This book explores how functional stupidity – uncritical and unreflective thinking within prescribed, constrained ways – is institutionalized and why we should minimize it in workplaces.How did our organizations become stagnant, and what can be done to revive them? Contemporary societal and organizational noise, extensive bureaucratization, silo thinking, imitation, bullshit talk, and meaningless meetings are destructive to workplaces. This book explains how we got here and shows e...

Award-winning Swedish poet Mats Söderlund explores the changes in his local mountains, along with the grief of losing our natural places – encouraging us to save what's left.Solastalgia is the distress caused by losing our beloved landscapes. How will we mourn the ice?Mats Söderlund first hiked to the Helags massif, Sweden, in 1976, aged eleven. In 2022, he could see the glacier had shrunk. The Nordic region is warming quickly, and Mats sho...

Return to the rugged heart of Northern Arizona in the second instalment of the Coyote Creek Ranch series. Perfect for fans of Elsie Silver and Lyla Sage, this sexy, emotional story follows the next Donovan brother - a man as reckless and untamed as the bulls he rides.He's fighting for control. She's fighting to stay professional. Under the vast desert sky of Arizona, a no-strings deal turns into a risk that could shatter them both.Journalis...

Create Personalized and Soul-Stirring Magick with Bestselling Author Mat AurynBoost your psychic ability and incorporate the greater mysteries of magick into your practice. A companion to the international bestseller Psychic Witch, this groundbreaking book features more than sixty spells and is the first of its kind to focus on casting magick to bridge the divide between the seen and unseen worlds. Mat teaches you how to enchant yourself as a powerful psyc...

Te haerenga a Kupe ki Aotearoa!I ako a Kupe mō te wheke nui, mō te wheke wehi nāna tonu ngā ika o te moana i kai, arā, kua kore ngā kaimoana hei kai mā ngā tāngata o Hawaiki.Nā, ka whāia taua wheke rā e Kupe, ka whiti atu i Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.Nāwai rā, ka kite a Hine-te-Aparangi i tētahi whenua me tētahi ao tea roa: Aotearoa!Ākona ngā kōrero mō te pakanga nui i waenga i a Kupe me te wheke nui ...

If you’re feeling disconnected from your partner despite the love you share, your relationship is not broken.When you understand how men love, everything gets easier: communication flows, connection deepens, and attraction comes alive again.Are you tired of feeling like you’re doing all the emotional heavy lifting in your relationship? Ever wonder why men pull away just when things seem to be going great? Crack...

Kupe's voyage to Aotearoa, told and illustrated by award-winning author Mat Tait.Kupe's voyage to Aotearoa!Kupe found that a huge, fearsome wheke (octopus) was taking all the fish in the ocean and the people of Hawaiki had nothing to eat.So Kupe chased that wheke across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (the Pacific Ocean).Finally Hine-te-Aparangi, Kupe's wife, saw land and a long white cloud: Aotearoa!Find out what happened when the wheke and Kup...

This book tackles the worldwide issue of climate change and energy security. It aims to offer inventive answers for a more environmentally friendly and fair future by examining the convergence of Islamic finance and sustainability.Islamic finance prioritises ethical investing, risk-sharing, and social justice; it offers a distinct advantage in promoting sustainable development goals (SDGs). Thus, this book focuses on the theoretical discourse about Islamic finance and sustainabilit...

*The Sunday Times Bestseller*Train with the Fittest Man on Earth - 5-time CrossFit Champion Mat Fraser.No matter your level of fitness, no matter if you've never attempted CrossFit before, this book is your total training manual.No one can say they're a better all-around athlete than Mat Fraser. Weightlifting, gymnastics, kettlebells, running, swimming, rowing, Strongman: he's relentlessly trained them all, so you d...

Level Up Your Tarot Readings with Your Own Psychic AbilitiesDrawing on decades of experience as a professional reader, bestselling author Mat Auryn presents a comprehensive guide to unlocking your psychic potential. He shows you how to unite traditional tarot techniques and your own intuition, enhancing your readings with astounding levels of accuracy and insight.With 78 exercises, meditations, and rituals accessible for all practitioners, The Psychic A...

An extraordinary novel about the ubiquitous mysteries of family, memory and music.London, 2010: Icelandic volcanoes have the city in gridlock, banks topple like dominoes and Brandon Kussgarten has been shot dead by gunmen in Donald Duck masks. His death draws his twin brother -- shy, bookish Adam -- into Brandon's underworld of deceit and desire.A miniature kingdom sprouts in a Notting Hill tower-block, LA mansions burn in week-long parties, and in a Baroqu...

This new and revised edition of the IACP award-winning cookbook brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a revitalizing meal, through 150 new and updated recipes.Featuring science-based, nutrient-rich recipes that are easy to prepare and designed to give patients a much-needed boost by stimulating appetite and addressing treatment side effects including fatigue, nausea, dehydration, mouth and throat soreness, ta...