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45 years in the Worldwide Steel Industry details the author's experience throughout his career and provides glimpses into the future of Steelmaking's efforts to obtain a zero CO2 footprint by replacing coal with hydrogen in the reduction process of iron.The author's ethic and recognition of people's contributions led to his successful career. John joined a major integrated steel company as a young graduate engineer in the Open Hearth Steelmaki...

As early as 1946, French film critic Nino Frank was able to identify a new trend in the American film industry, one that he labeled film noir. Loosely translated, the term described movies that had an overall black or dark nature that described both their cinematographical qualities using light and shadow to create mood and their subject matter that often dealt in criminal activity or an emotionally oppressive atmosphere. This last was often d...

A quiet yet profound revolution is taking place right before our very eyes. The rise of virtual reality is consuming objective reality as our gold standard of truth at a breathtaking pace. Everything is up for grabs thanks to virtual reality's ravenous appetite for all things objectively real. Like all profound revolutions that have preceded this one they go unnoticed until it is too late to reverse course. Dr. Napoleon's call to action exposé...

A quiet yet profound revolution is taking place right before our very eyes. The rise of virtual reality is consuming objective reality as our gold standard of truth at a breathtaking pace. Everything is up for grabs thanks to virtual reality's ravenous appetite for all things objectively real. Like all profound revolutions that have preceded this one they go unnoticed until it is too late to reverse course. Dr. Napoleon's call to action exposé...

The revised edition of Long Island's Prominent South Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and Islip joins the critically acclaimed five-volume series about Long Island's estate era and follows the same modified "Who's Who" format found in the other volumes. This updated and expanded volume documents 588 estates and their owners. Included are 473 photographs of the estates, biographical data on the estate owne...

Set in the eighteenth century in Colonial South Carolina, this novel, TABITHA, tells about forbidden love amid wild and harrowing adventures. It is about the power of good against the thrust of evil. It shows the horrors of slavery and the beginning of the growth of consciousness and conscience that ultimately leads to freedom. Young men are called on to judge their own fathers and be wise enough to follow different paths.

Taking its title from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah ("The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved, " KJV), Ray Wright's novel renders a slice of hardscrabble life on a rented South Texas farm in the mid-1940s. Jeremy, adolescent son and only child of Lem and Olga Stroop, provides the filtering consciousness. Though less seasoned and crafty than Huck Finn, he is no less intelligent, curious, and resilient as he makes his...

Christmas Fais Do-Do" is the illustrated story of a Louisiana tradition-the House Party Dance. The book is based on a song by award-winning musician Marcia Ball and is illustrated by her mother, Hope Mouton, who has painted scenes of her home state throughout her life. The book is part history, part music and all fun. The song "Christmas Fais Do-Do" can be downloaded at the author's official website, www.marciaball.com.

Fifteen-year-old Henry Wilton has come to the end of his line. After years of harassment and humiliation, he now must change his young life quickly or face his own death. He devises a plan that forces him to confront his debilitating fear and anxiety in order to defeat his enemies in school-not just the kids, but the adults who knew what was happening and did nothing to stop it. And he must fight this war alone. A story of growing courage, bit...

Anna Koob was born into a middle-class German family in 1566. A bright and spirited girl, she became a favorite of her village of Kleinostheim. As an eight-year-old, she is summoned to the home of a prominent baron. The baron's daughter has asked for her as she lies dying. What happens in the baron's home sets off a chain of events that dictates the flow of Anna's future.Anna grows into a learned and outspoken woman, a dangerous thing to be in...

Anna Koob was born into a middle-class German family in 1566. A bright and spirited girl, she became a favorite of her village of Kleinostheim. As an eight-year-old, she is summoned to the home of a prominent baron. The baron's daughter has asked for her as she lies dying. What happens in the baron's home sets off a chain of events that dictates the flow of Anna's future.Anna grows into a learned and outspoken woman, a dangerous thing to be in...

Construction has always been a risky business, however, today's construction marketplace contains risk elements that relate to responsibilities and performance issues defined by the contract as well as outside factors that impinge on the performance of the field work. These risks can cause substantial increase in time and cost of contract performance if not adequately mitigated. Thus, claims for increased time of performance and increased dire...

Fifteen-year-old Henry Wilton has come to the end of his line. After years of harassment and humiliation, he now must change his young life quickly or face his own death. He devises a plan that forces him to confront his debilitating fear and anxiety in order to defeat his enemies in school-not just the kids, but the adults who knew what was happening and did nothing to stop it. And he must fight this war alone. A story of growing courage, bit...

A reading and detailed commentary on the last book of the Bible from a unique perspective including Socratic philosophy and Jungian psychology. Certain teachings include: . That John the Apostle is indeed the author, and it is worth reading for its own sake, not only for fears about the end. . It is addressed to those already Christian, about the martyrs and the completion of the throne. . It aims at the penance of the Church. . We are in the ...

Once, in a park, I saw a little girl and her dad playing and laughing as she swung to and fro. I once saw a little boy, with a candy cane smile, ask an old man for a smile. I once climbed a mountain just to see what was on the other side. I once picked a flower and gave it to a friend. These are my moments, my reflections, on how we need to think, write and dream of the joyful and positive sides of life. To dwell on the negative is not a healt...

The world is a complex system. Whatever part of it we inhabit or function in, everything within it is connected in some way to other components, both within and outside the part we occupy. Nearly all of the problems mankind experiences result from our inability to recognize intra- and inter-systemic connections... in other words, to THINK SYSTEMICALLY. This is particularly true of the massive, widely impactful problems we face. Unfortunately, ...

The mechanical method of translating the Bible is a new and unique style of translating that translates each Hebrew word, prefix and suffix exactly the same way every time it occurs and in the same order as they appear in the Hebrew text. This translation will allow a reader, who has no background in Hebrew, to see the text from a Hebraic perspective, without the interjection of a translator's theological opinions and bias. As this style of tr...

The mechanical method of translating the Bible is a new and unique style of translating that translates each Hebrew word, prefix and suffix exactly the same way every time it occurs and in the same order as they appear in the Hebrew text. This translation will allow a reader, who has no background in Hebrew, to see the text from a Hebraic perspective, without the interjection of a translator's theological opinions and bias. As this style of tr...

The mechanical method of translating the Bible is a new and unique style of translating that translates each Hebrew word, prefix and suffix exactly the same way every time it occurs and in the same order as they appear in the Hebrew text. This translation will allow a reader, who has no background in Hebrew, to see the text from a Hebraic perspective, without the interjection of a translator's theological opinions and bias. As this style of tr...

The mechanical method of translating the Bible is a new and unique style of translating that translates each Hebrew word, prefix and suffix exactly the same way every time it occurs and in the same order as they appear in the Hebrew text. This translation will allow a reader, who has no background in Hebrew, to see the text from a Hebraic perspective, without the interjection of a translator's theological opinions and bias. As this style of tr...