This is the third novel in the Mike Gold Mystery Series. When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike Gold's plans for an IPO falter, his old college buddy Stew King calls out of the blue with a great offer to buy Mike's company. They meet for a quiet weekend at Mike's Napa Valley winery to negotiate the sale. But this is hardly an ordinary business deal. Mike soon discovers that the White House is behind it, the Chinese want to scuttle it, and the ecology of a million square miles of ocean may be at stake. Then the body of a beautiful, seductive woman is found in the vineyard and Mike is arrested for her murder. With his freedom and maybe his life at risk, Mike uses all his resources to try to discover who framed him and why. When he gets too close to the answer, his beloved Lisa is kidnapped to lure him to a life or death showdown with ruthless killers.
Protect your crown jewels. Attack theirs. How do companies like Microsoft, Google and IBM protect themselves against strategic competitive threats and grow their revenue and profit at the same time? In this groundbreaking book, Silicon Valley veteran Phil Bookman reveals the strategy they use to divert their competitor's resources away from the product that threatens them. This book introduces the Strategic Competitive Defense Planning Process. Step-by-step instructions walk you through assessing competitive threats, selecting the ones to focus on strategically, and planning defenses against them. Worksheets and a case study help guide you through the process. Highlights include: The three key factors that determine which competitive threats are truly strategic. How to defend your strategy and build a new growth line of business. How to get another company to defend your strategy. How to protect your strategy with almost no investment. The eleven steps to assuring attack success.
Software entrepreneur Mike Mike Gold has to unravel a murder mystery involving his best friends, events from his childhood, mysterious women and retired mobsters.
A wealthy tech entrepreneur and his pregnant wife are butchered in their penthouse suite in Cancun. A divorced suburban mom has her head bashed in at night in the parking lot of a San Jose bar. A troubled young man who had come home to bury his elderly parents who had been found submerged in their car in a Silicon Valley reservoir, dies of a drug overdose in a seedy Oakland motel. A beautiful, successful young woman plunges to her death on a remote Maui beach. A public health nurse is discovered dead in the trunk of a car at San Jose Airport. As private investigator Joe Brink becomes tangled in this murderous web, an unlikely ally emerges, and they find themselves in a desperate a race against death itself.
When sales superstar Bobby Bradshaw fails to close four big deals in the last week of the quarter, he is outraged. One deal he could understand. But four? No way. That just doesn't happen to the Rainmaker. Bobby is convinced the deals were sabotaged, each in a different way. But who would do such a thing? And why? To get some answers, Bobby hires private detective Joe Brink.The last thing Jessica Kraft, Bobby's CEO at software giant Forward Data Systems, needs is a sales shortfall. She's just taken over for venerable Eli Applewhite, whose death allowed Kraft to finally move into the top position she long coveted. Now she must prove to the board that she's up to the job. But Kraft must first fend off infamous corporate raider Damon Remington. And Remington is sure to pounce on the sales miss as proof that he should be allowed to take over the company and put a new management team in charge. Even after several attempts on Remington's life, his specter looms over Kraft.What starts out for Joe Brink as a case undertaken to soothe Bobby Bradshaw's bruised ego soon exposes a web of villainy that includes multiple murders. And Joe may just become the next victim.
Silicon Valley billionaire Mike Gold has an audacious idea: Provide everyone on Earth cheap, clean energy by beaming solar power from the Moon. The GLEE Trilogy tells the story of how that dream became a reality. It is a story of deadly conflict on Earth and on the Moon, with the future of our planet and our species at stake. The novels in the GLEE Trilogy are part of the Mike Gold Mystery Series. The trilogy can be read separately from the other books in the series. They can also be purchased individually in paperback and Kindle editions. Gold Jihad-2016: Mike Gold faces powerful enemies at home and abroad determined to do whatever it takes to stop his new company, Global Lunar Electrical Energy (GLEE). And that includes murder. Gold Moonshot-2022: As GLEE begins sending solar power to Earth from the Moon, the Russian Tsar is determined to force Mike Gold and GLEE to submit to his scheme for world domination. Santa's Village-2025: GLEE provides 85% of Earth's electricity but faces new threats. A scientist is murdered at the Moon's north pole and the chief of an obscure African tribe launches a rocket attack against the Moon.
This volume helps designers to recognize and identify typefaces seen and used on an everyday basis, and also provides assistance with the process of typeface selection. It highlights the essential characteristics of over 700 typeface specimens.
