Retired fishery officer Randy Nelson’s first love was catching poachers. That obsession, plus a devious mind and enthusiasm for marathon running, spelled big trouble for law-breaking fishermen. Thirty-five years in the field (and stream) netted a gold mine of stories with hair-raising tales of grizzly bear attacks, angry axe-wielding, rock-throwing, shotgun-blasting fishermen and high-speed chases on dirt roads and through bush. Poachers, Polluters and Politics provides a rare glimpse into the lives of DFO officers and the communities in which they live. Here too are stories showing the lighter side of the DFO, like how Nelson honed his “psychic powers,” and recollections of life in a rodent-infested, government-issue trailer—where his wife Lorraine once awoke to find a mouse chewing her hair. Firm but fair, and always innovative, Randy Nelson usually earned the—often grudging—respect of communities and fishermen he encountered. Whether it meant carving a peephole in a hollow tree or teaching his dog to sniff for salmon, Nelson was constantly scheming up new and tricky ways to catch poachers and polluters, many of them known violent criminals. Nelson spent a career dedicated to protecting BC’s waters and fish population and his passion for his work shines through with every word, drawing the reader into the exciting world of protecting wildlife and prosecuting bad guys.
A lively collection of wilder-than-fiction poaching stories from across Canada and the US, including insights from investigating officers involved in real poaching situations. Get ready to read some of the wildest true crime imaginable. Showcasing fish and wildlife poaching stories from every province and territory in Canada and every state in the United States, decorated fishery officer Randy Nelson offers a thrilling look into a dangerous industry. With insights gathered through thousands of phone calls and emails to investigating officers, The Wildest Hunt collects over one hundred North American fish and wildlife officers’ stories, with tales ranging from absolutely disgusting to hysterically hilarious. Nelson takes readers across North America, from busting turtle-trafficking rings in Oklahoma to collecting a 4.5-metre beluga whale from a bus in Saskatchewan. Nelson’s entertaining stories also shed light on the important work of fish and wildlife officers, and the often messy, sometimes dangerous situations they must face, as well as how important the public can be in solving wildlife crime.
Are you the right person to lead your company? You’re in the driver’s seat of a growing company that an entrepreneur—possibly you— made the First Decision to start. Now, imagine your Board of Directors asking you question after question about your business knowledge and decision-making process. Pass—you leave the meeting knowing you have the skills to lead your organization for the next three years. Fail—you are put on an improvement plan or need to fi nd a replacement. Author Randy H. Nelson knows that business doesn’t work this way—the majority of Entrepreneurial CEOs are not required to be Qualifi ed to lead their organizations. In The Second Decision, Randy has combined his 6 years of Naval service, 25 years of business experience, and thousands of hours with business leaders to develop, The Entrepreneur Qual Card™. Chapter by chapter, you will discover whether you are a Leader that will put the company on your shoulders, a Role-Player that takes another position in the company, or a Creator that moves on to the next big idea. Determine your role and make the hard leadership decisions to help your company beat the odds and keep growing for years to come. Whichever role suits you best, The Second Decision will give you the self-awareness and the step-by-step guide to be—or to train—the Qualifi ed leader that your company needs.
The mechanical men in these stories—Industrial Age holdovers, outsiders wanting for relevance and respect, or overwhelmed people who confuse the certainties of one reality with the doubts of another—are cut off in some way from contemporary culture. Sometimes in these stories, which Randy F. Nelson calls "thought experiments about values in conflict," the characters are like the Native American prison guard in "Escape": Rifkin thinks that atonement is possible even for fugitive killers. Others are less sanguine. In "Breakers," a corporate hitman arrives on a forgettable island off the African coast. His mission: to shut down a hellish, polluting, ship-demolition business. His nemesis: a lawyer, now gone Heart-of-Darkness crazy, who preceded him years earlier for the same purpose. The bottom drops out in other stories, rearranging all reference points to good and bad, true and false. In "Abduction," for instance, a distraught young woman summons a tabloid reporter to a grubby hotel room, where the now-lifeless alien who had invaded her body lies wrapped in a sheet. Nelson once explained his motivations by alluding to a line in a Gabriel García Márquez story. A crowd of villagers are gazing upon a man, "but even though they were looking at him, there was no room for him in their imagination." "Stories and characters and situations that ask the imagination to accommodate something bigger, further, deeper—that's what I'm after," said Nelson.
Public safety professionals and emergency responders today face greater threats than ever before in our history. The traditional role of law enforcement has vastly expanded to require extraordinarily broad-based emergency response capabilities. Law Enforcement Responder: Principles of Emergency Medicine, Rescue, and Force Protection prepares homeland security leaders, law enforcement officers, security professionals, and public safety officials for the wide range of emergency responses they must perform on a daily basis. The textbook addresses all of the competency statements in the National EMS Education Standards at the Emergency Medical Responder level, as well as additional lifesaving content specific to law enforcement that far exceeds the core curriculum. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
What on God's Green Earth is About to Happen? Are we living in the last days? How can we know? And if so, what does that mean, and what's next? If you have asked yourself those questions, you are not alone. To many of us, this is a scary time to be alive. It seems that every newscast raises more questions about where we are headed. Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled..." When God's messenger angels appeared to people in scripture, they always said, "Fear not." Fear is based on uncertainty. However, everything about God's plan is certain. This book is like a "spiritual GPS!" In it, author Randy Nelson takes us on a guided tour through the days and events to come. He unveils God's Exciting end-time plan and our place in it. Jump in, you'll be glad you did.
