The essential new guide for project managers and leaders. Project managers are often responsible for big teams and millions (sometimes billions) of dollars to deliver successful outcomes on time and within budget. But the reality is, most complex projects don't live up to their promise - they often fail, under-deliver or get delivered but burn out everyone in the process. Author and experienced project manager, Kieran Duck, argues that this is because the normal approach to project managem...

Love forbidden by prejudice; death at the hands of unbridled hate; and a family history expunged because of societal inequities are the secrets unlocked when the identity of Charlotte Wickham is revealed.The saga begins with Danny finding Charlotte's diary and wedding photo. Danny is curious and asks her aunt about them. Auntie answers, "This book is the story of an Indian boy who dared to do what one Caucasian girl's father deemed unforgivable." She then starts telling Danny and h...

In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan faced the death penalty, and Duck was there to provide evidence that the environment in which Jonathan had grown up mitigated the seriousness of his alleged crimes. Duck's exploration led him to Jonathan's church, his elementary, middle, and high...

The true stories of the Duck Brothers using their tricycles to race outside and imagining they are racing in NASCAR..............................................................................

What would you do if you lost your wife and kids and somebody took away your job in the company you’d started? If there was nothing left of your old life and your new one held only solitude and isolation? And you shut yourself away. You became a pariah. People hated and despised you, and they feared you with good reason. And then you found something that shouldn’t have been there, that you couldn’t explain. An ancient relic from a forgotten age of witchcraft and superstition, but ultimatel...

The Smart Guide to the Bible: Prophecies of the Bible gives you the truth about fulfilled and future prophecies. You'll learn how to discern the Sovereign God's many messages-and messengers-as you discover all He has planned for you.Smart Guide to the Bible is a series of simplified commentaries designed to uncomplicate God's word for everyday Bible readers. Every page contains handy features or learning aids like these:cross-references to other Scri...

My hope is the stories I write are enthralling and have well like character's you get attached to. I would like you to imagine the stories as events enfolding in front of you......................

Keeper Williams is in love for the first time. The only problem is she is in love with a horrible liar. She does all she can to forgive his heartless antics by making excuses for him along the way. Dealing with Mickeys snake behavior is one thing but when her personal business becomes news at work, she finds herself on the verge of a mental breakdown. Larry is Keepers best friend and Mickeys biggest enemy. He can see him for the man he really is but Keeper does not heed his advice. That is...

Robert Bench served six years in the Navy Seals when he decided he had enough of the brass and politicians wasting American lives so they could look good. He joined the Miami Police Department and earned his gold shield faster than anyone else in the history of the Department. Robert was proud of his gold shield earning it through action not being a political hack using his knack for solving the most difficult homicides which helped him stay out of trouble when he would stretch the rules a...

This volume is intended as a folio of arrangements from the repertoire of a working musician. As such, there is only a minimum of discussion about the technical aspects of playing. Students who have already dealt with the American style called fingerpicking or fingerstyle guitar, which is quite distinct from other kinds of guitar playing, will be at an advantage. The easiest arrangements here are early intermediate level, while the other end of the scale includes pieces that may challenge ...

It’s 2049 and in a rural North Devon village, a retired Tech entrepreneur wistfully reflects on the ravages of old age and the lost wonder of youth. Following a strange visit from an old colleague and ex-lover, he is offered an unexpected opportunity to reboot his brain inside the body of an android, the key, he hopes, to an eternal life.As he tries to create a duplicate of his own consciousness, he ponders nervously on the likely success, and indeed the wisdom of the act. After al...