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In 1921, an Italian immigrant named Sabato Rodia purchased a property in Watts, California, and started building a series of sculptures and decorative features in his backyard, including three open, pyramidal-shaped towers - two of which are nearly 100 feet tall. Though Rodia referred to his creation as Nuestro Pueblo (Our Town), today, it is known collectively as the Watts Towers. Constructed over 35 years, Watts Towers remains a marvel of structural engineering and architecture and is widely recognized as one of the finest examples of "outsider art" or "land-based" art in the United States. Rodia abandoned his property in 1954 never to return. Over the years Watts Towers has experienced a long history of vandalism and neglect punctuated by major conservation campaigns and interventions. This book describes in great detail the history of these preservation efforts with a view to collecting and synthesizing all available information into one coherent study.

W ARESZCIE UWIĘZIENI W MURACHW LAŃCUCHACH I SZNURACHCHODZĄ Z BAGAŻEMNIEPOMNI KTO JEST LEKARZEMDorothy K. Kardaś, urodzona w Żninie - w Polsce; wyemigrowalado Stanów Zjednoczonych w 1981 roku; otrzymala obywatelstwoamerykańskie w 1989 roku. Dorobek pisarski autorki jestwielogatunkowy i nieszablonowy zarówno w prozie jak i poezji.

If you are one of the countless people who have said or heard, "My boss is a bitch," this book is for you.This is a game-changing approach to female leadership for all female leaders today and it will change the paradigm of female leadership once and for all. Women in the workplace have made tremendous strides in this millennium, but sadly, women vs. women continue to compromise our professional relationships, our potential for career advancement, and our emotional well-being. It's time to redefine and realign female leadership with women's values and strengths.Marcy Moriconi chronicles decades of work with archetypal female bosses, both difficult and inspiring, from the Poseur and the Last Bitch Standing to the Badass and the Steel Tiger. It's for all female leaders, managers, individual contributors, but especially for those women who are newer to the workplace. This is the roadmap we all wish we had. Now, you don't need to wait for someone to tell you what you wish you already knew and you can learn knew tools so you can be the kind of female leader we need today. The lessons Marcy shares will inspire discussion, empowerment and a culture change that will enable women to lead in a new way. Her approach is different and easy to implement.This book includes actionable tools you will use every day regardless of where you are in your career: -how to be your authentic self-how to find your innate superpower-how to listen to your gut-how to embrace healthy conflict-how to embrace healthy conflict-how to let go of fearYou'll emerge with a stronger sense of self, a new language to help you navigate your career, your relationships and, above all, a deep understanding of how to be the kind of boss everyone wishes they had.

Shihan Bhinda also takes us, the reader, on a knowledgeable perspective journey of how Ronin Kai Karate is an integral part of our daily life outside the dojo

This is a satirical fairytale for the 21st century. Troglodytes Watch is the Winter Wren, a direct descendant of the dinosaurs. It survived the calamitous upheaval caused by the meteorite perhaps because it was as it still is: a diminutive, secretive and watchful spirit. The substance of this tale begins with three ancestors who escape from a tribe of headhunters in Borneo around 700 B.C. and ends with some of their descendants on a nuclear waste dump island in the northwest Pacific Ocean where they are prepared to wait out the next evolution-changing, life-arresting calamitous upheaval. The foibles, frolics and conflicts of the various peoples are witnessed, narrated, and influenced by the spirit of Troglodytes. This tale is infused with some literary, some facetious and some deliciously infuriating commentary. The figures are drawn by the writer and the foreign words and expressions should be no burden to the Reader. Relax, read and enjoy the book.