The first book in the Dr. Dee series of Tudor thrillers, about the astrologer royal to Queen Elizabeth I—a brew of compelling storytelling, devious politics, witchcraft, and necromantic arts It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year. Dr John Dee, at 32 already acclaimed throughout Europe, is her astrologer and consultant in the hidden arts—a controversial appointment in these days of superstition and religious strife. Now the mild, bookish Dee has been sent to Glastonbury to find the missing bones of King Arthur, whose legacy was always so important to the Tudor line. With him is hardly the safest companion—his friend and former student, Robert Dudley, a risk-taker, a wild card, and possibly the Queen's secret lover. The famously mystical town is still mourning the gruesome execution of its Abbot, Richard Whiting. But why was the Abbot really killed? What is the secret held by the monks since the Abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea, uncle of Christ and guardian of the Holy Grail? The mission takes Dee to the tangled roots of English magic, into unexpected violence, necromantic darkness, the breathless stirring of first love, and the cold heart of a complex plot against Elizabeth.
The Port Vale Miscellany – a book on the Valiants like no other, packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories and legends. Port Vale Football Club – the name gives no clue to its whereabouts, but this book tells all of the highs, lows and downright strange happenings at a club that has been in existence in the Potteries for over 130 years. From an FA Cup semi-final to expulsion from the league, from three Wembley appearances to a ten-goal home defeat when the goalkeeper lost his glasses in the mud, it’s all here. Classic giant-killings, the man who played for both teams in the same game, going into administration, famous fans such as Robbie Williams and Phil Taylor, they all have a story to tell. The record wins, defeats, attendances and plenty of facts about the club are listed in great detail, plus the answer to many questions such as what links David Beckham and Bobby Charlton to Port Vale?
Tudor intrigue, murder, and the dark arts—the second in a stunning and acclaimed historical series starring Dr. John Dee, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom All talk is of the End-time, and the dead are rising. At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumor shrouds the death of the one woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth. Did Dudley's wife, Amy, die from an accidental fall in a deserted house, or was it murder? Even Dr. John Dee, astrologer royal, adviser on the Hidden, and one of Dudley's oldest friends, is uncertain. Then a rash promise to the Queen sends him to his family's old home on the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone, a crystal credited with supernatural properties. With Dee goes Robert Dudley, considered the most hated man in England. They travel with a London judge sent to try a sinister Welsh brigand with a legacy dating back to the Battle of Brynglas. After the battle, many of the English bodies were, according to legend, obscenely mutilated. Now, on the same haunted hill, another dead man has been found, similarly slashed. Devious politics, small-town corruption, twisted religion, and a brooding superstition leave John Dee isolated in the land of his father.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “I love the life these tools have allowed me to have.”—JONAH HILL, director of Stutz Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools—from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz, directed by Jonah Hill. “These tools are emotional game changers. They do nothing less than deliver you to your best and most powerful self.”—Kathy Freston, author of Quantum Wellness The Tools offers a solution to the biggest complaint patients have about therapy: the interminable wait for change to begin. The traditional therapeutic model sets its sights on the past, but psychiatrist Phil Stutz and psychotherapist Barry Michels employ an arsenal of techniques—“the tools”—that allow patients to use their problems as levers that access the power of the unconscious and propel them into action. Suddenly, through this transformative approach, obstacles become new chances—to find courage, embrace discipline, develop self-expression, deepen creativity. A dynamic, results-oriented practice, The Tools aims to deliver relief from persistent problems and restore control and hope right away. Every day presents challenges—big and small—that the tools transform into opportunities to bring about bold and dramatic change in your life. Stutz and Michels teach you how to: • Get Unstuck: Master the things you are avoiding and live in forward motion. • Control Anger: Free yourself from out-of-control rage and never-ending grudges. • Express Yourself: Learn the secret of true confidence and find your authentic voice. • Combat Anxiety: Stop obsessive worrying and negative thinking. • Find Discipline: Activate willpower and make the most of every minute. With The Tools, Stutz and Michels allow you to realize the full range of your potential. Their goal is nothing less than for your life to become exceptional—exceptional in its resiliency, in its experience of real happiness, and in its understanding of the human spirit.
Interrupting My Train of Thought collects thirty years of writing about pop music, movies, baseball, teaching, and a couple of presidential elections. It exists somewhere close to the intersection between criticism, autobiography, and rambling.
