Work-related stress is costly not only to employees, but also to organizations and society. For example, it is estimated that work-related stress, depression, and anxiety costs British employers £1,035 per employee and that workplace stress costs the US economy up to $300 billion annually. However, elevated levels of stress often cannot be changed, and, if demands were not placed on employees, employee learning, organizational innovation, and societal economic growth would be hindered. Con...

Love, lust, and hatred are basic elements of the story when shattered dreams turn trust and loyalty into desperation, deception, and dishonor.Louis La Cour thought he knew everything there was to know about a scheming, want to be beauty queen's mother.But knowing the difference between a diabolical mastermind and a monster hell-bent on destroying the lives of everyone around them is a whole other matter.Something strange is brewing at the Grand Isle Gala, when a riv...

This volume describes a uniform international approach for classifying and reporting salivary gland FNA samples. The new reporting system is evidence-based using data from the literature as well as upon the experience of a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts involved in the field of salivary gland cytopathology. Each diagnostic category of this novel salivary gland reporting system includes detailed descriptions of the cytologic criteria as well as a comprehensive set of photomicro...

Do you love queer tales? Adore monsters? Delight in reading erotic monsterloving stories? Then Duck Prints Press proudly presents Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling! Our authors have created titillating tales featuring unusual creatures (often with unconventional genitalia!) facing similar challenges: how to court the partner(s) of their choice (human or otherwise!). From aliens to undersea hybrids, from winged beings to myths come to life, from insectoid aliens...

The first section of the book includes information about how tourism-related infrastructure and activities promote biological invasions, including key pathways for non-native invasive species introductions. This section provides case studies of different organisms that are known to be introduced and/or promoted by tourism in different ecosystems or regions. The second section elaborates on known and potential impacts of invasive species on tourism and recreation, including how they may aff...

Aria has struggled to build a life for herself outside Reverie. It hasn't be easy adjusting to life in the wilderness but the struggle has been worth it with Perry by her side.But Perry has other challenges. His people are looking to him for answers. Answers about what happened to his nephew and what's happening to their world. And they don't trust the privileged Aria, one of the enemy, in their midst.Soon Perry'll be forced to chose between the tribe that looks to him for ...

They say violent delights have violent ends. They'll have to get through me first.JulietMy world is small and predictable—that's how I've designed it. It doesn't extend beyond my tiny studio apartment, the local bagel shop, and the bookstore I manage.So, when a mysterious man crashes into the shop late one night while I'm doing inventory, I should be terrified. But I've never reacted normally to danger. And this man is as dangerous ...

The race for survival comes to a thrilling close in the earth-shattering conclusion to Veronica Rossi's New York Times bestselling Under the Never Sky trilogy.Their love and their leadership have been tested. Now it's time for Perry and Aria to unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders in one last desperate attempt to find the fabled Still Blue and bring balance to their world.Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Divergent series, Veronica Rossi's trilogy has been c...

Take an astonishing, amusing, and charmingly unconventional tour through the curious everyday lives of humans past.No need to spend the day at an archaeological dig when you can simply make a cup of tea, clamber into your comfiest chair, and settle in with The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful, a compilation of 92 funny, strange, and strangely funny tales throughout human history.Milo Rossi, the inquisitive mind behind the po...

The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, and why this is important for future sport business.Offering analysis from economic, legal, social and historical perspec...

Before Perry and Aria, there was Roar and Liv.After a childhood spent wandering the borderlands, Roar finally feels like he has a home with the Tides. His best friend Perry is like a brother to him, and Perry's sister, Liv, is the love of his life. But Perry and Liv's unpredictable older brother, Vale, is the Blood Lord of the Tides, and he has never looked kindly on Roar and Liv's union. Normally, Roar couldn't care less about Vale's opinion. But with food running low and conditio...

After years of marriage, sex has become boring for Lana. She would rather work late than come home to the possibility of having sex with her husband. An accusation of an affair and a furious affair ignites the passion – in a completely different direction.Novella with just over 13K words; bondage, D/s, handcuffs