Everybody has a cancer story. This is Liam Brookes'.Liam is a musician, a wannabe writer, and a café worker who believes his greatest contribution to society is keeping caffeine-addicted strangers from total meltdown. But beneath the sarcasm and self-deprecation lies a man quietly unraveling.After losing his mum to cancer, Liam is left carrying a grief so heavy it threatens to swallow him whole. Faith feels fragile. Depression and loneliness loom large. And the future looks...

EMC for Product Designers, Fifth Edition, provides all the key information needed to meet the requirements of the EMC compliance standards. More importantly, it shows how to incorporate EMC principles into the product design process, avoiding cost and performance penalties to meet the needs of specific standards that produce a better overall product. As well as covering the 2016 versions of the EU EMC and Radio Directives, this new edition has been thoroughly updated to be in line with the...

It’s not the best companies that prevail in the marketplace, but rather the best brands. The goal of business strategy is not just to be better, but different. Learn how to build a differentiating value proposition by clearly and carefully defining your brand boundaries: Calling, Competencies, Customers, and Culture.Positioning for Professionalsshows how a well-defined value proposition can help professional service firms create their own success instead of copying the suc...

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf!Electronics Engineers need to master a wide area of topics to excel. The Circuit Design Know It All covers every angle including semiconductors, IC Design and Fabrication, Computer-Aided Design, as well as Programmable Logic Design...

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf! Electrical engineers need to master a wide area of topics to excel. The Electrical Engineering Know It All covers every angle including Real-World Signals and Systems, Electromagnetics, and Power systems. - A 360-degree view from ...

The modern elite triathlete has to be able to swim fast; to cycle fast and to run extremely fast; physically able to sustain an intense effort for nearly two hours; robust enough to train for between 20 & 30 hours a week; intelligent enough to sustain a complex training programme of three disciplines plus a large amount of general strength and conditioning training; tactically aware and astute; and independent enough to compete, often alone and unsupported, in a variety of courses and venu...

Since this classic book was first published in 2003, sustainability has increasingly been accepted as standard business practice for leading corporations, while the science itself has revealed how human activity has become the dominant force influencing irreversible changes in the planetary systems.The fourth edition of this trailblazing book on corporate sustainability provides new insights into how organizations can transition towards a more responsible way of conducting their bu...

In today's business environment, everyone is looking for a way to recruit top talent for their business and then retain that talent. Many employers believe that if they just paid more or provided additional benefits to their employees, it would solve the issue. Since the pandemic, many businesses were closed for quite a long time, and many people did not return to work, leaving managers and recruiters wondering, "Where are all our applicants?"Many studies provided data from various...

This is a book that is an entry level introduction to leadership in today's economy when recruiting and retaining quality employees are a critical element to the success of any business. This gives an overview of what a quality style of leadership is and what it could do for your business. There will be a few more books in the future that will expand on this subject by doing a deeper dive into the phychological aspects of what it takes to get a team all working together towards the accompl...

EMC for Product Designers: Meeting the European EMC Directives is a six-chapter text that considers the by-product of the co-existence of all kinds of radio services, called electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). This book discusses the solution to the damaging frequency interference of EMC and the problem of EMC to electronic equipment. The opening chapter considers the effect of adapting the EMC Directives to decrease the economic damage being caused by electromagnetic interference, as wel...

Life at the CabinBy: Tim WilliamsWhen Tim takes some time to fix up his inherited cabin, little does he know how his life is about to change. With the adoption of a stray dog, Ax, Tim begins to explore his cabin and the surrounding areas. With one life-threatening situation after another, Tim will learn how to survive and how to make even the most unexpected friendships.About the AuthorTim Williams was born and raised in the upper peninsula of Michigan. He se...

The Second World War has just finished, doggy food supplies are desperately short, and the Terriertorial Army has discovered that all its carefully-saved treats have been stolen in a daring raid by a marauding pack of bulldogs from across the Channel. Major Freddie, the Airedale commander, calls an emergency meeting of all the terriers. How will Sergeant Jack the Jack Russell, Melvyn, Lucky, Willy and the rest of the four-footed army get their treasured nibbles back - and stop the greedy S...