First published in 1977, Robert Day’s The Last Cattle Drive—an instant bestseller and Book-of-the-Month Club selection—is now a modern-day Western classic. This raucous, rollicking novel of a cattle drive in the age of the automobile revived a genre and added its own special twists in capturing the imagination of readers nationwide. To honor the thirtieth anniversary of its publication, the University Press of Kansas is proud to announce a new 30th anniversary edition of this much...

Instant access to the latest geotechnical engineering dataFully updated to include the 2012 International Building Code (IBC), Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook, Second Edition, features a wealth of on-the-job geotechnical and construction related information in a convenient, quick-reference format. This practical resource is filled with essential data, formulas, and guidelines you can access right away. Detailed tables, charts, graphs, and illustrations are incl...

Straight Talk for the Journey offers concise, engaging and insightful principles on issues of leadership, family, culture and ministry.About the AuthorAuthor Robert J. Day’s childhood of poverty and unspeakable abuse included more than 35 temporary homes before his unlikely graduation from high school. Today, Robert serves as CEO of Patrick Henry Family Services, a faith-based nonprofit headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia. His life’s work is dedicated to keeping children s...

A complete, up-to-date guide for forensic engineersFully revised and packed with current case studies, Forensic Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering, Second Edition provides a step-by-step approach to conducting a professional forensic geotechnical and foundation investigation. This authoritative resource explains how to:Investigate damage, deterioration, and collapse in a structureDetermine what caused the damageDevelop repair recommendations

Surviving the kind of oppressive poverty, neglect and terrifying abuse Robert Day suffered as a child implores the question asked by so many: “How did you get out … how did you find healing?” Childhood trauma leaves an intensely painful wound on the adult, long after the child is grown. In this, his second of a three-part series, Robert shares the emotions, mistakes and often excruciating steps necessary to find, and eventually embrace, that place of “wholeness.”About the Author

BILLIONS of dollars are being siphoned off of American businesses every year. Merchant processing is the means. Inflated, made-up, hidden fees and forced interchange downgrades are the method for stealing merchants’ profits. If you think your company is immune, think again. As a former executive for one the world’s largest processors and now Managing Partner of weAudit.com, I’ve watched this industry deteriorate for almost 25 years. It used to be that rig...

THE WISDOM OF GOD'S ATTITUDE CONFOUNDS THE WISDOM OF HUMANKINDS ATTITUDE! How can we describe an abstract term like the word attitude and prescribe it in such a concrete way? The Word of God is the avenue to achieve this objective! The author explains how attitude is more than just positive or negative, but rather situational instead. Various attitude principles are discussed with stories of the bible in reference to each type of attitude being addressed. In Godly Attitude Worldly Latitude...

Born in 1919, Robert W. (Bob) Day looks back on the ten decades of his lifetime with wonder and gratitude. While recognition and accolades for jobs well done followed him throughout his life, it was the adventures and the family, friends, and co-workers with whom he shared those adventures, that he remembers most. As a youngster, Bob never expected his life beyond Leavenworth, Kansas to be full of life threatening moments nor moments of serene beauty stretching over four continents, but it...

Thoroughly updated throughout, this classic, practical text on how to write and publish a scientific paper takes its own advice to be "as clear and simple as possible.""The purpose of scientific writing," according to Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day, "is to communicate new scientific findings. Science is simply too important to be communicated in anything other than words of certain meaning."This clear, beautifully written, and often funny text is a must-h...

Get in shape with these delicious keto recipesThe Keto Meal Prep cookbook is perfect for beginners, because every recipe as an image to help you for your final result.The keto diet, also known as the low carb diet is quickly becoming one of the most popular ways to lose weight. A big part of that has to do with ketogenic cooking and delicious keto diet recipes you can easily whip up. Do you think a low carb diet means starving and depriving yourself? Certainly not....

I hope you enjoy the first of Nick and Sarah's six nights together. You can listen to all six nights in Six Nights of Sin.Two strangers.One contract to explore their deepest, darkest fantasies.Whatever he wants, she’ll try.Whatever she wants, he’ll submit.See how they meet. Feel the attraction. Experience their first night.Book one in a new adult erotic romance series that’s fill...

Two strangers. Six nights exploring their deepest, darkest fantasies.Whatever he wants, she’ll try.Whatever she wants, he’ll submit.Nick’s not looking for commitment. A few weeks with a woman and then he’s ready to move on.Sarah can’t get past the death of her fiancé but she’s lonely. She misses the feel of a man surrounding her, filling her.A contract. Six nights of physical intimacy. Nothing more. Nothing less.Simple. Uncom...