Invention Stories...Tales from the Inventor is a collection of 35+ Invention Stories shared by their Inventors...in Their Own Words.
I tried to turn my idea into a product. The results from a preliminary background check I had performed on my invention idea, showed there were four other patented inventions similar to mine, two of them I liked better. Why were none of them on the market?
I begin researching the invention industry and learned that 95-98 percent of inventors fail to recoup their initial investment. I thought, if this failure rate is even close to being accurate, the patent process must be broken.
How Do We Invent Smarter?
Who better to learn from than by those who have already invented? What would the inventors say is the most productive use of their time, money, and What should inventors avoid?
This book is about how you can build your personal influence in business and make a positive impact on the world. The key? Focus not on what you get, but what you give. In 10 easy-to-follow steps called Success Factors of Highly Influential Leaders, it shows you how to access, utilize, develop, expand, and ultimately constructively use your influence to help make the world a better place.
The other running and complementary theme is related to relationship building for the purpose of developing highly effective and strategic business networks or spheres of influence.
This book taps into the growing awareness among business leaders that while personal influence is necessary for success, once influence is developed, it must be used in a way that's socially responsible. It is the powerful antidote to the obsolete belief that "greed is good." Success and power are good--but only if you give back.
As a special bonus, the book includes featured interviews with twelve nationally known CEOs.
This book is about bringing your magickal knowledge out of chaos and into the clarity, to make sure you know how to use it to the full potential.
Before you start telling me that I spelled Magick wrong, don’t. When you spell Magick with a “k” on the end you speak about magick in the actual correct way. Magic without the “k” refers to acts of illusion, like pulling a rabbit out fo a house or making a car disappear. Magick with a “k” is about creating good in our world and universe.
Inside the book you will learn how to create, direct, and share magick. You will learn how you can work with magick individually, in small groups, large groups and the possibility of using in a world setting.
You will learn the connection between love and magick as well as how intelligent magick actually is in our universe. You will tap into the power of magick and how the billions of people on this planet are creating magick all the time and are unaware they are doing.
After consuming the information in this book your outlook on the energy of magick will be drastically changed. Magick is the most unlimited resource in our world. There is no limit to the magick we as humans can create and with this knowledge you will learn the ease in which you can create it.
Are you ready to take a journey into the world of Magick? In all history you will find tales of Magickal feats many of which are considered myths. After reading this book you might have a different opinion on those myths.
As a bonus for getting this book you will also gain access to a free class on creating Happiness Notes. A class showing you how you can brighten the day of the other human beings on this planet one person at a time.
A first-hand account of some of the world’s most significant places for military personnel, veterans and civilians with a passion for military history to travel to, as seen through the eyes of US Navy veteran, world-traveler, writer and military researcher Michael Embrich. In a book that is part travelogue and part guide you’ll be introduced to veteran businesses, lesser known historical sites and stories of long forgotten heroes in more than two dozen places in the US and Europe. Each one is colored by Michaels' personal interactions and discoveries.
In his adventures Michael has traveled to some of the most significant American historical locations in the world. He has met veterans and interacted with them all over the US and Europe, from the private officers’ clubs in New York City to graveside mourners of war dead in Italy and Belgium. From the American-veteran Expats in Paris to banished, forgotten and deported American veterans in South and Central America to those who have started new careers and businesses, and some are doing amazing things and sharing their talents with the world. This book highlights Embrich’s favorite veteran - owned and operated establishments in cities around the U.S. and beyond. It also features necessary advice on how to live like the locals in dive-bar Veterans of Foreign Wars clubs and back-room American Legion halls where Presidents were made and punches were thrown, all without ending up on the receiving end of those punches. In addition to his favorite places and businesses, Embrich’s words tell an even deeper story of the men and women who risked all to fight for democracy abroad and for their brothers and sisters on the battlefield.
This book is also a bridge for the Military to Veteran metamorphosis. Embrich shows veterans that travel is not only living in a foxhole halfway across the world but a great way to get out and see the things you were fighting for. Perhaps a way to put aside the combat boots and travel on with life. It’s a journey, and like all journeys it begins with the first step.
For Active-Duty Military, veterans and civilian enthusiasts alike, March On: A Veterans Travel Guide gives readers a chance to walk in their steps, which is the ultimate sign of gratitude.
~ Celebrity Publicity, Author, Entrepreneur, Angelo Ellerbee, wrote the forward.
