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In dog sledding, they say unless you’re the lead dog the scenery never changes. But what is leadership? What is a leader? Whether you want to successfully lead a team or lead yourself, you need to be clear on these definitions. What Is Leadership? is a multisession leadership retreat in a box. Why spend $20,000 to hire one expert for your meeting when your team can benefit from expert perspectives for the same price as a business lunch?

Longtime detective partners TJ Samms and Shane Jordan are called out to a crime scene in North Seattle. At first, the case appears to be a run-of-the-mill shooting, but quickly turns into something far more complicated. The investigation that follows will alter the lives of everyone involved, and in the end, nothing will ever be the same for the men and women of Seattle Homicide.

For many years, John C. Maxwell has equipped and inspired Christians to attain the highest levels of effective leadership through his conferences and books. Maxwell believes leadership determines an organization's growth. More specifically, empower people within the group to become leaders. Designed for both small and large groups, this audiobook has everything necessary to equip anyone who wants to reproduce leaders.

Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has 10 stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they earn a heroic victory amongst the endless eternity of space, or are they doomed to fall into obscurity?

You will not get very far in life without knowing your life mission. Can yours be stated in a sentence or two? A good way to begin formulating one is with some questions. What is your passion? What have you achieved? What have you done uncommonly well? How are you wired? Where do you belong? These and other questions like them will direct you toward the self your heart longs for; they will help you discover the task for which you were especially made.

In the kingdom of Brightmoor, a grim future seems certain for Raina Radburne. Political marriage, taken with an unhealthy dose of duty and stoicism, awaits her - until a chance meeting with a curious red dragon throws her life into welcome disarray. A world full of magic and adventure lies ahead, but red dragons are not without enemies, and keeping their company can be dangerous....

There is one particular thing that works faster and more consistently than anything else to bring your mind and body into balance. This audio program from best-selling authors tells you what it is. Reducing the stress levels in your life will save you money, improve relationships, and get your life back into balance. This short audio program shows you how to do that, while you get more things done listening to this program during your commute.

An elderly farmer learns the horrifying truth beyond the phrase “True love never dies”. Something sinister lurks behind the distant eyes of a mother’s traumatized son. And a gravedigger slowly descends into madness, as he grows obsessed with the corpse of a little girl.... Scare Street’s latest collection shines a flickering candle on the terrifying forces of darkness that haunt our dreams. Death, madness, obsession.... The darker side of the human psyche is revealed with each bone-chilling chapter of these 14 macabre tales.

A report of a body sends homicide detective Peter Brandt to a murder scene in one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. Without realizing it, he has just stepped into the case of his life. It will take all his experience and skill to find a killer unlike anyone he's encountered.

The brutal murders of a young couple send Detective Carrie Lloyd and her partner, Guy Maclin, into a South Memphis neighborhood on New Year's Eve. The confusing crime scene gives them little to go on, and progress is slow. In a case that will test their resolve and leave them questioning their decisions, the detectives must put aside their own feelings to solve a twisted case of Memphis Homicide.

An airline pilot arrives home on Easter Sunday to discover his wife's lifeless body. Experienced detective Kate Walker, and her young partner Tanner Austin, are assigned the case. They have little to go on, and their frustration quickly builds. When a second body turns up, it only deepens the mystery. Fearing there are more victims to come, the detectives push themselves to unravel a bizarre case of Denver Homicide.

When John Campbell was hired in 1996, Michael Dell’s company was already a hyper-efficient technology upstart. By the time he left Dell in 2017, Michael’s little Texas-based catalog computer company had grown from 5,000 to 138,000 employees and evolved into one of the largest technology providers on the planet!

Have you ever had the drive to do "whatever it takes" to lead your team to success? Hear what leadership expert Maxwell has to say on this important topic. Few of us are natural-born leaders. Fortunately the traits of leadership can be acquired. In this power-packed audio program, you'll learn what it takes to inspire, motivate, and influence others by understanding the characteristics that set "leader managers" apart.

無論任何人，我都相信你具有領導特質，而且有絕佳的領導能力。這是《紐約時報》暢銷作者約翰．麥斯威爾在他書中想要傳達的訊息。《領導力101》中，出色的領導者會提供簡潔但能激發靈感的概念，讓你原先具備的領導能力又更上一層樓。本書提供以下各個學習要點....

¿Puede la ciencia explicarlo todo? Es una pregunta interesante que John Lennox y mucha gente piensa que sí. La ciencia y las tecnologías que ha generado han aportado mucho al mundo: agua limpia; más comida; mejor asistencia sanitaria; vida más larga. Y vivimos en una época de rápido progreso científico que promete resolver muchos de los problemas que enfrentamos como humanidad.

Coffin Blossoms. A reminder that hope does spring eternal. In death itself, there is often beauty, life, and on rare occasions, even humor. The 24 stories in this anthology straddle the line between humor and horror in unique ways. Some wearing a wry smile. Others with tongue firmly in cheek. Ghosts, demons, vampires, myths, monsters, and murderers turned on their heads and shaken ‘til dizzy, then presented for you here, in Coffin Blossoms....

A patrol officer doing a welfare check stumbles onto a horrific scene. The shaken officer calls for help, and Detective Shawn Mitchell responds. His suspect list grows quickly, but the motive eludes him. When the case invades his personal life, Shawn will stop at nothing to solve a brutal case of Charleston Homicide.

There be pirates in the vast void of space! Does not the poet say: "Beware the strangeness of the stranger. Unknown things bring unknown danger?" The noble ship Procrustes was silent as a ghost. Warships can be silent if they are slow; only their missiles need speed. And so it was silently, slowly, that the Procrustes approached the stranger's cold vessel.

Professor of Egyptology and director of the Yale Egyptological Institute John C. Darnell delves into the history of Ancient Egypt from the Predynastic Period through the end of the New Kingdom. In these lectures, Professor Darnell shows that, despite common perceptions, Pharaonic Egyptian civilization existed within a multicultural society subject to disparate geological environments-and that its strength lay in the balancing of contrasting groups and goals.

Detective Tony Fernandez is called out to a small home in an idyllic Phoenix neighborhood, but finds an unspeakable horror - one of the most disturbing crime scenes of his career. With little to go on, and a confusing list of people connected to the victim, he finds the truth to be elusive. Is he on the trail of a serial killer, or is the murderer someone much closer to home? In what becomes the supreme test of his investigative skills, Tony must find the tiny details that will reveal his killer and solve a troubling case of Phoenix Homicide.