After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels. Guarding the corrupt governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfect mission, especially as it's going to be his last as a CHERUB agent. And then retired colleague Kyle Blueman comes up with an unofficial and highly dangerous plan of his own. James must choose between loyalty to CHERUB, and loyalty to his oldest friend. For official purposes, these children do not exist. And now: a new cover look for this number one bestselling series!
Dr Brizendine uncovers the uniquely flexible structure of the female brain, and reveals how women think, what they value and how they communicate. Based on three decades of research, it will help women better understand themselves, and men.
In a land where Kings still rule, I am a Princess. You must know me only as Sultana, for I cannot reveal my true name for fear that harm will come to me and my family for what I am about to tell you. Think of a Saudi Arabian princess and what do you see? A woman glittering with jewels, living a life of unbelievable luxury. She has gold, palaces, swimming-pools, servants, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind the veil, she is a prisoner, her jailers her father, her husband, her sons. 'Sultana' is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the King. For the sake of her daughters, she decided that it was time for a woman in her position to speak out about the reality of life for women in her country, whatever their rank. She tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage - a happy one, until her husband decided to take a second wife - and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants.In contrast to the affection and easy camaraderie amongst the women, she relates a history of appalling oppression against them, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: forced marriages, servants bullied into sex slavery, summary executions. Princess is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and great courage. By speaking out, 'Sultana' risked bringing the wrath of the Saudi establishment upon her head and upon the heads of her children. For this reason, she told her story anonymously.
Claude is no ordinary dog - he leads an extraordinary life! When Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes set off for work, Claude decides what adventure he wants to have that day. Today he and Sir Bobblysock go to the city for the very first time. The have tea in a cafe, go shopping and visit a museum. It is all very normal until...Claude accidentally foils a robbery and becomes the local hero! Claude in the City has also been selected for the Richard and Judy Children's Book Club 2011.
You'd better not tickle the puppy... because it just might bark if you do! Combining touchy-feely patches with sounds, this book is full of surprises for babies and toddlers to discover. As well as the puppy, there's a kitten, a guinea pig and a chinchilla to tickle, before all the pets get noisy together in the irresistible musical finale.With over 20 books to discover in this award-winning series, there is a book to excite every baby and toddler; including dinosaurs, bears, tigers, unicorns and lots more - giggles are guaranteed! Every DON'T TICKLE book supports sensory development with:- Engaging characters to encourage playfulness - Furry patches for developing motor skills- Playful music to inspire movement- Holes to peep through, sparking curiosity - Rhythmic text for developing language
Greenwich, south-east London. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery - young, driven, unshockable - is called to one of the most gruesome crime scenes he has ever seen. Five young women have been ritualistically murdered and dumped on wasteland near the Dome. Subsequent post-mortems reveal a singular, horrific signature linking the victims. Soon Caffery realises that he is on the trail of that most dangerous offender: a serial killer. Beset by animosity within the police force, haunted by the memory of a very personal death long ago, Caffery employs every weapon forensic science can offer to hunt him down. Because he knows that it is only a matter of time before this sadistic killer strikes again ...
The victim has been bound and tortured, the body decomposed beyond recognition...A second body is found. A nightmare is about to begin...A serial killer is at work and the death toll is rising...A brutal abduction - a helpless victim is taken...And for forensics expert David Hunter, it's become a terrifying race against time.
He is watching you. He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your killer. He is about to get away with the perfect murder ...
Subtitled, }Unlocking The Secret & Science Of Happiness{. The Tibetan Buddhist master brings together ancient Buddhist wisdom with the latest developments in Western medicine.
Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully written and well observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong shortly after the Secong World War.
Tokyo, 1990. Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that it does, and that it lies hidden - somewhere in Tokyo. Alone in an alien city, Grey becomes a hostess in an exclusive club catering for Japanese businessmen - and gangsters. One gangster dominates - an old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage - who is rumoured to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued health. It is an elixir that others want - at any price ...With its focus on 1990's Tokyo and Nanking in 1937, The Devil of Nanking is a literary thriller of the highest order. With its heady atmosphere of overt violence, lurking fear and sexual tension, this is a novel that takes hold of the reader and does not let go until its explosive final pages.
