Nine Tenths

Nine Tenths
Author: Jeff Macfee
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1625675488

Augment phase technology was rare. The last appearance of anything resembling phase technology was fifteen years ago. I knew the date... It was the date of the Doctor Dimension repo. In a world full of “Augments”—humans who use technology to imbue themselves with superpowers of every sort—being an average man would seem a good way to keep out of trouble. Not so for repo man Gayle Harwood. It’s his job to seize enhancements from Augments who fall behind on the payments for their high-tech advantages. And they rarely part with them easily. Now an infamous job Gayle was a part of long ago has come back to haunt him. An incredibly powerful piece of tech that was supposed to have been turned over to the government is being used again. People are dying, and those in power are convinced Gayle knows something about it. Unfortunately, they’re right. And unless Gayle can uncover the sinister secrets of the past and find whoever has hijacked the lost tech and stop them, no superpower in the world is going to be enough to save him... PRAISE FOR NINE TENTHS "Dark and moody in the absolute best way." — Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Room and Paradox Bound "Nine Tenths is a fast-moving, frenetic, first-rate novel about the people with real power." — Simon R. Green, New York Times bestselling author "NINE TENTHS is a fantastic blend of the superhero fantasy and the hard-boiled detective. Jeff Macfee is a writer to watch." — Stephen Blackmoore, author of Suicide Kings "Fast-paced, gritty, and suspenseful, Nine Tenths gives a fresh spin to hardboiled detective fiction with a thrill ride into the world of superhero repo." — Meg Gardiner, author of the UNSUB series

Accountability

Accountability
Author: Robert Lebow
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2002-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1609943090

Using a wealth of real-world examples, this breakthrough book offers a new freedom-based management paradigm that radically improves every aspect of business-from how we hire, compensate, and motivate people to how we address quality issues, serve customers, review employees, and more. Accountability tells the story of Pete Williams, a hard-charging CEO, who meets Stan "Kip" Kiplinger, a retired businessman, during a cross-country train trip. Pete's manufacturing business is in critical condition; productivity is falling. He's tried all the popular management approaches, but he can't get his people to be accountable for meeting their goals. Kip points out that every management system Pete has used is ultimately based on controlling people. Rather than encouraging people to be accountable, control-based systems discourage accountability by destroying people's sense of ownership of their job. Kip introduces Pete to a new way of leading people based on freedom-giving people the freedom to make their own choices and to do it their way. This doesn't mean anarchy; it means leadership expects everyone to act like an adult and take responsibility for his or her actions and their outcomes. Accountability details how this new approach yields a consistent flow of creative innovations and organizational improvements impossible under the old, coercive systems.

Fatherhood 4.0

Fatherhood 4.0
Author: Dalton Higgins
Publisher: Insomniac Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2010
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1554830095

Some of Canada's most acclaimed multicultural personalities, public figures, intellectuals, entertainers, athletes, and activists share stories, memories, insights, and revelations about fatherhood, from the comic to the tragic. Through critical essays, first-person musings, interviews, conversations, spoken word, and dub poetry, this collection examines the place where cross-cultural fatherhood intersects with the worlds of technology, hip hop, and hipster culture - a cool diverse dads movement! As an African-Canadian fatherhood advocate, Dalton Higgins also digs around to see how black fathers of this millennium are faring, as academics and pundits have debated for decades what is at the heart of the problem when it comes to the much-publicized shortcomings of black fathers. Fatherhood 4.0 spots trends across a newer generation of media-savvy multi-culti dads influenced by everything from George Lopez and Bill Cosby to the Osbournes and Obama, with keen insights and essays from fatherhood activists. It includes essays on the "baby daddy" phenomenon and Bob Marley, pops in popular culture, technology and parenting, and crucial research on aboriginal fatherhood by Dr. Jessica Ball. The book contains candid interviews with: Michael "Pinball" Clemons, Broken Social Scene's Charles Spearin, Toronto FC's Dwayne De Rosario, Bollywood Boulevard's Mohit Rajhans, George Elliott Clarke, Hal Niedzvicki, Lawrence Hill, Fucked Up's Damian Abraham, dramatist Richard Lee, the CBC's Matt Galloway, social entrepreneur Sol Guy, Plex, and more!

