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Leaders aren't born, they're M.A.D.E.: Management, Awareness, Development, Environment
By Heather Parsons. 2025
Leaders Aren't Born, They're M.A.D.E. provides a practical, accessible approach to leadership, grounded in time-tested principles. Instead of reinventing the…
wheel, this book curates and synthesizes the most effective leadership techniques, organizing them into four essential pillars: Management, Awareness, Development, and Environment. Each pillar comes with a set of techniques, thoughtfully designed with memorable names, engaging fables, and clear descriptions that reveal the often invisible practices used by great leaders. These techniques serve as a roadmap for both personal growth and team development, making the book an invaluable resource for leaders at every stage. What sets Leaders Aren't Born apart is its flexible, interactive format: it's not meant to be read cover to cover. Instead, it's a dynamic tool that allows you to assess your strengths and challenges as a leader and choose your own path to growth. After taking the self-assessment, you can focus on the areas where you need the most improvement, ensuring that you develop into a well-rounded leader who excels across all pillars. Whether you're a seasoned leader, just starting out, or looking to develop your team, Leaders Aren't Born, They're M.A.D.E. is your guide to becoming the leader you aspire to be.
The Keys to a Happy and Healthy Marriage
By Joyce Meyer. 2025
Learn the secrets of a successful marriage from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer, who has been happily…
married for over fifty years. Whether you've been married for thirty days or thirty years, you want a marriage that outlasts difficult times, grows in love and intimacy, and matches God's perfect plan for relationships. But our marriages don't always look the way we thought they would—you may be suffering through a marriage crisis, financial difficulties, or spiritual attacks. Or perhaps you aren't struggling in your marriage, but you want to make your relationship as strong as it possibly can be. In The Keys to a Happy and Healthy Marriage, you'll hear from beloved Bible teacher Joyce Meyer about how to unlock powerful truths from God's Word for you and your marriage, overcome roadblocks to healthy relationships, live in peace with an insecure person, and take the focus off yourself and your spouse and instead look to the Lord. Along with her lifetime of biblical wisdom, you'll benefit from Joyce's practical and personal experience that will help you grow in your marriage. Regardless of what stage of marriage you are in, you can experience hope and courage in God's promises of healing, restoration, and a life full of His goodness!
Unplug: How to Break Up with Your Phone and Reclaim Your Life
By Richard Simon. 2025
Turn off your phone and turn on your life with step-by-step instructions and success stories from dozens of people who&’ve…
set healthy boundaries with their devices. The average American spends the equivalent of more than 75 full days a year looking at their phone. It can become an all-consuming addiction that puts a strain on virtually every facet of our existence from the way we sleep, eat, and exercise to our ability to focus and make new memories. Most importantly, it takes us away from our lives, our relationships, and the real world. But although it may seem impossible, there is always a way to overcome digital distraction: you can always turn off your phone. In Unplug, Richard Simon lays out a plan to detox from your phone, including things to do with your newfound time, lightly reintegrating a smartphone into your life, and finally, helping others quit. These tips and strategies are interspersed with success stories, including Simon&’s own story of turning off his phone for a whole year, plus those of 25 others, including a professional baseball player (Nick Castellanos), a cable news host (Steve Hilton), as well as ordinary folks including a principal, a pastor, and a couple who quit their phones together. Plus, expert insights from bestselling authors and physicians who specialize in digital wellness including Dr. Anna Lembke (Dopamine Nation), and Brian Merchant (The One Device).
From Plato to Panini to Levinas: The Problem of Language for Philosophy and Theology
By Ori Z Soltes. 2025
This volume offers an innovative exploration of Western social and religious thought and bridges the expression of a regional imagination…
with several planetary conversations. It reconnects Plato and philosophy to the issue of theology and religion and the limits of language as an instrument in engaging both disciplines. While beginning with the language problem as Socrates lays it out in Plato’s Cratylus, it wends its way through the Panini-inspired discussion of language across Western thought and turns to an examination of the idea of theodicy—the justice of God in its relationship to humans: how do the innocent suffer—for example, during the Holocaust—in a world made by God? The book ultimately turns arouand to consider how particular contemporary Indian thinkers have taken up both Western thought and the issue of language and its applicability to philosophy and theology. It thus offers new horizons in the Western World and India by connecting Plato’s Cratylus to the works of Saussure, Wittgenstein, Barthes, Derrida, Levinas, as well as to Panini, Aurobindo, Ranjan Dass, Giri, and the Gita. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, linguistics, and religion.
