For the first time, experience the thrilling, mind-altering personal transformation journey of ultra-endurance athlete Greg Phillips, where he discovered his purpose and changed his life.Written and dedicated to his daughters, Into the Storm is half-memoir, half-self-help and combines universal truths with personal, learned experiences for a uniquely helpful book.Author Greg Phillips begins, as his races do, at the starting line. Learn about his up...

Not everyone gets to grow up in a small farming town like Yorktown, Indiana, but Greg Phillips did. Whats more, he made the best of it by never really leaving.Gregs fate was sealed before his birth, when his father opened his own pattern shop. Phillips Patterns opened for business as a wood pattern manufacturer on a small plot of land that belonged to Gregs grandfather. Decades later, it still remains a family business.As a boy, along with two friendsBill Webb and Mark Zurl...

Develop and harness a powerful, sustainable word-of-mouth movementHow did the 360-year-old scissor company, Fiskars, double its profit in key markets just by realizing its customers had already formed a community of avid scrapbookers? How is Best Buy planning to dominate the musical instruments market? By understanding the Brains on Fire model of tapping movements and stepping away from the old-school marketing "campaign" mentality.Brains on Fire o...

No passion, no conversation. No conversation, no word of mouth. No word of mouth, no successful business.If you think you are in the marketing business, think again. You’re in the people business, and The Passion Conversation teaches you how to get people to fall passionately and madly in love with your organization or cause.The author’s mash-up of the latest in wonky academic research with practical, real-world stories shows how any business can s...

Since 2005, Murder & Mayhem in Muskego has welcomed and hosted over 150 authors a thousands of fans of crime fiction to the Milwaukee area. Just in time for the 8th annual benefit, a short story anthology featuring bestselling, Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers who have attended the day-long convention has been created. The collection is edited by Jon and Ruth Jordan.Contributors include: Megan Abbott, Dana Cameron, Reed Farrel Coleman, Hilary Davidson, Sean Doolittle, J.M. Ed...

Exilé dans l'espace par les Illuminati qui le jugeaient trop dangereux, Hulk a atterri sur la planète Sakaar, dont il est rapidement devenu le souverain. Un jour, hélas, le vaisseau à bord duquel le Colosse de Jade est arrivé explose, causant des milliers de morts. L'épouse du Géant Vert, Caiera, fait partie des victimes. Fou de rage, Hulk revient sur Terre accompagné de ses camarades de guerre, bien décidé à en découdre avec ceux qu'il croyait être ses amis. Cet album réunit tous les épis...

Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters address different kinds of violence(s)—physical and gratuitous, structural and socio-economic, legal and symbolic, all with significant ill effects and injustices that spiral in all directions. All share an interest in exploring imagina...

Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin’s heritage.This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtinin a variety of disciplines.To articulate the enduring relevance and heritage of the varied works of Bakhtin, sixteen schol...

Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Anthology/CollectionBestselling novelists David Morrell, Alison Gaylin and Elaine Viets headline a new anthology of 22 tales exploring the unique aura of mystery of New Orleans and the surrounding bayou country.BLOOD ON THE BAYOU is published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, which is being held in New Orleans in 2016. As with the convention itself, the anthology spreads a broad canop...

Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, captures an eclectic collection of new studies from accomplished scholars in t...

"Sharks never sleep. You must be willing to do the hard work it takes to stay on top."With his trademark charm and eloquence, Greg Norman reveals the secrets behind his myriad achievements, tracing his journey from Queensland, Australia, to the World Golf Hall of Fame to chairman and CEO of a global business.Since the days in 1975 when he made thirtyeight dollars a week working as a trainee, Norman has won ninety-one professional tournaments around the world, inclu...

Phillip's curiosity has gotten him into a few scrapes before, but what started as any other day in the Meadow, became one of the most extraordinary adventures anyone has ever known! Peril, surprise, friendship, betrayal, and more await Phillip—and you!—inside this book. Come along for the adventure!