Best Selling Books by Eric Swanson

The Law Enforcement Field Guide(tm) provides instant access to critical information in an easy-to-use checklist format. At only 3"x5", this guide fits in your pocket, is waterproof, alcohol-fast, and street tough.This guide covers: Patrol Information & Tactics Updated DUI Detection & Enforcement EMS with New AHA Cardiac Guidelines Updated Hazmat Response Spanish Commands Updated Incident Guides Officer Safety Active Shooter Response Drug Impairment Recognition Response to Suspicious Packages

The Homeland Security Field Guide Is An Essential Tool For Law Enforcement, Fire & Rescue, First Responders, EMS Personnel, Nurses And Physicians. Includes: Chemical Diagnosis Guidelines, Suspicious Packages, Explosives, Incendiary Compounds, Booby Traps, Suicide Bombings, Biological Agents, Such As Anthrax, Ebola, Q Fever, Smallpox, Tularemia, Cholera, Plague, Hemorrhagic Fevers, Ricin, Blister Agents, Nerve Agents, Cyanide, Ammonia, Phosgene, Chlorine, Mustard, Lewisite, Tabun, Sarin, Soman, VX, And Much More! This Handy Pocket Guide Is Only 3" X 5," Fits Easily In Your Pocket, Has Color-Coded Tabs, And Contains The Latest Information For WMD And Terrorism Response. Covers: Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Terrorist Incident, Incident Command, Hazmat Tactics / Decon Special Rescue Situations, Medical Response / Triage, Radioactive Substances, Dispatch Procedure, Biological Hazards, Personal Security.

Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War-its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

According to the authors, everyone''s life is a loan from God and should be lived, used, and enjoyed in such a way that his or her story impacts and influences the lives of others.

We all go through seasons of desperation and disappointments. Maybe we go to college with thoughts of making a difference in the world, but then after the first semester we start to wonder if we will even get a job. Perhaps it could be as simple as being married and fulfilling a dream of having a loving family. But then we approach 30 years of age and then 40 years and a season of depression seeps into every thought as reality hits us and now we struggle with what to live for. But then there are others who end up with the dream job or getting married to the prince charming or beauty queen, but then life doesn''t end up the way we had hoped. We struggle to get up for work in the morning. The prince charming or beauty queen turns out to be a beast and we end up having a season of depression and we wonder if dreams are even worth having. I think we all know of someone who is struggling with disappointment. Maybe we have friends who are looking at the road they find themselves and are wonder if they should give up, keep going, or change directions. I imagine there are many self-help books with what they perceive to be the solution. So how does this book stand out? I feel the solution to the problem of disappointment is found in the Bible and specifically how we view God working in our lives. I refer back to my personal experience as I guide the reader through how I overcame, and still gain victory, through my seasons of disappointment. Let''s go on a journey together as we enter into the realm of joy and away from the trap of depression.

Are you ready for an adventure to find lost souls? Derek has just rescued his family from the evil witch Sally and the ruthless demon Rah. But Timothy wasn''t the only child Rah wanted to sacrifice. There were others rescued from certain death. It looked like there would be a happy ending, but then tragedy struck. After the great battle, moms and dads only had to look on the victor on the hill, but all decided to give into fear and looked upon a beast instead. What should have been shouts of joy ended up being cries of heartache and anguish as all the parents vanished, leaving behind precious children. Now a decision has to be made.Who will go and look for the lost parents? The only man up to the task is Derek. He has grown much since his first encounters with the workers of evil. He struggled at times, but wisdom, courage, and a renewed mind was given to him. He has seen the destructive nature of Rah and Sally and was able to overcome near death experiences. But he won''t be alone. I new friend named Jacob decides to help Derek in this important task. Both Derek and Jacob know the task ahead of them won''t be easy. They will face trials that will make everything done in the past seem like child''s play. There will be both friends and foes. There will be elves and dwarfs. There will be a great battle with horsemen and a dragon. Who will win in the search for the lost souls? Are the elves friends? Why are the dwarfs on top of a mountain? Will the dragon kill Derek before he can finish his rescue mission? Will Derek''s powerful friends show up in time? All these questions and more will be answered in this epic tale of adventure. Are you ready for this thrill ride?

