It is a collection of jokes and stories. These jokes can be read and listened to or read and/or played to people who live, work or love others. The material is helpful to mind and body. It is funny, tasteful and likely to make most people laugh out loud. It’s all about feeling good, feeling much better, reducing sad feelings, healing mind and body. All anyone needs to do is to laugh loud and long to feel good and better. Yes, it works. It’s not a cure-all for aging and not a Fountain of Youth . . . simply a Fountain of Humor™ for all. It is a supply of funny jokes and stories that really helps, for a while, to reduce the depression about aging, the loss of loved ones, chronic illness, loss of sight, sound and mobility. Our jokes and stories are provided through our unique process of selection, customization and cleansing by our “Joke-Jury.” This combined publication of text and audio has been designed so that: A healthy person can see and hear the jokes and laugh. A blind or partially blind person can hear the jokes and laugh. A deaf or partially deaf person can see the jokes and laugh. Even the dying find something to laugh about for a moment in time and will ask for more jokes. My father-in-law, terminally ill with cancer, called often in his last year asking my wife and me to read a joke or two to him. Hearing him laugh from miles away also opened the door to comforting conversation and made it easier for all of us. This is mighty important for all of us. An 85-year-old, losing her mental capacities, repeatedly asked for our jokes to be read to her. It comforted her right up to her passing. A professional woman purchased the set for “signing” to groups of deaf people. She works with them as the audio version plays the jokes for her. How Best to Use Fountain of Humor in Groups: Instructions are provided on how to read them to diverse audiences in institutional settings or families or to their friends. We believe that the elderly, infirmed, families or just two people enjoy the togetherness and communal feeling that laughter brings. People love having jokes read to them. That “legitimizes” laughing out loud. Everyone wants to laugh, whether they are kids age 1 or 100.

Salty Language is the perfect book for anyone with a need to understand Marine Corps lingo. If you have ever wondered about terms like "Cookie Duster," "Big Chicken Dinner" and "Boondoggle" here's your chance to decipher them. Acronyms like ANGLICO, CACO and BOHICA are also defined, as well as "Old Corps" terms like "Battle Pin" and "Comshaw." Get a copy today, before someone gives you the "Green Weenie!" Makes a great gift for your "Alpha Unit" (spouse)!

Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures explores in innovative ways how food and language are intertwined across cultures and social settings. How do we talk about food? How do we interact in its presence? How do we use food to communicate? And how does social interaction feed us? The book assumes no previous linguistic or anthropological knowledge but provides readers with the understanding to pursue further research on the subject. With a full glossary at the end of the book and additional tools hosted on an eResources page (such as recommended web and video links and some suggested research exercises), this book serves as an ideal introduction for courses on food, language, and food-and-language in anthropology departments, linguistics departments, and across the humanities and social sciences. It will also appeal to any reader interested in the semiotic interplay between food and language.

Not As Lean, Not As Mean, Still A Marine! is the third installment of the Swift, Silent and Surrounded series. If you enjoyed the humorous sea stories, motivating narratives and blunt commentary in the previous volumes, you will love this one!

“America’s best book on making presentations strikes again.” –Don E. Shultz, Northwestern University The smart, witty, nationally bestselling guide to public speaking. “If you get nervous, just picture everyone in the audience naked.” We've all heard this piece of advice on public speaking before. But what about “Keep the ball alive!” or “Be a bit of Springsteen”? There’s more to being a great speaker than removing your audience’s clothes, and Ron Hoff’s I CAN SEE YOU NAKED goes beyond the basics to cleverly and insightfully demonstrate what an effective and engrossing presentation should look like. Hoff packs his book with funny and functional advice on how to overcome stage-fright and deliver the best possible speech for every occasion. I CAN SEE YOU NAKED will have you confidently facing a waiting audience—and, naked or not, they’ll be hanging on your every word.

Tattoos. Piercings. Anger. Sexuality. Social Media. Ever wonder how to handle the big issues you deal with at school and with your friends? The One Year Devos for Teen Girls can help . . . each day of the year. 365 daily devotional readings Provides a biblical perspective on 10 categories of topics for teens Invites teen girls to take an action step each day Topics include sexuality, bullying, self-worth, hypocrisy, social media, and more Join teen advocates Dannah Gresh and Suzy Weibel as they break down some of the tough issues teen girls face day after day. Just like trusted big sisters, Dannah and Suzy share from the wisdom they’ve picked up from their own lives and their work with teen girls. While the subject matter is modern, Gresh and Weibel point girls to the unchanging Word of God. They meets girls where they are and simply explain what God’s Word says about the issue. The devotional reads like a handbook on living as a teen girl in today’s society.

Obsolete Coast Guard patrol boat Kauai is upgraded with black budget funds by the Director of National Intelligence. Her new mission? Respond quickly and covertly for sensitive missions the Navy cannot handle in southern Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean. Enjoy Books 1 - 3, plus a bonus short story prequel with a savings of over 25%! Book 1 - Dagger Quest: An obsolete patrol boat is all that stands between the world and nuclear annihilation. Kauai and her crew find a drug-laden smashed and adrift north of the Florida Keys and end up in a race against a vicious and powerful international crime syndicate to find and recover the Russian nuclear warhead before its discovery can trigger a nuclear war. Book 2 - Caribbean Counterstrike: It's the deadliest nerve gas ever made, and it has fallen into the hands of a murderous Caribbean drug cult. A game-changing battlefield nerve gas in a secret lab hidden on an oil rig servicing ship has been seized by one of the most vicious drug cartels in existence and held for ransom. The best of the bad options is a covert raid by the newly-upgraded, stealth-equipped Cutter Kauai. Book 3 – Bravely and Faithfully: A New Captain's First Patrol Turns into a Fight for Their Lives. Opening with the rescue of a young family from a stricken sailboat in the middle of a major hurricane, culminating in the covert insertion and recovery of an assault team from a Caribbean island occupied by a superior Chinese military force. The crew and their new skipper must come together for the toughest missions they have ever faced. BONUS Short Story: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Miami": Young Coast Guard officer Ben Wyporek is reassigned to the patrol boat Kauai in Miami. It is an emergency transfer, and he is rushing to get on board as soon as possible. However, a life-changing incident intervenes in this short-story prequel to the Cutter Kauai Sea Adventure series. Reviews: Dagger Quest: "A highly entertaining cross between a seafaring adventure and a high-stakes military drama. The authenticity of the prose and the detailed technical writing makes readers forget this isn't a direct account of an international incident, while the dialogue is snappy and believable, and the narration keeps the suspense at a fever pitch to the very end." Self-Publishing Review Caribbean Counterstrike: "Hochsmann's meticulous prose hums with lived experience and authenticity, while the relationships onboard the Kauai only deepen in complexity. The author's ability to craft a blockbuster story while weaving in critical themes of trust, honor, and independence is a testament to his nuanced perspective on the complex subject matter. This gripping maritime thriller delivers in every way." Self-Publishing Review Bravely and Faithfully: A gripping high-stakes adventure on the sea. Lieutenant Haley Reardon assumes command of the tight-knit Kauai crew just in time for an incredibly dangerous assignment: apprehending a syndicate leader from a Chinese-controlled Haitian island. Hochsmann's dynamic cast, energetic prose, and tense plot - showcasing everything from perilous hurricane rescues to the liberation of human trafficking victims - make this novel an enjoyable must-read for fans of character-driven military fiction. ★★★★1/2 - The Independent Review of Books