The world is speeding up, and changes are rippling across the globe with blazing speed. If your organization is slow to respond, you can quickly fall behind. One of the best investments you can make in this technology-driven marketplace is to empower employees to make fast, smart decisions. To do that, you need to arm them with modern, integrated corporate performance tools to maximize their ability to set goals, adjust plans and budgets, and monitor performance. In Enabling World-Class Decisions, four technology executives with more than 100 years of combined experience in corporate performance management and business intelligence software answer questions such as: - Why is it important to consider business intelligence solutions to enable better decision making? - How can you better prepare for the decision-making process? - What should you consider when deploying a business intelligence platform?

John Armstrong is a widower and disillusioned scientist working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. When he meets Fred Capistrano, a mysterious being from Nema who invites him to the planet to attend a university along with thirty scientists from other planets, John snatches the chance to escape his stale career and embark on an extraordinary adventure. Nema is many years ahead of Earth in development and has already endured a crisis that caused its progress to spiral out of control. As his studies begin at the University of Nema, John soon learns what its inhabitants did to survive as well as their innovations and discoveries that may one day become reality on Earth. When he finally returns to his own planet, it is now up to John to save Earth from its future. In this sweeping science fiction tale, a scientist travels to another planet where he discovers his life's purpose: to fight for the survival of Earth and ultimately change the world.

Nils Rasmussen, front-man for the electro-junk-punk band, Uncle Outrage, has released his autobiography at age 30. Pretty ballsy if you ask me. But THIS isn't your mom & pop's type of autobiography. This is...Well...It's insane. It's new. I GUARANTEE that you've never read, let alone SEEN, a book quite like this one...Inspired by writers such as Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Stanislaw Lem, Jim Jefferies, David Cross, Aziz Ansari, Norm McDonald, Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Harlan Ellison, Steven L. Peck, John Wyndham, & Clifford D. Simak...

"Sunny Side Up" is a throwback to 1950's the style of short story. It takes its reader to a space aged, highly unusual, quirky and humorous world in which almost anything is possible. It draws heavily upon the works of authors such as Robert Sheckley, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick as well as the old-time radio dramas from the 1950's such as "X-Minus One" & "Dimension X".