Dixon Belltower, veteran of Crushed (the "fight club" of the wine-tasting world), is indebted to a Belgian gangster and wanted by the French police. He's also in love (again) and plans on proposing to his girlfriend.However, before sipping such bliss, Paris goes up in flames and mini-Nazis start clamoring for his head.Cellared away on his father's Oregon vineyard, Dixon discovers the bucolic vines infested with his estranged mother and spite-filled friends. There's also the...

In preparation to become a finished product one must undergo a process which is designed to build you by way of a series of experiences. It is through these experiences that our identity is ultimately defined. Identity is who God calls and the process is what reveals over the course of time. Process reveals who God called before the foundations of the world. In Gods process of spiritual development we will face the unexpected. But it is during these times that tenacity is developed. This p...

I call these stories macabre humoresques. The macabre part is about death, but the humoresque part is borrowed from a form of music that is whimsical or fanciful. Many of these stories are about death, but more often than not, the subject is dealt with tongue in cheek. They are not for everybody. They are not liable to appeal to those who enjoy stories written in the genre of horror that is very popular today. There are no complicated twists, no complexity of plotline, and there is very li...

As the sun set on June 8, 1969, a group of teenagers gathered near a massive tree in a main square of Budapest to mourn the untimely death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. By the end of the evening, sirens blared, teens were interrogated, and the myth of the most notorious juvenile gang in Budapest was born.The origin of the Great Tree Gang became an elaborately cultivated morality tale of the dangers posed by allegedly rebellious youths to the conformity o...

Do you know what you’re made of? The answer is cells—thirty trillion of them—all working together to form one awesome human being: YOU.'Fun, inspiring, and well researched.' - Kirkus Reviews, starred review of One Million InsectsDid you know that the number of microorganisms in your body outnumber your own cells by 10 to 1? Or that every second, your body produces around 25 million new cells? Or that a human being has fewer chromosomes than, wait f...

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant prose style, Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship of the Round Table, destroyed from within by warring factions. Recounting the life of King Arthur, the knightly exploits of Sir Lancelot du Lake, Sir Tristram, Sir Gawain, and the quest for the Holy Grail, Le Morte Darthur depicts the contradicti...

"The Final Call Of The Traveling Soldier" is a novel based on stories my father told me from his life and the lives of his ancestors. Not only did I get the story from my father, but also many elderly people that lived at this time. Due to the content this book was particularly hard for me to write. So with the blessing of my father I enlisted the help of a good friend of mine, Mr. Thomas Cook. I remember my father's sister, Donnie Mae Campbell, loved to talk about the early years. She tal...

For American workers, the social contract is broken. This book gives a firsthand view of where the breaks occurred, and a prescription for rebuilding it to give workers their due.With AI making the decisions and CEOs and moguls making the money, sometimes it seems that most workers today might as well be drones. If not for a long string of missed opportunities over the last 50 years, it might have been different. In Roads Not Taken, Thomas Kochan reviews t...

In celebration of Allan Hoffmana ‘s 70th birthday, a symposium entitled Gels, Genes, Grafts and Giants was held in Maui in December 2002. This symposium, organized by The University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB) NSF Engineering Research Center, was a great success, with many excellent papers presented by scientists from all over the

Would you like to drastically improve your chances of getting a new job while mastering the process of a job interview?Have you ever thought if there is a perfect guide that will make you succeed every time Would you like to have a tool that will tell you what to do, when, and how to do it? A complete book bundle for people who want to master the process of a job interview, everything from A to Z.Here Is A Preview of What You'll Learn...

Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.In these pages on Wales, you'll find two unique tales: a captivating exploration of migra...

In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography — the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions take us beyond the familiar portrait of emancipation as the end of an evil system to consider the questions and the struggles that emerged in freedom’s wake.Thomas Holt focuses on emanci...