Books with author Michael Larrain

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * dos, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken

Here is the second volume of "The Girl With the Loom in Her Room" series of adventure stories. In volume one, Wilder used her magical loom primarily to create beautiful mornings for her mother and father to enjoy, and helped them regain their love for one another. Now she embarks on a case that any little girl would thrill to. To rescue a stolen giraffe.

The third entry in "The Girl With the Loom in Her Room" series finds our young heroine, Wilder, working at her loom in the first of morning when she catches sight of an old hobo on an approaching railroad train with his traveling companion, a goat named Ulysses with whom he rides the rails to see the country and make music together. When they pull into her town, she sees them become separated and decides to employ her loom, her quick wits, her speed afoot and her network of local associates to reunite the wandering pair. It becomes Wilder's grandest, and goatiest adventure.

In the fourth and final entry in "The Girl With the Loom in Her Room" series, our ingenious young heroine, Wilder, uses her magical loom to discoverer an arctic wolf far from home, trying to feed and shelter her litter of pups in the hills above Wilder's town. She makes it her mission to befriend the wolf, gain her trust and find a way to move the little lupine family back to the frozen north from whence they came.

It’s difficult to believe it happens, but forced guardianship fraud runs unchecked throughout the nation’s probate courts. Deemed incapacitated by the courts, elderly citizens are robbed of all decision-making rights and assigned professional guardians whose only interest lies in profiting from their vulnerable charges’ estates.Guardianship exposes a web of murderous profiteering, all sanctioned by a corrupt legal system. As guardianship firms take everything they can, state attorneys turn a blind eye. Crooked cops harass family members into silence, while the very attorneys you hired won’t help for fear of losing their licenses.These are the people who may one day control your loved one’s health care, living arrangements, finances, and very life. Ostensibly created to prevent financial abuse by caregivers and family members, professional guardianship instead gave the legal system carte blanche to destroy lives – as author Michael Larsen discovered when his family tried to help a friend suffering under a corrupt guardianship firm.Here is a guide for families to better understand a corrupt system, delineating what happens when a loved one falls victim to professional guardianship companies, and offering suggestions to minimize your risk of what amounts to legally sanctioned abuse.

It’s difficult to believe it happens, but forced guardianship fraud runs unchecked throughout the nation’s probate courts. Deemed incapacitated by the courts, elderly citizens are robbed of all decision-making rights and assigned professional guardians whose only interest lies in profiting from their vulnerable charges’ estates.Guardianship exposes a web of murderous profiteering, all sanctioned by a corrupt legal system. As guardianship firms take everything they can, state attorneys turn a blind eye. Crooked cops harass family members into silence, while the very attorneys you hired won’t help for fear of losing their licenses.These are the people who may one day control your loved one’s health care, living arrangements, finances, and very life. Ostensibly created to prevent financial abuse by caregivers and family members, professional guardianship instead gave the legal system carte blanche to destroy lives – as author Michael Larsen discovered when his family tried to help a friend suffering under a corrupt guardianship firm.Here is a guide for families to better understand a corrupt system, delineating what happens when a loved one falls victim to professional guardianship companies, and offering suggestions to minimize your risk of what amounts to legally sanctioned abuse.

Magic is dead. Or is it? Young ‘Lucky’ Brown has the amazing ability to work magic, although he has no idea how he does it. But the US Army can do magic too, in the form of sophisticated android soldiers, Flexbots, that can work magic, or at least good science. But when the Flexbots are unexpectedly knocked out of action, the Army borrows Lucky for a secret mission. Can this teenage conjurer help keep the Army, and perhaps the country, safe while staying a step ahead of the local bullies that are constantly trying to ruin his life?