Biologist and broadcaster Ben Garrod combs the natural world for causes, clues and cures to the dangerous threat of zoonoses - diseases passed from animals to humans.

Much of the workday, in mindshare and time, is dedicated to outer work: meetings with co-workers, interactions with customers, or working on a deck or other tangible deliverables. For most of us, this is the very definition of "work": external, externally-focused activity. Inner Work puts forth an assertion that is novel today, but that successful leaders have known for millennia: inner work--the practice of thoughtful attention to the inner experience of yourself and others--is "work" as well, and of crucial importance; not just as a question of wellness or employee satisfaction, but as the engine of a potential transformation in the efficacy (and, yes, happiness) of most organizational workplaces. Inner Work draws on a legacy of thought that spans both the Western and Eastern traditions to frame leadership, creativity, and work as an inner experience. For thousands of years across geographies and cultures, humans have understood that leadership and productivity depend on an individual's inner balance and understanding. The importance of these lessons in a knowledge economy is well understood today--from Netflix to Zappos to Google to Valve, leading companies are constantly seeking to create value by empowering employees to unlock their own potential. And for the individual--leader, employee, or both--the need is even more urgent and plain: how can you create more value in your work for your human life?Inner Work is a book about self-exploration; it's also a toolkit for how to improve. Its assertion is that, by looking into ourselves with rigor and integrity, we each have the power to achieve both these goals. This is a book that will help leaders and employees create value for themselves and their organizations by actively exploring their own inner processes, values, and mental models: the tools we use, constantly, to operate in the world.

Life isn't easy when you're single, pushing 50, and still haunted by the ghosts of your rock 'n' roll past--but if anyone can find the funny in it, Sunset Strip video vixen Brown can. Hilarious, sweet, and bitingly honest, Cherry On Top reveals how one gorgeous, potty-mouthed blonde took back Hollywood in middle age, and embarked on a fresh search for love--one fart joke at a time.at a time.

The 800-plus pages of this four-color book mark a milestone in European travel writing. It was Arthur Frommer who first set off an avalanche of travel to Europe, and whose subsequent writings and commentary have constantly expanded that market. And now Arthur Frommer has himself edited (and written personal introductions to) this definitive guidebook to every major nation of the continent. It contains his own insightful (and often controversial) advice and his views are supplemented by the current recommendations of the top experts and European specialists of Frommer's staff. Arthur Frommer, and his hand-picked experts, have created a classic guidebook that will be cherished and used by the many millions who regard him as the foremost expert on thoughtful and rewarding European travel.

Pauline Everett explores how surrogacy is presented in three secular and three Church reports by focussing upon the surrogate, the commissioning couple and the child. She explores the key theological and ethical objections to surrogacy, namely: that it undermines motherhood, involves baby selling, coercion, exploitation and commodification. Everett analyses motherhood and reflects on a secular approach and a Christian approach. She examines whether paid surrogacy commodifies, exploits and coerces the participants; and its theological understanding seeing human beings as created in the image of God and as having dignity. Everett explores whether paid surrogacy involves baby selling, and uses Augustine and Aquinas to illustrate the concepts of the self and other; arguing that self-interest and altruism can co-exist with care for the self and the other in a relational framework without detriment. She concludes with presenting three models towards surrogacy, and asks for a more sophisticated ontology of the relationship between the self and the other, calling for various solutions in a surrogacy custody battle.

The intent of the text is not to focus on the tools and techniques of asset management since these are dealt with extensively within other guidance documents and textbooks, but to place those within a strategic and tactical context of organisational development in asset management. Importantly, by bringing together international best practice and research, together with critically related knowledge domains that underpin the landscape of the discipline, the intent is to address the development of asset management capabilities within organisations and the challenges of deploying asset management skills in organisations. This is a particularly important challenge in developed and emerging economies.In broad terms the book will integrate:* concepts of strategic management with those of asset management, portfolio, programme, and project management* notions of the 'Intelligent Client'* creation and enhancement of organisational capabilities in AM as an organisational change initiative

Manual of Urgent and Emergent Dermatology

This book traces the roots of local government in Bangladesh and examines the contemporary issues and challenges which have limited the role and effectiveness of the concerned institutions.

Three book boxed set of The Mandalorian Art & Imagery Vol. 1 & 2 and The Guide to Season One.

Showcasing a host of bold and new talents who are breathing new life into the scene with their unique styles and creativity, the 2nd edition of Victionary's book on tattoo art is one to add to the collection.

This book presents a rich selection of paintings, sculptures, films, photographs and fashion of time, and showcases the extraordinary creativity in Paris from the mid-19th century to mid-20th century. The catalogue traces the development of artistic modernity and its repercussions on society over the course of a century, highlighting the crucial role played by international cross influences and the phenomenal cultural melting pot. Bringing together approximately 150 masterpieces, the book presents an exceptional moment, portrayed through the work around 100 artists including Renoir, Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Giacommetti, Delaunay, Brassaî, Chagall, Mirò, and Duchamp. In addition to significant works from Qatar Museums collections, which have not been published before.

An exclusive illustrated view of Plan B's life in the spotlight, including photographs from Gavin Watson.

The chilling new novel from Jason Arnopp, author of the critically acclaimed The Last Days of Jack Sparks.

When an erupting Icelandic volcano grounds all flights in and out of Europe, four vacationing Americans are forced to reckon with the problems they'd hoped to leave behind in Barcelona.

Cocktail books are perfect for seasonal and gifting, here combined with the party theme of rock and pop music

Popular music is rich in imaginative storytelling, from the songs of music hall, and street narratives of hip-hop to the 1970s heyday of the concept album. As an even broader audiovisual practice, including music video, sleeve art and star-texts of performers themselves, the possibilities for unique ways of telling stories multiply - capturing the public imagination more recently are examples like Beyoncé's recent visual album Lemonade and experiments in popular music transmedia like Gorillaz. While music's role as soundtrack for other narrative media has been extensively theorised, relatively little attention has been paid to how narrativity works within popular music itself. By building on writing around narrativity from popular music scholars, applying concepts from the storyworlds literature to music and vice versa, this book connects these two disciplines. It provides fresh takes on well-known case studies from David Bowie and The Beatles to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds, while introducing the reader to lesser known examples from global popular music culture. Providing a long overdue overview of narrativity in popular music culture, this book connects the dots between innovative and exciting examples across its history.