Resultado de "David Martin" em Todas as categorias

After four decades in leadership, Dave thought he'd seen it all. Then he realized he'd been asking the wrong question the entire time. From his first disastrous day as an assistant manager to building healthcare teams, Dave chronicles the leadership moments that made him wonder: "Is this normal?" The employee who called out his fake open-door policy. The tattooed Marine he almost didn't hire. The stellar performer terminated while hiding domestic abuse. The team that couldn't function without their firefighter leader.

Witches, warlocks, Norse Gods and historical Viking battles, a teenage necromancer and a cursed ceremonial sword with a strange influence over its possessors. A Family Saga.

Just about anything can happen over the weekend at a fandom convention. Cosplayers, the vendor halls, cast panels, alien bounty hunters showing up from outer space, and my best friend learning that I’m an alien. Ya know, the usual stuff. And those aren’t even the really scary parts. I’m Jack, and you’re not going to believe what happens next at QUASITASTICON 9.

Throughout fiction, there have always been heroes who have fallen from grace. Champions of honor, decency, and order who have become villains through some traumatic event or a deep personal flaw. Blackest Knights is a collection of 19 tales by some of independent fantasy's best authors that follow a collection of those heroes who fell to temptation. From tales of bloody-handed hypocrites to space pirates, you'll find some truly fascinating works within.

Un nuevo caso de John Puller, el protagonista de Día Cero. En el Paraíso nada es lo que parece. John Puller es el mejor. Veterano de guerra y agente especial, es el hombre en quien el ejército de Estados Unidos confía para investigar los delitos más complicados a los que se enfrenta la nación. Ahora debe resolver un nuevo caso, pero esta vez el delito lo afecta personalmente: su tía ha sido hallada muerta en Paradise, una ciudad muy bonita situada en la costa del golfo de Florida, que prospera gracias a los turistas ricos, atraídos por sus estupendas playas y su clima maravilloso.

Churchill fu protagonista di una eccezionale gamma di attività ed esperienze: nominato ufficiale durante il regno della regina Vittoria, partecipò alle guerre coloniali in Africa e alle prime fasi di sviluppo dell'aviazione, ma soprattutto guidò l'Impero britannico nella sua ora più buia, durante i giorni cupi e gloriosi della Seconda guerra mondiale.

To his martial arts students, Vance Palladian is more than just a teacher; he is the Paladin, a man of warrior virtue. Now a widower, and with his finances in disarray, Vance feels disillusioned with his once noble life. After thwarting a seemingly random robbery, and the kidnapping attempt of a wealthy future heiress, Vance finds himself employed as her bodyguard by the young woman’s father, a mysterious businessman who holds the lineage of the last remaining esoteric school of ancient Japanese fighting arts.

With the arrival of 1887, Sherlock Holmes's reputation had begun to grow. Now, in the year of the classic tales "The Reigate Squires" and "The Five Orange Pips", Holmes is becoming ever more sure of himself –– a trend that will continue as we make our way through his literary chronology. The game is afoot!

En este libro se sintetizan y explican, con preguntas y respuestas cuidadosamente elaboradas con total claridad y sustento por trece expertos del diván, esas ideas difusas que tenemos en la cabeza. Será un tesoro para aquellos curiosos que quieren profundizar en el conocimiento de la psique y entender por qué los humanos nos comportamos como lo hacemos. Para los futuros psicoanalistas será un acordeón maravilloso para traer bajo el brazo durante toda su formación acerca del excepcional mundo del inconsciente y sus alcances.

Algunos de nosotros parecen haber dejado la resurrección en un lugar muy lejano -quizás para algunos, inexistente- en nuestra predicación. Cuando esto es así, no está en armonía con la proclamación bíblica del Evangelio. Les insto a que se sienten con su Biblia y lean detenidamente y en oración el libro de los Hechos. Allí encontramos una predicación genuina y llena del Espíritu Santo de las buenas nuevas de Jesucristo.

Después de recibir tres horripilantes regalos de una secta fanática, el novelista Matías Verduzco deberá huir de casa para salvar el pellejo. Esa fuga –que derivará en exilio– le permitirá el encuentro con Claudine Chifflet, hermosa ciclistaque purga, como todos, las secuelas del...

