I chose to use the image of a tile as the cover of Fortuna because, for me, that's how the story began - with a small piece of red tile that washed up on the beach on Long Beach Island, New Jersey in 1970. More than half a century before, the Fortuna, loaded with roofing tiles for ballast, set sail on a two-year voyage to New York. Just short of her final destination, she became one more shipwreck off the coast of Long Beach Island. Those tiles were her calling cards. Fortuna almost ended the same as it started. While photographing the tile for the cover of this book, a huge wave came in and washed the tile back into the sea. But, like all the other pieces of this story that landed at my feet, the tile washed back onto the beach five days later.

This book is a detailed "how to" book on finding the career minded GREAT employees you need to move your organization forward in a positive manner. Included in the book are samples of --A hiring process manual --An employee policy manual --Sample job descriptions Using the ideas in this book may just save you a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. No theory here, just proven ideas that have WORKED.

This book of inspirational essays stresses the importance of perception when building a belief system. The essays give hints on how to keep our mind and hearts open to the awareness that we are in charge of our thoughts and feelings in the evolution of our spiritual growth. It emphasizes how we are to bring our gifts into our world.

When we look at the education in the United States today, we find that the educational prowess and dominance has greatly eroded. Many countries that we call third world countries consistently beat our students in math, history, social studies, and science. These countries have different morals and understanding of life than we, but these things are not taught in their schools. They are taught where they ought to be. There are rules and regulations in the various countries that some in our country would like to adopt here, but that is why we are not known as a third world country. We have that thing called freedom and rights that those countries don't have. Some of the courts have told us to take God out of the school, the pledge, and out of our state governments. Our forefathers gave to us this method of understanding our history, and we must understand that our forefathers mostly believed in God, also that the very reason many people came to our lands in the beginning is to have freedom of religion and not freedom from religion. This is just one way the courts are trying to change our lives. This book will explore many reasons why teachers are unable to get the job done and why students aren't in the top ten of the world's knowledge pool. We need to think on these things before it is too late

Look forward to seeing a book like this for each state! This book is designed to help those people allergic to gluten (wheat, barley, oats, rye and malt). I have structured this book with lists of gluten-free grocery stores, gluten-free health food stores, gluten-free supermarkets, gluten-free restaurants, and gluten-free bakeries in the whole state. Not to mention gluten-free drugs and medications are listed in this book. With this being resource book, it may seem hard to imagine when you will actually use it. However, let's say your family is on vacation and you don't know which grocery store has gluten-free items. You open the book, turn to gluten-free groceries stores, and find the one closest to you. Perhaps you travel for business and you need to find a restaurant to have your meeting, but one of your clients is allergic to gluten. Grab the book and now you have choices! Coming soon for each state, Everything You Want to Know About a Gluten-Free Lifestyle for Children

Vampires are beings of myth: folkloric creatures who live off the blood of the living and have been recorded in nearly every culture around the world since the beginning of man. This work traces the evolution of the vampire, from its roots in ancient mythology to obscure folk tales and legends, leading up to when these foul beings transformed into the suave Byronic heroes that continue to influence the world s view of the vampire today. It also examines key individuals in history involved in reshaping our concept of the creature. Popular culture is explored, along with the development of the vampire into the protagonist in plays and poems and novels.

Dear Reader,

Have you ever thought of aerially visualizing your life through the concept of life map? Have you ever thought of locating your position into such a map of your own life?

Until you do so, it would not be possible for you to achieve your goal on time.

First of all, this book suggests you to have an idea of this wonderful and interesting concept, and furthermore, it will help you to locate yourself into your own conceptual life map.

Dr. Chapman provides the first comprehensive examination of Farmer's major themes and fiction, from his earliest writings to his bestseller, The Gods of Riverworld.