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A Life Lived on the Edge : Doug Stanyon
A Life Lived on the Edge
A book containing 70 stories (386 pages) of the life and times of a former Member of the Rhodesian Police force.
The book is written in three parts.
The first covering his service in rural Rhodesia. Revealing incidents of witchcraft, poaching and the varied human characters located in rural areas. Plus the difficulties of bringing law and order to the final African frontier.
The second, covers a three years hiatus when he travelled the world, with experiences akin to James Michener’s “The Drifters”, living a life with an “anything goes” ethos, crossing six continents, always working on the fringes of the law. He worked in the desert of Australia and the jungles of New Guinea. As well as living in Europe during the free love and drug culture of the swinging sixties.
The last section covers his work as an intelligence operative in the Rhodesian war. He investigated and brought to trial the terrorist who fired the first angry shot, who was hanged.
In 30 stories he recalls with a pinch of humour being blown up by a Land Mine, mortared, shot at by his own side, working with captured and turned terrorists, saving a woman trampled by an elephant, capturing an armed terrorist, a near fatal aircraft crash and other extraordinary near death experiences.
The book is laced with maps, photographs, poetry and proverbs.
Refusing to serve the terrorists, he immigrated to Australia in 1980. After a successful career in the Commercial Security Industry, he now lives in quiet retirement.
Heavenly Bodyguards – Trainee in Action : Rebecca Lange
Heavenly Bodyguards – Trainee in Action
When Joelle realizes that she is indeed dead and not dreaming, she learns that being dead doesn’t mean she can just lean back and do nothing – it means she gets to go back to earth to be trained as a guardian angel…
A Guardian Angel! Now that was something Joelle had not expected. Still trying to grasp the reality of her death, this was definitely something that caught her off guard.
But sure enough, together with her trainer Josh, she receives her first assignment as a guardian angel: Hannah, a twelve year old girl, who had lost her parents in a car crash, and refuses to stay in an orphanage. It was now their job to protect Hannah from harm and find a suitable person to adopt her within a certain amount of time. Was this even possible?
Determined to succeed and to defeat the evil angels that keep putting obstacles in her way, Joelle learns to listen to her feelings and how to use her powers properly. It will be well worth the work if Joelle can put all the pieces together to find a home for Hannah, before the training year is over.
Forged In Ice : Bridget A. B. Halfaker
Forged In Ice
A lone forge on a moor. A youth who belongs neither to the humans who have raised him, nor the elves who claim him.
Sebsatian must leave the comforts of the forge, embarking on a dangerous mission. He alone can defeat the darkness that will soon consume his world.
Along the way he will meet many magical creatures who become new friends. With their help he can develop the skills necessary to accomplish his quest.
Follow Sebastian through treacherous treks over the mountains and perilous battles.
Examine the meaning of it all as he continuously wonders: “Why me?”
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Anxiety 101 : Eudene Harry MD
Anxiety 101, The Holistic Approach to Managing your Anxiety and Taking Back Your Life
Anxiety 101: The Holistic Approach to Managing Your Anxiety & Taking Back Your Life presents readers with an overview of the condition that affects approximately sixteen million Americans and provides a list of the wide variety of integrative holistic treatment options available.
Dr. Eudene Harry combines her experience in modern medicine and passion for holistic care in this handbook for anyone who suffers from anxiety.
Harry notes that in a society that desires a pill for every ill, “it is important that we learn the root causes behind a patient’s anxiety in order to form both a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen” (46).
Anxiety 101 is intentionally structured to appeal both to patients who suffer from anxiety and medical professionals who treat the disorder.
This easily readable book includes current statistical information from reputable medical studies as well as real-life “case studies” gleamed from the author’s extensive experience as a traditional medical practitioner in a hospital setting and her current career as a holistic healthcare provider.
Readers from a variety of backgrounds will appreciate her extensive overview of the biological history of the anxiety problem our society is now facing.
