The Flawed is a gripping work of speculative fiction that explores the fragile balance between peace, power, and moral responsibility. Set in the Solar Complex, a world that has enjoyed years of hard-won stability, the story begins when a mysterious glowing orb appears, signaling the arrival of a new and unknown enemy. As strange visitors emerge and long-buried threats resurface, leaders Dar, Jenny, and their allies are forced to confront dangers that challenge not only their defenses but ...

Something's not right in the Solar Complex. Year after year, the colours fade from the sky, the grass, and the trees. The villagers grow old and begin to forget. They forget their old ways, they forget their families... they forget their world wasn't always like this, and they weren't always cursed by the Darkness. They are the Flawed, fated to grow old before their time, robbed of their wealth and happiness by a malevolent and mysterious figure in the village: the Giver of Lies. He alone ...

Daniel’s ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Set in separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced with acknowledging what drove them apart. At his new school, Daniel speaks to the Gay-Straight Alliance about the bullying and depression that forced him to move. He looks back fondly at the bond he formed with Krystina and Jeremy in history class and the trauma he faced from anonymous text m...

Planning is a critical process when starting a new business or introducing a new product. Market Analysis shows readers how to execute a feasibility study for more effective planning. A step-by-step approach leads the reader through the feasibility analysis process and describes what needs to be done and how to do it. Techniques and tools used in preparing a feasibility study are emphasized and can easily be applied directly from the book to real situations. Three sample feasibility studie...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURYCelebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with the romance that Entertainment Weekly calls "wise, wildly unique"--from the bestselling co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist--about a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life. Now a major motion picture!**Every ...

Leading pricing expert Rafi Mohammed shows businesses how to reap a financial windfall and foster growth using the underutilized and often overlooked strategy of setting prices.The 1% Windfall reveals how modest incremental changes to an everyday business practice—pricing—can yield significant rewards. Illustrating the power of pricing, a study of the Global 1200 found that if companies raised prices by just 1%, their average operating profits would increase by 11%. Using a 1% incr...

The bestselling first edition of The McGraw-Hill Guide to Starting Your Own Business sold more than 75,000 copies, and took the reader step-by-step through the entire process of starting a new venture. This completely revised second edition once again shows entrepreneurs the keys to determining the best business opportunities, creating a business plan, and formulating a winning marketing strategy. In addition, it now profiles alternative sources of funding from SBA loans to angel ...

The questions investors need to ask . . . The answers corporate America must give about the true facts of corporate performance and value.During the 2001 baseball season, when games were played at Enron Field in Houston, a typical reaction was: “What the hell is Enron and what do they do?” Now we know more about the executives and inner workings of today’s best-known rogue company than we ever imagined. But it turns out that Enron is just the most egregious case of a disturbing tre...

What do the people selling thatmansion know, that you don't know?Whether you're selling a primary or a vacation home, you can apply what wealthy homeowners know to sell your home in the shortest time, for the highest price, with the least aggravation.Take an inside look at the personal and financial habits of the people who buy and sell the kind of upscale homes that we all look at and long for. You can now systematically sell your home using the 12 "secrets" that wo...

Why should you go to the trouble of creating a written business plan? There are three major reasons:The process of putting a business plan together, including the thought you put in before beginning to write it, forces you to take an objective, critical unemotional look at your business project in its entirety. The finished product your business plan is and operating told which, properly used, will help you manage your business and work toward its success. The completed business pl...

No matter what stage of development or growth your startup is in one thing is always a concern: money. Do I have enough? Should I look for investors or borrow money from family and friends? Where can I find investors? How can I convince them to invest in my company? These are the kinds of questions that keep entrepreneurs up at night.

Invest In Apartment Buildings: Profit Without The Pitfalls is a no-holds-barred guide to successfully investing in multifamily buildings. This Bradley-Banta compendium includes everything you need to know—the good deals and the "don't go there" ones; exit strategies—and the fact that you must have more than one; repositioning a property (it's a lot more than fixing it up); negotiating the best deals (let go of being liked); understanding the real numbers and usi...