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Welcome to this engaging audio series designed to guide new, aspiring, and experienced local Chiefs of Party and other project leaders through the essentials of leading a USAID-funded project with foresight and excellence. Whether you're navigating the USAID landscape for the first time or seeking to sharpen your skills, we're here to provide the guidance you need to navigate the unique challenges of this role. Each episode in this series distills the essence of effective project management, from foundational principles to actionable strategies, all aimed at fostering a dynamic and ...

De Nederlandse wetenschapper Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) heeft binnen de natuurkunde een zeer fundamentele bijdrage geleverd aan de ontwikkeling van de klassieke mechanica. Met veel begrippen uit deze theorie hebben we dagelijks te maken, zoals plaats, tijd, snelheid, versnelling, massa, kracht, energie, impuls en meer. Maar hoe werkt dit stuk natuurkunde en waar is het op gebaseerd?

At 38, Ava “Spike” Harrison has been a major player in the local construction industry. She’s also had to rebuild her family business from the bottom up thanks to bad luck and bad fines. So it’s easy to see why OSHA, breathing down her neck on her latest job at Albany’s PS 20, has the contractor on edge. She’s used to putting out fires, but this is about to be a full-on explosion - 300 students at risk for exposure to deadly asbestos, and the asbestos removal contractor, Jimmy Farrell, is nowhere to be found.

Mitch Herron has given up thoughts of retirement. A life he thought was possible proved anything but, his enemies constantly dragging him back into a battle in the shadows that he wanted no part of. Done with hiding, Herron faces his final act - a do or die mission to save the one person he gives a damn about, the woman who’s been with him from the start. Success will likely involve his death, but failure will cost so much more.

After surviving a bloody run-in with ISIS-sympathizing bandits in the middle of Morocco’s Sahara Desert, adventurer and Renaissance man Chase Baker finds himself in the presence of a Vatican priest who desperately needs his help. One of the church’s great relics has been stolen by a surviving member of the Nazi SS. The relic is none other than the Spear of Longinus. If Chase can’t recover the spear, it will be used by Rickman and his neo-Nazi cohorts to create a brand new evil Fourth Reich.

Rome - 97 BC. Quintus Sertorius is now serving as a legate in Greece. It's supposed to be a peacetime mission, but quickly Sertorius discovers there is more happening beneath the peaceful veneer of democracy's birthplace. Roman citizens are disappearing. Whispers are spreading that there is a force operating in the shadows bent on Rome's destruction.

They call him Keeper, but lately Jack Marconi has specialized in losing things. Last year, he lost his wife in a mysterious traffic accident, and ever since, he's felt like he's losing his mind. As the warden of the maximum security Green Haven Prison, home to 2,500 of New York's most hardened criminals, Marconi can't afford to drop focus, even for an instant. But he's been slipping up on the job, and he's tormented by flashbacks to the Attica uprising. All of which makes him ripe for the role of patsy when a convicted cop killer named Eduardo Vasquez stages a daring breakout on his watch.

Embark on a transformative journey of connection and understanding with "Conscious Conversations: The Power of Mindful Communication and Mastering Conversations," an immersive audiobook that will revolutionize the way you engage with others.

Mitch Herron is done with America. But America isn’t done with him. When he went on the run from the authorities, Mitch Herron knew he could never return home to the United States. But after an ambush in Hong Kong that almost left him dead, he found the American government wasn’t ready to let him vanish. Now, the ultimate deniable asset has agreed to one last job to save a key intelligence asset. If he fails, America will lose one of its key weapons in an increasingly unstable world, and a key United States ally will be ripe for the picking by its enemies.

Bienvenue dans mes aventures, les aventures d'Avni ! Une tête ronde, deux oreilles, un air espiègle... On pourrait croire que je ressemble à n'importe lequel de mes copains. Eh non ! Moi, je suis capable de déformer mon corps à volonté : faire grandir mes bras, mes jambes, mes yeux, changer de couleur mais aussi disparaître... C'est vraiment super pour épater tous mes copains, comme Bambou, Cara ou Félix, mais aussi pour embêter mes meilleurs ennemis, Biff et Kyle ! Pour venir rigoler avec nous, et surtout pour découvrir toutes mes supers transformations, tu n'as qu'à tendre les oreilles.

