; fine Monastic wine and the sport of hunting wild pigs. The French and German immigrants who settled this part of Texas brought the boars and mating sows with them from their homeland for sport and sustenance. Little did they realize that years later the seed of their good intentions would mate with the nuisance of the modern day feral hog to produce an aggressive offspring that would st...

This book is written for those in a modern day and age where patience may not be a word we like to hear but it is very vital to accomplishing our goals without letting set backs stop our forward progress. This is a short essay style book that will give keypoints on how to activate the wonderful gift of patience and how to allow it to help us mature and grow our charecter along the way. I guess you could say this is a relevant guide to patience and producitivity.

A fantastical book written in the early 1980s - an adventure of mythical, magical, mystical and fairy tale challenges by two contemporary couples starting from a holiday in West Africa. In their crazy adventures they come across many other supernatural characters and personalities who jump out of the pages. Reading this book is like dreaming awake. A book in two halves - the first partially a nostalgic visit to childhood reading and childhood itself. The second part is post-apocalypse and ...

Extinct Dream is a bizarre, adventurous journey written as an epic poem. Reading it is like dreaming awake.

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia") of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions (from the Ancient Greek ἀπολογία).

Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story • A New York Times Notable Book"A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist." —USA TodayIn these classic "vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches"

A violent home invasion shatters Eileen’s tranquil country life, forcing her to confront her deepest fears.This short story takes place in the world of the Elements of the Undead, but is not part of the series.

A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn—drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she introduces us to varieties of b...

Everyone loves their grandma but these three are just a little...different. They have certain skills in war and strategy developed over forty years through military training and discipline. They are the definition of "never judge a book by its cover." They now work as contractors for the extra money. Follow the hapless Clem as he is hired to drive the three on their latest mission of destruction.

Pauline can’t believe it, she’s been invited to the biggest hide and seek game in the neighbourhood, the one all the cool kids play in! The pressure is on. As the new kid, Pauline counts to one hundred and starts the hunt. As evening turns to night, Pauline searches the nearby housing construction site but instead of finding any of the other kids, she finds a stray barrette and a broken yoyo. Where are the kids? How can she win the game? In the growing darkness, she wonders, are they the o...

Titanic is written in 'Triplicism' and revolves around a conversation between SO or SM Lightoller (Highest Ranked) surviving officer on RMS Titanic and Millvina Dean a two month old who was carried from sinking ship. She was steerage, which is third class, and was saved in a bundle of cloth, but would have no memory of what happened.In the poem Lightoller tells her what happens on his final deck inspection, one hour and forty minutes before the Titanic hit's the Iceberg.He ...