Best Selling Books by Michael Tyler

One good cop. One part-time hooker. Both dead. Michael Griffin is a cop. Narcotics. Tough as nails. The man you want at your back when things get bad-the man to avoid if you are bad. His friends have been murdered; one tagged a suicide, the other discarded like yesterday''s garbage. But Griffin values his friends, doesn''t sort them by race or profession, and he wants justice. True justice. If he can''t get it from within the system, he''ll take his game out of bounds, rules be damned. The Vendetta is the story of Griffin''s pursuit of renegade criminals responsible for a string of brutal murders. Cops and mobsters, wives and lovers, hookers and dealers-meet them all as Griffin plunges into the murky depths of the underworld. Street-smarts and gut instinct put him on the trail, pure determination keeps him alive when he becomes the hunted, and don''t-give-a-damn courage carries him through to the end of his quest. "Tyler has penned a mystery-thriller masterpiece. It''s got it all: drug dealers, the mob, prostitutes, strippers, bikers, murderers, traitors, and a courageous and talented team of street cops?all told with such authenticity, wit, page-turning realism, and edge-of-your seat suspense that it would make you swear the author must have worked the dark streets of this very town as an undercover agent himself. Not for the faint of heart. It''s HOT!" Robert Gelinas Author, The Mustard Seed

Before leaving home, three children gaze into a mirror with feelings of self-doubt, wondering what people will think of them. They adventure out into the world, befriending each other along the way. Their mutual quest for self-assurance takes them to a grand park, with an even grander work of art --- a magical reflective bean. There they meet their inner voice, the image of their self-confidence reflected in their smiling faces. Filled up with self-acceptance, possibility and belief, the children dream about all that they can be. As the children return home, they take with them the gift of knowing that the truth of who they are lies within the mirror of their heart.

Topics covered: The evolution, distribution, taxonomy and physical characteristics of Britain''s two native oaks, the pedunculate and the sessile; Ecological significance and the flora and fauna associated with oaks; Pests, diseases and galls as well as the impact of pollution and the likely effect of climate change; Ancient oaks, conservation, and the general and cultural history of the oak. Includes a useful glossary and an extensive bibliography

TWO BOYS TIME TRAVEL

Bored and fed up with life, staring down a 50th birthday, Mike Tyler was looking for a change. Life had become routinized and unexciting. Maybe it was a mid-life crisis, or maybe just a yearning for one last big adventure. Mike decides to try hiking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail, just to see what happens.Mike convinces his wife, Margo, to join him. Together they embark on a five-month hike full of anticipation. They hike through some of the most stunning and remote places in the country on a trail full of unique, offbeat characters. But the trail had even more to offer than either of them had anticipated.

Energy problem as an obstacle to development, energy saving by telecommunication, improving transport efficiency, audio teleconferencing, videoconferencing.

Abstract: Online discursive practices often take place within a context know as an age of outrage. This culture of outrage dominates the current socio-political condition showing few, if any, signs of subsiding. In fact, this project suggests that outrage culture is an inescapable societal framework within which rhetors operate today. Outrage culture can be understood as the tendency for individuals to react publicly to any rhetorical action that is deemed offensive, insensitive, or uncivil in nature. These outraged reactions are often mob-like in nature; they are polarized, politicized, and enacted quickly without further investigation into the context, meaning, and intentions of the original rhetorical action. This project asks: under what circumstances can rhetors offer stylized answers for dealing with socio-political issues in an age of outrage? This research reveals that some rhetors use disruptive rhetoric to challenge hierarchical structures, utilizing the rhetorical concept of “impiety,” which in turn can create publics within digital, discursive spaces. These digitally networked publics demonstrate how groups coalesce and self-organize in order to discuss, negotiate, and contest meaning in response to disruptive acts. This project also proposes that affective releases can sustain networked publics through public displays of emotion and intensity as they seek to reorder and reorganize disrupted hierarchies. Archival research on digital platforms provides digital methods to locate the formulation of these networked, affective publics by tracking specific hashtags responding to disruptive rhetorical strategies. Hashtags become sites of affect wherein publics debate, deliberate, and contest deeper meanings of messages offered by disruptive rhetors. Additionally, this project utilizes close reading methods to reveal the affective nature of these hashtagged responses, which create rhetorical space for publics to feel their way into understanding. This project’s goal is to not only propose new approaches for understanding disruptive rhetorical strategies, but also offer methods to track and locate future disruptions in an age of outrage

Business efficiency, telephone service quality, benefit-cost ratios.

Service universel dans un système où les exploitants publics de télécommunication exercent un monopole / système où les exploitants sont en concurrence / mesures réglementaires / innovations dans le domaine des services de la technologie et de l''architecture des réseaux.

Niveau des taxes d''interconnexion / tarification "en gros" ou "au détail" / surtaxes sociales / évaluation en moyenne ou par catégories / intégration ou séparation / taxes par minute ou taxes de capacité / équipement des locaux de l''abonné / interconnexion des différents réseaux avec le RTPC.

Données de base sur l''acccord de Marrakech et l''OMC / influence du régime de l''OMC sur le commerce des services / GATS / les travaux du NGBT / conséquences et possibilités.

Les organismes et les processus de réglementation dans un environnement des télécommunications en mutation / répartition des pouvoirs / identification et définition des problèmes / méthodes d''examen et de prise de décisions / mise en oeuvre et exécution.