How to Make Your Project Go Badly Wrong is a satirical guide on how to exploit and derail project management for personal gain. The book humorously advises readers on identifying and amplifying inefficiencies, intentionally causing delays, and avoiding accountability to maximize profit. It suggests subtly undermining project goals and emphasizes the potential to profit by prolonging timelines and creating confusion. While playful, it also contrasts good practices in colore...

The much loved classic story collection, in which Pooh gets into a tight place, tries to catch a Heffalump and goes on an 'expotition' to discover the North Pole

Where'd everybody go?Twenty-one to forty-five-year-old armed forces members, police officers, and intelligence agents (our intended protectors) are going missing everywhere. Seemingly 'taken' out of strange agrarian communes popping up all over the planet. Now, Agent Bart, fresh out of retirement, is determined to solve the mystery of these disappearances and get his people back.Scarcity is a speculative fiction novel that explores the ramifications of a world in transition...

Jason S awoke to find himself the victim of a Microsoft Teams meeting invite...

"Roger Jech is a walking talking ricochet that never misses!"Roger Jech doesn't have any superpowers, but he has a super ability: harm him, harm yourself in equal measure. Hit him with a right hook, your jaw breaks. Shoot him in the head, your brains blow out the back of you. Drop him in a war zone, your enemies kill themselves killing him.Jech's a weapon to the wrong people and a savior to the right, but before he can become the latter, he must learn to harness his gift be...

A collection of legal short stories featuring works by Lawrence Block, Lia Matera, Richard North Patterson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and others.In this collection of courtroom mysteries, the legal profession is put on the stand by some of the finest mystery writers, both classic and contemporary, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lawrence Block, and Richard North Patterson. From an unusual lawyer with unusual methods, to a conniving attorney who gets the fate he so ri...

Winnie the Pooh and all of his friends return to the Hundred Acre Wood for more classic adventures. They meet the irrepressible Tigger for the first time, learn to play Poohsticks, and set a trap for a Heffalump.

"Launches a promising series... solid banter, straightforward action, and a well-clued conclusion." — Publishers WeeklyNurse-and-union-leader turned homicide-detective, Eminence Gray, uses her gifts of empathy and emotional labor to catch the most vicious of West Brandon's killers. Em's skillset will be put to the ultimate test when the highest-profile murder case her department's ever seen falls right into her lap. Add to Em's troubles a corrupt executive from her union d...

Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice provides a comprehensive review of the clinical applications of personal construct theory. It is the first such attempt to bring together the findings from a widely scattered literature and as such will serve as a major reference work both for those already familiar with PCT and for those with little knowledge of it. David Winter provides theoretical analyses, research findings, and descriptions of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in ...

This book, based upon a series of psychological research studies, examines Sierra Leone as a case study of a constructivist and narrative perspective on psychological responses to warfare, telling the stories of a range of survivors of the civil war. The authors explore previous research on psychological responses to warfare while providing background information on the Sierra Leone civil war and its context.Chapters consider particular groups of survivors, including former child s...

Shale City has seen better days. First, the dam burst, flooding out the town's iron mine. Then, local officials shut down the shipping and courier services, the only thing keeping Shale City hanging on... It was all the mayor of Shale could do to fight off the more 'legitimate' of sleazeballs trying to destroy her city, but now it seems as though some other kind of sleazeball force is encroaching upon her town, set on putting the final nail in its coffin...The Taking of Shale C...

Concierge medicine represents a relatively novel health care delivery model that is becoming more appealing both to providers and patients because of its potential to improve quality and value in health care. A gap exists in the current literature regarding the benefits and challenges associated with concierge medicine as well as best practices for developing and sustaining a successful, patient-centered concierge practice. This book aims to close the gap by discussing the role of concierg...