Download or read book We re ALL SCREWED written by Stephen A. Boyko and published by Traders Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You hear it all the time: Think outside the box. But those who purport to protect us with rules and regulations don t do their thinking inside comfy, three-dimensional boxes. They are stuck inside cramped, one-dimensional squares. The world isn t square. It isn t even flat. It s varied, fast-paced, and changing. You re along for the ride whether you like it or not; the good old days got outsourced overseas. Whether it s the small-time thugs who make business owners pay for protection or bureaucrats who promise the masses that rule writing will cure all that ails, America can t take it anymore. In We re All Screwed, financial regulation industry insider Stephen A. Boyko explains how creativity and three-dimensional thinking are the best tools for developing a governance plan. With input from top professionals and entrepreneurs, Boyko outlines a nonlinear approach to governance that works in any area of the world. Boyko envisions a future where America can be a contender. He shatters the pretence of regulatory protection, explaining that linear approaches to governance and subsidized risk never worked and never will. Boyko illustrates how entities meant to govern capital markets have created false hierarchies, false protection, and false promises, saddling Americans with restrictive, obsolete, one-size-fits-all lists of incomprehensible, ineffective rules. Enough is enough! There is a better way. Heeding Boyko s advice is not the gamble; hugging outdated rules around you like the fuzzy gauze of pseudo security is the real risk.

Download or read book Elements Unlimited Volume B written by Brian Swingle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in a series of 20 books, as the story continues the plot thickens and our hero faces trials and such mysteries of life to which none could have fathomed. Well, not really but life is as life always has been.

Download or read book The Comics Journal Library written by Gary Groth and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive Comics Journal interviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix, featuring: Supreme 1960s counterculture/underground artist Robert Crumb on how acid unleashed a flood of Zap characters from his unconscious; Marxist brawler Spain Rodriguez on how he made the transition from the Road Vultures biker gang to the exclusive Zap cartoonists’ club; Yale alumnus Victor Moscoso and Christian surfer Rick Griffin on how their poster-art psychedelia formed the backdrop of the 1960s San Francisco music scene; Savage Id-choreographer S. Clay Wilson on how his dreams insist on being drawn; Painter and Juxtapoz-founder Robert Williams on how Zap #4 led to 150 news-dealer arrests; Fabulous, Furry, Freaky Gilbert Shelton on the importance of research; Church of the Subgenius founder Paul Mavrides on getting a contact high during the notorious Zap jam sessions; and much more. In these career-spanning interviews, the Zap contributors open up about how they came to create a seminal, living work of art.

Download or read book Player One written by Douglas Coupland and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 2010 CBC Massey Lectures acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and macroeconomics and the afterlife in the form of a novel, a 5-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species -- and that there is no turning back.

Download or read book American Leftovers written by Heidi Wilson Messner and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Leftovers is the story of Heidi, Eric, and Shaun, three children who follow their parents through eastern Europe on Bible-smuggling adventures in the early 1970s. When they return to the States, they face third-culture questions of home and identity. They also deal with sexual situations and abuse, while settling into an evangelical bubble with their parents who pastor a fast-growing church. Everything collapses when their father runs off with an eighteen-year-old girl, leaving behind his family and church. This forces Heidi, Eric, and Shaun to reconcile their own spiritual fervor with the lies and dysfunction so close to home.

Download or read book Just Say No written by Omar Tyree and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omar Tyree, New York Times and Blackboard bestselling author and winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for literary fiction, delivers a powerful story of two childhood friends lured into the sex, drugs, money, and madness of R&B stardom. Darin Harmon and John Williams, two good church boys from Charlotte, North Carolina, have been best friends since they were toddlers. Both use their God-given talents to breeze through high school, and both are awarded scholarships to North Carolina A&T State University: Darin for football, and John for music. During their sophomore year, John, the introverted momma's boy, showcases his musical genius in a homecoming talent show that changes both their lives forever. John's romantic crooning earns him the nickname "Loverboy." As his R&B career begins, he asks Darin to tag along as his manager. Darin wants no part in the music scene and has big dreams of his own, but when he suffers a season-ending football injury, he finally agrees to hop on the "Loverboy" bandwagon. The two set out to turn John into an R&B superstar. For Darin, dealing with John's rising fame and fortune proves a difficult challenge. The more the two adapt to the dangerous celebrity lifestyle of big-time money, fast women, and recreational drugs, the harder it gets for both of them to "just say no!" With its page-turning narrative and irresistible characters, Just Say No! is destined to become another urban-American classic from Omar Tyree.

