Excuse Me, That's My Foot in the Door!

Excuse Me, That's My Foot in the Door!
Author: Bart Castricone
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0595181120

Why does Compaq manufacture personal computers when IBM, Dell, Apple, Gateway, and Hewlett-Packard manufacture and distribute perfectly good PC’s? Because Compaq appeals to a specific user with specific preferences and expectations. The same could be said about IBM or any of the others for that matter. If you are a sales professional, what makes your company’s sales force different from those of your competitors? If your people are reading from the same training manuals as your competitors’ people, why should customers choose your product line over their product, all other things being equal? While it may seem there is “...nothing new under the sun,” there could be something unique and better at least from YOUR perspective! You may be a manufacturer’s representative looking for added input for you and your library or a sales manager needing to provide your veteran and rookie sales force with a fresh approach. “Excuse me...” is as special as you want your sales and your sales force to be. Buy it! Read it! Live it!

Labelled a Black Villain

Labelled a Black Villain
Author: Trevor Hercules
Publisher: Waterside Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2020-01-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1909976695

Heavily featured in the media when it first appeared, Trevor Hercules has now updated and added to a work that led to his involvement challenging Government ministers and MPs on youth and black crime. Part biography, part critique of the system, part innovative proposals, this book is essential reading at a time of gun, knife and gang crime. Heavily influenced by the author’s thoughts on how a mindset is created in all deprived communities in which ambition, employment, opportunity and advancement are thought impossible — something bound up with the advantages of the few (and where black people are concerned the shadow of the UK’s colonial past) — he guides readers along the pathways he discovered ‘the hard way’ as a dangerous young offender. With a new Introduction, Foreword by Duncan Campbell, extended chapters and a whole new part on the Hercules Programme the book challenges entrenched ways of thinking and examines the Social Deprivation Mindset (SDM) that unless something is done to change it holds back countless young people to the detriment of society as a whole. An extended edition of a classic work. By an adviser to Government on youth crime. Explains the ground-breaking SDM approach. Essential reading at a time of gun and knife crime. Now fully indexed. Reviews ‘Magnificent ... a must read’— The Voice ‘Hercules is on a mission to help young black men avoid prison … to divert them from crime by challenging the way they see the world’— Duncan Campbell. ‘Thank you for the Social Deprivation Mind-set Mr Hercules’— Black Youth of Communities ‘Trevor knows the streets and Labelled a Black Villain — the first British prison memoir by a Black man — is to be commended to anyone interested in confronting the current challenges of gang crime, knife crime and disaffected youth — black or white’— Mike Nellis, Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice, Centre for Law, Crime and Justice, University of Strathclyde.

Circles of Care

Circles of Care
Author: Ann Cason
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2001-04-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0834830205

"My parent needs help, but refuses to consider a nursing home." That’s the dilemma facing millions of baby boomers today. How can we ensure responsible, compassionate, even uplifting care for our aging parents at home? Mindfulness is key, Ann Cason writes. Good care begins with watching and listening, with entering the elder's world and accepting it. Drawing on decades of experience in caring for the elderly, Cason helps us understand how old age feels and how we can help. Then, through exercises, care studies, and numerous examples and suggestions, Circles of Care shows how to: • Work out a plan of care • Assemble and foster a caregiving team • Create an uplifting daily routine—and vary it creatively • Plan nutrition, medical needs, finances, and outings • Improve the elder’s personal care and physical environment • Ease conflicts between elders and their caregivers or families • Avoid caregiver burnout • Work with mood swings, confusion, and memory loss

The Lady from Buenos Aires

The Lady from Buenos Aires
Author: John Lantigua
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781611921991

Willie Cuesta wears tropical shirts, cool linen slacks, and Mexican sandals to ward off the Florida heat. Formerly a Miami Police Department detective, he now works as chief of security at his brotherÍs salsa club while he waits for new clients at his detective agency in Little Havana. After meeting Fiona Bonaventura, Willie quickly realizes that her predicament isnÍt a straight forward missing-persons case. The elegant Argentinean is convinced that she has found her dead sisterÍs daughter. Her sister Sonia disappeared during ArgentinaÍs ñdirty warî more than twenty years ago, but her pregnant body was never found. Fiona has never stopped searching for her sisterÍs child, and several times has been steps away from finding the girl she is convinced is her niece. This time she has tracked the girl to Miami, and Fiona is determined not to lose her again. As Willie delves into the case, a host of shady characters surface with ties to the Argentinean military dictatorship responsible for the death and disappearance of thousands of citizens: Sarah Ingram, who teaches tango in a dance studio in a quiet, suburban neighborhood; her polo-playing husband who makes it clear he wonÍt tolerate questions about his intelligence work in Argentina years ago; a terrified man who survived torture and imprisonment during the ñdirty warî and may be able to identify some of his torturers if he can set his fear aside; and even an Argentine diplomat. When people associated with the case start turning up dead and Willie finds himself held captive in the back of an SUV, he knows for sure that death squads from another time and place have arrived in Miami. As the vehicle careens through the pre-dawn streets of Miami, Willie Cuesta must hang on desperately as his latest case spirals out of control.

