Vampire stories are at a peek in popularity among readers. Tales of vampires living in the midst of humans have existed for centuries. Readers can judge the truth in these tales as they follow one story of a suspected vampire that, allegedly, really happened in the 1700s in Serbia. Facts, lore, and legends are all presented—encouraging further reading and discussion.

Business as usual is failing us. Burnout is rising, organizations are struggling to adapt, and the planet is straining under systems built for consumption, not care. At the root lies an outdated leadership model built on hierarchy, fear, and control.Start with Love: Creating Smart & Mindful Organizations offers a new way forward. Instead of quick fixes or abstract ideals, the authors present the Smart & Mindful framework, a practical guide for leaders who want to design or...

The history of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, can be summed up in four words: rice, sea, golf, and hammocks. The rivers threading through coastal South Carolina created an ideal environment for cultivating rice, and by the mid-18th century, vast plantations were producing profitable crops and wealthy landowners. But those plantations also produced malaria-carrying mosquitoes, so the landowners sent their families to the seashore for the summer and built the first houses on Pawleys Island ...

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and anxious on a daily basis?Do you struggle to manage your stress levels and find yourself feeling burnt out and exhausted?If so, then "How to Manage Stress and Anxiety" is the book for you!In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn practical strategies and techniques for managing your stress and anxiety, so you can live a happier, healthier life.Whether you're dealing wi...

Animation can be used to illustrate, simplify and explain complicated subjects, as well as to transform stories into engaging, fantastical narratives. There are many types of animation, all of which can incorporate different artistic techniques such as sculpture, drawing, painting, printing and textiles. In this practical guide, animation tutor Steve Roberts explores the twelve basic principles of animation, demonstrating the different techniques available and offering helpful exercises fo...

If you’re a paramedic student, you’ll find this book of questions and answers an essential resource as you study for the National Registry Exam. Steve Roberts, a paramedic with more than forty years of experience, wrote it based on a lifetime of knowledge, experience, and love for emergency medicine. He shares hundreds of sample test questions to help students pass the National Registry Exam. Divided into separate tests to promote learning, the multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questio...

Always Be Consultingby Steve RobertsWhat if everything you were taught about sales was holding you back?For years, Steve Roberts was the closer, the one leadership called when deals needed saving, the one who lived by the gospel of Always Be Closing. He had the numbers. He had the reputation. And he was quietly falling apart.Always Be Consulting is the story of what happens when a high performing consultant loses his edge, not to the market, not to the compet...

The Oxford Specialist Handbook in Paediatric Anaesthesia returns for a new edition with updated practical management advice, and detailed perioperative plans for a wide selection of basic and advanced paediatric procedures. Invaluable to trainees and consultants alike, this go-to guide details current techniques in a concise and rapid manner, describing how to approach each case. It covers everything from pharmacology, preoperative assessment, and the basic principles of anaesthet...

This book provides in-depth guidance and best practices for .NET developers new to working with Amazon Web Services. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, and this book will help you choose from, and use, its extensive collection of cloud services when developing and hosting your .NET applications in the cloud.Pro .NET on Amazon Web Services focuses on the building and deployment of .NET applications on AWS. It demonstrates best practice...

Many members of the clergy are committed to their vocation, yet struggle to remain engaged and energized. The pressures of congregational and family commitments take their toll.Clergy are part of a profession like no other. However you define it, the label “clergy” represents a collection of roles that come together in various combinations based on religion, congregational size and congregational structure. Frustration can build when clergy think they are delivering what is expecte...

John Joseph Steward fought in the Great War, from the Battle of the Somme to the final offensives of 1918, and he was an acute, unflinching observer of the conflict he took part in - of life and death on the Western Front. He was a writer, too. He recorded his experiences in accurate detail and later in life he wrote a graphic fictionalized account of his wartime career - the story of his war, his comrades and his platoon. His narrative is published here for the first time, edited, annotat...

The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made. The film records the most disastrous day in the history of the British army—1 July 1916—and it had a huge impact when it was shown in Britain during the war. Since then images from it have been repeated so often in books and documentaries that it has profoundly influenced our view of the battle and of the Great War itself. Yet this book is the first in-depth study of this historic film, and it is the f...