For those who read Anxiety 101 in an attempt to learn more about their own disorder, Harry suggests that “arming yourself with the basic, physiological facts about how the anxiety response works is one critical step in the right direction” (102), and she provides such facts in simple terms using relatable examples.
Dreams Of Betrayal: The Vortex : Steve R. Romano
The year is 3021.
A scattering of humans live in isolated villages in medieval squalor. They are the last survivors of the apocalypse.
A thousand years have passed, and the memory of what the world once was has long been buried behind myth and legend.
One man dares to find the truth, but his quest unlocks the Ancients’ forces that destroyed the world.
Now the remnants of humanity stand on the brink of annihilation.
One man holds the knowledge to save the planet. With the help of his new found love and their ragtag group of animal and human friends, they just might save the last life on earth.
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The Remote Workplace : Henrik Gulliksen Schüller
The Remote Workplace
If you dream about the freedom to be anywhere in the world while still having a safe and enjoyable job then “The Remote Workplace” is the book for you.
This concise eBook covers the essentials you need to become a digital nomad in just 50 pages. Giving you the opportunity to achieve your very own remote workplace.
In the book you’ll discover the immense variation of remote work, and you’ll find out how to land a remote job. There are a lot of sites out there claiming that they will help you find a remote work, and I’ve spent a decent amount of my time figuring out which ones really live up to this promise.
The book also covers tips and tricks on how to turn your current job remote for those that don’t want to leave their current workplace. These methods are known to work and I’ve used them myself in my journey to find a desired work situation.
Self-improvement is something we all need and we are never done learning how to be a better version of ourselves. That is why we’ll go through essential techniques to becoming a better and more efficient employee. Something that will both increase your value in the eyes of your employer and give you the ability to work fewer hours if you choose to.
Towards the end of the book we’re going to talk about how you can get used to your new work situation, how to avoid feelings like social isolation and last but not least, my suggestions on how you can spend some of your new-found time.
The book consists of a combination of facts, real-life experiences and assignments. The book’s assignments are crucial for you to acquire the remote workplace that you truly deserve, and I urge you to complete all of them.
In summation – the book will teach you:
- Where and how to find remote work
- How to turn your current job remote
- Tips and tricks on becoming more efficient
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Dynamic and Instinctive Thinking : Max F Sabian
Dynamic and Instinctive Thinking is an essential guide on how to access your own dynamic or practical thinking, and instinctive thinking and awareness. It can help you to develop your ability to think on your feet to solve everyday problems. The book also encourages open-mindedness, not least through advice on how to overcome the junk thoughts of habit-forming mental patterns which prevent us from achieving many of the things that we would like to.
The book tackles a range of problems which are experienced by a wide variety of people and gives guidance on how to resolve them, especially by changing thought processes to allow for more spontaneous thinking in a constructive approach to dealing with difficulties. The principles outlined can be applied to any scenario in life.
Answers to specific issues are often presented within Dynamic and Instinctive Thinking, but it is the thinking process which leads to the answers, and not the answers themselves, that is the key to success. The primary purpose of the book is to help you to find your own answers to problems which arise in your life.
If you want to develop your mind and look outside the box at things which may not be what they seem to be, and thereby to improve your own flexible responses to the challenges that the world throws at you, then you will find that the answers to problems are waiting to be found within yourself. To help to get you there, Dynamic and Instinctive Thinking is indispensable.
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Willfully Evil : Balakumaran
Willfully Evil
Set during the chola period in southern India, Bhuvanapathi, a young Brahman in Kanchi, nurtures an unquenchable desire to take on a perilous journey to Kasi, in order to earn fame and wealth.
Having mastered all the survival skills, he sets on this journey to Kasi after his marriage. His greed makes him commit all forbidden sins during his stay in Kasi and to top it all, he lusts for another woman, Navagnani and lures her to marry him, lying that his first wife was dead.
Time goes by and Bhuvanapathy, now wanting to reap the benefits of his Kasi trip, plans to heads back to Kanchi. His only problem – his second wife and her younger brother Sivagnani, who wants to go with him.
