The air is lethal in Altenbyrne.There is no escaping the poisonous fog within the kingdom's walls. The river is infested with deadly grinderfish, and creatures beyond the walls prey on those who venture out. Without a lifemask, no one can survive. While the wealthy get all the lifemasks they need, people like Tristin and his sister, Makenna, only get one.After Tristin's disastrous attempt to steal a new mask for their dying mother, he and Makenna are forced to flee or face the king's Angel of Justice. They cross the treacherous river to where a ragtag group of outlaws live. Though they'll be safe there, Tristin dreams of a better life for all of them, and he's going to steal more masks from the rich to get it.But stealing lifemasks is punishable by death, and Tristin can't hide forever.The Angel is coming ...Join the author who brought you werewolves as pets in Tamed and the The Light of Epertase trilogy for a unique fantasy take on the classic Robin Hood theme in Death of the Grinderfish.
Life doesn't always stop at death.Supernatural suspense combines with psychological terror in this collection of six creepy tales exploring humanity's darkest impulses.A burned-out firefighter with PTSD receives a succession of ghostly visitors trying to help him face his demons before it's too late in a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens's famous A Christmas Carol. A solitary night janitor battles a sinister man in black. A firefighter fails to heed an otherworldly warning. A happily married man spirals into obsession over a comment by an internet troll. A man runs for his life down a dark country lane pursued by a stranger with murder in mind. A paramedic's haunting secret threatens to destroy her life.Written from the soul of a firefighter/paramedic who has seen his own struggles, A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories is an emotional rollercoaster from beginning to end.
Life doesn't always end at death.Supernatural suspense combines with psychological terror in this collection of six creepy tales exploring humanity's darkest impulses.A burned-out firefighter with PTSD receives a succession of ghostly visitors trying to help him face his demons before it's too late in a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens's famous A Christmas Carol. A solitary night janitor battles a sinister man in black. A firefighter fails to heed an otherworldly warning. A happily married man spirals into obsession over a comment by an internet troll. A man runs for his life down a dark country lane pursued by a stranger with murder in mind. A paramedic's haunting secret threatens to destroy her life.Written from the soul of a firefighter/paramedic who has seen his own struggles, A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories is an emotional rollercoaster from beginning to end.
In Tamed, werewolves were pets. In Untamed, they're prey. The WereHouse is closed for business and werepets trapped in their beastly forms roam the streets. Christine and Aiden set out to free as many as they can, but soon learn they're not the only ones on the hunt.A powerful enemy has been working in the shadows, building a new empire from the ashes of the WereHouse. They're cunning. They're connected. They want revenge. And a certain former rogue hunter is number one on their hit list.When Aiden walks into a trap, he is thrust into a desperate fight for his life while Christine risks everything to find him. If she can't reach him in time, there may be nothing left to save. In the second book of the Werepets Unleashed series, humans are the true monsters and only the untamed can survive.
The books in this series from the editors of the Food Service Professional are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today. These step-by-step guides on a specific management subject range from finding a great site for your new restaurant to how to train your wait staff and literally everything in between. They are easy and fast -to-read, easy to understand and will take the mystery out of the subject. The information is "boiled down" to the essence. They are filled to the brim with up-to-date and pertinent information. The books cover all the bases, providing clear explanations and helpful, specific information. All titles in the series include the phone numbers and web sites of all companies discussed. What you wont find are wordy explanations, tales of how someone did it better, or a scholarly lecture on the "theory". Every paragraph in each of the books is comprehensive, well researched, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read, yet are packed with interesting ideas.
The books in this series from the editors of the Food Service Professional are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today. These step-by-step guides on a specific management subject range from finding a great site for your new restaurant to how to train your wait staff and literally everything in between. They are easy and fast -to-read, easy to understand and will take the mystery out of the subject. The information is "boiled down" to the essence. They are filled to the brim with up-to-date and pertinent information. The books cover all the bases, providing clear explanations and helpful, specific information. All titles in the series include the phone numbers and web sites of all companies discussed. What you wont find are wordy explanations, tales of how someone did it better, or a scholarly lecture on the "theory". Every paragraph in each of the books is comprehensive, well researched, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read, yet are packed with interesting ideas.
