Attracting, managing and retaining talented employees is an important area of human resource management. Managing talent across an organization’s global network presents many challenges including expatriation and repatriation issues, cross-cultural adjustment of employees, and operating in different regulatory and economic environments. This volume provides insights into multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) global staffing and global talent management (GTM), and covers issues of global mobili...

Bernie Dowling continues his award-winning series on film noir with exposés of its rebels and censors.Beautiful Hedy Lamarr left the studio system that devalued her talent. Censorship and perfectionism derailed her career as an independent producer.Anti-establishment content led to the infamous blacklisting of film noir artists, but it was sexual dalliance with a nephew of a studio boss that resulted in director Edgar G. Ulmer being banished from the major studios.S...

Are you the 'Other Women', stuck in a relationship with a married man? Do you desperately want to know if he is ever going to leave his wife?This book will help you answer the many burning questions you have about your relationship with a married man so that you can be clearer, calmer, and empowered, ready to take responsibility for your life and achieve the happiness you deserve.In this unique and ground-breaking book, Martess offers a step-by-step guide to addressing the ...

Actually published in 1908, Dowling asserted that he had transcribed this work from Akashic records, which gave a detailed account of the life of Jesus. The title was derived from an age determined by constellations, adding an astrological meaning with an appellation that indicated the Age of Aquarius. "The Aquarian Gospel" has been deemed an apocryphal work, despite the fact that it was written and published recently, noticeably later than most other works of the same nature. It does have...

From the Australian Outback comes, 12 Unicorns in My Bedroom, a literary treat, told in rollicking rhyme, reminiscent of Dr Seus, Pamela Allen, Mem Fox and other greats.Livvy doesn’t know it, but she’s about to have an extraordinary morning. Twelve very unusual visitors have turned up in her bedroom. Unicorns!How magical, you say. Well, yes - if only they didn’t announce themselves in such a distinctly unmagical way. Sure, the puffs of glitter are very pre...

The highly anticipated new novel from the international bestselling Australian author of Splintered Heart and Sinister Intent. Fatal Envy is the #1 bestselling book three in Linda Dowling's Red Dust Novel Series.FRACTURED. VENGEFUL. DEADLY.It has been almost four years since the homestead, Woori, burned to the ground in Sinister Intent, book 2 in the #1 bestselling Red Dust Novel series.Lisa O'Con...

Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger?These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety. It is Dowling's controversial thesis that women succumb to societal pressures to...

Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life expectancy.Many historians have acknowledged that introduced dise...

The Convict's Bounty BrideLife as a convict in an Australian penal colony was brutal, but James Hunter had the advantages of raw physical strength and courage on his side. He survived, and now he is back; a self–made man of means, determined to take the bride he was promised.Lady Thea Willers knows nothing of the bargain her father made to save her brother, nor does she have any interest in marriage. It might be a radical idea, but what Thea wants is a care...

Rodeo, located on the east shore of San Pablo Bay, was envisioned as the meatpacking center of the West when it was established by the Union Stockyard Company in 1890. That vision failed, but the town continued attracting residents for jobs at the nearby Hercules powder works, Selby smelter, and Oleum refinery. By the 1940s, a war-based industrial buildup made Rodeo�s population surge, and this was followed by a postwar boom in housing and retail construction. During these prosperous years...

Born in the South, I was a poor little white boy raised in the hood. I've worked in construction and am a veteran. I have been through significant things in life. Things that would make people fold. I've given millions of dollars away to people because money doesn't mean a thing to me, neither do material things. I'm at the end of my life, and I watched society regress back to the '70s.

Journey from the mind-bending mysteries of quantum mechanics to the high-stakes tech race defining our digital future. Perfect for your morning commute or deep-focus learning, this accessible narrative decodes the science poised to reshape computation entirely.Satisfy your intellectual curiosity as visionary physicists and bold entrepreneurs transform philosophical oddities into tangible, world-altering hardware. You will grasp exactly how physical information works, navigating the...