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Are you a law enforcement officer who struggles with writing clear, concise, and effective reports? Are you a supervisor or trainer who needs to make sure rookies and trainees write better reports? Then this book is for you. THE POLICE REPORT FORMULA addresses the common problems when writing reports, especially with the challenges of modern policing. This practical, adaptable framework ensures clear, concise, and effective reports and will help you become a better, more well-rounded, more complete officer and more aligned with your purpose. You’ll not only enrich your career but also ...

Write, Publish, Thrive: Transform Your Passion into Published Works for the Next Generation – A Roadmap to Success! Is rejection becoming an all-too-familiar companion on your publishing journey? Turn setbacks into comebacks! Explore proven strategies to overcome rejection and secure your spot in the world of children's and teen publications. If you have ever dreamed of writing and publishing children's books or for children's magazines look no further! Becoming A Children's Author is written by an award-winning author who knows your pain! Learn the basics of not only how to write ...

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In the Upanishads, illumined sages share flashes of insight, the results of their investigation into consciousness itself. In extraordinary visions, they experience directly a transcendent Reality which is the essence, or Self, of each created being. They teach that each of us, each Self, is eternal, deathless, one with the power that created the universe.

Ricard has selected and translated some of the most profound and inspiring teachings from across these traditions. The selected teachings are taken from the sources of the traditions, including the Buddha himself, Nagarjuna, Guru Rinpoche, Atisha, Shantideva, and Asanga; from great masters of the past, including Thogme Zangpo, the Fifth Dalai Lama, Milarepa, Longchenpa, and Sakya Pandita; and from contemporary masters, including the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Mingyur Rinpoche.

Being-Time thoroughly explores Dogen's teaching on how we practice as Buddhas by understanding the relationship between being and time as it is—and as we perceive it to be. Using Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji (The True Dharma Eye, Being-Time), Shinshu Roberts offers a twofold analysis of this teaching: the meaning of the text and practice with the text, giving examples how we apply Dogen's complex teaching to our daily lives.

With this program, you'll have the tools, the techniques, and, just as importantly, the unflinching confidence to influence your readers and listeners decisively - both at work and at home.

Sell more books and build your career by kicking these blunders to the curb! Ever wonder why some books shoot to the top of the bestseller lists? And others that you think should, don't? It's usually a matter of mistakes that could have been avoided!#1 bestselling writing coach James Scott Bell has analyzed thousands of manuscripts over the years, by both new and experienced writers, and noticed certain errors that keep showing up to take readers out of the fictive dream. Now he's tackled the biggest offenders and shows you how to fix them. In 27 Fiction Writing Blunders you'll learn:* The ...

In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth, and ancient monasteries built over 1,000 years ago. Shehadeh’s love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography.

If you’re ready to write a cozy mystery, this book is for you! Writing a Cozy Mystery: Case Files is a practical guide that will take you through the process step-by-step. Understanding the many elements of a cozy mystery is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. How do the sleuth, victim, villain, and suspects work together in the context of a cozy mystery plot? How do you mine the news for story ideas, and then mold them into something original? What are red herrings and how do you misdirect the reader while hiding the villain in plain sight? Writing a Cozy Mystery: Case Files, a Step-...

From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical audio book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages. Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism and decimated by the Crusades.

Introducing Jack West a tenacious Houston Homicide Detective, a man who believes even the dregs of society deserve justice. After solving an exhausting murder case involving teenagers, Jack and his partner, Dawson Luck are assigned a cold case dating back 25 years. One case: an unsolved murder of a woman, found dead behind a seedy motel; the other about a missing prostitute. Digging into the cases, a fresh murder case is called in. A wealthy couple is found dead in an affluent residential area. It appears to be a murder- suicide and this new case takes precedence.

In this anthology of 26 essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual basis of both the individual and human society, always seeking to reach an authentic and clearly defined experience of the divine.

What’s it like to race across the blacktop of the nation’s most famous track? How does it feel to smash into a concrete wall while going over 200 miles per hour? This exciting, humorous, and poignant collection of tales takes listeners inside the most exciting race in America. Tales from the Indianapolis 500 captures horrific collisions and sweet victories from drivers past and present.

With impressive examples von Däniken illustrates some of the numerous cities that were dug underground as safe harbors from the destructive boulders. Miles and miles of underground passageways have been discovered around the world as they made space for villages and entire cities. To end the book, von Däniken presents his newest discoveries of an event: In 2017, the author was informed that strange mummified creatures were found near the Peruvian village of Nazca. One of the mummies, apparently several thousand years ago, had been implanted with a metal plate under the skin.

The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.

Are you dreaming of becoming a published children's book author? Are you considering self-publishing but feeling overwhelmed by all the information you need to figure out? Roadmap to Publishing Children’s Books provides practical solutions to all your questions. This comprehensive, step-by-step manual is designed to support and guide you through every phase of the self-publishing process. Say goodbye to expensive courses—here, you'll find all the knowledge and tools you need to succeed at a fraction of the cost. Everything you need to know to publish a children's book into five parts: ...

In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. How does one approach the genius of writers like Melville, Dickens, or Twain? In Elements of Fiction, Walter Mosley contemplates the answer.

How to Write a Novel in 90 Days is your ultimate roadmap to writing a complete novel in just 3 months. It also has plans for 4 or 6 months too. Using the time-tested Classic Novel Structure, this book gives you a clear, practical, and proven method for writing any novel and breaks everything down into weekly schedules to take you from idea to final draft. It works for any novel in any genre. Inside, you’ll learn how to: Plan, outline, and structure your novel before you start writing. Write with confidence, following a clear week-by-week breakdown. Maintain momentum and avoid burnout. ...

In How to Read Literature like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times best-selling author and Professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers. With funny insights and a conversational style, he explains the way writers use symbol, metaphor, characterization, setting, plot, and other key techniques to make a story come to life.