**BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • The Washington Post • Fortune • BloombergFrom two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world.**For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the...

Walk into any bookshop and you’ll find shelves overflowing with self-help advice. Confidence books. Diet books. Productivity books. Brain books. Finance books. Sleep books. Habit books. Motivation books. Each one promising transformation.But where do you even begin? And who has time to read them all? That’s where this audiobook is different.My team and I have done the heavy lifting for you. We’ve analysed thousands of research studies, expert insights, psychological breakth...

Are you tired of not being understood? If English isn't your first language, this interactive “repeat-after-me” audiobook is your ultimate guide to achieving clear, fluent, and confident English speech.- Master English Sounds: Discover and practice the unique sounds in English that may not exist in your native language, enhancing your pronunciation and clarity.- Memorable Phrases and Idioms: Learn and memorize essential phrases and idioms that will help you navigate convers...

The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film compiles a series of essays focusing on the figure of the child within the specific context of the “affective turn” in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America. This edited volume looks specifically at the intersection between cultural constructions of childhood and the affective turn within the contemporary sociopolitical landscape of Latin America. The editors and contributors share ...

She thought she was safe. She was wrong.After a terrifying night outside her college dorm, Alexis Carter can't shake the feeling that someone is watching. The police call it over. Everyone else moves on.She can't.The only person who refuses to walk away is Tyler Brooks.Quiet, dependable, and impossible to rattle, the Auburn football player never intended to become Alexis's protector. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becom...

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An urgent, fiercely intelligent debut novel about "two couples, an ocean apart—one wounded by a war crime, the other just starting to reckon with being implicated in it.... An insightful book about the slow, zigzag work of healing that nonetheless moves at the speed of a thriller" (Caleb Crain, author of Necessary Errors).For years, Amira—a recent convert to Islam living in Rome—has gone to work, said her ...

We have all heard about men and women who achieved the uncommon in our time and in the bible days, you might think to yourself that they are super humans, but I am just an ordinary human being. This book will inform you that God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and will enlighten you that heroes are built from zerosThis book supports the opinion of Lucius Annaeus Seneca “It is the rough roads that leads to the heights of greatness “.This book assures that no...

Learn how to plan, operate and optimize a supply chain that delivers maximum value.The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management is the definitive guide for students, operations leaders and logistics professionals who want to master strategy, planning and execution in today's fast-changing environment.Now in its eighth edition, this comprehensive resource blends strategic insight with step-by-step tactical guidance, supported by real-world ...

One week. No rules. No strings. That was the plan.Lisa Thompson came to Panama City Beach to stop overthinking and start living. One wayward football later, she's walking the shoreline with Jake Richards- Auburn's backup quarterback, her brother's roommate, and the last person she should be falling for.Jake doesn't do complicated. Spring break is supposed to be simple: sun, football, no consequences. But Lisa isn't like anyone he's met before. She doesn't p...

No other figure, historical or political, features more prominently in recent Newfoundland history than Joey Smallwood. During his long career in Newfoundland politics, Smallwood used the literary, rhetorical, and theatrical skills honed in the first five decades of his life to create a distinct and celebrated persona. He told his own story in his lively autobiography, I Chose Canada, published in 1973 only a year after he left office.Talented, venturesome, and above all r...

In his "finely crafted first novel" (Booklist), Peter Geye evokes the savage beauty of Lake Superior's north shore and the bittersweet reunion of a dying father and his hurting son after decades of estrangement. When Noah Torr returns to his family's Minnesota cabin to reconnect with his father, he learns for the first time what really happened 35 years ago-and how it changed his father forever. "This deeply moving, powerfully realized debut novel [is] inspiring, wise, and enthusiastically...

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.