Nancy Bober
2) Bull Vaulter
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Bull Vaulter is an absorbing novel, particularly appropriate for our time, set in 2100 BCE, that interweaves adventure, passion, love, wisdom, and women's goddess spirituality as practiced some 4,000 years ago on Keft (Ancient Crete) and Kalliste (Santorini). Ms. Tieken was inspired by the writings of the late UCLA archeologist/mythologist Dr. Marija Gimbutas and the excavations of Akrotiri on Santorini by Dr. Christos Doumas and the late Dr. Spyridon...
3) Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption
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Notes to the 2nd edition:
This second edition reflects such updates as: the new Agile Fluency Model, the renaming / rebranding of Statoil to Equinor, and some small additions to complexity. We also enhanced the description of Organizational Open Space and explain how it differs from Liberating Structures.
Enjoy insights in the book shared by Jez Humble, Diana Larsen, James Shore, Johanna Rothman, and Bjarte Bogsnes. Find out what Spotify, ING, Ericsson,...
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From the Windowpane is a book about a little girl named Alyssa. She is experiencing many feelings during the lockdown due to the Covid 19 pandemic. She looks out the window and reflects on everything that is happening and the new rules in place – washing your hands, social distancing, and wearing masks. She's also missing her school classes and her friends. As she looks outside through the windowpane, she sees a tree and thinks about the freedom...
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Boston, 1829. Julia Webster has grown up the daughter of the renowned senator Daniel Webster and is confronted with her world turning upside down. Still grieving the loss of her mother, she learns her widowed father plans to marry a woman he barely seems to know himself.
As she wrestles with this new reality, she learns more than she counted on about her father's work. Treasured memories of her late mother's philanthropic efforts toward Native American...
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Preventing Domestic Homicides: Lessons Learned from Tragedies focuses on the diverse nature of domestic homicides and what has been learned about the most effective prevention strategies from emerging research and the work of domestic violence death review committees in Canada, the US, the UK, NZ and AU. Each chapter focuses on different populations-specifically older women, youth dating relationships, indigenous women, immigrant and refugee populations,...
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"What happens when you jam almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with society's cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill, purposefully hidden from public view and named after the family of a judge who sent escaped slaves and free Black men to plantations in the South? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross-section of lives Rikers has touched-from detainees...