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Cameroon, 1929. As colonial powers fight for influence in Africa, French military surgeon Eugène Jamot is dispatched to Cameroon to lead the fight against sleeping sickness there. But despite his humanitarian intentions, the worst comes to pass: seven hundred local villagers are left blind as a result of medical malpractice by a doctor under Jamot’s watch.

Zauberhafte Weihnachtsgeschichten. Alle Jahre wieder fiebern die Kinder ungeduldig auf die schönste Zeit des Jahres hin. Das Hörbuch mit neun bezaubernden Weihnachtsgedichten und -geschichten versüßt das Warten auf den Heiligabend für die ganze Familie.

Reaching the World for Christ

Emotional Wealth is an American video, podcast, and Blog hosted by Wealth Advisor, Lon W. Broske, CFS®, CFP®. Using the current most relevant financial climate and topics, Lon is able to give his opinion on what is really going on with your finances. Topics include stock market performance, retirement savings, current events and how they impact the financial climate, general financial education and tips, and much more! Investing involves risk. Loss, including loss of principal, may occur. No investment strategy can guarantee positive results, nor can it protect against loss in periods of ...

This is the official Lon.TV podcast. You'll hear audio versions of my weekly wrapup show and interviews with people behind some of the most interesting technology companies past and present! These are audio versions of the interviews I post on my YouTube channel at lon.tv.

The Social Media Bible is a comprehensive social media resource that will teach corporate, small business, and non-profit marketers strategies for using social media to reach their desired audiences with power messages and efficiency. This revised 3rd edition (2012) addresses technology updates to the iPad, apps, Foursquare, and other geotargeted networks.

A risen Moctezuma Threatens Texas once again with a zombie army from the south. The Queen's finest steam gear rolls in from the California colony. Shapeshifting Comanche form a war party to take back their lands. It's all building toward an epic second battle of the Alamo, and this time the fate of all Texas hangs on a handful of disgraced Rangers, determined cowgirls, revolutionary veterans, and the mysterious Comanche child who could save them all.

Life Is but a Dream is an intriguing compilation of insights learned during one man's life as he rowed down his stream on his first 50 years of his journey. Each of these seven short stories is filled with compelling observations on the definition of one's individual reality. They are present in different, interesting, and entertaining plots and are woven around unique perspectives of what your reality is or might be.

Are you wondering where your marketing ROI is? Trying to understand why all of the money you invested into traditional marketing isn’t showing you a return on investment? Why all of the time and effort you put into social media marketing doesn’t seem to be paying off? It’s because social media and digital marketing has fractured all media forever.

During the 30+ years of my career, I’ve built 14 companies. Some were mushroom-cloud failures, while others were very successful. Throughout this process, some of my decisions led to success and others led to the mushroom clouds. I analyzed and questioned those decisions to determine what would have taken me down a different path.

Innovative thinking is very popular right now - and for good reason. Corporate America is beginning to realize the importance of innovative thinking and how it allows us to be leaders in world technology by being more creative and competitive. Innovative thinking is more than retaining or growing market share; it’s about creating new products and services, discovering new markets for existing products and services, and improving existing products and services, which all result in greater revenues.

I discovered fusion marketing as a result of constantly being asked in interviews, “So, what comes after social media?” I would think to myself, “Social media has change the way the world markets, sells, and communicates forever. And, it has caused us to change at speeds we have never seen before with technology”, and you want to know what’s next? I decided to take that question on as a personal challenge.

John Whitehorn had just woke up. He was in a dark, dingy, dirty hotel room in the one-horse town of Dawson. Dawson sat on the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the middle of Colfax County in the north of the New Mexico Territory. This was gold country! And John knew his bounty was here and he knew exactly where to find him. This journey had taken him all the way from Amarillo, Texas.

In marketing, one brand is always trying to outwit, out-advertise, and outspend its competitors, often costing millions of dollars to build their brand equity or brand value. It’s because the better we recognize a brand, the better we relate to that brand, the higher the value that brand has in our minds, and the safer we feel purchasing that brand. The higher the brand value in the minds of the consumers, the more those prospects will purchase that brand, generating greater revenues for that brand company. Brand value is in the mind of the customer.

There’s evidence that aliens have been visiting our planet for centuries. Some even think the world’s governments are hiding alien crafts, technology, and even their bodies. With our nearest neighbors circling our closest star Alpha Centauri at 4.37 light years away, how could it be possible for any civilization to reach the earth? That’s 25,633,092,000,000 miles away! All these questions and more are answered in the best short story of its time: Alien Time.

This three-part audiobook is about everything you will ever want to know about spam. In Part I, I look at all of the different kinds of "unsolicited commercial messages" and how our tolerances for each vastly differs from total acceptance to $50,000 fines for the same type of message. In Part II, Gary Thuerk, the Father of Email, tells his story how the world's first spam email message was sent. Part III of the audiobook delivers the actual email message itself, the very first spam message. And there's even a section in here that will explain how spam became know as...spam!

Gratuitous Serendipity is an intriguing compilation of actual accounts of events in one man's life that both changed his life and changed the world (just a little). Gratuitous Serendipity will leave you wondering just how much each of us play in the role of creating and influencing history. Some stories just take a different look at the world around us, and how information can be put together in a slightly altered way. Often, just by looking at something differently, the same data can produce significantly changed results.

The days of being excited and celebrating “social media” has run its course. Over the past decade plus, social media came into its own as the leading way to communicate for sales, customers service, transactional, spam, and for personal connection. Over the past three years, social media has become less and less effective as a communication tool. Using digital tools today has become much more complicated than ever before. Just having a Facebook page, a profile on LinkedIn, or sending out a few tweets no longer cuts it.

Drei klassische Weihnachtsgeschichten für Jung und Alt aus längst vergangenen Tagen. Stimmungsvoll erzählt in schönen Winterkulissen, voll Emotionen, Feud und Leid, Zwischenmenschliches und Göttliche, alles auf das sich die Menschen zur Weihnachtszeit besonders besinnen.

The Void Emissary are the peacekeeping force of the Twelve Worlds. Some of them belong to the Order of Hunters, those charged with assassinations. Pieter Strahd is one of them and he is given a mission to kill someone or the Twelve Worlds will sink into chaos. Soon he is joined by Kyp, a young aethernaut, and Sarena Corr, with a living tree ship as transport. All of them together struggle against a mysterious force that could swallow all of the Twelve Worlds.