If It Bleeds

If It Bleeds
Author: Linda L. Richards
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459807367

If It Bleeds is the first novel in a series of mysteries featuring rookie reporter Nicole Charles. Nicole Charles didn’t go to journalism school to become a gossip columnist, but the job fell into her lap right out of school and her immigrant work ethic just won’t let her quit to find something she’d like better. It’s a good job, but she struggles with the stigma attached to her position by other reporters. More than anything, she wants to be a real reporter, but it looks like she’s never going to get a chance. Then one night while covering a gallery opening, she discovers a dead body in a dark alley. An up-and-coming artist has been stabbed in the throat with an antique icepick. Nicole is right in the middle of the biggest story of the year. It’s the chance of a lifetime. Too bad someone had to die to make it happen.

All Dogs Go to Kevin

All Dogs Go to Kevin
Author: Jessica Vogelsang
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1455554928

All Dogs Go to Kevin is a humorous and touching memoir that will appeal to anyone who has ever loved an animal or lost hours in James Herriot's classic veterinary stories. You can't always count on people, but you can always count on your dog. No one knows that better than veterinarian Jessica Vogelsang. With the help of three dogs, Jessica is buoyed through adolescence, veterinary school, and the early years of motherhood. Taffy, the fearsome Lhasa; Emmett, the devil-may-care Golden; and Kekoa, the neurotic senior Labrador, are always by her side, educating her in empathy and understanding for all the oddballs and misfits who come through the vet clinic doors. Also beside her is Kevin, a human friend who lives with the joie de vivre most people only dream of having. From the clueless canine who inadvertently reveals a boyfriend's wandering ways to the companion who sees through a new mother's smiling facade, Jessica's stories from the clinic and life show how her love for canines lifts her up and grounds her, too. Above all, this book reminds us, with gentle humor and honesty, why we put up with the pee on the carpet, the chewed-up shoes, and the late-night trips to the vet: because the animals we love so much can, in fact, change our lives.

Abby Kane Thrillers 1-6

Abby Kane Thrillers 1-6
Author: Ty Hutchinson
Publisher: Ty Hutchinson
Total Pages: 1669
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

ABBY KANE FBI THRILLERS (Books 1-6) - FREE Meet the agent with an impossible directive: solve the FBI's most baffling cases. Abby Kane spent her early career putting sickos, psychopaths, and ruthless killers behind bars. After her husband's mysterious death, she moved her family to San Francisco, hoping for a fresh start and healing. What she got instead was a job with the FBI. If you like Patterson and Baldacci, you’ll love the equally thrilling and highly addictive Abby Kane series. Corktown A mutilated body has Corktown residents nervous and for a good reason. Detroit Metro Police recognize the handiwork of the serial killer known as the Doctor. But there’s a problem with that. They locked him up seven years ago. When FBI Agent Abby Kane visits the Doctor behind bars, he swears he’s innocent and not the psychopath everyone thinks he is. Oddly enough, Abby believes him. Tenderloin With white-collar crimes dominating her work schedule, chasing deranged killers is a thing of the past until the body of a dead DEA agent pops up in Bogotá. Through her investigation, FBI Agent Abby Kane learns that a new drug has been invented, and its danger isn’t the addictive high but the terrifying side effects. She believes the cartels are behind the drug, but the locals think it’s one man. They call him the Monster. Russian Hill (CC Trilogy #1) In the first book of the Chasing Chinatown Trilogy, a killer is loose in San Francisco, collecting body parts. FBI Agent Abby Kane believes a dead hiker found ten miles north of the city is the key to solving those crimes. But the more she digs, the more she begins to think the killer is playing an elaborate game, and there’s an audience cheering him on. Lumpini Park (CC Trilogy #2) In the second book of the Chasing Chinatown Trilogy, FBI agent Abby Kane hunts the man behind the sadistic challenges the only way she knows how: by playing the game and moving up the bloody leaderboard herself. Coit Tower (CC Trilogy #3) The hunt continues in the third installment of the Chasing Chinatown Trilogy. FBI Agent Abby Kane is the sole Attraction in a bloody game designed for one reason: to take lives. Deliver her head and collect the $10 million bounty. Kowloon Bay Her husband was brutally killed three years ago. Now he’s the prime suspect in a murder investigation. After the murder of her husband in Hong Kong, FBI Agent Abby Kane moved her family to San Francisco as a way to start over. During a return visit to Hong Kong, Abby discovers an unthinkable secret that has her questioning the entire family she married into and believing her late husband might have been a deadly killer. Get started on a series you’ll find impossible to put down.

Reflection of Justice

Reflection of Justice
Author: J. Thomas Callahan
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595778658

United States Attorney Michelle Prescott was raped and murdered in her hotel room. After a lengthy investigation the FBI identified their suspect through DNA evidence recovered at the crime scene that also linked him to a series of similar crimes. David Barnes was arrested and is facing trial for capital murder. While preparing for trial, Defense Investigator Clint Wells finds that his client, abandoned at birth, may have a twin brother with a lengthy history of violent crimes. Are they brothers, and if so, which brother is the killer are just two of the questions Clint must answer in an investigation that takes him halfway across the continent and into the jungles of Central America in search of justice.