Douglas Brown

Buying a werepet is the latest fad. But can the beasts be trusted? When paramedic Christine Alt is infected by a werepet while on an EMS call, the WereHouse stops at nothing to protect their profits. Can Christine survive her transformation long enough to bring down the WereHouse? Or will she wind up just another victim of the company's greed?

Tamed

The air is lethal in Altenbyrne. There is no escaping the poisonous fog within the kingdom's walls. The river is infested with deadly grinderfish, and creatures beyond the wall prey on those who venture out. Without a lifemask, no one can survive. While the wealthy get all the lifemasks they need, people like Tristin and his sister, Makenna, only get one each.After Tristin's failed attempt to save their mother from a dying mask, he and Makenna are forced to flee the all-powerful Angel of Justice. To hide, they cross the treacherous Slaybyrne River where a ragged group of outlaws live. But Tristin isn't satisfied with merely hiding while others still die from failing masks. He dreams of a better world. Using his secret God of Speed, he sneaks back into the city to steal lifemasks from the rich, a crime punishable by death.The Angel is coming. Tristin can't run forever.Join the author of Tamed and the The Light of Epertase trilogy for a unique fantasy take on the classic Robin Hood theme in Death of the Grinderfish.

Death of the Grinderfish

Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Despite the advent and explosion of videogames, boardgames--from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles--have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre, ethos and content. The growth of gaming events and conventions such as Essen Spiel, Gen Con and the UK Games EXPO, as well as crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, has diversified the evolution of game development, which is increasingly driven by fans, and boardgames provide an important glue to geek culture. In academia, boardgames are used in a practical sense to teach elements of design and game mechanics. Game studies is also recognizing the importance of expanding its focus beyond the digital. As yet, however, no collected work has explored the many different approaches emerging around the critical challenges that boardgaming represents. In this collection, game theorists analyze boardgame play and player behavior, and explore the complex interactions between the sociality, conflict, competition and cooperation that boardgames foster. Game designers discuss the opportunities boardgame system designs offer for narrative and social play. Cultural theorists discuss boardgames' complex history as both beautiful physical artifacts and special places within cultural experiences of play.

Essays on Themes, Systems, Experiences and Ideologies

Rerolling Boardgames

Walter Brown Gibson

150 Solitaire Games

This book had its origins in 1948 when I realized just how profoundly unprepared I was to teach the underachieving students for whom I was responsible. I knew I was only "going through the motions." Consequently I developed an interest in pedagogy,* and particularly in testing the effectiveness of its precepts in the classroom. My Putting Minds to Work, Brown (1972), was an attempt to describe the components of a pedagogy that would help teachers be better prepared. Its underlying theme was the need for greater teacher sophistication in communication. However, a comment by Resnik (1987) on the hiatus in pedagogy between motivation and cognition, led me to realize the potential of communication to bridge that gap. More recently I realized that the New Taxonomy of Marzano and Kendall (2007) enabled me to resolve a problem I had with the Bloom (1956) definition of intellectual ability that appeared so incompatible with current understanding of information processing. Explication of the interrelationships of communication, motivation, and cognition uncovered principles and practices of special significance for the teaching of students who are on the path of underachievement. I realized the insights gained from that perspective had general application, i.e., to all students.

New Priorities for Teacher Training and School Curriculum

Criminal Procedure in Uganda and Kenya

Sharon L. Fullen

How to Open a Financially Successful Bed & Breakfast or Small Hotel

Every soul is of infinite value. Every story is worth telling, including yours. After he experienced three traumas, Douglas Brown learned a valuable lesson: the way out is out. The way out of grief is to move forward. Walker Percy Loves You and Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life is both a memoir and an open-hearted look at the big questions of life, death, and more life. With humor and compassion, Doug writes of how those traumatic events showed him the value of every life. He explores how the writings of Walker Percy, a very funny New Orleans writer, helped him deal with the madness of our time - and make sense of his own story. And he shows how the sacraments of the ordinary can lead us out of loss and into happiness. Along the way, you will learn that each of us can see and tell our own stories in ways that honor grief while encouraging joy. Doug Brown is a technical writer and educator, primarily in the fields of healthcare, technology, and community engagement. He has written for numerous magazines and trade journals. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where he is surrounded by dogs, beer, friends, and mountains.

Walker Percy Loves You and Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life

Gwyn Conger Steinbeck

A memoir written by Gwyn Steinbeck of her life, first as the mistress of the Nobel prize-winning author, their affair, their riotous marriage in New Orleans, their numerous moves and times apart. She tells of his attitude to her and their chlidren, before she divorced him in 1949, due to his boorish treatment and unreasonable behavior.