Download or read book The Incunabula Papers Ong s Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions Version 2 0 written by Joseph Matheny and published by Wildcard Interactive. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “…a bizarre Internet phenomenon: an “immersive” online experience—part mystery, part game, part who knows what—known as both the Incunabula Papers and Ong’s Hat. The Incunabula Papers/Ong’s Hat was, or is, a “many-threaded, open-ended interactive narrative” that ”weds an alternate history of chaos science and consciousness studies to conspiracy theories, parallel dimensions, and claims that computer-mediated environments can serve as magical tools…. the documents provoked a widespread “immersive legend-trip” in the late 1990s. Via Web forums, participants investigated the documents—manifestos—which spun up descriptions of brilliant but suppressed discoveries relating to paths that certain scientists had forged into alternate realities. Soon, those haunted dimensions existed in the minds and fantasies of Ong’s Hat’s many participants. That was evident as they responded to the original postings by uploading their own—all manner of reflections and artifacts: personal anecdotes, audio recordings, and videos—to augment what became “a really immersive world, and it was vast”.

Download or read book Aftershock written by Jill Sorenson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fast paced romantic thriller” about two earthquake survivors who team up and fall in love is a “twisty roller-coaster ride [that] keeps pages turning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). As an emergency paramedic, Lauren Boyer is dedicated and highly capable. Until an earthquake strikes, trapping her beneath the freeway with a group of strangers—including Iraq war veteran Garrett Wright. Handsome and take-charge Garrett aids Lauren in her rescue efforts, even as the steely look in his eyes seems to hide dark secrets. When a gang of escaped convicts goes on the attack, Garrett’s bravery makes him more than a courageous bystander to Lauren. If they can save the others before time runs out, maybe, just maybe, they can explore the fire igniting between them—if the truth about who he really is doesn’t pull them apart forever. . . . “As the survivors fight for their lives, Sorenson describes everything in stunning detail to create a riveting romantic adventure.” —Booklist

Download or read book Interview with Love written by Lisa Y. Watson and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer psychologist Sienna Lambert has built a successful business, but she's in serious need of "letting her hair down." Clearly beautiful behind her thick glasses and tight bun, Sienna seems intent on keeping men away. . .but why? Then Vaughn comes into Sienna's life and knocks her over—literally, during a softball game as he tries to get to the base she's blocking. The two become fast friends, and soon their friendship blossoms into a romance. But Sienna has a secret she hasn't shared, a troublemaking twin sister, Sasha, who's been out of the picture for years. Except now Sasha's back and intent on making waves for Sienna in any way she can. Can the rift between the sisters be fixed, or will it end up costing Sienna everything?

Download or read book Ong s Hat The Beginning written by Joseph Matheny and published by Wildcard Interactive. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “…a bizarre Internet phenomenon: an “immersive” online experience—part mystery, part game, part who knows what—known as both the Incunabula Papers and Ong’s Hat. The Incunabula Papers/Ong’s Hat was, or is, a “many-threaded, open-ended interactive narrative” that ”weds an alternate history of chaos science and consciousness studies to conspiracy theories, parallel dimensions, and claims that computer-mediated environments can serve as magical tools…. the documents provoked a widespread “immersive legend-trip” in the late 1990s. Via Web forums, participants investigated the documents—manifestos—which spun up descriptions of brilliant but suppressed discoveries relating to paths that certain scientists had forged into alternate realities. Soon, those haunted dimensions existed in the minds and fantasies of Ong’s Hat’s many participants. That was evident as they responded to the original postings by uploading their own—all manner of reflections and artifacts: personal anecdotes, audio recordings, and videos—to augment what became “a really immersive world, and it was vast”.

Download or read book Culturally Diverse Counseling written by Elsie Jones-Smith and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culturally Diverse Counseling: Theory and Practice by Elsie Jones-Smith adopts a unique strengths-based approach in teaching students to focus on the positive attributes of individual clients and incorporate those strengths, along with other essential cultural considerations, into their diagnosis and treatment. With an emphasis on strengths as recommended in the 2017 multicultural guidelines set forth by the American Psychological Association (APA), this comprehensive text includes considerations for clinical practice with twelve groups, including older adults, immigrants and refugees, clients with disabilities, and multiracial clients. Each chapter includes practical guidelines for counselors, including opportunities for students to identify and curb their own implicit and explicit biases. A final chapter on social class, social justice, intersectionality, and privilege reminds readers of the various factors they must consider when working with clients of all backgrounds.

