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  John W Barriger III - Railroad...

  H. Roger Grant

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  “Readers will find in his biography an extraordinary tale of the travails of twentieth-century railroading through the career of this one man.” —The Annals of Iowa 
   
  After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John W. Barriger III (1899–1976) started his career on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a rodman, shop hand, and then assistant yardmaster. His enthusiasm, tenacity, and lifelong passion for the industry propelled him professionally, culminating in leadership roles at Monon Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad. His legendary capability to save railroad corporations in peril earned him the nickname “doctor of sick railroads,” and his impact was also felt far from the train tracks, as he successfully guided New Deal relief efforts for the Railroad Division of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the Depression and served in the Office of Defense Transportation during World War II. Featuring numerous personal photographs and interviews, John W. Barriger III is an intimate account of a railroad magnate and his role in transforming the transportation industry. 
   
  “Thanks to Roger Grant’s latest book, Barriger and his amazing legacy endures, waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Trust me, you’ll learn a lot.” —Classic Trains 
   
  “H. Roger Grant’s biography, John W. Barriger III, offers a new and much needed perspective on this prominent individual. Grant brings together an overview of Barriger’s career developments with an appropriate balance of insights into his early life and introduction to railroads.” —Journal of Transport History

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  What You Take with You -...

  Therese Greenwood

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  A memoir of disaster, survival, and “how our treasured objects can be the priceless vessels that carry the stories of both our past and our future” (Diane Schoemperlen, author of This Is Not My Life). 
   
  Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was shattered by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly escaping a fire that would rage for weeks, burn more than 85,000 hectares and force 80,000 people to flee. In this book, she tells her dramatic story, and contemplates mourning, memory, and rebuilding. 
   
  “By considering the things that she lost in the blaze and the things that were saved, Greenwood takes the reader with her through her own evacuation, the road to safety, the grief that she experienced on losing her home, and the steps to her recovery . . . a beautiful book, sharply observed [and] gripping.” —Miranda Hill, author of Sleeping Funny

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  Dust Bowl - The Southern Plains...

  Donald Worster

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  In the mid-1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. 
  Twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic, and ecological issues—including the American livestock industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the ongoing problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison, and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.

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  Deep Self-Healing - Hypnosis for...

  Falco Wisskirchen

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  Clean your mind and soul from negative energies, bad thoughts and feelings. Dissolve your blockades and open yourself for vitality, happiness and growing harmony. Activate your healing processes in a wonderful way. Let your wounds heal and get more and more balanced. Life can be good and joyful. You deserve it.  Safety & Use Information & Disclaimer of liability   You should be in good health, mentally and physically. This is a requirement for the spiritual training in general, for meditations and the use of hypnosis. The sessions work like deep meditations. Take care that you stay undisturbed while listening. The hypnotic suggestions are supported by binaural beats for Delta and Theta states of mind to offer best results. Headphones are required. You can sit in your armchair or lie on your bed or couch. The hypnosis sessions should be used at least 3 times or as needed to achieve good results. Negative thoughts are replaced by positive ideas. All techniques, suggestions and instructions are proved and regard the latest professional standard of hypnosis applications. Nevertheless, you use all hypnosis sessions at your own risk and responsibility. Before use, please consult your doctor if you suffer from any contraindications or from any complicating factors for hypnosis. The author cannot and does not take any liability for the wrong or unhealthy use of the hypnotic sessions. The author cannot give any guarantee for success, since the success of the applications depends on various factors. Repetition of the application is the best key for success as well as the combination with other hypnosis sessions for synergy effects. For questions, suggestions and requests please contact the author via the Sura Academy.  The hypnotic music and the background sounds of nature are licensed products by Thermedius.

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  List Building Strategy -...

  Miriam Linton

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  List Building Strategy: Discover How You Can Build and Maximize Profits From Your Email Mailing List. List building has been key to a lot of the success stories of internet marketers. The reason is that sales can depend a lot on the flow of fresh leads. There are paid and free lead sources that you can use to build up your list to generate 250 or more subscribers a day. Once you hit 250 subscribers per day or more, then it’s all a matter of focusing on converting them and then just doing the list building stuff you’re doing over and over and over and getting the same results all the time.This audiobook will teach you how to generate a massive list that you can use so you can convert them to sales. This audiobook will cover the following topics:- PUBLIC AND PRIVATE JV GIVEAWAYS- SOLO ADS- AD SWAPS- CLICK BANKING- FREE WSOS- PPV/CPV LIST BUILDING- BARTERING FOR LEADS- YOUR OWN AFFILIATE PROGRAM- EXIT POPUPS- REVERSE OPT-IN FORM- AND MANY MORE!If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  Edge of the Sacred – Jung Psyche...

  David Tacey

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  Does earth have spirit or soul? This is a question asked ever more frequently, especially by those interested in the future of the natural world and the development of consciousness. The alchemists said ‘the greater part of the soul is outside the body’, and indigenous cultures have felt that soul or spirit resides in Nature and the physical environment. Such notions have been dismissed by modernity as illusions, but we are beginning to have second thoughts about the animation of the earth. Science and rationality have not taught us how to love or care for the earth, and in the modern era the environment has been disrespected.  
  The mythic bonds to Nature such as those found in Aboriginal Australian cultures appear to have real survival value because they bind us to the earth in a meaningful way. When these bonds are destroyed by excessive rationality or a collapse of cultural mythology, we are left alone, outside the community of Nature and in an alienated state. In this state we do real damage to the environment, because it is no longer part of our spiritual body or moral responsibility.  
  Jung was one of the first thinkers of our time to consider the psychic influence of the earth and the conditioning of the mind by place. Inspired by his writings and those of James Hillman, the field of eco-psychology has arisen as a powerful new area of inquiry. "Edge of the Sacred: Jung, Psyche, Earth" contributes to global eco-psychology from an Australian perspective.

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