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This trilogy provides an appreciation of the diverse four major civilizations that frame our world today-Confucian China, Hindu India, the Muslim Middle East, and the Christian West-from their first meaningful interaction in 1100. This book, in covering 1400-1700, finds remarkably that the major transformative actions of each touch the years 1501-1526. Following the progress of these civilizations which, with their expansion, represent 85 percent of the world''s population is the key to understanding our world today. They are faced with solving the ultimate challenge before us now-the use of power on the world stage. Kent Augustson, with a master''s degree in history from UCLA, worked for thirty years as a federal executive in Washington DC that featured presentations to the White House OMB and the US Congress where learned was the art of presenting the essence of the matter with enlightening accompaniments. With insights gained from living history while largely self-schooled in his extensive studies since UCLA, Augustson offers an original perspective on world history while always conscious of tying the past to today. Included are illuminating charts as well as maps with a portrayal of fascinating characters and memorable events. 

The Story of a Girl and Her Wonderful Pet! For many children, the experience of bonding with and loving a first pet is an unforgettable time in their lives. Millie and Cupcake is the charming and educational story of a girl and her companion animal ... a different animal than many kids think of when choosing a pet. Cupcake is a rat, and readers will be enchanted as they learn what rats are really like: clean, loving, highly intelligent, trainable personalities who add immeasurable value to people's lives. Follow along with Millie as she learns how to take care of her sociable, curious, and affectionate best friend.

It seems as though mankind and the scientific community have always searched for the answers to endless questions that have attempted to define what this ape-like entity called a human, might, in reality, actually be. In the book we will cover questions such as, how does the human form develop the required platform allowing for the creation of its independent believed reality. What are the tools that it uses in its attempt to self-assemble a resultant human being that is envisioned from having direct access to itself. What possible purpose and function might this human form serve while on the planet earth, is it conscious, is it aware, and what actually is consciousness and awareness? I felt as though it would be interesting to look at these questions, and many others, from an entirely different viewpoint. During my years teaching science I always found myself looking for an alternate way to better convey the various concepts found in the yearly curriculum. Simply my attempt to express basic scientific concepts in a more meaningful, straightforward, and receptive manner to the students. I believe that the many years spent reprogramming myself to this altered approach has guided me to writing A Reflection of Being. The book considers many of mankind''s age-old questions with the idea of presenting them from my altered, yet straightforward, viewpoint.

If you missed anything during the last seven years, these two old curmudgeons, one a liberal retired doctor of medicine and the other a retired conservative tax collector will refresh your memory and tell you what it all meant. Everything you ever wanted to know about sex, sports, religion, politics, history, women, death and taxes, but were afraid to ask or even imagine. A must read for everyone over 60. We doubt that people under 60 can read or write correctly anyhow. Read near a fireplace in the presence of your favorite pet and bourbon. ~ The Purveyors of all wisdom, Bert and John

Life in California Gulch, deep in the Colorado Rockies, pre-dates the Leadville silver boom (1875-1895). However, it was gold, not silver, which laid the foundation for future generations of citizens at 10,200 feet elevation. Oro City is the spectacular, albeit inhospitable, site of placer gold mining during the 1860''s. Meet fortune seeking immigrants - a blacksmith, store keeper, singer, school teacher, and sporting women, as well as a rascally burro - whose lives are filled with anxiety, fear, joy, and humor.

1861-D is the story of stolen gold coins and a hidden cache at the end of the Civil War. The story moves forward more than 150 years to an idyllic Michigan lake, a secretive island and the life of a teenaged boy named Shane. Shane''s life begins to change dramatically after he restores an old rowboat. The rowboat sails him on a summer journey of freedom, exploration, hidden secrets and discovery of first love. Along with these exciting and fulfilling adventures and his quest for a golden treasure, he must also face the challenges of life''s realities. The health of his mother, a pediatric cancer patient, the trauma of a store owner and the plight of a Vietnam veteran all add to the maturity process. The novel is a YA (Young Adult) coming of age genre.

Young, beautiful, and successful La''Dai Roswell is at the prime of her life when her husband abruptly files for divorce. Eager and determined to find the motives behind his sudden change of heart of being her husband, she stops at nothing to find out the truth. La''Dai secretly befriends his new girlfriend in hopes to get the answers she is desperately looking for, only to find herself knee deep in a tangled web of lies and deceit. Just when she is on the brink of getting answers, tragedy strikes, and she learns sometimes the truth is better off untold. Trying to piece her life back together, La''Dai finds herself stuck between two men and a hard place.

Resisting the Lure of Secular Culture to Walk with God... Many challenges are facing the Christian in this present world. The assault by the enemy is growing every day. Many believers are struggling just to keep their minds focused on the Lord. This edition of The Christian and the Culture helps the believer stay in touch with their identity and purpose. Only by walking in the Spirit of the living God are we able to maintain a level of victory which enables us to live in the presence of God and enjoy fellowship with Jesus. When you read this book, you will discover fresh insight about our Christian life and how to maintain the fruit of the Spirit.

