You've been doing excellent work for years. Showing up early, staying late, hitting deadlines, delivering quality results. Meanwhile someone who spends half their day in meetings and produces mediocre output just got promoted. Again.The problem isn't your work ethic. Nobody ever explained how decisions actually get made in organizations, and it's not through the official performance review process everyone pretends matters.Every workplace has two org charts. The official on...

This book is about a young girl named Joan Martin, born and raised in Springbrook, North Dakota, on a cattle ranch owned by her mother and father. When she graduated from high school, she enrolled at the University of North Dakota, where she received a criminal law degree. Joan went to work for a law firm named Bird, Bird, and Church in San Francisco.

This collection of poetry explores the familiar terrain of daily activities and long-held traditions, inviting readers to reflect on both the positive and negative aspects of life. Thought-provoking and grounded, the verses question societal norms and religious practices while remaining deeply valuable for those seeking to meditate on the positive. The poems balance a focus on everyday human strife with a profound acknowledgment of a higher power. Whether telling a story, sharing a feeling...

"The Man Without a Country" first appeared in the Atlantic Monthlyfor December, 1863. It was the author's wish that it be published anonymously, in the hope that it might be ascribed to some officer of the Navy; but unfortunately, the man who compiled the year's index for the magazine, which was mailed with the December number, recognized Dr. Hale's handwriting, and gave him credit for it in the index.The story was written during the darkest period of the Civil War, and this war is perhaps...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.If you’ve ever wanted to play Dungeons & Dragons but didn’t know where to begin, this audiobook is for you.It’s a practical, straightforward guide made for people who are brand new to the game. Whether you’re joining friends for the first time, helping a child learn how D&D works, or just curious about what happens at the table, this book walks you through it without assuming any prior knowledge.You’ll learn how the game...

Now in its 17th Edition, Medications and Mothers’ Milk, is the worldwide best selling drug reference on the use of medications in breastfeeding mothers. This book provides you with the most current, complete, and easy-to-read information on thousands of medications in breastfeeding mothers.This massive update has numerous new drugs, diseases, vaccines, and syndromes. It also contains new tables, and changes to hundreds of existing drugs.Written by a world-renown cl...

European colonization of America occurred as a result of the bravery and discoveries of great navigators, visionaries and adventurers. This carefully edited collection presents the lives of the most influential explorers of North America: Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain. Sale with these remarkable seamen through the vivid biographies and writings of their contemporaries. Table of ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on metabolic disorders in dairy cattle.The first chapter reviews the prevalence, etiology and effects of ruminal acidosis, as well as ways to counteract it through regulation of ruminal pH. The chapter includes a case study on subacute rumen acidosis (SARA) in the post-partum phase of the transition period.The second chapter assesses the main pathways for rumen fermentation ...

The anthology 'Thanksgiving: Heart-Warming Stories for Children' offers a delightful tapestry of narratives that celebrate gratitude, family, and the myriad emotions associated with the holiday. Encompassing an array of literary styles from sentimental to whimsical, this collection is set within the rich tradition of American literature and its vast narrative forms. Each story is crafted with warmth and tenderness, capturing the essence of Thanksgiving through diverse lenses, much like the...

Santa's Library gathers more than four hundred Christmas novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into an expansive archive of seasonal literature. Its governing concerns—charity, domestic fellowship, childhood wonder, spiritual renewal, winter hardship, and communal festivity—are explored through fairy tale, realist sketch, moral fable, devotional verse, comic anecdote, and Gothic or supernatural narrative. Canonical Christmas visions stand alongside lesser-known popular, juvenile, and t...

The Most Wonderful Christmas Tales Of All Time is an exquisite anthology that captures the heartwarming essence and infinite diversity of storytelling inspired by the yuletide spirit. Encompassing a range of genres from classic drama to fairy tales and transformative narratives, this collection splendidly showcases tales that explore themes of generosity, hope, and the magic of Christmas. The eclectic array of stories speaks to the classical, romantic, and even modernist literary contexts,...