Can one person change the world? What qualities determine effective leadership? How do individual talent and historical circumstances combine to shape great leaders?From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,  a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter."Jared Diamond's erudite, eng...

Simone Brooks and Cameron Bennett should not be together. She’s a wealthy socialite looking for a suitable husband. A man with the right pedigree and an economic status that matches her own. He’s part owner of the hottest nightclub in Atlanta with his siblings. Someone who loves cooking, the outdoors, and women, not necessarily in that order.After one night together, their sizzling chemistry makes it difficult to stay away. Then comes the hard part—navigating their differences to s...

An indecent proposal leads to a short term arrangement…Brazilian millionaire, Leonardo da Silva, is still seething from when his African-American wife, Alexa, walked out on him four months ago. Now she’s in his office asking for a business loan to help her brother. Instead of a loan, he’s willing to give her the money, but only if she resumes her role as his wife for the next two months. She reluctantly agrees, and she soon finds herself wishing their arrangement was perma...

The #1 bestseller‘A terrific story, originally told. All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ Heat‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. A page-turner, but don’t read it before bed if you’re easily spooked!’ SunYou think you know who to trust? You think you know the difference between good and evil? You’re wrong …The body of the head teacher of an exclusive ...

How do courts choose among competing readings of a text? This work draws on linguistics, philosophy of language, hermeneutics, and literary criticism for insights into how texts impart meaning. Through vivid examples and in-depth case studies—of reported judicial decisions rather than stylized hypotheticals—it translates learnings into practical guidance.Many interpretive disputes arise from ordinary linguistic indeterminacy. Part I develops a taxonomy of linguistic features that c...

This book examines the changing demographics, attitudes and electoral behaviours of Londoners over the last 50 years and considers the impact these changes have had on the policy agendas of the capital, past, present and future.Focussing on the issues of greatest concern to voters in the capital, including crime, the economy and the cost of living, housing, inequality, health, immigration and the environment, the book examines the capital’s economic and cultural dominance and how i...

Hard-working corporate attorney Axel Becker has tried settling down in the past, but when the relationship didn’t work out, he focused on his career to the exclusion of everything else. Enter, Naphressa St. James. The sexy project manager is a former lover and reminds him of what his life could be—fun, exciting. She’s just the woman he might need to shake him out of a rut, but convincing her they belong together will be a lot harder than he expected.Naphressa admits she and Axel ha...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York Times Bestseller • Over Two Million Copies Sold“One of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation” (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse?...

Detective Bill Holiday has carried the Calloway case his entire career. Jack Preston has carried the memory of what he did. When their paths cross on a quiet street, both men understand that knowing is not the same as proving — and that justice, when the system fails, must be built from what remains.He Walks Among Us is a haunting, brilliantly constructed dual-perspective novel of obsession, guilt, and the limits of justice — told by the detective who would not forget and ...

Diamond Dean's "Hanging On With Hitchcock"Unlock Hitchcock's Secrets To Mastering Suspense Before It's Too Late …Discover how Alfred Hitchcock earned his title as the Master of Suspense and how you can use his techniques to captivate modern audiences. This newly expanded and updated guide explores Hitchcock's life, his groundbreaking methods, and the films in which he perf...

When Your Teenager Looks Fine — But You Know They Are NotYour teenager maintains strong grades, avoids conflict, and tells you everything is fine. Yet you have watched them withdraw from friendships without explanation, retreat after what appeared to be a good day, and carry something beneath the surface that no clinician has quite named. There is a specific clinical explanation for this pattern, and it is not the one most people associate with borderline personali...

An on-the-ground description of Colombia's peace process as lived by the rural populations most affected by it.The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely on small-scale farming, even as a newly constructed hydroelectric dam threatens traditional livelihoods. Yet after decades where Briceño suffered from a bloody conflict, the village has more recently become ce...