Beth: 2483 books

Governments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government. She offers a vision of participatory democracy rooted not in voting or crowdsourcing but in people’s knowledge and know-how.

Drop Dead Easy Marketing Techniques. Top marketers master them. Freelancers routinely skip them. It's the toxic word creators loathe to use... marketing. Thing is, mastering just a few simple techniques can propel your creative life faster than you ever dreamed possible.    Here's...

Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics. Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations...

What do successful creative entrepreneurs do? The answer may surprise you.   You may have read the books, attended seminars, studied the craft. But if your version of success is still eluding you, it's time for something different. Real different. Here you'll find nuts and bolts, how-to...

It's time to cook up some creativity! You're invited to a fanciful feast of color, textures and luscious layers that will tempt even the most discriminating painter's palette. Whether you love experimenting with your own flavors, or following a recipe to a 'T,' Flavor of Mixed Media will be...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

This is the book file from the High Council living on Planet Terrania other wise known as Planet Earth the Home world of the First One species as dubbed. The High Council details this file as a reminder of getting a Human or First One as they should be known than that god awful name of Human into...

A woman with one withered arm and hand decides to become the mail order bride of a man in Texas. She is fairly ignorant about life there and on a ranch, but through trial and error she starts to learn. It’s when an accident happens that her fiancé and his mother find out about her arm, which she’s managed to keep hidden.

Halli fell madly in love with Callem the first time she met him. She wasn't going to let a little thing like giving him a nose bleed and having to hang from a spaceship by a wire put her off. Callem only knew that Halli was the love of a lifetime and wasn't going to let her escape his determined pursuit. Love Teeron style can get pretty chaotic

A woman and her daughter from Louisiana decide to travel to Texas to join a cowboy rancher who is yearning for a new family to call his own. They settle in and both mother and daughter become attached to the lonely cowboy and join with him in a mutual love for the ranch animals and family life. There are obstacles to overcome and the winter snows provide the first major crisis of the year.

Diving Southeast Asia introduces divers to the world's most diverse marine environment. This truly comparative guide includes over 400 popular sites, all of which have been dived, reviewed and photographed by experienced husband-and-wife team, Beth and Shaun Tierney. From the pristine, isolated reefs...

Help your kids discover God's plan for them through God's call for Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. These three lessons are engaging, fun and will challenge your students to know and follow Jesus. These resources hold to the truths of Scripture without compromise and keep kids and teachers coming back for more…

Help your kids discover Biblical truths from the book of Daniel. These 5 lessons are engaging, fun and will challenge your students to know and follow Jesus. These resources hold to the truths of Scripture without compromise and keep kids and teachers coming back for more…

Story as told to the Recorder, Veronica Thomas typing it down: Story as told is from while listening to Barry, aka clone of Jinks Montreal with mind of an All Seeing One, telling a bedtime story to put original, Jinks Montreal down asleep from boredom. Meritanians still playing jokes and balking the sleeping requests as ordered.