2017 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award BEST BUSINESS BOOK "You are paid for the work you perform, but your value is based on the amount of money you make for the company and or client you ultimately work for." By Nationally Published Author Toby Waxman, CEO & Founder of Entitlement Strategies Group, Inc. THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT POWER TOOLS UNPACKED Exceptional Project Management requires a powerful set of skills, knowledge and technical expertise acquired through many years of experience. This book goes beyond the fundamentals unlike most project management books drilling down into such power tools to understand what really elevates the project manager to the level of exceptional. "Beware The Devil Is In The Details: Proven Principles For Exceptional Project Management" boils down over three decades of PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSIGHT" from an award-winning author and CEO into seventeen insightful, paramount, and "key" Principles for becoming Exceptional. The roadmap to recognizing and understanding crucial unresolved details that can have onerous consequences. The vital roadmap to maneuvering around your project's virtual minefield. Learning curve acceleration; get the invaluable project management insight you need now, not later. Highly engaging & compelling. "The perfect companion to the PMBOK Guide." A "MUST READ" FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN TODAY'S COMPLEX BUSINESS WORLD
A Heart Warming Dog Story like you never read before, Duke and Sasha one a German Shepard and the other is a Rescue who Change a Former Soldier's life forever who suffer from PTSD, TBI, and Seizure, Due to an accident from the war.
Some men dream of adventure; others live it. This is a story of a man who comes from humble beginnings and a miserable childhood. From that terrible beginning bloomed a life full of adventure and excitement. From the border towns of old Mexico to the grandeur of Niagara Falls, Big Mike Dunn takes the reader on an adventure into a world of drugs, women, and violence. Along the way, Big Mike experiences the ups and downs of love and heartbreak along with the dangers of living a clandestine existence. Hes living a life one step ahead of the unrelenting pursuit of law enforcement and a private investigator hired by a heartbroken former father-in-law bent on vengeance. Able to finally have true love, Big Mike determines to free himself from the two entities consuming his life.
From Joseph Campbell, the renowned comparative religions and mythology scholar, Toby Johnson derived his central insight that there is a "new myth" arising in human consciousness. This is the understanding of the nature of myth itself, a "meta-myth," the "myth of myth," according to which our lives are always giving us clues to the secret of our true and deepest nature, and our salvation comes from following our own unique clues. One of the clues that many cultures share is the tradition of the "wise old man," the elder who serves as guide, teacher, and companion, helping others on the path to enlightenment. When Toby Johnson, a young Catholic seminarian, left the monastery on his own unconventional spiritual journey, he had the good fortune to find such a teacher in the person of Joseph Campbell. Johnson says in the introduction: Joe demonstrated how to gently leave behind the na ve religiousness of youth and find wonder, meaning, and bliss in a new post-mythic, but re-mythologized, spiritual consciousness. Toby Johnson's spiritual/philosophical autobiography, Finding Your Own True Myth-The Myth of the Great Secret III, is both a loving memorial to Campbell and an original extension of his work. Johnson, later a psychotherapist, religions scholar, novelist, and gay spirituality writer, offers insight into the vital role that myth-and insight into myth-play in the modern world and inspiration for anyone seeking coherence and meaning. A wealth of personal anecdotes and teaching stories are woven throughout the text to provide practical applications for these lessons and concrete examples of their power to change lives.
THE ANGEL FLIES TO STALINGRAD. VOLUME SEVEN OF THE BRANDT FAMILY CHRONICLES.Valentine Brandt's wartime service with the Luftwaffe was short and predictable. Older, wiser pilots would rather not fly supplies to the dreadful Gumrak, the last airfield supplying the German garrison in Stalingrad. Landing wasn't the problem and it took Valentine too long to learn that. As a Russian speaker, Valentine was useful to his Soviet captors. He was spared, to work as slave labour. The M.G.B., the Soviet secret police are brutal, but a tiny part is diabolically clever and Valentine must serve the Soviet State by spying in Berlin. The M.G.B. burn and turn him and send him on his way. But there is no straight path for the Brandts and, on his journey, he acquires baggage that will do more than weigh him down. It could get him killed. It's 1947 by the time Valentine enters destroyed Berlin. The weather is brutal, food is short and fuel scarcer still. So far as the Germans are concerned the war might just as well continue. The French, like the Russians and Americans, want a potato-patch where the rump of Germany stands. France again casts avaricious eyes at the mineral rich Saar and Ruhr. The British are broke and exhausted. The Germans have no allies and certainly no friends. They are on their own. Valentine struggles in a world of scavengers, base threats and sudden death. A world where survival is not possible for all. Hope, like food, is rationed. Stalin will take West Berlin before he takes the rest of Europe. Deprivation is his weapon of choice and a blockade his strategy. Remember one of the Brandts shibboleths: 'Never put anyone in a position where they have nothing to lose, because they will fight.' Vital life signs flicker as American policy changes. This time, no guns, no dictator, only larceny, resolve and American know-how. Watch the miracle. The Stalingrad Airlift failed, but the Berlin Airlift will