A queen with a desire and a quench for life. A kingdom each with citizens that have their own agenda.A counselor and consort who is loyal to the point of treason.A warlord determined to control the uncontrollable who has a life-long secret that even He is unaware of.And a mystical food that has the ability to turn back the ravages of time and restore the youth of whoever knows the secret of using it.Enjoy a hundred years of intrigue within this seventeen-min...

I want you to imagine you're starting a new job and you're very happy because it pays twice as much as your old job. But when you walk into the room you see ninety-six small scales each about the size of a quarter and your job is to balance out all the scales.So what's the challenge? Well, what you discover is when you put a weight on scale fourteen, scale thirty-two goes down. When you put one on scale sixteen, scale forty-eight goes up.So as you try to balance all the sca...

Character is something intrinsic to us all; it forms and reveals who we are. Unbeknownst to many, character is foundational to our judgment, behavior, and leadership. As we tackle the grand challenges of our time, strength of character guides us to make better decisions, creates greater well-being, and contributes to human flourishing. For those who lead — whether in the public, private, not for profit, or education sectors — a greater understanding of character will challenge you...

Fourteen stories. Fourteen terrifying journeys.† A suicidal man waits on a high building for the perfect moment †† A young woman discovers that the past is a different place †† A victim searches for her killer in the most unexpected location †† A serial killer seeks retribution for his press nickname †† A young man explores noir and sex in Paris †† A woman scorned tries to rebuild her life with deadly results †† An abused wife is faced with...

Practice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality care and support for adults who may be at risk of abuse or neglect.Chapters cover core areas of practice according to Care Act and adult safeguarding principles, identify the fundamenta...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading."—Tangent Onl...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse.“This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading.”—Tangent Online on Pulpho...

Proactive Risk Management's unique approach provides a model of risk that is scalable to any size project or program and easily deployable into any product development or project management life cycle. It offers methods for identifying drivers (causes) of risks so you can manage root causes rather than the symptoms of risks. Providing you with an appropriate quantification of the key factors of a risk allows you to prioritize those risks without introducing errors that render the numbers m...

Character is something intrinsic to us all; it forms and reveals who we are. Unbeknownst to many, character is foundational to our judgment, behavior, and leadership. As we tackle the grand challenges of our time, strength of character guides us to make better decisions, creates greater well-being, and contributes to human flourishing. For those who lead—whether in the public, private, not for profit, or education sectors—a greater understanding of character will challenge your th...

It took a while, twelve years to be exact, to finally write the sequel to Malcom’s Measure. I’ve always kept an outline in my head despite getting requests for a sequel. It just took some time to get the fever back and pick up pen to paper and begin what has turned out to be Malcom! Malcom! Malcom Crief’s story had to be continued and to see how his measure in life turned out. He was not perfect nor are any of us, but he met up as a caring and full of gumption character where he went and w...

After my fathers passing I was given a box containing just about all the letters my mother wrote to him. I always thought how nice it would be to be able to read them and possibly have them compiled and saved for our family. It was some years later after I became retired that I was in the mood to really sit down and begin the arduous job of trying to read the small handwriting that had been written decades earlier. There was no order to the box her letters. Some were in the original envelo...

Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it. In this sense, moral knowledge—as a publicly available resource for living—has disappeared. Via a detailed survey o...