Summertime, and the living's easy…At least that's what I'd hoped for when I decided to visit Hollywood's most sought-after director—A.K.A. my usually absentee father—for the summer. My vision of an idyllic break before starting grownup life after college comes to a halt when my dad puts me to work on his set.As an aspiring screenwriter, I'm eager for any experience. But my time is spent as the errand girl, fulfilling every whim of Hollywood's it actor: the ...

He's a hot football star and a sexy-as-sin single dad. Zac Ledger is everything I never knew I wanted.A prince on a white horse swooping in to save the day... Isn't that every girl's dream? Maybe for some, but I've never expected to find my own happily ever after.I've made one bad dating choice after another, and it doesn't help that my only example of marriage is my dad leaving my mother before I was even born.I'll never be a believer in fairy tale...

My relationship with Cole isn’t a simple one.It’s complicated, frustrating and, at times, downright ugly.You see, I fell for a man who couldn’t love me back.Hard as I tried to avoid the dimpled prince of Seattle, life threw us together.As much as I resisted temptation, he burrowed his way into my heart.Sinful as our attraction was, our destinies were entwined.But don’t worry. Ours is a love story after all. I had no idea how our fairytale wou...

Over the last 30 years, advances in our technology and in our understanding of the scientific disciplines which those technologies enable have allowed humanity to glimpse the inner workings of some of our most astounding capacities, and have revealed, to even a casual glance, the staggering complexity of even our most casual functions.  This progress means that the very nature of psychology is evolving, and with these discoveries have come both new questions and new opportunities to r...

Abigail, a children's book author haunted by past traumas, returns to her childhood home to care for her ailing father, who is suffering from Alzheimer's.Shortly after her arrival, she is thrust into a nightmarish reality as she uncovers chilling family secrets.Her journey becomes an intense battle for sanity, pulling her into a confrontation with her deepest fears and long-buried traumas. As she pieces together the past, she realizes her family's legacy is entwined with so...

Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare’s strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks in association with Cambridge University Press.

This book provides an easy-to-read, user-oriented introduction to mental models research and Mental Modeling TechnologyTM. Mental models are powerful influences human behavior. The book offers insight from the developers and most experienced application professionals of a widely proven methodology for understanding and influencing human judgment, decision making and behavior.The case studies show examples of the methodological concepts in their application context. It is one of the...

Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne’s memoir as a work of “bitter truth” that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated edition, including both Thorne’s original 1961 memoir Out of the Ashes: The Story of a Survivor and his previously unpublished accounts of his arduous postwar experiences in Germany and Pol...

In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Charles (Chuck) Marohn and Daniel Herriges introduce a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. This is the key insight that's been missing from the Housing Crisis Conversation; and the insight that can help cities fight back against the crisis from the bottom-up.This book offers a serious, yet accessible, histo...

Resource Management for School Administrators is the only comprehensive book covering all school resources—fiscal, facilities, and human resources. Each chapter has objectives that are aligned with the new ELCC and ISLCC standards on accreditation. Many of the federal and various state policies and laws are included. Everything you need to know on managing school resources is covered: national and state perspectives, future challenges to funding public education, resource allocati...

Er ist Englands goldener Sohn. Niemand weiß, was — oder wen — er verbirgt.Marcus Ainsley hat alles: die Kapitänsbinde, die Sponsoren, die Hoffnung eines ganzen Landes auf seinen Schultern. Was ihm fehlt, ist der eine Titel, der ihn vervollständigen würde — verloren in einem WM-Halbfinale, entschieden durch einen einzigen, verheerenden Moment, den er bis heute nicht ganz begreift.Dann verliert er alles andere. Wochen nach diesem Finale stirbt seine Jugendlie...

He's England's golden boy. No one knows what — or who — he's hiding.Marcus Ainsley has everything: the captain's armband, the sponsors, the whole country's hope on his shoulders. What he doesn't have is the one trophy that would complete him — lost in a World Championship semi-final decided by a single, devastating moment he still doesn't fully understand.Then he loses everything else. Weeks after that final, his childhood sweetheart is killed in an acciden...