The people of mid-Ohio's Pleasant Valley went on with their normal lives that cold and rainy spring of 1896, not knowing that young Ceely Rose was brooding. She'd been told to forget her obsession with handsome Guy Berry. She'd been told about the danger of Rough-on-Rats poison. She'd heard about murdering those who stand in the way of love. By the time she was done, her family would be dead and others threatened. Later, the place where these crimes took place became Malabar Farm, the esta...

Enter the world of Lahnri for a collection of stories that follow the lives and tribulations of both heroes and villains alike. Follow their fate to learn whether they shall rise or fall. Which way will fate’s wheel turn?Our first story begins with Valrogue Devellyr; a soldier, a general, a living legend.Valrogue had not set out to be a legend, joining the military had been an act of rebellion against a father’s aspirations for his son. How could he have known that this sin...

Advances in Global Leadership collects insights from leading scholars and practitioners and fresh ideas from promising newcomers to the field. In addition to traditional research, Volume 15 focuses on power and global leadership, an under-researched topic in the field of global leadership. This volume features:• An insightful, comprehensive literature review of power and global leadership.• Two ground-breaking research articles on factors that influence global power ...

In this book, a hedge fund manager and an option trading coach show you how to earn steady, reliable income selling options by managing your option trades and running your option portfolio as a real business with consistent, steady returns. Packed with real-world examples, the authors show you how to manage your own “one man” hedge fund and make consistent profits from selling options by applying the basic framework and fundamental business model and principles of an “insurance company”. T...

Discover the surprising literary and poetic history of the RMS Titanic!Imagine getting the inside, behind the scenes story of the Titanic tragedy written by those who did not survive - but whose poetry and short accounts of the moments leading up to the Titanic sinking did."If you love poetry, history, and feeling like Indiana Jones, read this book now." 5 Stars from Erin Nicole Cochran for Readers' FavoriteThe time has finally come to share the World Codex' revelat...

This second edition of Pediatric Diagnosis is a colour atlas of clinical conditions in pediatric surgery. It provides an illustrated guide to the diagnosis of all common and most rare paediatric surgical conditions. Extensively used for examination preparation, the atlas comprises 1400 photographs of congenital and acquired anomalies. This book offers extensive coverage of all the common, and many of the rare conditions in paediatric surgery.

Advances in Global Leadership collects insights from leading scholars and practitioners and fresh ideas from promising newcomers to the field. As in Volume 13, we begin by focusing on global leadership in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic. Volume 14 is introduced with a tour-de-force analysis by twenty authors on the cross-cultural differences reflected in nineteen national responses to the global crisis. The resulting overarching lessons offer useful guidance to leaders grappling...

Following the Equator chronicles Twain's 1895–96 circumnavigation of the Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand, India and Ceylon, Mauritius, and South Africa, marrying nimble reportage to satiric sting. Composed amid late‑Victorian imperial expansion, it extends The Innocents Abroad yet darkens it. Shipboard diaries, ethnographic sketches, and comic set‑pieces are threaded with the mordant epigrams of "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," yielding a braid in which humor unsettles. Twain...

Advances in Global Leadership brings together insights from leading scholars and practitioners and presents fresh ideas from promising newcomers to the field. With its unique focus on addressing global leadership and collaboration in times of crisis, this volume is both timely and relevant during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond;This volume is split into two parts:Part 1 of the volume presents research papers that advance our conceptualization and underst...

Few topics are more contested today than gender identity. In the fog of the culture war, complex issues like gender dysphoria are reduced to slogans and sound bites. And while the war rages over language, institutions and political allegiances, transgender individuals are the ones who end up being the casualties. Mark Yarhouse, an expert in sexual identity and therapy, challenges the church to rise above the political hostilities and listen to people's stories. In Understanding Gender Dysp...

This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security.Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens. This book challenges that assumption and traces the evolution of ‘societal security’, and its broadly equivalent concepts, in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The notion of societal security is deconstructed and analysed in...

This volume continues to advance both global leadership research and practice by bridging and integrating conceptual, empirical and practitioner perspectives to provide a deeper understanding of this rapidly growing field of study.Part I brings together conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative work to present innovative foundational research on the concept and processes of global leadership and global competence development.Part II, the Practitioner's Corner, features chap...