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Construction Engineering and Inspection: What You Learn in The Field
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book serves as a training tool that teaches how to write helpful daily reports. The content of this work is knowledge acquired outside the classroom.
The information included is valuable because it informs about what is expected of inspection teams when writing daily construction reports. The content is relevant because it describes the information that construction, engineering, and inspection managers need to bring the project to its successful completion.
Knowing how to write useful daily reports is vital to provide inspection services that meet customer expectations.
The central theme of this volume is to properly document the daily activities and critical events of the construction site. Nevertheless, it also reflects on issues that answer the question of whether contractors and inspectors are enemies.
Experts use the methodology shown when supervising highway construction, but users can apply it to other types of infrastructure work.
Consultants will benefit significantly from these pages because their employees will know a successful way to anticipate emerging risks consistently and, therefore, be more effective in delivering good quality projects.
The book is essential for new inspectors or young engineers seeking guidance on how to report on road construction work. This book shortens their learning curve and helps them get the recognition they will need to advance their careers.
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Alexis Sheppard
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Alexis Sheppard follows the life of a brilliant young African American woman and how she tries for live up to her father›s legacy by following in his footsteps. In this story we find out how Alexis and her mother Catherine deal with the loss of a loving father and husband. In the process of following in her father’s footsteps she finds inconsistencies surrounding her father’s death.
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Immaculate Emotion
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99The book was written with the author’s heart and soul wrapped with real emotions. This is a compilation of reflections of her life’s experiences. Every stanza will take you to different places, time and emotions that you can surely relate to.
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Adolf Hitler’s Ghost
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Elizabeth Maria was born in Vienna, Austria, just before Adolf Hitler occupied Austria. She then became a German citizen, and her father was drafted into the German Army to fight for Mr. Hitler in Russia. He had opposed Adolf Hitler openly and first lost his job at the University of Vienna and then was sent to Russia. Miraculously he survived Stalingrad and five years in Russian Prison Camps. Elizabeth, her sister, and Mother spent most of the War in small villages to get away from the constant bombing raids on the big cities. After the War she could go back to Vienna and attend high school there. During the 6th grade of high school, she received an AFS Scholarship to the USA and spent one year in Erie, Pennsylvania, with an American family. After graduating from Medical School, she did a residency in Pathology. As a result of some lucky circumstances, she was invited by Stanford University, CA, on a fellowship in Pathology. She fell in love with California and decided to stay there, she continued her residency at the Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. After she could afford to buy a nice house in Los Angeles, she brought her three children to America. She stayed in LA until her retirement at the age of 66 years and moved to Santa Fe, NM, where she became a painter with the help of the Community College in Santa Fe. She now lives in Albuquerque, NM, and works as a professional painter.
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Storms
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99Although the news bulletin confirmed her decision to evacuate, Elise didn’t want to hear another minute of forecasts, preparations, and predictions. Brad searched until he found a nice easy listening channel, and drove through the rain on surprisingly deserted roads. Apparently, the rest of the city heeded the warnings long before the Steiners. As the car ventured through the quiet stillness of the calm before the storm, the children slept, while their parents and grandparents sat in silence, looking out at the Louisiana wetlands bordering the interstate highway.
At one point, in their lonely journey, a caravan of paramedic units and ambulances passed them up, in the left lane Elise felt her flesh creep as she watched these people go by, imagining how frightened they must be, dealing not only with the pain and uncertainty of an illness, but also, their sole reliance on total strangers to fi nd a safe haven for them during the storm Each of those patients was someone’s mother or father, a grandparent, or a sibling, or, worse yet, someone’s child. “Thank you, God,” she whispered, again, and turned around to look at each member of her family, as though she had to make sure everyone was still there with her.
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Who Drew The Two?
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99IN THE SMALL WEST TEXAS TOWN OF BURSON the murder of one of the richest young men in the city has the entire community in a whisper.
As police chief Ward Thompson and sheri Buck Jones combine their services to identify the killer and find the motive for the murder, five of the city’s prominent business owners become entangled with the events that lead up to the tragic event.
With a varied cast of characters including the owner of the local diner, the bank president’s secretary, and the murder victim’s widow, the epic story of a small town is revealed and no corner of it le unscathed.
Weddings, divorces, and second weddings leave a suspicious trail that may lead to the identity of the of the murderer. West Texas high school football, square dancing, gambling in Las Vegas, and hunting and fishing trips in a strange way, contribute to solving the case.
