"A riveting imagined world, so real in fact that one always wonders if it is imagined at all." —Scott TurowMade restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and legal bounds in a top-secret mission to destabilize the Soviet Union. His new recruit—the beautiful Anna Barnes, who struggles with complex feelings for Taylor—receives a deeper education than she signed up for in David Ignatius's trademark world of shifting ...

Sarah and Duck have invited their friends over for a sleepover! After an evening full of fun and games, the friends settle down to sleep. There is only one problem . . . no one is tired! Join the friends as they try and find inventive ways to fall asleep.Another fantastic picture book from the quirky stars of Cbeebies!

Las Vegas, 1970s—a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption. Dennis Gomes--the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history--whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened, gun-slinging investigators, and shattered clichés about milquetoast accountant cops. Coming within a hair’s breadth of death more than once, Gomes capped off his tenure with the famous bust of the Stardust skim, portrayed in the book and movie Casino. In Hit Me!, there’s action to fill a dozen Scorsese films—...

Unlike Jehovah's Witnesses, who deny the Trinity by demoting Jesus to a mere man, the "Jesus Only" churches deny the Trinity by claiming that there is only one God, and that Jesus is the Father and the Holy Spirit. "Jesus Only" churches not only require baptism for salvation, but also stipulate that it must be baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ only, and not in the name of the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Thus, these churches distort the gospel and the historic, orthodox...

Feed your spirit daily with this book and everyone will notice your transformation.We are slowly being affected by the chaos of today's world and the frenzy of everyday life. We constantly struggle to fill our pockets with money or our walls with diplomas, but we forget to feed our spirits with doses of faith, joy and love for the Creator.Every day is a day to have a good cup of coffee with psalms. The collection COFFEE WITH PSALMS brings, in each volume, 30 verses to medit...

Meet Sarah and Duck! This brilliantly quirky pairing offer an alternative look at the world as they head off on adventures together. This picture book sees them trying to cheer up Scarf Lady's Donkey - with mixed results!

This book offers uses practical applications using recipes with step-by-step instructions and useful information to help you master how to produce professional architectural visualizations in Lumion. The cookbook approach means you need to think and explore how a particular feature can be applied in your project and perform the intended task. This book is written to be accessible to all Lumion users and is a useful guide to follow when becoming familiar with this cutting-edge real-time tec...

This book was previously titled, Be Excellent at Anything.The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work ever...

‘Fascinating. Gomes provides a practical guide with an analysis of our mindset and the means to grow and strengthen it.’ The Financial Times‘Each chapter angles the mirror to your face slightly differently, allowing you to pause, reflect and reposition your mindset to succeed.’ Will Page, author of Pivot and former Chief Economist of Spotify‘Leading in a Non-linear World is a tour de force, drawin...

Every teacher has struggled with a mixed-ability class. That is, a class that is comprised of students of different levels of skill and competence. Some students learn fast, others learn slowly. Some students have a lot of knowledge, others seem to ignore the basic concepts. Teaching to the "average" leaves everybody unsatisfied: some will feel anxious because you are going too fast, some will get bored because you are going too slowly!Even the age of students influence their perfo...

This book describes the worrying scenario that reflects the urgency and importance of dealing with the situation of environmental migrants, especially considering that the environmental migration crisis is already greater than the migratory crisis due to war refugees. The first major problem in this environmental context is that there is no specific rule in international law to address this issue. In the face of this problem, far from exhausting all possible solutions on the theme, this bo...

Pabulum is an interesting journey for all those who believe in life, love, and happiness. It is a very entertaining read. It is a combination of one-liners and short reads that are bound to connect with the reader on several emotional levels. Pabulum will confirm that no matter what walk of life, race, gender, or otherwise, our experiences make us all very much human. Pabulum is an experience, and it is broken into daydreaming, reality, love, war, pray, binge, and riddles. Pabulum is nouri...