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Only you know what roads you have traveled, what burdens you have borne. You alone know what experiences bring you to this book.You can choose the path your life will take, beginning right here and right now. As an inter-faith minister, a family counselor, and parapsychologist, Paul Peck shares more than fifty years of experience in spiritual knowledge and wisdom. In Life is for Living, he offers a new realm of possibilities, a different strategy for obtaining better health, a greater sense of wealth, and a deeper feeling of love relationships.

This book is aimed at women readers experiencing unwanted pain with sex who: ΓÇó Suffer with pain that has been difficult to diagnoseΓÇó Are interested in resolving their pain ΓÇó Want to enjoy pain-free sex ΓÇó Desire more pleasure in their bodies, lives, and relationshipsΓÇó And are searching for ways to help themselves Coauthored by a women''s health physical therapist and a sexuality educator, The Pleasure Prescription outlines an approach that many women may find counterintuitive: that their own sexual pleasure may be a pathway to overcoming pain. Research shows that decreasing pain allows for more pleasure; conversely, the stories highlighted in this book suggest that increasing pleasure can help diminish a woman''s experience of sexual pain. The Pleasure Prescription is the culmination of more than fifty years of the authors'' combined experiences with women in their respective practices. It includes case studies, diagrams, and the latest scientific research. Each chapter ends with "prescriptions" designed to guide readers through the healing process.

When you ask a team member to do something, do the results match your expectations? Do you find yourself wondering where things went off track? Have you ever agreed to a task and then struggled with how to raise an unexpected issue? The ability to make good agreements is a foundational leadership skill, and communication is a two-way street. Whether you are conscious of it or not, you make agreements all day every day. In business, agreements are the main mechanism of teamwork. Learn how to use the tool of agreements to your greatest advantage. When you develop the habit of making clear conscious agreements with others, you will increase your team''s efficiency and effectiveness tenfold.

<p>It started out as a walk in the woods: look for two gravesites and get out. Moments later, Michelle and Melanie are fighting for their lives on a desolate Colorado mountainside.<p/><p>Cryptic emails warned Michelle not to meddle in the past. Little did she know, when researching her latest book, that the Tarryall Mountain Foundation was a front for a ruthless international crime ring with ties to the Sacred Lands disaster that nearly claimed her life in 1988.<p/><p>Meanwhile in Charleston, South Carolina, Michelle''s husband, Nick, pursues an environmental litigation case, weighing the implications of disturbing field data that suggest a natural disaster is imminent. He''s soon forced to make his own escape from Tarryall''s clutches.<p/><p>In this thrilling sequel to Ghost Creek and continuation of Jolie Rouge, tension boils over when Michelle and Melanie make their stands, and Nick''s worst fear comes true.<p/>

When gunfire erupts during his pre-dawn run, AJ Conti finds himself ambushed by private insurgents. Despite being wounded, he kills one of the attackers and retrieves his cell phone. Kenny Love, AJ''s long-time friend and a former high-tech detective, is in danger. Kenny''s new employer, A-Ray Corporation, is under attack-one person at a time. The wife of the CEO of A-Ray''s only competing corporation provides a hit list to retired Lt. Colonel Harbaugh, whose legitimate private investigations company, PIs, is a cover for private insurgent subversive activities. AJ deduces the link between bodies found in different jurisdictions that agencies fail to see. With Kenny''s understanding of and access to high-tech equipment, they have a chance to level the playing field. The race is on to find the remaining insurgents before becoming casualties.

<p>Spanning from the early 1900s through the 1960''s, this nostalgic ride through Northern California and Oregon is one of the most highly visual histories ever written on U. S. Highway 99.<p/><p>Vintage postcard images depict how the crudely constructed Pacific Highway transitioned into the modern and paved U. S. Highway 99, only to be mostly abandoned when the new interstate opened.<p/><p>Traversing a myriad of landscapes, Highway 99 meanders through quaint towns and big cities, past towering pines and snow-capped mountains as mighty rivers gush through steep rugged canyons toward the fertile valleys of Oregon.<p/><p>Adding to the grandeur of this scenic route are iconic landmarks such as Mt. Shasta, Mt. McLoughlin, and Mt. Hood.<p/><p>Mostly abandoned stretches of the old highway reveal the hauntingly sad remains of deserted motels, gas stations, and tourist spots, their images lovingly preserved.<p/><p>Learn why the Pacific Highway gets confused with the Pacific Coast Highway.<p/><p>Learn how Interstate 5 evolved from a crude one-lane dirt road.<p/><p>Learn how U. S. Highway 99 became historically designated.<p/><p>Learn how travelers transitioned from tent camping to cozy motels.<p/><p>Learn the perils and predicaments of early highway travel.<p/><p>Learn why Mom & Pop became a big part of roadside businesses.<p/><p>Contains more than 600 rare roadside images<p/>

<p>Kincaid planned an idyllic holiday from his life of violence, but that was before he met Jillian.<p/><p> After ten years and two dozen countries as a "security consultant", Chance Kincaid craved solitude. The province of Palawan, with its pristine beaches, was the perfect place to relax as a "tourista". But even in this remote part of the world, kidnapping, murder, and a missing pilot combine to make Kincaid''s trip anything but a holiday. And he soon finds himself involved with terrorists, the local authorities, and a mysterious young woman.<p/>

<p>In the early medieval kingdom of Venezia, gateway to the Silk Road, an undercurrent of intrigue affects the lives of the island dwellers as relentlessly as the sea tides.<p/><p>Against this backdrop, the daughter of a Lombard knight and an orphaned servant girl find friendship. Ademara, a novice of a convent, is unsatisfied with the life chosen for her. With the help of the spirited Lucilla, a foundling fostered to Lia and Toso, servants to the wealthy foreigner, Ximeno, the girls undertake what they think will be innocent escapades.<p/><p>One winter''s eve, Ademara encounters Bartolo, who remembers nothing before he was brought to Venezia. On impulse, he gives her an ancient sea creature, a talisman. Then, unsavory characters, caring only to accumulate wealth and prestige, kidnap the girls and take them over the Adriatic Sea to the ancient kingdoms on the Illyrian coast to be sold as slaves. Can the girls evade their captors and avoid lives of servitude?<p/>

The inherently divisive and exploitative nature of capitalism, is readily apparent when one draws back the curtain of the global banking system. One peak reveals their inner workings, where it becomes clear that it looks less like a legitimate business enterprise and more like a criminal syndicate running a lucrative extortion racket. In the Wall Street economy, money is both means and end, and the primary product is phantom wealth-money disconnected from the production or possession of anything of real value. In our era of deregulation on Wall Street banks have moved away from their traditional role of providing loans to consumers and businesses. Instead, they have created a new business model that specializes in charging excessive fees and usurious interest rates, provides excessive leverage for risky bets for hedge funds, extracts subsidies and bailouts from governments, launders money from drug and arms traders, and use offshore accounts to hide their profits. While the middle class melts away, banks have profited at every step. The forty-year experiment of "trickle-down" economics has favored the interest of Wall Street speculators, but has been a dismal failure for the average working man and woman. Thus, this book of poetry is subtitled, The Voices of the Bankers and the Thieves.