AS A CURIOUS WEB OF INTERRELATED
EVENTS UNFILD, THE QUESTION REMAINS
WHO DREW THE TWO?
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Masquerade
Price range: $4.99 through $15.99Masquerade – shadows whisper sensation images of seduction seduce sensations. Stimulation shadows entrance blur in a relation to, sensing within an intimate embrace one that wants to be known-felt within whispering embers breathe for an immaculate beauty resides breathes in sensation. Believe in the illusion embrace that which is-believe in inner sensation. Feel within.
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The New Christian Era
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99The book you are reading reveals new and incredible Godly mysteries that are coming upon the earth as we speak! This concerns the gifts of the Holy Spirit from 1 Corinthians chapter 12. There are nine gifting’s listed in these verses. However, the six Spiritual human senses are meant to be the tenth gift, which is a combination present. This has been unveiled by the Creator of the vast cosmos, and now revealed to civilization by yours truly!
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A Candle Beneath My Bed: Betrayal
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99“On a very old winter night, Jacqueline (Jackie for short), was born to the proud parents of Ruth Green and Matt Jones,” and on this very cold winter night, the story begins.
In a small rural town in Savannah, Georgia lives the Jones family. At first glance, they appear to be a strong, faithful group, despite their almost constant struggle with poverty. It appeared that this family was netted together with love.
About a year after the birth of Jackie something happened that caused Ruth to be afraid to say anything. But, when she decided to talk all her fears became a reality. The love of her life, her fiancé Matt walked out on her. Falling into despair, she begins to wonder if she would be able to find the strength she needed to move forward.
A Candle Beneath My Bed is not merely a thread of a young girl’s earliest memories but it provides a heartwarming story that rekindles our faith in family and sheds new light on the things that matter most.
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A Young Man’s Dream / An Old Man’s Reality
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99This is a day to day journal about the 5000 miles boat trip known as “The Loop or “The Great Circle”. A young man’s dream of doing this trip after reading a book about it. After working on the sailboat, it was ready to make the trip. There was some hair-raising experience and a lot of fun times spent as we grew closer as a couple. There is a lot of history and beauty on the water to experience. I would encourage everyone to follow their dreams whatever it might be.
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The Case of the Missing Girl
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99A little girl mysteriously disappears from an elementary school playground in Colorado Springs. Sixteen-year-old twins, Shelby and Daniel Anderson, work with the police to try to find the little girl. Will Shelby and Daniel help find the girl before it is too late?
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Letters Of Life: Whispers, Secrets, & Lies
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Letters of Life is a collection of perceptive, achingly honest poems that offer a decisive view which makes no apologies. These verses attempt to simplify rather than complicate the common ills which plague humanity. Often providing insight into life’s often messy entanglements.
These poems are divided into three separate sections. In “Whispers” we examine those things that people speak softly about under breath. The poems in “Secrets” reflect a pool of applied wisdom and answers to personal questions. And “Lies” deals with rumors, half-truths, and false impressions. Tying all the poems together is an undercurrent of truth.
“For in truth, there is love, in love, there is understanding. In understanding, there is forgiveness.”
In this stunning collection, whispers will cease; secrets will be revealed; and lies will manifest-but the truth will remain evident throughout.
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Reboot Nation: A Guide To The Internet For The Technically Challenged
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99Reboot Nation: A Guide to the Internet for the Technically Challenged is a book that outlines the different forms of Internet connections available to today’s consumers. Inside are also helpful tips and advice for the average consumer to implement to ensure their connections to the World Wide Web are fast and reliable.
www.rebootnation.us
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Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories is a charming collection of tales that recount the boyhood years of author Stewart Hyson. From gatherings in the “Indian Graveyard” through unprecedented encounters with baby chicks, here is a sentimental recounting of a range of colourful juvenile adventures experienced by a boy during a time that was poignantly more innocent than today.
Hantsport, Nova Scotia, might have been a small place during the 1950s and early 1960s, but it was a veritable hive of activity in certain sectors and for certain segments of its lively population-especially through a kid’s eyes. In this memoir, Hyson invites readers to share his childish perspective of the postwar years on the streets of this little town. With a strong wash of nostalgia that characterizes his memory of his time there, Hyson shares his growing-up experiences of such preoccupations of the time as Sputnik and the widespread introduction of television.
Last of the Small Towns: Short Stories is a labour of love that delivers readers back into their own childhoods, so vividly painted are its scenes. It is this energy, this devotion to subject, that are the book’s greatest strength.
