Ten-year-old hockey goalie Jace Osternack knows how to stop a puck. Protecting everything outside the net is a whole different game.When Jace earns a spot on an elite AAA hockey team, it should be the greatest season of his life.Instead, his father leaves for an oil job in Canada the same month his older half-brother moves across the country to live with the mother who abandoned him. Suddenly, Jace is "man of the house"-protecting his mom, his wild little b...

Book DescriptionAt first glance, Sudoku looks like a simple 9x9 number game designed to pass the time. But behind the digits lies a powerful framework built on strategy, incremental progress, disciplined constraint management, and objective decision-making.In What Sudoku Taught Me About Solving Complex Business Problems, enterprise solution architect Dr. Shubh Chandra Jha translates simple grid logic into high-impact business strat...

What if the AI your bank already owns never reaches the customer not because it isn't good enough, but because no one ever architected it into the CRM system where relationships and decisions actually happen?Built In, Not Bolted On makes the case that this is the real bottleneck holding back AI in banking and financial services. It isn't model sophistication. It's the wiring or the lack of it between capable AI and the CRM system your relationship managers, risk teams, and service ...

This is the story of Lena Deevy, a Little Sister of the Assumption and a faith-inspired Irishwoman of deep commitment to social justice and compassion for the disenfranchised. Through her community development work in Ballymun, Dublin to her subsequent leadership of the Irish Immigration Center (IIC) in Boston, Massachusetts, she developed a style of leadership that empowered others to lead and to look beyond the narrow confines of race, class, and ethnicity.Instability and uncerta...

Featuring real-world examples and ethical guidance, the authors demystify prompt engineering, showing you how to craft effective prompts, streamline research, generate teaching materials, and foster creativity in both classroom and scholarly settings. With a focus on responsible management and quality education, chapters not only equip you with future-proof skills but also address the ethical considerations of AI in education.Discover how to boost productivity, maintain academic in...

First-time fiction writers often get stuck in the middle of writing a novel mainly because they do not have an outline they can stick to. Outlining a novel before writing is essential for carrying on with a story of 80,000 words or more.This book includes ten questions after answering which you will be have the entire outline of your novel in front of you. You will have built your protagonist, antagonist, major characters, setting, plot, theme, narrative POV and genre of your novel...

Ten-year-old hockey goalie Jace Osternack knows how to stop a puck. Protecting everything outside the net is a whole different game.When Jace earns a spot on an elite AAA hockey team, it should be the greatest season of his life.Instead, his father leaves for an oil job in Canada the same month his older half-brother moves across the country to live with the mother who abandoned him. Suddenly, Jace is "man of the house"—protecting his mom, his wild little brothers, the back...

In Fake Meat, bestselling author Isa Chandra Moskowitz shows you how to create your own vegan meats, like deli slices and ground beef, that will satisfy every craving.“I’m an animal lover and that love doesn’t end when I get hungry. Do I miss meat? Not really. But here’s what I do miss: Aromas. Experiences. Methods. Traditions.“I remember all the tastes and sensations from my omnivore days, even though they were so long ago. My grandmother’s meatba...

All hail, the reigning vegan queen is back! Bestselling vegan author Isa Chandra Moskowitz shows readers how to get a plant-based meal on the table in just under 30 minutes.If you avoid cooking plant-based meals at home because they seems like a lot of work and/or an investment of time, Isa Chandra Moskowitz is here to say: Nope. These are more than 100 crazy-easy, super-fast, satisfying vegan meals perfect for the pacing of our busy lives.Moskowitz’s loyal...

This book encapsulates the changing dimensions of managerial behaviours through existing microeconomic theories. It throws light on the decision-making process of consumers to demonstrate the potential absorbing capacity of the firms’ produce, with the aim of fulfilling their objectives while being socially sustainable.The book elucidates how management, utilizing strategic planning tools, can maintain profitability in an ever-changing macroeconomic environment. The sectoral/market...

Now a Netflix original series"SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down as it is to pick up."— New York Times Book Review"Bold, fresh and big…SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement"— Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air.Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the ...

Recipes that build your skills—from easy-peasy pasta to more challenging sautés and baked dishes—from the bestselling author of Veganomicon.Isa Moskowitz learned to cook from cookbooks, recipe by recipe. And after a few decades of writing her own cookbooks, she knows what the people want: easy-to-follow instructions and accessible ingredients.I Can Cook Vegan is for cooks of all stripes:The Just-Born, Brand New CookTh...