How valuable to your people are you right now?Do you feel that you are adding value to your people?Are you willing to challenge yourself, and work on yourself every day to become more valuable?The mindset of a highly effective leader is to be constantly growing and becoming more and more limitless.Their thinking is, if I improve myself, I am making myself more valuable to my team. By being more valuable to my team, I am in a great place to help them become m...

Are you a manager or a supervisor? Do you feel the need to GROW into a leader?Do you want to learn how to become a highly effective leader?People don't realise that leadership is a role of service. It is the leader's job to serve their people, not for the people to serve their leader. At the end of the day, leadership is about influencing people, NOT managing people or telling them what to do. In this book you will learn techniques that are...

In this mock picaresque parody of DON QUIXOTE the time is the 1980s and Ronald Reagan is preslident: the setting, San Francisco. The deranged hero, Jamie Bond, is serving time for an undisclosed crime. Due to Reagan budget cuts Jamie and his sidekick, Ted (Sancho Panza), are released early from their halfway house. Jamie becomes bellman at a San Francisco Airport hotel thanks to Nancy, his psychologist at the halfway house. The next round of budget cuts costs Nancy her job and she joins Ja...

“It is in an unrelated incident years before that Why I bought Belcher’s…has its root: at a wedding. My daughter was attending her girlfriend’s father’s wedding to a physically pretty woman: but with an alcohol problem. During the partying the bride, very drunk according to my daughter, produced a loaded pistol which, brandishing, she threatened to use against her guests. This was before even Columbine High, before the series of gun-related massacres that followed and made me aware that th...

The solrom: a soul journey to heal within, by going withoutTwo travellers collide in the wild country on the island of Bracka.Geeter, not much more than a boy, is running from the shadows cast by the death of his father.Wode, a gnoseer: one of a sacred group possessing a deep knowledge of energy and power of the Inner Realms, seeing and knowing what most cannot. He is called to The Tree of Knowledge for a question of destiny; his answer for one reac...

The novel TRACKS: a story from the Vietnam War operates on the surface as a suspense drama structured around a triangle. At the center is Ingrid, a sultry young German woman who is fought over by Paul Carroll and Ralph Benson: friends on the surface but, as both will discover, enemies underneath. Paul is educated, fears violence and is anti-Vietnam War while Ralph, a former M.P. in the U.S. Army, has no problem with violence, particularly against women. When Paul and Ingrid hide, Ralph set...

Fethiye is a small seaport on Turkey's Aegean shore where each summer starting in May, tourists from across Europe and England flock to exchange gloomy skies and rain for sand and sea and sometimes sex beneath a hot, bright Mediterranean sun. Connie Cullingsworth, whose life this novel is a portrait of, flies to Fethiye to rescue her daughter, who has been robbed and will need money. Accompanying Connie is her second husband, Charles, a computer whiz who lives in his world of cyberspace an...

More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the"Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and GeneralLongstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from thefirst generation of former Confederates to more recent times, when the Lost Causehas continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regionalculture.Southern writers from the Confederate period through thes...

This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: ...

Enter a world where mystery, magic, and the supernatural intertwine. The Book of Shadows – Volume 1 is a haunting collection of dark fantasy and supernatural tales written by various authors. Within these pages, readers will discover eerie legends, mystical secrets, and chilling encounters with the unknown. Each story explores the thin line between reality and the unseen world, making this collection perfect for fans of gothic fiction, occult mysteries, and atmospheric storytelling.

Far removed from the main centers of commerce and population, and thus remote from the priorities of Confederate political leaders in the East, the Trans-Mississippi Theater experienced a different sort of war during America’s great fratricidal conflict of 1861–1865. Not only was its distance from Richmond a distinguishing factor, but it was also a theater where the Union army and navy gained a foothold far sooner than elsewhere in the South, first in Missouri and then in Louisiana and the...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, D. H.: The RainbowLe Fanu...