Download or read book The Power of Trust written by Sandra J. Sucher and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking exploration of the changing nature of trust and how to bridge the gap from where you are to where you need to be. Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees, community members, and investors decide whether an organization can be trusted. Based on two decades of research and illustrated through vivid storytelling, Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta examine the economic impact of trust and the science behind it, and conclusively prove that trust is built from the inside out. Trust emerges from a company being the “real deal”: creating products and services that work, having good intentions, treating people fairly, and taking responsibility for all the impacts an organization creates, whether intended or not. When trust is in the room, great things can happen. Sucher and Gupta’s innovative foundation for executing the elements of trust—competence, motives, means, impact—explains how trust can be woven into the day-to-day and the long term. Most importantly, even when lost, trust can be regained, as illustrated through their accounts of companies across the globe that pull themselves out of scandal and corruption by rebuilding the vital elements of trust.

Download or read book Zero Sum Game written by S. L. Huang and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ZERO SUM GAME Best of Lists: * Best Books of the Month at The Verge, Book Riot, Unbound Worlds, SYFY, & Kirkus * The Mary Sue Book Club Pick * Library Journal Best Debuts of Fall and Winter A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power... Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price. As far as Cas knows, she’s the only person around with a superpower...until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people’s minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Someone intent on becoming the world’s puppet master. Cas should run, like she usually does, but for once she's involved. There’s only one problem... She doesn’t know which of her thoughts are her own anymore. "Fresh and exciting... a great start to an exciting series--and an exciting career." --Boing Boing At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book A Promise in the Storm written by Nancy Marrocco and published by Saint Mary's Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and grief are integral parts of human life. "A Promise in the Storm" is designed to engage teenagers in learning and reflection, in the context of Catholic faith, about these most basic and difficult human realities. Not a traditional textbook, the book focuses on a story of several young people at a fictional high school as they come to grips with their experiences of loss.

Download or read book We Are Martians written by E. R. Dee and published by Earl R. Dingman. This book was released on 2014-01-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hard science fiction novel from author E. R. Dee covers a span of nearly twenty years in the lives of the Martian colonial founders and their children as they make the very rocky transition from a privatized establishment to one under control of the five major space nations on Earth who have to answer to bureaucrats, voters and taxpayers. This leads to revolt and eventually armed conflict as Earthers send forces to liberate Mars from the armed colonial terrorists who have taken over and hold planet hostage. The author has been in print since 1967 in a variety of publications.

Download or read book Dalton s Undoing written by RaeAnne Thayne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to Cold Creek in a heartwarming story of love and family… He was known as a major player who'd left a swath of broken hearts across the Teton Valley. Yet when single mother Jenny Boyer saw the tenderness in Seth Dalton's eyes when he looked at her children—not to mention her—it was impossible for her to believe it was all a game. She was new to this small town, a school principal who needed to be respected. The last man she should be getting involved with was the Hunk of Cold Creek! But every time Seth came near, Jenny could feel herself falling…like all of the women who'd come before her. So why did she hope that her story would have a different ending—as in, happily ever after? Originally published in 2006.

Download or read book Box Set Until Proven Innocent and The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh Books One and Two written by Arthur Jay Harris and published by Arthur Jay Harris. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT The prosecutor was no longer sure both murder defendants were guilty. So he asked his dad -- the real-life Kojak. A mother's dying, gasping call to 911: "My husband! My baby!" In her secluded ranch house, she'd been stabbed with a kitchen knife. Her husband, infant and elderly father-in-law had all been shot in the head, point-blank. For three years, police had two suspects under surveillance, then arrest. Both faced the death penalty. But prosecutor Brian Cavanagh began to doubt that the defendants were partners. So he consulted with his father, a retired NYPD cop whose reputation for savvy sleuthing had inspired the creation of one of the most beloved characters in television history. Now the question was: Could Dad help solve the case? THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF ADAM WALSH The famous missing child case of Adam Walsh, a 6-year-old last seen at a Sears in a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida, in July 1981 was the worst nightmare imaginable. Two weeks later, a child's severed head was found and identified as Adam. No one has ever been arrested for the crime. For the most part, the case's narration has been told by the victims, Adam's parents Reve and John Walsh. However, there has been another voice, independent investigative journalist and author of five True Crime books about Florida, Arthur Jay Harris, who has continued to write about it for two decades, and has worked on it with ABC News, The Miami Herald, and others. The deeply-researched story he tells disputes almost everything that everyone in the public has been led to believe. IN BOOK ONE, Harris shows that the taker of Adam was most likely not the drifter Ottis Toole, as police now say, but rather the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was arrested ten years later with eleven severed heads in his apartment. Harris documented him by a police report living near Hollywood as a transient about when Adam disappeared. That report had him supposedly finding a dead body in an alley behind where he worked. The report referred to a meter and storage room steps away where Harris and ABC News found blood droplets rising up a wall next to a lumberman's axe and a sledgehammer. Was this Dahmer's doing? Further, Dahmer was identified by seven police witnesses who said they saw him at the mall with or near Adam when he was taken. One of those witnesses said he saw him throw Adam into a blue van and get away. Where Dahmer worked there was a blue van, easily and often taken for personal use, without permission. Early on, a blue getaway van was Hollywood's first, best clue. IN BOOK TWO, Harris shows that all the official files are incredibly missing the most customary documents that would prove the ID of the found child who was said to be Adam. Among the documents missing are the autopsy report, a forensic dental report (considering that the ID was strictly based on a tooth comparison), and Adam's dental chart and dental X-rays. An investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed his finding. In fact, the ID was not only shoddy and inadequate but is overwhelmingly likely wrong. In Adam's last photo he was clearly missing both his top front teeth. A police crime scene photo, never before published, shows the found child had a mostly-in buck tooth -- a top left front tooth. Harris consulted a number of pediatric and forensic dental and medical examiner experts who confirmed the obvious: there wasn't enough time for Adam to have grown it in that far. All that would have been exposed at a court trial -- but more than 30 years after Adam's disappearance, there has never been one. Did police end the search for Adam too soon? Could Adam still be alive? In fact not so impossible, Harris found...

