Chris Reilly
Author
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Claudio and Mathilde Simone, once romantic bohemians hopelessly enamored with each other, find themselves nestled in domesticity in New York, running a struggling vinyl record store and parenting three daughters, Natasha, Lucy, and Carly, as best they can. With prose that is as keen and illuminating as it is whimsical and luminous, debut author Christine Reilly tells the unusual love story of this family. Poignant and humane, Sunday's on the...
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
We've all been told to avoid stress to maintain our health and balance. But what if, instead, we learned to embrace stress and allow it to propel us to greatness?
In Seeking Adversity: How to Use Stress and Embrace Life's Difficulties to Reveal Your Best Self, author Chris O'Reilly seeks to explain how we all have the opportunity to turn adversity and stress into powerful motivators that can help us live our best lives. Through personal stories...
Author
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Embrace the cloud and kick hackers to the curb with this accessible guide on cloud security
Cloud technology has changed the way we approach technology. It's also given rise to a new set of security challenges caused by bad actors who seek to exploit vulnerabilities in a digital infrastructure. You can put the kibosh on these hackers and their dirty deeds by hardening the walls that protect your data.
Using the practical techniques discussed in Cloud...
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A practical pathway to a meaningful life and courageous leadership
In The Courage Playbook: Five Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Become Your Best Self, Gus Lee, bestselling author and leadership expert, delivers an astonishing reveal that with moral courage, we can overcome our fears. This is a practical guide to gaining your courage to live rightly, treat others without bias and lead inspirationally. Readers will acquire Five Steps to Courage, 3...
Author
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive -- but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive?
In his bold new work, prominent biological theorist Robert Trivers...
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Learn how the United States can stop and reverse its relative economic decline in this fascinating analysis of American Money, Credit and Capital
In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and bestselling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to maximize the United States unmatched financial and technological potential.
In compelling fashion, the author shows that the United States can and should invest...
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Before reality TV, GPS devices, and dashboard computers, there was a coming of age for the Maine Warden Service. It was a time when a compass, map, and one's wits were what mattered most in the field. Every day offered the potential for an exciting new adventure, many of which endangered the wardens' lives.
Recreating the full warden experience, Open Season includes twenty stories from two former colonels, two lieutenants, two sergeants, four district...
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
You've heard again and again that getting rich means working hard and being willing to put in long hours, often at the expense of everything else in your life. The 6-Minute Work Day is here to dispel that myth.
So many financial gurus, business books, and corporate training seminars teach you to hustle, grind, work harder, start work early, and stay late to be able to move forward in your career-or even just make ends meet.
But then you get that...
10) California
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Shuggie Boyle is a changed man. Which is why, after serving four years for armed robbery, he's skipped his licence and jacked a pensioner's car. He is heading back to his ex-girlfriend's house to retrieve the stash from the robbery. Happiness for Shuggie is only a few grand and a few thousand miles away - the journey from California (in Falkirk) to California (in America).
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalized the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas explores how and why education has evolved as it has, examining the ways in which it has responded over the centuries to various influences in politics, philosophy, and the social sciences. Focusing...
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward.
Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed...
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Digital transformation and cyber insecurity are two global trends that converged in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated these global challenges into paradigm-changing realities that threaten to destroy every company, government, network, and individual. But what can be done to embrace the accelerating digital disruption and at the same time manage the explosion of vulnerabilities, cyber threats, and business risks? What strategies are enabling...
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Learn how to achieve the highest levels of success without sacrificing who you are
In I Took the Only Path to See You, author and CEO Jon Fisher delivers an inspiring message that reminds listeners that professional success does not have to come at the expense of personal happiness. Fisher is proof that professionals can achieve success on a grand scale without having to sacrifice their personal ethics, personal relationships, and more. The book's...
15) Concrete Plans
Author
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When their employer tries to cheat them out of a job, a rugged crew of workmen turn first on him then each other, leading to a bloody confrontation.
 use.png)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)



 use.png)