This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in a single line or paragraph: a Quote.To feel the impact a Quote can have, here ...

Managing Human Resource Development Programs makes the critical connection between HR development and the larger system of HR management. This book offers a framework for developing HR programs that are customizable to the needs of the organization.

Emphasizing the importance of workforce diversity as it relates to valuing the similarities, differences, and talents of employees at all ranks has provided a wonderful topic for research. Leveraging diversity is one emerging paradigm able to demonstrate the value of workforce diversity in its many forms. Handbook of Research on Workforce Diversity in a Global Society: Technologies and Concepts serves as a cutting-edge resource for scholars, researchers, organizational leaders, practitione...

This handbook examines the development of antiracism, the antithesis of racism, in the field of Human Resource Development (HRD) and discusses its relevance to the workplace and higher education. Contributing authors from HRD and HRD-related fields present their perspectives on anti-racism and explain how their framing of anti-racism makes a contribution to HRD research, theory, and practice.Though antiracism is a critical, emerging topic, it has received limited attention in the l...

This comprehensive, integrated teaching resource provides students with the tools and methodologies they need to effectively negotiate the multiple dynamics that emerge from difference, and to appropriately respond to issues of marginalization and social injustice. Written from an American perspective, the book not only covers the traditional topics of race, gender, ethnicity, and social class, but explores emerging trends around ‘-isms’ (racism, sexism).Thoroughly revised and upda...

Bleu - L.P. MaxaOver the past few months Bleu and Maykin have become best friends. They hang out all the time, especially after Bleu punches a guy for trash-talking Maykin, and gets sentenced to community service at an animal shelter. Cuddling puppies leads to finally giving in to the attraction they've been avoiding. And becoming dog parents seals the deal. Forever.Burnover - Diane BenefielAfter a horrible year, including getting dumped days before her wedding, Eva d...

Proceeds will benefit the CDC's Emergency Fund.Sweet Daisy - When a doctor, who's had his own share of trauma, falls for his neighbor, he does everything he can to win over the sweet, skittish school teacher.An Unexpected Rescue - On a mission to clear out residents from the back country before a monster storm comes their way, a first responder encounters the quirkiest woman he's ever met who he can't keep away from.Marci's Co-Star - Magnets that repel would best de...

FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORA BEAUTIFUL DECEPTIONUS Marshal Ellie Jameson has moved on since a one-night stand with hot law student Sam Creed, a night he'd made her believe was so much more. She hardly ever thinks of him. Really. When assigned to a new case, she's blindsided and comes face to face with the man who broke her heart. Federal judge Sam Creed is being threatened by domestic terrorists, and guess who's assigned to pose as his fiancée? Good thing thirteen yea...

FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR DIANE BENEFIELTHE SILVER LININGMeghan Bennett is a desperate woman running for her life, and the one place she's sure she'll be safe is the old cabin in the Eastern Sierras she inherited from her father.Exhausted, and fighting a nasty flu, Meg can't believe someone is squatting in her cabin. The tall, handsome, bearded stranger who answers the door is her worst nightmare. Grumpy, growly and intractable, she can't convince him to lea...

A small town, enemies-to-lovers romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author Diane BenefielShe vowed never to trust again. He's determined to change her mind.Dory Morales has survived the unthinkable—her abusive ex-husband is in prison, but the scars he left behind still haunt her. Determined to rebuild a life for herself and her son, she's sworn off men and the dangers they can bring. No one will ever have power over her again.Hangman's Loss PD Captain Jack ...

SILENCE IS NOT GOLDENRane Smith has a secret. A big one she can't ever reveal without compromising her father.Jon Garretson also has a secret. The undercover cop moves into an apartment above prime suspect Rane Smith's home. He's on the trail of justice, but he's also helping his brother get payback.Jon discovers Rane is not who she seems to be, and that the drug lord Jon's working to take down also has Rane in his sights.Complicated past relationships keep ...

FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR DIANE BENEFIELTRUE BLUEWhen Zoey Hardesty's high school crush moves next door, it seems the intervening years are unimportant to her heart. One look at all grown up Levi Gallagher, and she knows she's in trouble.Fighting the attraction is self-protection, learning he was a big city cop who returned home to join the Hangman's Loss PD, puts the brakes on for good.When Levi is assigned to investigate a hit and run that could've...