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What is the dynamic relationship between our culture's written and unwritten laws and its literature? How is that relationship evolving? How do law and literature influence or reflect one other? And what lessons might we draw from their symbiotic relationship?

In these chapters, innovation and transformation expert Bill Adams reveals why a modern-day phenomenon he dubbed “on-the-fly leadership” creates a fallout on the Core Leadership Functions and a blowback effect on the ability of leaders to focus their attention that he calls Attention Deficit Syndrome.

We’ve all read the cybersecurity horror stories: a prominent company exposes the private information of their customers only to scramble after the fact to apologize and safeguard the data. Cybersecurity is often an afterthought, a much lower priority than profit—until a data breach threatens the bottom line anyway. In The Cyber-Elephant in the Boardroom, data security expert and CEO Mathieu Gorge, along with a host of guests, shows why protecting a company’s data should be top of mind for C-suites and corporate boards.

The war was over except for the crew of the TSS Phoenix. Lost deep in enemy space, crippled but not dead. The odds of survival were stacked against them, but they were still determined to fight their way back toward allied space. On New Terra, Roy O’Hara had discovered peace for his spirit and joy in a simple life. Yet he had only fulfilled a portion of the Commander’s Prophecy. It told of a darkness that would fall on his new home from the stars, and he would be called upon once again to save them all.

O'Hara never wanted to be a hero. He was a combat pilot only because his skills made him the best and Earth needed men like him to fight the enemy among the stars. Living a life a service and duty, alone in a cockpit suited him well, but fate had other plans for him. Shot down over an alien planet he was saved by a beautiful and mysterious woman named Katreena. He soon learns that the world is populated by people who seemed to have been lost by time and controlled by stones that the people believe to be divine magic.

Dragon shifters have a horrific habit of kidnapping human children to sacrifice to their goddess. They miscalculated when they took expert thief Yara Parmstone’s little brother, though. Now, Yara is out for revenge - after she finds the final key that will allow her to save him. But the three scorching hot, mysterious men who hold that key have a message for Yara - the dragon goddess has something important in store for her. Too bad it’s not as fun as a forked dragon tongue. Soon, Yara’s racing against time to steal back her brother before his fate - and hers - are sealed.

Yara Parmstone, human thief and newly chosen Queen of the Dragon Shifters, is unimpressed with her new title. Especially since it’s turning into a living nightmare. The last full-moon ritual didn’t give the dragon shifters their usual power boost - but it did give them a wimpy human as queen. Now? They’re pissed. They blame Yara. And they’re out for blood. It’s even worse than that, though. Something dark and powerful is working to pit the dragons against each other, including the brothers in Yara’s sexy-as-hell harem.

Mason Magrath is a hero in every sense of the word. As a fearless firefighter, he has dedicated his life to saving others and never hesitates to put himself in harm's way. But when he falls down an elevator shaft in a burning skyscraper, it seems that his bravery has finally met its match.

With increased demand for hybrid and fully remote work styles, most firms understand that some form of distance work is here to stay—and have put some remote protocols in place. But many companies either see the shift to remote work as a threat to their culture and management style, or they just don’t know how to make the transition. It’s time to take advantage of the many opportunities remote work presents. This book will tell you how.

The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she has only a talking cat and parrot to hang out with and she can’t even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside. Until the day that Pip explores a glowing ring in a lab and finds herself in a warehouse, in 2019. Where she meets boy-inventor Rahul – who is also lonely and bored. Together, Rahul and Pip are no longer lonely. But they have a whole load of new problems.

UNLEASH YOUR TRANSFORMATION is an empowering book for business leaders. Change is the new norm as organizations need to stay ahead in an ever-faster-changing world. However, changing the status quo is hard and challenging. So how do you succeed? Unleash Your Transformation offers a unique holistic and pragmatic approach–The Transformational Flywheel–to make change at scale happen.

Nikki Townley, a fashion buyer, looking for a life with deeper meaning, leaves her career and moves to a small tourist town in northern Michigan to assist her ailing great-aunt Winnie in running her floundering antique business. There she finds herself caught in a mystery searching for her aunt's missing fortune, facing an investment company in pursuit of her aunt's property, and hoping to save long-distance romance with her faithful male friend Rob Moore.

At least 75 percent of all mergers and acquisitions fail. It doesn’t have to be that way. Don Scales has been in the professional services business for more than three decades. During that time, he has been involved in more than 40 M&A deals, on both the buyer and seller side. He has learned firsthand what works and what doesn’t and has long thought about writing a book to share his knowledge with others.

Mason is anything but average. Being a mixed-race, non-binary, neurodivergent teenager with super-powers trying to navigate high school can be tough. Luckily, they find common ground with a motley crew of two new friends, and the three unlikely heroes embark on a mission of self-discovery and saving the world.

Alpha and Omega: Your transfiguration awaits you, my love. Heed the mantra, and live exalted forever. Reject it, and die a mortal death. Haunting relics lure a non-fiction writer into this destiny proclaimed by his tantalizing seductress. He must either claim his revealed identity to start his new life with his soulmate, or else perish in the wake of devastating temptation. Through twists and thrills that test the boundaries of reality, Robb Hoff’s launch of the Eggsquisite Corpse series is an odyssey across a surreal landscape that careens between the earthly and divine.

When Sirena Martell finds herself lost and alone on a backwoods road near the Great Serpent Mound, panic pounds her troubled heart. But when she finally does reach the stranger she is supposed to meet - Enoch - with his clutch of artifact eggs, Sirena breathes a sigh of relief...until the real trouble hatches. With unnerving action from the Great Serpent Mound site to Maysville, Kentucky, and overseas from Paris to Amsterdam, Serpent Egg Rapture is one scorcher of a listen across a harrowing landscape that is wrought from pure evil.

In this third episode of The Wire Family series, meet Magnolia, the sister, who discovers that there is no water in the Fountain-in-the-Middle anymore. The villagers are in panic! But fortunately, the clever Magnolia is there, as is Inspector Thimble who will do everything to solve this mystery (or let Magnolia do all the work, perhaps).

In this fifth episode of The Wire Family series, Magnolia shares her recent discoveries with her family about the Lost and Found Village where found objects all woke up one fine day without remembering anything of their past life.

In this second episode of The Wire Family series, meet Rosemary, the mother, who discovers in the middle of the village market that farmer Welly Boot has disappeared. She decides to start looking for him! Inspector Thimble decides to accompany her and Elliot on this new adventure.

The Magic Forest is a place where colorful flowers bloom, playful animals frolic, and mischievous elves play. But when a mysterious poisonous rain threatens to destroy the forest, Lirien, Nym, and Eleri must come together to uncover the source of the toxic rain and save their beloved home. Join Lirien and her friends as they embark on an adventure to save their beloved forest and learn valuable lessons about friendship, determination, and the power of working together.