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Why Your Asphalt Shingles are Falling Apart and What You Can Do About It Contractor, Master Plumber, and author Tim Carter introduces his book Roofing Ripoff: Tim Carter's newer asphalt shingle roof failed long before it should. Is your shingle roof in bad shape too? Will you have to spend thousands of dollars soon to put on a new shingle roof? Carter, founder of AsktheBuilder.com, decided to ask his 51,000-plus newsletter subscribers if they had problems too. He was flooded with stories from people just like you from all across the USA. Tim decided to find out why shingles were failing long before they should. The top shingle manufacturers, and the association that represents them, failed to produce the answers Tim needed. He decided to investigate and what he discovered will shock and anger you. The good news is that while writing this book, Tim discovered a simple way to extend the life of your roof shingles by decades. Open the pages of Roofing Ripoff now and allow Tim to take you on a journey uncovering the deep secrets of why your shingles, and money, are headed to the landfill.  This is an amazing expose of an industry depending on planned obsolescence to fuel growth and not standing behind written guarantees. This book is well written and entertaining as we accompany Tim trying to find out why his shingles and your shingles are falling apart before the warranty is expired. I enjoyed this book a great deal and cannot recommend it highly enough. A big THANK YOU to Tim for bringing this problem to light, discovering a solution, and 5 stars for the book!  You can buy this book at:
http://shop.askthebuilder.com/roofing-ripoff-pdf-ebook/ https://www.amazon.com/Roofing-Ripoff-ebook https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34840469-roofing-ripoff You can follow Tim: https://twitter.com/AsktheBuilder http://roofingripoff.com/ http://www.askthebuilder.com/ Home improvement, DIY, home renovation, roofing, remodeling Copyright © 2017 Mark L Schultz except for the author's introduction
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Author Ishi Nobu introduces us to Unraveling Reality: Behind the Veil of Existence: Through colorful, illustrative stories that come from digging down to the roots of physics and biology, Unraveling Reality exposes the very nature of existence. Dissecting actuality, Unraveling Reality presents how the world really works, and why. It is a worldview consistent with the wisdom of enlightened sages from time immemorial, yet brazenly bolstered by modern science, with discoveries considered inscrutable. The conclusion of Unraveling Reality will astonish you, and may change your own world, for you can never unlearn the truth. Unraveling Reality is the opening salvo in the magnum opus Spokes of the Wheel. A comprehensive education for the inquisitive adult, the Spokes series covers the following disciplines: cosmogony and cosmology; Earth science, including geology and ecology; physics; chemistry; biology, including abiogenesis, genetics, life's history, and evolution; human physiology, diet, nutrition, and health; psychology and sociology, including history of; technology; economics, including history and theory; the human impact on the Earth (environmental ecology); and politics, including history of both theory and actuality. For more information, please go to the Ishi Nobu website: ishinobu.com.  I enjoyed this book a great deal. The author makes an interesting case for Eastern Mysticism contrasting many current areas of scientific investigation. He does an admirable job of pointing out the apparent weaknesses of many methods of systematic inquiry in the physical sciences. That research scientists have biases and assumptions that they are not always aware of is clearly brought forth. Those who are interested in the intersection of science, philosophy, and religion will enjoy this book. The author provides a glossary, index, and biographical information about the people mentioned in the book. Information that is helpful to readers of all levels. This is the first of several in a series. I give Unraveling Reality 4.8 stars! Fun to read and informative at the same time! I was provided a copy in advance of publication for the purpose of this review.  You can buy this book:
https://rdrpublishers.com/collections/new-age-spirituality/products/unraveling-reality-behind-the-veil-of-existence-by-ishi-nobu https://www.amazon.com/Unraveling-Reality-Behind-the-Veil-of-Existence https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unraveling-Reality-Behind-the-Veil-of-Existence You can follow Ishi Nobu: http://www.ishinobu.com/ philosophy, science, religion, spirituality, mysticism Copyright © 2017 Mark L Schultz except for the author's introduction Multi-genre published author Rosie Chapel introduces Once Upon an Earl: As we all know love has a habit of striking at the most inopportune moments and that sometimes fairy tales happen when we least expect them. Giles Trevallier, 5th Earl of Winchester – tired, cold and very wet – was lamenting his decision to try to outride the storm. Escaping from the hustle of the city, Giles was looking forward to a few months of peace and quiet, while he managed his vast country estate. Now all he wanted to do was to get home, change into dry clothes and sit in front of a roaring fire with a hot meal and a large tumbler of