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This is a book about the essence of skilful leadership: what really matters, why it works, and what any leader can do to improve their effectiveness and their impact on the world. It offers a crystal-clear view of what good leadership looks like and a simple, original conceptual framework for evolving it throughout life. Mindful Command begins with the fundamental understanding that real success as a leader depends not on what you do, but on how you are. Motivating people to give of their best is about being your best – consistently, over time.

Ein dunkler Ort, den man nicht betreten darf. Ein Mord in Islands Einöde, der brutaler nicht sein könnte. Und der Glaube an finstere Mächte, die durch die Risse im Lavagestein nach oben steigen wie giftige Dämpfe und die Menschen in Angst und Schrecken versetzen. Eingeschlossen von einem Schneesturm weiß Kommissar Skagen, der Mörder ist mitten unter ihnen. Er muss ihn stellen, bevor er erneut zuschlägt. Ein Fall für Tom Skagen von der Sondereinheit Skanpol, der ihn im Land der Elfen und Zwerge in die Abgründe des Glaubens und Aberglaubens blicken lässt.

Vigga, Ende 20, lebt in ihrem eigenen kleinen Kosmos. Einzig ihre lebenslustige, aufgeschlossene Freundin Maiken schafft es immer wieder, sie aus ihrer Komfortzone zu locken. Als diese schwanger wird, fürchtet Vigga, dass nun alles anders wird, und zieht sich zurück. Zur selben Zeit begegnet sie in einem Aquarium in Kopenhagen dem Oktopus Rosa. Fasziniert von dem intelligenten, einzelgängerischen Wesen hinter Glas, beginnt sie, Rosa täglich zu besuchen, und ein zartes Band zwischen Mensch und Tier entsteht. Durch Rosa erkennt Vigga: Ohne Strömung und Bewegung ist es unmöglich zu leben.

Eve. Flucht war meine einzige Möglichkeit, ein normales Leben fernab von der Gefahr, die mich umgab, zu führen, doch hatte ich die Rechnung ohne jene gemacht, die sich an meine Fersen geheftet hatten. Nachdem sie mich geschnappt hatten, fand ich mich in einem nassen Grab wieder. Um mein Leben kämpfend, grub ich mich heraus, allerdings rannte ich einer noch viel größeren Gefahr mit grünen Augen in die Arme, deren Motorrad ich umwarf.

Henry Dawson, sorcerer and apothecary assistant, works to support his mother and younger siblings after his father’s investments and consequent death leave them penniless. Invited to woo a reclusive heiress with magical empathy, he reluctantly accepts, despite a preference for earning his own way. Emma Ainsworth fears smallpox scars and her hypersensitivity to others’ thoughts make her ineligible for marriage. Sheltered by her aunt and uncle, she has withdrawn from most social life and wears a veil whenever she must go out.

Humans are seen as weak. Helpless. Crude. And yet, I hold the heart of the Vakhing King. Thor found me battered and beaten-he believed me to be frail-but I taught that Vakhing what it means to be human . . . To be fierce. He nearly gives up his throne to be with me, but I can't let that happen. Now, it's time for me to show everyone what I am capable of. I will prove to this race that I am as strong as their warriors. I am meant to be with the Vakhing.

I’m pregnant and I don’t know what to do. I can’t tell my parents. Kevin never wanted a baby. The only person who knows is Boone, and he swore he wouldn’t tell anyone and even though I’ve just met him, I believe he’ll keep my secret. Morning sickness is no joke, so when Mom mentions needing to go out of town to help her sister, and I encourage my parents to go. With them gone, I won’t live in fear that they will discover what I’m trying to keep hidden. Now it’s Boone and I.

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another.

As a healer and a seeker of truth, Dr. Anne Elizabeth has been searching for the origins of consciousness, thinking, and spiritual connection throughout her lifetime. She has explored many philosophies and found the work of Rudolf Steiner; a most comprehensive diamondmind view of our relationship to the cosmos and ourselves.

