An entertaining allegory about wholeness and unification of the self." --John Shirley, author, The Eclipse Penumbra This contemporary cult classic ranks with the best, most imaginative, and most inspirational novels of the genre. It has been favorably compared to Dune and The Postman (the books not the movies). The story takes place in a decaying city of the future, a city that is in the process of devouring itself. The heroes--a young man and woman--escape their rough lives on the streets only to be trapped between a parasitic government and an insane satanic netherworld. The only way for the young woman to triumph is to penetrate what cannot be penetrated. The only way for the young man to survive is to become a god. In this futuristic, post-apocalyptic novel, the author convincingly portrays one of the major elements of so-called spiritual fiction--an imaginative presentation of self-discovery amid life's hindrances and limitations, out of time and place. Read this book, and you'll understand the enthusiasm of those who know and love it! From the Author: I was commissioned to write "Legend" for a series that Garber Communications was packaging. It began as a simple project but I soon got sucked into my own story and it became an all-compassing two year adventure. "Adventure" may be the key word, for Legend is an adventure story. Though Garber Communications tried to market their series as "spiritual fiction," Legend is spiritual only in the sense in which all self-discovery is a spiritual experience. This is an adventure story, and I hope an exciting one. I make no larger claims for the book. I appreciate the sincerity and the enthusiasm of those who do--though perhaps not when that enthusiasm is manifested in 3 a.m. phone calls. I am amazed and delighted that a book with such a limited release has generated such a devoted following. I'm thrilled by the wonderful things people have said about the book. But please, this is an adventure story--an entertainment. A myth. I made it up sitting in my apartment in Santa Barbara; there were no burning bushes in sight.
Filing the Glass is not about selling; it's about succeeding. Author Barry Maher, sales consultant to over 300 of the world's largest companies and even members of Congress, shows how his incredibly successful sales techniques can be applied to succeed in business.
The completely revised and updated third edtion of the classic "bible on how to advertise in the Yellow Pages." The best and latest answers to all the questions telephone directory advertisers advertisers ask; and to those they never ask but should. As TIME said, "Barry Maher has helped thousands of small businesses get the most effective and cost-effective yellow pages advertising possible."How much should you be spending? In which directories? What kind of ads should you have and how big should those ads be? In what headings? How can you save money without hurting response? How important are Internet Yellow Pages and local search engines? Plus Maher provides a step by step program for designing ads that get the call. Even when surrounded by pages of other ads all selling the same thing.
Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict, and forced displacement. Through the provision of transfers and services directly to these households, ASP supports their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to the shocks they face—before, during, and after these shocks occur. Over the long term, by supporting these three capacities, ASP can provide a pathway to a more resilient state for households that may otherwise lack the resources to move out of chronically vulnerable situations. Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks outlines an organizing framework for the design and implementation of ASP, providing insights into the ways in which social protection systems can be made more capable of building household resilience. By way of its four building blocks—programs, information, finance, and institutional arrangements and partnerships—the framework highlights both the elements of existing social protection systems that are the cornerstones for building household resilience, as well as the additional investments that are central to enhancing their ability to generate these outcomes. In this report, the ASP framework and its building blocks have been elaborated primarily in relation to natural disasters and associated climate change. Nevertheless, many of the priorities identified within each building block are also pertinent to the design and implementation of ASP across other types of shocks, providing a foundation for a structured approach to the advancement of this rapidly evolving and complex agenda.
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