Download or read book Money Can t Buy Love written by Connie Briscoe and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times bestselling author comes a quirky and outrageous story of a middle-aged women sitting behind the scenes of luxury until she wins the lottery and now has the money to buy everything she needs -- or does she? Lenora Stone used to say if she didn't have bad luck, she wouldn't have any luck at all. At age thirty-eight, instead of socializing with Baltimore's A-list, she photographs them for Baltimore Scene, a glossy magazine filled with beautiful people who, unlike Lenora, never have to worry about car trouble and overdue bills. As much as she'd love to slam the door on her overbearing boss, quitting isn't an option. She's barely making her mortgage payments and, though her condo might not be a palace, it's hers. Lately even things with her boyfriend Gerald haven't been right. They've been together for three years but he can't seem to ask the one question she's been waiting for. But what Lenora doesn't know is that her luck is about to change... Just when she thinks things can't get worse, Lenora wins the jackpot in the Maryland lottery. In a heartbeat, all her dreams become possible. She quits her job and indulges her every desire-starting with a shiny, silver BMW and a million-dollar mansion. Gerald is finally ready to put a ring on her finger and the city's most exclusive women's group is dying for her to join, officially moving Lenora from behind the lens, into the limelight. But in Lenora's lavish new world, all that glitters definitely isn't gold. Her old friend's are concerned about her sudden changes, and Ray, a sexy, young landscaper Lenora covered for the magazine is looking for more than a purely professional relationship. As her life starts to come together, the things Lenora holds dear begin to fall apart. Has her world really changed for the better, or does fortune come with a heavy price?

Download or read book Gossamer Ties written by Neala Ames and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1967 fourteen-year-old Marie has not come to terms with her parents recent divorce. Sensitive and vulnerable, Marie tries very hard to appease everyone. To take her mind off her distress her uncle sends her to spend two weeks on her cousins Missouri farm. While there, she uncovers a long-buried family secret. Prompted by a mysterious apparition caught in an oak tree, Marie begins to investigate. With the help of her cousin, her aunt, and a reclusive mixed-blood Osage neighbor Marie succeeds in setting the apparition free. In the process she also frees her family from generations of prejudice and guilt. Though set in the past, Gossamer Ties is a story for today. More than anything else it is a story of family, forgiveness, and acceptance.

Download or read book De junk Your Mind written by Dawna Walter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free your mind, discover your potential, and become the person you want to be in 2020 ____________ Like physical clutter in your home, mental clutter slowly fills up your head, making it hard to think and act clearly. Luckily, it's simple to de-junk your mind. By assessing your attitudes, beliefs and habits, you can easily identify the ones that are holding you back. This book will empower you with: · Exercises to gain confidence and let go of unwanted feelings · Strategies for replacing negative thought patterns with positive thinking · Communication techniques that will help you speak up and achieve your goals · Ways to keep things in perspective and look for solutions rather than problems De-junk Your Mind is packed with practical exercises and a big dose of tough love - it's time to take the plunge and change life for the better. Once you shed your mental clutter, you will feel lighter, more energetic and ready to seize each new day.

