"Are we in public right now, or not?"Twelve people, old friends and new acquaintances, have abandoned everything they knew to create a self-contained society in a former shopping mall. Welcome to A Better Place."I'm not in charge at all. I'm just a facilitator."With the right blend of personalities, it could be paradise. But what about with this mix? Everyone's thrilled to escape the drudgery of their former lives,...

Four experts with the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University provide the essential—and now newly updated—guide to becoming a more effective crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for everyday transformative leadershipToday, every leader must be ready to lead through a crisis. In You’re It, the faculty from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on their expansive field research ...

Collecting the fourth arc of the critically acclaimed pulp-sci-fi sensation in an oversized format! Face to face with the Empress who holds their lives in thrall, the five women of Forged team Scimitar-3 uncovered her campaign of interdimensional genocide, and thwarted it-temporarily. Now guilty of the highest treason, and stripped of their combat armor, they need to out-think, out-run, and out-gun the full might of the Imperial Navy...plus an even deadlier foe: the other Forged teams comi...

Become a better crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for every day transformative leadershipToday, in an instant, leaders can find themselves face-to-face with crisis. An active shooter. A media controversy. A data breach. In You're It, the faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University takes you to the front lines of some of the toughest decisions facing our nation's leaders-from how to mobilize during a ...

In Quebec and Scotland, questions of constitutional change, national identity, and national grievance play an important role in the electoral calculations of political parties and voters. Taking a strong stance on the national question can have strategic benefits both for parties pushing for greater autonomy and for those endorsing the status quo.In this in-depth look at issue voting, authors Éric Bélanger, Richard Nadeau, Ailsa Henderson, and Eve Hepburn examine how the national q...

Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in Medicine Ways examine the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice hea...

Most business owners spend more time choosing a logo color than deciding what to charge. That imbalance is costing you thousands of dollars every single month. The price you set is the most powerful message you will ever send, yet almost nobody treats it like a message at all. This book reveals why a price buyers can't refuse is never the lowest price, and it is always the price that looks small next to the value it represents. Whether you are a freelancer, a coach, or a CEO, the strategie...

Collecting the first arc of the comic that combines the pulp-sci-fi-over-the-top-frenzied-mayhem of Operation: Black Box with the spirit of Heavy Metal and any other comics you tried to hide from your parents! Meet the Forged, elite warriors in service to the Eternal Empress. It's a routine recovery op on a distant world. What could possibly go wrong? Spoiler: Just about everything!

NEW STORY ARC Following the events of Operation: Black Box, Vic and her team of Forged find themselves back on Throneworld and in an environment even more lethal—the realm of Imperial politics, where people will kill to keep their secrets.

Become a better crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for every day transformative leadershipManaging crisis well is at the very heart of good leadership. Here, the team from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on a deep well of research as well as their experience working with leaders to respond to crisis events of all kinds, from terrorist attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic, to more everyday crises like a prod...

SERIES PREMIERE TRIM SIZE: 8.375" x 10.875" In the 11th Millennium of the rule of the Eternal Empress, a squad of planet-smashing super soldiers find their routine mission to be anything but. These are the Forged. They take no prisoners. Written by GREG RUCKA & ERIC TRAUTMANN and brought to the page by MIKE HENDERSON, embark upon an over-the-top pulp adventure of sex, violence, and sci-fi inspired by Conan, Heavy Metal, and other comics you tried to hide from your parents.

The Forged are trapped on the hellscape of Gehenna where the locals are very hungry. CrazyJo loses an arm. Again. Another engaging issue of this series delivers new developments, unexpected turns, evolving dynamics, and moments that keep readers curious for more.