Providing everything you need to boost individual, team, and organizational performance, Rapid Mass Engagement delivers a new, more effective approach to creating a solid corporate culture that fuels long-term business success.Continuous improvement expert Frank Devine has been helping top companies develop effective business cultures for decades, and now he shares his secrets with you. Devine walks you through the process of strategically combining leadership, engagement,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International MICCAI Stroke Workshop on Imaging and Treatment Challenges, SWITCH 2024, as well as the Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Challenge, ISLES 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 10, 2024.The 12 revised full papers presented in this volume were selected form 16 submissions. The papers describe research advancements in image analysis for the diagnosis and intervention of is...

Includes audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary from the author!If you’re a leader in a church or business, and you want to improve your culture of hospitality, then you’ll love Danny’s new book. It’s a must-read! -Dan T. Cathy, CEO, Chick-fil-AWhen it comes to interacting with guests, churches typically gravitate towards one of two camps: over-the-top, shock-and-awe, let-us-entertain-you or oh-man,-some-people-just-showed-up, underw...

With Rao's Recipes from the Neighborhood, Frank Pellegrino-of New York's celebrated East Harlem restaurant Rao's-returns to what he knows best: authentic Italian food. With over one hundred recipes and beautifully illustrated with both full-color and vintage black & white photographs, Rao's Cooks For The Neighborhood is Pellegrino's tribute to the place he grew up and the women who taught him how to cook. From Ida's baked chicken to Rose Milano's Spaghetti Fri...

If you’re a leader in a church or business, and you want to improve your culture of hospitality, then you’ll love Danny’s new book. It’s a must-read! -Dan T. Cathy, CEO, Chick-fil-AWhen it comes to interacting with guests, churches typically gravitate towards one of two camps: over-the-top, shock-and-awe, let-us-entertain-you or oh-man,-some-people-just-showed-up, underwhelming experience. Each extreme has drawbacks: on one end, people become the center of...

His mother called him a worthless halfwit while his fellow drunks at the local bar ensure he's the butt of all their jokes. He spends his days whittling wood and counting pigeons. So how could Germain possibly understand what a casual encounter on a park bench with eighty-five year old Margueritte could mean? In this touchingly comic tale of an unusual friendship, that first conversation opens a door into a world Germain could never have imagined – the world of books – and gives both him a...

Improve your hearing, enhance your life—with new advice on just-released over-the-counter hearing aidsHearing loss can be frustrating, but in fact it's common and treatable. Hearing Loss For Dummies, written by top experts in the field in collaboration with AARP, walks you through how to get the help you need to clearly hear the sounds of life—whether you're at home, at work, or out and about. And hearing health is critical: Hearing loss can increase your ...

Escaping the gallows, Anne Bonney, the infamous pirate queen, sets sail in search of a fabulous treasure said to be hiding in a lost city of bones somewhere in the heart of Africa. But what she finds is a destiny she never expected...Maude Stapleton, late of Golgotha, Nevada, is a respectable widow raising a daughter on her own. Few know that Maude belongs to an ancient order of assassins, the Daughters of Lilith, and is as well the great-great-gre...

Ghostly Rites anthology is back again with another spine-tingling collection of short stories and haunting poems that will curl your toes and send shivers down your spine.Get comfy with our largest collection of mysterious, unearthly and brain-twisting tales, written by authors from all over the world.

God Is Looking For A Church To Bless God wants to transform his church into a people of power, joy, and peace Jim Cymbala reminds us that Christianity is only as strong as the local church and that God wants to bless our churches in ways we can't possibly imagine. It doesn't matter whether a church is alive and growing or barely surviving on life support. God has a plan for it. It doesn't matter whether a church is facing financial challenges, internal divisions, or strife among its leader...

From the bestselling author of Reimagining Church comes an essential guide that provides practical, effective tools for finding vibrant Christian communities.Driven by a passion for the body of Christ, Frank Viola has written some of today's most authoritative and celebrated works on the growing home, organic, and missional church movements. Now Viola shares practical keys to a healthy and successful church plant.Viola contends that many congregations today are str...

“It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot” ANATOLE FRANCE This book provides a user friendly introduction to atheism. Does god exist? The problem of evil, misconceptions, contradictions and how these and more influence todays societies. Not dwelling on any point for too long, the author manages to hold your interest and engage your intellect. Many points are raised in the book, this is done in such a way as to let the reader explore and discover the a...