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In '70s California three friends chase idealistic visions in their quest for love, truth and the California Dream. Sometimes heartbreaking, often humorous, Nirvana Blues is about the quest for love, truth and the California Dream where sometimes you need to lose everything to find your real self.
After enduring a traumatic childhood, Lynx Ferry embarks on an extraordinary journey spanning several decades and continents. Possessing innate kindness and compassion, Lynx helps those in need despite continually falling victim to deceit and betrayal by others seeking to take advantage of his generous nature. Through perseverance and courage, Lynx manages to build a successful life and find love, only to have his world shattered when his children are kidnapped and murdered. Consumed by grief and the desire for justice, Lynx relentlessly hunts the culprits to the ends of the earth. Along the way he finds both the worst and best of humanity, ultimately surrounding himself with a loyal band of supporters to help avenge his loss. This epic tale of loss, revenge, and redemption takes readers on an emotional rollercoaster while highlighting the importance of true friendship and our shared humanity.
A recurrent theme in Underwriting Commercial Real Estate in a Dynamic Market is that good thinking and good underwriting go together. This stands in contrast with "getting an answer" or even worse "reverse engineering" - getting to a solution by assuming that current trends in market pricing is best. The cases in Underwriting Commercial Real Estate in a Dynamic Market will force readers to recognize that there is no single answer, but rather a range of answers that will depend on numerous perspectives. And, in order to make valuation decisions, they will have to undertake a rich conversation about what constitutes a good trade-off and what does not. Cases can be structured for use with introductory material as well as advanced topics.
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This book comprises of key articles from the 2023 AusAct: The Australian Actor Training Conference that addresses innovative and fresh discussions post-COVID on how the Performing Arts can come out of these times of crisis and maintain their survival. Each chapter looks at a different aspect of the performing arts and discusses our programs and the unique and significant role acting and performance teachers have in our education sector, and their clear contribution to the international creative economies.
From the Prefatory Note: ...some 250 public service sector managers came together from April 23 to 23 1986, to reflect on the impact that contemporary changes in their environment were having on their work as managers. They were joined by a small number of academics, consultants and private sector managers. The conference consisted of plenary sessions on restraint, contracting out, information technology, public access to information, conflict of interest, risk taking, employment equity and political rights....The ninth and final plenary session was a panel discussion on the question of whether or not a new model was emerging for the public sector manager. What follows is a summary of the discussion at the conference and a collection of plenary and workshop papers around the nine themes.
Hal Hays McClure always wanted adventure, and he found it the first time he left home; He was jailed on suspicion of spying for Nazi Germany- Texas of all places. After his Air Force service, he became a newspaper reporter and editor and then a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press before turning to shooting and producing independent Travel-Adventure films. His adventurous life has whisked him from the sound stages of Hollywood and the streets of Manhattan to the battlefields of the Middle East and the jungles of Asia. He has shot a dozen Travel-Adventure films, including the Story Book England, the Magic of Malaysia and the Echo of Hoofbeats-the Story of the Pony Express.
Medical school student Amanda Garrett and American doctors working secretly in Africa have found a cure for the Ebola and Human Immunodeficiency Viruses. Leaders of the Islamic State want the cure so they can show the world Islam is a benevolent religion that all Africans should follow. The President of the United States believes an alleged 30,000-year-old Sub-Saharan religious text called The Book of Catalyst identifies him as being of divine origin. As Amanda operates her portion of the clandestine CIA Project Nightingale in a Tanzanian orphanage, she is attacked and chased by brutal killers called The Leopard and The Cheetah. Amanda has 48 hours to escape across the Serengeti Plain before...