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A Playbook that gives Entrepreneurs the Tools Needed to Avoid Quicksand & Build on Solid Ground GeekWire Magazine called 2019 the “Year of the Bootstrapper.” But this concept can’t be confined to a single year. We have entered into a new era—an era Marty calls Generation Bootstrap. This is where countless young men and women pursue their passions by building meaningful businesses. You can build your own company without the obligations that come with outside investors. By bootstrapping, you can become a successful entrepreneur—on your own terms. If you believe in yourself, this book will show you the path.

From broken-glass-strewn streets of the East Bronx to an astounding revelation of the structure of all that is, we learn eventually that it is the soul, the part of God, all that is, which resides within each of us, that drives our longing for peace and love.

Followers of Dian Griesel’s highly regarded SilverDisobedience.Rocks blog and her social media pages @SilverDisobedience have long asked for her essays in book form. This book is her response. Daily, thousands of people from all walks of life read and respond to her Silver Disobedience® essays published on a variety of social media accounts.

t’s In the Bag: How to turn a passion into a new business is an inspiring business memoir. Entrepreneurs will find invaluable business advice in this remarkable story of how a flight attendant turned an idea into a product category that didn’t exist and created a multimillion-dollar global brand—the iconic SHERPA BAG, the world’s top selling, soft-side pet carrier. Pet lovers who fly with a dog or cat, have Gayle Martz to thank for revolutionizing pet travel on airlines, and for making pet travel in every mode, safer. This is her story. Gayle’s journey to becoming one of the top successful women entrepreneurs, is not a fairy tale in which everything went smoothly. Her story began in 1987, when she was furloughed from the job she loved as a TWA hostess (now known as a flight attendant). Shortly after, she lost the man she loved, her fiancé, who died in his sleep. Her saving grace was her little dog named SHERPA, who became her life. It was on a cross-country car trip with SHERPA, that the idea of a soft-sided pet carrier came to her.

Grief Healed: A Physician’s Prescription for Thriving After Loss. This memoir chronicles Sona's journey through a time with grief so devastating that it could be paralyzing. Heart-wrenching, but ultimately triumphant, this is a story of recovery and hope for the future.

This book is a summary of how I started out shooting food photos for the microstock industry using on-camera flash techniques. It is geared towards photographers who cannot afford studio equipment but own a speedlight, or for those who would like to try my method to succeed at microstock. You should know how to use your camera in “manual” mode.

Who was George de Morhenschildt, and what was his connection to Lee Harvey Oswald? This book tells the amazing true story of Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans, his ten-year investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and his efforts to find the truth by developing a close personal friendship and relationship with the mysterious de Mohrenschildt. After exhaustive research and an in-depth study by the authors, the thrilling details of Oltmans' journey in pursuit of the facts, as documented in his personal diaries and notes in archives stored in Den Haag, The Netherlands, are finally brought to light in Walking The Razor's Edge: The Dutchman and The Baron. You don't have to be a history buff to enjoy this engrossing tale.

These are times of turmoil. But times of turmoil can also be times of creativity as we become aware of new possibilities in our arts, sciences, and industries, and of new directions for our lives.

Finding the perfect financial advisor to entrust with not only your assets but also your hopes and dreams for your present and future--and that of your family--has never been easy.

A sweeping view of the psychologies of cultures from the Sensitive Chaos of hunter-gatherers, to the Great Round of Neolithic villagers, to the Four Quarters of Bronze Age warrior chieftains, to the Pyramid of theocratic nation states, to the Radiant Axes of empires, to the Grid of commercial societies, to the Dissolution of collapse.

This book outlines a strategy to plan purposefully, market successfully and produce quality events in a church environment that attract participants and make a spiritual impact.

The definitive collection of proven marketing tactics and strategies aimed at growing any company, large or small, in the 21st century.

Photos by the famous photographer of ‘The Band’ from the period between 1968-1969. This edition includes a bonus three page foldout sheet showing the thumbnails and captions for all the photos in the book. It is designed to be inserted into the back of the book and folded out as a reference while reading.

Getting the Property SOUL'D A Breakthrough System for Successful Stress-Free Buying and Selling by Paula Pagano When you spend decades of your life in an industry, you tend to learn a lot. Not only about the industry itself—in this case real estate—but also about human nature.

Included are nearly 300 of Elliott’s classic photographs that helped define the Woodstock Era with intimate images of some of the greatest music legends of the Sixties at home and in concert. This new edition features a new 90-page Woodstock Festival section which captures and preserves the true vision and spirituality of the Festival and the time.

SARA, Sara is dedicated to Sara's brothers Nuchem and Velvel, to the three little sisters of my Grandma, and to the 1,500,000 Jewish children who perished in the Shoah along with their mothers, or separated from their mothers, or right before the eyes of their mothers and other witnesses. May each of us find within ourselves the strength and dedication to help make this world safe for all children everywhere.

This book is about the interesting journey of a rural guy, who happens to be a first generation graduate. It details all the joy and struggles he encounters entering the world of IT. All the valuable facts and lessons learned in his life are featured, along with the real life incidents for the reader to relate to appropriately. The focus of the book is not only towards reaching the goal and sustaining it, but also on never missing the other hidden treasures in life during the travel. Though the journey is towards the IT field, the reader can relate regardless of the profession they are in. It's not just a success story, it's a story of all the many failures leading towards success. Success can never be tasted easily and this book conveys that fact eloquently. Lessons learned from Palaniswamy's struggles can be applied as such so that you need not undergo the same pain.

This book describes how to build a church intramural sports league that engages people beyond worship attendance, promotes community and strategically moves participants deeper into church life to make a spiritual impact.