Download or read book Holding the Future Hostage written by Tialla Rising and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mystical Bottle... A Teenage Beauty... A Criminal... A Universe of Pursuit. When a teenage girl finds an enchanting perfume Vial, her world is thrown into chaos. Friends become enemies; enemies become friends. Trust is what she needs most - and what she can't find. Through a series of deadly experiences, she discovers that this Vial plays a vital role in deciding the fate of many. Murder and betrayal surround her - hundreds try to claim her very life. A test of determination awaits.... Will she survive? Visions of the future, attacks, kidnappings, travel, explosions, and murder fill this page-turning novel with suspense and surprise.

Download or read book Hostages No More written by Betsy DeVos and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a National Bestseller! From coronavirus lockdowns to critical race theory in the classroom, it has become crystal clear that America’s schools aren’t working for America’s students and parents. No one knows this better than Betsy DeVos. Long before she was tapped by President Trump to serve as secretary of education, DeVos established herself as one of the country’s most influential advocates for education reform, from school choice and charter schools to protecting free speech on campus. She’s unflinching in standing up to the powerful interests who control and benefit from the status quo in education – which is why the unions, the media, and the radical left made her public enemy number one. Now, DeVos is ready to tell her side of the story after years of being vilified by the radical left for championing common-sense, conservative reforms in America’s schools. In Hostages No More, DeVos unleashes her candid thoughts about working in the Trump administration, recounts her battles over the decades to put students first, hits back at “woke” curricula in our schools, and details the reforms America must pursue to fix its long and badly broken education system. And she has stories to tell: DeVos offers blunt insights on the people and politics that stand in the way of fixing our schools. For students, families and concerned citizens, DeVos shares a roadmap for reclaiming education and securing the futures of our kids – and America.

Download or read book Don t Allow Your Past to Hold Your Future Hostage written by Deborah Moss and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hostage Three written by Nick Lake and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A taut, emotionally loaded, devastatingly powerful thriller from the acclaimed, Carnegie-longlisted author of In Darkness and Blood Ninja.

Download or read book Don t Let Your Employees Hold You Hostage written by Clay Clark and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this candid, polarizing and fact-filled book, Clay Clark (former US SBA Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year and founder/partner of 13 multi-million dollar businesses) shares how you as a business owner can prevent yourself from ever being held hostage from employees again. The featured character (Kermit) described in this story is a personification of multiple employees that business owners hire. "Last August we had 114 new patients compared to this August, we had 180 new patients. And it's just at the end of the month, when you count that up, you just can't deny what an impact that Clay's new marketing approach has had on our office, In June last year we had 85 new patients. in June this year, we had 126 new patients. It's just astounding. Before, we were trying to implement our ideas, but we didn't have access to a videographer, a photographer, a website designer, search engine optimizer. Through our new digital marketing plan, we have seen a market increase in the number of new patients that we're seeing every month, year over year. Our average is running about 40 to 42% increase, month over month, year over year." - Dr. April Lai, DDS, Partner of MLKDentistry.com "We're the largest basketball facility in the three or four state area. We have people that call us from all over Oklahoma because of our website. My time has been freed up tremendously because I'm not involved in all the little things. It's just streamlining your business so it's not taking just all of your time away from your family. As a business owner if you allow your business to eat you up, well it's not really worth it. You've got to have a value of life as well. We wouldn't be where we're at today without Clay Clark." - Don Calvert, Owner of ScoreBBall.com "I am a client of Clay Clark and he's helped me move the numbers on two of my businesses. One of my friends was his client and he helped his marketing go up 1200% in three months, so that's how I got hooked up with Clay Clark." - Roy Coggeshall, Owner of RCAutoSpecialists.com & TheGarageBA.com "Clay Clark is exceptional. Clay Clark and his group are exceptional people. They are deeply devoted people. My name is Michael Levine and this is totally unsolicited." - Michael Levine, PR Consultant of Choice for Nike, Prince, President Bill Clinton, Pizza Hut, and more "Clay understands the hard work and dedication required and he celebrates success wherer it is found. He really does admire Napoleon Hill and fills his life with Mr. Hill's actionable quotes. They are all through this book. As I look at Clay's success and his larger-than-life vision for his future, he is well on his way to emulating the man he so admires." - Clifton Taulbert, Pulitzer Prize Nominated Author "We had our highest grossing month ever. We started from scratch and we now have 267 reviews and we're climbing the Google search engine every day." - Dr. Breck Kasbaum

Download or read book Hostage to Fortune written by Joseph Patrick Kennedy and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorial: Edward J. Essey Sr.

Download or read book Hostage to Pleasure written by Nalini Singh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rebel Psy scientist finds herself at the mercy of a changeling who has sworn vengeance against her kind in this thrilling romance in Nalini Singh’s New York Times bestselling series. Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the perfect Psy—cool, calm, emotionless...at least on the surface. Inside, she’s fighting a desperate battle to save her son and escape the vicious cold of the PsyNet. Yet when escape comes, it leads not to safety, but to the lethal danger of a sniper’s embrace. DarkRiver sniper Dorian Christensen lost his sister to a Psy killer. Though he lacks the changeling ability to shift into animal form, his leopard lives within. And that leopard’s rage at the brutal loss is a clawing darkness that hungers for vengeance. Falling for a Psy has never been on Dorian’s agenda. But charged with protecting Ashaya and her son, he discovers that passion has a way of changing the rules...