Discoveries of Author During College Years1-I discovered fundamental particles (FP) construct electrons, nucleons, atoms, and nano units under a S.I.FP. Mol. CIC. I discovered internal electrons, nucleons, atom''s particle intelligence system centers (PIS). Also internal electrons, neutrons, proton''s particle circulation systems (PCS), electrons nucleon''s psyche genesis, and factual or real intelligence (RI).2-I discovered fundamental particle''s general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biological chemistry. Also how exogenous airborne particle clouds enter into electrons, nucleons subsystem-units chemical lab.s, combine with internal electron, nucleon particle compounds, and construct molecular compound constructions of protons, neutrons, and electrons. And this is phenomenon of electron genesis, proton genesis, and neutron genesis.3-I discovered many plants, also possesses sensory intelligence systems, motor intelligence systems, and plants central intelligence systems. Also chemical combinations of airborne light fundamental particles with internal cell electrons, nucleons molecular compounds, under A.S.I.FP. Mol. CIC, produce light particle compounds constructions of the plants atoms, electrons, nucleons, the phenomenon of plants'' atom genesis, and plants'' cell genesis.4-During study in physics, I discovered exogenous airborne and indigenous particle cloud circulation systems, transmission of the particle clouds, and fundamental particles through particle currents between the different live and non-live planetary electrons, neutrons, protons, and atoms, combine with internal electron-nucleon particle compounds, and construct electrons, nucleons'' molecular structures (phenomenon of electron-genesis, nucleon-genesis).

Spiritually, what you believe is unimportant, but spirituality is real and riveting in your own experiences, whether an inexplicable connection with a family member; the goes around comes around; karma felt in either some form of come up or misfortune; the sense of hope in a hopeless situation; a truth you knew intuitively or the sense that another''s negativity jinxed you in some way.Whether Fate, Destiny, Providence, Creation, Big Bang, Evolution, God or some misshapen formula of the previously mentioned is the truth that you acknowledge, neither can exist outside of spirituality, making spirituality sentient.We can creatively imagine a spiritual network with however many veins that you can conjure, but then the order would result in disorder. Or we can accept a universal balance that begins beyond our imagination and includes where we stand individually. But this isn''t about any of that. Spirituality is too convoluted to comprehend beyond where it includes you.The spirituality that I speak of and identify as the Lord, has a beginning that resists scientific comprehension, and as has been mentioned, has many affairs and it''s my assertion that you are among them and that the testimonies and experiences in Close Encounters with the Lord, attest to it.

It is said that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. This workbook will help you plan for one and reduce the impact of the other on your loved ones after you are gone. Lessening your family''s burden in their time of grief is a priceless gift. Over 70% of people in the U.S. die without even a basic will, leaving a mess for their loved ones to sort through in the courts. There are thousands of excuses for not planning, but one of the most common is that we tend to avoid things we do not understand. Designing an estate plan has become one of the most complex challenges anyone can take on. But that does not change the fact that each of us must have a plan. The consequences of not planning are too great and none of us will get out of here alive. This workbook will help you gain a basic understanding of core Estate Planning concepts so that the subject will become less intimidating. Then the workbook section will take you through the process of building your own plan, step by step. After completing this book, you will have a document that can be given to your estate attorney that clearly lays out all of your planning needs. By significantly reducing the time necessary to complete the intake interviews, your legal bill should be much easier to swallow.

Discoveries of Author During Pre-Med and College Years- Author discovered electrons, neutrons, protons, and atoms are constructed from Fundamental Particle Compounds, Particle Clouds, have Particle Intelligence System Centers, and Particle Circulation Systems. - Author, during these years, discovered Fundamental Particles, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Biochemistry Sciences. - Author discovered Molecular Evolution, how constructed different Subjects of Universe, under A.S.I.FP. Mol. CIC. - Author discovered exogenous Particle Cloud Circulation Systems and Indigenous Particle Cloud Circulation Systems, Abnormal constructed Particle Clouds, and Normally Constructed Particle Clouds. - Author discovered causes of Psyche Genesis, and Thought Current Genesis, Psyche of Atoms, Electrons, Nucleons, - Author discovered the causes of the psychiatric disorders are Particle Cloud Transmitted diseases. - Author discovered Plants'' Central Intelligence Systems, Plants'' Sensory Intelligence Systems, and Plants'' Motor Intelligence Centers, and plants without any intelligence systems, etc. - Author''s discoveries during nine postgraduate years and thereafter. - Author discovered hundreds of other new findings, which no one has done these discoveries before. This book is an introduction for the author''s new creations.

