Most cover-ups aren't cinematic. They're procedural.Declassified: The Cover-Up Playbook breaks down how modern institutions suppress truth without needing a single "mastermind." Instead of focusing on one scandal at a time, this book shows the repeatable systems that make inconvenient facts disappear: bureaucracy that slows consequences to a crawl, information silos that prevent anyone from seeing the full picture, and polished language that admits...

To succeed in business, you do not buy a company merely for the sake of acquiring it: You should look at the bigger picture. Yes, buying a business can be a way to grow your top line faster, boost cash flow, acquire great employees, eliminate duplicative expenses, increase your overall valuation, and much more........ Jason F. Griffith, a CPA, CMA and the founder of Yes If …, a strategy and acquisition consulting firm in Las Vegas, shares a blueprint on how to identify, negotiate, and acqu...

Inveigled into a survey of botanical art on Versimmon, Bernice is disappointed to get bogged down in an unseasonal cold spell - and to discover that Ruth has some radical ideas about how the living archive should be managed. Why is a hailstorm bringing back memories of a war two generations gone? Where are Versimmon's first animals appearing from? And who can Bernice trust on a planet full of budding artists? As the forest world is bombarded by ice and the collection's guards start disappe...

Gresham, South Carolina survives on tradition, loyalty, and the understanding that some things are better left unspoken.When a prominent local realtor is found dead inside a locked model home, the town rushes to label it a suicide and move on. But Hannah Cole, a former crime reporter who returned to Gresham to settle her mother's estate, sees details that don't add up—staged surroundings, missing evidence, and a silence that feels rehearsed.Before Hannah ca...

Governments rarely lie with one big, obvious statement. They lie with timelines, omissions, carefully shaped language, and a system built to make truth feel "too complex" to pin down. This book breaks that system apart—showing how deception gets built, defended, and eventually exposed.Declassified maps the repeatable playbook behind public deception: how "national security" becomes a shield, how narratives are seed...

Jin arrives in the land of opportunity, learning to master the art of sales while reflecting on martial arts philosophies of his youth. Join the founder of Europes largest sales consulting agency, the European Health and Sports Community Association as he shares proven strategies on understanding and becoming the better salesperson. Learn how to: master key steps in the sales process; bring an intimate, personal touch to selling; and avoid the mistakes that prevent big sales. And do so whi...

With this practical book, you’ll learn effective ways to engage students in reading and writing by teaching them narrative nonfiction. By engaging adolescents in narrative, literary, or creative nonfiction, they can cultivate a greater understanding of themselves, the world around them, and what it means to feel empathy for others. This book will guide you to first structure a reading unit around a narrative nonfiction text, and then develop lessons and activities for students to craft the...

Adolescents Rewrite their Worlds: Using Literature to Illustrate Writing Forms offers alternative ways teachers can engage young adolescents with the writing process using literature. The contributors discuss the values of writing in twenty-first-century classrooms and global societies, remarking that writing is first a personal exploration that is informed by cultural practices. Therefore culture is quite central in how we approach, explore, and express through any medium. The chapters co...

This volume takes a deep look into the theological underpinnings of the Oxford Movement Tractarians, and the motivations and activities of their inheritors. Was this movement really the most significant single force in the formation of modern Anglicanism, as Eamon Duffy has recently suggested? Is the often-underserved Robert Isaac Wilberforce the great link to Gore and the Liberal Catholics? These and other questions lie beneath the writing of Grace and Incarnation. The Oxford Movement was...

'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron A GOOD MORNING AMERICA PICKFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS'I LOVED it'Naomi Alderman'LYRICAL and JOYFUL'Sarah Jessica Parker'This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes'Guardian'Very FUNNY . . . a PERFECT SUMME...

Archaeologist, adventurer, mother, and occasional goddess, Professor Bernice Surprise Summerfield has seen and done more things in this universe than you can possibly imagine. But none of that matters right now. Because, Benny isn't in this universe any more. Right now, she's stuck in an alternate universe (through no fault of her own) and this universe has definitely seen better days. In fact, it's rumoured to be dying. Luckily, the President of the Universe is an old friend, and he's len...

The book Inc. magazine calls one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market.Inc. magazine calls it one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market. Readers agree, saying it's exactly "what I need to know" and calling it a "must-read" for decision makers without expertise in finance.Since its release in 2006, Financial Intelligence has become a favorite among managers who need a guided tour through ...