Cats have lion hearts in little packages.--Eric Swanson. After watching his older male cat teach an infant female cat how to eat and groom. Swanson was inspired to write HERO CATS. Anyone who has ever doubted the devotion or altruism of cats will forever be swayed by these stories of incredible felines.

Hyporheic water is thought to infiltrate at the head of a riffle which in turn is complemented by upwelling back to the stream at the tail of the riffle in a pool-riffle-pool (PRP) sequence. Heat tracing is a potentially useful method to characterize these hyporheic flow paths and quantify associated fluxes. Temperature was monitored within a PRP sequence for several days. Temperature in the hyporheic zone reflected the diel temperature change in the river but not uniformly. The observed thermal pattern exhibited deeper penetration of thermal oscillations below the head pool and shallower penetration below the tail pool. This pattern is consistent with the conceptual model of hyporheic exchange over a PRP sequence. One-dimensional analytical heat transport models were used at different points below the PRP sequence to estimate distributed vertical fluid fluxes. The calculated fluxes exhibit a trend that follows the expected distribution for a PRP sequence but modified for a losing stream. Deviation of both magnitude and distribution of fluxes from the conceptual ''downwelling-to-upwelling'' model is partly due to the dominantly losing conditions at the study site but the trends are consistent with a losing stream undergoing hyporheic exchange. Violation of the assumptions in the analytical models most likely adds error to flux estimates. For this study, flux estimation methods using a temperature time series amplitude analysis more closely matched field measurements than phase methods.

The shape and motion of bedforms are envisioned to arise as a consequence of a hierarchical cascade of interactions that occur within a bedform field. Interactions within the field are driven by conditions external to the bedform field, called boundary conditions. One such boundary condition is transport regime, the annual cycle of sediment transporting winds that drive uneven movement and deformation of bedforms. Paradoxically, uneven bedform movement results in geometric organization, as bedform crests align to wind regime. High resolution mapping of bedform crest movement reveals stochastic crest motion that acts to maintain the geometric organization of the bedform field. Stochastic motion of bedforms is driven by the interaction of bedform topography with sediment transporting flows. One such interaction occurs when oblique bedform crests create a wake containing trailing helical vortices. Each trailing helical vortex may preferentially route sediment to or away from a downstream bedform. This routing causes deformation or ablation of the downstream bedform. Either way, a section of the downstream bedform may deform to an oblique orientation. The oblique section may also trail a helical wake and further propagate stochastic bedform motion downstream. Bedform field boundary conditions provide an external influence on stochastic bedform motion. A numerical model of dynamic bedform topography is fueled by four sets of boundary conditions: a uni-modal and bi-modal wind regime each investigated with and without the restriction of a linear bedform source area. The chosen boundary conditions are demonstrated to influence the shape and stochastic motion of bedforms within the field the rate at which the bedforms grow and mature. Fields of bedforms, driven by boundary conditions may leave a stratigraphic record of their stochastic motion. Given sufficient time, boundary conditions are transient. A numerical experiment is performed to investigate the preservation of signals from both stochastic dune motion and a transient boundary condition, the strengthening and weakening of sediment transport with time. The numerical experiment demonstrates that stochastic dune motion and transient boundary conditions influence the preservation of bedform topography in the resulting stratigraphic record.

Many researchers have used federal funds futures rates as measures of financial markets'' expectations of future monetary policy. However, to the extent that federal funds futures reflect risk premia, these measures require some adjustment to account for these premia. In this paper, we document that excess returns on federal funds futures have been positive on average and strongly countercyclical. In particular, excess returns are surprisingly well predicted by macroeconomic indicators such as employment growth and financial business-cycle indicators such as Treasury yield spreads and corporate bond spreads. Excess returns on eurodollar futures display similar patterns. We document that simply ignoring these risk premia has important consequences for the expected future path of monetary policy. We also show that risk premia matter for some futures-based measures of monetary policy surprises used in the literature.

A six-week, church wide experience that leads children, students and adults through a study of what it means to live a life on loan from God. A life serving others, building relationships, and earning the right to share your faith.

A young actor, the son of a minister, tries to come to terms with his homosexuality.