All books using the keywords: Stephen Martin

In this fast-paced thriller Rebecca Archer has just 28 days to find her mother, who apparently abandoned her as a child. Otherwise, Rebecca will lose Live Oaks, the beloved family estate that has been in her family since the first Archer arrived in America more than 200 years before. But did her mother run away, or did something sinister happen in the cellar of the nineteenth century townhouse in Baltimore to cause her disappearance? Just looking in that musty space shakes Rebecca to the core and starts her on a race to beat a ticking clock that takes her three thousand miles across the planet and into a world she could never in her wildest dreams have imagined. Beyond Cellar Door is fil ...

It goes without that astounding changes have taken place in marketing communications over the past 30 years. Back then, a company without at least a few million dollars to spend on what is now known as traditional media––radio, television, magazines, newspaper ads, or billboards––was pretty much out of luck. Nowadays, with some artful search engine optimization, or a cool video that goes viral, many thousands, perhaps even many millions of customers can be reached for as little as a few hundred dollars. That’s good news because it gives a fighting chance to those trying to get a business off the ground on a shoestring. But one result is that the leaders of small budget businesses ...

Many books have been written about the Salem Witch Hysteria, but none in modern times that disclose what actually happened, making this book unique. The author, a direct descendant of Susannah North Martin, one of the women tried, convicted, and hanged, lays out powerful evidence from highly credible scientific studies and sources that God, Satan, heaven and hell are real, and that the theory the afflicted girls faked their symptoms is wrong. Anyone who would be informed and up-to-date about what really happened at Salem in 1692, as well as the true nature of reality, must know about this research and the chilling implications it holds for them personally in the twenty-first century. ...

“This book answers the questions, who is God, who am I, and what is faith, without sinking into the sin of Bible quoting. In simple, everyday language the author explains how and why life works, and how you can make it work for you. Faith is the primary topic, though he seldom uses the word. A very helpful and worthwhile book. Again, do not think that this is a religious text. It is not. It is a book about living in the world today.” --Omega Directory

Nowadays, world-class companies have and eliminated management hierarchies to cut costs, improve quality, and become more responsive to customers. The blueprint to accomplish this was the best-selling forerunner to this book, LEAN TRANSFORMATION. Becoming a lean enterprise has fundamentally changed how people in these businesses are expected to operate. Rather than superiors telling subordinates what to do, and subordinates doing it, they must get things done by working on empowered teams comprised of peers from other departments. A difficulty many in lean enterprises face is they are expected to get more done with fewer resources than they had before. Administrative support, for exam ...

One indication of the value of this book is that it is required reading for Lean Certification by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Known in manufacturing among those striving to maximize productivity and create pull-scheduling of production as "the yellow book," Lean Transformation: How to Change Your Business into a Lean Enterprise is used across the globe by companies as they switch to lean production and management by empowered teams. Touted by lean production experts everywhere as practical, down-to-earth, and easy to read, it warns of cultural issues that are almost certain to arise, and gives management step by step instructions as it explains clearly in terms anyone can und ...

What happens when we die? Powerful evidence indicates our consciousness continues. The author spent two years gathering material that demonstrates this, interviewing more than a hundred experts, including medical doctors, psychologists, parapsychologists, psychiatrists, quantum physicists and researchers into the true nature of reality. The author relates specific examples that indicate what happens when we die, citing among other things examples of memories being formed and retained despite a subject’s brain having shutdown completely. Moreover, he addresses such questions as whether or not we will be able to communicate with living loved ones, whether it is possible to be reborn, a ...

This is the must-read of the decade for anyone whose livelihood depends on new products. Those familiar with industry today know western companies are scrambling to emulate the Toyota Production System. But most don't realize that Toyota's new product development system is every bit as important to Toyota's ongoing success. If they've heard that Toyota's development engineers are four times more productive than their western counterparts, they probably chalk it up to Toyota Production System techniques. But they're wrong in doing so. While both systems deliver extremely high productivity, and both free people to do their best, there really aren't many similarities in how the systems work ...

Product Development for the Lean Enterprise by Michael Kennedy turned product development in major corporations on its head. This is a continuation of that book that includes case histories identifying the pitfalls and lessons learned by the authors when actually implementing the Toyota product development system. The authors also show how Toyota's set-based learning system can be adapted and adopted by all areas of a business in order to produce major advantages over the competition. Whether a group of engineers is developing new cars, software applications, aerospace equipment, kitchen appliances, controls, sensors, or any of hundreds of different items, the process they follow is pret ...

Perhaps you feel that you are not living up to your full potential. You, or someone you love, may be struggling with conflicting emotions, not able to move ahead, repeating the same mistakes. If you see this happening in your day to day life, perhaps as the result of childhood memories or even in past life memories, there are ways to break the cycle. Kinesiology-results therapy, a biofeedback technique, can break through the clutter of images, subconscious and conscious, that are holding you back. The techniques outlined in Soul Soaring will help the reader understand stressful events, decode negative self images and build new, positive beliefs. Mary Clements, Ph.D., JD/MSW, is a f ...