Marc Miller, author of the bestselling Selling is Dead, delivers another critical tool for connecting with decision makers to make more and bigger sales. A Seat at the Table offers a new sales approach: stop selling and start helping customers win, win bigger, and win more often.Customers only care about one thing: value. And the only proven way to increase sales productivity is to deliver new and different forms of value. Salespeople must become experts in their customers' businesses and ...

TO SAVE THE GALAXY, A DEAD HERO MUST RISE AGAIN! NEWLY REVISED AND EXPANDED NOVEL SET IN THE TRAVELLER UNIVERSE FROM LEGENDARY GAME DESIGNER MARC MILLERJonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of an empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of Humanity, to save a hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, but they reactivate his recorded personality whenever ...

TO SAVE THE GALAXY, A DEAD HERO MUST RISE AGAIN!Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of an empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of Humanity, to save a hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, but they reactivate his recorded personality whenever a new threat appears. When the crisis is over, they expect he will meekly return to oblivion.He ...

For the first time in 4 years, Chuck Lawson is going home for Thanksgiving to Eugene, Oregon from Kalispell, Montana. On his way, he is involved in a single car accident near the town of Monroe, Washington and is rescued by Thomas Thompson and Emily Allen. After a quick trip to the hospital to get patched up, Tom and Emily take Chuck to Tom's dad's house to convalesce before he drives on. But, in a complete stranger's house, Chuck begins to have a series of "visions" where he thinks he is ...

Authors Jerome Kirk and Marc L. Miller define what is—and what is not—qualitative research. They suggest that the use of numbers in the process of recording and analyzing observations is less important than that the research should involve sustained interaction with the people being studied, in their own language and on their own turf. Following a chapter on objectivity, the authors discuss the role of reliability and validity and the problems that arise when these issues are neglected. Th...

Ernie Combs has spent his entire life avoiding bright light, crowded sidewalks, and curious eyes. Since childhood he has carried a difference so disturbing to others that it drove his family from neighborhood to neighborhood and turned every school into a battleground. By the time he reaches adulthood, safety matters more to him than happiness. He takes a quiet warehouse job, keeps to dim places, and tries not to attract attention. But isolation wears on him. Ernie wants companionship. He ...

"A Best Book of the Year" —Library Journal and BooklistUsing excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writer's Project, this astonishing collection makes available in print the only known recordings of people who actually experienced slavery--recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were rendered audible for the first time specifically for this collection....

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . .“The war is over. The Separatists have been defeated, and the Jedi rebellion has been foiled. We stand on the threshold of a new beginning.”—Emperor PalpatineFor a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights brought peace and order to the Galactic Republic, aided by their connection to the mystical energy field known as the Force. But they were betrayed—and the entire galaxy has paid the p...

The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-ReedWith the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination—and conscience—once again.No group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the...

For the first time, Family Power provides a revolutionary program that gives you proven, practical solutions for achieving a healthy weight and maintaining it as a family. Filled with the motivational stories of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power gets your family up, moving, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.

MYSTERIES / SUSPENSE / ADVENTURE“Promised Land” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins [Michael Bracken Presents short story]Security specialist Erie Hollar uncovers a sinister conspiracy on the moon’s Shackleton City. After discovering a body and surviving a brutal attack, Erie races against time to unravel the truth, dodging dangerous enemies and bureaucratic traps in a tense, moonlit sci-fi mystery.“The Great Diet Duplicity,” b...

Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death. In four subsections--Providers, Clinics, Conscience, and The Fetus--the contributions in this anthology explore the historical context and p...