Let Your Soul Evolve, Spiritual Growth for the New Millennium, is a book authored by Phil Diaz and P.D. Alleva, that explores the world of human and spiritual potential. Using their own works along with chapters by contributing authors, the book guides the reader on a journey of personal growth in perception and belief systems. The reader is presented with precepts and writings that provide a new insights and perspectives on spirituality, healing and our inner world as spiritual beings. "This book uses the wisdom of the ages, our present day knowledge on healing and the mysteries of quantum mechanics to open up a new age of therapeutic practice. This book is meant to empower all of us to become the creation beings we really are. The book shows us how to rediscover our real powers for creation and transformation. Quantum mechanics are proof of what the majority of us have forgotten, we are all angels that have unimaginable abilities--all we have to do is remember how to use them." - Phil Diaz "We have now come to the Age of Aquarius, the celestial cosmic turning of the dawn of a new consciousness. This is thought evolution, spiritual evolution. We are soldiers in a spiritual war and we must choose which side we will make a stand with. Crazy as it sounds, we are choosing a battle between our spirit and our brain, for this is a battle that is won from within, through the actions of the heart, by finding balance." - P. D. Alleva Keywords: Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Alternative Healing, Energy Healing, Psychology, Addiction Therapy, Trauma Therapy, Quantum Energy, Spiritual Growth Therapy, Manifestation
CONTENTS: Part 1 - Successful Seminar Selling - How To Plan, Prepare and Market Your Events 1.1 Problems Facing Small Businesses 1.2 The Need to Change and Adapt 1.3 The Benefits of Seminar selling 1.4 Planning Your Seminars and Workshops 1.5 The Golden Rules of Marketing Your Seminars 1.6 Offline and online marketing and promotion 1.7 How to Dramatically Increase Your Profits from Seminars 1.8 How to Create Information-Based Products - Quickly Part 2 - Getting Your Business Message Across with Impact, Power and Authority 2.1 Presentation is Everything 2.2 Confidence 2.3 Clarity 2.4 Conviction 2.5 Connection Part 3 - What Happens Next? 3.1 Getting Feedback 3.2 Following Up Afterwards to Maximize Sales and Profits. Some Final Thoughts.
The Rough Guide to Canada is the ultimate guide to this vast and varied land. Now in full colour throughout, this travel guide features clear maps, suggested itineraries and regional highlights. With plenty of recommendations for hotels, restaurants, cafés and bars, from Toronto and Montréal to Vancouver, and from the east coast to the far north, you'll discover all the best this country has to offer. The guide is packed full of practical advice on exploring Canada's great outdoors, from hiking or skiing in the Rockies to canoeing through British Columbia's lakes, and from whale watching to looking out for grizzly bears. Whether you're camping in one of the many beautiful national parks, heli-skiing in the mountains or going in search of the northern lights, this book will give you all the practical advice you need for an amazing adventure. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Canada. Now available in ePub format.
This book offers comfort and psychoeducation to readers as well as psychological explanation of concepts to mental health and medical professionals. The importance of understanding how disease, illness, and health affect our emotional and mental wellbeing cannot be understated. The book is divided into four sections: a description of illness anxiety and its diagnostic criteria; coping strategies for managing illness-related anxiety; a section describing how patients heal from Illness Anxiety Disorder; and a section containing practical exercises, meditations, and activities. This book is a relevant resource that will highlight an underrepresented area of psychological literature.
Why coincidences happen and what they mean has long been an object of fascination. Here, Cousineau collects episodes of chance that defy explanation from the lives of real people. The author shows that recognizing synchronicity creates a deeper appreciation for the bonds that connect our lives.
Forty years of collaboration in research and writing with Roger G. Barker have uniquely qualified the author to revise Barker's classic Ecological Psychology: Concepts and Methods for Studying the Environment of Human Behavior (1968). The author's primary goal has been to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive description of behavior setting theory and method with sufficient detail and illustration to guide new research applications. Barker's presentation of theory and method has been preserved except where changes were required to reflect the advances reported in Barker and Schoggen's Qualities of Community Life (1973). The lengthy report in Ecological Psychology of empirical findings from the study of behavior settings the town of Midwest has been replaced by extensive summaries of the currently available reports of research applications of behavior setting theory. Four new chapters have been added: a chapter be economist Karl A. Fox on the use of behavior settings in social system accounting, an article by Barker on behavior settings that have figured prominently in his career, a chapter that discusses behavior settings in relation to a number of other concepts in social science and the field of environment and behavior, and a final chapter on the need for an eco-behavioral science taken from two papers by Barker.
Providing an essential grounding for both students and professionals, this text takes readers through every aspect of typography, from the history of language and writing systems to the invention of moveable type and the evolution of the digital systems of today.
Seriousness about holy living is one thing. Seriousness in holy living is quite another. Two words rarely snuggled together in the same phrase are hilarity and Holiness. Yet, author Phil Needham challenges us to explore the joyful nature of God and take a look at the manifestations of His unique sense of humor, both here on earth and in heaven. Allow the holy God who created laughter and love to teach you how to embrace and reflect the exceptional nature of joy. Paper.
A filmographic and bibliographic guide to the screen adaptations of the story of Carmen. 'Carmen' on Screen is a filmographic and bibliographic guide for scholars interested in the different versions of the story of Carmen in film since her original appearance in Mérimée's novella and its operatic adaptation byBizet. With over 110 screen versions between 1894 and 2005, it is the most adapted narrative in film. The volume offers: chronological listings of 82 feature films with credits and annotations of scholarly articles, selected citations of reviews and news articles, and listings of more general works on film adaptations of opera; works on the novella or on the opera; and, finally, lists of works on the 12 major female and 8 major male stars in the 82feature films. ANN DAVIES lectures in Spanish Studies and Film at the University of Newcastle; PHIL POWRIE is Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle.
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