whisky. Fate, however, had other ideas and was about to intervene in the guise of a bedraggled female, who literally dropped at the Earl’s feet, soaked to the skin and more dead than alive; her sudden appearance turning his neat, orderly and, to be honest, rather boring existence completely upside down. Waking, briefly, in an unfamiliar room and in the arms of a very tall and dangerously handsome stranger no less, the young woman has no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. Under the tender care of the Earl’s household, she slowly starts to recover, eventually recalling that her name is Willow, although everything else continues to elude her. Following discreet enquiries into his unexpected guest – whose face haunts his every waking moment, Giles is shocked to discover that she is rumoured to be responsible for a fire that destroyed her family home and that her father’s body is presumed to be one of those recovered from the ashes. Suddenly this most respectable Earl is faced with the possibility that he is harbouring a criminal. While trying to unravel the mystery surrounding her, Giles realises that he is falling hopelessly in love with Willow, who unbeknownst to him is fighting similar emotions. And as with anything involving the heart, a thoughtless word or gesture has a tendency to thwart even Fate’s best-laid plans. Have Willow and Giles any chance of a happy ever after or will all manner of obstacles, such as misunderstandings, whispers of scandal, secret documents and foreign agents force them apart?  Kindle cover  Paperback cover I admit that I am a regency romance newbie. I know, hard to believe since I am so romantic. I have reviewed a couple other romance books before, but it is not my first genre choice for a new read. That being said, I was thoroughly smitten with this story. Rosie is so good at painting the story in my head with scenery, smells, and sounds, she stimulates all the senses. She makes great use of dialog and action balanced with narration. She handles POV quite well, all her characters come across as very real. This steamy historical romance will provide several hours of enjoyable reading. I have not once been disappointed with any of Rosie’s writing and this is no exception. I give Once Upon an Earl a score of 4.7 of 5 stars!  You can buy this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-an-Earl https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Once-Upon-an-Earl https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31569851-once-upon-an-earl You can follow Rosie: https://twitter.com/RosieChapel2015 https://www.facebook.com/RosieChapelTheAuthor/ http://rosiechapel.com/ romance, historical romance, regency romance Copyright © 2017 Mark L Schultz except for the author's introduction Humorist and author G. Patrick Vennebush introduces us to More Jokes 4 Mathy Folks: The description for the first book, Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks, fits for his second book, More Jokes 4 Mathy Folks. Who says math can’t be funny? In More Jokes 4 Mathy Folks as in Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks, Patrick Vennebush dispels the myth of the humorless mathematician. His quick wit comes through in this incredible compilation of jokes and stories. Intended for all math types, both More Jokes 4 Mathy Folks and Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks provide a comprehensive collection of math humor, each book containing over 400 jokes. This too is a book that all teachers from elementary school through college should have in their library. But the humor isn’t just for the classroom―it also appeals to engineers, statisticians, and other math professionals searching for some good, clean, numerical fun. From basic facts (“Why is 6 afraid of 7?”) to trigonometry (“Mathematical puns are the first sine of dementia”) and algebra (“Graphing rational functions is a pain in the asymptote”), no topic is safe. As Professor Jim Rubillo notes, “Math Jokes 4 Math Folks is an absolute gem for anyone dedicated to seeing mathematical ideas through puns, double meanings, and blatant “bad” jokes. Such perspectives help to see concepts and ideas in different and creative ways.”  I am so happy to say I kept my promise! I told you that a sequel to the first book “Math Jokes for Mathy Folks” was in progress, and here it is! If you want to see the other review: www.wordrefiner.com/book-reviews/-math-jokes-4-mathy-folks This book is all new material. Who would have guessed math could be so funny? The proof is here and I laughed a lot! There is something for all ages and levels of math fluency. Just ignore the stuff you don’t understand and enjoy the rest. I laughed a great deal and you will too! This book gets a matching 4.8 stars of 5!  You can buy this book:
https://rdrpublishers.com/collections/humor/products/more-jokes-4-mathy-folks https://www.amazon.com/More-Jokes-4-Mathy-Folks https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35330498-more-jokes-4-mathy-folks https://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Jokes-4-Mathy-Folks You can follow Patrick Vennebush: https://twitter.com/pvennebush https://mathjokes4mathyfolks.wordpress.com/ Published by: http://rdrpublishers.com/ humor, jokes, puns, riddles, cartoons, math, mathematics Copyright © 2017 Mark L Schultz except for the author's introduction |
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