succeed because America has the men, machines and the will to make it happen. General Lucius D. Clay introduces a hidden dimension to counter the Soviet blockade and slam the door on Stalin's ambition. Join Valentine under the splutter and roar of hundreds of aircraft engines as divided Berlin, survives, recovers and prospers as America feeds it, four tons a time.Here is a story of triumph, of unsung American heroes, of resolve and of leadership in the victory over privation.ABOUT THE BRANDT FAMILY CHRONICLES. The series, at the time of writing, comprises seven books ranging from the Napoleonic Wars (Vols 1-4), through The Franco-Prussian War (Vols 5,6), to the Cold War (Vol 7). They start when Germany was conceived and develop through its birth to modern times. (1950). The thread is the Brandt Family and their adventures. The environment is German history. History is written by the winner and, from ace to knave, it's a pack of lies. These books are not German history. They are a unique view of German history and the stories are told from this deserted and neglected standpoint. This, so-far, unilluminated emphasis discloses both a disguised truth and a hidden one. Germany is not the warmonger it has been painted and, as the series develops, readers' curiosity may be piqued into checking to see if they agree with the author's conclusions.ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Oliver Fairfax is a nomad. A Scot by birth, he has wandered from England to Hong Kong and back - twice. He has lived in France and now in New Zealand. He worries that a generation is rising who cannot tell the difference between a citizen and a subject. He is concerned about the pervasive growth of regulation that cannot be afforded, cannot be complied with, but that seeks to remove free choice. He worries also about political correctness and the suppression of dissonance being two policies that misinform ordinary people's decision-making processes. But those irritants aside, life's great - and remember, you should never have joined if you can't take a joke.
THE ANGEL FIGHTS TO WATERLOO. VOLUME FOUR OF THE BRANDT FAMILY CHRONICLES.It's 1813, Paul Brandt returns to Berlin from London with news for the Tsar. But family matters must be postponed, like all life's pleasures and pastimes because, yet again, the rapacious Bonaparte has invaded. He has Berlin in his sights and he must be stopped. The reformers, Clausewitz, Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and Blucher together with von Boyen try to make the Allied armies work together, rather than as independent commands, as they are used to do. Progress is slow and the losses mount. But a strategy grows out of the bloodshed. Paul must don his uniform again, and leading his troop, rides to find his old mentor, General Yorck. At the Battle of the Elbe he and his men are bloodied in battle when his scouting troop is used as cavalry. The Allies push on to Paris but, one step at a time. The Battle of Nations turns into the world's largest cavalry battle and right after it comes the Battle for Leipzig itself. For the soldiers, their lives are of fighting without end until death itself.Paul must raise the legend of The Angel of Jena again as the Allies tempt the Saxons to defect from Bonaparte. And at Leipzig there is the problem of the French retreat. Bonaparte's forces, complete with the remnants of his cavalry and artillery are escaping so they can reform to fight again. How can they be stopped? Paul's war ends at Leipzig. He returns to Berlin and thence to London, where many adventures spring out at him. He even finds himself aboard a sinking ship in the Elizabeth River in Virginia. Paris falls to the Tsar's armies and war is over. But news arrives that Bonaparte has escaped and is raising a new army. Paul returns to Berlin and joins the Prussian forces to face down the French invader for the last time. But can August Gneisenau make the English understand the value of the Trachtenberg Plan? Because if he can't the battle might be lost and Europe with it. The Battle of Waterloo will unfold with you in it. And it is not as it has been portrayed. The weapons are different and so are the tactics. Nonetheless, as any seasoned campaigner will confirm, as the rain stops on Sunday lunchtime and generals survey the battlefield, it is obvious that Napoleon Bonaparte will be victorious.But appearances can be deceptive and that is a critical ingredient of the Trachtenberg Plan. ABOUT THE BRANDT FAMILY CHRONICLES. The series, at the time of writing, comprises seven books ranging from the Napoleonic Wars (Vols 1-4), through The Franco-Prussian War (Vols 5,6), to the Cold War (Vol 7). They start at a time when Germany was conceived and develop through its birth to modern times. (1950s). The thread is the Brandt Family and their adventures. The environment is German history. History is written by the winner and, from ace to knave, it's a pack of lies. These books are not German history. They are a unique view of German history and the stories are told from this deserted and neglected standpoint. This, so-far, unilluminated emphasis discloses both a disguised truth and a hidden one. Germany is not the warmonger it has been painted and, as the series develops, readers' curiosity may be piqued into checking to see if they agree with the author's conclusions.ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Oliver Fairfax is a nomad. A Scot by birth, he has wandered from England to Hong Kong and back - twice. He has lived in France and now in New Zealand. He worries that a generation is rising who cannot tell the difference between a citizen and a subject. He is concerned about the pervasive growth of regulation that cannot be afforded, cannot be complied with, but that seeks to remove free choice. He worries also about political correctness and the suppression of dissonance being two policies that misinform ordinary people's decision-making processes. But those irritants aside, life's great - and remember, you should never have joined if you can't take a joke.