Download or read book Undead Alchemist written by Kat Cotton and published by Kat Cotton. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Demon Fighter’s Council bastards locked me in a Prague dungeon awaiting trial on trumped-up charges. The only human being willing to bailing me out is the Mayor, and we all know he’s not doing that just because he’s a swell guy. He needs money, and there’s a vampire who can turn metal to gold. These are the terms of my release: capture the undead alchemist and learn his secrets or else Nic and Kisho get dusted. Either way, I end up in research lab because the Council chuckleheads think I’m not human. I’m not even sure this alchemist is such a bad guy. Can I escape the Council, out-trick the mayor and save the three of us? Join Clem, Nic and Kisho in an adventure filled with wacky shenanigans, surprise liaisons and shock twists. Oh, and they eat some cake, too.

Download or read book The Night of Your Life written by Lydia Sharp and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's having the worst prom ever... over and over again. Does a perfect prom night exist? JJ's about to find out. All year, JJ's been looking forward to going to prom with his best friend, Lucy. It will be their last hurrah before graduation -- a perfect night where all their friends will relax, have fun together, and celebrate making it through high school. But nothing goes according to plan. When a near car crash derails JJ before he even gets to prom, a potential new romance surfaces, and Lucy can't figure out what happened to him, things spiral out of control. The best night of their lives quickly turns into the worst. That is... until JJ wakes up the next day only to find that it's prom night all over again. At first, JJ thinks he's lucky to have the chance to get innumerable chances at perfecting the night of his life. But each day ends badly for him and Lucy, no matter what he does. Can he find a way to escape the time loop and move into the future with the girl he loves? In the end, JJ might not get the prom he wanted, but he may well get the prom he needed...

Download or read book Only Eye written by Felipe and published by Felipe Castillo. This book was released on with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the male population is nearly wiped out by the Y-virus, decommissioned Commanding Officer, Ryan, is sent undercover to eliminate the woman who created it. There’s just one problem: She was the love of his life. The year is 2060, and the world is in ruin, forcing the remaining population to starve underground. When Ryan arrives on the surface, he is shocked. Everything has changed. The Commander pushes himself to the limit battling opposing forces, all the while reliving his past memories of endearment and loss. Equipped with a weaponized bio-mechanical arm, there is nothing standing in the way of him eliminating the threat—except himself.

Download or read book Geodesica Ascent written by Sean Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2438. Humanity has migrated to the stars in discrete waves, driven by evolving technologies and new ways of being human. The far-flung Arc Systems struggle under the yoke of their newest rulers—Exarchs from Sol, whose monopoly on faster-than-light communication gives them absolute control of a growing interstellar empire. But humans weren’t the first to conquer the stars, and the discovery of an alien artifact promising transport between systems threatens to undermine the Exarchs’ power. Revolutionary leader Melilah Awad seeks an alliance to unlock Geodesica’s secrets with VOIDship pilot Palmer Eogan, a lover she lost to the Dark more than two centuries earlier. What they find could be more dangerous than anyone--human or more than human--could imagine….

Download or read book The Davis Years written by Nicole Green and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After graduating from college, Jemma returns to the one place in the world she never thought she'd see again—her hometown of Derring, Virginia. She can't stay away any longer when she realizes her best friend from high school is getting married. Returning home also means seeing Davis again. He broke her heart in high school and she's not sure she's over it yet. She's been thinking about him a lot since she turned down a marriage proposal from her college boyfriend. However, she has a new life now and Davis is a part of the past she's determined to put behind her. Davis knows Jemma can do better than him and he wants her to. So even though his heart nearly stops when he sees Jemma for the first time in six years, he's determined not to get attached to her again for her sake. Trying to ignore what he feels for her isn't his only problem. His two brothers may want to sell the house their dad left all three of them. His brothers abandoned him to their abusive father and now he's sure they only want to come back into his life to take the house away from him. Neither Jemma nor Davis want to fall in love with each other again, albeit for different reasons. However, it's hard for them to fight the forceful attraction that hasn't disappeared over the years. If anything, it's grown stronger.

Download or read book Your Wildest Dreams written by Michelle Terrill Heath and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Terrill Heath has lived an unconventional life, partly by choice and partly by circumstance. As a teenager, she met the love of her life, Andy, and they have been married for forty-seven years. They are a happy, healthy, and adventurous couple who have discovered how to continue this lifestyle, even through the onslaught of Andy’s Parkinson’s disease. In Your Wildest Dreams, Heath offers a unique and intimate view into their unconventional choices and ways of living. Through examining their own life experiences, which have included both the exotic and the mundane, strategies emerge for living well in all circumstances. For example, they traveled to India to work at an orphanage where they built a 125-foot suspension bridge. Another time in their life, they sailed a thirty-seven-foot trimaran sailboat across the Gulf of Mexico through a major storm. When faced with Parkinson’s, lessons from these experiences buoyed them. When their art business began to fail or when the fidelity of their marriage was tested, more approaches emerged. Lessons are learned that translate directly when faced with the reality of living with an incurable disease.