The late nineteenth century, known commonly as the "Gilded Age," produced some of the most beautiful yet controversial architecture in America's history. The great influencers of the period, including Richard Upjohn, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Charles McKim, each spread the gospel of his own architectural style. The result was an eclectic mix of styles that some detested but that others embraced. Caught in the struggle to find an architecture America could claim as its own, Hartford, Connecticut architect William Brocklesby carved out his own stylistic path. In an age when the taste for ostentation and pretension was adopted by many, William Brocklesby produced some of the most dignified and beautiful architecture in the Connecticut Valley. His churches, libraries, and theaters remain as artistic landmarks throughout western New England, and his work at colleges from Hartford to Amherst, Massachusetts make for some of the most picturesque college campuses in America. This book serves as a companion to the author's earlier book, Asher Benjamin, American Architect, Author, Artist. Taken together, the two books provide a view of developments in American architecture from 1790 to 1910. The Architecture of William C. Brocklesby Hailing from Hartford, Connecticut, architect William C. Brocklesby (1847-1910) spent his career designing beautiful yet dignified churches, libraries, and public buildings throughout the Connecticut River Valley and western New England. Working in an age when ostentation was the rule rather than the exception, Brocklesby maintained a restrained hand in the application of ornament. His design ofForbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts stands out as a monument to his ability as a design architect. In addition, William Brocklesby was among a handful of nineteenth century architects who made the Connecticut River Valley the birthplace of the prototypical American college campus. Working largely within the vision of the famed American landscape architects Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmstead, Brocklesby and others built campuses that were meant to mimic the traditional New England village. "Through the designs of the college buildings by Peabody and Stearns and William Brocklesby, Smith College's architectural history traces the development of late nineteenth-century styles." - National Register of Historic Places Inventory

Most children nowadays would rather be playing video games or watching videos on a device. Well Grandpa has another idea; to take his grandson fishing! The child grumbles and complains, but follows Grandpa down the path to the pond.

The town of Silver Slopes was once a winter wonderland, offering all the activities a blanket of snow affords. Why would a winter village be deprived of a snowfall year after year? The villagers are hopeful, but the clouds above are determined to find the answer to that question. Fluff and Buff, the feathery clouds assigned to the sky above Silver Slopes, have two immediate problems: first, they long to be a part of a beautiful white snowfall, and secondly, they need to release the unwieldy and restless snowflakes they house. Afterall, it isn't natural to create snowflakes only to release them as raindrops. Fluff travels to the Castle of all Seasons, to meet with Mother Nature seeking answers and help. What they learn about how one villager is causing the problem is not as surprising as the solution nature provides.

From a Norwegian perspective, and by focusing on the Special Operations Forces component within the Norwegian Armed Forces, this book provides a scholar-practitioner's perspective on how to increase the strategic utility of different types of military efforts in an SSA context. The overarching project encompasses a wide range of elements for understanding the contemporary security environment and, in particular, how the military component fits into the strategic picture within an international context for small states. It shows that small states must be aware of the different limitations for existing strategic options for the various actors involved. It also outlines the strategic utility of potential niche capabilities, and how elements within the Norwegian Armed Forces can take on a strategic, enabling role for Norway, bilateral partners, and even coalitions in future conflicts. Small State Irregular Warfare in the Twenty-First Century serves as both a guide and a handbook on how small states might utilize SSA as an instrument of national power to meet national strategic objectives.

While this book is about America in 2028 under a socialist government that no longer provides protection for its citizens and no longer believes public should have the right to protect themselves. That no longer believes our Constitution and Bill of Rights means the same as it did one hundred or even fifty years ago. Then calls this progress with their new ideas of how the nation should be run. While discarding old definitions to replace with their new interpretations. Forgetting past promises to balance the budget, control government spending. Free speech is redefined and limited; gun ownership is restricted to firearms that do not pose a problem against law enforcement. Even then very strict enforcement of very restrictive laws applies. Inter-structure means paying for government programs as well as repairing roads, dams, bridges and all it meant in the past. A time when Citizenship means nothing, and any human with their feet on American soil, all have the same rights. A time when inflation has grown so bad that retirement funds are valueless. Then only a small percentage of Americans are able to maintain a small standard of living in 2028.A time when opposition to the government is treason.

