****Selected for Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2021**A Guardian Book of the Year'The highest talent at work' Sebastian Barry'Beautiful … A masterpiece' AttitudePoland, 1980. Shy, anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz – and together they spend a dreamlike summer fall...

Don't litter your ebook shelf with dozens of individual texts. Get all public domain publications by said author in 1, 2, or (rarely) 3 volumes FOR FREE!A NDAS "Digest" edition. The complete Public Domain (as of 2019) works of Jack London converted for easy reading by cross-platform ebook / ePUB standards. A master table of contents leads you to specific tables of contents for each included work. This volume includes:The Call of the WildA Daughter...

Commended for the 2009 Keith Matthews AwardThis lavishly illustrated commemorative volume chronicles the full century, 1910-2010, of the Canadian Navy as a proud national institution. Known Officially until 1968 as the Royal Canadian navy and since then as the Maritime Command of the Canadian Forces, the naval service of Canada has played an important role in the development and security of our nation. The foreword for this book is by Her Excellency Governor General Michae...

**#1 New York Times BestsellerThe memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post“One of the most consequential and most prominent [careers] in American medicine in the past fifty years.”—Jerome Groopman, The N...

This book presents winning and shortlisted stories from past editions of the international Quantum Shorts competition. Inspired by the weird and wonderful world of quantum physics, the shorts range from bold imaginings of a quantum future to contemplations rooted in the everyday. They feature characters of all sorts: lovers beginning their lives together, an atom having an existential crisis, and, of course, cats. These Quantum Shorts will unleash in your mind a multiverse of ideas.

Technology-as-a-Service Playbook defines the tactical and strategic plays technology companies must run to build a profitable subscription business. Whether you are a pureplay cloud company or a traditional technology provider making the pivot to the cloud, this book will help guide your decision-making and execution around the "as-a-service" model to put your company on a path to profitable growth.This cloud-driven journey will affect every part of the organization. How offers are...

**Read the modern classic about a young witch and her clever cat that started it all! Nostalgic fans of the Hayao Miyazaki film, Kiki's Delivery Service and newcomers alike will love this exciting new translation of the beloved fantasy story."A gentle story of magic-tinged independence."—The Wall Street Journal**Half-witch Kiki never runs from a challenge. So when her thirteenth birthday arrives, she's eager to follow a witch's tradition: choose a...

Dutiful Ren is serious about her job as a government employee, to the detriment of her own love life. Relationships? No time. Sex? Never had it. But she can't help but feel she's missing out on something special.Then a charming, incredibly handsome man named Makoto comes to her rescue as she's being harassed late one night. Enraptured by his pretty face and alluring words, Ren finds herself following him to a love hotel and finally has her first time! And oh, what a time...Makoto is not on...

BOND VS BLOFELDIn the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s trail has gone cold―and so has 007’s love for his job. The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo, a troubled young woman who shares his taste for fast cars and danger. She’s the daughter of a powerful Corsican crime boss who thinks Bond's hand in marriage may be just the thing to settle his volatile daughter. But Bond's chances at marital bliss ...

A PARIS REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR'Highly accomplished, deeply satisfying ... I marked up almost every page' TLS'Laugh-out-loud funny'DAILY MAIL'My favourite nihilistic romantic' RACHEL KUSHNER'A brutally honest, insightful, intelligent and absolutely hilarious novel' MICHAEL IMPERIOLIWhat's this book about? Is there a restroom? Do...

Ryan's MILF wife Vanessa has accidentally secured a windfall for Ryan - a raise and a promotion.But now, she's going to need to pay his boss, the younger, richer and more...well, endowed... Jasper Cooper, and the terms of their agreement were not very clear. Ryan is up for some controlled hotwife play, but that may not be what Jasper has in mind.

No matter what type of coach you are, if you are concerned with the healthy psychological growth of your clients, this is a book you should read. It is not about coaching per se, it is about the framework of human development that coaches need to be familiar with in order to facilitate the full emergence of their client’s potential: not just helping people become more proficient at what they do, but helping them participate in their own evolution, the evolution of their organizations, the ...