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An important part of every manager's job is changing people's behavior: to improve someone's performance, get them to better manage relationships with colleagues, or to stop them doing something. Yet, despite the fact that changing people's behavior is such an important skill for managers, too many...

What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries? Looking...

This text contains the seven ‘inner’ chapters of a collection of works known as The Zhuangzi, the title being the name of the author: Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). Alongside the Tao Te Ching, The Zhuangzi is considered a fundamental text of the Taoist tradition. The English text has been translated from the French.

Idea generation is arguably the most vital part of the advertising process - and can be the most demanding. This book provides an essential introduction to the process of generating creative advertising ideas and concepts, and looks at the various obstacles that can stop ideas from forming - before...

In a unique volume, Contested Futures brings together a group of scholars to examine the relationships between social action and the future. Rather than speculating upon what the future might bring, the volume interrogates the metaphors and practices through which the future is mobilized as an object...

Dorminitas Shortstories consists of four stories about everyday life. The stories are about real life issues with family and friends. Family Bond is about a family that have their up and downs. When a tough time comes, the family will have to pull it together and overcome Move Mountain...

The Origins Game Fair is proud and pleased to present Mystery!, our 2018 fiction anthology. The collection features stories by authors in the convention's Library program. This collection brings together fourteen tales of mystery set across genres, in a legion of times and places. Each author...

“Gene the Hackman, top dog, him done the great Walk Around. Not for him the darkness, not for him the Time of Ice that we know today.” Evelyn War is a Believer. She knows that in the Old Time, long before the Time of Ice, the Masters fought a war with Them, great chitinous beasts that stalked...

The weirdest stories you will ever read. A bizarre collection of short stories, each featuring a character with an unusual superpower. Meet The Photocopier, a woman who can reproduce herself at will and who attempts to teach her daughter to do the same. Or the zombie hairdresser who is able to reanimate...

New York City is in the grip of a bad-moon heat wave, with the street-corner preachers running amok. Into the fray, four damaged lives come together at a pet store on the Upper West Side, each one consumed by a private hunger and driven toward an inevitable fate. 304 pp. 15,000 print.

When freedom is brutally withheld, the people have no choice but to rise up, in this post-apocalyptic science fiction sequel to The Rebellion’s Last Traitor Overthrowing the tyrannical Tathadann government should have been cause for celebration. But as Eitan City announces its independence,...

Viví las aventuras más sorprendentes de la mano de Gaturro. Decidí cómo resolverá los desafíos y acompañalo a enfrentar grandes retos. Varios finales te esperan para que puedas ser el verdadero protagonista de esta serie. La aventura transcurre en el parque de diversiones que abren en...

Una nueva serie con Gaturro como protagonista. Humor y aventuras para rescatar a Ágatha de un terrible hechizo. Una noche, Gaturro escucha la llamada desesperada de Ágatha, la gata de sus sueños, y se mete en la alcantarilla para buscarla. La búsqueda lo lleva hasta una isla encantada,...

El quinto título de esta nueva serie con Gaturro como protagonista. Humor y aventuras para los valientes que se atreven a acompañar a Gaturro en un viaje en crucero y debajo del mar. Un viernes muy atípico en la oficina del padre, la empresa decide realizar una extraña competencia: el que...