A collection of 365 straightforward, bite-sized, prescriptive sales practices that work! Professional salespeople have grown weary of the myriad methodologies, theories, and systems of selling, each of which are generally promoted as a panacea for all challenges sales related. Guess what? They don't work! At least, they don't work that well, that often. Additionally, salespeople become so preoccupied with trying to remember and execute the method du jour, they lose perspective and begin ignoring the principles and practices which matter most. Sales Rx reintroduces those core practices and principles in a current and pragmatic way, which salespeople can immediately implement and quickly see positive results. Each prescription is delivered in a conversational style, from one sales professional to another. No fluff, no filler, just practical and proven sales tips you can take to the bank!

The future is calling is about dreaming, and believing with the help of the creator that our dreams will come through and working hard without giving up, living a purpose driven life, believing that our thoughts and words are powerful, to think positive thoughts and say positive words to ourselves. Each chapter is meant to resonate with the reader and also the stories from the author are to help the reader in knowing the truth.

YOU WILL KNOW WHEN THE END IS NEAR...A chosen few of us will understand that this is merely the end of a cycle and the beginning of something new. Only that handful will know what is truly happening. Some will be prepared and may even live on, while others will accept their fate with open arms. Be that as it may, whether one lives or dies, we were, each and every one of us, always headed for the same destiny all along anyway. Those who survive will have to fight to live, eat, and get through each day. They will have to exist in a devastated world. All the modern conveniences that we now enjoy will be no more. Eventually, those survivors will come to discover that, though they fought the good fight every living day, they were just prolonging the inevitable.

This compelling collection of poetry and photographs chronicles essential parts of a well-lived life, visually and verbally. The poems express the longing, vulnerability and triumph we all encounter and make no excuses. The beautiful photographs capture those moments in nature that we often miss. This book will make you joyful and sad, and intentionally affirms the wonder of living a colorful life.

When Two Become One, oneness, unity, testimony, miracles, journey, miraculous, power, visitation, revelation, freedom, calling, anointing, impossible, breaking chains, healing, repentance, deliverance, angelic forces, faith, destiny, design

Leaders, face new issues and challenges with confidence!In this time of rapid social and technological change "FORESIGHT" is a critical leadership characteristic. Vision helps leaders plan for the future, but foresight enables them to deal with inevitable future changes. Foresight can be developed through critical thinking, questioning biases and assumptions, looking from the outside in, and proactive, intentional anticipation. "FORESIGHT-LEADERSHIP LESSONS FOR THE 21st CENTURY" shares lessons and insights- some classical and some cutting edge- on this critical yet undervalued trait of effective leadership.FORESIGHT highlights concepts, theories, cases, and examples derived from the social and behavioral sciences and applies them to leadership qualities required in modern times. It is designed for current and aspiring leaders from all walks of life- business, the military, first responders, and other service-oriented volunteers and workers. It is written for front-line supervisors, middle managers, executives, and students of leadership and management. Ultimately, the book is designed to help YOU make a difference in YOUR organization as an effective, forward-thinking leader.The book is divided into 3-parts- INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCE- (Management Basics, Problem-solving & Decision-making, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Motivation, Stress, Learning; GROUP PROCESSES- (High-Performing Teams, Diversity and Multi-generational Teams) and ORGANIZATION DYNAMICS- (Strategy, Organization Culture, Organization Development/Effectiveness (OD/OE), Organization Conflict and Innovation, Ethics and Social Responsibility, and Organization Design.)The book includes in-text citations and extensive References that facilitate and encourage readers to venture deeper in their leadership/ management discovery.

This book is about two unknown gunfighters, Herman John (The Colorado Kid) Tomlin and Howard Price (The Utah Kid) Tomlin, who became the world's best and fastest gunfighters. It tells about their adventures while traveling on a wagon train from Illinois to Colorado. They both pan for gold on Clear Creek near Black Hawk, Colorado. In the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment, they fought in Indian wars against the Chiricahua Apache. Were gold guards on a stage from Deadwood, South Dakota, to First National Bank in Denver, Colorado? They were deputies in Deadwood, South Dakota. They were doing show performances in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. When they walked the streets or came to town, they never looked for trouble, but if you back them in a corner, with their lightning speed of fast draw and fire, you were dead before you could blink an eye.

