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Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings.

Combining compelling data with anecdotal evidence, author Leena Al Olaimy sheds light on unorthodox and counterintuitive strategies to address social woes that groups like ISIS exploit. Using religion, neuroscience, farming, and even love, this book offers many inspiring examples and - for once - an optimistic outlook on how we can not just fight but prevent terrorism.

Everything you know about the Sorcerer’s Stone is wrong! Yes, the fabled artifact known as the Emerald Tablet exists. Yes, it is the ancient source of knowledge for the powerful Alchemist Guild. What the Guild doesn’t know is the stone holds a terrible secret that goes beyond time and space, and there is more than one group willing do anything to get the Emerald Tablet. Rose, Violet, and little Rosie have settled into fancy new digs in upscale Paddington. Things get weird when the recluse Preston Gilchrist shows up on the doorstep, after three years living as a shut-in.

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a young governess sent to a remote country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. But is the threat to her young charges really a ghostly presence or something else entirely?

Are you sure the beliefs you hold about the history of humanity are true? Have you ever wondered where biblically-based accounts and centuries-old traditions are rooted? When the earliest civilizations began documenting the activities of humanity for posterity, they opened a field for recorded history upon which many would seek to play a part. Therefore, modern civilizations have trouble distinguishing recorded truth from recorded lies.

This new biographical look at Leonardo da Vinci explores the Renaissance master's groundbreaking portrayal of women which forever changed the way the female form is depicted. Leonardo da Vinci was a revolutionary thinker, artist, and inventor who has been written about and celebrated for...

On the other side of the Aether is a dirty and dangerous London filled with marvelous steam-powered machines and magic. Detective “Dolly” Williamson’s job is to keep the cesspool from growing bigger. He loves when he just gets a simple murder. Follow the clues, catch the culprit. One man’s way to shrink the stink of the streets. That won’t happen this Sunday morning.

The Therapist by Kathlyn C. White, marriage and family therapist, is a nonfiction account of the life of a therapist and the many interesting people she has seen over the years.

Seventeen-year-old Ariadne is in love with young British National Serviceman, Stephen Allenby. But her family are deeply involved with an organization campaigning for a union with Greece, and do not approve. And they’re not the only ones. It’s only a matter of time before Stephen is sent back to England, leaving Ariadne pregnant and alone. Stephen does his best to move on with his life. He marries Laura and has a baby girl called Cressida, but it’s not long before the cracks start to show and his marriage falls apart …

Sexy, single, and 60, and recently divorced from a cheating husband, Audrey wanted to find a new partner but was scared of braving the dating world again. But nothing could have prepared her for the truth. The first man was wonderful, funny, warm, romantic, and serious about commitment, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, it seemed. This is a true story and cautionary tale that every mature woman - and man - should listen to.

Growing up during the centuries-long conflict between the empires of Egypt and Hatti, the young princess Istara is taken hostage by the King of Hatti to secure the loyalty of her father, the King of Kadesh to the empire. Soon her new life in Hatti's glittering capital becomes all she knows. Bound in blood before the gods to Hatti's unwilling crown prince, Istara, now Hatti's queen-in-waiting, learns she will never be loved.

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence inflicted on Medellin, and critically examines the status of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the impact of commercial exploitation of the city's violent past on the victims of mass drug violence and on the present nature of the city.

Pascuala Herrera, a Mexican immigrant woman with a physical disability resulting from childhood polio, had the odds against her, yet she conquered simply by working hard, having unfailing faith, and finding her own life purpose. Although her mother always told her that life was a valley of tears, Pascuala learned that although there were many difficult moments in her life, there were also beautiful miracles that happened every day.

Malgré sa méfiance à l’encontre du dieu de la Nuit et des Ténèbres, Danaé a conclu un marché insolite avec lui. En effet, si elle parvient à se faire passer pour l’amante officielle de Night, Sun rompra le pacte ancestral et renoncera à son âme afin de récupérer sa fiancée humaine.Lors de son séjour, elle découvre que les Obscuris ne sont pas aussi malveillants et sanguinaires que son peuple le croyait. Son attirance irrépressible pour Night n’arrange pas ses incertitudes.

Quitté à quelques semaines de son mariage, Étienne est prêt à tout pour rencontrer de nouveau l'amour. Nicole ne se remet pas de la mort de son mari. Tom et Luna viennent d'apprendre que leur vœu le plus cher de fonder une famille ne se réalisera jamais. Dans leur soif absolue d'amour, tous pourraient bien se laisser tenter par Meilleure Vie, l'application miracle capable d'exaucer les souhaits les plus fous.

Manuel Lindo came from nothing, but stubbornly worked his way up at the Dredging and Construction Company. Obliged to move from city to city for his job, the family couldn't put down roots, and Elvira and her siblings' childhood was marked by unpredictability. As they pass through temporary homes, they're caught between Manuel's outsized temper and their young mother's worsening illness, which would tragically take her life. Beginning with nine-year-old Manuel's experience in Madrid in 1939, Open Heart takes us on a journey through Spain full of insights about love in its many forms.

Explore the origins of the iconic candy cane; the basis of cherished traditions like ornaments, Christmas cards, and hanging stockings; and the stories behind influential classics such as "Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus". Featuring tongue-in-cheek hints and historical facts, this book delves into the ceremony, kitsch, and klatsch of Christmas, with extraordinary stories and poems prompting the need for tissues...and it even comes with a Yule Log recipe!

Elizabeth Moberly, wellborn daughter of a decorated captain of His Majesty’s royal navy, is determined to marry a titled nobleman. For, only the wealth and privileges of a peer of the realm will provide sufficiently for her future children. When Philip Lindsey, an untitled stranger, puts a stop to her beloved cousin’s wedding, Elizabeth resents him for intruding, even as she finds herself attracted to the handsome gentleman’s fine manners and strong faith.

This book is a metaphorical look at lamplighting, and instances where we can take steps to keep our mental lamps alight and the streets of our life well lit. It takes a closer look at some of our cultural myths, preconceptions and superstitions. It examines some of the "young wives' tales" that sneak, via parlance, into the fabric of our understanding of our world - that world that our perceptions have, often while we were looking the other way, fashioned into being 'the real world'.

There is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, and even celebrities appear in public, they make or constitute political representation by performing it, shaping how we view roles and institutions and imagine society.