Under a Falling Star

Under a Falling Star
Author: Jae
Publisher:
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014
Genre: Corporate culture
ISBN: 9783955332389

"Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. Her new job as a secretary in an international games company isn't off to a good start. Her first assignment--decorating the Christmas tree in the lobby--results in a trip to the ER after Dee, the company's second-in-command, gets hit by the star-shaped tree topper. Dee blames her instant attraction to Austen on her head wound, not the magic of the falling star. She's determined not to act on it, especially since Austen has no idea that Dee is practically her boss"--Back cover.

Ideas and the Pace of Change

Ideas and the Pace of Change
Author: Katherine Boothe
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1442617381

Canada is the only OECD country that has universal, comprehensive public hospital and medical insurance but lacks equivalent pharmaceutical coverage. In Ideas and the Pace of Change, Katherine Boothe explains the reasons for this unique situation. Using archival, interview, and polling data, Boothe compares the policy histories of Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia in order to understand why Canada followed a different path on pharmaceutical insurance. Boothe argues that pace matters in policy change. Quick, radical change requires centralized political institutions, an elite consensus, and an engaged, attentive electorate. Without these prerequisites, states are far more likely to take a slower, incremental approach. But while rapid policy change reinforces the new consensus, incremental progress strengthens the status quo, letting development stall and raising the bar for achieving change. An important contribution to the study of comparative political economy, Ideas and the Pace of Change should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand why health care reforms succeed or fail.

The Slow Pace of Fast Change

The Slow Pace of Fast Change
Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti
Publisher: H B S Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781578517800

For executives, strategists, and students of technology-driven industries, this is a powerful playbook for the high-stakes innovation game. Chakravorti provides a new framework for interconnected choice built on concepts from game theory and carried out using hands-on, go-to-market strategies.

Activate Leadership

Activate Leadership
Author: Jon Mertz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780990539117

In an age when leaders have left our world's most pressing problems unsolved, Activate Leadership takes a radically new look at the workforce's growing Generation Y. What if within the very traits Millennials in the workplace are criticized, lay the seeds of strong leadership qualities ready to be activated? Activate Leadership draws new wisdom from an ancient source -- aspen groves -- to inspire Millennials to lead on purpose. Author and Thin Difference founder Jon Mertz matches his "Aspen Truths" to four distinct Millennial traits for leadership skills. With ample narrative studies and pragmatic yet inspiring leadership practices, Activate Leadership makes the case for Millennials as great leaders and gives clear guidance to further the big strides they're already making in their workplaces and communities. The time for new leadership has arrived. Activate Leadership offers Millennials an inspired, workable path forward.

Change of Pace

Change of Pace
Author: Radclyffe
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2004-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1602822484

Two friends share a walk on the wild side in Amsterdam's Red Light district; a construction worker discovers a pleasant distraction in the surgical locker room; a femme top welcomes her lover home from the road; a woman enjoys a lazy summer afternoon with solo pleasures; a missed flight leads to a memorable ride for two women stranded in the fog on Cape Cod; a surprise party that ends with a most unusual gift...and more than twenty additional erotic interludes to spark more than your imagination.

Conflict of Interest

Conflict of Interest
Author: Jae
Publisher:
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2014-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9783955331092

Workaholic Detective Aiden Carlisle isn't looking for love-and certainly not at the law enforcement seminar she reluctantly agreed to attend. But the first lecturer is not at all what she expected. Psychologist Dawn Kinsley has just found her place in life. After a failed relationship with a police officer, she has sworn never to get involved with another cop again, but she feels a connection to Aiden from the very first moment. Can Aiden keep from crossing the line when a brutal crime threatens to keep them apart before they've even gotten together?

Where the Time Goes

Where the Time Goes
Author: Diane Jonte-Pace
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9789053309421

This book would not exist if David hadn't come so close to death. In December 2016 he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma. The oncologist gave him a thirty percent chance of survival. The images in the book, individually and collectively, capture a sense of time past and time passing: each individual photograph freezes a moment in our lives. At the same time, as a collection, they give us a dizzying sense of velocity, a sense of time passing rapidly, as if, as Billy Collins says in one of our favorite poems, we have "speed lines trailing behind us as we rush along the road of the world, as we rush down the long tunnel of time." Technically and stylistically, this book incorporates most of the forms of photography available over the last five decades, starting in a period when cameras and film were becoming more accessible and less expensive.

Pace

Pace
Author: Ann Mandt Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780995090569

"This is not your typical book about running! Great stories & practical tips on how to pace yourself in life not pacing your run. I laughed, I cried. This author has a great perspective on life." -Reader Review This book is for runners, people thinking about running, type-A personality athletes, people working long hours confined by horrible little cubicles and people interested in applying endurance sports principles to work and life. From the author: "I'm not scared to admit I am type-A personality. I own it along with the rest of my junk, but it has taken many years and an unfortunate episode with my heart to try to be kinder to myself. The real progress in my journey started when I took all the research I was focused on in my work - pace, recovery, visualization, fit and form - and applied it to my work, sport and life. Quite absurdly my overall goal has been to run faster, next in line has been a more balanced life. I know that should be reversed, but we all know what motivates us right?! Every day I am working on just enjoying the moment and flushing unrealistic expectations down the toliet." This book is about my personal evolution, in both running and not running. I include some research that helped me run easier and faster, talk from other runners, and some thoughts from my 'inner *******'. My siblings said I talk too much about my personal life. I'm okay with that. Just wait until they read what I wrote about them!;)" Reader Review: "I loved this book, even though I am not a runner (yet). I think that may change after this read though! The writing style is candid, self-deprecating and relatable to anyone who has had struggles with time management, health, and juggling everything on his or her plate. Look for the deeper message in this book and you will find it. The thought-provoking stories and energetic drive toward wellness and balance made a lasting impression on me, whereas most books do not. Whether you are a runner or not, whether you are an ergonomist or not, I highly recommend this book."

Erotic Interludes

Erotic Interludes
Author: Lonnie Barbach
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0452273986

With her groundbreaking works of erotica, Lonnie Barbach has given women a forum to express their most passionate and imaginative fantasies about sex and sexual encounters. These graphic stories, filled with the unexpected and the forbidden, brilliantly capture the myriad layers, colors, and visions of every woman's sexuality. A book that can be read as a starting point for shared intimacies or as a pleasure experienced in solitude, EROTIC INTERLUDES stimulates the mind as well as the body. These twenty-one stories by and about women--yound and old, married and single, heterosexual and lesbian--bring a feminine point of view to such subjects as mysterious partners, racy games, and risque encounters. But most important, EROTIC INTERLUDES is fun, celebrating a woman's sensualtiy and reaffirming her right to the positive pleasures and adventure of sex. The result is a classic work of explicit passion, ready to be thoroughly enjoyed.