Unable to stop them, he takes them along, all the while trying to make an evil plan to get rid of them.
Bhuvanapathi’s male supremacy stoops low and does the unthinkable when they reach Thiruvelangadu. Little did he know that a woman’s curse can span across births.
What happens next and how the legend of Pazhayanur Neeli came to be, is a riveting read.
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A-Z Guide Basic Accounting Skills : Annelize Iliffe
A-Z Guide Basic Accounting Skills
This A-Z Accounting guide is specifically written for Grade 9 learners and beginners. It is a continuation of the Grade 8 e-book Learning your Accounting basics.
The resource is written in simple English, is user-friendly and the concepts link together to enable the reader to move successfully onto the next section.
The Grade 8 e-book is based on a story of a girl who started a Sweets Business and the underlying Accounting concepts and skills necessary to succeed in this.
Grade 9 is a continuation of Grade 8, and is linking the concepts learnt from Grade 8 to Grade 9 in story format, through the transactions.
The e-book can be used by all Educators who are teaching Accounting or EMS, and sections or topics can be covered to suit the specific lesson plans or needs in the classroom.
The e-book is written in a one concept per page format, is colourfully illustrated and takes the user step by step through the process of learning Accounting. It is written in such a way to enable the learner to practise while learning the concepts.
ALSO SUITABLE FOR ALL BEGINNERS OF ALL AGES WHO WANT TO LEARN ACCOUNTING AND HAS TO FINANCE BACKGROUND.
It covers all the basic concepts including:
1) Introduction, theory and accounting equations. Definitions, illustrations and equations with lots of practical examples are covered in these sections.
2) Cash and credit journals (books of first entry). Compiling of the journals are shown step by step, and source documents are linked to each page, showing the importance and relevance of these documents. The double entry principle is clearly illustrated, using colors.
3) Posting to the General Ledger (step by step instruction on how to post, the relevance of columns in the journals and how to distinguish debits and credits in the ledger, contra accounts and their meaning, folios and cross references are explained in detail. The use and meaning of Analysis of Receipts and Sundry accounts column) are covered.
4) Balancing the ledger accounts. Steps are clearly explained and illustrated. Different scenarios of balancing a ledger account are covered.
5) Preparing a Trial Balance. Detailed illustrations of each entry from the General Ledger, and finally the full Trial Balance is shown how it is balanced.
4) Debtors Ledger (Accounts Receivable Ledger), Debtors Control (Accounts Receivable Control) and Introduction to Bank Statements. This section is illustrated and explained in great detail with examples. The general ledger is taken step by step and the effects of each entry is illustrated. Lots of examples will ensure understanding of the concepts. Bank statement and comments are highlighted, ensuring that the user is grasping the principles taught which lays the foundation for further bank reconciliations.
5) Creditors Ledger (Accounts Payable Ledger) and Creditors Control (Accounts Payable Control). As with the Debtors Ledger and Debtors Control, this section is covered in great detail with illustrations and examples to facilitate understanding and grasping of the topics.
6) Petty cash. Accounting equations of the transactions, entering each transaction in the Petty Cash Journals, showing the cumulative entries, posting to the Ledger, and detailed illustrations of restoring Petty Cash. Source documents are also shown.
7) Mark-ups and gross profit percentages. Relationship between Sales, Gross Profit and mark-up. Illustrations and examples to illustrate these important accounting concepts.
8) Income Statement (Statement of Comprehensive Income). Definitions, illustrations and step by step instruction on how to prepare the Income Statement.
9) Balance Sheet (Statement of Financial Position). Balance Sheet and Notes are shown step by step on how to do, and how it is interlinked.
10) Ratios and Interpretation of Financial Statements. Illustrations explaining the relevance of the figures, and the relationship of these elements and their meaning.
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Women at Sea : Brianna Snider
Women at Sea
Captivating stories that highlight the struggles,bravery, and achievements, of women in a non-traditional world.
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