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What if strategy could instead be clear, simple, bold, and even actually useful? That’s what No Bullsh*t Strategy is all about. It sweeps away all the garbled corporate nonsense and dry academic theorising to leave you with pure strategic sauce, which can be actioned right away. It’ll make you see your business in a totally new light, and effortlessly unlock insights you didn’t know you had in you. Even better, it makes strategy fun.

Could the gruesome murder of a newly promoted detective be linked to a number of unrelated crimes? Inflexible and rule following, can DI Jim Kendall change his ways in time to save his career? The investigation takes a dark turn when several murders are carried out by mercenaries associated with a notorious Romanian gang known for their gruesome landmark assassinations. The gang capitalises on fear to hinder the investigation, making it impossible for the team to piece together the puzzle.

This compulsive novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death, and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably obtained company emails, chat transcripts, TED Talks, training sessions, and more, this all-too-probable future pits emotionally intelligent AI against emotionally stunted humans.

In the quiet seaside village of Sable, something is stirring. Reclusive artist Jason Harding has retreated there to recover from a past trauma. Lifeboat man Rob Woodhead returned because Sable is his home. Disgruntled weathergirl Vicky West is on her way to interview windsurfers for her satellite TV channel. All of them will be brought together by a freak storm, one that remains stationary over the ocean and seems almost alive. What happens next will rock the entire community to its core....

Our world faced extermination by a group of infected meteoroids from space, which carried an infection that turned ordinary people into rabid killers. This is a record of how two estranged twin brothers survived the apocalypse. One brother planned for the survival of our species and made ready for the world to come on a small island in Scotland, persevering despite having to manage the utter disbelief of the people around him. The other, having survived a harrowing cacophony of life events, learned to harness his anger and channel it to help those who survived.

How can Paul persuade his friends to help him prepare for an imminent zombie-like fungal infection? Who on Earth would believe him? Why is a lone alien forewarning him?

Acting on a recommendation from a former business associate, Saltair and Krenik travel to the Iguazu System. The deal promises to be one of their most lucrative yet. But upon their arrival, they find Outpost 47 completely deserted. Despite Krenik's reluctance, the pair land their ship on the moon's surface and begin exploring. There are no signs of struggle or death, and no bodies lie anywhere.

I have almost accomplished my life-long dream. I’m a racing driver in the best racing team out there, and I’m happy. Am I better than some of the other drivers? Maybe, but I’ve been content to stay out of the limelight... until I see him at the club, that is. I know at that moment I shouldn’t spend the night with him, but I do, anyway. That one decision is going to change my whole life; I just wasn’t sure when. Now, I’m being forced to decide if I want to go forward and complete my dream or stay content living in the shadows.

The final thrilling instalment of the Summer Haven trilogy. Facing immanent invasion, can the remnants of a post-apocalyptic Earth defeat an army of slavers, who are impervious to modern weaponry? Can they trust the remaining Dark Ones who have been supposedly healed from their brain washing and indoctrination? Can the enemy of your enemy really become your friend? The population of Earth had largely been exterminated in an attempt to wipe intelligent life from the planet, in preparation for occupation by an alien species.

The events leading up to the genocide of the human race were complex; more so than we realised. Unknown to us, aliens had walked our planet for decades, engineering the extermination of the human race. The infection and the defence at Summer Haven were parts of a greater and more intricate plot.

In 1886, Ingledene was the scene of the brutal deaths of a greengrocer and his wife at each other's hands. 138 years later, the house had lain empty for almost a decade with nobody willing to enter the dark and rotting home. That is until author River Johnson and her husband Cole arrive in the Devon town of Smallwood, looking for their ideal home. Their budget is far smaller than the average property values, but when Cole notices a joint listing for Ingledene and the greengrocers in the high street, the price is too good to pass up.

A brand-new collection of 40 original music stories from award-winning storyteller Alex M. Stein. These stories, memories, essays, parables, and passionate rants about records, concerts, heartache, radio, love, and life's unexpected victories take you to school dances, used-record stores, packed concert halls, and empty recording studios to explore the ways music seeps into our bones and propels us through life.

In 21 and a half pieces of short fiction, the writer/director of Mush: The Movie explores the broad terrain of sled-dog racing and take you inside the minds of dogs and mushers. These unusual and unexpected perspectives on the world of mushing include the wide-eyed thrill of puppies, the bittersweet memories of a dog running his last race, the meandering thoughts of an ancient river, the hopes of a Widow’s Lamp, a Robert Service-like ode to spirits haunting a frozen stretch of sea ice, the joys of different kinds of victories, and even a rebuttal from a jealous cat.

A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wit and grace—by a major new literary voice hailed as a “groundbreaking debut novelist” (Publishers Weekly) “[A]...

When Saltair and Krenik decide they need to start collecting more resources than the wider galaxy can now provide, they decide to head to the one place that nobody goes. The Sol System. In 2151, Earth was destroyed by a group of renegades known only as 'The Decimators'. Since then, multiple planets have died and crumbled, and gravimetric disturbances are off the scale. However, the area is rich in minerals. Enough to make the pair take early retirement.

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness? At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diabolical purposes?

Im BDSM Keller von V (gesprochen Wie) lernt die gerade 18 gewordene, junge Olga, die harten und spannungsgeladenen Seiten der Elektro-Stimulation kennen. Und zwar an Mann und Frau. Vieles erlebt, sieht und schmeckt sie heute das erste Mal. Schreie vor Schmerz, die aber Ausdruck der Lust sind. Fremd für sie, aber faszinierend. Schaut euch auch die Bücher der geilen Krankenschwester Anna an.

Max lädt ein paar Freunde zu einer Pokerrunde ein. Doch beim Pokern hat Max kein Glück: Um weiter dabei zu sein, muss er Lisa als Pokereinsatz setzen. Was Lisa aber zuerst nicht lustig findet, endet später im Spaß für alle Beteiligten.

The Decimators have succeeded. Everything in the galaxy is either dead or dying. All hope destroyed. That is until a reality-wandering Syl'Va discovers that these events were never meant to happen. Interference from a supernatural creature altered the course of history, and the only way to save the future is to repair the past. The final story in the Resurrection arc brings the tale full circle and sets up the beginning of the end for the Dark Corner Series.

10 Years later... Deltaria is gone. Wiped from existence by the same evil group of rogue human clones that destroyed Earth all those years ago. The Decimators have begun destroying every planet, colony and species moving from one to the next, slowly being driven insane by their failing minds — the fatal flaw in the Resurrection project. But rumours are abound across the galaxy of an organisation building towards a resistance. Known only as 'The Unity', every surviving species begin making their way to their proposed salvation.