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Make Big It With Yuvi: How to Achieve Poolside Living By Growing Your Small Business is a book that shows small business owners how to expand their businesses. We outline, step by step, the best way to grow your business, in other words, how to increase its sales and profits in a "big" way. We also think that small business owners should enjoy their lives and not be a slave to their business. That's the "Make It Big" philosophy. Therefore, our...

This volume contains a collection of ten stories that range from the off-the-wall, humorous mystery, "Toes - Book 1, " to the whimsical "One Night on Third Street, " and the solemn "The Musical Box." "It is my desire that you, the reader, experience the same feelings and emotions in the stories that I had while writing them. But, most of all, enjoy and have fun!" - Greg

Woman Where Are You? Morine Slayton-Nixon served as a faithful member of New Temple C.O.G.I.C for 2 years. During this time she had some of the worst valley experiences in her entire life. She moved from Dayton to Columbus Ohio in the year 2004. This meant leaving a job, house, family church and a list of other things. This was a turn of events that left her in the middle of no where.. This move meant meeting new people and starting new relati...

What was it like to play music in a teenage rock and roll band in the era of 45-RPM records, dances in the school cafeteria, and the Beatles on AM radio? Band Boys reveals the inner workings of the lives of the Blue Beats - six teenage boys mastering music in a thriving town that embraced them and the music they loved. Sporting Silvertone amplifiers, a pack of electric guitars, a used set of drums, a screaming Farfisa organ, and unbridled enth...

Adolescence! Just the word can cause us to both cringe and chuckle whether it is remembering our own rites of passage or dealing with the wonderful, weird and often totally exasperating sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, neighbors, siblings, students or just the kid behind us in line. This book is based on quotes from those same youngsters as they describe their fears, frustrations and dreams. You may be surprised to read that a ...

Pilot Light provides a creative departure from Tina Lustig's debut collection, Ancient Dance, delving into the lyric sonnet form. Inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Keats, and William Shakespeare, Lustig brings a contemporary voice to the English sonnet. Her intimate sequence of twenty-five sonnets weaves an idyllic journey that portrays the unique possibilities of life. Continually influenced by the music that permeates her poetry, Lus...

Pastor John Wilson has quite an agenda set for the small desert town of Liberty. He hopes to assert his influence on the local public school district. He desires to change the way a local tradition, the Goat-Roping Contest, is celebrated. He also wants to keep the local desert safe from terrorists in search of uranium and so he organizes parishioners to keep a vigilant watch for suspicious activity. The good pastor's ambitions could impact the...

Escaping the quarantine labs of the Interplanetary Institute of Disease Control, a young plague victim sets off on an odyssey to save her planet from an all-powerful empire. Atari Akido has unwittingly stolen the most important secret in the universe. In a story filled with intrigue, space flight and revolutionary plots, Atari fights to prevent a holocaust and is shocked to discover the stakes are even higher than anyone could imagine.

Pilot Light provides a creative departure from Tina Lustig's debut collection, Ancient Dance, delving into the lyric sonnet form. Inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Keats, and William Shakespeare, Lustig brings a contemporary voice to the English sonnet. Her intimate sequence of twenty-five sonnets weaves an idyllic journey that portrays the unique possibilities of life. Continually influenced by the music that permeates her poetry, Lus...

If you're a NASCAR fan, then you're going to love this one-of-a-kind blend of NASCAR and children's best-loved fairy tales. Imagine your favorite driver as Cinderella getting ready for the ball (NASCAR banquet), wishing on a magic genie for an awesome pit crew to help him win the Nextel Championship, or three great race-goats trying to get past the inspection troll to make it across the bridge to the racetrack. Author Cheryl K. Stemple provide...

What was it like to play music in a teenage rock and roll band in the era of 45-RPM records, dances in the school cafeteria, and the Beatles on AM radio? Band Boys reveals the inner workings of the lives of the Blue Beats - six teenage boys mastering music in a thriving town that embraced them and the music they loved. Sporting Silvertone amplifiers, a pack of electric guitars, a used set of drums, a screaming Farfisa organ, and unbridled enth...

Adolescence! Just the word can cause us to both cringe and chuckle whether it is remembering our own rites of passage or dealing with the wonderful, weird and often totally exasperating sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, neighbors, siblings, students or just the kid behind us in line. This book is based on quotes from those same youngsters as they describe their fears, frustrations and dreams. You may be surprised to read that a ...

Over the course of the 20th century, American domestic service changed from an occupation with hierarchical, top-down structure to one in which relationships were more negotiated. This book looks at the forces that shaped this transformation: shifts in women's role in society, changes in immigration laws, and the politicization of the occupation.

The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars to highlight the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young peoplea (TM)s educational experience and well being. Inspired by the conviction that urban youth have the right to more...

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Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZl_ne Cixous, and AbdelkZbir Khatibi. Alluding to music not only as a 'theme' pulsing throughout these writers' works, but also as a means of comprehending their unique, improvisational writing styles, Alison Rice offers readers a new and beautifully constructed way of reading these authors' texts...

This groundbreaking exploration of a wide range of contemporary theorists and playwrights covers an extraordinary breadth of styles and performances.

beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics, challenging the status quo of the genre and the politics of language.

Through a case study of one imperial institution, the community school, this book examines the primary sources we use to study it, the role it has played in debates over history and politics, and the nature of the Ming state.

For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: "The movie wasn't as good as the book." This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while often billed as adaptations, are more correctly termed translations. A director and his actors translate the story from the written page into a visual pres...