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Human Resource Excellence
An Assessment of Strategies and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change. Human Resource Excellence delivers the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to today's organizations. Tracing changes in a global sample of firms across the US,...
by John F. Hogan, Judy E. Brady
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In 1855, when Chicago's recently elected mayor Levi Boone pushed through a law forbidding the sale of alcohol on Sunday, the city pushed back. To the German community, the move seemed a deliberate provocation from Boone's stridently anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party. Beer formed the centerpiece of German...
by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...
by Edith Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, Nisi Shawl
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Dragons have inflamed our hearts and imagination for centuries, making them some of our most enduring heroes and villains. Who hasn’t dreamed of finding a dragon’s hoard and matching wits with the fantastical creature with everything on the line? These seventeen stories will delight and entertain...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
by John Gwynne, Gail Z Martin, Julia Knight
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
SOMETIMES THE JOURNEY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE DESTINATION.
A stone from the stars rips a royal family apart, in a new tale from the banished lands. Weary hero Cam rides to the aid of his dying king, bearing the elixir that may save him. A party of reluctant adventurers pursues a troll across...
by Fiction River, Felicia Fredlund, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
History offers many heroic tales of final battles. And in Last Stand, sixteen courageous authors offer their take on the topic. From a heartwarming tale of not-so-friendly business competition to a battle of the gods—sort of—for the fate of the world to a tale of looking for love in all the wrong...
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 79 (April 2019)
Nightmare Magazine, #79
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Our first new original short is from Mari Ness: "The Girl and the House." It's a...
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 104 (January 2019)
Lightspeed Magazine, #104
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
by William Morrison, Betsy Curtis, Ross Rocklynne
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The incredibly amazing 9th volume of Golden Age Science Fiction! Featuring: The Protector, by Betsy Curtis Jaywalker, by Ross Rocklynne Picture Bride, by William Morrison Two Weeks in August, by Frank Robinson Queen of the Flaming Diamond, by Leroy Yerxa< No Shield from the Dead, by Gordon Dickson...
by John Joseph Adams, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Lynda E. Rucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
This month, we have original fiction from Jessica Amanda Salmonson ("The Garbage Doll") and...
by Captain A. E. Dingle, G.F. Forrest, Bret Harte
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Long before Sherlock Holmes entered the public domain as a character, a few dedicated authors "borrowed" Holmes and Watson without permission for their own work. Here are 5 classic early (and completely unauthorized) tales featuring the world's greatest detective (sometimes under not-so-cunningly disguised...
The Complete Popular Children Fantasy Magic Books Anthologies (27 in 1)
Kidnapped Black Beauty Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pinocchio Little Lord Fauntleroy Legends of King Arthur and His Knights A Little Princess Pollyanna Voyages Story of Dr. Doctor Dolittle Moonfleet Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels Andersen's
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This is a perfect collection for a long journey, rainy days, or for any quiet moments. This wonderful collection of books will bring adults back to their childhoods and create many happy memories for middle and young adult readers. These classics include books of adventure, animals, family life, fantasy...
by Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, E. Phillips Oppenheim
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
An anthology of seven classic spy novels with an active table of contents."The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad"The Thirty-Nine Steps" by John Buchan"Great Impersonation" by E. Phillips Oppenheim"The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Emmuska Orczy"Sant of the Secret Service" by William Le Queux"The Spy" by James Fenimore Cooper"Kim" by Rudyard Kipling