Consumers want personalized experiences, but few companies are rising to the challenge. To be done effectively, personalization must be a critical element of an organization's strategy.Personalized is a playbook for delivering true personalization at scale. In this book, Boston Consulting Group's Mark Abraham and Harvard Business School's David C. Edelman describe Five Promises of Personalization: Empower Me: Understand each customer's needs and how best t...

The Ultimate Western Collection surveys the imaginative territories of the American West and its borderlands through adventure tale, historical romance, frontier realism, detective fiction, humor, and the hard-edged Western yarn. Its capacious selection moves from mythic landscapes and encounters at the edge of settlement to cattle drives, mining camps, military outposts, and contested communities. Canonical frontier narratives sit beside popular serial fiction and lesser-known regional vi...

The Men Who Shot Liberty: 60 Rip-Roaring Westerns in One Edition is an exhilarating journey into the rugged landscapes and passionate lives of the Old West. This anthology showcases an extraordinary array of styles, from sweeping epics of Wild West heroism to intimate tales of frontier resilience. The collection traverses the emotive terrains of love, revenge, and redemption, highlighting the vibrant tapestry of Western storytelling. Each narrative stands as a testament to the enduring leg...

I've always held back my darkness. But for her, I'll unleash it. All of it…I never lose control. Just one moment of happiness might bring forth the evil that taints my blood. So, I stick to satisfying other people's fantasies with my kink dating app. That's how I found her.Regan Everglow is sweet. Deserving of all the beauty this life has to offer. But she's known darkness, too. Her control was stolen from her years ago. Now, she's ready to take it back. An...

The Great American Adventure: 20 Classic Novels gathers a capacious tradition of U.S. adventure writing, where frontier romance, sea narrative, wilderness memoir, travel chronicle, juvenile fiction, satire, and tales of survival meet. Its selections trace contested landscapes—from forests, rivers, and prairies to oceans, mining camps, and polar routes—while testing the moral costs of expansion, encounter, mobility, and self-reliance. Sea voyages, western expeditions, and wilderness ordeals...

The rules for investing have changed. Don’t get left behind. Reboot your approach with this timely guide from a wealth management powerhouse.It’s not hard to grasp why we need to change the way we think about investing. Over the past twenty-five years, new developments in world affairs, demographics, technology, and more have disrupted the old reality—and these changes directly affect the financial markets and your individual portfolio. Stock picki...

This volume, number 2 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains several fascinating writings of Mark Twain, Andrew Lang, and C. C. Stopes on who William Shakespeare was, his relationship with Francis Bacon, his ancestral family, and who authored his plays. Included are:IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? (From My Autobiography), by Mark TwainSHAKESPEARE, BACON AND THE GREAT UNKNOWN, by Andrew LangSHAKESPEARE'S FAMILY,

The challenges public comprehensive universities face today are expanding—they have been challenged to enroll and graduate more students, adopt new technologies that lower cost without sacrificing quality, and align program and curricular offerings with the skills that employers require. While these universities have a long history of adapting to change, today’s environment will likely test the capabilities of even the most adaptive institutions. This volume assembles ...

Although the story of Jack the Ripper has been told many times, the crime scene locations and the killing ground which he and his unfortunate victims would have been familiar with has been largely left unknown. This book is the literary equivalent of a walking tour around the sites that would have been frequented by those who lived in Whitechapel in 1888. Using the original police reports, new images, maps and diagrams the book takes the reader deep inside Jack the Ripper’s London and pres...

A USA Today BestsellerIn a world where consumers expect more—instantly and seamlessly—personalization is a strategic imperative.Consumers want personalized experiences, but few companies are rising to the challenge. Those that succeed in personalization build trusted relationships with millions of customers and engage with them at every step throughout their journey. Through the power of AI, they rethink their operations and unleas...

"The all-new ARCHIE adventure continues!Superstar writer Mark Waid teams up with the best and brightest artists in comics to bring a modern take to the legendary Riverdale cast of characters.This audiobook captures the bite and hilarious edge of Archie's original tales in a modern, forward-looking manner, while still retaining the character's all-ages appeal.The fallout from OVER THE EDGE is here! One life has been destroyed, another family has been torn apart--and ...

The Outlaws of the Wild West: 150+ Westerns in One Edition presents an unparalleled spectrum of tales that capture the rugged and often romanticized spirit of the American frontier. This anthology artfully encapsulates the dynamic and multifaceted worlds of the Old West, with narratives ranging from action-packed shootouts to introspective explorations of solitude and survival. Readers are immersed in a setting brimming with both myth and reality, as brought to life through a rich tapestry...