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With a foreword by McLaren CEO Zak Brown and written with inside access, this is the real-time, unfolding story of one of F1’s greatest ever teams, as they rise back up from oblivion. Few names in motorsports carry the same authority as McLaren and, with their remarkable victory in the 2024 constructors championship, they are now returning to form in a spectacular way under the leadership of Zak Brown. Going into 2023, Brown’s team were the second slowest on the grid, only to end it as arguably the second fastest, after a dramatic mid-season turnaround.In 2024, their driver Lando Norris achieved his first ever Grand Prix win in Miami, and McLaren fiercely competed for podiums against Ferrari and Red Bull. Zak Brown took over a failing team from Ron Dennis in 2018, and his strategic vision is now seeing results. McLaren are on the rise again, looking to a future that will echo its hallowed past and legendary drivers James Hunt, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna and Lewis Hamilton.With access to the team's inner sanctum, this exhilarating account delves deep into McLaren’s history, revealing how their rich heritage forms the core of their identity today, before taking us behind the scenes to give us the inside track on their extraordinary resurgence. Guided by the motto motto 'Forever Forward’, McLaren has a tradition of coming back from adversity time and time again to take the chequered flag against all the odds. Here they go again.
SHE WON'T GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT It's not every day you up sticks and move to another world. But then, Zoe Boutin-Perry's life has never been ordinary. She's the adopted teenage daughter of two former super-soldiers. She's also a holy icon to a race of alien warriors who track her every move. So she's used to the quirks of being a human in space. However, this time something's different. Betrayed by the authorities, Zoe, her parents and her fellow colonists find themselves stranded on a deadly pioneer planet. The Colonial Union has also set them up as a target for hostile alien action. Zoe must become a player (and a pawn) in an interstellar battle to determine the fate of humanity - or see it fall. Her father's story was told in The Last Colony, but Zoe's tale reveals a whole new dimension. It's a story you may know, but you don't really know it at all.
Off-grid: a place, building or person without mains water or power. Static or mobile - in a house or a hut, a boat or a camper van - to live off-grid is all about loosending the ties that bind us to teh fmailiar world of commuting, mortgages, no time and fast food, in order to rediscover our place in the natural world. Complete with camper van, Nick sets off around the UK to find off-grid heaven and meet people who are living the dream. Along the way he runs into backpackers and businessmen, radical hermits and right-wing survivalists - and plenty of ordinary working-parent families too. Sincere but irreverent, this is Nick's guide to avoiding pitfalls, to finding solutions (and some brilliant gadgets) as he strives to perfect the skills of this practical, freewheeling kind of self-sufficiency. 'Timely and highly readable' Sunday Telegraph ' Nick Rosen has caught the zeitgeist.' The Times
He came from the wrong social class, the wrong place and the wrong profession. He ate with the wrong people, championed the wrong causes and attracted the wrong kind of supporters. He even spoke with the wrong accent. In fact everything about Jesus of Nazareth was wrong. How could this odd-job man be God's Messiah?To the authorities he was a dangerous rebel; to the pious he was scandalously unorthodox. Even his family thought he was mad. But somehow this builder from 'up north' - this outrageous, unorthodox, rebellious teacher and miracle worker - changed the world.In this illuminating new biography, Nick Page strips away centuries of misrepresentation and myth to reveal the real personality portrayed in the gospels. Drawing on a wealth of historical and archaeological research, the result is a startling and vivid new portrait of Yeshua ben Yosef - Jesus of Nazareth.Challenging and thought-provoking, THE WRONG MESSIAH will change the way you view Jesus: the man who in so many ways seemed utterly wrong, but who history has proved triumphantly to be right.
