Have you ever wanted to travel the King’s Highway in Jordan and walk down the famous Siq Gorge to the ancient city of Petra? Or wanted to spend an Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem? Wondered how you would feel if stuck with a flat tyre in the middle of the Sudanese desert at sunrise? Or pondered about the Call to Prayer as it echoes repeatedly across Istanbul at sunset? Have you ever wondered how so many people live and survive in the Middle East without the rules and regulations of western building, working, and plumbing?
Meet Shazam the Jordanian taxi driver, the boys in the Sea of Shoeshine, Mr Ali and his famous Green Door Pizza in Jerusalem, Russell from Noosa, and the Great Paperweights of Giza as you travel on a journey of adventure, mishaps, revelations, architectural wonders, and lack of plumbing, though Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey. And don’t forget the Cats of Istanbul, the Cairo Cat Shop, and Camel School and the Art of Haggling .
In 1997, architect Mahalath Halperin, together with her colleague and his wife, Peter and Pauline Buckwell, spent four crazy weeks travelling by plane, train, and automobile throughout the Middle East on a journey to discover architecture, culture, and of course, plumbing. And they found lots of cats along the way. This is the story of that adventure.

Have you ever wanted to travel the King’s Highway in Jordan and walk down the famous Siq Gorge to the ancient city of Petra? Or wanted to spend an Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem? Wondered how you would feel if stuck with a flat tyre in the middle of the Sudanese desert at sunrise? Or pondered about the Call to Prayer as it echoes repeatedly across Istanbul at sunset? Have you ever wondered how so many people live and survive in the Middle East without the rules and regulations of western building, working, and plumbing?
Meet Shazam the Jordanian taxi driver, the boys in the Sea of Shoeshine, Mr Ali and his famous Green Door Pizza in Jerusalem, Russell from Noosa, and the Great Paperweights of Giza as you travel on a journey of adventure, mishaps, revelations, architectural wonders, and lack of plumbing, though Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey. And don’t forget the Cats of Istanbul, the Cairo Cat Shop, and Camel School and the Art of Haggling .
In 1997, architect Mahalath Halperin, together with her colleague and his wife, Peter and Pauline Buckwell, spent four crazy weeks travelling by plane, train, and automobile throughout the Middle East on a journey to discover architecture, culture, and of course, plumbing. And they found lots of cats along the way. This is the story of that adventure.

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Learn how to enjoy life more.
Learn how to win every fight.
Learn how to get more sex…need I say more?
Whether you’re single, starting a relationship or wanting to revitalize the one you already have,Emotional Sex is like a tour guide designed to help you discover wisdom and valuable information about yourself, your partner and your relationship in order to make it GREAT!

“Three weeks have passed since I read Emotional Sex and our relationship keeps getting better and better! Thank you for the tools, the stories, the questions, the perspective…I can’t thank you enough!
C.O. Greenville, SC

“Chad has a way of explaining how men and women work and what they need – in a humorous, sometimes blunt – yet powerful way. His words, examples, and questions cut through all the stories from my past that were hindering my relationship in the present.” J.W. Kitchener, ON

Learn how to enjoy life more.
Learn how to win every fight.
Learn how to get more sex…need I say more?
Whether you’re single, starting a relationship or wanting to revitalize the one you already have,Emotional Sex is like a tour guide designed to help you discover wisdom and valuable information about yourself, your partner and your relationship in order to make it GREAT!

“Three weeks have passed since I read Emotional Sex and our relationship keeps getting better and better! Thank you for the tools, the stories, the questions, the perspective…I can’t thank you enough!
C.O. Greenville, SC

“Chad has a way of explaining how men and women work and what they need – in a humorous, sometimes blunt – yet powerful way. His words, examples, and questions cut through all the stories from my past that were hindering my relationship in the present.” J.W. Kitchener, ON

Desperate and overwhelmed by the mind-numbing sameness of each day during ten months of unemployment and no interviews, our heroine Laurie slowly unravels as she lowers her employment expectations. Coming apart at the seams from the pounding boredom, she accepts a job she is extremely overqualified for, because she is willing to “take anything at this point.” Watch as Laurie’s flawed and negative thinking takes her “anything” job from bad to worse to intolerable. Based on a true story, Unemployed shows how Laurie’s family, including a crazy and outspoken mother-in-law, gets what they’re thinking about, for better or worse, each and every time. Like a swarming band of locusts, the family brings on nervousness, lack of money, a raucous trip in an inner tube, a whopping case of hemorrhoids, the pursuit of a replacement dog (just in case), the medicinal consumption of gallons of red wine, and some pretty lively dinner conversation. Laurie’s thoughts take one shockingly simple turn, and the door to the life of her dreams swings wide open. If you’re unemployed, working in a job you hate, have the boss from hell, have a crazy mother-in-law, or you simply like to laugh, you will relate to Unemployed: How Desperation Led Me to the Worst Job Ever.

Desperate and overwhelmed by the mind-numbing sameness of each day during ten months of unemployment and no interviews, our heroine Laurie slowly unravels as she lowers her employment expectations. Coming apart at the seams from the pounding boredom, she accepts a job she is extremely overqualified for, because she is willing to “take anything at this point.” Watch as Laurie’s flawed and negative thinking takes her “anything” job from bad to worse to intolerable. Based on a true story, Unemployed shows how Laurie’s family, including a crazy and outspoken mother-in-law, gets what they’re thinking about, for better or worse, each and every time. Like a swarming band of locusts, the family brings on nervousness, lack of money, a raucous trip in an inner tube, a whopping case of hemorrhoids, the pursuit of a replacement dog (just in case), the medicinal consumption of gallons of red wine, and some pretty lively dinner conversation. Laurie’s thoughts take one shockingly simple turn, and the door to the life of her dreams swings wide open. If you’re unemployed, working in a job you hate, have the boss from hell, have a crazy mother-in-law, or you simply like to laugh, you will relate to Unemployed: How Desperation Led Me to the Worst Job Ever.

Desperate and overwhelmed by the mind-numbing sameness of each day during ten months of unemployment and no interviews, our heroine Laurie slowly unravels as she lowers her employment expectations. Coming apart at the seams from the pounding boredom, she accepts a job she is extremely overqualified for, because she is willing to “take anything at this point.” Watch as Laurie’s flawed and negative thinking takes her “anything” job from bad to worse to intolerable. Based on a true story, Unemployed shows how Laurie’s family, including a crazy and outspoken mother-in-law, gets what they’re thinking about, for better or worse, each and every time. Like a swarming band of locusts, the family brings on nervousness, lack of money, a raucous trip in an inner tube, a whopping case of hemorrhoids, the pursuit of a replacement dog (just in case), the medicinal consumption of gallons of red wine, and some pretty lively dinner conversation. Laurie’s thoughts take one shockingly simple turn, and the door to the life of her dreams swings wide open. If you’re unemployed, working in a job you hate, have the boss from hell, have a crazy mother-in-law, or you simply like to laugh, you will relate to Unemployed: How Desperation Led Me to the Worst Job Ever.