Everybody has a cancer story. This is Liam Brookes'.Liam is a musician, a wannabe writer, and a café worker who believes his greatest contribution to society is keeping caffeine-addicted strangers from total meltdown. But beneath the sarcasm and self-deprecation lies a man quietly unraveling.After losing his mum to cancer, Liam is left carrying a grief so heavy it threatens to swallow him whole. Faith feels fragile. Depression and loneliness loom large. And the future looks...

EMC for Product Designers, Fifth Edition, provides all the key information needed to meet the requirements of the EMC compliance standards. More importantly, it shows how to incorporate EMC principles into the product design process, avoiding cost and performance penalties to meet the needs of specific standards that produce a better overall product. As well as covering the 2016 versions of the EU EMC and Radio Directives, this new edition has been thoroughly updated to be in line with the...

In today's business environment, everyone is looking for a way to recruit top talent for their business and then retain that talent. Many employers believe that if they just paid more or provided additional benefits to their employees, it would solve the issue. Since the pandemic, many businesses were closed for quite a long time, and many people did not return to work, leaving managers and recruiters wondering, "Where are all our applicants?"Many studies provided data from various...

Languages, Legends, and American Dreams concerns the development of an American language narrative in the formative years 1750–1850 - from the United States' emergence out of disparate colonies, to its expansion across the North American continent, to the approach of a Civil War that threatened its very existence. Articulated in multiple forms, the narrative links citizenship, patriotism, intelligence, and morality specifically with language use. In effect, the narrative's answer ...

This is a book that is an entry level introduction to leadership in today's economy when recruiting and retaining quality employees are a critical element to the success of any business. This gives an overview of what a quality style of leadership is and what it could do for your business. There will be a few more books in the future that will expand on this subject by doing a deeper dive into the phychological aspects of what it takes to get a team all working together towards the accompl...

Teased and rejected by other golf balls because of a swollen dimple on top of his head, will GENO The Pimple Headed Range Ball overcome a physical disability to help Larry, the teen contestant, win the local golf championship?

The heightening impact of ecological and societal crises makes sustainability an increasingly urgent imperative, requiring a fundamental shift in how we understand and practice management and business.In this book, the authors set out the key characteristics of sustainability such as its temporal and multilevel effects and highlight the complex array of sustainability risks and opportunities for business and management. Setting business within a systems perspective, the authors out...

Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives. English Begins at Jamestown investigates the factors behind these choices and the effects they have on our understanding of the English language and its history. Tim Machan explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo...

This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in something even broader. Protestant and fundamentally monarchical, the Nordic countries constituted a politically kindred spirit in contrast with France, Italy and Spain. Along with the so-called Ce...

This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic histo...

It’s not the best companies that prevail in the marketplace, but rather the best brands. The goal of business strategy is not just to be better, but different. Learn how to build a differentiating value proposition by clearly and carefully defining your brand boundaries: Calling, Competencies, Customers, and Culture.Positioning for Professionalsshows how a well-defined value proposition can help professional service firms create their own success instead of copying the suc...

The modern elite triathlete has to be able to swim fast; to cycle fast and to run extremely fast; physically able to sustain an intense effort for nearly two hours; robust enough to train for between 20 & 30 hours a week; intelligent enough to sustain a complex training programme of three disciplines plus a large amount of general strength and conditioning training; tactically aware and astute; and independent enough to compete, often alone and unsupported, in a variety of courses and venu...