You've probably seen the infomercials on television offering books and tapes that show you how to buy and sell real estate with "nothing down." But if making a fortune was as easy as the infomercials claim, why aren't the authors looking for the next big deal rather than peddling books and conducting seminars?This book shows you how to avoid the pitfalls that come from such get-rich real estate claims and reviews how you can really acquire property without a great deal of money.This book also discusses ways to buy and sell your first home. This will give you a head start when you enter the increasingly competitive real estate market. So forget the claims you see on television and read this book if you truly want to give real estate a try.
This book is about a man's struggle with his sexual identity, and the compulsion to cross dress. This book explains how being clean and sober required complete honesty and that lead to his going to work in a 400 person office complex dressed as a female. This book chronicles a journey of self-love and acceptance." --from back
First came the New York Times bestseller America's Dumbest Criminals™, then there were more amazing tales of stupid but true crimes in Wanted! Dumb or Alive. In this book, hilarious criminal cluelessness is uncovered on every continent in one hundred new stories.
100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals. WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant. Here is the ultimate collection of the most incredibly stupid and painfully dumb attempts at crime ever brought together. The woman who invalidated her winning $5,000 lottery ticket by altering it to match the $20 prize number The accused vending-machine thief who paid his $400 bail entirely in quarters The streaking robber who thought clothes would make him more identifiable The convenience store thief who got away with just a hotdog, only to end up in the parking lot choking on the wiener
When Stephen Hawking, the most famous scientist living in the twenty-first century, published The Grand Design, he provoked a lively response in the media. Hawking wrote that the laws of physics make God unnecessary when explaining the origin of the universe and everything in it. In Is God Unnecessary?, author Walter Alan Ray presents nine reasons why Hawking’s thesis is mistaken. Ray does not use philosophical or theological arguments, but presents the same laws of physics that Hawking says demonstrate his position. Ray examines • Hawking’s “Apparent Miracle”; • Hawking’s assumption that Charles Darwin explained the origin of human life; • the question “Can something come out of nothing?”; • the cosmological constant in Einstein’s equations, the factor that Hawking considers the most impressive coincidence; • Hawking’s solution to the “completely incomprehensible” value of the cosmological constant; and • how physics and mathematics join in showing that in the current state of our knowledge, physics and mathematics do have something to say about the origin of the universe. Ray determines that the laws of physics and mathematics show there are two possible answers to the question “How did we come to live in a universe that is as astoundingly fine-tuned as ours?”. The arguments presented by Ray in Is God Unnecessary? show neither of these two answers is the solution proposed by Hawking.
The first edition of Alan Gibson's Understanding the Founding is widely regarded as an invaluable guide to the last century's key debates surrounding America's founding. This new edition retains all of the strengths of the original while adding a substantial new section addressing a major but previously unaddressed issue and also significantly revising Gibson's invaluable conclusion and bibliography. In the original edition, which was built upon his previous work in Interpreting the Founding, Gibson addressed four key questions: Were the Framers motivated by their economic interests? How democratic was the Framers' Constitution? Should we interpret the Founding using philosophical or strictly historical approaches? What traditions of political thought were most important to the Framers? He focused especially on the preconceptions that scholars brought to these questions, explored the deepest sources of scholars' disagreements over them, and suggested new and thoughtful lines of interpretation and inquiry. His incisive analysis brought clarity to the complex and sprawling debates and shed new light on the institutional and intellectual foundations of the American political system. Gibson has now added a path-breaking new chapter entitled "How Could They Have Done That? Founding Scholarship and the Question of Moral Responsibility," which reprises and critiques on of the most important and vexing contemporary debates on the American founding. The new chapter focuses on how the men who fought a revolution in the name of liberty and declared to the world that "all men are created equal" could have supported the institution of slavery and even owned slaves themselves, accepted the legal and social subordination of women, and been responsible for Indian removal and genocide against Native Americans. Efforts to criticize or defend the Founders on these issues now constitute a daunting body of scholarship addressing what David Brion Davis has called the "dilemmas of slaveholding revolutionaries." Gibson's astute and fair-minded analysis of this scholarship offers keen insights into how we might move toward more mature and responsible evaluations of the Founders.
