Daniel’s ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Set in separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced with acknowledging what drove them apart. At his new school, Daniel speaks to the Gay-Straight Alliance about the bullying and depression that forced him to move. He looks back fondly at the bond he formed with Krystina and Jeremy in history class and the trauma he faced from anonymous text m...

The Flawed is a gripping work of speculative fiction that explores the fragile balance between peace, power, and moral responsibility. Set in the Solar Complex, a world that has enjoyed years of hard-won stability, the story begins when a mysterious glowing orb appears, signaling the arrival of a new and unknown enemy. As strange visitors emerge and long-buried threats resurface, leaders Dar, Jenny, and their allies are forced to confront dangers that challenge not only their defenses but ...

Something's not right in the Solar Complex. Year after year, the colours fade from the sky, the grass, and the trees. The villagers grow old and begin to forget. They forget their old ways, they forget their families... they forget their world wasn't always like this, and they weren't always cursed by the Darkness. They are the Flawed, fated to grow old before their time, robbed of their wealth and happiness by a malevolent and mysterious figure in the village: the Giver of Lies. He alone ...

My father, George, was a chartered accountant. It follows immediately that he was a great wit and storyteller. I especially loved to hear him tell the story of Larry and Bill, who, in a moment of extreme intoxication, made a pact that the first of them to die would contact the other. But was the falling pickaxe really a sign from beyond the grave?Our family doctor, Dr Ranjab Nabla, lived close by. His eccentricity knew almost no bounds: he had to be endured to be believed....

Clare had a secret. Clare had many secrets. The only words she ever spoke were to call Lily. But who was Lily? And who was Clare, and what had happened to her?

Put values—and value—over volume with a professional services subscription modelProfessional firms are built on relationships. But you wouldn't know it by observing their predominant business model — a model centered on selling transactions and inputs, not outcomes that deepen and strengthen relationships.Time’s Up! offers you a guide to building a more valuable firm, one where relationships and lifetime customer value are at the center of how you ...

Kep Stone is deceptively lured by a blind clairvoyant man, Shackleton Gray, who involves him in a complex mystery. Shackleton's dramatic proof that Kep was a childhood victim of alien interference leads to their alliance. As Kep pursues a lost artifact sought by the extraterrestrials, he meets the love of his life.

Ever wonder what it would be like to play the same golf courses as celebrities such as Tiger Woods, Gary Player, Mark O’Meara, and even Babe Ruth? A celebrity in his own right, Donald Ross created many of the best golf courses ever designed. Here is the definitive collection of golf courses in the United States created by Ross, the most prolific and renowned golf course designer of all time. Paul and B. J. Dunn have collected all the information you need in order to find and play the more ...

Written for an audience of students, general readers, and economists alike, this Element is a primer on the field of the economics of conflict and peace. It offers a reasonably comprehensive, systematic, and detailed overview - even if in broad strokes - of the field's orthodox and heterodox history of thought and current theories and evidence. The authors view this Element as a baseline account on which to build a future, separate and more fully developed, work on the economics of peace, ...

Planning is a critical process when starting a new business or introducing a new product. Market Analysis shows readers how to execute a feasibility study for more effective planning. A step-by-step approach leads the reader through the feasibility analysis process and describes what needs to be done and how to do it. Techniques and tools used in preparing a feasibility study are emphasized and can easily be applied directly from the book to real situations. Three sample feasibility studie...

Countries that spend scarce resources to import arms from abroad often require arms sellers to 'reinvest' part or all of the proceeds back into the arms-importing country. These so-called 'arms trade offsets' are therefore thought to enhance domestic economic development. But does this process actually succeed? This book examines the theory and policy applications of arms trade offsets and looks at more than a dozen case studies drawn from across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The...

Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, support it for these reasons.Indefensible puts forward a devastating challenge to this conventional wisdom, which has normalised the existence of the most savage weapons of mass destruction ever known. It is the e...