Lead simply. Lead powerfully.Leadership has gotten complicated. Uncomplicated Leadership breaks away from the crowd in a return to the basics of leadership for business owners, team managers, executives, and non-profit leaders alike. Built on the five principles of leadership and business that separate those who earn trust from those who simply hold titles, this book gives leaders at every level a practical, people-centered approach to leading well witho...

For over five centuries, the idea that people own themselves has appeared in philosophical work on justice. But the meaning of self-ownership has changed significantly over time, albeit largely unnoticed. Nowadays, philosophers usually understand self-ownership as a robust set of property-like rights over oneself, and chiefly they have debated whether such rights do or do not rule out certain forms of state redistribution of resources. By contrast, self-ownership first entered our philosop...

This groundbreaking collection explores how the threat and reality of death shape the culture, business, and ethics of the ring.This interdisciplinary volume critically examines the persistent presence of death in combat sports-boxing, mixed martial arts, and professional wrestling-and its broader cultural, ethical, and sociopolitical implications. Drawing on perspectives from history, sociology, philosophy, media studies, and public health, contributors interrogate...

AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF LOVE, FAITH AND RESILIENCEThe third installment in the GRIT series, The JyothiKalai Story is an evocative graphic memoir of caregiving and the transformative power of belief. Born visually impaired and later diagnosed with autism, Jyothi finds her voice and her feet in the world through music, guided by the love, patience and resolve of her mother, Kalai, who refused to let dire circumstances dictate her daughter's fate. What...

A unique collection of the finest Golden Age mysteries – puzzling whodunnits that have entertained and delighted readers for centuries.With Edgar Award-winning Otto Penzler as guide, delve into an irresistible collection of the finest Golden Age American whodunits, including household names and master storytellers, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart, as well as

Social Problems and Ideologies: The Impact of Federalism, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Libertarianism, and Populism on American Social Problemstakes a structural approach to American social problems by examining the foundational ideologies that create, maintain, and make it difficult to resolve those problems.Remarkably, much of that ideological framework has come to dominate American society only in the last 50 years. A brief, readable chapter on each of the five topics tel...

Darkly beautiful and lushly unsettling, C. Eveline English’s strange vision explores the feminine gothic in three unique fairytales.Night Black, Moon White: Trapped in an abusive household, two sisters flee through dark mirrors into eerie, glittering worlds as beautiful as they are dangerous.Mistfall: In an isolated town plagued by a dark curse, a young woman braves the dangers that lurk beyond the walls of her house—and the monster that r...

Note: The publisher does not guarantee quality or access to digital components if purchased through a third-party seller.Maria Leik's AGNP Certification Intensive Review, Sixth Edition, is everything you would expect from the #1 selling AGNP review book—and more. This high-yield, guided review steps you toward success on the AANPCB or ANCC Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner exam.Elevated by the meticulous editing of Karen Myrick, DNP, AP...

Policing has a permission problem.For decades, policing has answered its hardest problems the same way. Hire better people. Train them harder. Hold the wrong individuals accountable. Raise the pay, add a wellness program, and run a community outreach campaign. Each response contains some truth, and each one functions as a diagnosis. The fires keep burning.Lance C. Arnold, EdD, is an active police chief with nearly three decades in the profession and a doctorate in organizat...

A rich and engaging look at social bees, master communicators of the insect worldWith senses that often seem alien to us, bees navigate complex decisions about where to find food, when to fight or flee, and how to work together. The Language of Bees invites readers into the hidden world of bee communication, a realm where creatures less than an inch long use scent, vibration, movement, and sound to cooperate, share information, and survive.Drawing ...

The first adventurers into the New World faced a fundamental legal challenge: how to secure rights to any mineral claims they discovered. Early conquistadors worked under charters that required them to return a portion of their findings to the Spanish crown, but those without such charters had no formal protection—and the crown was slow to clarify individual rights. This uncertainty only grew as miners pushed into the lands that would become the Western United States.When gold was ...

This compelling book explores the first four months of fighting in the Pacific between the United States and its Allies against Japan, focusing mainly on the aircraft carrier action of the respective navies in the Pacific Theater.In the chaotic months after Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War was anything but certain. The U.S. Navy, reeling from sudden loss, scrambled to slow Japanese momentum, while the Imperial Japanese Navy pressed outward, convinced that seizing Sout...