"[A] tour de force."--Publishers Weekly starred review *** Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. Life in the Philippines seems like paradise--until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as enemy warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific Theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history. What follows will become known as one of the worst atrocities in modern warfare: the Bataan Death March. With no hope of rescue, the three friends vow to make it back home together. But the ordeal is only the beginning of their nearly four-year fight to survive. Inspired by true stories, The Long March Home is a gripping coming-of-age tale of friendship, sacrifice, and the power of unrelenting hope. *** "Remarkable."--Mark Sullivan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky  "Packed with tension."--Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours  "Such real characters."--Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook "Riveting."--Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series  "Utterly compelling."--Susan Meissner, USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things  "Simply magnificent."--Don Bentley, New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Intent  "Dazzling."--Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire  "A tremendous story."--Andrew Kaplan, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Madagascar  "Beautifully and faultlessly told."--Steve Martini, New York Times bestselling author of Blood Flag 

Worsies groei nie aan bome of iewers onder die grond nie. Worsies word gemaak van varke. Dit is nou eenmaal so. Hierdie boek gaan oor kampioenworsies. Dit gaan ook oor 'n vergete oupa, wat vroeer 'n slagter was, die liewe varkie Knor en die Worswedstryd van die Eeu. As jy nie van wors hou nie, moet jy liewer nie hierdie boek lees nie. En as jy wel van wors hou, eintlik ook nie … Of juis? Jy sien: Bette Babs kry op haar verjaardag 'n varkie van haar oupa. Sy noem hom Knor. Dit lyk miskien of Bette 'n oulike oupa het, maar het hy Knor vir haar gegee omdat hy wil inskryf vir die VVVVVV, die Vereniging Vir Vleisware Van Vars Varke, se worswedstryd?

Acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling author Tosca Lee brilliantly adapts the life of Judas Iscariot into a dazzling and award-winning work of fiction--humanizing the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal.
History has called him many things: Thief. Liar. Traitor. Reviled throughout history and infamous for his suicide, he is the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal . . .
And he is the only disciple that Jesus called "friend."
From the acclaimed bestselling author of "Havah: The Story of Eve, Iscariot" is a compelling portrait of biblical history's most maligned character--from his tumul-tuous childhood to his emergence as the man known to the world as the betrayer of Jesus. But even more, it is an extraordinary view into the life of Jesus that forces us to reexamine everything we thought we knew about one of the most famous--and infamous--religious icons in history.

The Long March Home: A World War II Novel Of The Pacific is inspired by true events, this gripping coming-of-age tale of friendship, sacrifice, and the power of unrelenting hope during WWII follows three friends from Mobile, Alabama, as they struggle to survive the Bataan Death March and make it home to their families--and the girl they left behind.

Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire.

Life in the Philippines seems like paradise--until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as enemy warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific Theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history.

Geopolitical shifts, increasing demands for accountability, and growing competition have been driving the need for change within transnational nongovernmental organizations (TNGOs). As the world has changed and TNGOs' ambitions have expanded, the roles of TNGOs have shifted and their work has become more complex. To remain effective, legitimate, and relevant in the future necessitates organizational changes, but many TNGOs have been slow to adapt. As a result, the sector's rhetoric of sustainable impact and social transformation has far outpaced the reality of TNGOs' more limited abilities to deliver on their promises. Between Power and Irrelevance openly explores why this gap between rhetoric and reality exists and what TNGOs can do individually and collectively to close it. George E. Mitchell, Hans Peter Schmitz, and Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken argue that TNGOs need to change the fundamental conditions under which they operate by bringing their own "forms and norms" into better alignment with their ambitions and strategies. This book offers accessible, future-oriented analyses and lessons-learned to assist practitioners and other stakeholders in formulating and implementing organizational changes. Drawing upon a variety of perspectives, including hundreds of interviews with TNGO leaders, firsthand involvement in major organizational change processes in leading TNGOs, and numerous workshops, training institutes, consultancies, and research projects, the book examines how to adapt TNGOs for the future.

Elandi vlug na Roodezand om weg te kom van die skindertonge wat haar lewe verwoes het. In haar nuwe pos fokus sy op haar Wiskundeonderrig en om geld in te samel vir die matriekafskeid.

Sy wil nie weer ’n man in haar lewe hê nie, maar Hendrik de Bruyn en dominee Neels stel belang. Hendrik wil dalk weer liefde ’n kans gee, en Neels soek ’n vr ou wat orrel kan speel.

Wie gaan haar hart wen?

Margaux is op pad Parys toe. Sy wil ’n kunstenaar word, daarom draai sy haar rug op haar familie, hul besigheid en ’n amper se gereëlde huwelik.

Met Saint-Émilion se oesseisoen op hande is die Kaapse wynboer Dawid Malan te besig om hom deur ’n p aar sexy bene te laat verlei. Veral nie die bene van ’n kunstenaar nie – daardie les het hy op die har de manier geleer.

