In a world starved for ethical leadership, Just Lead challenges change-makers and trendsetters to lead with clarity, courage, and character.Drawing on two decades of leadership spanning the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets to Capitol Hill and the frontlines of entrepreneurship from Romania to Costa Rica, Michael Simmons unpacks the real cost of ethical drift. Through the lens of a cadet's no-win hazing decision, a high-stakes legal standoff with a billionaire oil tycoon, and the quiet her...

In a world starved for ethical leadership, Just Lead challenges change-makers and trendsetters to lead with clarity, courage, and character.Drawing on two decades of leadership spanning the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets to Capitol Hill and the frontlines of entrepreneurship from Romania to Costa Rica, Michael Simmons unpacks the real cost of ethical drift. Through the lens of a cadet's no-win hazing decision, a high-stakes legal standoff with a billionaire oil tycoon, and the quiet her...

Insight into collateral management and its increasing relevance in modern bankingIn the wake of recent financial crises, firms of all sizes have adjusted their policies to incorporate more frequent instances of collateral management. Collateral Management: A Guide to Mitigating Counterparty Risk explains the connection between the need for collateral management in order to alleviate counterparty risk and the actions that firms must take to achieve it. Targ...

This inspiring memoir by Michael Simmons highlights his mothers efforts to protect her children from her alcoholic, abusive husband. After a DWI results in him losing his job, Michaels father moves his family from Arkansas to Missouri, where losing another job means the family moves to a small house in the Arkansas countryside. His mother takes on picking cotton to earn money for the childrens Christmas presents. Another job loss, another move: the stress and uncertainty in his familys lif...

This book is a tool to assist you in your journey towards your destiny. It identifies perfection and how it relates to every individual. Hopefully you will begin to see yourself different once you understand what God has done for you. I believe that God will reveal things to you, and you will be able to handle the obstacles that have bound and prevented you from moving forward. Everyone has hopes, dreams, and visions of whom or what they would like to become and or do. Somewhere along the ...

Derik lives in his anger. A young adult male who as a child suffered psychological abuse and trauma, now he lets his anger control his life. Derik has no clue of how to have a healthy relationship, his latest girlfriend is now his ex. Nadine, a young adult female, intelligent and beautiful, knew how to call it quits in no uncertain terms. There are things Derik doesn't know about Nadine. Seething with resentment and a damaged ego from being dumped, Derik assaults Ruby, a young adult transg...

The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family of ligands and the corresponding family of FGF receptor tyrosine kinases comprise one of the most versatile and diverse growth factor signaling families in vertebrates, found virtually in every tissue and cell type where they regulate metabolic and physiologic function, maintain tissue homeostasis, and mediate injury response, tissue repair, and regeneration. As a result, FGFs play critical roles in a wide variety of normal biological and abnormali...

Armed with three decades of feminism, men and women are coming to college with different ideas and expectations about sexual freedom and violence than did their parents. Since the early 1980's, a student movement has emerged from the belief that sexual violence is neither inherent nor inevitable. Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism chronicles the move to end to all forms of sexual violence and to mold a new sexual paradigm where explicitly consensua...

Collected critical essays analyzing Kierkegaard's work in regards to theology and social-moral thought.Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life focuses on faith and love, two central topics in Kierkegaard's writings, to grapple with complex questions at the intersection of religion and ethics. Here, leading scholars reflect on Kierkegaard's understanding of God, the religious life, and what it means to exist ethically. The contributors then shift to psychology, ...

On 15 May 1957 Vickers Valiant V-Bomber X.D.818 under the command of Wg. Cdr. Kenneth Hubbard, O.C. 49 Squadron R.A.F., dropped Britains first live thermonuclear bomb. The success of Operation Grapple broadcast to the world that the UK had the resolve and the capability to protect her own democracy and that of her Commonwealth. It was a major breakthrough that ensured Britain maintained her place in the most senior influential positions of the United Nations and other corridors of world po...

Dive into DuckDB and start processing gigabytes of data with ease—all with no data warehouse.DuckDB is a cutting-edge SQL database that makes it incredibly easy to analyze big data sets right from your laptop. In DuckDB in Action you’ll learn everything you need to know to get the most out of this awesome tool, keep your data secure on prem, and save you hundreds on your cloud bill. From data ingestion to advanced data pipelines, you’ll learn everything yo...

My real thoughts about my motivation for writing "The Human Phase 2025":At first, I just wanted to get the thing out there to do my small contribution. I had heard about negative end-times prophecies, and that they were likely to occur because "nobody on Earth was doing anything to stop them." I wanted to express my faith in our abilities to get past the violent animal-like behavior that threatens our survival.There has been a huge amount of information to digest in the las...