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The true story of an unconventional solo dad - David Bertsch - raising four children in Lodi, California after his wife died from cancer. He passed on many words of wisdom to his children, each of whom tells in their own words how they remember their father.David Bertsch also had an unconventional philosophy.

OVERLAND TO SOUTH AMERICA BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION describes a 9,000 mile journey the author made from the United States to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1964. He made the entire trip overland by buses and trains, except for a short air hop over the Darien region of Panama and Colombia, where there was no road across. The fares for the buses, trains, and air hop totaled $199.Although prices have risen dramatically since then and now as this book is published for the first time in 2015, the journey detailed in this book remains one of the cheapest and most fascinating overland routes in the world.The author continued traveling overland from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, Uruguay, and then northward in Brazil to Rio de Janeiro and finally to Brasilia.His return to the United States was by air with a long stopover in Manaus, Brazil.This was a defining and life changing journey for the author, and a similar trip following the same routes detailed in this book can still be made today.

Living aboard a boat is a viable alternative to living in conventional housing. This book details this inexpensive and adventurous way of living. It gives a vivid account of the ten years that the author Jack Wiley made small boats his homes.For five years starting in 1971 he lived aboard a 21-1/2 foot long Westerly Warwick sailboat named Sea Puppy. His home ports were Santa Barbara, California, and San Diego, California. This was followed by a year of land living in a trailer house before he started living aboard a 17-foot long Dotline power boat named Boat-Boat in Stockton, California, on the California Delta in 1977. He lived aboard this boat for over a year and a half before switching to a 25-foot long Coronado sailboat named GO FOR IT, which became his floating home for the next three and a half years.

WHEELIE LIVING: ALL MY HOUSES HAVE WHEELS explores the possibilities of living in houses that have wheels, including RVs, park model trailer houses, and mobile homes. These are viable alternatives to living in houses fixed in one place on foundations. Houses on wheels are generally cheaper to own and live in than are conventional houses. This is generally true even if the houses on wheels are "permanently" parked, as mobile homes and park model trailer houses usually are. Some houses on wheels called recreational vehicles (RVs) - especially motorhomes, travel trailers, and fifth wheels - have the advantage that you can not only live in them but also travel in them.All of the houses that the author Jack Wiley lives in now - a 10 foot wide by 58 foot long mobile home and two small motorhomes that he uses for general transportation and for on-the-road RVing - have wheels, and this has been true for all of the houses he has lived in since February 1998, which totals up to about eighteen years. In addition to this, he had lived in three different trailer houses for a total of about five years previous to this.This book covers not only the how and why of his own wheelie living, but also how he has seen other people doing it. He also gives many other possibilities for doing it that he has heard of or thought of.

HOW TO RIDE A UNICYCLE covers equipment and the mechanics of unicycling and details a proven step-by-step method for learning to ride a unicycle. The book goes on from basic riding to performing skill such as mounting, turning, idling, riding backwards, and riding with a partner.

The author Jack Wiley wrote the first major book, THE UNICYCLE BOOK, ever published about unicycling. He now gives us the complete story of how he got started in unicycling when he was eleven years old. He learned to ride a unicycle, started building unicycles, and worked up an amateur act with a friend and performed at the Annual Fresno YMCA Gym Circus and at community events and schools.This book tells the story of how he designed and built unicycles and taught many people of all ages how to ride them. It gives the history of his unicycling writing and how he wrote more books about unicycling and related subjects than anyone before him.The final chapter is about novelty unicycling toys and whirligigs he designed and built.This is the first Unicycling Autobiography. There is no other book like it. It shows how far you can go on one wheel.

MY WRITING AND I: AN ODYSSEY OF SWITCHING CAREERS AND BECOMING A WRITER is a first person account of how the author Jack Wiley made a career switch in 1972 at 35 years of age that stunned his friends. Four years after earning a PhD, he quit his position as a research physiologist and became a writer. This was not an easy decision. His idea (or was it a dream?) was to make his living as a writer and to live aboard and do cruising in his sailboat, Sea Puppy. He was fed up being tied down in laboratories and classrooms and wanted a life of freedom and adventure. He wanted to go off on his own so that he could do his own thinking. However, he was by no means certain that he could make enough money from writing to support himself. He justified the decision with the idea that if the writing did not work out, He could always return to teaching and research.With not much money in the bank and two book contracts with piddling advances, he set sail to make this dream a reality. Fortunately, he owned Sea Puppy, and living aboard gave him an inexpensive place to live while he faced the challenge of making enough money to live on from his writing.This book is the story of what led up to this turning point in his life and the uncharted course his life took after that. It includes doing adventurous things that he wanted to do anyway so that he could write books about them, publishing with traditional publisher, moving on to self-publishing and starting his own one-person publishing company where he did on-demand publishing, and finally self-publishing with Amazon Kindle and CreateSpace. For forty-four years from 1972 to the time of writing of this book in 2016, he has made his living entirely from his writing. He is the author of more than fifty books.

