Mark Beyer untersucht, wie Industrieunternehmen in das Servicegeschaft diversifizieren und welche in sich abgestimmten Veranderungen besonders kritischer Gestaltungsparameter der Unternehmensfuhrung entlang dieses Wachstumsprozesses eine nachhaltige Professionalisierung des industriellen Servicegeschafts versprechen."

Noted author Mark Beyer, along with Siren & Muse Publishing, bring you a story about obsession, identity, and art. Minus Orth walks dogs for a living and sculpts for his life. He's ready to create a unique sculpture cycle - Mythical Gods in Their Twilight. Meanwhile, he has a girlfriend, Belinda, who's itching to get married. His friend, Peter N, has reaped artistic success that's both inspirational and a thorn. He plays poker with a quartet of exiled aristocrats. And at Minus's art co-op, the residents live on the fringe of society. One day Minus crosses paths with Karen Kosek, best remembered as a culture critic of the 1960s. Karen dropped out of sight years ago. Now she dresses as a bag lady - ragged clothes, a garbage smell, and bulging plastic bags she carries as if they hold the secrets to the good life. Minus orchestrates a tenuous relationship with Karen, and discovers in her a woman who has not been trampled underfoot, but is burrowed deeper in society's crust than anyone could imagine. Thus begins an odyssey in which Minus becomes obsessed with Karen's past and present, obsessed with creating his sculpture cycle, and with the role artists play in society's split personality. "Do you have what it takes to make something beautiful?" is a question that comes to the minds of many characters in this story. Their answers are hilarious, confused, self-delusional, virtuous, or simply truthful, because the people who create beauty are different from those who value beauty, and far afield from the powers able to help it flourish ... or destroy it. "I want to read this book. I must read this book." - Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Minus Orth's "eccentricities ... make him the iconoclast he is intended to be." - Publishers Weekly

Noted author Mark Beyer, along with Siren & Muse Publishing, bring you a story that walks in the shadows of love's corners. American Richard Bentley settles in rural England, looking for the contented life of a bookshop keeper and some fun with the local women. His wife of fourteen years left him out of "marital boredom," so Heath-on-the-Wold seems the ideal place to get lost in work and forget the past. Bentley then hires Peggy White, a mid-forties townswoman who seems his match in sass and intellect. Soon, the rules of attraction open a new chapter in their lives. THE VILLAGE WIT follows Richard and Peggy's often humorous and sometimes dark odyssey through village life, love's fall, sexual politics, and that place where memory and modern love intersect. In the tradition of Iris Murdoch, Richard Ford, Margaret Atwood, and Norman Rush, THE VILLAGE WIT explores betrayal, loss and longing - and the importance to try to love again.

During this period of social reform, the progressives led a successful crusade to eliminate the manufacturing, distribution, and sale of alcohol. Beyer examines the societal problems caused by alcohol at the time, the fervent anti-liquor advocates such as the Women's Temperance Crusade, and Carrie Nation. The text and photographs portray the drama of this turbulent period when crime spread during the alcohol ban.