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Saturday Night Supper Club novels volume 3
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"Analyn Sanchez can handle the long hours and arrogant clients that come with her job as a crisis management associate at Denver's largest publicity firm. The high-powered job, expensive condo, and designer wardrobe are all part of her plan to prove to her family that her life choices haven't been in vain. But when she's asked to cover up a client's misdeeds with serious moral and legal ramifications, she can no longer sacrifice her conscience for...
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"In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...
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2017.
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"Many children have to cope with complicated and disruptive situations. Often the classroom becomes the most stable environment. Learn to embrace disruptive change, address it with professionalism, and utilize strategies to affect the direction of children's lives in a positive way and give them a fighting chance to succeed. Dr. Jane Humphries has decades of experience in early childhood education, including being a child care director of a program...
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"In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals...
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2019.
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"Manage every business problem like you were born for it -- from a problem customer to a career-threatening crisis It's not being negative or pessimistic to assume that something will always go wrong in business and in your career. It's being realistic. What you do when crisis hits is the only thing matters -- and this proven guide delivers everything you need to take positive action with confidence, skill, and professionalism. In What to Do When...
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2020
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How to teach kids about emotions and feelings?Like teaching them everything else - using clear words, familiar situations, exciting pictures and a lot of hands-on activities (games, puzzles, coloring pages, etc.) One can, of course, spend time and find various resources online. Or one can get just one book.This book is an excellent educational source that has is all. The book includes a cute story that kids can relate to, beautiful illustrations that...
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2023.
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"In The Yellow Pad, former United States Secretary of the Treasury and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs Robert Rubin sets out a number of methods and processes that have guided him through moments of crisis. He offers both qualitative and quantitative ways of sifting through difficult economic and social problems, the sum of which is an original intellectual framework that can be applied to both the most global universal problems and the daily dilemmas...
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2022.
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In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises—global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. Today, Americans cannot reach consensus on any significant political issue, and US and Chinese leaders behave as if they’re locked in a new Cold War. We are squandering opportunities to meet the challenges...
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Op-Center volume 10
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c2003
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When a radio-active half-dead Singapore pirate is rescued from the Celebes Sea, Australian officials call the Op-Center team, who find a most unlikely terrorist.
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[2020]
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El mundo es sorprendido por una pandemia. Los centros de salud colapsan, el sistema educativo se ve amenazado y la estabilidad económica mundial cae. Todos intentan dar una respuesta a esta realidad que implica, no solo una recesión sino un cambio drástico en el corazón de las personas. Amaia está desesperada. Perdió a su abuelo a causa del virus. Su padre quedó varado en el dolor; y la vida de su hermano tambalea entre el alcohol y las drogas....
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[2019]
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Crises of all kinds impact us psychologically, emotionally, and physically. Learning to turn crises into opportunities, however, can lessen the negative impact and help us respond positively and constructively when life turns against us. This book shows us how to let go of a crisis mentality and develop an opportunity mindset in the face of crises.
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2022.
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"Kayyem amends the principles we rely on far too easily when it comes to crisis management. She offers us a new framework to anticipate disasters, highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and forward thinking we need to overcome them. She writes to alter our thinking so that we can develop effective strategies in the face of perpetual catastrophe."
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 7
Pub. Date
2000
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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When a mysterious cabal within the U.S. State Department causes tensions to erupt between Iran and Azerbaijan and plots to depose the President of the United States, Paul Hood and the Op-Center team must stop the conspiracy.