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This book debunks the myth that leaders need to be creative like designers to apply design thinking. Applying design approaches and practices to organizational leadership is not just about its leaders becoming more creative. It is definitely not about the person at the top coming up with the grand answer. Design thinking starts with the 'pain point' related to the problem you are trying to solve. You get to the heart of the issue. It is a collaborative effort that neatly leads stakeholders and representatives affected by the problem to design novel leadership solutions that work.

In Strange Bedfellows, David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton look at how biology actually promotes monogamy in some species and how these lessons apply to human beings. An accessible work of science that is relevant to our intimate daily life, Strange Bedfellows will reassure some people, surprise others, and engage everyone.

If you want to be a professional speaker, if you want to learn how to create a speech and speaking career that is successful, if you want to know how to write a speech that meeting planners and audiences want to hear, if you want to learn how to soar like a TED talk, if you want to be sought after as a public speaker, How to Create a $1,000,000 Speech is the audiobook for you.

The inspired 1960s phantasmagoria called Nancy’s name. She smiled and joined. Why not? She was part of the summers of love, and the winters, dancing the light fantastic. Unique to Nancy’s story, however, is that she took this youthful swashbuckler chutzpah and used it to confront her dermatomyositis, the rare crippling autoimmune disease that attacked her skeletal muscles, her being, and her physical beauty. Evil trio.

Jamie McCoy is the ultimate guy: 30 years old, carefree and professionally successful as the writer of a nationally syndicated humor column called "Guy Stuff". Nine and a half months ago, he spent a week basking on the beach in Eluthera and indulging in a fling with a woman at the resort. Never did he expect to find the unplanned result of that fling - a healthy, wailing baby named Samantha - strapped into a car seat on his back porch, along with a suitcase full of diapers and infant apparel and a note informing Jamie that he's her father.

Threads is a masterful memoir of a journey of self-awareness inspired by a promise Judith made to her 13-year-old self. Full of a love of life and strong spiritual belief, she embraces all of life’s lessons, each represented by a specific thread. Using humor and candor, her stories are filled with messages of faith, hope and love.

When war broke out, 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk, where she was wanted and needed. So why had she joined up? Come to that, why had Meg from Cheshire, and Sue, very much the big city girl from Liverpool, and Shanna, the life-toughened product of a broken home in Glasgow? Mixed reasons. Very mixed backgrounds. But no time to think now. Not with the sergeant shouting and the station air-raid siren beginning to wail....

From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to the halls of Miskatonic University, the writers at Book View Café have concocted a beakerful of quaint, dangerous, sexy, clueless, genius, insane scientists, their assistants (sometimes equally if not even more deranged, not to mention bizarre), friends, test subjects, and adversaries.

Every summer Bea, Marissa and Emma meet at Seastone, Emma's family home on the remote Suffolk coast, to retreat from their daily lives and take comfort in their friendship. Over the years, their paths have not been easy. For Bea, the aftermath of a broken-hearted love affair influences the decisions she makes. For Marissa, the fear that her traumatic past will catch up with her haunts her still. And, for Emma, the sacrifices she has made for her family leave her full of longing and regret.

A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first Black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film.

Lucius ist zweiundzwanzig Jahre alt und ein hochbegabter Medizinstudent in Wien, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbricht. In der Vorstellung, an ein gut ausgestattetes Lazarett zu kommen, meldet er sich freiwillig. Tatsächlich landet er im eisigen Winter 1914 in einem abgelegenen Dorf in den Karpaten, in einer zum Behelfshospital umfunktionierten Kirche. Allein mit einer rätselhaften, jungen Nonne namens Margarete, muss er die schwer Verletzten versorgen, er, der noch nie ein Skalpell geführt hat. Margarete bringt ihm alles bei und als sie sich verlieben, auch das.

With POTUS and members of Congress in the Big Easy for a political convention, an unidentified killer virus in the Crescent City emergency room has physicians baffled, hospital staff frightened, and the CDC on their way to assist. When the first death from the mysterious virus is a Secret Service agent guarding the president, a terrorist attack is feared. Matters get worse with the murder of a prominent politician in the French Quarter.

The Party Of The Year In Virginia Turns Deadly What began as rural Virginia New Year's day celebration turns into a day of horror when the enemies of Alexandra's grandfather, Congressman Adam Patrick Lee, bring the war to his Virginia estate killing, maiming and destroying everything in their path. Could an American hero be behind this heinous attack? If so, what would lead someone to turn on his own country? Alex finds herself thrown into a conspinracy involving corrupt politicians, mafia vendettas, and a terrorist plot that threatens to upend and destroy the lives of thousands. Get it now!

In this collection of essays woven with poems and folklore, author Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of how she became a poet and writer. She explores her love of words, her discovery of the magic of language, and her struggle to carve out time to practice her art. Cofer recalls the family cuentos, or stories, that inspire her and shows how they speak to all artists, women, and people. Her story and encouragement to pursue our passions are invaluable resources for everyone.

Darya does not remember how she came to be a slave or who she was before she was bought by an army captain for his motherless daughter in the ancient Persian city of Susa. Protected and nurtured by the housekeeper and her daughter, Darya has as good a life as a slave can have, even acquiring the rare skill of reading and writing, which she learns alongside her young mistress.

This anthology attempts to preserve the place of women in American society and imagination by collecting some of the best stories by women pulp writers, including Katherine MacLean, Greye La Spina, Judith Merril, Sonya Dorman, Alice Eleanor Jones, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, and Francis Stevens.

Judith Vincenzi, an Italian chef of over 20 years, has compiled a selection of meals which are tasty and super simple to make. Includes numerous breakfasts and brunches, soups and shakes, to more substantial suppers and even the occasional indulgent treats. All the recipes are based on the low-carb Mediterranean style of eating now proven to revolutionise your health. It is your chance to discover traditional dishes from Southern Europe to the shores of North Africa and Middle East.

Introduction to Quechua, Audio Edition is designed to help purchasers of Introduction to Quechua, 2nd edition (paperback or e-book) with the spoken aspects of the language. It has all of the Model Sentences, which are the core of each chapter in the book, read in both English and Quechua by a native speaker of each. The Audio Edition is the perfect accompaniment to the print or e-book, both of which are the full text of the work.

Samantha Hartwell's life changes completely when she's attacked by a client's boyfriend. She leaves Boston and Straight Talk, her consulting business, and escapes to California wine country to heal and to help her sister and brother-in-law with their vineyard's growth. But she can't escape the desire Derek Roberts, a world-wide photographer, had sparked inside her. The two challenge each other in ways they've never experienced and end up with more than they ever expected.

Number five in The Kate Lawrence Mysteries: Kate's turning 50, and as if that weren't depressing enough, she's about to become a grandmother - twice. Her investigation of a mysterious death at the Vista View retirement complex opens her eyes to the new realities of aging, some of which send her reeling. What really happened to the wealthy, tennis-playing cougar in Building One? Are residents covering up a sex-for-hire scandal? Will Kate's longtime friend lose her job as Vista View's business manager?