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Active managers persistently lag the returns of benchmarks and index funds that track them, with the excuses for underperformance recycled every year. This comprehensive book is the antidote for the active managers’ siren song. If you understand the benefits of indexing, or systematic investing, it will reinforce your commitment while increasing your knowledge. In this greatly expanded second edition, Swedroe and Berkin show you how to develop an investment plan that focuses on what risks to take, and how much of them, as well as how to build a diversified portfolio.

This compelling nonfiction work takes the reader into a convoluted eight month infiltration of a group of squalid criminals trafficking in wildlife by two undercover game wardens. Latham doesn't hold back on the language in this book nor does he downplay the vile acts that occurred against both the human and wildlife victims in this twisted tale. If you think poachers are just a bunch of good old boys out for a bit of meat, this true story is bound to reshape your opinion.

Those now notorious intercepted emails documenting leading scientists conspiring to squelch global-warming skeptics and falsifying data proved exactly what Brian Sussman has been saying for years. Climategate is intended for anyone who has ever expressed skepticism about the clamorous environmentalist claims that the Earth is in peril because of mankind's appetite for carbon-based fuels.

Behind a Thin Green Line is the tense story of a solo undercover investigation into a sociopathic ring of poachers. In Idaho’s remote Pahsimeroi Valley, Latham takes a shot at infiltrating this brutal gang of outlaws led by a man who lives to kill. This true story is an enlightening look into a collision of two grossly conflicting cultures of poachers and game wardens.

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is currently defined as a "syndrome", a collection of symptoms for which the root cause has not yet been identified. This book aims to rectify this by arguing the case for POTS being considered a form of neurological injury to the limbic system following an antecedent trauma, such as a viral illness, pregnancy, surgery, or psychological trauma (or a combination).

In Cities of Gold: Legendary Kingdoms, Quixotic Quests, and Fantastic New World Wealth, Bill Yenne takes the listener from the rainforests and mountains of Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, and Guiana to the deserts and peaks of Mexico and the United States to tell the extraordinary, and often brutal story of how the search for mysterious New World riches fueled the exploration of an unknown hemisphere for hundreds of years.

For most of the 20th century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next 30 years. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including 25 Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon.

Idaho game warden Charlie Cove is back. He's strapped with post-traumatic stress from events chronicled in the debut novel, Five Fingers. Cove is called to an accident scene by a small-town sheriff to help investigate a morbid discovery. In the meantime, Charlie is perplexed by a different problem - dead fish. The sheriff keeps trying to drag him into what he has assumed is a homicide, while Cove struggles to solve his own mystery. And all the while, a demoniacal antagonist dances in the shadows.

This is a remarkable travel recollection from that most remarkable woman, Gertrude Bell. Provides a number of nice glimpses into the people and culture of Persia during the latter part of the 1800s. Now in a new, inexpensive edition.

Few people love the Lord and the church as much as Jeff Jenkins. Compiled from over four years of seasoned reflection on Christian living, Thoughts from the Mound will challenge you in your walk with the Lord. This book is a fantastic way to introduce new readers to one of the church's most gifted thinkers and communicators. Frequent readers of Jeff's blog will rediscover their favorite articles and be reminded again of the glory and joy of the Christian life.

Every night, Jim "Bubba" Bay went for a walk. But on the night of November 15, 2009, while walking on Hammertown Road in Pine Plains, New York, Bubba fell 14 feet, head-first, into a gulley, breaking 23 bones. After a day in intensive care, the doctors induced a coma. When he awoke from the coma, he began to tell his family and friends about his remarkable visions on the edge of death. Bubba emerged from his near-death experience with his faith in God renewed and his eyes opened to everyday miracles.

Do you want to be close to Jesus, lay your hardships at his feet and feel him speak to you each and every day? The words in this book will light a fire in your heart and let you enter a world where you can communicate with Jesus and develop an intimate relationship with him.

This publication is full of practical techniques and questions designed to promote an understanding of why, at times, you feel the way you do, and help you to become rooted, mindful, and more accepting of you as the person you are.

In an introduction into sports psychology for athletes, Benjamin Bonetti provides you with deep and meaningful insights into your own mind, making it possible for you to effect massive shifts within yourself and follow a path toward ultimate strength, speed, agility, and athletic achievement. We all struggle, yes, but Mr. Bonetti, armed with a wealth of knowledge and a unique understanding of the athlete's mind, will minimize the struggle that you face and maximize the results that you are getting out of your training.

With a compass to direct him in his job as a forward observer and a personal camera to document his experiences - and keep him connected to his creative side - Vietnam veteran Steven Burchik was lucky enough to make it home and years later decided to write about the most challenging year of his life.

World War II, 1939-1945, was easily the most destructive war in history; claiming the lives of from 50 to 60 millions of people. This historical fiction takes us "behind the scenes" in the lives of everyday people who became reluctant warriors. Each of the men depicted in this book - Joseph “Chip” Wiley, Jimmy DeValery, Harry Conners, and Theodore Rodgers - were admirable people who gave everything they had and became Army scouts, men in aircraft like the B-25, B-17, P-38, P-47.

From Guadalcanal to the island fortress of Formosa, and from Tulsa to Sacramento, these stories show men and women finding redemption from the turmoil and chaos of World War II.

I think it's important to understand what this book is not. This book is not your business bible. I've produced one of those in the past, outlining recommendations on the topics of marketing, advertising, networking, and all things connected to getting started as an entrepreneur; It is not a book that promises to give you all the answers to every question you could ever ask.

Whether you are interested in improving your communication, taking your career to the next level, or building a solid foundation in your relationship, our truth system has something for you. Accelerate what you are out to accomplish. Address what matters most to you in your life. With the unique skill of your mentor Benjamin Bonetti and using our proven one-to-one coaching methodology, you'll experience a direct and immediate difference in realizing your goals.

"Someone wants you dead!" Those words launch James Clayton into a world of corporate war, confronting a Russian crime-lord at his own game. What Clayton doesn't realize until too late, though, is that he isn't just playing with his own life.