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What if...?What if you could actually be watching at a time in history when an important invention or discovery was being made?The Discovery Machine is based on the premise, "What if?", and follows the mind-bending experiences of two very creative 9th graders. They accidentally discover a way to travel back in time to the exact moment of discovery of a famous invention or idea. In their adventures Maria and Phillip actually meet the inventor o...

How a Family of Five Found Their Own Way Through the Social Upheaval of the Sixties and Seventies.Journey to Sunshine Mountain is the story of a traditional couple who, with their three young children, became caught up in the social politics of poverty and racism, the counterculture movement and spiritual awakening of the sixties and early seventies. Their unique and audacious journey began when the couple married in Dallas. As their life unfo...

Tropical Diseases: 20 Case Studies presents a compilation of Dr. Meunier's tropical disease cases which were published in the international medical literature. It spans the clinical experience he accumulated (1) as a Primary Care Physician mainly at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, France but also at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC, a branch of the St. Francis Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, the Ridge Hospital in...

In 1776 Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of innate rights:"unalienable Rights"Life Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."In 1996 Adrian Bejan's discover of a new law in thermodynamics:"constructal law"For a flow system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve freely such that it provides greater access to its currents."Today we explore the science of rights with the following correlation:For a flow system to persist in time (to live) [Life],...

How Will You Reduce the Risk of Dental Implant Complications and Failures? There is no doubt that the world of dentistry has been fascinated by the addition of dental implant science. This book is unique in the way that it illustrates how to avoid dental implant complications, some of which were never published in a book before. Avoiding Dental Implant Complications starts with the definition and classification of complications, then it highli...

Animal Rescuers is a children story is about a group of abused, bullied, neglected, or endangered animals living together on an unconventional sanctuary. This once peaceful sanctuary is disrupted when two villains attempt to steal these prized animals from a farmer. Both the farmer and the animals face multiple challenges. Can they overcome those obstacles?- - - - - - - -This precious book is both exciting and inspiring, well written, with the...

Are you ready to be seduced? Mary Kennedy Eastham's poetry and prose has been called darkly beautiful, erotic, lyrical and haunting. One reviewer said sitting down with her poems blew his hair back flat reminding him of when he was in high school, laying in the grass at the end of the runway as the jets took off. In the title poem, 'The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget' a woman, married for only sixty days, deals with feelings of melancholy by...

By appearance alone, you would think twenty-three year old Mitch Baker has it all - smart, good looking, witty, athletic - but you too would be deceived. Mitch is that volatile workmate, risk-taking friend, class-disturbing clown, irresponsible son, and major screw up. He is driven to erratic behavior by a life-altering disorder, yet the root of Mitch's troubles could cost his life. How do you defeat the enemy when the enemy is you? About ...

The Solar Phoenix: How America Can Rise from the Ashes of Solyndra to World Leadership in Solar 2.0 explains why solar is fundamental to the world's energy future, and how the industry has passed a cost tipping point. It provides a set of detailed roadmaps of how, when and where the solar energy revolution will take place. And it challenges the United States to take its rightful place as the world's solar superpower. America was the pioneer of...

Dr. Thomas Sgarlato taught for many years, positions held include Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biomechanics at the California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biomechanics/Chairman of the Department of Surgery at State University of New York. He also practiced podiatry privately in San Jose and Los Gatos, California for over twenty years. Dr. Sgarlato has author...

Lessons Learned on My Musical Journey Through Life Many musicians have written candidly about their lives in music. It is Rita's roots in poverty, her insights about life situations, and a personal voice that make this book unique. A young girl raised in poverty in rural Kentucky finds she has one gift to connect her to the world. That gift is her ability to sing. For the next five decades, performing on stages across the country and in a vari...

A thriller that balances the conflict of good versus evil, right versus wrong, and sanity versus madness on a fine grey line. Morgan Proffitt's cardiologist gives him life's two-minute warning. The diagnosis prompts an unusual reaction from the highly-principled Proffitt. In the hours he has left, Proffitt is dead set on killing the despicable person responsible for his daughter's death. Is it worth an eternity of damnation? Hell yes. Proff...

Sammie-a kickass kid fights for freedom. "In Sammie Farroll, Dr. Elaine Brady has created a sympathetic character who expresses through the genres of poetry, short stories and journaling, the horrors of inhabiting a childhood marred by incomprehensible physical, psychological and sexual abuse. We journey with Sammie and cannot help but empathize with her intense, harrowing and compelling life trajectory. Hers is a spirit in search of healing...

A cozy mystery thriller A homicidal maniac is on the loose eliminating elders, and no one knows this phantom-of-evil exits. An early morning knock on a motel door is often a harbinger of bad news. After nine futile years of playing professional baseball, Dean the Dream Mason learns his career has come to an end. Worse yet, Dean's only living relative was found dead in a nursing home, and the inheritance he is due, which is seven times ...

A lot of laughs, a few tears, but always entertaining. Once you start reading, it's hard to put it down. For centuries folks have gathered around the campfires and told stories of their experiences. Some tales were true and others were made up on the spot to entertain their rapt listeners. In Short Shorts 'n' Stanzas, are examples of both the real and the imaginative, each told in just a few pages but each with a hook that will make...

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." -Helen Keller While the term "collaboration" is being uttered in our conversations on the job, all of us are collaborating every day. As you read this book, you will see that collaboration and peak performance have taken on a significant meaning in the perceptions of the authors assembled in the writing of this book. More than ever before, there is a need for organizations to work col...

An Extraordinary Life in Epic Times Played out against the backdrop of the Chinese Revolution, the life of Shi Ming Hu was one of both unqualified success and soul-shattering heartbreak. From a broad perspective, this is the true story of two lives that were broken apart by the forces that nearly engulfed our world in the mid. 20th century. Two young Chinese people, newly married and deeply in love with each other, are suddenly victimized...

These poems were gathered from more than one hundred others I have saved over the years and those which I wished people to read. I stopped writing poetry in my fifties (with an occasional lapse) and these verses span approximately the time from when I entered college until I became a grandfather. I am proud of one or two, but less enthused by others. I never thought of myself as a poet-indeed, I am not sure what a poet is-but if it means ...

A 39-month Wartime Odyssey through the Southwest Pacific Area. Based on the true diary and oral history of Col. John F. Day Jr. First Lieutenant John F. Day Jr. was a 30-year-old Reserve Army Officer when he was called to active duty in November 1940. On December 7, 1941, Day found himself aboard a troop ship in the mid-Pacific in route to the Philippine Islands. The USS Republic, a ship in the Pensacola Convoy, was eight-days out of Pearl ...