Zach "The Stud" Stedman has it all. As an Offensive Lineman for the Georgia Patriots, life couldn't get any better. Until Danielle returns. Danielle is just trying to survive. As a single, working mom, she's put her past behind her and is trying to do what's best for her son. Reuniting with Zach was not part of her plan. If only Zach wasn't so nice. If only she were stronger. If only he wasn't the exact thing that's been missing in her life, then keeping a secret from him wouldn't be so hard.

The Missy Box is an imagined story based on the young life of Maria Suhm Wheelock, the wife of the second President of Dartmouth College and her great grandmother, Maria Bourdoux Lasalle, a Huguenot refugee from France. Set in a time before the interior of America had been discovered by Europeans, the Missy Box recreates a world connected by oceans, peopled by refugees, and the kings who controlled their fates.

Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee her native Kenyan village, moving across the country with her family. After overcoming additional adversity, including the loss of her mother and ableist prejudice, Anne moved to the UK, where she discovered her talent for wheelchair racing. The first East African to compete in her sport, representing Kenya in the 2004 Paralympics before joining Paralympics GB, Anne is now a fierce advocate for the promotion of the games around the world, and a champion of disabled rights.

English writer Hilary Wainwright lost all trace of his young son when Lisa, his wife, was killed by the Gestapo in Paris. Several years later, an acquaintance travels to England with news that Hilary’s son may be alive in France. Doubting whether five-year-old Jean is indeed his, and determined not to feel vulnerable to love and tenderness again, Hilary travels to France to find the boy.

The formula for abundant living can be found in the principles of quantum physics and how your personal energy aligns with the powerful forces of the Universe. In Unlimited Abundance, international speaker Sandra Anne Taylor thoroughly updates and expands her classic New York Times bestseller, Quantum Success, to reveal how you can achieve immediate and spectacular results merely by shifting your life-force energy. This book offers many new, effective, and easy techniques to accelerate your alignment with Universal energy and the unseen forces of success.

I'm addicted to my stalker. He watches me at night, sneaking in through my living room window and making my blood turn to ice. I feel him all around me as chills snake down my spine. Each night he becomes bolder, getting closer and welcoming himself into my bedroom, feeding his addiction.

Tatort Nordsee: Aus purer Langeweile nimmt Rieke Wilken an dem Krimidinner ihrer besten Freundin teil. Zu ihrer Überraschung findet sie Gefallen daran, in eine fremde Rolle zu schlüpfen und damit für kurze Zeit ihrem belanglosen Dasein zu entfliehen – bis zu dem Moment, als sie das auserkorene Opfer entdeckt und feststellen muss, dass ihr eigener Mann Knut die verhängnisvolle Karte gezogen hat. Der gebrochene Blick und der Einschnitt an seiner Kehle lassen keinen Zweifel daran, dass innerhalb weniger Augenblicke aus dem unterhaltsamen Spiel bitterer Ernst geworden ist.

When young child Kimberley Painter vanishes, her disappearance shakes her tight-knit community to the core. Thirty years later, when her body is found in the woodlands next to a manor house, WPC Alessandra Cano must investigate what happened to Kimberly all those years ago. However, as Alessa immerses herself in the historic case, she's besieged by eerie signs and messages, becoming convinced that Kimberley's restless spirit is reaching out from beyond.

Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past.

Mesopotopia explores the vast sweep of our accelerating, precipitous world. From the cradle to the grave, from the mysterious poetic origins of Mesopotamia to our own dystopias of the twenty-first century, Anne Waldman crafts a singular, radical investigation into the syncretic layers of quantum space and dreamtime.

Sie hat mit der Vergangenheit abgeschlossen, aber die Vergangenheit nicht mit ihr – Hochspannung von Bestsellerautorin Loreth Anne White. Kit Darling arbeitet als zuverlässige Haushaltshilfe für reiche Leute. Niemand sieht, dass sie regelmäßig in den Sachen ihrer Klienten herumschnüffelt. Eine harmlose Obsession – bis Kit in dem Haus von Jon und Daisy Rittenberg etwas entdeckt, was nicht nur sie selbst in Gefahr bringt, sondern auch das Leben des Paares. Ermittlerin Mallory Van Alst wird zu einem blutigen Tatort in einem Luxushaus am Meer gerufen. Doch die Ermittler finden keine Leiche.