Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human.But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours, and estimated IQs to match--far surpassing our own. Many of these huge fossil skulls have been discovered over the last century, but most of us have never heard of this scientific marvel....

Uncertainty Advantage fundamentally reframes how leaders should think about disruption, arguing that uncertainty is the primary source of competitive advantage in modern markets. When crises emerge, value doesn't disappear; it redistributes to those who detect shifts earlier, decide faster, and act while competitors are still in analysis paralysis.Drawing from real-world wins across various industries, Lynch exposes the fatal flaw that traditional risk management can breed ineffici...

Corporate Social Responsibility Across the Globe demonstrates many ways that CSR can be applied by law to overcome regulation and governance challenges around the world. Using interdisciplinary and comparative models and perspectives, the book challenges dominant understandings of CSR, such as neoliberal voluntarism, and demonstrates the regulatory and governance implications of an interdependent relationship between CSR and the law. The book identifies substantive and procedural barriers ...

In literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art, and traces the social, cultural, economic, and ...

DEATH MAGIC opens with Special Agent Lily Yu in Washington, D.C. with her fiancE—lupi prince Rule Turner—to testify before a Senate subcommittee about her role in the magical collapse of a mountain last month. She is not there to tell them about the strange legacy she carries from that event—or about the arcane bond between her and Rule--or what her boss in Unit Twelve of the FBI's Magical Crimes Division is really up to. She sure won't tell them that the lupi are at war with an Old One wh...

Half-white, half-Cheyenne Yakima Henry has been ambushed and badly injured. Bleeding to death, he doesn't know who'll get to him first: the gunslingers or hungry wolves. Thankfully, comely widow Aubrey Coffin comes along and drags Yakima to safety. But as he heals, lawless desperados circle closer to finish the job they started by putting his innocent savior in the cross fire.

Bo Creel is back at his family's Star C Ranch in Bear Creek, Texas. Along with his buddy Scratch, he's finding out that home is where the hell-raising is. A rival ranch is trying to drive the Creel family out of business, using any means necessary. For Bo, Scratch and Bo's nephew Lee, always suckers for a pretty face, come three ladies. Two to melt hearts and one to blur the battle lines between the ranches. Desperate to raise cash and save the Star C, the Creels set out on a cattle drive ...

Falcon MacCallister is a man who has built a legend of courage on the wild American frontier. Boyd Ackerman is no ordinary criminal. Trained by the U.S Army, commanding his band of killers with military efficiency, Ackerman has outsmarted and outfought every lawman who has tried to stop him. But he's never faced MacCallister before. Falcon MacCallister wasn't looking for a fight. Then Ackerman's Raiders kill his niece's husband-and take a young woman hostage. Falcon and his brothers ride i...

Risk and uncertainty may sound scary, but todays best business leaders are navigating both to gain strategic advantage over competitorsand you can, too.This guide for business leaders examines risk and opportunity through the lens of some of the worlds most respected visionaries, including Howard Schultz, Andy Grove, Peter Huntsman, John Krafcik, Peter Leibinger, Doug Hepper, and many more.These visionaries looked beyond financial performance to see opportunitiesand they did ...

This book provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of how regulation can be leveraged to address worsening environmental harm, particularly in key areas such as water pollution and deforestation.Leading scholars outline the theoretical underpinnings of regulation and their practical applications, demonstrating how regulation manifests across various environmental domains and within social and policy contexts. The book provides crucial insights into the intensifying global envir...

A Roundear there Shall Surely Be Born to a strong, raised to be free Fighting Dragons in his Youth Leading Armies, Nothing Loth Ridding his Country of a Sore Joining Two, then united Four Until from Seven there be One Only the will his Task be Done...

Bransen Garibond, the Highwayman, had little interest in the politics of Honce. To him, the two powerful warring lairds were the same sides of the same coin: The outcome for the people would be no different either way.A journey north, however, teaches Bransen that his views are simplistic at best...and that some things truly matter.Joined by his comrades in arms from The Ancient, Bransen sets off on a quest to put right over wrong and to find the truth, both of Honce and of...