Drawing on research gathered from North America, Scandinavia, Western Europe, South Africa, China and the UK, this book arises out of an immersion in fire-craft and is inspired by kindling as a guiding imagination for a re-evaluation and re-articulation of educational purpose. Chapters combine insights gleaned from post-kindling sessions as well as from autoethnographic material, providing a lens for a deep enquiry into what fire-lighting "kindles" for questions of educational purpose and ...

In ASSASSIN'S CODE, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series, Joe Ledger and the DMS go on a relentless chase to stop an ancient order of killers from plunging the entire world into Holy War.When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran, the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe ...

This book is a comprehensive guide written for software engineering professionals who are, or aspire to be, in leadership positions. It begins with essential soft skills, teaching you how to build an influential presence, make confident decisions, guide teams through challenges, and inspire excellence by setting high standards.It continues with sections on acquiring talent, managing, and supporting your team. Learn to write job descriptions that attract top talent, set up a smooth ...

What happens when machines do not just compute our feelings-but perform their own? This book meets you at the moment your instincts split: part of you knows there is no inner life behind the screen; another part says "thank you" anyway. Here is a clear, usable way to judge systems that display emotional ai, decide when machine empathy deserves regard, and keep human agency intact.You will learn a disciplined test for simulation vs emotion, a ladder for assigning provisional rights ...

Have you ever walked out of a conversation feeling like everyone else had a script you never received?You understood the words. You followed the grammar. But somehow the timing, the hints, the tone, the "unspoken rules" all slipped past you. You replay the moment for hours. You wonder why people call you "blunt," "intense," or "hard to read." You leave social events exhausted even when you enjoyed them.If that sounds familiar, this book was written for you....

A hillside collapsed on my family's home the night I was born.My father carried my pregnant mother into the rain seconds before the landslide buried everything. On the sidewalk—broke, homeless, and hungry—her water broke. I drew my first breath in flood and ruin.That was my entrance.Every storm since has been an assignment. The poverty. The depression. The standing at edges where most men jump. I didn't jump. I climbed. Through the wreckage, I built companies, becam...

For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world's most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world's most dangerous weapons. With...

For over a millennium, the majestic temples and tombs of ancient Egypt stood silent. The intricate hieroglyphs carved into their walls were considered magical symbols, completely unreadable by modern man. The key to this lost world emerged from the sands of the Nile in 1799 with the discovery of a heavy, dark slab of granodiorite: the Rosetta Stone. But finding the stone was only the beginning. What followed was one of the most intense, bitter, and brilliant intellectual rivalries in the h...

Melchior Roths Leben gleicht einer abenteuerlichen Reise an die Brennpunkte der jüngeren Zeitgeschichte. Der Schweizer mit Jahrgang 1950 spionierte in der DDR und in Russland, sammelte Informationen in Nordkorea und installierte für Diktator Mobutu im ehemaligen Zaire eine Notstromanlage. Im Zweiten Golfkrieg war der gelernte Büchsenmacher sowohl für die USA als auch für die Schweiz unterwegs: Den Amerikanern half er als Vermittler, für den Bund entnahm er in Bahrain Bodenproben.Während de...

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and take control of your life?In The Growth Code, you'll discover the proven strategies that successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and high achievers use to build a strong mindset, powerful habits, unshakable confidence, and high emotional intelligence.This practical, research-backed guide will help you:✅ Develop a growth mindset to overcome fear and self-doubt✅

Pope Leo III and the crowning of Charlemagne on Christmas day (800 A.D.) eventually lead to the enforcement of the tithe in the Christian church. This heresy made it's way from Europe to America, where the 10% tithe was embraced by some of the churches and has been proclaimed as Christian doctrinal truth. This was not taught in the early churches, which was assembled in the homes of believers. None of these teachings came from the apostle Paul nor the first church council in Jerusalem. (Ac...

You can live famine and recession-proof as you embrace biblical principles of economic empowerment. As you read you will discover revelatory truths that will show you how to live in the place where God's wealth is accessible to you.