The latest in a series of brutal murders has left Detective Robert Park close to breakdown, his sense of failure being amplified when his only suspect seemingly becomes a victim of her own gruesome game. With the situation worsening, Park soon realizes that far darker forces are at work in his city than he could ever have imagined.As his sense of what is real is called into question, the emotional distance between himself and his wife grows ever wider, the guilt he feels over the de...

A unique take on modern life in Tokyo. A Japan of trains, every day to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. To be savoured through the Odakyu line. Pitched as creative text and line-graphics, Tokyo Commute offers on-track and off-track observations. Poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette.

Naturalists notice things. Scientists attempt to explain the natural world. Religions attempt to give meaning to human life. Writing as first-person narrative history, a naturalist explores, noticing things and the inner struggle of growing up and living in a Christian culture while science continued to bring new discoveries and knowledge into human grasp. This work is about the joy of a free mind noticing things and breaking free of one of humanitys primal afflictions: the ide fixe. It is...

Three thousand hours.Sixty-seven thousand in gross commission. Forty-one thousand net. About thirteen dollars and seventy-three cents an hour.Wade Roberts is at the end of year three in real estate, and that's what he has to show for it. His wife runs an ICU. His daughters are seven and five. His father - the hardest worker he ever knew - died eighteen months ago, and the line Wade can't get out of his head is the one his father always said: work can wait, family can't....

Organizations do not have goals – only people do. Furthermore, people within the same organizations have different goals. This book takes this as its starting point, recognizing that organizations are a dynamic coalition of individuals and groups competing and co-operating as they each pursue their various objectives. Power is a fundamental part of organizational behaviour but many previous studies failed to recognize its centrality. This book remedies this.

People are deeply curious about origins. Cosmologists seek the origin of the universe. Biologists seek the origin of life. Genealogists seek their family history. Humans want to know their connections to the past. Most know their parents and the circumstances of their birth. But for many even that is veiled in a shroud of mystery. Dawn on the Northern Plains is a fictionalized account of a birth family search. It is set during the period of the Vietnam War at a time when secrecy was still ...

Chuck is such a naughty younger brother. Poor Charlie! He had to do everything around the house and he even had to put up with Chuck's games and amusements. But Chuck went too far when he tried to steal the rope used to keep the washed clothes on the line!

No idea how to start your book? Lost when it comes to planning and structuring your book? Say goodbye to writers block forever. Completely stuck and can not see the way ahead? Need a plan of action or a map detailing where your writing should go but have no idea how to produce and outline? You need to use this mind mapping system to Braindump.Learn how to use simple free tools to generate an outline and then go on to write the book you have talked about but could never start.

'Lee takes the oft cited belief that entrepreneurial endeavour lives and dies by the quality of the networks set in play, and subjects it to a rigorous and sustained analysis. In this he not only provides the reader with an authoritative theoretical and empirical foray into how entrepreneurs can create and sustain different forms of social capital, he does so with a strong sense of how power frames and taints its acquisition and use. Lee¹s book is a valuable contribution to our understandi...

Why are we here? What is our purpose? Do we have a choice in what direction to go in life, or is everything preordained or left up to fate?Within the span of eleven months, Robert Lee asked these questions and received the answers through reading the Bible and praying to God. Precipitated by a divorce and subsequent move from Ottawa to Chilliwack, the answers were revealed to him through the Bible, his experiences, and the people he met.How we got to where we are in life is...

San Francisco, 1990s. Sometimes it just does not pay to get up in the morning.Tony Mandolin, private eye, beer enthusiast, and the only guy in the phone book dumb enough to take cases involving the supernatural.When a gorgeous redhead hires him to find her missing sister, Tony figures it's just another cheating-husband job. Then the sister turns up dead, the client vanishes, and San Francisco's top Crime Lord has an unsettling interest in one slightly tattered PI.Su...

War is in the wind.Twins and the last scions of the House of Labad, Charity, and Adam--each unaware that the other is alive--face the oncoming strife filling the land on opposite sides of the conflict.The wizard Milward, parted from Adam during an angry row yet continues to do his best to guide the siblings unawares as the wall between the worlds weakens.Adam has become the officer of the guard under the son of the mad Duke of the city-state Grisham and joins the ar...