Throw Your Stuff Off the Plane


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A guide to making the leap from imposed accountability to personal commitment for both individuals and organizations. Accountability — we all want the people around us to be responsible, reveal genuine commitment, keep their word, and stay away from blaming others. But organizational systems that aim to institutionalize accountability don’t quite go all the way. People are people. They have their own wants and needs, their own psychological tangles, and they often don’t particularly want to be held accountable, let alone confront others who have let them down. Throw Your Stuff Off the Plane is here to help. It reveals the missing ingredient organizations usually overlook: personal responsibility. It’s an approach to self-improvement for each reader, centring on untangling the conflicting thoughts that block personal responsibility. And it’s a guide for every leader who wants to go all the way.




The Greenhouse Approach


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Challenging the status quo, Chitra Anand's The Greenhouse Approach distils the author's research and experience in the technology sector, gained over more than twenty years, into a simple guide to how to shift corporate culture, identify the true agents of change within a company, and assemble top-notch teams.




Government Digital


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Governments all over the world are consistently outpaced by digital change, and are falling behind. Digital government is a better performing government. It is better at providing services people and businesses need. Receiving benefits, accessing health records, registering companies, applying for licences, voting — all of this can be done online or through digital self-service. Digital technology makes government more efficient, reduces hassle, and lowers costs. But what will it take to make governments digital? Good governance will take nothing short of a metamorphosis of the public sector. With contributions from industry, academic, and government experts — including Hillary Hartley, chief digital officer for Ontario, and Salim Ismail, founder of Singularity University — Government Digital lays down a blueprint for this radical change.




A Sound of Freedom


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Troubled by a large number of KGB agents operating freely in the US, the lackadaisical attitude of the general population, and the media's irresponsible depiction of communism, an ex-double agent sets out to use all he has learned in his position as a captain in the KGB's western intelligence section. He was all that stood between the soviets and their plan to take control of the first test launch of the Peacekeeper--America's newest ICBM. The soviets aimed to destroy several cities along the southern California coast--an apparent accident. This, they surmised, would show America too incompetent and irresponsible to be allowed to develop high-tech weapons. The Soviet Union would become the world's only super power. The marine has his own demons to fight, both past and present. Complicating his life and his one man war against the KGB is the woman he met and fell in love with--she is a mystery.




Ways to the West


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In Ways to the West, Tim Sullivan embarks on a car-less road trip through the Intermountain West, exploring how the region is taking on what may be its greatest challenge: sustainable transportation. Combining personal travel narrative, historical research, and his professional expertise in urban planning, Sullivan takes a critical yet optimistic and often humorous look at how contemporary Western cities are making themselves more hospitable to a life less centered on the personal vehicle. The modern West was built by the automobile, but so much driving has jeopardized the West’s mystic hold on the American future. At first, automobility heightened the things that made the West great, but love became dependence, and dependence became addiction. Via his travels by bicycle, bus, and train through Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Portland, Sullivan captures the modern transportation evolution taking place across the region and the resulting ways in which contemporary Western communities are reinterpreting classic American values like mobility, opportunity, adventure, and freedom. Finding a West created, lost, and reclaimed, Ways to the West will be of great interest to anyone curious about sustainable transportation and the history, geography, and culture of the American West.




Forged Through Trials


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Smuggler's Dues


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“Smuggler’s Dues” picks up where “Jealousy Burning” left off............. “No one can believe that Marty has dumped Mark and is now seeing Phillip, the guy who not only stalked her but also burned her house! What is she thinking?! In Smuggler’s Dues you will read how this came about and how the lure of easy money gets Phillip involved with a Mexican drug operation. You’ll enjoy the author’s development of the characters. See where it leads when Marty’s new affluent friends, Dee Dee and Bob introduce her to a higher way of living and get her hooked on Marijuana and cocaine. Smuggler’s Dues is an adventurous ride from the streets of a small suburb in Ohio to the gulf coast of Florida to the Yucatan peninsula and back. This story is hard to put down and has the ending to Phillip that you have waited for.”




Mommy Madness


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For the first time ever, New York Times bestselling author Stefanie Wilder-Taylor’s three whip-smart, practical, and hilarious parenting guides—now in one convenient ebook collection. Covering every stage of child rearing imaginable—from labor pains to growing pains and everywhere in between—this convenient ebook set offers readers access to all things parenting in one collection. The boxed set includes: Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay Friends, family, colleagues, the UPS delivery guy—suddenly everybody is a trove of advice, much of it contradictory and confusing. With dire warnings of what will happen if baby is fed on demand and even direr warnings of what will happen if he isn’t, not to mention hordes of militant “lactivists,” cosleeping advocates, and books on what to worry about next, modern parenthood can seem like a minefield. Here’s how you can separate the practical from the practically certifiable. Naptime Is the New Happy Hour Once the zig-zagging hormones and endless, bleary-eyed exhaustion of the first year have worn off, you’re left with the startling realization that your tiny, immobile bundle has become a rampaging toddler, complete with his or her very own, very forceful personality. How do you deal with that tiny bundle of joy that’s suddenly become, like, a real person? Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic From the moment life first drops us Hunger Games–style into parenthood with just a naked, crying stranger and Google for company, we’re taunted with scary studies and impassioned opinions about how to do it perfectly. You’re going to need a friend to give you a shoulder to cry on when times get rough, and to give you a smack upside the head when you start replacing Goldfish crackers for kale chips. Luckily, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor’s in the market for a new MFF: Mom Friend Forever.




Motorboating - ND


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Human Society


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FOR BOOK LOVERS ONLY I have a great best selling book just waiting to be discovered. It's call Human Society. By me Chris Garcia. A book about When I was in a foster home and the journey it took me to get to the Human Society a place ware KIDS get adopted the same way animals would,like when people take them to the Humane Society they would need to take some test to see if they are adopted able for society. I have Doctors doing the same test on kids. kids live in cages and hallway names like Confuse Inn,Clean Inn,and other Inns.The doctors choose what Inns. would best fit the child so they don't get into a fight with each other. It's like a prison to the kids that live there,They need to find a way out of this place. Going throw the hunted woods is a way. Little did I know my life would change this December. My parents were taken from me. I don't know why or why it had to happen to me. May be if I never went to the bathroom, I might of known.... Human Society, It's just like the humane society, but the opposite. If you find a kid wondering on the street, you must report him or her to the Human Society. They'll come get it day or night. It was around Christmas time, I was nine, little did I know my mom and dad was going to be taken from me. I don't know why they were taken or why it had to happen to me. Maybe if I never went to the bathroom, I would know. Well, my dad took me shopping for mom, we found an old bookstore and decided to try our luck there, she loved reading books. I found one and dad being dad didn't want to buy it because it's too much. I said it's for mom for Christmas. We went home and then out for dinner so we thought...................