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The 12 Days of a Soul Food Christmas
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Everyone is welcome at Big Mama’s house for the holidays!
Come in and celebrate with Big Mama’s family and enjoy a tasty new tradition of mouthwatering main courses and scrumptious side dishes shared with smiles and seconds for everyone!
A whimsical new version of the traditional Christmas carol written by LaShonda M. Stewart and illustrated by JL Straw.
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Zach’s Journey
$11.99This book tells the story of Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth as seen through the eyes of four teenagers who lived in Capernaum during the years 27 – 30 AD. These intelligent, sometimes disbelieving, youths listen carefully to Yeshua, watch him attentively and constantly discuss his teaching so as to try and make sense of his message. They also listen to and are aware of the views and opinions of those who disagree with Yeshua and disapprove of him.
The writer feels that if the public life of Yeshua is told through the experiences of four individuals near the readers own age, it could help them to understand more clearly what Yeshua’s example and teaching means for them in their busy, everyday lives today.
The recounting largely follows the Good News translation of the Gospel of Mark up to Yeshua’s final days in Jerusalem, when all the gospel narratives are then taken into account.
A simplified Biblical map of the Holy Land is added so as to help the reader situate more clearly the many places referred to in the text.
In short, the aim of this book is well summarised in the often-quoted words from a prayer of St Richard of Chichester who lived in thirteenth century England:
O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother,
may I know thee more clearly,
love thee more dearly,
and follow thee more nearly, day by day.
Amen.
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Spy in the Sky: A Cold War Story of Espionage, Romance and Intrigue
Price range: $3.99 through $14.65Pan Am flight attendant Natalie is the only thing that stands between the KGB and their attempt to steal submarine secrets from the United States Navy and alter the course of the Cold War. She and her naval submarine suitor, Max, find their budding romance plunged into the international intrigue of the 1970s when she discovers her roommate, Mia, is an East German spying for the Soviets. To complicate matters, Max’s submarine mate, Peter, has fallen in love with Mia. When Mia is ordered to turn Peter into a Russian spy, the result is a sexy espionage thriller that pits the creativity of the CIA against the treachery of the KGB.
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Ron’s Ramblings: Characters, Critters and Us Cantankerous Rednecks
Price range: $5.99 through $19.99Big Sky Country is one of the many nicknames for the state of Montana, the place the author calls home. While Montana is a diverse state in people and in geography, north-eastern Montana is characterized by soft rolling hills and sharp coulees; scrub grass, sage brush and wild flowers cover the prairie lands and tall cottonwood, ash and willow trees shade the waterways, all outlined against skies a magnificent shade of blue which make this countryside unforgettable and unique. The people that have and still do call this place home are just as unforgettable and unique as the skies.
This is a collection of stories and tales, mostly centered around the rural area of north-eastern Montana; some are from the authors own experience, including family and local history, as well as stories of wildlife, hunting and farming, and some belong to others who have been kind enough to share their own histories and recollections.
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The Bouncing Football: Life Lessons on the Gridiron
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99He questioned the system and paid the price….
But 44 years ago, he played for the Dallas Cowboys for a single season as a middle linebacker. During his rookie season in 1973, the 23-year-old from Waco was a backup to a fading legend, Lee Roy Jordan, and was traded by October of 1974 before he vanished from pro football altogether just two years later.
His official Rice University biography, penned upon his induction into that school’s hall of fame in 2011, notes that his career was cut short by injuries. Bu that is not the whole truth. Rodrigo Barnes was, he has long believed, punished for being an outspoken black man in an industry controlled by white men. He was banished for being “a radical at a time when radicals weren’t popular”, beloved Cowboy’s wide receiver Drew Pearson once said.
It might be tempting to say that before there was a Colin Kaepernick, there was Rodrigo Barnes – a man exiled from the game he loved. There may be a certain truth to the comparison. Both men sacrificed their pro football careers to protest the treatment of black men in America.
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The Faithful and The Damned: Demon of the Swamp
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99A demon is born and the clock is ticking. The town of Clearmont, Massachusetts becomes a place of terror overnight. As disappearances and gruesome murders stack up, reports of a monstrous beast becomes the norm. Jonathan Bailey, a retired folklorist, and his estranged son, Philip, travel to a distant land in search of mythical powers to stop the demons in their quest to destroy the only defense protecting humanity from the terror devouring the town. In this contest of good vs. evil, will the residents of Clearmont find the heroic within themselves? When all seems lost, the most unassuming among them will step forward to selflessly face an enemy more powerful than any human being.