Maar Parys word nie verniet die Stad van Liefde genoem nie …

Darwishi Ur-atum Msamaki Minkabh Ishaq Eboni, the son of an Egyptian pharaoh, is only nine years old when he dies. He is mummified and laid to rest in a tomb, with the powerful Golden Scarab of Mukatagara hanging around his neck. Thousands of years later, during a transport of three precious sarcophaguses, there is a terrible storm. Lightning strikes, the lorry plunges from a flyover and the sarcophaguses are hurled through the air. During all this, a little white shape escapes the wreckage unnoticed... Angus Gust is ten and has an absolutely normal life. Then one night, a little mummy appears in his room! Life changes completely. Angus and Dummie (short for his real name) become best friends. One dreadful day, Dummie's scarab goes missing. Without the scarab Dummie falls terribly ill. Angus must now do everything he can to find the scarab, so Dummie doesn't have to face death again. Can Dummie be saved in time?

In this pioneering new book, authors Klastrup and Tosca explore the many ways that transmedial worlds are present in people's everyday life, proposing a new theory of (trans)media use for the digital age. People are not only reading, watching and playing in fictional worlds like never before, but also using them to reflect about their lives through Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other channels, commenting on their marriages or their life at the office, analyzing current news, or reminiscing on the role these worlds played in their childhood. The book's unique methodological approach combines an aesthetic and literary perspective that looks closely at the different fictional universes, with an empirical user perspective that builds upon 15 years of sustained work on transmediality. The result is a theory that covers both the personal, experiential dimension of fictional worlds and the social dimension of sharing with each other. A fascinating and contemporary examination of media worlds and their communities, this book offers students and scholars of fandom, media, cultural and reception studies a new theoretical and methodological framework, through which to understand the phenomenon of transmedial worlds, and people's engagement with them.

In this pioneering new book, authors Klastrup and Tosca explore the many ways that transmedial worlds are present in people's everyday life, proposing a new theory of (trans)media use for the digital age. People are not only reading, watching and playing in fictional worlds like never before, but also using them to reflect about their lives through Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other channels, commenting on their marriages or their life at the office, analyzing current news, or reminiscing on the role these worlds played in their childhood. The book's unique methodological approach combines an aesthetic and literary perspective that looks closely at the different fictional universes, with an empirical user perspective that builds upon 15 years of sustained work on transmediality. The result is a theory that covers both the personal, experiential dimension of fictional worlds and the social dimension of sharing with each other. A fascinating and contemporary examination of media worlds and their communities, this book offers students and scholars of fandom, media, cultural and reception studies a new theoretical and methodological framework, through which to understand the phenomenon of transmedial worlds, and people's engagement with them.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and sameness. On the one hand, we find familiarity pleasurable and soothing; on the other, we crave novelty and long for a sense of discovery. We blame algorithms, intent on selling us more of the same, and on a media industry too greedy to risk investing in intellectually challenging, radically new, products. Sameness and Repetition in Contemporary Media Culture takes a comprehensive approach that both theorises and historically grounds the idea of repetition in relation to media as something that is deeply embedded in our cultural tradition. This project received funding from the Carlsberg Foundation.

Nine years after Rom Sebastian was thrust into the most unlikely of circumstances as hero and bearer of an unimaginable secret, the alliance of his followers is in disarray. An epic battle with The Order has left them scattered and deeply divided both in strategy and resolve in their struggle to become truly alive and free.
Only 49 truly alive followers remain loyal to Rom. This meager band must fight for survival as The Order is focused on their total annihilation. Misunderstood and despised, their journey will be one of desperation against a new, more intensely evil Order. As the hand of this evil is raised to strike and destroy them they must rely on their faith in the abiding power of love to overcome all and lead them to sovereignty.
SOVEREIGN wonderfully continues the new testament allegory that was introduced in FORBIDDEN and continued in MORTAL.

In this, second book in the Dummie the Mummy series, Dummie, Angus and Nick travel to Egypt. It s Dummie's great wish to return to his country to visit the grave of his father, Pharaoh Akhnetut. Unfortunately, Egypt has completely changed in four thousand years and Akhnetut's grave seems untraceable. To make matters even worse, Nick falls ill and Angus and Dummie set off without him. Then something terrible happens - Dummie has to give everything he's got to save his best friend. Yet he is also determined to find his father's grave. Fortunately, he remembers more and more about his life long ago and this proves to be very handy!

