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A rogue nuclear Russian submarine is steaming toward the East Coast of the United States. For President Jack Ryan, memories of past events may seem stunningly vivid, but the dangers are terrifyingly real in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. US intelligence is...

In Unrigged, Jeffrey Simmons reveals how these outdated rules are quietly destroying men’s relationships, health, and happiness—and how real strength has nothing to do with constant performance. Instead, it’s about cultivating what he calls stealth strength: the quiet, authentic confidence that earns respect without the mask, the competition, or the burnout.

Multiple Shingo Award-winning management and operations expert Jeffrey K. Liker provides a deep dive into Toyota's world-changing processes, showing how you can learn from it to develop your own improvement program that fits your conditions. Thanks in large part to this book, managers across the globe are creating workforces and systems that produce the highest-quality products and services, establish and retain customer loyalty, and drive business profitability and sustainability.  

Agent Cara Cruz is sworn to protect society from beings of myth and magic. She goes after her targets with relentless determination and a heavy dose of snark. Despite her unconventional methods, the results are among the best in her agency.

Eva Dasher is a rising star at Double Vision Labs, a Hollywood think tank that secretly doubles as one of the CIA’s most effective predictive units. By day, she and her team of Dream Makers spin cinematic scenarios for film and television. By night, those same stories may be shaping covert operations around the globe. But when Eva returns from a trip to find her colleagues slaughtered and her fiancé vanished, fantasy crashes into reality.

When he meets a strangely dressed man on the bus, he stops worrying about his grandmother, who’s in the hospital, and starts questioning his own mental health. Apparently no one else can see the strange guy. Which must mean he’s not really there. Except there he is always hanging around, all day long. And for days in a row.

An all-new recording of the landmark #1 bestseller! In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America’s fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a...

Listening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the foundation for living well.” In this volume, Jeffrey Beneker presents a vivid and accessible new translation of Plutarch’s classic essay about how to become a skilled listener, complete with an inviting introduction.

This compelling history examines the closing months of the vital campaign which ultimately determined the successful conclusion of the Pacific War for the Allies. But it had not been a smooth process. The campaign continued in fits and starts with both the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy making crucial errors. But as the pendulum of war swung, there was one distinct advantage to the Allies. This was the successful efforts by the United States Army Signals Intelligence Section and the Navy Communication Special Unit to monitor, intercept, decode and translate Japanese messages.

Mafia Hits, Misses, Wars, and Prosecutions is about pivotal events that changed the way the Italian American Mafia has done business since its establishment in the United States. This book covers the murders and wars that ended the careers of Mafia bosses from the Five Families and the prosecutors who built successful political careers following noteworthy mob convictions for ambitious prosecutors like Thomas Dewey, Robert F. Kennedy, and Rudolph Giuliani.

In 1896, Sigmund Freud presented his revolutionary “seduction theory,” arguing that childhood sexual abuse directly caused adult mental illness. Just nine years later, he completely reversed this stance, insisting these traumatic memories were mere fantasies. Why did Freud retract his original theory? And why has the psychoanalytic community gone to such lengths to conceal this critical reversal?

An evil plot throws the Eight Wizardoms into chaos. Heroes old and new assemble to combat this daunting threat. Thirty-plus hours of adventure, intrigue, and witty banter! This boxed set includes: 1. God King Rising; 2. Legend of the Sky Sword; 3. Curse of the Elf Queen.

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy...

From Silk to Silicon tells the story of who these men and women were, what they did, how they did it, and how their achievements continue to shape our world today.

Trudy Jensen has been caring for other people for over twenty years, their broken hearts, broken lives and broken relationships. Now she’s thinking about her own relationships, particularly with men. Should she try online dating? What if one of her counselling clients found her online? Even as she stalls over these questions she meets an intriguing man.

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbookbroke new ground in self-help resources when it was released more than ten years ago, offering readers unprecedented access to the core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Now fully revised and updated, this second edition continues to offer straightforward, step-by-step exercises that will bring coreDBT skills to thousands who need it.

The Empowered Empath & Narcissists is your compassionate, actionable guide to understanding, escaping, and healing from the complex web of narcissistic abuse. This book hands you the keys to lasting change and emotional freedom.

The Five Points of Amillennialism maintains that a right view of end times is founded upon a right view of the “bigger picture,” the storyline of Scripture. The grand narrative of the Bible displays that the Abrahamic covenant, Davidic covenant, New Covenant, and Second Coming all find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ. He is the key that holds together the various threads of Scripture—and he alone is the key to properly understanding and making sense of the often dizzying, complex maze of “final things.” Rather than an offering of an endless series of charts, understanding ...

En el Día del Padre de 2018, la vida de Jeffrey Simmons cambió para siempre. Después de regresar a casa del trabajo, encontró al amor de su vida sin vida. No hubo despedida. No hubo últimas palabras. Solo silencio… y un dolor que parecía imposible de comprender.

In 1965, the Oklahoma City Star looked forward to the bicentennial celebration of America's birthday in 1976, predicting, “When that time comes, people will undoubtedly seek an appropriate commemorative hymn. If they look around, they do not have to search far. Right at hand are those stanzas that were first sung in Brandon just one hundred years earlier. Nothing, it would seem, could be more in keeping with America’s traditions of religious faith and reverence [...].” And so we can rightly claim that “God of Our Fathers”, the popular hymn written by Daniel Crane Roberts, deserves...