This book presents evidence that infection is cyclical with the seasons, and that this phenomenon is mirrored in cycles of immune function. The book identifies the mechanisms by which immune systems are bolstered to counteract seasonally-recurrent stressors, such as extreme temperature reductions and food shortages. Stress, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and human cancers are examined, and the role of hormones such as melatonin and glucocorticoids is considered. The book begins with an overview of seasonality, biological rhythms and photoperiodism, and basic immunology, and then discusses seasonal fluctuations in disease prevalence, immune function, and energetics and endocrinology as they relate to immune function. The clinical significance of this issue is also addressed, as such seasonal changes may play an important role in the development and treatment of infections. This first monograph to examine seasonal immune function from an interdisciplinary perspective will serve practitioners as well as advanced undergraduates and graduate students in biology, immunology, human and veterinary medicine, neuroscience, endocrinology, and zoology.
Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. With maturity comes the shift from infinite possibilities to imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to soar on our own.
Includes established theories and cutting-edge developments. Presents the work of an international group of experts. Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area.
Journey Into the Glory In Powerful Encounters in the God-Realm, you will accompany several very credible witnesses on their spiritual journeys and experiences in the glory and the supernatural. As they share insights from their moments in the supernatural, you will be awed as you learn when they learned. Yet, most importantly, you will find insights that will guide you to that sphere of supernatural encounter. Patricia King says, “Every Christian has an invitation to experience that glories of that realm NOW!” Read, enjoy, and then...encounter!
Twelve years after a botched kidnapping, young Mia Munoz gets returned to a life of wealth and privilege in California. It's the right name. But it's the wrong girl. What happens when the princess and the pauper are the same person?
Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
The author-editors of Seen/unseen: hidden lives in a Georgia slave community draw upon the letters and documents left behind by the Cobb-Lamar family to uncover the lost histories of enslaved peoples in the South. Each of the book's three sections begins with an introductory essay that provides context regarding the primary documents and letters included in the section. The first two sections explore the daily lives and relationships of slaves on several of the Cobb-Lamar plantations and their attempts to exert agency over their enslaved conditions. The last section examines closely the life of Aggy, Howell and Mary Ann Cobb's most trusted house servant"--
A jury found, drug kingpin, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, guilty of drug trafficking, weapons charges, and money laundering, just recently. CIA Antonio Tony Mendez, who has just passed away, wrote a book called, 'The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life In The CIA. He was tied directly into the El Chapo case, for many years, since its inception, and he also was tied into the horrible 1978 Titan Intercontinental Missile leak, near Rock Kansas, that also involved Martin Marietta, which helped to kill off my own dad, Nelson W. Schock, with KFDI Radio, in Wichita, Kansas, in 1985. My dad Nelson had been working on several investigations in the late 1970s and very early 1980's over Mena, Arkansas, and the CIA, furthermore. I was working with him, albeit superficially and he was killed off partly by the leak at Rock, Kansas and also by additional poisonings, besides too. All of this is a matter of public record, which the state of Kansas has really tried to totally remove. Nevertheless notwithstanding I believe by prayer, that God is revealing the truth about all of this now, because of the terrible circumstance's with El Chapo and with the murderous Communist Democrats, and through many other things, as all of this is finally coming to a head, in 2020. For many years I saw this all coming, and now I think I was exactly right again. Thank you for reading god bless. Have a good day. My dad also taught me the importance of forgiving people, and of trying to figure out a way to actually work with real killers, when necessary, as many of them are well hidden, in all of our own Global Investigation Groups, even as they were, when dad knew many of these people, in person himself. I knew and worked with some retired FBI people, one in particular in the mid 1980's too, with dad, as well. Spread a little sunshine everyday, help someone along the way. Amen!
This volume presents evidence that infection is cyclical with the seasons, and that this phenomenon is mirrored in cycles of immune function. The authors identify the mechanisms by which immune systems are bolstered to counteract seasonally-recurrent stressors, such as extreme temperature reductions and food shortages. Stress, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and human cancers are examined, and the role of hormones such as melatonin and glucocorticoids are considered. This is the first monograph to examine seasonal immune function from an interdisciplinary perspective.
(Book). Stalking the Red Headed Stranger is a guide to the art and history of professional song plugging. But this isn't your run-of-the-mill history book/instruction manual. It is an in-depth, up-close look into the real music business by industry insider and Grammy Award nominee Randy Poe, who has represented literally hundreds of the greatest songs in the history of popular music, including "Stand By Me," "Happy Together," "Jailhouse Rock," "Under the Boardwalk," "Hound Dog," "What a Wonderful World," "Spanish Harlem," "Chapel of Love," "Summer in the City," "Love Potion No. 9," and "Kansas City." But wait! There's so much more! Interwoven throughout this entertaining and enlightening book is the hysterical saga of the author as he chases American icon Willie Nelson across Canada via plane, taxi, rental car, and even ferryboat in an attempt to pitch a single song to the Red Headed Stranger. And what happens on Willie's bus doesn't stay on Willie's bus. Stalking the Red Headed Stranger , or How to Get Your Songs into the Hands of the Artists Who Really Matter Through Show Business Trickery, Underhanded Skullduggery, Shrewdness, and Chicanery, as Well as Various Less Nefarious Methods of Song Plugging: A Practical Handbook and Historical Portrait is the funniest, hippest, longest-titled how-to book you'll read this year.
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