This is a children's book teaching the ABCS in a spiritual way.About the Author: Michele Morris was born and raised in a small town in central NY United States. Growing up, she experienced firsthand the challenges of being a young black woman in a society that often undervalued and overlooked people of color. Despite the obstacles she faced, Michele was determined to make a difference in the world. She began studying philosophy and spirituality, exploring new ideas and ways of thinking that challenged her to reach for a higher level of consciousness. As she delved deeper into her studies, Michele began to see the world in a new light. She realized that there was a great need for positive representation and empowering messages for children of color, who too often lacked access to diverse and affirming media. Inspired by her own experiences as a mother, Michele decided to write a children's book that would celebrate and uplift black children everywhere. She poured her heart and soul into the project, working tirelessly to create a book that would resonate with young readers and help them on their journey to understanding their true selves starting at a young age. The result was "Osaze Learns His ABCs," a spiritual learning book dedicated to her son who will one day have to discover his own inner strength and resilience.

John Cerasani was excited to get a job in the "real world." After attending two prestigious universities, Northwestern and Notre Dame, he was geared up and ready to enter white collar America. He got a job in business-to-business sales and quickly rose as a top performer, later pivoting to another end of the same industry with another employer. He was doing well and was respected. He had the job title, the assistant, the office with a view, but he also started developing doubt. Major doubt. He was only 27 years old when he realized that Corporate America was filled with smoke and mirrors. There was evidence of brainwashing that suggested employees couldn't achieve this type of success as an entrepreneur, and John discovered that everything was put in place to trick both employees and clients to believe that bigger is better when, in fact, that isn't the case at all. This eventually led to his selling the company he started from his kitchen for tens of millions of dollars. In 2000 Percent Raise, John uses his experiences in leaving Corporate America to compete on his own as a step-by-step guide for the reader, giving them the ammunition to pull the trigger in not only reevaluating the pitfalls of working for someone else, but also how to be successful against much larger employers when working for themselves.

We have been hearing it for decades: our planet is riding a deadly wave toward climate devastation. But current actions to reduce carbon emissions are insufficient. In The Green Nuclear Option, William Donald Needham, MIT and Duke graduate, nuclear engineer, and advocate for the Sierra Club, describes what some might consider a radical way to turn the tide but that Needham sees as the most powerful, science-supported way: with nuclear power, the only proven carbon neutral means of generating electricity.From a history of nuclear power's beginnings with the Manhattan Project through detailed accounts of the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, Needham does not shy from the ugly side of nuclear power. In being blunt, he addresses the environmental dismissal of nuclear reactors as dangerous and dirty. Needham also explains what has been done to prevent recurrence and makes a financial case for nuclear energy. Needham concludes with hope for the reader: that proven nuclear technology can bridge the gap to a much-reduced fossil fuel future.

In this nostalgic memoir, American author Alexander Rassogianis celebrates his Greek ethnicity and the joy of having two cultures from which to draw enrichment. The book is a collection of vignettes from Alexander's childhood that will entertain and amuse. From creating a nickname, Al, in elementary school (what could be more American than that?), ditching Greek school to play Ping-Pong at Columbus Park, and finding his mother's Greek pastry after she spent hours trying to hide it, Alexander shares what it was like Growing Up Greek in Chicago.

Dino Doug has wanted to see a dinosaur his whole life...and finally his dream is coming true. He's built a large refuge for prehistoric animals, and with the time machine he's had built for him, Dog is going to bring the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals back from extinction. He and his carefully chosen team of experts will travel far into the past to search for an ancient hornless rhino, the Aceratherium. Amongst the ancient Miocene scrublands Doug and his team will encounter animals very similar to ones on the moderns Serengeti. But, unlike today's lions and hyenas lurk cooler even hungrier predators.

