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In the midst of a successful year, visionary CEO Gui Loureiro decided that Walmex—Walmart’s biggest division outside of the United States—needed to make massive changes to make the iconic company a more data-driven, customer-centric business that would be competitive in our digital economy. The stakes were high: no company the size of Walmex had ever attempted a transformation at such a magnitude of scale. Reinventing the Leader is the turbulent story of how it happened that’s especially relevant in this age of globalization.

In No One’s the Bitch, ex-wife/stepmother team extraordinaire Jennifer Newcomb Marine and Carol Marine take you for a straight-talking, hand-holding walk through what is typically a very lonely minefield. Whether you just want to create a neutral, “business” partnership with the “other woman” in your life—or actually, gulp, become friends—they show you how to reach your goal through 10 powerful steps.

In Vita Nostra, Sasha Samokhina, a third-year student at the Institute of Special Technologies, was in the middle of taking the final exam that would transform her into a part of the Great Speech. After defying her teachers’ expectations, Sasha emerges from the exam as Password, a unique and powerful part of speech. Accomplished and ready to embrace her new role, she soon learns her powers threaten the old world, and despite her hard work, Sasha is set to fail.

In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires, on the run from the Church. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and, most importantly, be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there's no turning back.

Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.

El libro del día del juicio final (1992) es uno de los mejores libros sobre pandemias que se han escrito, galardonado con los premios Hugo, Locus y Nebula a la mejor novela. En él, una historiadora de la Universidad de Oxford que vive en el año 2054 decide viajar a la Inglaterra de 1320, pero una extraña crisis que vincula pasado y futuro altera sus planes. Al mismo tiempo, una epidemia especialmente virulenta se extiende en la Inglaterra de mediados del siglo XXI.

Sie will sich nicht verlieben, doch er stürmt mitten in ihr Herz. Davina King hat zwei Prinzipien: Sie will sich niemals wieder an einen Mann binden, und der Welt mit ausgestrecktem Mittelfinger zeigen, dass sie es als Frau in der Sportberichterstattung schaffen kann. Dieser Plan gerät allerdings ins Wanken, als sie während eines Pub-Besuchs eine Panikattacke erleidet und ausgerechnet auf Knightsbridge-United-Profi Alec Ward trifft, und dieser sie tröstet.

Navigate the emerald tablets easily with this chapter and verse study guide! Everything you need in one handy place! Information is easy to find with an index of common terms and power techniques. There are also explanations of how Thoth the Atlantean built the great pyramid.

Sixty percent of individuals over the age of 20 - or 58 million people in the US - are overweight. As the obesity epidemic continues to grow, many Americans are researching the benefits and complications of weight-loss surgeries. Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies, 2nd Edition is the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to understanding the impact of surgical weight-loss before, during, and after surgery.

Uno spettacolo messo in scena da una compagnia amatoriale non corrisponde davvero all’idea di divertimento, per Agatha Raisin. Eppure lei è lì, nella sala comunale di Winter Parva, e spera che tutto finisca presto. A un certo punto però Bert Simple, panettiere di giorno e attore di sera, precipita in una botola che si è aperta sotto di lui. Sembra un effetto scenico… e invece è un omicidio, dato che Bert viene ritrovato impalato sotto il palco. Allora il produttore dello spettacolo assume Agatha per indagare… nel pericolosissimo, infido mondo del teatro amatoriale.

For eight years, Ama has been on the run and out of reach from the people who destroyed her life. Staying detached and moving quickly is all you can expect as a merchant-class woman with unnatural passions, even in the neglected areas of Gascony in the 800's. But now a village that needs her skills, and more importantly, a woman who wants her heart, is trying to break through those walls. If they do, Ama is convinced disaster will follow. And if she learns the whole truth, Ama will lose her as well. Lesbian romance 18+

The audiobook 52 Pieces: A Manual of Light to Survive the Abyss of Trauma is based on Dr. Marina Kostina's near-death sky-diving accident and her miraculous journey back to life. Dr. Kostina's body and face were broken into 52 pieces, and it took 10 surgeries to put her back together. The book details the author's struggle with PTSD, depression, and anxiety through the abyss of her tragedy.

While offering listeners a useful primer on existentialism as an animating body of thought, Marino distills and delivers the life-altering and, in some cases, life-saving insights Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Camus, and other existentialists articulate for becoming more emotionally attuned human beings.

Welcome to the Reef Authority's 'Reef in Focus' podcast, where we tackle the big topics of the Great Barrier Reef. You can listen to episodes on our website or on your favourite podcast platform. Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast and share it with your friends. Thank you for listening and stay tuned for more episodes.

Charlotte Coburn has a tragically dark past. But she’s safe now. She lives in a gated community, protected from danger. When teenager Elle knocks at her door looking for shelter during a particularly severe storm, the woman can’t help but think how lucky Elle’s been to have found someone as friendly as her. Except Elle chose her door on purpose...

The Marine Fish Conservation Network's Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode, the Network's Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation and coastal ways of life.

Are you ready to confidently communicate in your life? Are you ready to seize every opportunity that comes your way? Becoming a Master Communicator—by Renée Marino-communication coach, Broadway actress, and star of Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys film—is a guide for those looking to have clear and authentic communication with others by using digital technology as a tool—but not the only tool. Smartphones and computers make everyday communication incredibly convenient.

Listen, learn and take the lead. Cat® experts & industry leaders discuss what's working, what's new and what's trending when it comes to powering the global oil and gas and marine industries. Tune in for straight talk about new products and technologies, plus insights into hot topics like sustainability, alternative fuels, electrification and more. Subscribe for the latest episode updates.

As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems. On the forefront of this discipline is Marina Alberti, whose innovative work offers a conceptual framework for uncovering fundamental laws that govern the complexity and resilience of cities, which she sees as key to understanding and responding to planetary change and the evolution of Earth.

Linnaeus Tripe? Shades of a minor character in Dickens or Trollope, but in fact the resoundingly named Tripe (1822-1902), army officer and photographer, was the sixth son and ninth child of a professional middle-class family from Devonport, his father a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He joined, as so many of his background did - younger son, but of a certain social status - the East India Company's army (the 12th Madras Native Infantry) aged only 17, the third Tripe son to do so.