~ A top Media Personality/Top 200 Amazon Reviewer, Cyrus Webb reviewed the book and highly praised it. The review is in the book.
~ 50% of the net proceeds, from sales, through July 21 will be donated to Botshabelo Community Development Trust, in South Africa. It's an orphanage that I have been wanting to help for almost half a decade or longer.
About the Book:
For those who have felt beaten down by the world around them or even their own challenges, celebrity publicist/motivational speaker and now author Lisa Yolanda George has just the prescription for you.
CELEBRATING LIFE, CELEBRATING YOU!! takes you into her own journey of overcoming and thriving and what she has learned that will be of benefit to others. In short yet powerful chapters she gives you the tools necessary to start truly appreciating life and all that it has to offer, even when it seems as if all hope is lost.
Drawing on the many hardships that hit the world in 2020, she also reminds the reader of a simple truth: we are in this thing called life together. If you are ready to not just rise but thrive no matter where you are, CELEBRATING LIFE, CELEBRATING YOU!! will lead you in the right direction.
This year French fashion house Celine set the Internet abuzz with the release of its spring 2015 print campaign. The ads quickly went viral, blazing a path across Instagram, Twitter and the blogosphere before hitting The New Your Times, Forbes and The Atlantic. At the center of all the attention was the face of the campaign: 80-year-old author Joan Didion.
Two days later, French luxury label Saint Laurent debuted another eye-catching ad featuring 71-year-old Joni Mitchell. Not to be outdone, Kate Spade and jewelry designer Alexis Bitter rolled out campaigns featuring 93-year-old style legend Iris Apfel. A short time later, L'Oreal announced that it had signed 65-year-old '60's icon Twiggy as its latest brand ambassador, going 69-year-old Helen Mirren.
These are only the latest members of a sorority of senior being tapped by major brands with earlier trailblazers including Jessica Lange, 65 for Marc Jacobs Beauty: Charlotte Ramping 69, for Nars: Catherine Deneuve, 71 for Louis Vuitton: and Anjelica Huston, 63 for Gap. The trend has led many to wonder whether the notoriously youth-obsessed world of fashion and beauty is finally accepting-even embracing- women of a certain age.
Four years in the making the Prime Book is available for purchase at theprimeboo.org
The Prime book is a collection of over 80 stunning black and while portraits and essays that are a true celebration of women. Each Woman, ranging in age from 35 to 104 was photographed without makeup and reproduced with no retouching or Photoshop alteration. The book is a self-described labor of love for photographer for publications including The New York Times, Forbes, Esquire, Newsweek and Architectural Digest. With a foreword by the American scholar and New York Times best selling author Brene Brown and an introduction by the founder of Philosophy Beauty, Christina Carlino, Prime includes over 84 never before published essays written by the subjects.
It’s been a bit of a tightrope walk raising two girls these last 23 years. Like many parents, I am particularly sensitive to the pressure my girls are subjected to in the media. Every day, young girls are exposed to images of women “perfected” with the help of technology. Advances in Photoshop regularly facilitate the elongation and general distortion of what is natural. This unrealistic form is consistently represented across almost all of media, with blemish-free, wrinkle-free, and even pore-free skin. It’s hard enough for growing girls to maintain a positive self-image without narrowing the scope of socially acceptable “beauty”. through manipulation.. The National Center for Biotechnology information concluded 50% of girls and young women are unhappy with the way they look. For years I photographed celebrities for magazine covers and features as well as movie posters and ads only to see the finished product highly altered from the original image.
I realize through my photography assignments how far from reality the representation of today's female status symbols has become. This was the impetus behind a change I gradually made in my technique. I began to simplify the way I chose to light and compose my portrait work. Ultimately it was an early -2000 Harper's Bazaar feature of supermodels without make up that inspired my idea to create the prime book. I wanted to depict women in a positive authentic way. I chose to shoot in black and white in a fairly tight composition without any makeup, jewelry or retouching. I wouldn’t say I had to pry the mascara from their clenched fingers but it was not always easy. Over the next 4 years I photographed over 120 women from around the country from the age of 35 to 104. Each woman was asked to write an essay about what they thought it was to be in their prime. What followed was an facinating collection of stories celebrating personal milestones and professional achievements. The women’s essays are filled with the challenges life has thrown them and the choices they have made. All of the women who’ve participated in the book seemed to share an independent spirit that inspired their rejection of conventional definitions of womanhood while challenging accepted notions about aging. My hope was that readers would see the names, look into the faces, and hear in their own words details of the journey that has shaped these extraordinary women.