Robert had given up on his dreams and was just going through his life day by day, one day his life took a change and when he awoke from a dream state, his dreams mixed with his reality.

Miss Liberty's Monologue and Meditations is a book of poems and images reflecting American conflicts over gender roles, cultural politics, and our relation to the natural world. There are seven poems in the collection, one with twelve sections each printed over a color image by the author. The poems were originally drafted during the energy crisis of the 1970's, when President Carter urged the nation to begin serious efforts to conserve energy and assert some control over our consumer culture. The themes and observations contained in the narratives and images resonate powerfully with the concerns facing the nation in 2022 and beyond.The book's narrative involves a character who refers to himself as Lump, who has brought himself as an out-patient to a mental facility in the mountains of North Carolina. Here he befriends a long-term resident, an aging woman who refers to herself as Miss Liberty. The poems contain his record of his conversations with Miss Liberty, including transcriptions of her elaborate accounts of her dream life. In addition to the narrative poems relating her longer dreams, there are twelve shorter pieces - almost like haiku - which provide Miss Liberty's images of meditation. These are printed over full-color reproductions of abstract watercolor paintings that support reflection on the poem's implications and meanings.While the images of meditation offer one approach to the book's themes, these reflections are contextualized for the reader with the other poems which give Miss Liberty's back-story to illuminate the grounds from which the meditations have grown. While the book offers thoughts on political and cultural issues, it also remains sensitive to the human realities of its main characters. Given current political and cultural upheavals, Miss Liberty's dreams seem all too relevant to contemporary life.

In this continuing story of Greg and Doc, a young boy turned fossil hunter and an optometrist, author Gregory Hagenston tells the story of Makoshika, Montana's largest state park. Drawing on the real-life Dr. Hiatt's rich correspondence and news clippings about this "geological Disneyland," Greg and Doc, Two Souls Surrounded by Badlands: Part II Makoshika is a book like no other-a biography of a stunning place millions of years in the making.

After serving a 1 1/2 year tour in Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry Division and surviving a total of 8 years, 9 months and 21 Days in the US Army, Russ Warriner learned he had PTSD. Dealing with the Combat Memories he calls Combat Demons is a lifelong struggle. Writing about my combat life and the aftermath has become one of his outlets. Becoming a life member of many veteran groups as well as starting a group that served in my type of unit and starting a POW/MIA weekend event has served me well to deal with the demons. Everyone who has PTSD deals with these demons in their own way. If this book can help at least one person to understand PTSD or help them deal with their demons, I feel it was worth the effort I put into writing it.

Scenes from Spiceville is a 40-page, b/w comic book that depicts the daily lives of household spices. Set in the charming town of Spiceville, USA, a pun-packed book gives a taste of what life is like for many beloved spices and herbs.

Your obituary does not tell the entire story.You may be romanticized, but is that the true picture of your life? Others talk about your deep dark secrets in private.In "We Have Secrets ... Were We Rotten?", the person has a chance to explain how they developed their deepest, darkest secrets.

Jake Cahill is a pilot for the Los Angeles Police Department who has become restless and bored with flying over the City. He's torn between duty with the LAPD and a strange beckoning to return home and run his late parent's ranch, Tierra Del Puma, Land of the Cougar. But decisions come hard, and the dangers of the job continue. Jake's life suddenly takes a strange spin when, by a series of odd coincidences and a chance encounter, he meets a woman named Valerie Paige, who unknowingly possesses an ancient secret of Tierra Del Puma. However, powerful people seek ownership of the legacy mountain ranch, and they plan to get it by any means necessary. As Valerie and Jake's lives cross paths, they both become ensnared in a deadly confrontation that will test their bravery and will to survive. Dangerous events unfold as Valerie discovers a 175-year-old promise and the obligation that comes with it.