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Young Marty Flanagan has been at odds with his father as long as he can remember. Prominent Texas defense attorney, Joe Flanagan is a ‘hale fellow, well met’ kind of man who loves to hunt and fish and drink whiskey. And Marty’s year older brother, Pat is just like him. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and the US enters World War II, the Flanagans’ disparities become even more pronounced. While 18-year-old Pat can’t wait to ‘fight for his country,’...

One of the leading authorities on biological farming, Gary Zimmer is recognized for improving farming by restoring soils. Arguing that an optimally productive soil contains a balance of inorganic minerals, organic materials and living organisms, he relies less on modern improvements than on "the things we’ve learned by improving fertility in a natural, sustainable way over many years." This book offers invaluable scientific support for committed organic farmers as well as conventional farmers who'd like to reduce chemical inputs and...

Over the past 50 years, a dangerous set of technologies has crept into beef and dairy farms and ranches. Technologists have succeeded in pushing the pounds of milk that can be extracted from a cow higher and higher and throwing pounds of weight on beef cattle faster. But these advances came with a price. The average age of dairy cow "burnout" has dropped for almost a decade. Infections are rampant. New diseases and health maladies have appeared. Drug use and...

Most projects don’t fail at the end.They fail weeks earlier — just not visibly.In The Project Profit Illusion, Ethan steps into a leadership role on a project that appears to be under control.But as pressure builds and subtle signals begin to emerge, he starts to question what he’s seeing — and what he’s missing.Guided by an experienced mentor, he uncovers a pattern that exists across projects, teams, and organisations.A pattern that explains:Why projects driftWhy problems appear lateWhy effort expands when...

She hates her power to detect missing things. When it leads her to a dead woman, can she smoke out a killer before she’s the next one to disappear?Cora Gilbert wishes she weren’t a finder. Constantly overpowered by her strange ability to locate other people’s lost items, the lonely adoptee worries she’ll never have a normal life. But even she didn’t expect her gift to bring her to the site of a murdered corpse.After the police find no clues to...

Natural Cattle Care is a comprehensive analysis of farming techniques that keep the health of the animal in mind. Pat Coleby believes that how you farm determines the health of your livestock, and she brings a wealth of animal husbandry experience to bear in this analysis of many serious problems of contemporary farming practices, focusing in particular on how poor soils lead to mineral-deficient plants and ailing farm animals. Encompassing every facet of farm management, from the mineral components of...

A hands-on barn and field guide designed for quick and easy use, presenting a thorough examination of animals in the barn and then listing symptoms with many pictures of what the farmer is seeing, possible conclusions, and then giving a concise set of treatments. The treatments are ones that Dr. Karreman has found to work consistently well during 15 years in the trenches working with organic cows. Basic backgrounding in the fundamentals for organic and holistic thinking about livestock is...

Now available! New from bestselling author Mark Shepard! Written as a companion to the bestseller, Restoration Agriculture, this book will help farmers capture water in areas they want to, and avoid having water flow immediately to the low point. The result? Less water expense, healthier crops and livestock, and less erosion ... just to name a few. What you will read in this book is a distillation of over 25 years of on-the-ground experience working with and modifying the Yeomans’...

WHAT IF WE FILED DOCUMENTS FOR OUR EMOTIONS THE SAME WAY WE FILE THEM FOR EVERYTHING ELSE?Birth certificates.Marriage certificates.Tax returns.Medical records.Every important moment gets a file.So why don’t our most human moments?OFFICIAL NOTICEEmotional Documentation is not traditional self-help.No lectures.No toxic positivity.No “just think differently.”No impossible morning routines.Instead, this book reads like a confidential archive from a department that quietly understands what it feels like to be human.INSIDE THIS ARCHIVE YOU’LL FIND• Certificate of Rest Earned• Official Record of Surviving the...

I took the wrong elevator. Now I work for the Mafia. I was supposed to interview for an entry-level office job… To help pay off my father’s debts. Instead, I walked straight into Dominic Vieri. Billionaire. Older. Powerful. The kind of man who walks into a room… ...and owns every inch of it. He never interviewed me. He hired me. Now he looks at me like he already owns me. The job came with one unwritten rule. Don't fall for...