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This serves as an entry level approach to popular topics such as amnesia, artificial intelligence, and language use. The audiobook is created in simple language. It uses examples from the media and pop culture that the listener can easily relate and understand the concepts and topics.

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 3 for September 2014 contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. The 10 travel tales that are featured for September, as well as each following month, include a fascinating mix of travel stories as well as a few brief vignettes.

In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author's family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying yet stimulating, and Gardner describes his own adventures, sharing medical and travel emergencies, magical fights, natural dangers, playful friends, and satisfying scientific discoveries.

African Safaris 1 is the very first of the Collections travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories about African safaris from Michael's huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world.

Michael Brein's Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 2 for August 2014 contains 10 among the best travel stories from Michael's huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of his own travels to more than 125 countries throughout the world.

Issue No. 1, Jul 2014 features such hilarious tales as "The Porno Prof Capers", which describes all the crazy, stupid sorts of trouble that a scurrilous scoundrel traveling to the former Soviet Union can possibly get himself into. And, if that is not enough, how about "The Mad Bomber", who cannot help getting himself into all sorts of embarrassing situations? You are going to laugh this month, but you will also see the unfortunately sad and serious sides to travel as well.

There are some old Geezers you just don't mess with. Meet one of them: Paul. Then - for your own safety - try to get away from him as fast as you can.

Never get a haircut from a woman who Has Just Got a Divorce. It's a real bad idea. I'm living proof.

REITs do not have to pay taxes on the income they distribute to unit holders - and the government requires them to distribute at least 90% This means they pay out a lot more money than ordinary corporations (who have to pay corporate taxes).

The line between reality and illusion becomes more and more blurred as Adam Andrews is carried away into a fantasy world of his own making. In this horrific tales of self-deception and murder, Thomas Weston traces the downward spiral of a man descending into total insanity.

Kevin Cowherd was a humor columnist and feature writer for the Baltimore Sun. His columns, which have varied from three times a week to once a week to occasional, began in 1987, and were a featured attraction for the LA Times-Washington Post news service. Last Call at the 7-Eleven, an audiobook of Cowherd’s conversational essays/columns, offers a fresh, inventive comic voice discoursing on the travails of everyday life.

Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific. Sharon Tosi Lacey makes extensive use of previously untapped primary research material to re-examine the development of joint ground operations, the rapid transformation of tactics and equipment, and the evolution of command relationships between army and marine leadership.

25 Secrets to Emotional Self-Healing give you 25 powerful steps to erase a stress-producing lifestyle. Here is your menu for slowing down the pace of life, and feeling not just okay, not just good, but great! Short, practical guidelines are for worriers, depressed and insecure people, and anybody trapped in the same circle of mistakes.

Here is a highly effective parenting audiobook featuring Dr. Ruben's rapid positive-parenting steps for controlling and eliminating child tantrums, disobedience, lying, stealing, perfectionism, anger, impulsivity, and school problems. Solutions provided for common family problems include step parenting, adult life after children, and knowing when therapy is best. Dr. Rubenn's methods stem from scientific and clinical research on parenting, using applied and experimental analysis of behavior.

Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers sent back to the front again and again under duress. Among combat troops sent to Iraq for the third or fourth time, more than one in four show signs of anxiety, depression, or acute stress, all symptoms of PTSD. Other soldiers poorly adjust when they get home. This self-help manual provides urgent relief to the soldiers of long and multiple deployments in Iraq or just retuning home. Chapters are first-aid kits of fast, practical, and effective strategies to defuse stress and feel emotionally alive again.

Effects of Bad Parenting is an emergency first-aid kit for parents and professionals utterly baffled by today's unmotivated, disobedient, complacent, and free-spirited children. The audiobook responds to the accelerated epidemic of school apathy, college dropouts, college graduation delays, insensitivity, impulsivity, casual sexual practices with friends, and overprivileged kids. More than a recipe for cures, this guidebook carefully translates complicated psychopathology into straight forward, easy-to-understand language.

This eye-opening personal history tells the story of an American college professor's 20-year engagement with a thriving Africa rarely encountered by Western visitors, including an extraordinary connection to poets across the continent. At once adventurous, spiritual, political, dreamlike, and humorous, Joining Africa is a unique documentary of a journey through the continent, including an intense five-year encounter with economically struggling but culturally fertile Eritrea. The Africa presented here is neither a postcolonial study nor an exotic tourist destination.

Protect your family and yourself from the most dangerous infectious disease. Flu experts agree - a severe pandemic is just a matter of time. But there are many other ways to protect yourself and your family. They are cheap and widely available. Everybody can take steps to protect themselves and their families. The nightmare is another 1918-style flu that is both highly contagious and highly lethal. It could kill tens of millions of people around the globe.

In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular myth. It shows that Mississippi's past was never frozen, but always fluid. It shows too that slavery took a number of shapes before its form in the late antebellum mold became crystalized for popular culture.

Guess What! You have just found out your high school teenager is going to NYC for their annual trip. Should you panic now, or wait til you hear the price? One parent's short memoir of Band Trip sticker shock!