The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery: A Novel
By Clarence A. Haynes. 2025
In a fast-paced, sexy, ghostly adventure, a publicist at the top of her game must confront her secret mystical past.…
To be a client of Gwendolyn Montgomery—New York&’s most powerful publicist, at Sublime Creative—is to be infused with a certain oomph, a mysterious glamour. She seems to have created the ideal life with her handsome new boyfriend, the perfect match. But Gwendolyn has a legion of long-buried secrets that could unravel everything. After a grisly, bizarre incident at the Brooklyn Museum, Gwendolyn begins to realize that something nefarious is happening tied directly to her past, right as Fonsi Harewood comes back into her world. Fonsi is a queer Latinx psychic from the South Bronx who&’s caught up in a love triangle with a ghost and his mortal ex. He&’s able to communicate with the dead, and he comes with a dire warning for Gwendolyn, that the barrier between humans and spirits is weakening. Gwendolyn would prefer not to have anything to do with ghostly drama. Yet in order to get to the bottom of the spookiness derailing her life and threatening the world, she must face the demons she&’d long left behind. The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery is a sensuous, funny, mystical adventure that will leave you spellbound as you keep the pages turning.
Human Dramas and Dilemmas at Work: New-Gen Cases in Organisational Behaviour
By Mathew J Manimala, Vijaya Venkateswaran, Ajit Chakravarti. 2025
This book presents 120 real-life case-studies collected from indigenous as well as multinational organizations operating in India in 18 different…
industry sectors. These cases provide the readers with insights into ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ facets of the corporate lives of new-gen professionals in the last two decades.Based on real-life work experiences of corporate executives in India, these cases address a variety of the multitude of issues being faced by the professionals and their behavioural implications at the workplace. There is considerable diversity in the themes and issues discussed in these cases. To facilitate the teaching and learning, the book provides an introductory part comprising a brief exposition of ‘OB as a discipline’. The second part of the book contains the abstracts of all cases along with questions for discussion. Thematically designed and comprehensive in coverage, the book covers almost all issues in the subject-areas of OB and HRM. The book is divided under ten sub-themes, namely: Personality, Perception and Communication, Attitudes and Values, Leadership, Power and Politics, Jobs and Roles, Conflict and Collaboration, Group and Team Dynamics, Culture and Diversity, and Managing Change. Each case is also identified under subthemes for the case facilitator to discuss, when suitable.This book will be useful to the students, academics, management researchers, industry professionals from the field of general management, organisational behaviour and human resource management and Commerce. It would also be a useful resource for professionals and the general reader as it provides an opportunity to learn through surrogate experience.
Learning Assessment and Accountability for Higher Education in China
By Huanhuan Xia. 2025
The book explores how to use student learning outcomes assessment data to improve teaching and learning in Chinese higher education.The…
author comprehensively examines the assessment of learning outcomes within the context of both internal and external quality assurance schemes in China. She argues that such assessment must be applied within a defined policy framework, organizational structure, and operational procedures. The author highlights the importance of student learning outcomes assessment in Chinese higher education, its current state, and ways to use assessment data for accountability and the improvement of students’ learning quality. The book makes an original contribution to higher education by exploring whether and how such assessments influence the challenging, resource-intensive, and complex task of improving and sustaining education quality.The book will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students of higher education, education assessment and evaluation, and critical thinking.
International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement: From Rise to Crisis and Reform (Insights on International Economic Law)
By Giorgio Sacerdoti, Niall Moran. 2025
This book provides a thorough comparative analysis of the trade dispute settlement system of the WTO, Regional Trade Agreements, and…
of Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS).Reviewing in parallel their origins, features, development, and current challenges, highlighting commonalities and differences, the book analyzes criticisms leveled against both regimes, explores current reform efforts at the WTO, ICSID, and UNCITRAL (including the controversial proposal to replace ISDS with a Multilateral Investment Court), and engages in the on-going debate by evaluating possible outcomes. As to trade, the book highlights the WTO system's successful operation for more than 20 years and its hobbling functioning since the paralysis of the Appellate Body in 2019. As to ISDS, the book details the procedural protection granted to foreign investors under Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), other International Investment Agreements and investment chapters of trade agreements such as NAFTA, USMCA, CETA, and the CPTPP, alongside the impact of case law on the regulatory space of states.This authoritative book intends to serve as a fundamental reference for students and researchers in international investment and trade law, as well as for international lawyers, adjudicators, and diplomats involved in dispute settlement.
