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The Highland games are one of the major historical traditions in Scotland. Spectacular events celebrating the history of Scotland in unique style and a major tourist attraction as well. In this audiobook, you will be introduced to the history and the main events of the Scottish Highland Games. All the favourites are included such as tossing the caber, hammer throw, athletics, and the whole spectacle.

A high school teacher begins to question the course of his life after a famous young actress moves into town. In the starlet's shadow, his girlfriend, his mother, his neighbor, and his students take on strange new dimensions. Told in a series of snapshots, Understudies presents a sharp, funny, and heartbreaking study of beauty, celebrity, and everyday needs.

In 10-Minute Time Management: The Stress-Free Guide to Getting Stuff Done, best-selling author Ric Thompson gives you tips, strategies, and skills to help you manage your time in 10 minutes or fewer. He will help you reduce the amount of stress you are under because you feel like you have too much to do and not enough time to do it. This book will provide you with a simple plan designed to improve your productivity and give you more time to do the things you want to do.

This is the opposite of a self-help book. With this system, you admit that you're not OK and that you're doomed to a life of mediocrity and failure. This is much easier and safer than trying to improve yourself!

Beyond Anger Management: Master Your Anger as a Strategic Tool is an easy-to-understand guide that picks up where typical anger management books end. It explains what your anger is and why you have it and shows you how to identify and master your anger. Beyond Anger Management: Master Your Anger as a Strategic Tool empowers you to apply your anger as a strategic tool to improve your life and your relationships.

The futuristic slum in eastern New Orleans is a violent place where any vice can be satisfied - for a price. As long as the taxes are paid and tourists continue to flock to the city, businesses are allowed to operate as they see fit. But a string of violent murders threatens to upset the delicate balance between pleasure and safety.

David Bain offers ten essays on writing, with an eye toward helping new writers gain their footing and keeping the more seasoned scribe motivated. It also includes his essay "Basic E-Book Self-Publishing Advice for Newbies" which has already helped hundreds of beginning indie authors. A longtime college English prof and former newspaper bureau chief, Bain infuses these essays on the writing life with years of teaching, editing, and indie publishing experience, using an easygoing yet incisive style.

The United States conducted highly classified atomic testing in the Marshall Islands. One of the ships used in the mock up fleet was a captured Japanese Battleship, the Nagato. These ships were equipped with an array of equipment, from cameras to Geiger counters, as well as various farm animals. These tests were intended to determine "Fleet Survivability" in the face of a thermonuclear implosion. Unfortunately, no one fully understood, or could even begin to imagine, the utter devastation about to be unleashed...or the consequences!

Are you hosting a volunteer from Workaway, HelpX, Volunteers Base, or another work exchange service? This short audiobook will help you figure out what you want from a work exchange while avoiding issues and problems. You'll learn strategies for recruiting, screening, preparing for arrival, and working effectively with your volunteers, including support and supervision. This audiobook even guides you on how to wrap up the experience.

In Startup Strategy: The Art of the Start for Solopreneurs, Even if You Already Started... best-selling author Ric Thompson gives you the tools and step-by-step systems you need to create a solid business strategy and then use that strategy to start and manage your business successfully. Within this audio, you will learn the importance of donning your CEO hat and how to work ON your business rather than only working IN your business.

In an era where we are bombarded by a thousand advertisements each day, what makes a business stand out in the mind of its potential customers? What makes you different from your competitors? Too many business owners and entrepreneurs have fallen victim to the "bells and whistles" mentality and end up wasting their time, money, and focus on fancy marketing to sell their mediocre products and services. They forget what is most important: being remarkable.

Whether you are a business owner, leader, or just about anything else, communication is critical. If your communication abilities are limited, though, your potential for success will also be limited.

Right now, you may have the secret to changing the way people look at your business. If you are looking for new ways to drive traffic to your business, this is the book for you. It may be you want an understanding of how the video marketplace works and how to improve your current business processes. This book will reveal many great ways to make your business better and to expand your viewership in short order.

Turn every corner and you'll easily find someone ready to tell you what to do, but you won't find many willing to tell you what NOT to do. WHY? Because it would show vulnerability and may even be a little embarrassing. That's where F-BOMB YOUR LIFE COMES IN.

This was the 15th century and in this green and pleasant land, numerous players took their chances in the ultimate game. The prize was the throne of England. One figure that was central to the conflict. One figure that still divides opinion today: Richard III. This is his story and the game that he played for the throne of England.

After thwarting a disaster in the nation's capital, Mark Taylor captures the attention of the CIA. They want to know more about the mysterious camera and Mark's abilities, but Mark doesn't trust the agency - he would be crazy to after all they've put him through in the past. He finally agrees to demonstrate the camera when Jim convinces him that the CIA can put together a team to help prevent future catastrophes.

Find out how Mark Taylor was gifted with powers to change destiny. What drove him to risk his life for others, and why did everything go so wrong on that fateful September day?

Interning at the CIA prepared CJ Sheridan to be a bureaucrat, not a hero. But, when he's handed a camera that offers teasing glimpses of potential tragedies, what else can CJ do but try to change the future? No stranger to the camera's power, CJ's father is dead set against the idea. He understands all too well the horrifying price the previous owner, photographer Mark Taylor, paid for its use.

Riders Where There Are No Roads is the first full novel in the Riders of the Weird West series. There's roping, riding, an interdimensional badass, shootouts, demon cowboys, a dragon, a pickup that's really a horse (or is it the other way around?) and a mystical biker/cosmic marshal who might just be orchestrating it all!

This is the ultimate traffic nightmare - city-wide gridlock! In this savagely satirical view of the near future, vehicular traffic in Los Angeles finally loses its liquidity, transforming into slow-moving slush, then finally hardening into sun-baked mud. With cars and trucks and buses paralyzed across 100 miles of freeway parking lot, the city grinds to a painful stop - or does it? Plus, a bonus story: "Afternoon with a Dead Bus" - a bizarre urban fantasy that only Hugo and Nebula Award winner David Gerrold could write.