How can a book about effective and efficient meetings be life changing?If you spend a considerable part of your life in meetings and they are unsatisfactory or frustrating, that will impact the quality of your time.Time is money. Time is limited. Time is the most expensive currency and it can't be traded.After reading this book, you will be more conscious of how you are spending your precious time. Using the MEET (Motivational, Effective, Efficient, Transformational)...

Who are rip-off label jeans actually ripping off? Why does it cost less to install a lift than to move a piano? And why don't maintenance men ever call when they are meant to?The Secret Life of Money answers questions like these - questions that strike us about the businesses we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. The answers to these puzzles reveal the very different ways in which businesses around us actually make their money - it is often not in the ways that we might expect.A ligh...

Daniel Davies is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston.

What if the problems in British policing aren't failures of the system — but features of it?The Afterlife of Empire traces British policing back to its actual origins: not a neutral public service built to protect everyone equally, but an institution designed to manage the poor, protect property, and maintain a hierarchy that was never intended to serve all communities the same way.Beginning with the Thames River Police — created to guard cargo tie...

“Lee’s army is really whipped,” Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant believed.May 1864 had witnessed near-constant combat between his Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Grant, unlike his predecessors, had not relented in his pounding of the Confederates. The armies clashed in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania Courthouse and along the North Anna River. Whenever combat failed to break the Confederates, Grant resorted to maneuver. “I propose to fight it ...

Nofel yn llawn hiwmor gan awdur Gwylliaid GlyndAur a'r gyfrol o straeon byrion, Twist ar Ugain. Mae'r nofel yn llawn cymeriadau brith, ac Aberystwyth yn gefndir i'r digwyddiadau. Hanes saith o bobl a wnaed yn ddi-waith yn sgil yr hyn a elwid yn 'wasgfa ariannol'.

Rheol 1: Allwch chi ddim ennill y gem. Rheol 2: Yr unig ganlyniad posib fydd colli'r gem. Rheol 3: Allwch chi byth ddianc rhag y gem. Ydych chi'n ddigon dewr i chwarae? Nofel arobryn Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Wrecsam a'r Fro, 2011.

In the midst of a brutal winter, a man commits an unspeakable crime. A decade after the fact, the fallout is pieced together by another man who was once a friend of the perpetrator. But as the free man tells the prisoner's story, his words become marked by his efforts to do justice to all of the people whose lives have been touched by this singular event-and his search for a means of imaginative sympathy that might rescue the victim from her degradation.

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A heartwarming children's book about breaking generational cycles and learning to be emotionally present across three generations of fathers.The story follows three generations:Curtis's grandfather: Absent, leaving a woundCurtis's father: Present but distant, trying to heal without the toolsCurtis: Present AND emotionally available, completing the healing

An "essential addition to serious students' libraries" detailing the historic military offensive that helped sway the outcome of the American Civil War ( Civil War News).In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia's Shenandoah Valley "clean and clear." His man for the job: Maj. Gen. "Little Phil" Sheridan—a temperamental Irishman who'd proven himself just the kind of scrapper ...

"Presents Custer's Civil War accomplishments in clear and engaging prose, while its ample images and battle maps place unfamiliar readers in the action." — The Civil War MonitorThrough the passage of time, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's last fight, the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, has come to overshadow the rest of his military career, which had its brilliant beginning in the American Civil War.Plucked from obscurity by Maj. Gen. George ...