Anna reaches Hrafnheim, an unknown parallel world full of gods, demigods, and creatures. There she is picked up by soldiers of the ruler Ragnara, but a renegade officer of the army, Rorik, frees Anna. Together they set off to free her twin sister Serén, who had been captured by Ragnara. The road to the capital city of Sént is full of deadly dangers, and the vision of her own murder plagues Anna incessantly. She begins to realize more and more that Ragnarök, the end of the world, is directl...

How to Become a Nonfiction Author: Tips to Writing & Self Publishing Without Losing Your F*cking MindA rebels proven framework to help clever minds get published this yearYou want to become an author and raise your authority. You are aware that benefits from writing a nonfiction book go way beyond book sales. In fact, you know a book will be the single most important asset you'll ever create in your business. And you know you can write a great b...

Fantasy, crime, and Norse gods come together when it emerges that a series of bestial murders is connected with an ancient prophecy about the end of the world. Anna can see events from the past, and one night she glimpses an old and horrible murder: a red-haired girl is killed and a rune carved into her back. Shortly afterward, someone begins killing red-haired girls in the same manner, and the rune is found on all of them. Suddenly the little town is full of strangers. They have mysteriou...

A visual journey of Caribbean art profiling more than 60 contemporary Caribbean artists, curated by award winning multidisciplinary artist and textile surface designer, Malene Barnett.Through powerful interviews with more than 60 artists and designers of Caribbean heritage, accompanied by gorgeous photographs, Crafted Kinship takes readers on a unique journey through the world of Black Caribbean creativity. Each maker crafts a kinship with the land, the pe...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of a performance-based pay initiative and crystalizes the design issues and implementation challenges that confounded efforts to translate this promising policy into practice. This story has much to say to academics and policymakers who are trying to figure out the combinations of incentives and the full range of resources required to establish incentive programs that promote an adequate supply and equitable distribution of capable and committed educ...

This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world’s happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent? At a time when talk across the Western world is focused on unemployment woes, government overreach, and anti-taxation lobbies, our Da...

'A quietly elegant book . . . the poems in Gather collect images and thumbnail narratives, but hold their secrets close to their chests, their delicate mysteries blooming in beauty' VICTORIA CHANG, Forward Prize-winning author of Tree of Knowledge'Malene Engelund's poems are bright with elemental beauty. To read this collection is to enter into new relationship with a charged world in which love 'breaks and finds a new form', each poem rad...

SCALING LIFE SCIENCES: Wisdom and Lessons Learned from 150+ Industry PractitionersScaling a life science company is a high-stakes challenge-delays are frequent, resources are stretched, and setbacks can be costly, even fatal. Yet few structured insights exist on how to foresee and manage critical issues, leaving managers to rely on trial-and-error strategies or best practices from industries that don't share the complexities of life science ventures.This bo...

How to Become a Nonfiction Author: Tips to Writing & Self Publishing Without Losing Your F*cking MindA rebels proven framework to help clever minds get published this yearYou want to become an author and raise your authority. You are aware that benefits from writing a nonfiction book go way beyond book sales. In fact, you know a book will be the single most important asset you'll ever create in your business. And you know you can write a great book...

In the last 10 years, Denmark has built up a successful robotics and automation industry that has caught the attention of global markets. In a short time, the country has become a powerhouse for robotics development and automation innovations.But how did a small country with just six million inhabitants achieve this? What do Danish companies know about robotics that sets them apart? What is unique about the ecosystem they operate in and how are they organized? How do Danish compani...

Throughout history, smart folks have quickly used new trends to get ahead of their competitors. Reading NextGen Author, you will learn how authors are able to create more, sell more, and have a bigger impact - surfing the waves of technological, societal and financial trends. And right now, a historic event (web3) is taking place changing not only book publishing, but all things marketing and business.The new world of web3 offers authors the greatest opportunity of our tim...

This insightful book examines the role of an urban contingencies approach in understanding contemporary urban sustainability planning, emphasising the importance of context and place sensitivity and offering a crucial alternative to existing best practice planning ideas.Leading experts explore how a situated urban contingency approach engages with different planning interventions, ranging from disciplinary identities and everyday practices to digitalisation for citizen engagement, ...