Prosthetics and Orthotics for Physical Therapists
By M. Jason Highsmith. 2025
Prosthetics and Orthotics for Physical Therapists provides physical therapy students, physical therapists, and other allied health clinicians with foundational knowledge…
in prosthetic and orthotic (P&O) topics. The text and its resources are efficient, impactful, and affordable, including an overview of the history of amputation, and artificial limb, prosthetic, and orthotic concepts, followed by a review of professional and educational concepts related to P&O.Prosthetics and Orthotics for Physical Therapists is divided into two sections: first, Prosthetics and second, Orthotics. The Prosthetics section includes chapters on amputation epidemiology, related surgical concepts, componentry, gait, therapy, outcomes, and dermatologic considerations, as well as lower and upper extremity amputation principles and concepts. In the Orthotics section, there is an overview of pathology, and chapters on orthotic principles primarily by body region including below and above the knee, spinal and chest, and cranial and upper extremity.Key features and benefits of the book include the concise but clinically focused topics which are supported by evidence when available, and the covering of historic concepts through to the latest topics such as osseointegration and microprocessor-controlled devices. The organization by prosthetic and orthotic divisions, the anatomic and regional body section divisions, and the special topics (i.e., history, epidemiology, education, and others) allows discrete compartmentalization of vast content. This cutting-edge new textbook is ideal for entry level clinicians in training such as physical therapists, occupational therapists, physicians, prosthetists/orthotists, or others in physical rehabilitative disciplines. Additionally, the book may serve well as a desk reference for clinicians who may not be specialized in P&O care but manage patients who utilize P&O devices.
Sikhism - The Basics (The Basics)
By Eleanor Nesbitt, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. 2025
Sikhism: The Basics provides an accessible, up-to-date and gender inclusive introduction to one of the five major world religions. The…
chronological and geographical parameters of the book are expansive, tracing five and half centuries ‒ from the vision of the founder Guru (Nanak 1469-1539) to its rich diasporic presence across the globe. Sikhism: The Basics includes chapters on: the ten Sikh Gurus; a historical overview from the post-Guru period to modern times (contextualised by the history of Sikhs’ spiritual capital, Amritsar) theological imaginary, practices the Sikh diaspora (Sikhs’ history in North America, Asia (from west Asia to south-east Asia and China, Australasia, the UK and mainland Europe) Sikh art and literature; contemporary challenges and future prospects. Written by two authors approaching Sikhism from 'insider' (Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh) and 'outsider” (Eleanor Nesbitt) perspectives. Accessible to the general reader, it also offers a fresh approach for students and scholars in the study of religions, Sikh Studies, Asian Religions, Anthropology and Diaspora Studies, South Asia, and history.
This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork…
in the self-described “global health capital” Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures.The volume highlights the ways in which scientific storytelling is critical to our understanding of how global health futures are constructed. The book examines three value types—epistemic, ethical, and economic—central to contemporary global health and three linguistic and communicative phenomena—multimodal poetics, emplotment, and discursive circulation—significant to the constitution of these values through storytelling. In spotlighting the Atlanta metropolitan region, home to a number of prominent organizations and figures in the development of global health, the book showcases deeper insights into the future-oriented and techno-optimistic stories global health professionals tell each other, funders, and the public. Black builds on these discussions to suggest ways forward for these stories to be improved to foster greater equity and decolonization and re-imagine the future of global health.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, medical anthropology, global health, and health humanities.
The Cannabis Genome: A New Era in Genetics, Genomics, and Breeding (Depiction and Designing of Plant Genomes)
By Angel Fernandez Marti, Jaime Prohens. 2025
Cannabis is undergoing a remarkable transformation—from a misunderstood plant to a cornerstone of modern medicine, industry, and agriculture. This book…
bridges the gap between tradition and innovation, providing a holistic exploration of cannabis genetics, breeding, genomics, and its wide-ranging applications. Authored by leading researchers, industry pioneers, and legacy breeders, it offers a unique blend of academic rigor and practical insights.Unlike other resources, this book integrates perspectives from public and private sectors, honoring those who have advanced cannabis cultivation despite legal and social barriers. It recognizes the pivotal role of startups like MyFloraDNA, which invest heavily in groundbreaking research, shaping the future of this extraordinary plant.Key Features: Comprehensive insights into cannabis origins, taxonomy, and genetic diversity. Advanced breeding techniques and applications of tissue culture, CRISPR, and "omics" technologies. Practical strategies for pest management, crop improvement, and intellectual property protection. Forward-looking perspectives on cannabis in personalized medicine, sustainability, and global agriculture. Written for scientists, growers, policymakers, and enthusiasts, this book addresses the economic, social, and scientific dimensions of cannabis. It offers actionable knowledge to drive progress in cultivation, industry, and research.
