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Living in the present, each day to its fullest is one way to live well until the very end of life.  Using the present to decide and plan for how you want the future to unfold adds to your happiness in the years ahead and to the legacies you can give yourself and share with others during those years and leave behind when you die.

"Bar-20" is the story of Hopalong Cassidy before he became the "TV-Cowboy." He was a typical late-19th century cowboy, except he could rope, ride and shoot. In this book, he's nothing like the suave, quiet hero who always saves the day at the last minute. The author describes him...

Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought.

This book discusses equi-quantile values and their use in generating decision alternatives under the twofold complexities of uncertainty and dependence, offering scope for surrogating between two alternative portfolios when they are correlated. The book begins with a discussion on components of rationality...

This book examines the influence of transport costs on regional economic development in northern Ontario. It begins with an overview of the Canadian freight rate structure, with emphasis on railway rates, and a brief look at the history of federal rate policy. A theoretical model of rate determination...

Can a mother's love heal the deepest wounds of a daughter's heart? That's the challenge for Dolly Devereaux a thirty-something divorced mother from Myrtle Beach South Carolina. Dolly has spent twenty years fighting tooth and nail to break free from the grasping tentacles of her poor rural...

Before the sands of the Nile were ever seen by the great-grandfathers of the great-grandfathers of the men who built the pyramids, there rose a great civilization, whose history became the fodder of some of the greatest myths known. Although sands overtake all of the grandeur that man makes, their...

Explore Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5 with this fully updated resource After a quick review of the of introductory topics of Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5, this book moves quickly into advanced topics such as data access with ADO.NET, security, ASP.NET web programming with Visual Basic, Windows...

The Boys King Arthur (1880) by the American poet Sidney Lanier is a re-working of the original Sir Thomas Malory's "History of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table". The book interprets existing French and English stories about these figures, with some of Malory's own original...

Essay is basically the act of 'trying out... or an act of attempting to accomplish something. It is also an analytic or interpretive literary composition. Essays, therefore, essentially reveal the personality of the writer besides giving his/her viewpoints on a specific subject matter. Essays help us...

Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in almost constant conflict. This book, sequel...

This edition of Health and safety in welding and allied processes has been extensively revised to take into recent account advances in technology and legislative changes both in the UK and USA. Beginning with a description of the core safety requirements, it goes on to describe the special hazards...

Far away in the Frozen Land, a long time ago, a master wizard forged the wondrous Sampo, or mill of fortune, which ground out all sorts of treasures and gave wealth and power to its owner. This story, retold in from the Finnish Kalevala, tells of the making of this mill and the adventures of the heroes...

The Act of Union, coming into effect on 1 January 1801, portended the integration of Ireland into a unified, if not necessarily uniform, community. This volume treats the complexities, perspectives, methodologies and debates on the themes of the years between 1801 and 1879. Its focus is the making...