People with disabilities make up at least 15% of the population, yet they are still too often overlooked. Many people with disabilities are highly motivated, create fantastic work, and add tremendous value to organizations.Disability Friendly is a clarion call to businesses around the world to realize the opportunities presented by employing people with disabilities. It explains the potential of disabled employees, how to create a culture of inclusion, and, in the process,...

Create a true culture of inclusionAlthough progress has been made around equality for many marginalized groups, people with disabilities are still massively underrepresented in organizations’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts. People with disabilities make up at least 15% of the population, yet they are still too often overlooked. Many people with disabilities are highly motivated, create fantastic work, and add tremendous value to organizations....

At a time when the United States debates how deeply to involve itself in Iraq and Syria, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Zacchea, USMC (Ret.), holds a unique vantage point on our still-ongoing war. Deployed to Iraq in March 2004, his team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi army battalion trained by the US military. Zacchea tells a deeply personal and powerful story while shedding light on the dangerous pitfalls of training foreign troops to fight murderous insurge...

A Soldier. A Lost Memory. A Love That Won't Let Go.What happens when everything you knew about yourself disappears—leaving only the echoes of a life you can't remember? In Flashbulb Memories, John Kemp invites you into the mind of a soldier who awakens from a coma, only to find his past obliterated by psychogenic amnesia. His memories are gone, replaced by fragments—haunting images of war and a love so elusive, it may only exist in his mind.

Four dark cases. One London private investigator who knows every secret has a price.In the rain-soaked streets of modern London, corruption wears an expensive suit and danger waits behind every neon-lit doorway. From missing women and crooked businessmen to violent gangsters and fatal betrayals, a cynical private investigator navigates the city's underworld one case at a time.Inspired by the hard-boiled classics of 1940s film noir, this collection delivers sharp dialogue, m...

Highly adaptive societies will determine whether civilization survives the challenges of the 21st century. Choosing Survival presents this startling new concept, defining such societies and showing how they have evolved, spread around the world, created a complex interactive network, and become the principal drivers of social change. The extraordinary events associated with the global evolution of highly adaptive societies are presented continent by continent and nation by nation. This uni...

A young man must solve the murder he has been accused of, and piece together the clues, all the while a predatory detective, D.I. Baxter Morgan is on his tail... James Lithgow has been accused of murder, his DNA found all over a crime scene in a previously crime-ridden London. London's inhabitants have had to choose between an over-zealous police state or exist in the safety of their own home. Outside, deserted high streets, empty stores and bankrupt retailers remain. The puzzle: with no c...

First published in 1973, The Secret and Sublime is a warmly sympathetic account of Taoism, a colorful religion and way of life. Perhaps for the first time, all aspects of Taoism are brought together within one audiobook: popular Taoism with its lavish ceremonies, demon exorcism, oracles, ghosts, fox-fairies and adepts with strange powers; yogic Taoism with its emphasis on rejuvenation and longevity attained by means of sexual conservation yoga or by the ‘internal alchemy’; philoso...

War With Iran: Political, Military and Economic Consequences provides readers both a history of Iran’s relationship with the West and an expert’s estimation of what the political, human and financial costs of full-scale war with Iran might be. Authors Geoffrey Kemp and John Allen Gay of the Center for the National Interest utilize their years studying and informing America’s foreign policy in the Middle East to bring to life the possible outcomes of an American military intervention in Ira...

The mafia are closer than you think...For most of us in Britain, the Mafia seems as distant as the characters in "Goodfellas," "Gomorrah," or "The Godfather" trilogy. However, the truth is far more sinister.Drawing from his groundbreaking Sky series, renowned journalist and fearless investigator Ross Kemp delves into the depths of the Mafia's influence within the UK - unveiling the Mafia bosses, capos, and hitmen who work next door, from caravan parks to sh...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, a select group of his family and most ardent admirers from the worlds of literature and entertainment; including Joanna Lumley and Simon Callow, gathered in Highgate Cemetery, burial place of many of the Dickens family, to hear readings from his work introduced by his great-great-grandson Mark Dickens and discuss his life.

Explore the worlds of a galaxy far, far away with incredible cross-sections, featuring 9 years' worth of new content from Star Wars™ films and TV shows.With more than 60 intricate full-color artworks and 3D maps, explore iconic locations that bring the Star Wars saga to life.This updated edition has been comprehensively revised and includes brand-new, incredible cross-sections alongside old favorites, with new entries from Star Wars: T...