My Life with John Steinbeck

Scott Wilson

Revised for 2009 and beyond, The Black Book of Outsourcing is a comprehensive guide and directory for the evolving field of outsourcing, including expert advice on how to operate an outsourcing program. Valuable governance checklists, offshoring insights, best practices and one-of-kind resources are featured in this bible of the outsourcing industry. First published in 2005, this topical, bestselling manual explores the evolution of both outsourcing buyers and suppliers. Outsourcing and research gurus Douglas Brown and Scott Wilson chart a course of advice for business leaders charged with managing sourcing initiatives, present a wealth of opportunities for job seekers, and offer insights for entrepreneurial thinkers and investors worldwide

How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities

The Black Book of Outsourcing

Akhtar Majeed

Ronald L Watts

Contributors include Hugues Dumont (Belgium), J.Isawa Elaigwu (Nigeria), Thomas Fleiner (Switzerland), Xavier Bernadí Gil (Spain), Ellis Katz (USA), Nicolas Lagasse (Belgium), George Mathew (India), Clement Macintyre (Australia), Enric Argullol Murgades (Spain), Manuel González Oropeza (Mexico), Marcelo Piancastelli (Brazil), Hans-Peter Schneider (Germany), Richard Simeon (Canada), Marc Van der Hulst (Belgium), Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck (Belgium), and John M. Williams (Australia).

Distribution of Powers and Responsibilities in Federal Countries

Mary Jo Stresky

Joni McPherson

Why can't most organizations seem to get project, portfolio and program management off the ground, despite all the books that are written these governance disciplines? Is there something you can do to make your organization one of those that do live up to expectations? Actually, the best practice books are right ... in the long-term; it's the initial approach that's often wrong. You can't cure a patient by administering an overdose. Right medicine, wrong treatment. Best practices are where you aspire to get, not where you start out. But how do you get organized enough to start thinking about best practices? Welcome to Let It Simmer, a step-by-step guide to implementing governance practices using The Simmer System SM. Dr. Douglas Brown developed the system during 20-plus years as a PMO Director and as a consultant in both public and private sectors, helping organizations set these management disciplines up or get them back on track. Introducing governance is a big change. People are always concerned about how change will impact them, and many senior managers see the arrival of management discipline as an attack on their freedom of action. The Simmer System shows you how to make this change happen with a minimum of conflict by helping your colleagues collaborate to help themselves, rather than attacking you for trying to make them do it. Let It Simmer explains how to implement the components, illustrates them with numerous case studies, and provides practical exercises that show you how to implement the system in your own organization (or your client's). The components are: * Four core principles of integration, transparency, integrity and purposeful service that will keep you on track when things get murky (and they will). * Seven lists of data you can gather that set the stage for collaborative actions without sending up red flags. * How to attain and keep top-level support, and what to do if you don't get it. This is the most essential task in determining the usefulness and staying power of your initiative (which in a process-averse organization is quite possible, at least at first). * Eight collaborative activities to bring your peer managers into the governance world by solving their problems. * How to identify the real decision-maker (i.e., a board or an individual), and how they can operate transparently without losing their autonomy. Implementing organizational change doesn't mean you need loads of experience. Sometimes too much experience makes you part of the problem. You may get handed the role because the organization wants a fresh face with innovative ideas, and you're the right person for the job. This step-by-step guide provides you the opportunity to achieve a dramatic transformation that lasts - but without pushing so hard that the organization decides to get rid of it instead. In less time that you might expect, your fellow leaders will have started adopting sound management practices and your organization will be noticeably more cohesive, collaborative and productive. You'll be amazed at how much gets done once it's not all about you. A word from Douglas Brown: People have asked, "What's with title, The Simmer System?" For instance, tough meat needs to cook over low heat to soften gristle and melt the fat. Cook your food over very high heat and you'll burn it. Turn the heat down to very low and it just sits there. I'm sharing the many lessons I've learned so you don't have to go through the aggravation of determining which correct "temperature" to use. I teach you how to simmer your programs, and end up with a well-run organization.

Making Project, Portfolio and Program Management Practices Stick in a Skeptical Organization

Let It Simmer

Even though it feels like there’s never enough time or energy, trust Annie and Doug...THERE IS! Creeping into middle age and saddled with work deadlines, child rearing, homemaking, and fourteen years of togetherness, an ordinary, happy but harried couple set an outlandish goal: to have sex for 101 consecutive days–no excuses (not even the flu, late-night child wanderings, or flat-out exhaustion). What ensued is by turns hilarious, tender, and seductive–including sexual romps in hotels, at an ashram, in a basement, and atop boulders, but most often in their own bedroom, which they dubbed the “sex den.” As Doug and Annie Brown literally screwed their way through months of a cold Colorado winter, they turned up the heat by attending the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas; taking Bikram “hot” yoga to get limber; and stocking up on candles, Viagra, lube, lingerie, and sex toys galore. In addition to the awe found in their ability to get it on day after day–and actually enjoy it–they were more surprised and touched by how much closer it made them. As Doug Brown lays everything bare, we get an inside look at the male mind and discover that a good husband and a good dad can also be one hell of a lover.

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