The question: What makes successful project managers so reliable?The solution: It is not by developing further more detailed, more clever analytical methods. Extensive research identifiedthe practices of project soft power as the most important success factors. Are you a leader who feels that lately, somethingjust isn’t right?In this book you will find-Are your people distrustful and disengaged?Does much of what you implement fail becaus...

"Eternal Love's Promise" is a captivating romance novel that delves into the timeless theme of love transcending all boundaries. Set against a backdrop of enchanting landscapes and richly developed characters, the story unfolds with an intensity that keeps readers hooked from the first page to the last.In this tale of passion and devotion, the protagonists, Olivia and Ethan, find themselves entangled in a love that defies the const...

In this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home.Don’t Come Back intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major Colombian myths with personal essays about growing up amidst violence, magic, and...

This book, intended to commemorate the work of Paul Dirac, highlights new developments in the main directions of Clifford analysis. Just as complex analysis is based on the algebra of the complex numbers, Clifford analysis is based on the geometric Clifford algebras. Many methods and theorems from complex analysis generalize to higher dimensions in various ways. However, many new features emerge in the process, and much of this work is still in its infancy.Some of the leading mathe...

Thieves of Miami takes us through the lives of Manny and Christina, Juan and Carolina, and Beatrice. Unknowingly and unwillingly becoming in-laws can be also dangerous as Juan discovers Manny's violent tendencies. While the sisters are falling into the men's lives, one of them is all in while the other learns to hide and deny her doubts. All the while, Mom (Beatrice) navigates and tries to guide her daughters to a happy and prosperous life. But the new times of the city surges with lust fo...

"Embark on a journey through the coastal town of Harborville, where bonds of trust run deep, but shadows of doubt lurk in the corners of friendship. In this gripping tale of betrayal and redemption, follow lifelong friends Sarah and David as they navigate the treacherous waters of suspicion, uncover hidden secrets, and ultimately prove that trust can be rebuilt, even in the face of the darkest shadows. 'In the Coastal Town...

Coauthor Erich Friedrich won the Iron Cross fighting the Soviets. But when he refused to give the Nazi salute and criticized Hermann Göring, he was charged with subversion and thrown into a cell. With him were a suspected spy, two accused deserters, a Jehovahs Witness, a draft dodger, and a leftist. To try to push back the terror of the unknown, each man took a turn telling why he was awaiting torture and possibly death. Friedrich vowed to remember their remarkable stories forever.

Four Decades of the Mexico-Canada Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program: 1974-2014 examines four decades of operation of the SAWP — the only binational temporary labor migration agreement between Mexico and Canada, signed via a Memorandum of Understanding in Ottawa on June 17, 1974. The book is structured in four chapters. The first provides a historical overview of the internationalization of agricultural labor, and migration policies in both countries from the 19th centu...

Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by the pandemic and suggest policies intended to contain contagion whilst managing the eco...

Stress can have a deleterious effect on people's mental, physical, and psychological health. There is a growing body of evidence, however, that suggests animals, both as pets and therapy partners, can help mitigate people's stress levels. This book showcases a rich collection of research papers from Human-Animal Interactions. It highlights research pertaining to pets as well as animal-assisted therapy in both school and professional settings. The book also includes a scene-setting introduc...

The history of the shadowy Werewolf guerrilla bands formed at end of the Second World War as the last desperate defence of Nazis.Founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1944 when it became clear Germany would be invaded, the Werewolf guerrilla movement was given the task of slowing down the Allied advance to allow time for the success of negotiations or wonder weapons. Staying behind in territory occupied by the Allies, its mission was to carry out acts of sabotage, arson a...

The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich's most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp - whose horrors are well-documented - but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough to the Jewish quarters to smell the stench of burning bodies from the crematoria, the POWs were forced to work alongside concentration camp inmates in a Nazi factory. Witnesses to daily violence, the men survived beatings, hard labour and ...