The Public Company Handbook: A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors and Executives (5th edition) written by Perkins Coie lawyers, is a "plain English" guide for directors, officers and other executives seeking to familiarize themselves with legal and other board and management issues facing public or soon-to-be-public companies. This guide incorporates changes to SEC, NYSE, NASDAQ, and state law requirements and guidance, as well as to common practice, made over the last...

Dimension6, the electronic magazine of Australian speculative fiction brings you its sixth annual collection with all new stories from Cat Sparks, Jason Fischer, Mark Barnes, Deborah Sheldon, Aiki Flinthart, David Levell, Peter Ninnes, Chris Barnham, Matan Elul, and Michael McGlade. Enter Dimension6!

What if reading a single book could save you years' worth of therapy?In The Art of Giving Permission, Dr. Jason B. Fischer leads readers through a therapeutic journey of exploration, discovery, and profound empowerment. Drawing on over two decades as a professional counselor, Fischer distills his insights about the human condition into a practical guidebook with potent solutions to personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.This book lays the foundation ...

A secret organization ruthlessly seeks power over supernatural terrors in this globe-trotting anthology of arcane mystery and adventure, from the bestselling world of Arkham HorrorBeyond our world lies another, one full of paranormal forces and eldritch horrors, and once that membrane has been pierced, life can never be the same again. In every corner of the globe, persons unknown are seizing objects of extreme supernatural power. They dec...

Create the life and love you've always desired.Have you ever noticed that some relationships thrive and grow in complexity and strength as the years pass The Two Truths About Love is a guide to creating this type of relationship—an extraordinary partnership where both people feel fully accepted while evolving together. By discovering new and powerful ways to form deep connections with others, you can start building the kind of relationships you've always d...

Houston, we have a problem...Life is fragile. The difference between success and failure can come down to nothing – the thread of a screw, the flick of a switch – and when it goes wrong, you fix it... or someone dies.Mission Critical takes us from our world, across the Solar System, and out into deep space to tell the stories of people who had to do the impossible. And do it fast.Featuring stories by Peter F. Hamilton, Yoon Ha Lee, ...

100 Texte, knapp 70 Autorinnen und Autoren, darunter über 20 deutschsprachige Poetry- Slam-Champions – eine Sprache. Sie steht im Zentrum dieser Anthologie – das Handwerkszeug aller Poetinnen und Poeten, das in vielen Texten gespiegelt, betrachtet, lustvoll hinterfragt oder spielerisch erweitert wird. Bei allem Unterhaltungsfaktor bietet die Poetry- Slam-Fibel eine Bühne für die Sprache zwischen Sinnhaftigkeit, Rhythmus und Musikalität: Sprache als lyrisches Präzisionswerkzeug, als abschre...

The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation, and Loss, edited by Salman Akhtar, focuses upon the formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and child observational researchers, it elucidates the nuances of mothering, the child's tie to the mother, the mysteries of secure attachment, and the hazards of insecure attachment. These experts also discuss issue...

Papa Lucy saved the human race. He was a sorcerer, a lawmaker, a god. Papa Lucy led millions from the fires and destruction of the Before, into a savage new world known as the Now. Then, when the crops failed, when the livestock died, Papa Lucy gave hope. He gave civilisation to the broken leftovers of humanity, their minds wiped blank when they stumbled after him, through the secret places and out into the Now. Papa Lucy saved the human race. Papa Lucy lied.

Was Malala für die Kinderrechte ist und Greta Thunberg für den Klimaschutz, das ist Joshua Wong für die DemokratieJoshua Wong – das Gesicht der Protestbewegungen in Hongkong – schreibt erstmals selbst darüber, wie er es mit der Supermacht China aufgenommen hat. In seinem Buch, das halb Memoir, halb Manifest ist, appelliert er an alle, sich im Kampf um Freiheit und Demokratie einzubringen. Ob wir in Hongkong leben oder anderswo, seine Botschaft ist klar: Wenn wir als freie Individuen...

A disaster rolls across the Now, from the Waste to the sea, threatening all life. The only hope for what remains of humanity is another desperate escape, leaving their world for parts unknown.It falls to a shaky alliance of the Jesusmen and what remains of the Family to build a gateway, but without Papa Lucy's knowledge humanity will fall, dying in the choking dust and the thrash of fangs.There are even further threats to this plan. Lady Baertha herself has survived, seizing ...

Fifteen years ago, Papa Lucy fell. Now, a new threat emerges in the savage world of the Now. Towns burn and survivors flee, lest they be hunted and murdered in the name of a new god. The Dawn King. With the Boneman captured and broken, and Jesus and John Leicester missing, Lanyard Everett must lead his crew of doomed Jesusmen into an uncharted and most dangerous land. Guided by a mysterious artifact known only as the Jawbone, they seek justice. If they can't have that, they'll settle for v...