This thoroughly updated third edition provides fresh insights into how and why organizations change, and why attempts to implement change commonly fall short. The authors explore the topic through contemporary perspectives such as hybrid work models, digital transformation, sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.Rather than promoting one single formula, the book presents 13 distinct philosophies on change, from rational planning and psychological approaches to systems, ...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up seventeen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading."—Tangen...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

140 Civil War Journals, Diaries and Memoirs assembles an expansive documentary chorus from the American Civil War, joining battlefield recollections, camp journals, prison narratives, naval observations, military analysis, and retrospective memoir. Its range of forms preserves the uneven textures of lived history: immediate diary entries register uncertainty and exhaustion, while later accounts impose narrative shape on campaigns, command, captivity, and survival. Accounts of marching, com...

She’s beautiful, built for pleasure—and very, very bad.When product tester Scott receives his newest assignment—a stunning, curvy fembot named Becky—he’s more than ready to explore everything she can offer. But Becky isn’t like the others. She’s playful, disobedient… and she loves to push limits.Luckily, Scott’s not alone. With the help of Annie, his eager first fembot, and his adventurous redhead girlfriend Evie, he sets out to train Becky in all the right ways. And when t...

The right mindset can make you three times more likely to get the job you want-and even less likely to lose it later.What does it take to get and keep the job you want? Ninety-six percent of employers argue that it's not just about having the right skills for the position- it's all about the right mindset.As two leading experts on the subject, Reed and Stoltz know what employers really want from the people they hire and keep. According to their extensive an...

Every person reading this book has used artificial intelligence, and most of you have wondered, at least briefly, about the invisible machinery behind that simple text box. What happens to the data you type after you press Enter? Who pays for the computing power that generates those responses in seconds? And could you be doing all of this yourself, on your own machine, without sending anything to any company at all? These questions are no longer theoretical. They are practical, urgent deci...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The 7 Second CV by James Reed, read by the author and Willow Nash.Write a killer CV and land your dream job.It takes an employer just seven seconds to save or reject a job applicant’s CV. In this book, James Reed – chairman of REED, Britain’s largest recruitment company – offers invaluable and specific advice on what employers want to see in the CVs they receive and how you can stand o...

This Element presents the philosophy of special relativity, from the foundations of the theory in Newtonian mechanics, through its birth out of the ashes of nineteenth-century ether theory, through the various conceptual paradoxes which the theory presents, and finally arriving at some of its connections with Einstein's later theory of general relativity. It illustrates concepts such as inertial frames, force-free motion, dynamical versus geometrical understandings of physics, the standard...

This collection of poems rooted in the wild and beautiful lands that lie between England and Scotland describes a traditionally lawless area whose inhabitants owed allegiance first to kin and laird and then to the authorities in London or Edinburgh. Recording a violent, clannish world of fierce hatreds and passionate loyalties, the ballads tell vivid tales of raids, feuds and betrayals, romances and acts of revenge.

Are you dreaming of a career in film and television but don't know where to start?You have no acting experience. No agent. No professional headshots. No resume. No industry connections. You're starting from absolute zero—and you're wondering if it's even possible to break into this competitive industry.The answer is YES—and this book shows you exactly how.Written by a working actor with 15 years of industry experience, Launching...

When Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office, seven slave states had preemptively seceded rather than recognize the legitimacy of his election. His immediate purpose was to argue against the legitimacy of a powerful minority forcibly partitioning the United States because it was dissatisfied with the results of a free, constitutionally conducted election. His wider purpose was to make the case that a deliberate, constitutionally checked majority, though by no means infallible, was the approp...