In Building an Innovation Powerhouse you will learn how to maximise the potential of people to grow your business. Authors Andy Wynn and Jim Hick dive deep into the most complex aspect of innovation and skilfully deconstruct the multi-dimensional complexities of working with people to reveal the secrets of how to handle the challenges of innovation.Building an Innovation Powerhouse uncovers the inner workings of industry giants, including Boston Consulting Group, ...

In today's world, our television screens are filled with scenes from countless conflicts across the globe—commanding our attention and asking us to choose sides. In this insightful and wide-ranging book, Jim Hicks treats historical representation, and even history itself, as a text, asking questions such as Who is speaking?, Who is the audience?, and What are the rules for this kind of talk? He argues that we must understand how war stories are told in order to arm ourselves against them. ...

DETOXIFY Reimagined by Jim Brooks is a collection of prose and poetry focused on the painful but necessary journey of healing from toxic relationships and self-abandonment.The book is structured around four distinct phases of healing:The Poison: Naming and recognizing the hurt caused by toxic environments and conditional love.The Withdrawal: Navigating the deep pain, grief, and phantom aches of letti...

«Mi odio tiene la dureza del diamante […] es el aire que respiro, impregna cada célula de mi cuerpo […] y es mil veces más poderoso que todas vuestras buenas intenciones». Jim Goad está cabreado. Y no es para menos. Está harto de oír gilipolleces en los medios. Y ya iba siendo hora de que alguien saliese al ruedo cultural en plan kamikaze para poner las cosas en su sitio, sin pelos en la lengua y sin preocuparse del decoro y las buenas costumbres. Había dos alternativas: dejar un paquete h...

Maya and the Four Heavens is a sweeping narrative history of the ancient Maya, tracing their extraordinary civilization from its earliest origins in the rainforests of Mesoamerica to the vibrant indigenous communities that carry its traditions forward today. Spanning nearly three thousand years, the book overturns the popular myth of a single rise and fall, revealing instead a civilization of remarkable resilience that reinvented itself through multiple cycles of brilliance, crisis, and re...

Based on an actual historical event, this is the story of May Dodd—a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd’s journey into an unknown world. Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program ...

Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and raise families or engage in business. Wounded for Life complicates this picture by examining how seven veterans—six soldiers and one physician—coped with their changed bodies in their postwar lives.Through these intimate stories, author Robert D. Hicks looks at the veteran's body as shaped by the trauma of the battlefield and hosp...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...

"[Narrator Laura Hicks] captures the compelling emotions of these desperate women as they escape their former lives of hardship and dare to dream of a freedom they haven't yet known." — Booklist, starred reviewThe stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women.9 March 1876My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The vill...

Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive.In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...