FALLING is the first collection of short stories by Erik Van Achter. It was during his stay at Brown University that Erik first started writing various fictions dealing with the life and the way of living of students at Ivy League Universities. Most characters exist in real life, some are even the writer’s friends but fiction took hold of them casting a net they rarely escape from. Their bright lives, where the sky supposedly is the limit, is defied by the basic laws of (human) gravity. Some survive the fall, others don’t. Fate, coincidence and destiny rule their world.
Being well versed in short story theory, Erik van Achter has experimented with genre’s many possibilities. What has interested him most is piecing together small fragments, hoping a story might arise and lead a real life and an afterlife. The mythical world of Ivy League is just a setting. In fact the human condition controlled by uncontrollable events is at the center of the tales. Sometimes characters literally fall but stay alive, sometimes characters fall from grace, looking for redemption or sadly die. The short story collection which can be read as a short story cycle consists of 14 short stories all dealing with exceptional characters in an exceptional milieu. It is published by XLibris, Bloomington Indiana- U.S.A.
Falling, Tales from the East Coast is available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com or at the Publisher’s website.
From murderous crowd-sourcing apps to nefarious faeries, Reflections is a collection of short stories posing a single question: where does goodness end, and evil begin? In “Scales”, Jason and Akira find friendship in the aftermath of a cataclysmic pandemic, but the closer they become, the greater Jason’s secret grows. “Crowns” centers around Larry, who must pay a terrible price to save his comatose girlfriend. In “Veritas”, two detectives are gifted with a new and revolutionary truth serum that will reveal far more than they bargained for, and in “Mech”, the moral dilemmas deepen as a forbidden, unrequited love simmers amidst the turmoil of an alien invasion. Ten soaring stories, each exploring original and thought-provoking perspectives of love, secrecy, loyalty, and destruction. Tangling future and fantasy, Reflections is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the frailties, foibles, and dreams of humanity.
If you love a gay parade – and who doesn’t? And you can’t resist a clueless caper and a reckless romp through San Francisco, then FUNNY MONEY is the comical novel for you! AJ Billingsley needs cash, and she needs it now. If she doesn’t come up with money for her past rent, she’ll be evicted, and so will her roommate, Kim. Before these queer friends get tossed out in the street, they hatch a crazy plan to storm the San Francisco Mint and steal enough freshly printed Ben Franklins to guarantee they both live happily ever after. Their drag queen housemate helps them disguise for the scheme, and nothing can stop them from pocketing the easy money. Unfortunately, they didn’t consider the reinforced concrete building, the razor wire fence, or the 850,000 participants of the 2004 San Francisco Pride Parade.
BK Wells is a San Francisco writer whose novels include Nothing To Fear and Semi-Sweet Revenge. Wells also wrote book & lyrics for the musicals United We Tweet and Deuce.
"Out of Business: Moran" by David Citron takes readers on a personal journey through entertainment and finance. Citron's Semi-Auto Biography reads like a business plan as
Old media meets New media in this stream of consciousness tale that follows characters Caleb and Sloan as they find each other and themselves in the high flying worlds of high finance and music.
The book takes us inside the world of Caleb Hanau who was raised Jewish. He seeks opportunity in higher education, Wall Street (and its ever changing spectrum of high finance and wealth management ) and he finds passion in music and his search for Sloan, the love of his life.
With inspiration, Sherifa invites us to dive into her world of joy, loss, freedom and the most sacred of all, love. With a strong message for compassion and forgiveness, Innocent Intentions offers a framework to peek beyond traditional romantic love ideals. It is book designed to bring happiness and awareness to the reader
Long before anyone in the mainstream media was sounding the alarm about COVID-19, I was meticulously tracking all of the emerging news around it and doing my best to sound the alarm about all of the anomalous characteristics carried by its genetic signature, and analyzing the ensuing geopolitical implications of its spread. Realizing that gain-of-function research was plausibly behind its origins, I began a petition to reinstate the moratorium against this far-too-risky research method, which is all the more important as American and Chinese finger-pointing has intensified we seem to be headed towards an intractable cycle of blame and geopolitical escalation, instead of focusing on the risks presented by allowing further gain-of-function research to occur.
