First Time Manager leads you through the steps in the transition from employee to manager.

New Zealand's deceptively simple but effective program to improve public servicesNew Zealand has long been considered at the forefront of public administration, experimenting with new ways of organizing and delivering public services. Even so, successive New Zealand governments had mixed results from using traditional public management tools to lift the performance of the public service and address persistent problems that required multi-agency action.In 2012...

Sean wanted to feel weightless. Lose the echo of his voice. Climbing up on my rooftop and stretching our hands out in the night trying to catch a beam of moonlight, it wasn’t enough anymore.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Typhoon Fury by Clive Cussler, read by Scott Brick.Seventy years after the end of World War II, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon find themselves in deep waters as they try to stop a war that would engulf the entire continent of Asia. A search for an art collection worth half a billion dollars leads the Oregon to Salvador Locsin, the vicious Filipino rebel leader.But with access to a powerfu...

Brought to you by Penguin.'An all-out nonstop action thriller. The story hits the gas pedal and never taps the brakes' Daily MailWhen a routine mission is compromised, Captain Juan Cabrillo learns of a sinister plot. Off the Brazilian coast is another one-legged captain, with a ship just like the Oregon: same weaponry, same technology, same ability to evade capture.And when this wolf in sheep's clothing begins sinking innocent vesse...

Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Emperor's Revenge by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Read by Scott Brick.The new rip-roaring Oregon Files adventure from the grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins fo...

Brought to you by Penguin.A sinister plot that will devastate the Western world. A 2,000-year-old mystery that still lurks in the depths . . .When Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon answer a distress call from a research ship, nothing can prepare them for what they find.A strange and dangerous toxin has left the crew helpless, unable to move or speak. And when a further attack leaves hundreds more paralysed, Juan and his team ...

Rediscover the God who inspires passion in our heartsA grassroots global movement has people rediscovering a Jesus- looking God who is raising up a Jesus-looking people to transform the world in a unique, Jesus kind of way.In this accessible introduction to understanding the character of God, author Gregory A. Boyd, with M. Scott Boren, lays out the radical truth at the heart of this movement: the conviction that God looks like Jesus. In other words, in the...

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois’s influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black intellectual of his generation, Du Bois wrote about the trauma of seeing the Reconstruction era’s promise of racial equality cruelly dashed by the rise of white supremacist terror and Jim Crow laws. Yet he also argued for the value of African American cultural traditions an...

This book is based on twenty-eight years of research.Pastor Scott has spent thousands of hours in prayer and study to bring to you this book you are holding in your hands. This book is possibly one of the most significant discipleship books you have ever read.The Bible has been under attack in recent years. Satan is trying to discredit and marginalize the Bible to remove it from society as a whole.This book you are holding will help empower and equi...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Shadow Tyrants by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison.Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding a body of knowledge and secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind.They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men - and now two rival factions of the descendants are fighting a mighty battle.Both sides think they are saving the world, but one of them is ...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Piranha by Clive Cussler and Jack De Brul, read by Scott Brick.In 1902, Mt. Pelée erupted sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later, Juan Cabrillo must tackle that scientist's legacy.Cabrillo and the crew meticulously fake the sinking of the Oregon, but when an unknown adversary tracks them down with near deadly consequences, C...