The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Party: Intellectuals and the Liberal Party of Australia
By Geoffrey Robinson. 2025
Robinson analyses the peculiarly Australian intellectual tradition of liberal conservatism within the mainstream centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Conservative intellectuals…
in Australia have forged a pragmatic, sceptical and utilitarian liberal conservatism focused on the tasks of government. It remains distant both from the romantic and organicist ideas of the populist right and the simplicities of libertarianism.Focusing on key figures within this tradition, Robinson tracks the progress of Australian liberal conservatism over the years through its origins in the work of David Hume to the thoughts of Peter Coleman, David Kemp and Andrew Norton before moving forward to George Brandis and Gregory Melleuish. The Liberal Party of Australia has appealed successfully to the conservative sentiments of voters in a liberal society. The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Party tells the story of seven intellectuals who helped make this possible. Peter Coleman drew on John Anderson, Georges Sorel and Michael Oakeshott to champion neoconservatism. He argues that this potent political ideology has shaped a distinct political identity, which rejects conservative traditionalism, and libertarian economics, while defending a pragmatic approach to capitalism.A fascinating read for students and scholars of Australian politics, this book will also be of great value to readers with an interest in international centre-right politics.
This Side of Falling
By Eunice Chan. 2025
In a devastatingly honest coming-of-age debut, a Chinese American teen navigates grief in the wake of her first love&’s death…
by suicide.Not real. The mantra seventeen-year-old Nina repeats to herself the morning after her almost-boyfriend, Ethan Travvers, jumped onto the tracks in front of a freight train. The two words that keep the truth just far enough away so the loss can&’t touch her, grief can&’t break her. After all, there is the family image to uphold, especially when her dad&’s startup begins to flounder. Maintaining the illusion of wholeness and success is everything to Nina&’s mom and grandma.The pretense is working—until Nina&’s all-star older sister, Carmen, is dismissed from college and abruptly returns home. Carmen&’s arrival and strange behavior dig up buried memories, leading Nina to wonder if there is more to the story of Ethan than even she knew. The truth is not what she wants to believe: about Carmen, about Ethan, but mostly, about herself.Emotionally layered and unflinchingly honest, this novel will resonate with readers who love deeply affecting stories that tackle teen heartache in the vein of Kathleen Glasgow and Laura Nowlin.
The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest In America
By Lauren O'Neill-Butler. 2025
How artists have changed America through direct actionArtists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in…
fact &“do more.&” The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debates of the 1960s to the present. In contrast to the financialized art market and celebrity artists, the book explores the power of collective effort — from protesting to philanthropy, and from wheat pasting to planting a field of wheat.Lauren O&’Neill-Butler charts the post-war development of artists&’ protest and connects these struggles to a long tradition of feminism and civil rights activism. The book offers portraits of the key individuals and groups of artists who have campaigned for solidarity, housing, LGBTQ+, HIV/AIDS awareness, and against Indigenous injustice and the exclusion of women in the art world. This includes: the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), David Wojnarowicz&’s work with ACT UP, Top Value Television (TVTV), Agnes Denes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!), fierce pussy, Project Row Houses, and Nan Goldin&’s Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN).Based upon in-depth oral histories with the key figures in these movements, and illustrated throughout, The War of Art is an essential corrective to the idea that art history excludes politics.
Psychopathy Unmasked: The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Diagnosis
By Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen. 2025
Why our fascination with psychopaths is scientifically wrongheaded, and how the criminal justice system has misused the controversial science of…
psychopathy.Psychopathy is a widely acknowledged personality disorder associated with callous unemotional traits and antisocial behaviors. Psychopathic persons are described as dangerous predators incapable of empathy and moral intuition, and while they are believed to make up only around 1 percent of the general population, forensic experts claim they are disproportionately responsible for the majority of violent crimes. Today, psychopathy assessments are being widely used in the legal system to inform a variety of judicial decisions. In Psychopathy Unmasked, Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen provides a critical rebuttal of psychopathy and its legal use, scrutinizing central claims about the diagnosis that have traditionally served to justify its role in the criminal justice system.It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of offenders undergo a psychopathy assessment each year in North America. This book surveys and discusses contemporary developments in psychopathy research where studies have consistently shown that psychopathic persons, contrary to mainstream beliefs, are not meaningfully more dangerous than, or psychologically different from, ordinary non-psychopathic criminals. Based on these disqualifying findings, Larsen argues that we should end the use of psychopathy assessments in the legal system.