And after being submitted back in April, finally in August 2020 and after months of the mainstream scientific press decrying the idea as a “conspiracy theory,” my dad and I became the first authors to publish a peer-reviewed paper arguing that COVID-19 may well be the result of a viral gain-of-function research experiment that leaked out of a lab. Since the last time I formally studied science was 20 years ago when I took AP Bio, although I did the research and writing my dad served as a technical sounding board, basically acting as a thesis advisor and editor would.
My father and I would end up working with a rag-tag bunch of internet strangers, with the two of us forming the nucleus of what would become D.R.A.S.T.I.C. Research throughout 2020.
Prior to my incarceration, I’d spent my college summers and a bit of time afterwards working as an analyst for the NSA (a position I might have left a bit hastily) where I realized that the most dangerous threat against America wasn’t terrorists attacking us from the outside, but instead a socioeconomic implosion due to the racial inequities perpetuated by the various policies that have bulwarked inequality throughout almost all of our history, most recently the War on Drug’s destruction of the black family. So I left to write a book to dispel the myth of the Die Hard-esque super terrorist and explain the phenomenon as the inevitable response to widespread social inequality, you can find Tremble the Devil available in its entirety free online.
Alice Peterson suffers from postpartum depression. Her gynecologist refers her to Donald Silverstein, a psychiatrist who specializes in hypnotic regression therapy (HRT). During hypnosis, Alice reveals that in a past life, she was Mary Magdalene. Throughout 9 hypnotic sessions, she describes in precise chronographic, geographic, and historical details, her life in Jesus’ times. Faced with questions such as: Was Jesus a poor carpenter born in Bethlehem? Did he have other siblings? Did he believe he was the son of God? Did he resurrect? She answers these questions in excruciating detail, because she was there. She tells Dr. Silverstein about the Lord’s real birthplace, his education, social status, youth, ministry, trial, judgment, crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. She also tells him about their wedding, their daughter, her ministry, and her disagreements with Peter.
The author understands most churches still do not agree that Jesus could have had carnal love. Although the theory has been floated around, it is not one accepted by many Christians. To them, Mary Magdalene was a female apostle, and Jesus loved her as He loved his other disciples. The book portrays the life of Jesus from his wife’s perspective. It deviates from, and in some instances contradicts, the churches’ orthodox portrayal of the Son of God.
Mr. Giuseppe is a committed Christian, and as such, believes in the divinity of Jesus, and the teachings of his faith. He understands why for many it would not be considered possible, or tolerable, to believe that Our Lord was married. Only after listening to the tapes, and reading the medical reports, and transcripts of the hypnotic sessions, he decided to go ahead with this project.
My name is Timothy Mitchell, the author of books: The Mat, It's The Law, The DASH. Now my current and likely my favorite. Raised by PIMPS, PLAYERS and MURDERERS.
This book is a true reflection of my life, from childhood to my teenage years. Growing up, I saw many things someone my age shouldn't have seen.
What stood out most to me, was the people who really lived their life as a PIMP, Player and Murderer. They always felt the need to sit and tell me about LIFE...
The first thing they taught me was how PIMPS, PLAYERS and MURDERERS operate.
A PIMP:
Has mind control.
A PLAYER:
Keeps things and situations hidden.
A MURDERER:
It's all about the surprise.
This is very negative way to live life. Just think there are people living like this.
Whether you know it or not. Normal every day people has this done to them every day...
In this book you will learn how this is done to everyday normal people. It can't be stopped but it can be controlled.
Purchase this book to get more control of your LIFE!!!
Existence on the family farm is what Lilith dreads the most besides the long walk to their little town. Given the chance to come from the rule of planting and harvesting crops, Lilith finds herself the most unlikely recruit for the mysterious assassins. Mentored by an unwilling and harsh Lieven, Lilith doubts her decision of starting a new life with no way out but death.
It's a beginner friendly guide for gamers and game devs who don't know where to begin with weight loss. I share my personal story of being obese, borderline diabetic, and limping from a spinal injury giving me sciatic pain. I tried getting into fitness multiple times in my life, only to give up, but I turn things around after I reached my lowest.
In this book, I share how to get motivated to change your life. How to lose weight by changing your eating habits. And how to get active and become more pain free by building fitness habits.