Download or read book Understanding and Responding to the Terrorism Phenomenon written by Ozgur Nikbay and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since terrorism is a global issue, counter-terrorism studies are also a global issue which requires cooperation and collaboration of multi-dimensional groups. This publication includes the researches, experiences and perceptions of different parts of this cooperation and collaboration.

Download or read book Hostage written by Robert Crais and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Demolition Angel and L.A. Requiem returns with his most intense and intricate thriller yet. As the Los Angeles Times said, Robert Crais is “a crime writer operating at the top of his game.” His complex heroes and heroines, his mastery of noir atmosphere, and his brilliant, taut plots have catapulted him into the front rank of a new breed of thriller writers. Hostage proves his earlier success was no fluke. It’s an unstoppable read. An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately wants to forget, Talley soon learns that his nightmare has only begun. The hostages are not who they seem, and the home contains secrets that even L.A.’s most lethal and volatile crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears. As Talley tries to hold himself together and save the people inside, the full weight of Benza’s wrath descends on him, putting the police chief and his own family at risk. Soon, all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one capable of diffusing the standoff is the least stable of them all. Hostage is a blistering stand-alone thriller with superb characters in crisis, multistranded plotting, and pitch-perfect Southern California sensibility.

Download or read book Hostage Zero written by John Gilstrap and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious kidnapping kicks off ”a roller-coaster ride of adrenaline-inducing plot twists” in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). With his elite team of agents at Security Solutions, hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave goes where the government can't. Now he’s been called in to locate two teenage boys who have been kidnapped from a residential high school in Virginia. But tracking them down is just the beginning. To keep them and his covert team alive, Grave plunges into the heart of an ugly secret whose insidious path reaches from one of the world's most remote places into the highest corridors of power. And he must defeat enemies who are willing to kill to keep the truth from being revealed.

Download or read book The Gift of Beauty written by Stephen David Ross and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-07-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the idea of art as an ethical movement, interpreting the good as nature's abundance, giving rise to an ethics of inclusion, expressed in art.

Download or read book Hostage at the Table written by George Kohlrieser and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Kohlrieser—an international leadership professor, consultant, and veteran hostage negotiator—explains that it is only by openly facing conflict that we can truly progress through the most difficult business challenges. In this provocative book, he reveals how the proven techniques and psychological insights used in hostage negotiation can be applied successfully to any personal or business relationship. Step by step, he outlines the seven key factors that anyone can use to remove the blocks that stand in the way of resolving tough problems and shows how business leaders, in particular, can develop and access the skills they need to create trust and a positive mind-set in their companies.

Download or read book A short course in international economics electronic resource written by Jeffrey E. Curry and published by World Trade Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 100 Thing Challenge written by Dave Bruno and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading this will lead you to a better life.” —Dean Nelson, author of God Hides in Plain Sight In The 100 Thing Challenge Dave Bruno relates how he remade his life and regained his soul by getting rid of almost everything. But The 100 Thing Challenge is more than just the story of how one man started a movement to unhook himself from consumerism by winnowing his life’s possessions down to 100 things in one year. It’s also an inspiring, invigorating guide to how we all can begin to live simpler, more meaningful lives.

Download or read book Hostage written by Paul Chandler and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 23, 2009, Somali pirates kidnapped Paul and Rachel Chandler from their sailing boat, the Lynn Rival, in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. In this remarkable memoir, the Chandlers recount their terrifying ordeal, revealing the inspiring and poignant story behind the dramatic headlines. The book chronicles the aftermath of the attack, and how the Chandlers' captors held them in Somalia for more than a year while trying to extort millions of dollars from their middle-class family. It goes on to describe how despite enduring threats, intimidation, solitary confinement, and even whippings, their unshakable belief in each other and their determination to survive sustained them. With its detailed, day-to-day account of the experience of being held captive by pirates, this unique and inspiring story will resonate with travelers the world over.

Download or read book The Captive written by Grace Burrowes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA Today bestsellerHe'll never be free... Captured and tortured by the French, Christian Severn, Duke of Mercia, survives by vowing to take revenge on his tormentors. Before the duke can pursue his version of justice, Gillian, Countess of Greendale, reminds him that his small daughter has suffered much in his absence, and needs her papa desperately. Until he surrenders his heart... Gilly endured her difficult marriage by avoiding confrontation and keeping peace at any cost. Christian's devotion to his daughter and his kindness toward Gilly give her hope that she could enjoy a future with him, for surely he of all men shares her loathing for violence in any form. Little does Gilly know, the battle for Christian's heart is only beginning. Captive Hearts series: The Captive (Book 1) The Traitor (Book 2) The Laird (Book 3)

Download or read book Migrant Futures written by Aimee Bahng and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for wealthy elites, the wide range of speculative novels, comics, films, and narratives Bahng examines imagines alternative futures that envision the multiple possibilities that exist beyond capital’s reach. Whether presenting new spatial futures of the US-Mexico borderlands or inventing forms of kinship in Singapore in order to survive in an economy designed for the few, the varied texts Bahng analyzes illuminate how the futurity of speculative finance is experienced by those who find themselves mired in it. At the same time these displaced, undocumented, unbanked, and disavowed characters imagine alternative visions of the future that offer ways to bring forth new political economies, social structures, and subjectivities that exceed the framework of capitalism.