The Bravinci Code explores the power of strategic intelligence in business, demonstrating how resilience, early warnings, scenario planning, and adaptive strategies can help organizations navigate a world defined by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Just as a canary in a coalmine signals unseen danger, intelligence serves as an early warning system, allowing organizations to anticipate risks before they escalate. The authors describe the governance of intelligence, data m...

Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course, Walter “Chipper” Blair, enjoys the simple joys of golf but suspicious neighbors, claiming to be LIV golf tour executives, move into the estate next door. Trouble ensues. Irene McVay disappears checking out the new neighbors. Chipper is shuffled off to Spanish Bay Golf Course by the Pebble Beach Corporation to keep him from being around during the ATT Pebble Beach PGA Signature golf event. His wife, teaching pro Jenny Nelson, ...

Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course, Walter “Chipper” Blair enjoys the simple joys of golf but vindictive Dorothy Golberry has become the President of Hastings Lumber. Golberry wants to cut down all the trees at all the golf courses in the Del Monte Forest, home of Spyglass Hill golf course. His wife, teaching pro Jenny Nelson, takes on a protégé and gives golf lessons to cute Cindy Springer. Pebble Beach General Counsel, Richard Stein, makes Cindy and Jenny soc...

Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course Walter “Chipper” Blair enjoys the simple joys of golf but his life is complicated by meeting the beautiful teaching pro Jenny Nelson and the reclusive very wealthy Scotsman Ben Morris who has an estate off the fourteenth fairway. Chipper has a strange relationship with a rich widow who gets him involved with the society crowd living in the Del Monte Forest near the golf course. Events spiral out of control for Chipper as he en...

This fun, suspense novel follows the characters from Paradox at Pebble Beach as they cope with newfound wealth and attempt to become members at exclusive Cypress Point golf club. Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course Walter “Chipper” Blair continues his romance with beautiful teaching pro Jenny Nelson. A trip to Scotland reveals that reclusive very wealthy Scotsman Ben Morris was not who they thought he was and Chipper’s fortune is in jeopardy. Events spiral out o...

Writers like Donald and Mike work at the grassroots level to promote and support our sport. Their love of running shines through every page of what they write. They have a unique perspective on The Running Life and make us smile and gain insight at the same time. Whether you are an experienced runner, a novice, or even a non-runner this compilation of articles will inspire. --Amby Burfoot, Editor at Large, Runners World Magazine and 1968 Boston Marathon winnerAs a resident...

In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. The first focuses on the systemic bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct from the mundane subjects of everyday life; the second is a study of the fire-climax grasslands...

From bestselling author John Lutz comes a lightning-paced thriller of a city gripped by a killer's savage reign of terror. . .Someone is killing wealthy Manhattanites. One by one, the victims are discovered in luxurious high-rise apartments. Bound, gagged--brutally murdered in the "safety" of their own homes, by someone whose modus operandi is as horrifying as anything NYPD Detectives Ben Stack and Rica Lopez have ever seen.As Stack and Lopez investigate the cruel ...

Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called “compelling and gutsy.”James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive...

"Dennis' staccato prose keeps the pages turning." -- Jonathan Woods, author of BAD JUJU & Other Tales Of Mayhem And MadnessJack Barnett has had it with the private eye business. They took his license away in LA, and fearing criminal prosecution, he split town in the middle of the night for Las Vegas, where anyone can become anonymous.He swears off the business, but his money runs low and when a man offers him $5000 to find his missing daughter, he agrees. He soon wishes he ...

In this gritty crime novel, the disappearance of a stockboy sets salesman Nick Stefanos on a dangerous investigation that changes his life forever.As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chasing some dream of big money and easy living. But the kid reminded Nick o...

Book three of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: Max seeks to uncover the twisted truth behind an eighty-year-old triple homicideIn the 1920s, three of Mark Mayes's ancestors left to help build the first road through the Everglades—backbreaking labor from which they never returned. Now, decades later, Mayes has discovered letters that point to murder as the cause of their disappearance, and he hires Max Freeman to get to the bottom of it all. But as Freema...