"Many of these powerfully pirouetting, lyrical narratives are long and lean and muscled with conundrums. Olson's poetry becomes jazz as he performs myriad variations on a theme."--Booklist
A wonderful story of what family means, of the flesh-level pain of sibling rivalry, and the discovery of love. It is a fantastic and beautiful tapestry of some of the most imaginative and precise prose writing going on in America today. Toby Olson stands tall among the handful of writers I most admire and respect.—Richard Wiley Write A Letter to Billy is a delectably complicated maze that kept me spellbound from start to finish. Only the most sophisticated of writers could manage to combine the seriousness of a quest for identity and meaning with the intensity of a thriller, not to mention an excursion into deep-sea diving and the resort life of southern California. Once again, Toby Olson has written a terrific novel full of peril and surprise, offering startling revelations and sudden expansions of the heart and mind."—Lynne Sharon Schwartz United with a long-lost teenage daughter, a retired Navy underwater repair specialist investigates a mysterious list his father had written just before his death. Some of the items are crossed off, but one of the unfinished tasks haunts him: "Write letter to Billy." What had his father planned to tell him? What he learns changes his life forever. Influenced by D.H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens, Toby Olson’s pointed examination of memory and consciousness illustrates how the unraveling of external mystery leads to self discovery. Toby Olson, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, has published eight books of fiction and twenty-two books of poetry. His work has appeared in over two hundred newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Olson’s novels include At Sea, Dorit in Lesbos, Utah, and The Woman Who Escaped from Shame. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and North Truro, Massachusetts.
El Malabarista, pianist and juggler for a troupe of sexual performance artists, is found dead in the dusty wilderness, his fingers crushed. Beginning like a murder mystery, this novel defies all the usual expectations of a murder mystery plot, by juxtaposing ""real"" events in two different decades with a draft version of a hack sci-fi novella. This mixed narrative serves as a meta-fictional commentary on the efforts of a retired sex-theatre artist, a hairstylist/pulp writer, a doctoral student, and a host of other characters to, not only solve the murder, but to uncover its motivation, which seems to be linked to El Malabarista's knowledge of the whereabouts of a certain boxed treasure.
The Bitter Half disrobes the reality of gender, performing a striptease of masks and prosthetic devices, the subtle articulations and miscues of desire. A spit-curl lovingly tucked behind a diamond stud earring, hair brushed pageboy-style, a bibliographic collection of mastectomy scars: Toby Olson's characters swarm with sexual multiplicity, each offering for exhibit a cyclorama of titillating identities. This game of poses, of one self revealed within another, opens in a jail in Depressionera Pearce, Arizona. Chris Pollard, a consultant in the field of prison escapology, has arrived to investigate the case of an inmate who's broken out of every prison in which he has been detained. The two develop an evasive fondness from a distance - an attention to cowlicks and thin lips from between bars. Their relationship remains concealed among levels of identity, Russian Matryoshka dolls, a mystery within a mystery. Revealing their mutual attraction inch-by-inch, ""The Bitter Half"" uncovers a topographical map of seductions, of stratified assumptions and amorphousness. Toby Olson's latest work of fiction is rich in strangeness and erotic delight, a delectation to be enjoyed one layer at a time.
(Instrumental). 1001 Blues Licks presents 1001 riffs in a variety of blues styles to be played within the standard 12-bar format. This is the ideal book for beginners seeking a well-organized, easy-to-follow encyclopedia of blues licks, as well as consummate professionals who want to take their knowledge of the blues to new heights.
A Guide To Chord-Melody Jazz Guitar introduces intermediate and advanced players to the chord-melody style. It teaches the requisite skills needed to play and create original arrangements, basic chord forms and inversions, chord substitutions, walking bass lines and other tricks of the trade.The accompanying CD features recorded demos of the exercises and chord-melody arrangements in the book.
If the Church is to rise up full of people who don't give a damn about the fleeting pleasures of this life and who care only for the glory of Jesus and His Kingdom, we must once again grasp what made Jesus so eminently killable. If Jesus had been born in our day, the council that condemned Him would have included a couple of well-known evangelical pastors, a few outspoken pro-life leaders, a conservative-libertarian-leaning politician, and at least one Bible-thumping fundamentalist. Jesus was murdered by church people, for churchy reasons. In Blood-Bought World, Toby J. Sumpter pinpoints the raw spots where modern-day Christians have allowed respectability, comfort, fear, love, fitness, authenticity, or other idols to become "fig leaves" to shield us from the Persons of the Trinity. We have relegated God to Sunday school presentations instead of following Jesus on the path to real authority and power: the cross.
