Why do people kill? Is violent behaviour part of human nature? These are important social questions. And while murder and war are grim subject matters, they are difficult to ignore. There are 468,000 murders every year around the world, and that number would be quadrupled were it not for fast ambulances and modern emergency units. If you count the war dead in the past two centuries, the number blows past 200 million. How can we explain this human proclivity for violence? In his l...

MUST READ FOR MANAGERS: Thinking well is important in all aspects of life, but tackling it explicitly is often overlooked in work-world training programs. Never have thinking skills been more important than now, in the 3rd Millennium, when companies worldwide competE for a competitive edge. Nowhere do you get more bang for your buck than in staff training that boosts people's abilities in the areas of analysis, reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and planning. Also se...

Author's pledge to readers: "Fast paced, intelligently-crafted plot and well written, plus color photos and live Internet links to videos and relevant information -- an eBook that offers good value!"VANCOUVER: Cities are dangerous places for cops in a war against a new breed of vicious criminals armed with assault weapons and with with no compunction for who gets killed. Outgunned police have to get creative to survive.Newton's Law pits Vancouver cop Riggs ...

Few people devote time to think about, or to improve, their thinking processes, preferring, instead, to focus on outcomes—decisions, plans, conclusions, and judgments—that so preoccupy the North American psyche. This fixation on the latter stages of thinking is backwards and responsible, in large part, for results that are not always optimal. Think Well & Prosper provides insights into the structure of thinking. It breaks down—analyses—the thinking process into understandable steps and seq...

Kobo Writing Life Augments Author Income: It's only prudent for established and aspiring authors to make their books available in as many places as possible, and one of those places should be Kobo, a highly reputable and growing name in digital publishing.The company has a registered user base of 10 million and sales in 190 countries. While Amazon receives the lion's share of media coverage, Kobo has quietly built a substantial foothold in the reading world, garnering almost half o...

Author's pledge to readers: "Fast paced, intelligently-crafted plot and well written, plus color photos to bring characters and action to life -- an eBook that offers good value!"The reclusive order of Mayan monks protected the crystal skull for 5,000 years, but in 2013, its secret is out, and the price of failure may be billions of lives. Action, adventure, romance, danger, and real-life issues abound in this book that asks: What would you do to live for 250 years...

Vital information for food and beverage managers charged with creating effective restaurant menus. A thoughtfully conceived food and beverage menu can boost restaurant revenues by more than 25% according to university research in the U.S., and a CBS report says restaurant menus and their descriptions are “everything.” Well written restaurant menus can drive diners to menu items that you want to get the most attention; this is cr...

Staff members determine the success of any organization, and since staff members are people, they don’t behave the same way. This means managers have to be amateur psychologists when they hire, interview, orient, train, coach, discipline, and evaluate performance. But how many managers have specific human resources training? Human resources is like any other discipline; it requires study of proper processes to gain knowledge, and then practice to turn knowledge into skills. No one is born ...

Go from ZERO to $10,000 a month in 28 days and discover financial freedom online!Every day thousands of people are losing their jobs, their income, and their security—perhaps you are one of them. However, with the right strategies, you can easily achieve financial independence. The Laptop Millionaire provides easy to follow step-by-step strategies you can use to make real money online. Author Mark Anastasi reveals the exact strategies he used to make milli...

Do You Experience Writer's Block on Your Blogs, Scripts or Stories?These 1,000 Writing Prompts Can Help You Move Forward.When you finally have the opportunity to sit down and write, you want absolutely nothing to get in your way. In an ideal world, the ideas would flow from head to pen quickly and easily. You would have thousands of ideas at your fingertips. This idea-generating book makes that dream a reality. With exactly one thousand prompts, 1,0...

Crafting likable, interesting characters is a balancing act, and finding that perfect mix of strengths and weaknesses can be difficult. Not only does a well-drawn protagonist need positive attributes to help him succeed, he must also have flaws that humanize him and give him something to overcome. The same is true of villains and the rest of the story’s supporting cast. So how can writers figure out which flaws best fit their characters? Which negative traits will create personality clashe...

Proven methods for building an online income streamYou don't have to quit your current job, or already have piles of money, or be 24 years old, or riding a booming economy, in order to start a successful online business.The Six-Figure Second Income explains how to start or grow a business even when you think you have plenty of strikes against you.In the course of building an eight-figure real estate information marketing business, David Lindahl and Jonathan...