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Street Smart Franchising
Experienced franchisees and franchisors tell entrepreneurs what they need to know before they buy a franchise. Second edition includes a sample copy of the entire UFOC plus 40% new and updated examples. This straight-shooting franchise guide goes beyond the “how to” to teach potential franchisees what to expect when starting a franchise. Real life stories from the trenches illustrate how to cope with the difficulties a franchise presents. The author reveals the personality types most likely to succeed at franchising, and identifies entrepreneurial traits that may increase risk of failure. Plus, it takes an in-depth look at the research and investigation of a franchise, something glossed over in most franchise books.
California Crackup
"California Crackup is brilliant. It cuts through the familiar tangle of diagnoses and quick-fix solutions to provide a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of California's dysfunctional governmental system. Paul and Mathews have coolly laid out a complicated story, made it readable, sometimes even comedic. It is the best discussion of the issue I've seen in over three decades."--Peter Schrag, author of California: America's High-Stakes Experiment "I know of no other work that combines so succinctly and enjoyably a historical summary of California's existing problems with such a sweeping and provocative program of reform."--Ethan Rarick, University of California, Berkeley "Mark Paul and Joe...
The People's Machine
California voters passed Proposition 13 in 1978. At the same time, a champion bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger was becoming a movie star. Over the past quarter century, the twin arts of direct democracy (through ballot initiatives designed to push the public to the polls on election day) and blockbuster moviemaking (through movies designed to push the public to the theaters on opening weekend) grew up together, at home in California. With the state's recall election in 2003, direct democracy and blockbuster movies officially merged. The result: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In The People's Machine, political reporter Joe Mathews, who covered Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign f...
John Joseph Mathews
John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not come easily to Mathews, and his personality was full of contradictions. In this captivating biography, Michael Snyder provides the first book-length account of this fascinating figure. Known as “Jo” to all his friends, Mathews had a multifaceted identity. A novelist, naturalist, biographer, historian, and tribal preservationist, he was a true “man of letters.” Snyder draws on a wealth of sources, many of them previously untapped, to narrate Mathews’s story. Much of the writer’s f...
In My Lifetime
Herbert Smith, a six-foot, two-inch, 180 pound blue-eyed ?hunk?, arrived at the small Pasadena Police Department at the age of 26. Married Nettie Grace, a beautiful young lady, and the parents of their first child, a boy, they were the envy of the older officers already employed there. He exploded on the scene with a perfect score on his Civil Service Test and proved his proficiency with his sidearm by becoming one of the top shooters in his academy. Working the streets on patrol, Herbert was always on the cutting edge of the action. On more than one occasion he confronted, disarmed and arrested dangerous felons who were threats to himself, the citizens and his fellow officers. His 28 year c...
Sundown
Challenge Windzer, the mixed-blood protagonist of this compelling autobiographical novel, was born at the beginning of the twentieth century "when the god of the great Osages was still dominate over the wild prairie and the blackjack hills" of northeast Oklahoma Territory. Named by his father to be "a challenge to the disinheritors of his people," Windzer finds it hard to fulfill his destiny, despite oil money, a university education, and the opportunities presented by the Great War and the roaring twenties. Critics have praised Sundown generously, both as a literary work and a vignette into the Native American past.
I Tell You Now
I Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and updated biographical sketches for each writer.
Evolution
From the star of True Blood and Magic Mike, Joe Manganiello, comes the cutting edge guide for achieving the perfect body. Joe Manganiello has become known around the world for his incredible physique. Now, from the man that director Steven Soderbergh called 'walking CGI', comes the cutting edge guide to achieving the perfect body and raising your overall quality of life. In Evolution, Manganiello shares his lifetime of experience and research in terms of diet, cardio and anatomy, to bring you the only fitness book you'll ever need in order to look and feel your best. His memorable performance in the 2012 film Magic Mike, catapulted him and his fine, firm physique to the top of the list of Hollywood's most desired male actors. With a build that men envy and women adore, Joe Manganiello is more than qualified to write the end-all-guide to sculpting the perfect body. Featuring black-and-white photographs throughout, and Manganiello's step-by-step workout routine that combines weights, intense cardio and a high protein diet, this book reveals exactly how to get the body of one of Hollywood's hottest stars. Promising to turn any Average Joe into a Joe Manganiello!
Hard Trials, Great Tribulations
James Lyles has written an absorbing memoir of his life, beginning as an impoverished child in Depression-era Arkansas and eventually becoming a highly educated and well-traveled religious leader of a major Protestant denomination. His story spans the most important era of African American advancement in the post-slavery period. He was an eyewitness as well as a participant in that half-century of the black liberation struggle... Growing up in rural Arkansas in the midst of the Great Depression, he describes an early life reminiscent of Erskine Caldwells Tobacco Road of the 1930s and 40s. The account could serve as a documented history of African American life during that time. His narrative...
Personal War
William Defreno is down on his luck and himself. Maybe it's that he lives in a town seemingly owned by a rich man, Randy Casner, who has the police in his pocket, infinite resources, and doesn't care who he destroys in order to get his own way. The dreadful Personal War starts when Randy runs William down with his Hummer, breaking the young track star's leg in a rage of general lunacy and resentment for William's track talent. William tries to pursue Mr. Casner legally, and discovers the full extent of this man's power. Everything starts to down-spiral from there. The local police begin to systematically harass him - trying to get him fired from his job, arrest him for any and every reason p...