Während einer Rede zu Ehren ihres kürzlich verstorbenen Vatera, wurde Siri Hustvedt von einem Anfall erschüttert: zitternde Beine, um sich schlagende Arme , doch trotzdem war sie in der Lage, mit klarer Stimme ihre Rede zu beenden. Auf der Suche nach den Gründen für die wiederkehrenden Attacken, stieß sie auf eine interdisziplinäre Gruppe von Wissenschaftlern, die die Idee der Neuropsychoanalyse entwickelten. Hustvedt erhellt in diesem autobiographischen Buch die Fragen nach der Beziehung zwischen Körper und Geist.While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or something else entirely?§In this profound, thought-provoking and revealing book, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience and medical history in search of a diagnosis. Conveying the often frightening experience of illness, she illuminates the perennially mysterious connection between mind and body and what we mean by 'I'.
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'A delight.' - Irish Times 'A pitch-perfect Golden Age mystery . . . a gem of a period puzzle' - Financial Times Thirty years ago, Lord Peter Wimsey encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of Lord Attenbury's magnificent gem made headlines - and launched the shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Now it is 1951: a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Then the new Lord Attenbury - the grandson of Lord Peter's first client - seeks his help again, this time to prove who owns the gigantic emerald that Wimsey last saw in 1921. It will be the most intricate and challenging mystery he has ever faced . . . Autorid: Jill Paton Walsh
"This Third Edition of the bestselling book on organization design adds 50% new content to result in the most complete book on organization design currently available. Additions and updates encompass business unit organization, enterprise organization design, standard portfolio strategy, standard functional, divisional, and holding company structures, value-adding conglomerates, and designing global organizations. This new coverage makes this reference, a mainstay both for business education and working professionals, better than ever"-- Praise for DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONSJay Galbraith is the preeminent thought leader in the design and implementation of the organizations necessary to compete at the edge in complex business environments. In Designing Organizations, his many decades of insight and experience are synthesized into a navigation tool of high value to the C-suite.Vincent Roche, president and chief executive officer, Analog Devices Inc.At a time when organizations across the globe are evaluating how best to address a fast-changing world, Jays experience and insights will provide sure-footed guidance. His fresh look at organizational adaptation provides great counsel to leaders in uncertain times.George S. Barrett, chairman and CEO, Cardinal HealthJay Galbraith is without a doubt the worlds leading expert on organization design. His Designing Organizations represents profound and up-to-the-minute advice on grappling with the organizational challenges facing todays managers as they struggle to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. We heartily recommend the book to practitioners and scholars alike.Danny Miller, chair in strategy and family business, HEC Montreal and University of Alberta, and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, chair in succession and family enterprise, HEC Montreal; senior research fellow, University of AlbertaJays ideas have been very helpful in stimulating my thinking and getting me to examine simple and complex structures that enhance culture and behavior.Al Grasso, CEO, The MITRE CorporationWith its decidedly strategic perspective, the third edition of Jay Galbraiths Designing Organizations is an outstanding resource for students of organization as well as executives facing complex organizational challenges. The book provides a systematic approach to designing organizations, in which Galbraith builds on his own past work and updates it to address todays rapidly changing organizational environments. Galbraith combines powerful understanding of organizational theory with decades of practical experience to provide a framework for organizational design that can truly help executives reach their strategic goals.Judith Blumenthal, professor of clinical management and organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Autorid: Jay R. Galbraith
THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL GOD is the first book in the Apprentice Series, which along with three other titles forms 'a curriculum for Christlikeness'. THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL GOD focuses on the character of God and how we can move into a life of intimacy with him. What we believe about God is of huge importance to our lives: the path to spiritual transformation begins here. Each chapter uncovers the narratives by which Jesus lived, and includes a 'soul-training' exercise to help embed this narrative into our minds, bodies and souls. Each chapter also includes questions that can be used for individual reflection or group discussion. Autorid: James Bryan Smith, James Bryan Smith
