I was convinced it would work. Point the device at the right star, and I would return to my home. I was standing outside the front of my house on a cold winters evening. The sky was ablaze with sparkling lights you could almost touch. I aimed the device and waited to be lifted up to the stars. I was excited, but also vaguely apprehensive of the journey ahead, after all I was only 3. Then, my father called me back into the house. I wasn't to see the "device" again until I returned to my hom...

The discipline of knowledge management (KM) continues to evolve along with our ability to record larger and more varied kinds of information than ever before. Since its inception in the 1990s, it has passed through several stages, quickly becoming a credible field, and now an integral part of major businesses worldwide. Now, many have started to argue that KM is undergoing resurgence, possibly even transforming into KM 3.0, thanks to developments in artificial intelligence (AI). And, while...

The legal sector is facing a period of major metamorphosis - disruptors are making waves in the structuring, process, and service-delivery models, and client's needs are becoming more demanding and value-focused. As the landscape of law transforms many firms will be left facing a situation of, in John Alber's words, change or die. How will law firms keep up with upcoming rapid and volatile changes to the legal sector, and what form will they take after the transformation? What will the law...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed working practices across the globe. It has been predicted that as much as 80 percent of the legal workforce will remain transient or permanently working from home after the COVID-19 crisis ends, with only around a fifth as full-time office workers. Although law firms typically weather downturns better than the overall economy, revenues, working practices, and working culture will all change. The expected economic downturn may not directly translate into a ...

Many law firms today are far too focused on increasing market share; they should be paying attention to what makes them a more profitable business. Market share doesn't matter much if you're not profitable, and firms cannot simply grow their way to prosperity by undercutting the competition. Instead, firms must focus on value creation and increasing clients' willingness to pay for their services. The question should be: "What can your firm do better, or more efficiently, and more profitabl...

Contains books eight and nine of the Bob and Nikki Series!Shaved Ape Key. book eight"There's room for you, and there's room for me. Everybody's going to Shaved Ape Key."What do you do when you can't give away a space carrier? Learn to be the best captain you can. If one of your most loyal bots has unfinished business, you have to send him out to finish it up, don't you? Come along as Bob faces his new responsibilities as captain of the B. S. Gene Cernan. And don't f...

Contains Bob's Saucer Repair (book one), Whammo Ranch (book two), and Shady Oaks (book three) of the Bob and Nikki series!Bob thought he was doing fine on his own. Then the love of his life fell out of the sky. Can he get her back in the air with auto parts and a cutting torch? If he does, will she ever come back?Nikki took a job before she saw the equipment. Can she keep her passengers alive on a strange planet? Are the natives f...

While Veronica is searching for a system to call home, she finds one that was torn up a long time ago.Bob gathers the fleet to go check it out, but Gene balks at the idea. Does Gene know something Bob doesn't?

It turns out that strange saucers have strange people flying them.The new fella's attitude makes things hard, and the crew has their work cut out for them to get along with him. Finding a nice, clean planet makes it all worthwhile. Come see how the folks at Bob's Saucer Repair fix this one up.

Contains books 12 and 13 of the Bob and Nikki series! Saucer Holler, book 12 The crew come back to Earth to have some babies and catch up on some well-deserved R&R. Babies attract mother-in-laws, though, and Bob has one for the books. Meeting his stepson evens things out. All too soon, an old friend needs help, along with her new friend from out of town, sending the crew off to the stars. Roo the Day, book 13 The crew of the Gene are off to take Joanna's new friend home. Finding derelicts ...

The fleet needs to check into a beacon they found, but Bob thinks it might be more than it seems. Either way, it's a hazard to navigation that needs to be seen to. Ride with the BSR fleet, as they find new friends, and old heroes.

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomersWith global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom.He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers — from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist adrienne ...