America"s First Freedom - July 2015

America’s First Freedom – July 2015

English | True PDF | 78 Pages | 59.47 MB

America"s First Freedom - July 2016

America’s First Freedom – July 2016

English | True PDF | 78 Pages | 33.31 MB

Re-Engage: How America"s Best Places to Work Inspire Extra Effort in Extraordinary Times (Repost)

Leigh Branham, Mark Hirschfeld, “Re-Engage: How America’s Best Places to Work Inspire Extra Effort in Extraordinary Times”
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0071703101 | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB

WHY SHOULD I WORRY ABOUT KEEPING WORKERS HAPPY IN A TIME OF RISING UNEMPLOYMENT?

Because you can’t afford not to. In an eye-opening survey of 10,000 employers in 43 states, the Best Places to Work are not only the most engaging work environments for employees—they are also the most efficient, productive, and successful. Even in the toughest economic times.

WHAT SEPARATES THE “BEST” FROM THE REST?

These companies understand and utilize the six “universal drivers” of employee engagement:

1.Caring, Competent, and Engaging Senior Leaders

2.Effective Managers Who Keep Employees Aligned and Engaged

3.Effective Teamwork at All Levels

4.Job Enrichment and Professional Growth

5.Valuing Employee Contributions

6.Concern for Employee Well-Being

HOW CAN I GET THE “BEST” FROM MY EMPLOYEES, MY COMPANY, AND MYSELF?

Simple. Re-engage them.

Praise for Re-Engage

“Authors Leigh Branham, SPHR, and Mark Hirschfeld delve into how the best places to work keep employees at all levels engaged and productive, and offer lessons on how to revitalize your own employees’ engagement.”

—SHRM/HR Magazine

America"s Best Breakfasts: Favorite Local Recipes from Coast to Coast (Repost)

America’s Best Breakfasts: Favorite Local Recipes from Coast to Coast By Lee Brian Schrager, Adeena Sussman
2016 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0553447211 | EPUB | 121 MB

Rise and dine! If there s one meal of the day to get passionate about no matter where you re from in this great land it s breakfast with all the fixings. Featuring down-home diners, iconic establishments, and the newest local hot spots, America s Best Breakfasts is a celebration of two of this nation s honored traditions: hitting the open road and enjoying an endless variety of breakfasts. Even without a road trip, you can re-create favorites that will satisfy any time of day:

Shrimp and Grits, Hominy Grill, Charleston
Croque Monsieur Sandwiches, Tartine, San Francisco
Kimchi Pancakes, Sunshine Tavern, Portland
Filipino Steak with Garlic Fried Rice, Uncle Mike s, Chicago
Cannoli French Toast, Café Lift, Philadelphia
Brioche Cinnamon Buns, Honey Bee, Oxford
Morning Glory Muffins, Panther Coffee, Miami

The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America"s First Serial Killer [Audiobook]

The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer [Audiobook] by Skip Hollandsworth
English | April 5, 2016 | ASIN: B01COJYL7W, ISBN: 1427261776 | MP3@64 kbps | 9 hrs 5 mins | 250 MB
Narrator: Clint Jordan | Genre: Nonfiction/True Crime/Journalism

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer – America’s first – who stalked Austin, Texas, in 1885.

In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas, was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London’s infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class.

At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens’ panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as “the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin”. And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city.

With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life. The introduction and epilogue are read by the author.

Jonathan Cahn - The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America"s Future

Jonathan Cahn – The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America’s Future
2012 | ISBN: 161638610X | English | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.5 MB

Is it possible…

That there exists an ancient mystery that holds the secret of America’s future?

That this mystery lies behind everything from 9/11 to the collapse of the global economy?

That ancient harbingers of judgment are now manifesting in America?

That God is sending America a prophetic message of what is yet to come?

Before its end as a nation, there appeared in ancient Israel nine specific warnings and omens of national destruction – These same nine Harbingers are now manifesting in America with profound ramifications for America’s future and end-time prophecy.

Hidden in an ancient biblical prophecy from Isaiah, the mysteries revealed in The Harbinger are so precise that they foretell recent American events down to the exact days… the 3,000-year-old mystery that revealed the exact date of the stock market collapse of 2008… the ancient prophecy that was proclaimed from the floor of the US Senate and then came true…and more. The revelations are so specific that even the most hardened skeptic will find it hard to put down. Though it sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller – IT’S REAL.

Palm Springs Paradise: Vintage Photographs from America"s Desert Playground

Palm Springs Paradise: Vintage Photographs from America’s Desert Playground by Peter Moruzzi
English | 2015 | ISBN: 142363991X | 176 pages | EPUB | 59 MB

This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Society’s expansive archive. Featured are many Hollywood celebrities, including Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who vacationed there, the early days of the desert paradise, various architectural masterworks, such as the fabulous El Mirador Hotel and the extraordinary, outrageous, and irreverent people of Palm Springs.

Historian PETER MORUZZI is the founder of the Palm Springs Modern Committee, an architectural preservation group, and the author of Havan a Before Castro; When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground, Palm Springs Holiday: A Vintage Tour from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea, and Classic Dining: Discovering America’s Finest Mid-Century Restaurants. He’s been infatuated with Palm Springs since his first visit in 1990. He now splits his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

Living It Up: America"s Love Affair with Luxury

Living It Up: America’s Love Affair with Luxury by James B. Twitchell
2003 | ISBN: 0743245067, 0231124961 | 320 pages | PDF | 22,2 MB

Economic downturns and terrorist attacks notwithstanding, America’s love affair with luxury continues unabated. Over the last several years, luxury spending in the United States has been growing four times faster than overall spending. It has been characterized by political leaders as vital to the health of the American economy as a whole, even as an act of patriotism. Accordingly, indices of consumer confidence and purchasing seem unaffected by recession. This necessary consumption of unnecessary items and services is going on at all but the lowest layers of society: J.C. Penney now offers day spa treatments; Kmart sells cashmere bedspreads. So many products are claiming luxury status today that the credibility of the category itself is strained: for example, the name “pashmina” had to be invented to top mere cashmere.

We see luxury everywhere: in storefronts, advertisements, even in the workings of our imaginations. But what is it? How is it manufactured on the factory floor and in the minds of consumers? Who cares about it and who buys it? And how concerned should we be that luxuries are commanding a larger and larger percentage of both our disposable income and our aspirations?

Trolling the upscale malls of America, making his way toward the Mecca of Las Vegas, James B. Twitchell comes to some remarkable conclusions. The democratization of luxury, he contends, has been the single most important marketing phenomenon of our times. In the pages of Living It Up, Twitchell commits the academic heresy of paying respect to popular luxury consumption as a force that has united the country and the globe in a way that no war, movement, or ideology ever has. What’s more, he claims, the shopping experience for Americans today has its roots in the spiritual, the religious, and the transcendent.

Deft and subtle writing, audacious ideas, and a fine sense of humor inform this entertaining and insightful book.