Dream Research

Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system being used by an advanced aerospace vehicle he is told came from outer space. The stressful work and long, odd hours start to wear on Bob and he becomes concerned for his safety. He tells his wife and a couple close friends about what he's doing in the desert, and his employers find out and are furious.

Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual and tells writers how to achieve the dream space necessary for composing honest, inspired fiction.

Writing a book is fun and easy - yes, fun and easy - but it may not always feel that way. How do you find the time to write? How do you keep momentum? How do you deal with the horror of showing anyone a single sentence of your work-in-progress? The answers remain fun and easy, and author Elizabeth Sims will take your hand, dispel your worries, and show you how it's done in this stress-free guide to accomplishing your dream of writing your book.

While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming - the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they're dreaming and even control the dreamed experience. Finding these forays both puzzling and exhilarating, Robb dug deeper into the science of dreams at an extremely opportune moment: just as researchers began to understand why dreams exist. They aren't just random events; they have clear purposes. They help us learn and even overcome psychic trauma.

No one in America has done more observing of more people than Dr. Frank I. Luntz. From Bill O'Reilly to Bill Maher, America's leading pundits, prognosticators, and CEOs turn to Luntz to explain the present and to predict the future. With all the upheavals of recent events, the plans and priorities of the American people have undergone a seismic shift.

Tap into the power of effective user research—demonstrate your ability to utilize user-effective techniques and obtain meaningful results, land the UX job of your dreams! Are you currently aspiring to become a UX designer or preparing for a career change? Are you already working as a designer but lacking in research experience and therefore missing out on more successful project outcomes? Perhaps you are a product manager who is keen to solve your users’ pressing problems… or a startup founder wishing to ensure the success of your product.

Have you created an idea for a consumer packaged goods (CPG) concept you believe could be a winner at your favorite national retailer, through Amazon.com or on your own website but don't know where to start? If so, STOP OR GO! and its 25 CRITICAL FACTORS will guide you through a universally applicable curriculum to support researching, analyzing and executing a CPG Viability Study. Each critical factor is enhanced by Doug Pick's real world experiences as the founder and CEO of the HEAROS ear plug enterprise.

In this far-reaching examination of contemporary American culture, John Zogby, one of the nation's foremost pollsters, explores who today's Americans are, identifying patterns in our social makeup that hint at the way we'll be. Companies from multinational corporations down to family-owned small businesses can benefit from this detailed information about where we are and where we're going.

Lisa Copeland dreads purchasing cars - and she was the managing partner/general manager of one of the most successful FIAT/Alfa Romeo dealership in the US. In Lisa Copeland’s second book, she shares wisdom and insights from her more than 30 years in the automotive industry, having risen to become one of its most renowned influencers. Lisa’s underlying purpose is empowering female consumers while compelling the industry as a whole to level up and create a remarkable purchasing experience for the number one influencer in the world: women.

Self-publishing a book can be easy, but making it as a successful author is difficult and a lot of work. Marc Alan Edelheit has published nine fantasy novels in four years, 10 books, if you include this one, and moved well over 300,000 eBooks while racking up over 60,000,000 Kindle Unlimited page reads. In this audiobook, he shares the secrets of his success and what he has learned through trial and error as an indie that put him on the path to success.

Being a novelist is a pretty sweet deal. You daydream, you type, and people pay you. There are possibly a few additional steps, but that’s why you need this book. It will walk you through the process of turning your imagination into polished, professional stories that people will pay to read. Make money doing what you really want to do: WRITE!

Cv/VAR 154 publishes a study of photography and art in which authors Marina Vaizey and Anne Blood consider the historical impact of photography from pioneers Hill and Adamson, William Fox Talbot, and Louis Daguerre to contemporary practitioners such as Andreas Gursky and Boris Mikhailov. The documentary power and graphic clarity of the medium challenged and persuaded artists such as Degas, Sickert, Andy Warhol, and Richard Hamilton, and innumerable creative voices. The volume includes biographical details of leading figures and a guide to national collections and study centres.

This audiobook lists, and then analyzes, many of the highest paying jobs in America that either do, or don’t, require some sort of college education. Many people don’t realize that there are jobs in many industries that pay over a hundred thousand dollars a year that don’t require anything other than a high school diploma, or that don’t require any education of any kind whatsoever at all. Countless millions of people have become millionaires, or have retired with over a hundred thousand dollars a year in passive income sources.

Marina Vaizey and Anne Blood consider the historical impact of photography on the fine and interpretive arts, from pioneers such as Hill and Adamson, Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre to Edward Steichen and Man Ray. The documentary power and graphic clarity of the medium challenged and persuaded artists such as Degas, Sickert, Warhol, and innumerable creative voices. In their essays Marina and Anne explore the conjunctions and variations where document and dream intermingle.

Learn how to speak business English with such confidence, you’ll never have to worry about speaking in a meeting or in front of international colleagues again. It’s the morning of the biggest business meeting of your life but instead of feeling excited and raring to go your stomach is churning because you are stressing (again) about having to speak to business colleagues in English - a language that is not your native tongue.