"This book made me fall in love with glaze all over again."—Ben Carter, author of Mastering the Potter’s WheelWhether you look forward to glazing your work or are guilty of saying "I hate glazing!" Amazing Glaze is for you. Join author and Odyssey Clayworks founder Gabriel Kline on a journey that makes glazing less intimidating and more fun. Start in the "glaze kitchen" where you'll set yourself up for success, then move on...

"Great leaders are great communicators…If you want to become a top-notch strategic communicator, you'd do well to heed the advice in [this book's] pages." —Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times-bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You ThereAn Axiom Awards Silver Medal WinnerPeople often get promoted to leadership positions without knowing how to communicate an inspiring strategic vision to the people who report to them. So...

The Spad Driver is a work of fiction portraying the world of a young American sailor who finds himself at war not only with a determined North Vietnamese enemy, but also with a complex assortment of characters involved with a drug ring.The story centers on Dan Roberts, a pilot who enters the Vietnam War with little idea of the actual realities of battle. As Roberts grows to understand the true nature of death and conflict, he finds himself questioning the war itself and th...

On Thanksgiving Eve, November 24, 1971, a man hijacked a Boeing 727 enroute from Portland to Seattle. After receiving $200,000 and parachutes, he gave specific instructions to the flight crew and parachuted from the airliner. Eventually, a few twenty-dollar bills were discovered near Portland. No other evidence has been recovered...

The Third Wire is the last chapter of the Dan Roberts trilogy. The novels are independent works, but the author recommends reading in chronological order.In The Spad Driver Roberts, a young Naval Aviator deals with the realities of the Vietnam War and felony aboard an aircraft carrier.Helens Challenge finds Roberts in middle age confronted by a retired reporter who had witnessed the unpunished crime Roberts committed.The Third Wire Roberts wife has...

Most companies talk about excellence, but what does excellence really mean? What specific attitudes and practices lead to excellence? Drawing on years of study and decades of experience, authors Harry Paul, John Britt, and Ed Jent have zeroed in on five core qualities of excellence. In this entertaining and enlightening book, they tell how to give and be your best in each of these five critical dimensions and foster excellence in your organization and in your life. The book begins with a c...

Most companies talk about excellence, but what does excellence really mean? What specific attitudes and practices lead to excellence? Drawing on years of study and decades of experience, authors Harry Paul, John Britt, and Ed Jent have zeroed in on five core qualities of excellence. In this entertaining and enlightening book, they tell how to give and be your best in each of these five critical dimensions and foster excellence in your organization and in your life.The audiobook beg...

Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives—often big, expensive ones—designed to improve the status quo. Yet fifty to seventy percent of these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organization's resources, energy and morale.Who or what is killing change? That's what you'll find out in this witty whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective, Agent Mike McNally, who's investigating the mur...

The High Ground is the story of Private Ty Nichols' 365-day tour of duty in Vietnam, told with the honesty of a youthful infantryman simply trying to make it to the next day.Ty spends time with all the players, including the draftees who could have cared less, the lifers who were determined to stop Communism dead in its tracks, the enemy, and the freedom loving civilians of South Vietnam.It's all here. The fighting, dying, massage parlors, whorehouses, the racism, ...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red delivers a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences—where nobody’s playing by the rules.After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving.Foster...

**Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates a hit-and-run near Devils Tower in this thrilling novel from the New York Times bestselling author Craig JohnsonThe hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+**In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming—the nearest town to America's f...

**The perfect gift for Longmire fans: An eBook bundle of the first four mysteries in the bestselling Walt Longmire Mystery seriesThe hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+**With the hit television series Longmire capturing millions of viewers and Craig Johnson’s last two novels hitting the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover, Walt Longmire is a name on everyone’s lips and has earned his star.For fans of the show...