“Net Zero” has been an effective rallying cry for the green building movement, signaling a goal of having every building generate at least as much energy as it uses. Enormous strides have been made in improving the performance of every type of new building, and even more importantly, renovating the vast and energy-inefficient collection of existing buildings in every country. If we can get every building to net-zero energy use in the next few decades, it will be a huge success, but it will...

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported — comprising some 10% of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon juggernaut threatening to overwhelm the climate.It doesn't hav...

Psycho-Selling was first published by BBC Books and became an international best seller and was translated into several launguages. I has helped tens of thousands of salepeople to increase their sales and income massively - often more than double. Now it's your turn.

These two books presents a series of legal statutes established in Scotland to address issues arising from court disputes, including the handling of conventions, debt claims, and defenses against slander. It emphasizes the necessity for complainants to provide specific details about their claims and protects defendants from being deemed undefended prematurely. The statutes also promote peace among the nobility and prohibit the creation of discord through rumors. Furthermore, it outlines th...

This document presents a series of legal statutes from King David II that govern issues related to theft, property seizure, and the responsibilities of individuals and lords within the kingdom. It includes provisions against selling thieves, the consequences for nobles who violate these laws, and the procedures for handling accusations of theft. Additionally, it addresses the rights of individuals without a lord, the proper methods for seizing property, and the importance of seeking resolu...

Meet challenging standards by promoting students′ authentic intellectual workEducators have long called for more rigor and engagement in classroom work, alongside calls for enhancing equity. Yet classroom practices and student outcomes have been slow to change.A promising solution is the research-backed, real world-tested potential of the Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) framework to meet intellectually challenging standards including Common Core. ...

V. S. Naipaul is a reader-friendly introduction to the writing of one of the most influential contemporary authors and the 2001 Nobel laureate in Literature. Bruce King provides a novel by novel analysis of the fiction with attention to structure, significance, and Naipaul's development as a writer, while setting the texts in their autobiographical. philosophical, social, political, colonial and postcolonial contexts. King shows how Naipaul modified Western and Indian literary tra...

Do you want a short cut to lots of new business?Do you want to avoid cold calling?Do you want to double your sales in a fun and simple way?Bruce King is a true master of sales referrals. He has built his immensely successful sales career upon a few simple and highly effective techniques. In this book he shares his very best tips with you.Chapter Headings:Introduction – Why Sales Referrals?Chapter 1. Sales Referrals – The Essential Mathematics

Build teacher capacity to promote students′ authentic intellectual workIn spite of numerous reforms to improve rigor and relevance in the classroom, our schools have been slow to change. This work providesA research-validated, field-tested framework that can be applied across grades and disciplinesA powerful professional learning component that emphasizes teacher collaborationDetailed examples of lessons, assignments, asse...

Bruce King's exciting story of a handsome young “leather boy” driven to the incredible excesses of sexual masochism is the only book I've run across—in the enormous volume of recent sex fiction—which documents honestly and vividly the hows and whys of the pain-pleasure world of the homosexual. This twilight world of leather and chains, boots and whips is illuminated with intelligence and vigor; orgiastic pain, fetishism and fantasy blend in a nightmare collage. The sex rituals are skillful...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Kings: A Family History is a deep dive into the ancestors and descendants of Amos, Agnes, and Martha King, from immigrant ships through frontier famines to Tidewater fishing trips. Packed with strange-but-true stories and family lore, it brings the King family past to life with heart and grit.

THE increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the purely trading places of the known world. That there are sufficient causes for this unparalleled prosperity, w...