With a foreword by New York Times Best Selling Author Tosca Reno In Real Talk Real Women, 105 of the leading women in the health and fitness industry each share their most valuable life lessons around loving yourself, never giving up, achieving success, finding balance and making a difference in the world. ""What Miriam is doing is more than just creating a book. She is starting a movement. Women today struggle with so many issues when it comes to self-esteem, success, motivation, balance, etc. If more women teamed up like this to inspire and support one another, it could yield some truly powerful changes in society." - Bianca Lupo "What an innovative thought, to look at female athletes as whole people - and go beyond the sound bytes and feel good personal interest features to look into their lives and lessons learned." - Dr. AnnMaria De Mars "Miriam is in the process of helping spread the word of love, health and fitness with the help of top athletes and speakers in the industry What a woman to make this all happen Never let your fears deter you from achieving success " - Rita Catolino " Early 2013, Miriam Khalladi set out to learn from and share the stories and life changing lessons of some of the most renowned experts and thought leaders in the field of health and fitness. She felt it was time for some real talk that went beyond nutrition or training advice, time to look beyond their beauty and reveal the true stories behind these women. After getting up, close and personal with well over 100 women and learning their most valuable lessons around self-love, never giving up, achieving success, finding balance and making a difference in the world - it became evidently clear that the glamorous magazine cover shots are just a fraction of their stories. As you read through the 100 chapters in Real Talk Real Women, you'll get to know some of the most amazing women that walk the face of the earth. They open up their hearts and share their personal stories, revealing what they've learned from overcoming the sudden loss of loved ones, drug and alcohol addiction, eating disorders, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, epilepsy, cancer and many other tremendous obstacles in life. Through it all, they learned to love themselves, never give up and achieve success in their own way. They found balance in their lives and are now dedicating themselves to making a difference in the world. The lessons they share in this book have changed their lives, and they can change yours. -- Miriam Khalladi is the founder of Real Talk Real Women, a global platform dedicated to inspiring women to live healthier, happier lives. Visit www.realtalkrealwomen.net to learn more.

In this gripping, high-octane sequel to The Line Between, which New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava calls "everything you want in a thriller," cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease. Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty-one others, Wynter and Chase emerge to an altered world. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they surfaced--the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs. As the clock ticks down on Julie's life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine and answers. But what they find is not a nation on the cusp of recovery but one decimated by disease. What happened while they were underground? With food and water in limited supply and their own survival in question, Chase and Wynter must venture further and further from the silo. They come face-to-face with a radically changed society, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months, she is called upon again to help save a nation she no longer recognizes--a place so chaotic she's no longer sure it can even survive. With Tosca Lee's signature "beautifully written and deeply unnerving" (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author) prose, A Single Light is a breathless thriller of nonstop suspense.

Geopolitical shifts, increasing demands for accountability, and growing competition have been driving the need for change within transnational nongovernmental organizations (TNGOs). As the world has changed and TNGOs' ambitions have expanded, the roles of TNGOs have shifted and their work has become more complex. To remain effective, legitimate, and relevant in the future necessitates organizational changes, but many TNGOs have been slow to adapt. As a result, the sector's rhetoric of sustainable impact and social transformation has far outpaced the reality of TNGOs' more limited abilities to deliver on their promises. Between Power and Irrelevance openly explores why this gap between rhetoric and reality exists and what TNGOs can do individually and collectively to close it. George E. Mitchell, Hans Peter Schmitz, and Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken argue that TNGOs need to change the fundamental conditions under which they operate by bringing their own "forms and norms" into better alignment with their ambitions and strategies. This book offers accessible, future-oriented analyses and lessons-learned to assist practitioners and other stakeholders in formulating and implementing organizational changes. Drawing upon a variety of perspectives, including hundreds of interviews with TNGO leaders, firsthand involvement in major organizational change processes in leading TNGOs, and numerous workshops, training institutes, consultancies, and research projects, the book examines how to adapt TNGOs for the future.

Improve communication skills and watch productivity soar!

In today’s fast-paced, sound byte world, effective communication is still the foundation of organization success. Clear communication helps to develop interpersonal understanding and enhances a person’s ability to understand and solve complicated problems. Work teams, in particular, rely on their members to communicate effectively.

Despite this obvious need, communication inside and outside of organizations is frequently ineffective. Two difficulties are often the culprits: sharing information and finding common ground.

The Communication Skills Profile was designed to help people who want to gain a thorough knowledge of the processes of communication and to improve their effectiveness as communicators. It focuses on two main areas essential for effective communication:

• Expressing one’s opinions effectively
• Listening to and understanding others

After completing the 48-item self assessment and scoring the responses, participants are instructed to draw up an individual profile based on the author's six-axis model. Each axis in the model corresponds to one of the six essential aspects of effective communication.

Participants will learn how to:

• Slow down their thought process
• Make themselves understood
• Test their conclusions
• Listen constructively
• Get to the bottom of things without interrogating
• Explore disagreement

Everything you need to conduct a successful 2- to 3-hour communications training module is inside this single workbook. Purchase one copy for yourself and one copy for each participant. The workbook includes:

• A 48-item questionnaire (takes approximately 10-20 minutes to complete)
• Scoring instructions (scoring takes approximately 10-15 minutes to complete)
• Profile interpretation and analysis
• Action planning guide

Both individuals and groups will find the Communication Skills Profile to be extremely useful and informative. Individuals will be able to identify areas for improvement; groups can use the tool to assess both individual team members as well as the group as a whole. All participants will be given the opportunity to develop the skills to listen and convey important information clearly and effectively!