A hands-on guide for building leadership teams and cultures that ignite business transformation.In The Catalyst CEO: Why CEOs Can’t Lead Transformation Alone—And What the Best Do Instead, veteran leadership advisor Constantine G. Alexandrakis delivers an insider’s guide to leading systemic change across complex organizations. Drawing on decades of experience advising world-leading companies, he challenges the cult of the hero CEO and offers a powerful new ...

The samurai are often viewed monolithically as fearsome warriors, driven by a fixed code-the Bushido-and bent on dying in service to a lord, or daimyo. However, the Tokugawa Era, the long period of peace (1600 to 1868) after the Shogunate had centralized control in Japan, forced them to adjust. While many samurai continued to uphold martial values, others became bureaucrats, teachers, scholars, artists, and even entrepreneurs. In Samurai: A Biography in Twelve Lives, Constantine N...

SOMETIMES SUICIDE IS JUST A FACADEWhen a disgraced former pop star plummets to her death from her Osaka apartment, all signs paint a picture of a troubled young woman who took her own life. But once her parents hire Kyoko Nakamura to learn the truth, the private detective discovers not everything is as it seems.Kyoko’s investigation will lead her into a world of drugs and prostitution, face to face with dangerous criminals, and through the seedy underbelly ...

“Thrilling. . . . a must-read!” — Mary Kubica“Masterful.” — Wendy Walker“I couldn’t put it down.” — Joseph FinderIn a world of wealth and privilege, a killer is hiding . . .The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal high-society murder.Dr. Kate English has it all. Not o...

An assassin's hunt for the truth!Angela Lockhart was a spy for a government agency, but the death of her husband drove her away. Only one man knows who killed her husband, a power broker named Dante who leads an international organization of assassins. But before he’ll give Angela what she wants, he needs her to do some work for him. Further complicating matters is the involvement of another government operative, playing a deadly game of deception to bring Angela b...

Explorations in the Fusion of Jazz and Greek Rebetiko Music offers an account of a research-led hybridity experiment in creative practice that fuses jazz and Greek rebetiko. It traces the history and nature of jazz fusion—or hybridity—with a view to understanding its significance for the genre of jazz while situating the rebetiko–jazz fusion experiment within it.The author adopts a similar historical approach to Greek rebetiko music and its nature in order to pay homage to...

Germany's opening run of victory in World War II was only made possible by the panzer forces that Heinz Guderian (1888-1954), the father of modern tank warfare, had created and trained, and by his audacious leading of those forces from 1939-1941. Guderian's breakthrough at Sedan and lightning drive to the Channel coast virtually decided the Battle of France. The drive he led into the East came close to producing the complete collapse of Russia's armies, but at the end of 1941 Guderian was ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Next Mrs. Parrish comes an unmissable thriller about a woman who becomes embroiled in the mystery of her husband’s deceased first wife—and after moving to his remote house in the woods, uncovers terrifying secrets.Aspiring writer Savannah’s scheme to meet superstar horror novelist Bennett Bryson turns out better than she ever imagined: not only does her charming and handsome literary idol offer to ...

A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD!“Will keep you up. In a ‘can’t put it down’ way. It’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ with XX chromosomes.” —The SkimmA mesmerizing debut psychological thriller about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple," from a stunning new voice in suspense.Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, inv...

A mystery older than time!There is a hidden world beneath the one you know, one in which all the stories from mythology are true. Elisa Hill is the latest in a long line of myth hunters, adventurers who travel the world seeking out the truth behind the legend. But the mystery of ancient Lemuria has eluded her and her family for decades.Until now.New evidence has finally given Elisa the opportunity to uncover the secret her parents went to their grav...

Greek New Testament. At the bottom of each page of Greek text you will find a list of infrequently occurring words with short definitions, which means you don't need to consult a separate lexicon for basic translation work. Right page notes identify key areas of grammar and syntax pertinent to the text under consideration, including insights into the use or absence of articles; particular lexemes; connectives; prepositions; pronouns, adverbs, and particles; verbal aspect; voice; q...

The Grigori are an ancient race; powerful people who possess abilities and powers humans do not. They gave rise to the legends of the fallen angels, and their descendents live on among us, hidden within human society, moving wheels within wheels, making changes unseen across the world.The twins Owen and Lily Winter always have always known they are different to everyone else who lives in the quiet village of Little Moor. Their mother is dead and they never discovered who their fath...