The potentially catastrophic problems we face in our world today are the result of a massive spiritual failure. Mankind appears to have forgotten its connection to our souls'' core missions in our lives on this planet: to love and nurture ourselves, and the earth as well.But when you look around it''s obvious that we''re not really loving and nurturing when we cause the environment to decline and the climate to become inhospitable; when we keep wasting money and resources by amassing petrifying weapons to fight horrific wars; when we fail to take care of the weak; and when we demonize each other with so much vitriol and hatred that nothing effective seems to get accomplished. We are out of control as a species, and it is our children and grandchildren who will suffer greatly from our failures unless we find the "fire in our bellies" to act now.After an over forty year career as an attorney, counsellor, teacher, author and community volunteer, Doug Irmen''s thesis in Let There Be Light: Saving Ourselves and Our Planet Through a Global Social Compact is that genuine spirituality cannot be divorced from the physical world which our souls now inhabit; that spirituality finds its meaning and expression through the way we bring our values to bear on the issues we are confronted with on Planet Earth; and that the time is URGENT--RIGHT NOW-for a giant societal leap that will heal and transform our dangerous, bitterly divided world by embracing the wisdom, and manifesting the energy, of a higher form of consciousness than we have until now displayed.To accomplish this we must devise a specific way to bring the Light in our souls and the Love in our hearts to bear on our daunting challenges, to lay out a how-to for doing this on a global scale so that we can cooperate in saving ourselves and our planet from destruction. We will do this by using the internet to bring about the adoption of a worldwide Social Compact, a grass-roots spiritual and political movement that supersedes governments and will promote the core values that all peoples ultimately share. The Social Compact will connect like-minded people in an urgent crusade to reverse the course we are on. It will do this by establishing an international Light Network comprised of good-willed people who will share their ideas and strategies for funneling the core goodness we all have within us into a metaphorical but highly impactful ball of Light that beams out the conscience of mankind. A conscience that says NO MORE to our current failure to get along and cooperate. A conscience that will overwhelm our societies and governments with the message that NOW IS THE TIME to change course and love and respect all life on earth.Doug Irmen''s Let There Be Light advocates for the creation of a new worldwide social and political will that is grounded in universal spirituality. Doug writes with passion, occasional humor, and contagious optimism that we are capable of a transformational shift in human consciousness that will empower our souls'' life missions and elevate humanity to a place that is equal to the herculean task of leaving a healthy and peaceful world to those who follow us on Planet Earth.

Honeymoon, MP Kollman's third book in the Brothers series, sees the romance between Sandy and Samantha Grayson heating up...around the sizzle of cybercrime, some of it even committed by Samantha. What has she dragged Sandy and his boss, director of the Bureau of Drug Enforcement, into? The cybercrime of the century? Or merely an elaborate plot for the good of the country?

When Thomas MacDonald, a somewhat dull thirty-something bookstore clerk, finds three suitcases near a dumpster, he has no idea of the adventures ahead of him. He swiftly discovers that his new-found baggage is a time-travel portal, one that seems to have a purpose to its destinations into the past. But what is it? And how does his new-found love fit in? Should he tell her about his travels? Will she think he has lost his mind? Or maybe, just maybe, they might figure out how to use those suitcases to their advantage.During the COVID-19 pandemic, three writers began searching for a way to beat the "stay at home" blahs. They began work on a series of short stories, wherein each would write the beginning of a story, pass it on to the second, who passed it on to the third. At the end of the week, they met on Zoom and shared their work. One of those stories just kept growing and became the novella, Baggage. Enjoy!

Federal Agent Sarah Anthony finally gets a well-deserved weekend away from the agency in Washington, D.C. and decides to hit the mountains of Virginia. Pinned down by an avalanche, she's soon rescued by a handsome wildlife photographer. Connor McBride, an ex-Navy SEAL, now freelance wildlife photographer, is in for a wild ride when the two of them get entangled in a case of intrigue and suspense. It starts with an accusation of misappropriation of funds by Senator Kensington and leads to the murder of a real estate agent thought to have connections with mob boss Dominic DeLuca. Agent Anthony gets too close to discovering the truth and becomes a target in the mob's sights, catching a bullet in the shoulder. Her life is threatened again as she lay in the hospital. After Anthony's boss, Director Henry Wilson, looks into McBride's background he agrees to let him hide Sarah away in his cabin in the woods. With the help of an agent in hock to the mob for outstanding gambling debts, some of Connor's photographs of the forest near his cabin are passed along to DeLuca. The mob is able to narrow down the area where the couple are hiding and sends men out to take care of them. Spotting the men in the woods near the cabin, Sarah and Connor make a run for their lives through the forest. A quick satellite phone call to the agency and Connor's good friend, Wade Hood and the cavalry are on their way. Come and enjoy the adventure with them.

Freedom means being able to wake up every morning and loving who we are, loving the person in the mirror, and accepting the created of God. Loving ourselves in such a way that we are no longer bound by shame, guilt, and feelings of inadequacy. We have moved past the slavery and entrapment of "She Thinks" to the freedom of "She Knows". When a woman knows her worth her boundaries are limitless. She knows she is valuable and deserving of respect. She has broken the cycle of thinking she is not worthy; she has learned to stop underestimating her capabilities. Her life experiences have helped her to understand who she is, who she was created to be, and who is the Master of her steps. A woman who knows her worth understands that being tired does not make her weak; being strong does not affect her femininity; being single does not mean she is alone; or that being humble does not mean she is a doormat. She can stride through life knowing that she can move mountains with just the sway of her hips, the curl of her lips, the slant of her eyes, and the meeting of her thighs. A woman who knows her worth is a force to be reckoned with because she has survived her story and she courageously keeps pushing forward; living her best life in positivity and unapologetically.