Smoke From the Barrel

Smoke From the Barrel
Author: John Arthur Cooper
Publisher: John Arthur Cooper
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2021-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN:

God it was boring! He was a cream man, in a cream and grey office, if he stood against the wall he was invisible. ‘I’m the invisible man, incredible how you can, see right through me!’ But there were no Freddie Mercury frantic drums for Reg Moorcroft. Coffee four times a day, that was it. A piece of cake if it was someone's birthday! God it was exciting, dark hard blue metal, beautiful old chequered wood, powerful, life changing! But changes meant risk, excitement meant danger, the power of life and death came in a package labelled ‘fear.’ Still it was better than washing the car and cutting the lawn. It wasn’t supposed to be like that. He had to make amends, he couldn’t continue his life in front of a computer even if he did some good, he just felt like an on/off switch that could read. Get out now Reg, change your life, ‘Got to leave you all behind and face the truth!’

The Story Book

The Story Book
Author: John Arthur Cooper
Publisher: John Arthur Cooper
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-09-29
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Story book The Magic Phone. Stan and ‘Arry’ have a chance to talk about their mistakes in life, set records straight and say ‘Sorry’. What could possibly go wrong?The Contest. Brass Bands and a peaceful domestic life with Isabella just don’t go together. Tim is unambitious in a macho world and just wants a quiet life. But what about Jenny?The Great Pretender. This can’t be true! Or can it? The creation of a world acclaimed classic by the biggest band of the seventies or a nightmare?Waiting. What do men think about when women are shopping? TRANZYSN. ‘A change is gonna come but still everything remains the same.’ All Rudyard Millard's problems can be solved by money. Well not actually ‘money’ folk stopped using that a long time ago.The Gun. Reg Moorcroft is safe and reliable. His world is one of Magnolia Emulsion and grey gloss paint. Familiar holidays to France, mowing the lawn and washing the garage door. And then--.

Suspicious

Suspicious
Author: Heather Graham
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369705769

Get caught up in the just-one-more-page action of this thrilling romantic suspense by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. No choice but to trust him… Lawyer Lorena Fortier’s suspicions about her father’s death have brought her to a small town nestled in the Everglades. But when a killer claims more victims, Lorena’s in over her head. Hardened cop Jesse Crane only complicates matters. As they face danger more menacing than any they had ever imagined, Lorena needs to put her life in Jesse’s hands. Can she do the same with her heart? Previously published

Dog Park Wisdom

Dog Park Wisdom
Author: Lisa Wogan
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2009-04-03
Genre:
ISBN: 1442964367

Often the best advice comes from personal experience, so who better to offer counsel on dogs than their owners? Dog Park Wisdom shares a grassroots approach to pet care, from Fido's introduction to a new baby, to the best way to remove dog stains from car upholstery, to the ultimate shoe-chewing prevention tactic. Presented in the context of everyday life, hundreds of dog owners, dog park visitors, and folks from the ''new dog economy'' share hands-on wisdom and tips about the often confusing and contradictory world of dog ownership. Personal stories of advice givers and their dogs are woven throughout. Meet the dog-loving software engineer who gave up a stressful career at Microsoft to become a dog walker, and the international development worker who discovered a cure for her dog's hotspots in Uganda, which in turn helped fuel a small business project for women and girls there.

Stanley and Sophie

Stanley and Sophie
Author: Kate Jennings
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2008-08-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416560297

Traces the author's devoted relationship with a pair of border terriers, describing her struggles with widowhood in the aftermath of September 11 and the feelings of renewed purpose she experienced through her canine friends.

Med School Uncensored

Med School Uncensored
Author: Richard Beddingfield, MD
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0399579710

An entertaining insider's guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly of med school--with everything pre-med and med students need to know, from day one, to maximize opportunities and avoid mistakes. Cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and recent med school grad Dr. Richard Beddingfield serves as an unofficial older brother for pre-med and incoming med students--dishing on all the stuff he would've wanted to know from the beginning in order to make the most of med school's opportunities, while staying sane through the gauntlets of applying to and succeeding at med school, residency, fellowship, and starting work as a new physician. With advice from additional recent Ivy League med school grads and top-tier hospital residents, this all-in-one guide is a must-have for everyone who dreams of becoming a doctor.