"Fake it till you make it." The old adage may be a hallmark of our personal and professional lives, but the truth is inauthenticity leads to dissatisfaction—and disaster. To be happy, successful, and sustainable, you need to be genuine and be yourself. Years of working in public relations, along with her personal experiences, have shown Anna Crowe that authenticity is the most important skill in business today. In Get Real, she helps you break bad habits and integrate who you are, what you...

A heart-pounding hunt begins when 18-year-old Monica goes missing from a dig site with an archaeologist whose shady past spills into the present. The frantic search takes her aunt Claudia to Egypt, Gibraltar, and the UK, where Claudia's skills as a forensic handwriting expert of international renown are needed to help foil a deadly terrorist plot in which Monica may become a casualty.

A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today.**“With suave latitude and dependable detail, Beaton takes his readers from a bright prehistoric ‘dawn’ in the Aegean to the heavy skies of contemporary geo-politics.” —**The New CriterionMore than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the...

It’s the end of the world, and everyone’s getting a little bit strange.For Kristian, living in the Chip-Center and cut off from his friends, life has become a nearly endless sim fantasy, mostly centered around a long-lost love.For Sanna, also living in the Chip-Center but out of touch with Kristian, life is mostly about her collection of animals… although she misses being able to communicate with them telepathically.For Sebastian, it’s all about his...

Is it a social experiment, a prison, or a tool for driving one man mad?The dome city is all those things. For Ef and his followers in City of England, it’s a kind of laboratory, a place to test Ef’s theories about how to give humanity a new way forward. For the founders of the Happiness-Program, awakened from stasis, the dome city is a prison where they are fed bizarre lies about the state of the world. For Iris, the dome city is the perfect opportunity to take rev...

Peatlands is the first bilingual single collection of Mexican poet Pedro Serrano's work to be published in the UK. Introduced by WN Herbert, the poems are as linguistically thrilling as they are wide-ranging: with subjects as diverse as snakes and swallows, valleys and skyscrapers, weariness and love.This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.Pedro Serrano is the author of six poetry collections published between 1986 a...

Kaarina is done with the world. But the world isn’t done with her.Now that Kristian is gone, all Kaarina wants to do is to ride her horse. Live alone in the old barn. Leave the human race and its problems far behind. But it’s not that simple… not when the bots from City of Finland are hunting down and killing the animals one by one. Not when Sanna is asking for her help. And not when Margaret keeps tapping her, telling her she can save the animals, that she can sav...

When the coworker you hate is a master of mind-control…Bill and Sebastian don’t get along.Yes, they need to work together to solve the problems facing City of California… but Bill despises the Aussie in the top hat, and nothing will change his mind on that point. That wouldn’t be a problem if they just avoided each other. Unfortunately, Sebastian is Maria’s partner, and Maria is one of Bill’s best friends. Sebastian is also the greatest salesman the world h...

Harvard-educated psychologist and bestselling author Melanie Joy exposes the psychology that underlies all forms of oppression and abuse and the belief system that gives rise to this psychology-which she calls powerarchy.As a prominent vegan activist, Dr. Melanie Joy had long been puzzled that people would become aware of one or more forms of oppression only to stay mired in many others, never seeing the similarities. In this book she identifies, for the first time, the psychologic...

The third edition of this bestseller (over 275,000 copies sold) builds on the tested formula that helps organizations recognize the value of complaints using updated examples and concepts in the age of COVID-19.The first edition of A Complaint Is a Gift introduced the revolutionary notion that customer complaints are not annoyances to be dodged, denied, or buried but are instead valuable pieces of feedback-not to mention your best bargain in market research. Complaints provide a fe...

The sleepers are waking, one by one. But who is waking them?Jovan and Luna are running out of time. They have only thirty days to make Project Green Gates work, convincing the Chipped to abandon their dying society and return to a more natural way of life. If they don’t succeed, Ef and his team have a plan of their own… a plan that frankly terrifies them.The trouble is, Luna doesn’t believe in Project Green Gates. She’s finally Chipped, and she wants to see...

The clock is ticking as a forensic handwriting expert and a LAPD detective race to uncover the truth behind a mysterious suicide note. With powerful enemies and a brutal attempt on her life, Claudia Rose must confront a desperate foe in order to survive. As motives for murder pile up, can Claudia and Joel Jovanic find the killer before it’s too late? Fans of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and John Sandford’s Mind Prey will be captivated by this gripping thriller.