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An extraordinarily new business slant on how companies can generate greater profits in 23 compact lessons with ongoing tutorials between two fictitious individuals. In the past, companies taught their employees about quality. In today's unstable economy, employers must stress the importance of...

The last thing on Esther Dunja's mind is falling in love. Her goal is to keep her head down and slide through the next twelve years until her son graduates. After being run out of the last school she taught at by her ex, Esther needs to make this new teaching job work. It's her last chance to retain custody. The problem is she never anticipated falling for her son's kindergarten teacher.

Tales of the Apt is a companion series to the best-selling decalogy Shadows of the Apt (Tor UK), gathering together short stories from disparate places and supplementing them with a wealth of new tales written especially for the series. Together, they combine to provide a different perspective, an alternative history that parallels and unfolds alongside the familiar one, filling in the gaps and revealing intriguing backstories for many established characters. A must listen for any fan of the Shadows of the Apt books, where epic fantasy meets steampunk and so much more.

On a crisp January day, a presidential inauguration day, a one-megaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands, a world that conspired against survival. In the blasted heart of the new America, a group of men and women plan desperately to escape the eerie wastes and mutated life forms of their nuclear hell.

From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death—and we owe these modern obsessions to the Victorian age. Death and the Victorians explores a period in history when the search for the truth about what lies beyond our mortal realm was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it. Walk among London’s festering graveyards, where the dead were literally rising from the grave. Visit the Paris Morgue, where thousands flocked to view the spectacle of death every single day.

D-Day. June 6th, 1944. The trajectory of the Second World War – and with it the course of modern history – is changed forever. For three young former schoolmates from South Wales, their war is only just beginning. These young men, and thousands of others, will soon be a part of one of the bloodiest and most brutal parts of the Normandy campaign: the battle for Hill 112. The horror, the fear, the filth; the savage fighting; the sheer exhilaration and moments of farce and laughter: those who come through the carnage will never be the same again.

Die Stammesvampire wappnen sich zur entscheidenden Schlacht gegen ihren Erzfeind. Doch der Sieg kann ihnen nur gemeinsam mit den Atlantiden gelingen. Und so liegt das Schicksal der Welt in der Hand eines Stammesvampirs, der sich aufmacht, das Herz einer unsterblichen Königin zu erobern.

Looking to grow in real estate or sharpen your mindset? This podcast dives into the strategies, stories, and insights that drive high performance in both business and life. Hosted by Adrian Bo, a respected industry expert with over 30 years of experience, each episode offers real-world advice, personal development tools, and market commentary you can actually use. Adrian is a sought-after trainer, speaker, and trusted media voice on Sydney’s property market, known for helping agents and clients alike achieve exceptional results. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The way in which organizations manage their people has always been pivotal to their performance, long before formal human resource management coalesced into a definable and somewhat fashionable discipline in the mid-1980s.

Jugendliche töten einen Mann und saugen ihm das Blut aus. Doch obwohl Gabrielle die grauenhafte Szenerie mit ihrem Fotohandy festgehalten hat, schenkt die Polizei ihr keinen Glauben...

Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Leadership Executive coaches and #1 bestselling authors of All In and The Carrot Principle offer insight and advice in this practical eight-step guide both managers and employees can use to reduce work anxiety in the office and at home. Have you ever dreaded...

Mächtige Vampirkrieger, welche die Menschheit vor den abtrünnigen aus den eigenen Reihen und vor einer gefährlichen Geheimorganisation beschützen müssen. Stolze und starke Frauen, die selbst in den härtesten unter ihnen brennende Leidenschaft wecken und die kältesten Herzen erweichen. Lara Adrian ist eine Meisterin der Romantic Fantasy!

The Psychology of Spies and Spying tells the story of the people involved in spying: the human sources (agents) who betray their country or organization, and the professional intelligence officers who manage the collection and reporting process. It provides a rigorous psychological analysis of the personalities and motivations of individuals involved in spying.

“Working Dads and Balancing Acts” is a compilation of stories to celebrate fathers who, like you, want to be the best they can be in everything they do and be the best for their children.

Der Ordenskrieger Rafe hat nur ein Ziel: seinen Fehler wiedergutzumachen, der ihn und viele seiner Freunde beinahe das Leben gekostet hätte. Zu diesem Zweck schleust er sich in eine kriminelle Bande ein, die mit der Geheimorganisation Opus Nostrum in Verbindung steht. Dabei trifft er auf die schöne Tagwandlerin Devony, die sich als Mensch ausgibt und offenbar ihre ganz eigene Agenda verfolgt. Obwohl er weiß, dass er ihr nicht vertrauen kann, verspürt Rafe eine unwiderstehliche Anziehungskraft zu der toughen Stammesgefährtin.

Aric Chase ist ein Tagwandler, der nicht nur im Sonnenlicht überleben kann, sondern auch Macht über die Schatten besitzt. Gemeinsam mit dem Orden der Vampire stellt er sich der Bedrohung durch die grausame Geheimorganisation Opus Nostrum und die Königin der Atlanter entgegen.

Der unsterbliche Krieger Zael hat schon vor vielen Jahren den Hof der atlantidischen Königin hinter sich gelassen. Er ist ein Einzelgänger zwischen zwei Welten, der nie die Absicht hatte, sich wieder in Kämpfe und Schlachten zu stürzen. Ebenso wenig hat er damit gerechnet, je eine Frau zu finden, die sein Innerstes berührt. Doch als er sich mit dem Orden der Vampire gegen einen diabolischen Feind verbündet, trifft er auf Brynne, die für die Sicherheitsbehörde JUSTIS arbeitet.

"Questo audiolibro narra la storia leggendaria di come una piccola, meravigliosa e complicata specie, nata su un puntino di roccia e acqua, intorno a una normalissima stella tra centinaia di miliardi di altre stelle, in una galassia tra centinaia di miliardi di altre galassie nell'universo, abbia alzato lo sguardo oltre l'orizzonte e abbia deciso di partire per scoprire ciò che aveva intorno. Senza pensare ai mille pericoli che avrebbe incontrato, senza avere idea di quali sfide avrebbe dovuto affrontare, ma con il cuore pieno di curiosità, passione, ingegno e tanto coraggio.

The Roman empire shaped the culture of the Western world against which all other great powers are compared. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. However, the exception lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires ruled over great cities and the trade routes to mysterious lands beyond. This was the place Alexander the Great had swept through, creating a dream of glory and conquest which tantalized Greeks and Romans alike.

After a lifetime of hunting down criminals, Ryan just wants to live out his days in peace and in the shadows of Tokyo to grieve the loss of his wife and son. But his old team - the Nameless, experts in extraction and recon - comes with an urgent request for help. The young daughter of one of his closest friends, a girl he once treated as his own, has been kidnapped.