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What is the true meaning of quality? How can you influence positive attitudes towards quality within the workplace? Leading Quality teaches you how to influence and align your company’s definition of quality, so that you can deliver the best possible experience to your clients. You will learn the techniques successful leaders use to make their strategic decisions and you will be given the tools to ensure that your team is in alignment to achieving common goals.

Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept of "good management" derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase efficiency. But this assumption is based on a presentist, monocultural, and generally limited view of management's past. A New History of Management disputes these foundations. By reassessing conventional perspectives on past management theories and providing a new critical outline of present-day management, it highlights alternative conceptions of "good management".

Do you ever struggle with feelings of insecurity or doubt? That’s a trick question - we ALL deal with issues of self-esteem at one point or another. However, there is a better way! In this program, you’ll learn from the experts and transform your fears and anxiety into rock-solid confidence and success.

When a sweet married couple find themselves in financial hot water, they decide to become burglars. Two problems: First, they stink at it. Second, the owner of the first house they try to rob, a doctor, catches them in the act, takes one look at the scared woman's behind, and says he won't call the police if she agrees to allow his medical school anatomy class to examine her! And he doesn't hold back in making sure that her embarrassment is taken to the nth degree!

It took what seemed but half a day's travelling to traverse the 28,000 years that separated Loto Rogers from the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. He had expected to find mighty cities and a flowering civilisation in that future world, but instead he found only ice and snow—and Azeela. In a frozen wasteland where humanity clings to survival amid brutal tribes and ancient secrets, young inventor Loto must master the ultimate frontier: time itself.

This novel is about a woman trapped behind her self-imposed "Walls of Jericho." With her fears to expose the truth, continuing to conceal a deception so as to protect her family's name and her loathing of the masquerade called her marriage, she falls prey to the devil's will and is destined to live a life of dread and anxiety. That is until a modern-day Joshua reappears and, through his strength, love, faith, and patience, brings her into the light.

Help my brothers with the club “deliveries” over the holiday season, then head back south where it’s nice and warm. I didn’t plan on the snowstorm or running into a familiar face at the local gym. I haven’t seen Jace in over a year, but we’ve been friends for far longer than that. When he offers me a place to stay with him and his wife, I figure it’s better than freezing my ass off in the woods. But it’s more than that… They have a secret. A secret that involves me. And now, none of us will ever be the same.

Full of mid-century science-fiction wonder, cosmic imagination, and bold adventure, Beyond the Stars is Ray Cummings at his most visionary—an exploration of the infinite, the unknown, and the mind-shattering possibilities that lie just outside the reach of human understanding.

Gemma was not going back to Earth. Stolen and sold to aliens? Gemma’s impulsive nature and temper has gotten her into some sticky spots, but this was the literal worst. Even her rescue is bungled. Get married or go home. An easy choice. What's better protection than a huge muscular alien warrior? Zalis is the meanest, baddest thing she's ever seen. He’ll keep the monsters away. But is her safety worth taking away his choice too? He wants a love match. But he’ll accept a marriage of convenience. For now. Gemma chose him because she wants protection.

When a large deposit of an immensely valuable mineral has been located on Earth's moon, an expedition has been sent to mine it in secret. But when the secret gets out, underhanded elements of the people of Mars, Venus, and Earth launch their own secret plot to hijack the claim and make a fortune. It is up to our hero, Gregg Haljan, and his trusted ally Snap Dean to safeguard Earth's acquisition of the Moon treasure and protect the brave men of the expedition from... the BRIGANDS OF THE MOON!

Written in 1901, this anthology contains stories such as The Story of the Beginning, Odin’s Reward, The Hammer of Thor, and The Punishment of Loki. As the gods of Asgard continue to permeate pop culture, this book will send you back to the origin of these myths.

In her second one-hour Comedy Central special, taped at the Barclay Theatre in Irvine, CA, Cummings shares brutally honest insights about love and relationships, covering everything from what real orgasms look like, to her frustration at men calling women "crazy." In front of a packed audience, she dissects her recent breakup, her TV show, and the troubling voices in her head. This extended and uncensored version is sure to keep you laughing for days.

The year is 2061. The Red Dragon Crime Syndicate is king, and for all those lucky enough to be members of this crime family, life is damn good. Well, not for everyone.... For two entry-level gangsters in Tharsis City, Mars, life in the Syndicate isn’t quite all guns and glamour. That’s right. Long before they were mortal enemies, Spike Spiegel and Vicious were just two friends clawing their way up the crime ladder and trying to have a little fun while doing it. But when an opportunity to pull a job for their boss arises, it’s make-or-break time.

Money Shot finds Cummings riffing on a wide range of topics - chiefly, the differences between men and women and how both tend to behave in relationships.

It was supposed to be a night to get drunk, a night to get stoned, a night to get laid. But at an after-hours party in a house on the rich side of town, an old acquaintance has walked out of the darkness, dragging the past with him. The meeting is no chance affair, and it can only mean that someone is gunning for Nicki Valentine, someone who's used to getting what he wants and who has the means to take it, whatever the cost.

An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic thriller by Lindsay Cummings, co-author (with Sasha Alsberg) of the New York Times #1 Bestseller Zenith. This is the dark and compelling sequel to The Murder Complex, which Booklist praised as “carefully crafted . . . chilling,” and which Justine...

Conner De la Croix watches his wife, Karolina, wither and die an agonizing death from cancer. He struggles with her loss until someone unexpectedly enters his life pulling him out of his depression and into the world of the paranormal. Through a series of strange events, revelations, discoveries, twists and turns, Conner changes fundamentally, and as the Alpha male comes out in him, passions erupt, and revenge and death are sure to follow!

The Apocalypse was not supposed to rest on Jessica Norgren's shoulders. When the struggling law clerk finds herself pregnant with no possible human father, she learns more than she ever wanted to know about angels and demons. With her best friend, Tsung Li, to help her navigate this tough new terrain, she finds herself mixed up with Watchers, archangels, succubi, athletes and Buddhist monks in a confusing melange of hope and fear.

The year is 1969. The place - somewhere in the Pacific. Following a wild and sexy mishap aboard the Trump family yacht, 23-year-old Donald finds himself on a tropical island which just happens to be inhabited by seven stranded castaways! Among those castaways are two of the most lusted-after lovelies this side of Pogo Pogo - gorgeous movie star Gina LaPlante and farm girl extraordinaire Mary Lynn Saunders.

It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission. An outraged music industry pushed Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation. Yes, that time is now; it was also the era of Napster in the 1990s, of cassette tapes in the 1970s, of reel-to-reel tapes in the 1950s, even the phonograph epoch of the 1930s. Piracy, it turns out, is as old as recorded music itself. In Democracy of Sound, Alex Sayf Cummings uncovers the little-known history of music piracy and its sweeping effects on the definition of copyright in the United States.