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Kevin VS The City of Heroes
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99In a world where heroes and superweapons are as prominent as the concrete they’re living on, a simple reporter takes a job with a sociopathic man with a dream. Getting thrown headfirst into a madness-fueled rampage to take the central city of Megatropolis — where the most powerful of Heroes and Villains alike reside — the reporter is forced to keep up with one of the lowest self-controlled people he’d ever thought he’d meet: The self proclaimed Supervillain Kevin “Motherfucking” Andréson.
With a plan, a group of equally crazy followers, and some extremely intelligent advisors at his back, this is the account of one man’s rise to becoming one of the scariest living things that anything would ever meet, told by a simple and mundane person. Let’s see what’s in store, shall we?
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Firewall
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This is the story of how our species got smart, and emotionally driven. It uses common knowledge and common sense to speculate on how EVOLUTION could feed and shelter 7 billion people, build modern computers, the internet, AND Jesus, Mohamed, Buddha, Confucius, Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.
The UNDERLYING force of EVOLUTION, is ENTROPY because TIME is a CAUSE and EFFECT process with predictable CONSEQUENCES, so we can use mental SIMULATION of the causes to anticipate how to change the future using observation, thinking, and experimenting.
However, that was the EASY PART, because that chain of causation then gave us PURPOSE and INTELLIGENCE to achieve it by making us FIGHT among ourselves for millions of years till those left standing were SELF AWARE and able to use reason to define meaning and intelligent purpose in joining together as a SPECIES, to survive and prosper by LOVING each other, with shared JOY in OVERCOMING ENTROPY in a CYBER universe of our own. Jesus and the other prophets just opened the message that evolution had already coded in our genome.
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Finding Me: Finding Yourself When Half Of You Is Missing
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Finding Me chronicles the author’s journey of grief after losing her husband of 50 years. Vickie found herself alone for the first time in her life. Without a clear sense of who she was as an individual or how she would cope without Gary at her side. After sharing so many years together, her journey was difficult. With Gary, she was strong but without him, simple daily tasks seemed overwhelming. She realized that she had lost half of her identity in the loss of her husband, Gary.
Leaning on the memories of a happy marriage, and remembering the goodness of God, she found the strength and will to move forward and discover her own identity. She learned to recognize and deal with the recurring waves of grief. “You never get over the loss, but you can get through it somehow,” she affirms. Her experience leads down the path to peace and fulfillment for those who find themselves traveling alone.
At the age of 70, Vickie found that God was not finished with her yet and had an exciting plan for the next chapter of her life!
Finding Me takes you through the process of grief and finding out who you are when half of you is missing. There is hope in every chapter of life. Finding that hope is what this book is about. The author’s prayer is that reading this book will ignite joy in the “YOU” that is left and help readers discover the best is yet to come!
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The Second Son: Dynastic Disasters and Political Intrigue: England 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke, now the King’s special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shire’s gentry to represent the King across the county, in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remained behind and suffered under the Republic. The assessment is sidetracked by an alleged massacre, a disappearing Cromwellian magistrate, ambitious, conniving and predatory women, a vindictive husband, secret societies, the plague, closely kept secrets, man eating animals, and a spate of attempted and successful murders.
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On The Shoulders of Leaders: A Leadership Pocket Guide
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Acquire the secrets of successful leadership.
Dr James Fantauzzo offers you many realistic and practical applications to implement effective and successful leadership. The challenge we now face is to make leadership and essential part of our corporate culture. The information contained in this book is rich with realistic ideas and approaches for clear judgement, selecting the right leadership behavior and will capture the true essence of leadership. On the Shoulders of Leaders is a team centered leadership book and can be a resource for anyone in a position of authority. The case studies referenced within embrace the real world of work and will prove to be invaluable and an extremely useful tool for the 21st Century managers at all levels. No book is able to teach everything about the importance of leadership. However, On the Shoulder of Leaders is an excellent place to start!
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Ben
Price range: $3.99 through $7.99Ben is the story of a brilliant woman’s Love for her little dog and their infinite bond. The thought of losing him to illness initiates her mind to go beyond limits and barriers into the mysteries of life, death and existence. Donna’s mind is tested and stretched to the boundaries of the unknown.
The story of Ben is equivalent to a maze, with the exception that the maze consists of words, not corn in a field or hedges in a garden. The three forms are challenging and enchanting. The words of the story depict the maze. At the end there is light with the emotion of satisfaction and illumination.
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