When an EMP decimates the world’s power grid, the Arizona desert is plunged back into the lawless era of the Old West. Where electricity, cars, and cell phones had once dominated daily life, this disaster ushers in the return of outlaws, shootouts, and settling differences the old-fashioned way. For Vin, a former special-ops soldier turned bounty hunter, the change is a welcomed one.

This audiobook will teach you everything there is to know about reading body language and understanding human behavior. You'll learn how other people perceive different types of non-verbal communication from head nods and eye contact, down to hand gestures, and more subtle cues like posture. You can use these tips in any setting whether at work, school, home, or even when talking on the phone! Know how to analyze people like an audiobook so that you can predict what they're going to do next! And if someone ever tries something shady on you, just remember: The eyes never lie!

Enchanted by the Boleyn family, Beth only returned to the present day when life at Henry VIII’s court started to take a darker turn. She has just resigned herself to leaving her adventures firmly in the past, when she gets a nasty shock. It seems her time-slipping has had a disastrous affect. Anne Boleyn has been wiped from history and somehow it looks like Beth may have taken her place. Terrified that his favourite student may have changed English history forever, Professor Marshall convinces Beth to return to Anne, with the clear objective to fix her mess.

Seit Jahren versucht die erfolgreiche True-Crime-Podcasterin Jula Ansorge die Wahrheit über das Schicksal ihres unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwundenen Bruders herauszubekommen. Moritz wurde von der Polizei erst eines abscheulichen Verbrechens beschuldigt und später von den Behörden für tot erklärt. Matthias Hegel, der berühmte forensische Phonetiker, behauptet Beweise zu haben, dass Moritz noch lebt. Doch der ebenso zwielichtige wie skrupellose Experte, der nur eine Stimmprobe braucht, um die Psyche eines Täters zu analysieren, hat Jula schon oft belogen und manipuliert.

RatSnakes are rarely, if ever, visible to the public that they move among and risk their lives to protect. In fact, thanks to their cover personas, they are often assumed to be members of the clandestine criminal world that they investigate. Real-life undercover work is a far cry from the sexy, candy-colored world seen in Hollywood movies. Only those who are strong and clever enough will get inside and survive. Vincent A. Cefalu would know. He spent 30 years as an ATF undercover operative, in assignments ranging from the Symbionese Liberation Army to Asian organized crime.

I don't know the secrets that lurk within my sorority, and apparently neither does anyone else. My search for the truth behind the disappearances meets with blank stares and pleas of innocence. But someone knows. They're watching. They're waiting. They're hiding. They're attacking the man I love. The only way to put an end to it is to bend the Sallys to my will. I'm taking over and hunting the kidnappers down. Before the next person to disappear is me.

For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed. Modern medicine and science dismissed what was once the king of the organs as a mere blood pump subservient to the brain, yet the heart remains a potent symbol of love and health and an important part of our cultural iconography.

From the bestselling author of The Power of Positive Thinking comes this book on how to have faith. Plus a bonus book The Greatest Thing in the World, Henry Drummond’s most noted well-loved classic, based on his most famous work on 1 Corinthians 13.

When their coup of Metzger's Menagerie is discovered, Delilah and her fellow cryptids find their newly won freedom brutally stripped away as they are sold into The Savage Spectacle, a private collection of "exotic wildlife". Specializing in ruthless cryptid cage matches, safari-style creature hunts, and living party favors, the Spectacle's owner, Willem Vandekamp, caters to the forbidden fetishes of the wealthy and powerful. At the Spectacle any wish can be granted - for the right price. But Vandekamp's closely guarded client list isn't the only secret being kept at the Spectacle.

Here you have found a book so foul, so repulsive, so horrifying...that you will undoubtedly find yourself running to the nearest bathroom in an effort to both relieve your bowels and scrub your hands clean of its putrid filth. They have finally released this humorous collection of terrifying tales, despite the bitter public outcry which demanded these pages never see the light of day...and perhaps for good reason.