Tras el éxito de la Serie Millennium, vuelve David Lagercrantz con un segundo caso de Rekke y Vargas. Claire Lidman falleció catorce años atrás, pero Samuel, su marido, siempre se ha negado a aceptarlo. Cuando un buen día cree reconocer su perfil en una fotografía tomada delante de la basílica de San Marcos, en Venecia, recurrirá al profesor de Psicología Hans Rekke y la policía Micaela Vargas en busca de ayuda. Los dos se muestran escépticos al principio, pero Rekke descubre indicios sorprendentes. ¿Es posible que Claire siga viva? ¿qué la llevó a desaparecer?

2 Jungs, 10 Dates – und eine große Liebesgeschichte. Avery, 16, pinke Haare, kann sein Glück kaum fassen: er ist verliebt! In Ryan, 16 Jahre, blaue Haare. Und Ryan ist verliebt in Avery. Nach den ersten schüchternen Begegnungen, verbringen sie immer mehr Zeit zusammen, machen verrückt-verknallte Dinge: Schneeballschlachten, feine Dinner-Dates und Kanufahrten im Sonnenuntergang. Mit jedem Date wächst die Nähe zwischen den beiden, und sie entdecken ihre Seelenverwandtschaft. Alles könnte wunderbar sein.

Bridget and Tom travel to Butterälp to stay with Vivienne Velvete – the world’s finest chocolatier. But a horrifying monster is terrorising the villagers and the chocolate festival has been shut down. What's more, Le Choc - the world's most perfect bar of chocolate, kept in an alarmed, triple-locked room – has been chomped! Bridget and Tom must trace a track of confuddling clues and unravel their most fiendish plot yet.

Der neue ›Precht‹ über die internationale Politik im 21. Jahrhundert. Die Welt befindet sich im Umbruch. Von einer von den USA dominierten zu einer multipolaren Weltordnung mit China und Indien als neuen Machtzentren. Das schleichende Ende der Pax Americana stellt die Europäer vor eine enorme Herausforderung: Wie gehen wir mit dem Aufstieg dieser Länder um? Die Gefahr wächst, dass wir es nicht schaffen, auf globaler Ebene auf neue Feindbilder zu verzichten.

Join us for a fascinating, dangerous, and often irreverent romp through the most bizarre aviary ever encountered. Discover the wily machinations of the friendliest show-crows, negotiate borders between territorial landfowl, and take a trip through the stars to find your alien-parasite self stuck in a chicken. Each story in the Murderbirds anthology features a different species of feathered fiend, who is either the villain or intended victim of a deadly scheme.

For all we know, or think we know, about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, what we don't know is far, far greater. In one of the duo's most exciting cases, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, we know when Helen Stoner arrives "in a considerable state of excitement" at the door of 221B Baker Street, seeking the assistance of Holmes and Watson: "It was early in April in the year '83..." But what happened during the rest of 1883? Or all of 1884?

Someone has stolen Mr Vanderpuff’s golden whisk! If Bridget and her new friend Stacy don’t find it by midnight, the world’s best baker will never mix again. And – as the girls chase a chain of impossible puzzles through the secrets and shadows of Paris – Tom and Pascal find skulduggery afoot in Belle-on-Sea… Can Bridget and her friends crack the case and save the bake shop in time?

Do you long for a deeper, more satisfying personal prayer life? Is your heart hungry for more of God's presence? If your answer to these questions is "yes," this book is for you! Whether you are completely new to prayer or a seasoned prayer warrior, David's simple, honest approach to building your relationship with God will profoundly impact your prayer life.

Bridget Baxter is the very last orphan at the Orphanage for Errant Childs, left at the mercy of the awful Miss Acrid and her foul-smelling fish sandwiches. Miss Acrid's mission is to make Bridget's life a misery. But Bridget is more than a match for her. When kindly Mr Vanderpuff arrives at the Orphanage in search of a child to care for, Bridget thinks her luck has finally turned. Mr Vanderpuff is the village baker, and his shop is a world of wonders. But they soon discover that Bridget is absolutely terrible at baking.