You are decisive and intense, extraordinary at what you do - respected and feared. But deep down, you know that for all your brilliance and your accomplishments, you are paying a price you never agreed to pay: people leaving quietly, relationships going silent, teams holding back. It is as if you were absent from your own life.People keep asking me if this book is about relationships.It is not. It is about leadership.But it starts with the end of many relationships,...

This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "dream state" inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, ...

Since the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to researchers of circadian rhythms in 2017, no serious biomedical researcher (and no responsible physician) can be excused for not being aware of the importance of the circadian organization of bodily processes. Now in its fourth edition, Circadian Physiology offers a thorough review of principles and applications of research on circadian rhythms and serves as a comprehensive introduction to the field for life scientis...

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What would happen if Saint Francis of Assisi walked through today's world of skyscrapers, shopping malls, social media, and crowded subway stations?In a society driven by consumerism, the pursuit of success, and digital loneliness, Francis suddenly reappears to encounter men and women who have lost their way amid the noise of modern life. With the simplicity of the Gospel and the power of brotherhood, the Poor Man of Assisi engages with business professionals, youn...

Most supply chain books treat disruption as bad luck — a storm, a fire, a pandemic to be managed after the fact. This one begins from a different and more unsettling premise: the global supply chain is a single, tightly coupled, nonlinear system, and its most dangerous failures are not accidents. They are emergent, mathematical, and — with the right lens — visible in advance.That lens is the original idea at the heart of this book. Volatility is not random interference to be smooth...

An insightful rethinking of political socialization within Latino immigrant households.Conventional wisdom tells us that children are passive recipients of political lessons from their parents, with caregivers being the ones who mold the developing behavior and beliefs of the children under their roof. Roberto F. Carlos challenges this preconception by revealing how Latino children, especially those with immigrant parents, often become key sources of political info...

Traditionally, Christians have viewed unbelief as resulting from moral and/or cognitive shortcomings. However, a recent proposal such as John Schellenberg's 'divine hiddenness argument' for atheism has supported the idea that there is no-fault unbelief. In this Element, the author draws on important insights from medieval Christian thought to argue that both believers and non-believers should stop blaming each other based on mere evidence. Believers may recognise that no-fault unbelief can...

NEW ONGOING SERIES! Terror is born anew in this dark reimagining of Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s origin. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress finds herself at a crossroads, having to choose between an unearthly destiny and her mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But a foe from her family’s past has arrived in Greendale, Madame Satan, and she has her own deadly agenda. Archie Comic’s latest horror sensation starts here! For TEEN+ readers.

The first English-language introduction to the entire work of world-renowned theorist and activist Antonio Negri, this book reconstructs his philosophy and critically discusses the existence of the revolutionary power of the multitude.Although the existence of the power of the multitude becomes the dominant topic of Negri's later writings, beginning with the radical vision of imperial power found in Empire, Roberto Nigro demonstrates how the core concepts of Negri’s work w...

Effective strategic management education and practice must focus on the whole team rather than the individual — this book guides readers toward collaborative excellence in strategizing and decision-making by taking such an approach.Organized into four interlinked parts, this book offers readers the conceptual resources to critically rethink how strategic leadership capability can and should be developed in top management teams, along with practical interventions to implement this v...

A vast literary reckoning with disappearance, obsession and the violence threaded through modern history.Set in Santa Teresa on the Mexico US border, this literary crime novel about missing women unfolds across intersecting lives: European academics in pursuit of a reclusive writer, a journalist drawn into the city’s unrest, and a community haunted by a growing list of unsolved murders.What begins as an intellectual quest gradually reveals a deeper and more...