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This audiobook discusses how Alaskans view tourists and also offers a tourist's history of the state. The author Levi specializes in history and creative thinking. His historical specialty is the Alaska Gold rush.

Biography of the last of the Alaska bush pilots to be the subject of a biography. 

A combat manual for getting elected to local public office - on a shoestring budget. 

In real life, no one tells you what is happening. You pick “the truth” up by combining tidbits of information, gossip, newspaper fillers, rumor, confidential memos, telephone messages, fake news and maybe-fake-news-but-who-knows. A Hat Rack in a Snake Farm is written as a collection of the above which, together, reveal the story. This is an on-the-ground look at what happens when there are millions of public dollars "for the taking" and the corporate hyenas gather.

Students hate history. That’s because 95 percent of high school and college history students don’t know what they are supposed to be learning. History is not an academic subject; it’s a tool for life. If history teachers knew what they were doing, they’d be teaching their students to “think like a pirate". Which is exactly what this book does. 

A faux history of the people and events of the Palm Springs area from 1916-1930. 

Why would someone kill a miner, freeze his body solid on a glacier, and then drop it alongside the Juneau wharf, the one place where United States Marshal Gordon Whitford would be sure to find it? Does it have anything to do with the 250 pounds of gold that have just been extracted from the Alaska Gastineau Mine? And how were both the frozen body and the gold able to disappear off a steamship that made no stops between Juneau and Seattle?

History is the most boring subject in school. Don’t believe me? Ask any student. Or listen to the lead story in Newsweek’s combined issue of March 28 & April 4, 2011: “How to Get Smart Again.” If we as teachers want to make history a quality subject we have to make it relevant and interesting. That’s why I wrote The Murder of History: Why Students Hate History and What to Do About It.

Four decades ago, when I started my own small business, I looked for a book that would explain all the nuts and bolts of day-to-day survival as a small business. There wasn’t one. And there still isn’t one. So, I wrote one.

The Praxis of Seth is 18 hours in the life of technical writer who is suddenly immersed in a bundle of crimes which vanish upon inspection but for which he is hounded by authorities who have no legal authority but not by legal authorities who have authority. It’s a tale of fraud, deceit, duplicity, doublespeak, treachery, and trickery that is, in realty, not very far from the truth of what is going on in your town as you are reading this paragraph - and unusual because of the extended use of the Fourth Panel.

At the peak of the Cold War, Mitchell Minor was born to a military family living on Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan. Unknown to his parents, the base's groundwater was contaminated from firefighter foams (PFAS/PFOA), de-greaser, and jet fuel. His mom drank the poisonous water which caused Mitchell’s small head (microcephaly) and other birth defects. This book is for every family who feels overwhelmed and for friends and family to better understand how to help. The Minor family invites you to experience God’s love during their 30-year journey with Mitchell.

Cadzow, a full-blooded Athabaskan Native, becomes a pawn in a high stakes gamble by a malicious Juneau mine owner. Cadzow is falsely accused of robbery, and the mine owner anticipates that Cadzow will be caught and hanged. Since the native cannot reveal where the money was hidden, the mine owner, who had robbed his own mine, would end up with the money. But Cadzow is not stupid. He steps free of the trap and escapes across the Mendenhall Glacier into Canada ahead of the posse on his trail - led by the greedy mine owner.

What's it like to work as a legislative aide? What do you need to survive? If you don't know, you should be listening to this book.

Every one knows that our educational system is broke. How do you fix it? Well, here's how I'd do it. 

With so many sides to the legalization of marijuana, how do you know who’s right? Based on what is happening in Alaska right now, The Cannabis Stampede is an on-the-ground, narrative nonfiction look at the legalization of marijuana told from 30 perspectives. These perspectives include the housewife, aging hippy, police chief, doctor, school teacher, historian, Evangelical, Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, THC refugee, and half-way house owner along with the people who will be making the money: Pot delivery man, grower, importer, and edible product inventor.

This is a crime and science fiction novel. It's back to the flatlands for Reggie! It appears that a multi-planet mining company is manipulating the universe gold market. Once again, if the price of gold goes down too far, Cerberus will go ghost. And once again, like in book one, Reggie must find the new source of gold and to see if it exists or is just a scam.

This is an anecdotal approach to teaching high school students that history and economics are intertwined. The audiobook is designed to give the student a thumbnail sketch of a dozen events of merit in American history intertwined with the basic economic laws.

When Lightning Tickled History is a popular, narrative nonfiction, history audiobook designed as a supplemental history book for college students as well as a general interest audiobook. It is a light, breezy, historically-accurate collection of vignettes of incidents when lightning played in part in the drama of human affairs. It includes sections on lightning’s impact on the origin of life, Roman history, both Babylonian Captivities, Martin Luther, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Charles Darwin, Hindenburg, Nicholas Tesla, and the role of lightning in the modern age.

Half a Bubble Off Level is a 50,000-word young adult nonfiction book designed to be a supplementary text for middle school and high school social science classes. It gives an overview of 15 significant historical theories and their real world applications. The subjects and personalities include the Elenctic Method, Council of Nicaea, Martin Luther, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Henry Ford, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Einstein, Credit, and Externalities. The chapters are written in a light, breezy fashion so that the concepts are understandable.

History is the most boring subject in school. Don’t believe me? Ask any student. Or read the lead story in Newsweek March 28 and April 4, 2011: “How to Get Smart Again”. If we want to make history a quality subject we have to make it relevant and interesting. What we are going to need are books that offer a fresh perspective on why history is important. What we need are books that are understandable, entertaining, and educational. In a nutshell, books like Who Really Cares What Happened on March 3, 1903?