This hysterical collection of stories of actual crimes committed by clumsy#xD;crooks and fumbling felons will have you laughing out loud at painfully dumb#xD;attempts at crime. Illustrated.
This accessible book examines the philosophical foundations of Chaim Perelman's rhetorical theory. In addition to offering a brief biography, it explores Perelman's deep philosophical commitments and his concern for the ways in which the details of actual texts realize those commitments. The authors show that Perelman still reigns supreme when it comes to the elucidation of actual texts. His is a micro-analysis of arguments, one that is endlessly suggestive of ways of analyzing texts at the level of the word and phrase, the arrangement of parts, and the structure of arguments.
From precinct to precinct across the country, the search goes on. Who are the most incompetent, idiotic, and unlucky criminals in the United States? Only real cops know the truth, and Wanted: Dumb or Alive contains 100 new amazingly funny yet true stories, taken directly from the law enforcement officers who are there to witness them. Illustrations.
A collection of nearly 300 of the dumbest stories from the four bestselling "America's Dumbest Criminals" books, along with 40 all-new stories in one handy oversized edition. Illustrations.
MDP Publishing has once again compiled a collection of 6 stories from some of history's most prolific Science Fiction icons. These stories were originally published by Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950's. Stories include the 3 part full length novel The Fireman, by Ray Bradbury, the original story that his famous Farenheit 451 was based upon! Other stories include Arthur C. Clarke's The Stroke of the Sun, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s The Big Trip Up Yonder, and two short stories by Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin. With all of the originally artwork from each issue of Galaxy, you can experience these stories the same way science fiction fans from the 1950's did! Look for more editions of MDP'sGalaxy's Science Fiction series, available now at e-retailers worldwide.
Danny's tragedy in Iraq didn't have to happen but he dealt with his disability with uncommon patience and insight never blaming his father for the lie that cost him his limbs. Danny, the son of an upstate New York dairy farmer, and a high school football star, is offered a college scholarship he is never told of, and out of frustration enlists in the Army and is sent to Iraq. See what happens to him during his time in the Army and see how he deals with a redneck father and alcoholic mother to become hardened, but not bitter, at the man he then becomes, and how he finds happiness, saved by an unlikely love.
An instant New York Times bestseller! The definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble’s Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon. Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction to cocaine and alcohol, a clean and sober Stevie Ray Vaughan was riding high. His last album was his most critically lauded and commercially successful. He had fulfilled a lifelong dream by collaborating with his first and greatest musical hero, his brother Jimmie. His tumultuous marriage was over and he was in a new and healthy romantic relationship. Vaughan seemed poised for a new, limitless chapter of his life and career. Instead, it all came to a shocking and sudden end on August 27, 1990, when he was killed in a helicopter crash following a dynamic performance with Eric Clapton. Just 35 years old, he left behind a powerful musical legacy and an endless stream of What Ifs. In the ensuing 29 years, Vaughan’s legend and acclaim have only grown and he is now an undisputed international musical icon. Despite the cinematic scope of Vaughan’s life and death, there has never been a truly proper accounting of his story. Until now. Texas Flood provides the unadulterated truth about Stevie Ray Vaughan from those who knew him best: his brother Jimmie, his Double Trouble bandmates Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton and Reese Wynans, and many other close friends, family members, girlfriends, fellow musicians, managers and crew members.
This book is a guide to first-time buyers and sellers, alerting them to the pitfalls of the real estate market, by a seasoned 20-year vet of the industry. Includes "how much house can I afford?, " non-traditional financing, how agents mislead sellers and how to do "for sale by owner" successfully.
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