Because of a vengeful father, the world falls victim to World War III. Causing the United Alliance of Nations to create a Virus that alters Human DNA, giving birth to a new species of humans, The Alpha-Humans. In creating these Alpha-Humans the UAN unleashed a new beginning on Earth. As first-born Alpha-Humans, what awaits Aj and his Alpha-Humans friends along this road of evolution?

Welcome to Blood Haven. Magic has returned, reshaping the modern world. Unfortunately, it's not all love potions and broomsticks. A thirst for power has awoken; only the strong will prevail. Killian is just trying to survive in this frightening new world, and it is not easy. His mentor is killed, his best friend steals the woman he loves, and, to top it all off, he is tricked into looking after Lucas, a boy who has been kept in a cage his whole life. Killian soon realizes Lucas is more pow...

So, how did the ESPN we know today succeed? Thirty years ago, ESPN may have been the biggest sports story not to make the front page, but the even bigger story, a story that remains untold, is how ESPN managed to sustain its growth, innovation, and brand in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace. The best organizations invest in their people. They train them. They believe that if you spend the time and resources turning talented performers into leaders, youre going to get be...

Japan in a Dynamic Asia examines a new phenomenon in Japanese foreign policy: Japan's increasing activism under the Koizumi administration. Behind this policy shift are the end of the Cold War, drastic growth of China, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and new transnational security threats. This book updates our understanding of Japan's rapidly changing foreign policies in the contexts of the new regional power balance and security concerns. Unlike most books on Japanese forei...

This Brief provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of proactive strategies for management transitions in criminal justice and other public administration civic service agencies. These organizations have a unique need for managing transitions effectively.Compared to private organizations: they have a relatively high frequency of management transitions due to the terms of elected and appointed officials, and these new managers more often come from outside the organization.

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first effo...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

If you want to rewire your Brain and hack your Mind, then keep reading! Motivation plays an important role in getting things done, as nothing good has ever been achieved without feeling that adrenaline rush in your body. We bet you can clearly recall the last time when you felt energized, active and in love with life! That is the state that you want to be in when something important needs to be accomplished. However, it is not a secret that most people struggle with motivation on a daily b...

In a world of transnational economics and mass communications, ethnic conflict and nationalism have recently re-emerged as major political forces. Is this due to the advance of modernity? Will a global culture supersede nationalism? In fact, the revolution of modernity has revitalized ethnic memories and communities, as people look for stability and meaning in an age of unprecedented change and return to their ethnic heritages.Ethnic nationalism challenges, but also reinforces the ...

It's a stressful world and we can become overwhelmed. But at what point does sadness become depression, and stress an anxiety disorder?In Default Depression, author Anthony Smith examines the medicalisation of common human experience. Regardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illness - commonly clinical depression, Default Depression. This phenomenon has grown to the point that it now pervades all sectors of our com...

Take a little trip through the underworld of mini-mobsters… From seedy joints to the Ferret Bureau of Investigation, by way of downtown squeakeasies. And discover what happens when hamsters go bad. Crime. Love. Violence. Peanuts. Just some of the themes that spin around in this book.

The story you have just read is true. The town of Derby, Connecticut, exists. The places in the story exist. The people are real, and their gifts to John Conway will never be forgotten, neither will his love for all. He used their names to assure that. Nancy is real and is his wife still. His daughter Alicia is real, and she and her husband gave him a gifta little girl named Karina. They are all together now enjoying the life given to them. The Great Spirit exists in many by different name...