Move beyond local improvement and learn to lead complex, cross-functional change with evidence, governance and discipline.Lean Six Sigma Black Belt: Leading Complex, Data-Driven Projects is a practical guide for experienced improvement practitioners, operational leaders and managers who are ready to tackle problems that cross departmental, organisational and system boundaries.Building on the earlier books in The Lean Six Sigma Belt Series, Robert Porter takes the reader bey...

Nearly a year has passed since Jan Vale returned to Penraven, and life has finally settled back into something resembling normal. The library has found its familiar rhythm, another Christmas has come and gone, Jan has another birthday approaching, and Moss-older, greyer and supposedly wiser-is enjoying retirement, three walks a day and every treat he can persuade someone to give him.Then a young woman at the library makes an unexpected discovery.A chance encounter on social...

In Penraven, everybody knows everybody.Jan Vale knows what they borrow.At sixty-two, widowed librarian Jan Vale has settled into the familiar rhythms of life in Penraven, a picturesque Cornish town by the sea.She knows the regulars, the holidaymakers and the children who would rather be anywhere than staring at another screen. She knows which borrowers mistreat their books, which parents treat the children's library as free childcare, and which locals can turn a fiv...

When archivist María Álvarez builds an ofrenda for her late grandmother, she adds one photograph she cannot identify.By morning, the woman in the picture has crossed back into the world of the living.There is only one problem.Nobody remembers who she is.Not María. Not the historical records. Not even Santa Muerte.For María, every mystery should leave a trace: a name in a register, a photograph, a letter, something proving that a person once existed. ...

Sixteen years after the world ended, survival is no longer something Alicen is learning. It is something she has become very good at.The infected still roam the ruins. Stranger things have emerged from the changed world. Food is scarce, clean water can mean the difference between life and death, and other survivors can be more dangerous than anything recorded in the Field Guide.Now older and alone, Alicen has made a life for herself at Land's End. She fishes, sets traps, sc...

This is Robert Porter's third book. This includes a wide range of short stories from children to adults. This book was written not only for children but for anyone who like to sit down on the couch at home or the bed and read a book that will take you in places you dream about. Or take children into the life of their favorite animal Friends.

Shirakawa-gō, Japan, 1783.Fourteen-year-old Chiyo has spent her life beneath the steep thatched roofs of an isolated mountain village, where survival depends upon family, duty and the ancient bonds between neighbours. Winters are merciless, food is precious, and every household understands that no one survives alone.Then Chiyo begins to notice the ladybirds.The villagers call them tentōmushi - insects of Heaven's path. With their brilliant red shells and seven black...

Success isn't built on occasional brilliance—it's built on what you do every single day. Daily Execution That Builds Empires delivers a no-nonsense blueprint for entrepreneurs who are ready to stop overthinking and start executing. Inspired by the practical frameworks of Johann Smith, this book reveals how small, disciplined actions compound into massive, unstoppable success. Inside, you'll discover how to design powerful daily habits that drive momentum, eliminate decision fatigue with pr...

What if dragons were never imaginary-only misunderstood?For more than thirty years, historian and author Arthur Belmont has built his career studying the stories people once believed. Dragons, sea serpents, monsters and supernatural creatures belong to folklore, not zoology. Every legend has an explanation. Every mystery eventually yields to evidence.At least, that is what Arthur has always believed.Then an obscure reference buried in an old manuscript leads him to ...

Some people buy immortality. Some people have to die for it.Detective Mark Mathews has a problem: people are disappearing.There are no bodies. No ransom demands. No obvious connection between the missing. Just a growing stack of cases that refuse to make sense.Then the trail leads to Elysian Systems.Behind its immaculate public image, Elysian is developing something extraordinary: the Continuity Engine, a technology promising the wealthy and dying what human...

UK Ticket Office and Gateline: Operations, Systems and Passenger Service is a comprehensive practical guide to one of the most visible-and often most complex-areas of railway station operation.Written by Robert Porter as part of The Practical Safety Series, the book takes the reader beyond the simple act of selling or checking a ticket. It explores the interconnected commercial, operational, technical, safety and passenger-service responsibilities that sit behind the ticket-office ...

What does the world look like when you experience it four paws first?Dog doesn't know he is a blond cockapoo. He doesn't understand why Humans give everything names, why chocolate is forbidden despite smelling magnificent, or why a perfectly good piece of cheese sometimes contains a disgusting chalky pill.He does know the important things.Mum is warm. Cheese is ten out of ten. Squirrels cheat. Cats are suspicious. Hedgehogs require careful consideration. Outdoor ins...