San Antonio, TX Jim's award-winning poetry has been published in six languages. He received a GOLD record for his album, Acoustic Street. He is an autopsy pathologist and lectures on Grief Psychology.

Rupert Craine is a wealthy, cultured banker, and art collector. Something strange occurs when drawings byhis wife’s first husband suddenly appear on the market and a telegram summons Craine and his wife to Italy. There, the past grotesquely and irresistibly explodes into the present.

This practical guide to facilitating planning meetings will enable you to effectively jump-start your projects and lead to success. Rigorous planning is vital to your project execution and success. Projects are often multifunctional, requiring input from various stakeholders. Project planning often tends to be done piecemeal or not at all, often leading to missing and/or incomplete information and correspondingly poor results. This book will show you how to do it right. How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings is a guide to help you plan your projects by showing you how to effectively facilitate productive face-to-face kickoff sessions (both in person and virtual) and ongoing planning meetings. Effective planning meetings will help you not only develop key artifacts but also provide continuous team building. You’ll also learn about the impacts of culture (organizational and global) on team dynamics and discover methods to ameliorate these impacts. A case study of building a sustainable house will help you understand the concepts and grasp the terminology. The book will also feature dozens of illustrative stories (from the authors as well as other practicing project managers) that will illustrate meeting techniques that went well (or not so well). Numerous templates, sample schedules, and checklists round out the value of this book in helping you facilitate effective meetings.

Duncan Pattullo arrives in Oxford, where the adventures start. Stewart covers all of his favourite subjects and places; the arts, learning, mystery and intrigue, whilst ranging from Oxford through Scotland and the inevitable Italian venue. This second volume of the acclaimed ‘Staircase in Surrey’ series can be read as a standalone novel.

Scorp and Scorpianna are mysterious assassins looking for answers about their past and their inhuman fighting abilities. Scorp was recruited for the Pentagon team from the CIA, highly skilled in exotic martial arts of an unknown style, he carries a spring loaded stick weapons that can unfold into a number of different configurations. Scorpianna worked with the British MI-6, after a tough childhood as an orphan and mercenary. As beautiful as she is deadly, she uses her amazing agility and lethal bionic tail to take down dangerous criminals and terrorists SCORP & SCORPIANNA: DEADLY DEPTHS The Albino sibling assassins find themselves out of their depth as they search for their heritage only to discover monsters, death and a forgotten tribe! This comic is a digital first and not available as a webcomic! Read it first on Google Play.

Written immediately after Vanity Fair, Pendennis has a similar atmosphere of brooding disillusion, tempered by the most jovial of wits. But here Thackeray plunders his own past to create the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London. The result is a superbly panoramic blend of people, action and background. The true ebb and flow of life is caught and the credibility of Pen, his worldly uncle, the Major, and many of the other characters, extends far beyond the pages of the novel. Held together by Thackeray's flowing, confident prose, with its conversational ease of tone, Pendennis is as rich a portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s as it is a thorough and thoroughly entertaining self-portrait.

Struggling with ineffective project meetings? You’re not alone. 67% of executives believe their virtual meetings are failures. Only 17% of senior managers find their meetings productive. A mere 30% of meetings are considered productive, with only 37% using an agenda. Want to create happier, more successful project teams? Better-run meetings are the key. As project leaders, we often dislike, avoid, and fail to properly plan meetings. This practical guide will help you facilitate project meetings and build cohesive teams, making your meetings more productive and yielding better project results. In this book, you’ll discover: How improving traditional PM meetings and Agile events can enhance continuous team building, making you a better project leader. Strategies to overcome challenges in managing conflict, with real-world stories from fellow project leaders. Practical, time-tested techniques to handle disruptive participants (goblins e.g., “Billy the Bully”) who derail your meetings. Aligned with PMI’s PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition, this book will help you achieve project success in today’s environment - hybrid in several ways – in-person and virtual, predictive and Agile, AI and human.

The Consultant's Guide to SAP SRM/EBP Configuration and Programming The heavy integration and amount of technical knowledge required to master SAP's SRM/EBP product is staggering, but also makes configuring and programming a challenge. Now, for the first time, a world class SAP consultant reveals his "secret handshake" solutions to real-world configuration and progarmming tasks in SAP/SRM EBP, and SAP Business Workflow. Much more than just a rehash of system documentation and training, the author explores topics and techniques that are simply not covered, or not covered as clearly, elsewhere. From implementing the basic system to debugging the most involved problems, dozens of examples show you just how to do it - or how to do it better! Key topics include Little known configuration options Undocumented transaction codes Important OSS notes and patches Workflow and approval implementation scenarios Using the ITS debug facility

The definitive biography of James Joyc. Stewart covers both Joyce’s life and works and gets to the heart of the influences in each of the various ‘periods’ in his writing. There is also included an extensive bibliography for further reference.