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A few years ago, Matthew Martinez was a lot like you - he worked hard to make as big a salary as he could. But it wasn't enough. He worked by the clock and yearned to be his own boss. With a small amount of savings, he acquired his first rental property. Two years later, he was making more from his rentals than he was working nine-to-five, so he quit his day job to oversee his real estate investments. Today, he enjoys a multimillion-dollar collection of income-producing properties - and he's ready to share his money-making strategies.

Smart products are everywhere. They're in our companies, in our homes, in our pockets. People love these products. But what they love more is what these products do - and for anyone running a business today, outcomes are the key. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the point of connection between products and the results they deliver - it's where products become software. IoT Inc. explains everything you need to know to position your company within this powerful new network. And once you do, you'll leave the competition in the dust.

The true story of one engineer's battle with one of the most powerful state agencies in Texas. David V. Day, PE, takes on the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) in a battle that has lasted nearly half a decade, and is still ongoing as of this print. Day exposes the lengths that TDI Engineers, inspectors, and legal staff will go to punish any engineer or contractor who disagrees with them; including punishing, silencing, or terminating their own employees who are sympathetic to TDI's targets.

You will discover that there is without question a common way, a common theme, a common thread that separates desired success from real success. It is not based on theory. Rather, it focuses on real people and how they became so successful. The Common Thread of Overcoming Adversity and Living Your Dreams is a guide to help you learn how to master new skills and habits.

Rethink everything you know about leadership strengths.

In Mike's first book, This Book Will Get You Hired for the Job You Want, Mike helped candidates meet their career goals. In his new release, Mike unleashes powerful wisdom to help companies hire better. With his no nonsense style, recruitment expert Mike Adamo will teach you the skills to attract an unparalleled level of talent to your organization.

Competing in the global economy isn't unlike guerrilla warfare. Your competitors come at you from unexpected places with surprising force, and the marketplace is constantly shifting. As a leader, what do you do to empower your business and your people not only to survive but to thrive - and win? First, Fast, Fearless is a practical guide for the business leader who wants to learn from the best of the best how to build and lead effective teams in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and constant change.

This is a basic rule with banks, pension funds, and insurance firms. The aim is to have assets available when they will be needed. So one should not finance a long-term asset, for instance a house, with a short-term loan from a credit card. One should not use the value of his or her home to pay the bill. Borrowing long-term for a short-term also calls for trouble. For example, if you take a 10-year loan for a secondhand car, you'll still be paying for the loan long after the car has been disposed.

Meet Lucky (yes, his last name really is Dawg!), with all his funny male quirks - it's a guy thing... Meet Lucy, with her unspoken expertise of how true intimacy actually works... Is it really aliens or just some weirdos riding 4-wheelers through the woods having fun spooking Lucy?

Young girls are coming through a pastoral upstate New York fishing village - but, they aren't all coming out alive! Following a close brush with death as an NYPD homicide detective, Matt Davis has taken early retirement, and accepted a position as Chief of Police in a small, rural upstate New York village. While out fishing on his favorite stream, he stumbles across the remains of a body, barely recognizable as human, killed approximately six months earlier.

Buck Horn's West is still out there, albeit a little harder to find. These are tales of a not so bygone era before environmental laws and the price of fuel got out of control. As long as there is a desert range and a little bit of water, there will be the hardy few trying to grow cows and there will be the Cowboys and horses to take care of them. Buck's stories are a glance into a West that is rapidly disappearing. It is an honest look at the roundups, camp life, cowpunchers, and the horses that made it all possible.

Four students - thrown together in a high school summer class. Tyrell tells of a dream he's been having, a girl needs help. Sam realizes she's getting the same information - from her own sketches! Where is this information coming from? What is the Blue Group to do about it? Ty, Tiff, Sammy, and Lando navigate the complicated world of high school friendship and romance! The suspense builds as the clues unfold. Will they solve the mystery in time to help the girl caught in the cage?

Eight-year-old Janey Sullivan has had a difficult year, between losing her mother and adjusting to life with her guardian, Brian Duncan. But with the holidays approaching, her one Christmas wish is to find the perfect gift for Brian - if she can learn to trust him first.

My story of how I became a writer and the things I learned along the way. The first part is culled from the old A Cautious Descent into Respectability series I wrote last year. The second part has been released this summer on my personal website as a series of essays.

When I speak about "unmistakable", it references God, not us. We stand amazed at His mercy, forgiveness, and patience. We are utterly unworthy of any of his interventions in our lives.

This audiobook contains powerful relaxation techniques and methods that will help you to not only manage stress but reduce the negative effect that stress can have on your life.

Modern Waste is a thrilling adventure of deception, murder, and corruption in a small town in north Georgia. The town's gangs and old families control the county and its police. A rival from another town is taking over, and war is breaking out. As the title suggests, the book is filled with lives thrown away and futures desecrated. This is about part of modern society that is often lost, people that live in the middle. They are on the fringe, between lawlessness and legitimacy.

Now, 20 years later, I have a fresh perspective on my divorces, along with the lessons learned and insights gathered. I highlight the 12 key lessons I learned and the discovery of the Four Stages of Divorce. Writing is a powerful healer. To help illustrate this, I share the poems and journal entries that I wrote those many years ago. Writing helped me heal and learn. It can do the same for you.

A murder at a small harness track in western Illinois is resurrected and this leads to the hiring of Bertrand McAbee, a reluctant PI who was formerly a classics professor. He eventually finds himself in the middle of a pursuit for a vicious serial killer. It seems like McAbee cannot avoid violence. He, along with a cohort of memorable helpers, explore harness racing, serial killers, and the maintenance of ethics in a world of virtual chaos.

In the late 1950s, NASA and the Department of Defense had a problem. They could not figure out how to make a heat shield for manned spacecraft or ICBMs. The Air Force used heat-sink metals, especially copper, and the Navy, on Polaris, used a beryllium heat sink shield. The Space Task Group, in March 1958, were leaning toward the heat sink method.