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Restaurant Success By The Numbers, Second Edition: A Money-Guy’s Guide To Opening the Next New Hot Spot By Rogers Fields chats with Dr. Alvin
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Restaurant Success By The Numbers, Second Edition: A Money-Guy’s Guide To Opening the Next New Hot Spot By Rogers Fields chats with Dr. Alvin

Business

Restaurant Success By The Numbers, Second Edition: A Money-Guy’s Guide To Opening the Next New Hot Spot By Rogers Fields chats with Dr. Alvin

Roger Fields Click Here To Listen Ninety percent of all restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! A man of many hats—money-guy, restaurant owner, and restaurant consultant—Roger Fields shows how a restaurant can survive its first year and keep diners coming back for years. Featuring real-life start-up stories (including many of the author’s own), this comprehensive how-to walks readers through the logistics of opening a restaurant: concept, location, menu, ambiance, staff, and, most important, profit. Updated to address current trends such as food trucks and to tackle online opportunities (and pitfalls!) including Groupon, Yelp, and Twitter, Restaurant Success by the Numbers remains a critical resource for navigating the [...]

By DrAlvin|July 14th, 2014|Business|Comments Off

The Impossible Will Take A Little While: Perseverance And Hope In Troubled Times By Paul Rogat Leob chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Impossible Will Take A Little While: Perseverance And Hope In Troubled Times By Paul Rogat Leob chats with Dr. Alvin

Leadership, Literature, Self-Help, Spirituality

The Impossible Will Take A Little While: Perseverance And Hope In Troubled Times By Paul Rogat Leob chats with Dr. Alvin

Paul Rogat Loeb Click Here To Listen What keeps us going when times get tough? How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of cynicism, fear, and seemingly overwhelming odds? In The Impossible Will Take A Little While, they answer these questions in their own words, creating a conversation among some of the most visionary and eloquent voices of our times. Ten years after his original edition, Paul Rogat Loeb has comprehensively updated this classic work on what it’s like to go up against Goliath--whether South African apartheid, Mississippi segregation, Middle East dictatorships, or the corporations driving global climate change. Without sugarcoating the obstacles, these stories inspire the [...]

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Days Of Rage By Brad Taylor chats with Dr. Alvin
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Days Of Rage By Brad Taylor chats with Dr. Alvin

Fiction, Military, War

Days Of Rage By Brad Taylor chats with Dr. Alvin

Brad Taylor-Days of Rage Click Here To Listen The Taskforce is used to being the hunter, but this time they’re the hunted. Intent on embroiling the US in a quagmire that will sap its economy and drain its legitimacy, Russia passes a potential weapon of mass destruction to Boko Haram, an extreme Islamic sect in Nigeria. A relic of the Cold War, the Russian FSB believes the weapon has deteriorated and is no longer effective, but they are wrong. Boko Haram has the means for mass destruction, which will be set loose upon a multitude of unsuspecting innocents on one of the world’s grandest stages. Trying to solve the riddle of who might be stalking [...]

By DrAlvin|July 14th, 2014|Fiction, Military, War|Comments Off

Wayfaring Stranger By James Lee Burke chats with Dr. Alvin
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Wayfaring Stranger By James Lee Burke chats with Dr. Alvin

Crime, Fiction

Wayfaring Stranger By James Lee Burke chats with Dr. Alvin

James Lee Burke Click Here To Listen It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde’s stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes. There, they enter the [...]

By DrAlvin|July 14th, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter chats with Dr. Alvin
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Cop Town by Karin Slaughter chats with Dr. Alvin

Crime, Fiction, Mystery

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter chats with Dr. Alvin

Karin Slaughter Click Here To Listen Karin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval, a serial killer targeting cops, and a divided police force tasked with bringing a madman to justice. Atlanta, 1974: As a brutal murder and a furious manhunt rock the city’s police department, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. She’s determined to defy her privileged background by making her own way—wearing a badge and carrying a gun. But [...]

By DrAlvin|July 14th, 2014|Crime, Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off