When Captain Clinton's affair is found out by his mistress's eighteen year old son, his world is rocked in ways that he never expected. Read as he tries to fix this situation only to realize that he doesn't want to.

Learn to avoid common leadership decision-making trapsDespite what you may think, all top leaders make mistakes, simply because they are human. In fact, the more senior and successful they are, the more susceptible they are to making errors—because as confidence increases, hubris often does as well. But, as internationally recognized leadership and decision-making expert Constance Direickx demonstrates, this doesn’t have to be your fate.In Meta Leadersh...

How to harness Employee Experience Design to attract and retain the best talentIn Employee Experience Design: How to Co-create Work Where People and Organizations Thrive, three highly experienced leaders explain how businesses can use Employee Experience Design to create workplaces that deliver better business results by first focusing on meaningful employee experiences.Many leading organizations worldwide have successfully implemented Employee Exp...

Lottie Long brushed her long red hair under her bonnet. The stageсoaсh ride from Savanah, Georgia to Nebraska had been long and arduous, and Lottie сouldn't help but think her hair was a fright. The mountains of West Virginia turned her tummy and сrossing the Mississippi River was terrifying. Lottie grew up on the seaside, and had heard the river had snakes and other сreatures that сould bite her. She had been told to prepare for сold weather, so she'd paсked her winter bloomers and all th...

REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICONThere's little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, the Deer Hunter, and Raging Bull all dazzled moviegoers and critics alike, displaying a talent the likes of which had rarely--if ever--been seen. De Nir...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals and groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and within and against sociopolitical and historical contexts.Contributors to this volume extend this emphasis, drawi...

A collection of this year’s best storiesWith this collection of short stories and poems, Indian publisher Shail Raghuvanshi managed to immerse us in powerful words and characters that take you inside their hearts. In these snippets of life, you learn something about yourself, allowing you to bring some power into your own life.From a ‘love story within a love story,' magic on a stage, nostalgic memories, and smoky bar friendships, this collection provide profoundly empathet...

When Captain Jim Clinton’s affair is found out by his mistress’s eighteen-year-old son, his world is rocked in ways that he never expected. Read as he tries to fix this situation only to realize he doesn’t want to.

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That’s because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts so we sound smart and in control and so we fit into society. But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking fails us? How do we get unstuck? For Mark Levy, the answer is freewriting, a technique he’s used for years to solve all types of business problems and generate ideas f...

This volume addresses virtual reality (VR) -- a tantalizing communication medium whose essence challenges our most deeply held notions of what communication is or can be. The editors have gathered an expert team of engineers, social scientists, and cultural theorists for the first extensive treatment of human communication in this exciting medium.The first part introduces the reader to VR's state-of-the-art as well as future trends. In the next section, leading research scientists ...

Enormous progress in asthma research has been made in the past 50 years, including a greater understanding of its complex pathogenesis and new and more effective therapies. Consequently, the scientific literature has grown vast and can be difficult to integrate. With contributions from a distinguished panel of world-renowned authors, the Second Edition of Clinical Asthma: Theory and Practice presents a comprehensive study of both the common and the more challengin...