Nadja
By André Breton. 2025
A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is…
at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surrealism of everyday life.In Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, "in Russian it's the beginning of the word for hope, and because it's only the beginning." Their love affair was brief, intense, and intensely self-conscious. They both talked exuberantly of the book that Breton would make out of their days and nights. And indeed a year later (after Nadja was institutionalized and Breton had moved on to other love affairs) he began to write Nadja—a book of memory and analysis taking its cue in part from Freud's case studies, but also a book of ingeniously intercut images, drawing on Surrealist ideas to portray a soul whose very way of being approaches, in Breton's words, "the extreme limit of the Surrealist aspiration."In this, the first new translation of Nadja in more than sixty years, Mark Polizzotti captures the youthful excitement, the abiding strangeness, and above all the freshness of Breton's prose. He also provides an illuminating introduction about the fate of the real Nadja, whose identity remained jealously guarded until the twenty-first century.A gripping tale of infatuation and a meditation on the surrealism of everyday life, Nadja is still a thing of convulsive beauty, impossible to pin or put down, a precursor to works of Julien Gracq, Julio Cortázar, and W.G. Sebald.This edition of Nadja contains 44 images, which Breton &“conceived from the outset as an integral element of the narrative," as Mark Polizzotti writes in his introduction.
The Royal Free: A Novel
By Carl Shuker. 2025
An exuberant dark comedy about dying young, parenting through grief, and the full-on hilarity of copyediting a medical journal while…
the city around you burnsJames Ballard is a recently widowed father to a baby daughter. And he is a copy editor tasked with saving the Royal London Journal of Medicine from the mistakes no one else notices—misplaced apostrophes, Freudian misspellings, the wrong influenza strain. This job is utterly boring but—he tells himself—totally crucial. The Royal London is a stronghold of care for the human body and a bastion of humanism in a disintegrating world. In London, outside the office, the prognosis for the body politic is grim: there are riots in the streets. While attempting to balance a six-month-old baby, his grief, and his work with a cast of mad and lovably eccentric medical editors, he finds himself the target of a violent gang of North London teenagers.Equal parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller, and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is vastly entertaining while also offering a lament for the unbearable, nearly unspeakable nature of a death that comes too soon.
The Unexpected Consequence of Bleeding on a Tuesday
By Kelsey B. Toney. 2025
Delia Bridges is striving to become the compassionate doctor she's been unable to find in her journey to diagnose her…
excruciating period pain--but when a single rule-breaking incident jeopardizes her future, she must find a way to reclaim her dreams in this funny, period-positive novel.High school senior Delia Bridges has the most amazing mom and sister, a killer GPA--and periods that are so painful they make her scream, pass out, and throw up. Though she doesn't know it yet, Delia has endometriosis, an affliction plaguing millions of people that is notoriously difficult to diagnose.Pain makes everything harder, but Delia is just one semester away from graduating from Stockwood Prep and pursuing her dream of becoming the kind of doctor she's never had: one who takes her symptoms seriously. But when she breaks a rule for the first time ever and is caught using marijuana at school to manage her pain, Delia is expelled.Her expulsion jeopardizes her college acceptance, her planned mentorship, and everything she had carefully planned for years. Without her academic success and no closer to a diagnosis, is Delia anything more than her period?This epic journey of scientific discovery starts in ancient times and travels through centuries of invention before fast forwarding into…
the future. From simple machines to modern-day marvels, you’ll follow incredible illustrated timelines that plot the entire history of science and highlight the most momentous discoveries. A jaw-dropping collection of more than 1,500 photographs, illustrations, maps, and graphics charts the evolution of science year by year, century by century.?? You’ll meet influential inventors and famous faces from the past, including Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, and Stephen Hawking. You’ll visit places of scientific importance, such as prehistoric cave art, Stonehenge, Hiroshima and the first atomic bomb, the Moon landings, and the Higgs boson particle. These huge events are made simple thanks to eye-catching images, helpful timelines, and accessible, informative text.?? Landmark people and periods are combined in this one stunning volume for children, showcasing the ideas, experiments, and technologies that have shaped our daily lives and transformed the world today.?? Aspiring scientists, get ready for a time traveling trip like no other.