In "It’s Not Too Late!” author Patrick Hester offers more than just a typical self-help book; it’s a personal journey shared with readers to empower them to achieve their goals and resolutions. Drawing from his experiences and struggles, Hester provides a comprehensive toolkit of exercises and strategies to guide readers toward success. Hester’s narrative is deeply rooted in authenticity as he candidly recounts his battle with addiction and the challenges he faced on the path to sobriety. ...

This expanded second edition of the 2014 textbook features dedicated sections on action and observation, so that the reader can combine the use of the developed theoretical basis with practical guidelines for deployment. It also includes a focus on selection and use of a dedicated modeling paradigm – fuzzy cognitive mapping – to facilitate use of the proposed multi-methodology. The end goal of the text is a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to structuring and assessing complex problems,...

Whether you’re an academic or a practitioner, a sociologist, a manager, or an engineer, one can benefit from learning to think systemically. Problems (and messes) are everywhere and they’re getting more complicated every day. How we think about these problems determines whether or not we’ll be successful in understanding and addressing them. This book presents a novel way to think about problems (and messes) necessary to attack these always-present concerns. The approach draws from discipl...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of On the Bright Side by Hendrik Groen, read by Patrick Ryecart.Everyone's favourite octogenarian is back and - together with the Old-But-Not-Dead Club - is more determined than ever to wreak havoc.After a year mourning the death of his beloved friend Eefje, Hendrik picks up his pen once again to chronicle the goings on both inside his care home and in the increasingly confusing world outside. He may be older and a little more...