Download or read book Journey Through the Video Game World written by Ashad Mukadam and published by Ashad Mukadam. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2013, Ronald Charlton was laid off from his job at Pacific IT and Consulting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Soon after, he decided to start playing video games, initially as a way to just let out some steam. However, it is now August, and he has still not stopped playing. He only seems to get off of the couch when he goes to eat, sleep, and work out. This is now starting to affect the relationships he has with his parents, Monica and Harold, and his brother Mitch, and especially with his girlfriend, Dawna Langston. Then, on a rainy day in August 2013, a major thunderstorm hits Calgary. Ronald, who has been playing throughout the storm, is just about to hit a new high score on his video game when lightning strikes the console, causing an electrical current to travel down the wire to his controller, which then surrounds him, and transports him to the video game world. He soon finds out from the government of the video game world, commonly called The VGG, that he must physically play and complete a number of games in a certain order only known to them in order to get home. Ronald, along with his guide Pixie, then embark on a journey to return Ronald home. Will he make it back to the real world, or is Ronald doomed to stay in the video game world forever?

Download or read book Who Will Speak for Me written by Dawna Wade and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt like there is something wrong with your relationship but couldn’t identify the problem? Have you ever tried to tell someone about a problem, only to be told that you were just complaining? Have you ever walked away from an interaction feeling beaten up emotionally even though there wasn’t any physical contact? Do you know someone who has expressed such a struggle but doesn’t understand why? Have you ever worked constantly to improve yourself, only to be told that the problems in your relationship are all your fault? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then you will want to join Dawna on her journey to understand the nature of her toxic relationship.

Download or read book Living Faithfully written by Frances Schoonmaker and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Faithfully is for anyone interested in education and education policy, whether parent, community member, teacher, student of leadership or policy maker. It looks at school leadership and reform in an alternative way, following the story of change at Washington School, a troubled grades 5-6 center in a small town in Western Oklahoma. Not only does the book address a neglected population, the more than 1/3 of the nation’s children who go to school in small towns and rural areas, it uses the occasion to invert thinking about school reform. It argues that in today's policy climate where guaranteed, standard outcomes are touted as goals of education, leadership schemes, even those designed to challenge topdown, bureaucratic models, are quickly co-opted to produce the appearance of learning. Prevailing leadership theories beg the question of who is being transformed and to what end, failing to challenge assumptions and dominant ideas of contemporary education and leadership thinking. Drawing on Philip Phenix’s idea of the faithful life, the book proposes an alternative way forward. Phenix talks about connections between school and life. According to Phenix, the faithful life is concerned with the normative question of what is good, true, right, just, beautiful, and holy. This is not the vocabulary of current education policy. But it describes the kind of community created at Washington School despite its history of failure. And it describes what most families want for their children whether they live in the city or country, America or elsewhere: an education that matters.

Download or read book Understanding and Dealing With Violence written by Barbara C. Wallace and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach situates violence within a social, cultural, and historical context. Edited by distinguished scholars Barbara C. Wallace and Robert T. Carter, this unique volume explores historical factors, socialization influences, and the historical and contemporary dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. State-of-the-art research guides a diverse group of psychologists, educators, policy-makers, religious leaders, community members, victims, and perpetrators in finding viable solutions to violence.

Download or read book Peppermint Proposal written by Kirsten Osbourne and published by Unlimited Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joni Kley finished her degree in social work, she didn’t feel like she could immediately quit her job as assistant manager of Kelsey’s Kafé on River’s End Ranch. Now that she is free to look around for something else, she’s not sure where she wants to go. She loves Idaho and the ranch, and can’t imagine living anywhere else, but there aren’t exactly a lot of social work jobs in town. When a new cowboy shows up at the ranch, she’s intrigued about the stories he tells her about the boys’ ranch where he was raised and still works. Max Logan sees Joni as soon as he arrives at River’s End Ranch. She not only gives him warm coffee, but she takes him to the store and makes him buy winter gear—something he’s never really needed at the ranch he works for in Texas. It doesn’t take him long to realize he wants to take her home with him, and he suggests she apply for a job at the McClain Boys’ Ranch. Will she be able to go with him and live happily ever after? Or will his past come between them?

Download or read book Interpersonal Communication written by Michelle Burch and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Null Set written by S. L. Huang and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. L. Huang's Null Set is the breakout sf thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has decided to Fight Crime(tm). After all, with her extraordinary mathematical ability, she can neuter bombs or out-shoot an army. And the recent outbreak of violence in the world’s cities is Cas’s fault—she’s the one who crushed the organization of telepaths keeping the world’s worst offenders under control. But Cas’s own power also has a history, one she can’t remember—or control. One that's creeping into her mind and fracturing her sanity...just when she’s gotten herself on the hit list of every crime lord on the West Coast. And her best, only, sociopathic friend. Cas won’t be able to save the world. She might not even be able to save herself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Oblivion s Children written by Jim Wegryn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots are merely machines until they escape the bounds of programming and reveal that spark called free will. Yet that gift of consciousness may be only an illusion, a facade of elaborate imitation. Not even Turing's test can prove otherwise. But there is a way they can show their soul. If they were asked to help save humankind, could they? If so, would they?