The business world is a place of constant change, with stories of mergers, layoffs, bankruptcy, and restructuring appearing in the news every day. No matter the scale, when these kinds of changes hit the workplace, the concrete situational shifts are often not as difficult for employees and managers to work through as the psychological transitions that accompany them. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresp...

Diary and letters of Captain Henry Evelyn Arthur Platt including his time at Eton, Sandhurst and in the First World War where he served as a Captain in the 19th Hussars before transferring to the Coldstream Guards after a dispute with his Major over the safety of his men. He describes life in the Cavalry, how he was gassed in May 1915, and life in the trenches.He was killed in action near Ypres in May 1916.The book is illustrated with maps and photographs, and includes biog...

"The [authors'] deep understanding of how we experience . . .change—and . . .well-tested strategies for helping people through it—are more important than ever." —Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times– bestselling author of TriggersThe business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resultin...

The national bestselling, simple, three-step guide for coping with changes in life and work, now updated and expanded.First published in 1980, Transitions was the first book to explore the underlying and universal pattern of transition. Recently named one of the fifty most important self-help books of all time, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the inevitable changes in life.Transitions takes readers step-by-...

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The King of the Silver Fangs is dead—long live the King!The tribe is torn by inner strife as two werewolves battle for ascension to the throne. Lord Albrecht has long been exiled from the court of his tribe, but he must return to claim the throne, lest his corrupt cousin gain the leadership of the Fangs—and deliver the tribe into the hands of the Wyrm.Albrecht must now embark upon a dangerous journey through the Spirit World to reclaim the long-lost heirloo...

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representatio...

From the bestselling author of The Killing Kind, a woman shares her story of survival after a man holds her captive at gunpoint.By the time Anne Bridges saw the gun in Jimmy Williams's hand, it was already too late. The bad things she had heard about him—how he had drugged a woman and held her hostage—Anne now realized were true. Only now it was her turn.What began as a well-intentioned attempt to reconnect with an old friend became, for Anne, a st...

Murder brought us together. Only death can keep us apart.The TormentorCalista belongs to me... she just doesn't know it.The first time we met, I wanted her.The next time, I was obsessed.I watched her.I followed her.It only deepened my need to possess her.Once she's mine, I'm never letting her go.The TargetHayden Bennett is a monster, in and out of the courtroom...

Lexington, the seat for Rockbridge County, is situated in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley within minutes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Main Street is part of Route 11'the Valley Pike/Great Road'and the architecture downtown looks much as it did in the 19th century. Lexington is home to Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute. It is also the final resting place for Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson and Robert E. Lee, as well as their horses. Within a few blocks, one visits the...

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those professionals whose services we require when our health falters. Their skills and manner guide us through the sometimes difficult journey back to restored vigour. In th...

This new edited collection explores the intersection of spiritual direction and counselling/psychotherapy, and the relationship between the two. Citing the influencing effect prayer and counselling have had on each other, the contributors offer insight into the similarities and differences of spiritual direction and counselling, and of what the disciplines have to learn from each other.Advocating the importance of addressing the spiritual dimension of care in areas such as mental h...