Revised, updated, and expanded: the definitive guide to transformational leadership from a team of expert executive coaches.Over the past six years, Michael K. Simpson’s Unlocking Potential has helped leaders motivate, inspire, and fully engage their teams. This revised edition, written with Maria Sullivan and Kari Saddler, builds on that powerful foundation for a new generation of leaders. The key is not just managing but coaching—developing the ...

The entanglement of Vancouver’s infrastructure in settler colonialism and racialized exploitationVancouver, Canada, has long been held up as an environmentally conscious coastal refuge and model of progressive urban planning. Unpacking the troubling complexities that lie beneath the city’s otherwise tidy self-image, Terminal City reveals the long, recurring patterns of racialized violence and Indigenous dispossession crucial to its formation.Examin...

Cradled by Darkness is the raw and unflinching memoir of a woman raised with strong morals and a vision for a bright future - yet caught in the undertow of life's hardships. She lived for her family and her dreams, but when those dreams began to slip away, she found herself lost, broken, and using alcohol to cope.Still clinging to the hope of true love, she became entangled in an obsession with a man who couldn't fully lover her, descending her into outer darkness. Nearly losing he...

Plant Systematics, Third Edition, has made substantial contributions to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level, with the first edition winning The New York Botanical Garden's Henry Allan Gleason Award for outstanding recent publication in plant taxonomy, plant ecology or plant geography. This third edition continues to provide the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution and classification of land plants. A foundation of th...

Discover the Secrets Superstar Sales Professionals Use to Reach the Top In "29i - 29 Ingredients For Sales Success." International Sales training expert Michael Simpson takes you through the 29 essential ingredients you need for sales success.He addresses the ingredients you must master in order to become a top notch Sales Professional, while providing guidance and inspiration throughout each chapter. Go beyond sales systems and dig deeper to discover how your psyche is at the cent...

Nearly forgotten by history, a young boy was chosen to be a replacement for a dead Imperatrix. Barely mentioned in the ancient sources, and degraded by all of Rome. But he was a person. He was a boy. He was Sporus.

My writing evolved from journaling during several peripatetic years including a stint as a sailor in the Navy. Most pieces are transcribed from napkins which I found to be widely available when I had momentary urges to record random streams of consciousness. Many of those which seem to be directed at someone specific are in fact merely daydreams with noone particular in mind. The collection here is a fraction of those writings I have saved - and is a preliminary effort to publish many thou...

The Ultimate Sacrifice races from the life and death decisions of love, to the tension packed fireworks of betrayal, abuse, love, joy, happiness and death. It lays bare the ambitions and fears of lovers and those who want to be loved. As the story surges towards an unpredictable climax, Michael, Marcia and Marlene prove that love has no boundaries. As she held him in her arm, his tears were like blood staining her white wings red, he looked up in her eyes and said, Thank you Marlene you are ...

Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-43, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First Sea Lord and a participant in the wartime conference.

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD**LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.**

Build responsible AI systems with practical fairness benchmarks. Turn fairness principles into measurable requirements using metrics, human review, AI governance, CI gates, and drift monitoring across text, image, and multimodal AI.Key FeaturesTurn generative AI fairness principles into testable responsible AI requirementsBuild benchmarks and metrics for LLMs, image models, and multimodal generative AIOperationalize AI governance with human rev...

Plant Systematics, Second Edition, provides the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution, and classification of land plants.It presents a foundation of the approach, methods, research goals, evidence, and terminology of plant systematics, along with the most recent knowledge of evolutionary relationships of plants and practical information vital to the field. This updated edition has been expanded to include 15 fern families, 9 gymnosperm families, and increased angi...