Book Length : 150-320 Pages

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’...

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...

You were not supposed to learn how to live without them.One moment, life feels familiar.The next, everything is split into before and after.People tell you to be strong.To give it time.To move on.But grief doesn’t work that way.When someone you love dies, the world doesn’t just change, it disappears and reassembles into something unrecognizable. The simplest tasks feel impossible. The silence feels louder than anything you’ve ever known. And somewhere in the middle of it all, you’re left wondering:How am...

My ex downgraded to my conniving ex–best friend. His older brother upgraded to me… and promised to end anyone who tries me next. Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes for my former best friend to gut me under the chandeliers of New York’s most elite. It takes Julian Volkov five more to make her regret ever trying. Silver hair. Gunmetal stare. The monster the Volkov empire keeps hidden. And my ex's older brother. “Pick your words carefully. They might be...

On the floating island of Volturnus, sixteen-year-old Effie Strait aches for a freedom she may never claim. In a world ruled by the enigmatic Celestials, only the Gifted can ascend to the skies as True Pilots, forging bonds with the mighty Leviathans. Effie’s older sister, Vanna, is the pride of Volturnus—a fearless dragoon and newly minted lieutenant—yet it is Effie who burns with ambition, even as her own Gift remains stubbornly absent. When Effie’s closest friend, Kai, suddenly manifests his...