"Life Balloon" is a simple but powerful tool for anyone who yearns for something more from life and is ready to do something about it.

Author David Wrobel has more than seventeen years' experience dealing with people from every walk of life. The years he spent in door-to-door sales gave him the ultimate testing ground for the skills and techniques he shares.

Learn how to:

Have a Great Attitude Become a Goodfinder Use Positive Self-Talk Set and Achieve Your Goals Choose a Mentor, Partner, or Coach Pulverize Problems Decipher Good and Bad Relationships

Through the analogy of life as a hot air balloon, David teaches how to drop the sandbags and make your Life Balloon soar. "Life Balloon" will positively influence your life and the lives of those around you.

In the fifty years since its inception in 1961, the Bison Books imprint at the University of Nebraska Press has published some of the best historical, literary, and original western literature. The Golden West celebrates that continuing mission, bringing together some of the most beloved and iconic stories of the American West. Here, readers will find the classic West: from the adventures of the Corps of Discovery to the trials of the Oregon Trail, from the diverse landscapes of the Great Plains to the rugged Rocky Mountains and the Willamette Valley, from traditional Sioux culture to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and from the cowboys, ranchers, farmers, and mountaineers who often make up our western mythology to their American Indian counterpoints in stories about tribal society, monumental battles, and interaction with white settlers. The Golden West holds something for every reader-fiction, poetry, memoir, folklore, firsthand accounts, and all the shades of gray in between.

"Life Balloon" is a simple but powerful tool for anyone who yearns for something more from life and is ready to do something about it.

Author David Wrobel has more than seventeen years' experience dealing with people from every walk of life. The years he spent in door-to-door sales gave him the ultimate testing ground for the skills and techniques he shares.

Learn how to:

Have a Great Attitude Become a Goodfinder Use Positive Self-Talk Set and Achieve Your Goals Choose a Mentor, Partner, or Coach Pulverize Problems Decipher Good and Bad Relationships

Through the analogy of life as a hot air balloon, David teaches how to drop the sandbags and make your Life Balloon soar. "Life Balloon" will positively influence your life and the lives of those around you.

You can see them cruising for Indian art in Santa Fe, waiting for Old Faithful at Yellowstone, or pausing for shrimp cocktails on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. The American West attracts vacationers of every stripe, who comb its varied landscapes for the ultimate trip. And for better or worse, those who come to see this multifaceted region have changed what they have come to see.

"Seeing and Being Seen" explores the history of tourism in the American West and examines its effects on both the tourists and the places and people they visit. Scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and business-Patricia Nelson Limerick, Hal Rothman, and others-join government and National Park Service professionals to investigate the dilemmas that tourism poses for western communities, from economic and environmental questions to cultural change.

The selections are organized around three broad topics: scholarly perceptions of tourism, tourists, and those toured upon; tourism in its historical context, including an assessment of its cultural impact on communities and on tourists themselves; and the history and impact of tourism on the West's national parks, with particular emphasis on efforts to maintain the delicate balance between natural preservation and public enjoyment.

These essays cover the span of tourism history, from early-twentieth-century "See America First" campaigns to the problematic place of automobiles in national parks today. They also pay special attention to policy choices that the growth of tourism sometimes forces on communities, as towns try to bounce back from failed economies by capitalizing on an "Old West" image--or even, in the case of Kellogg, Idaho, "Old Bavarian."

In response, the authors offer suggestions by which communities can begin to make rational choices about the role and place of tourism in their lives. "Seeing and Being Seen" is enlightening--and necessary--reading for scholars, policy makers, residents of the West, and even tourists themselves.