HOW TO LIVE ABOARD YOUR OWN BOAT is a complete how-to guide for living aboard your own boat. You can turn a dream into a reality. Thousands of people are now living aboard boats, including individuals, couples, and families. Subjects include: From Dream to Reality; What to Look for in a Boat; Interior Layouts, Furnishings, and Décor; Legal Requirements and Insurance; Buying a Boat; Where to Live; Life in a Boat; Maintaining Your Boat; Making a Living; A Boating Education.

THE HOW-TO GUIDE TO HOW-TO WRITING covers the process of writing how-to articles and books, which includes selecting fertile how-to subjects, extracting material from your past experiences, generating new experiences, researching, writing, revising and polishing, and using photos, line drawings, and other illustrations to enhance your writing.THIS BOOK is based on the author's actual experiences. From 1972 until now he has made his living entirely from his writing, and the majority of this writing has been how-to articles and books.SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE: -How-To Writing-Past and Generated Experiences-Research and Learning-Writing and Illustrating-PublishingTWO VIABLE OPTIONS for having your how-to writing published - by traditional publishers and by self-publishing - are also covered. For self-publishing, using Kindle and/or CreateSpace are stressed.

THE DIABOLO BOOK introduces the diabolo - a popular spinning toy and performing device. Controlling the diabolo on a string with hand sticks is a fascinating and challenging activity. This book covers diabolo mechanics, equipment and workout areas, individual skills, partner and group skills, and competition and games.Here is a sample of the many fascinating skills detailed: the Toss and Catch, the Around the World, the Whip, and the Kangaroo Hop. Partner and group skills and competition add to the fun and challenges.

An "ultimate wheel" is a wheel with cranks and pedals that is ridden standing on the pedals. THE ULTIMATE WHEEL BOOK covers the history and development of ultimate wheels and the mechanics of riding them and gives step-by-step instructions for learning to ride them. Advanced skills such as jump mounting, idling, and riding backwards are covered. Partner and group skills and competition and performing are detailed. The ultimate wheel is fun and challenging.

NOVELTY UNICYCLING covers eleven different novelty unicycles: Animal-Saddle, Feet-Wheel, Off-Centered Wheel, Saddle and Handlebars, Dicycle, Midget, Handlebar Unit, Pole, Unibike, Handlebar, and Kangaroo. Instructions are given for construction of novelty cycles and learning to ride them. Novelty unicycles are fun to ride and they are ideal for demonstrations, parade riding, and performing.

Few variables have greater influence over employee productivity and retention than the relationship between employees and their immediate manager. However, until now, what employees most want from managers has not been the subject of rigorous scientific analysis. The Employee-Centric Manager, by world-renowned organizational psychologist, author, and consultant Dr. Jack Wiley, reveals what employees most want from their manager and how that influences employee engagement, interpersonal team chemistry, and team performance. Based on a survey of 80,000 employees representing 27 countries, all major job titles, and three generations across all major industries, The Employee-Centric Manager reveals the five behaviors, two values, and one skill that any manager at any level within an organization can leverage to improve managerial effectiveness and ultimately create great career experiences. A groundbreaking analysis with enormous practical implications, The Employee-Centric Manager is a handbook that offers easy-to-follow guidance that managers can put into action immediately to improve employee engagement, retention, and productivity. Unlike the anecdotal advice offered in most management self-help books, the eight attributes identified have been validated to account for 67% of managerial effectiveness ratings. Written in a concise and compelling style, filled with practical tips and examples, The Employee-Centric Manager is a must-read for anyone responsible for managing people in any industry worldwide.

Is it possible that the way to win in business is to give employees exactly what they want? Yes. As RESPECT reveals, managers and organizations who give their employees what they want outperform those who don't. This is no hunch it's a fact based on more than 25 years of global research. Drs.