Book and CD-ROM. The explosive growth of the pizza and sub shops across the country has been phenomenal. Take a look at these stats: Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or about 350 slices per second. Pizza is a $32+ billion per year industry. Pizza restaurant growth continues to outpace overall restaurant growth. Pizzerias represent 17 percent of all restaurants. Pizza accounts for more that 10 percent of all food service sales. Here is the manual you need to cash in on this highly profitable segment of the food service industry. This new book is a comprehensive and detailed study of the business side of the restaurant. This superb manual should be studied by anyone investigating the opportunities of opening a pizza or sub restaurant. It will arm you with everything you need including sample business forms, leases, and contracts; worksheets and checklists for planning, opening, and running day-to-day operations; sample menus; inventory lists; plans and layouts; and dozens of other valuable, time-saving tools of the trade that no restaurant entrepreneur should be without.While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding a location that will bring success, learn how to draw up a winning business plan (the companion CD-ROM has the actual pizza restaurant business plan that you can use in MS Word), basic cost-control systems, profitable menu planning, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, successful beverage management, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, pricing formulas, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, learn how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, new IRS tip-reporting requirements, managing and training employees, generate high-profile public relations and publicity, learn low-cost internal marketing ideas, low- and no-cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, learn how to keep bringing customers back, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. There are dozens of case studies from people involved in the business to help you along.
The multiple award-winning Restaurant Manager s Handbook is the best-selling book on running a successful food service operation. The fifth completely revised edition of this book includes cutting-edge material that you need to run your restaurant in the modern age. This new edition includes case studies from professionals that cover topics such as restaurant branding, franchising, effective layout and remodeling, cost-effective menu planning, food sourcing options, food safety and IoT technology, smart phone apps to ease scheduling and communication hassles, digital marketing, recent trends in the restaurant business, managing online feedback, and innovative ways to promote your restaurant on the web. Hundreds of fun facts are sprinkled throughout this book to ensure that even the most mundane of topics will interest and engage every reader.The fifth edition of the Restaurant Manager s Handbook is an invaluable asset to any existing restaurant owner or manager as well as anyone considering a career in restaurant management or ownership. All existing chapters have new and updated information focusing on the progress and implementation of technology. You will find many additional tips to help restaurant owners and managers learn to handle labor and operational expenses, rework menus, earn more from better bar management, and introduce up-scale wines and even local, organic menu items for profit.Anyone in the food service industry will rely on this book for their everyday operations. Dozens of chapters cover the entire process of a restaurant start-up and ongoing management in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success and showing how to avoid the many mistakes arising from being uninformed and inexperienced that can doom a restaurateur s start-up.You will have at your fingertips profitable menu planning, sample restaurant floor plans and diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety, Hazardous and Critical Control Point (HACCP) information, and successful beverage management. Learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money and get brand new IRS tip-reporting requirements, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development. You will be able to generate high profile public relations and publicity, initiate low cost internal marketing ideas, and you will finally learn how to master the use of social media to increase your outreach and sales. This all-inclusive handbook will give you everything you need to learn how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation in the modern world.
Centralization and Decentralization in Industrial Relations by Helen Baker is a comprehensive book that explores the concept of centralization and decentralization in the field of industrial relations. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the two approaches and their impact on the management of industrial relations. It covers a wide range of topics, including the historical background of centralization and decentralization, the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, and the factors that influence their implementation.The author examines the different models of centralization and decentralization, including the unitary, pluralist, and radical models, and provides a critical evaluation of their effectiveness in managing industrial relations. The book also explores the role of trade unions, employers, and the state in shaping the industrial relations system and the impact of globalization on centralization and decentralization.The book is written in a clear and concise style, making it accessible to both students and practitioners in the field of industrial relations. It provides a valuable resource for those seeking to understand the complexities of industrial relations and the challenges of managing a decentralized workforce in today's globalized economy. Overall, Centralization and Decentralization in Industrial Relations is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of industrial relations and the role of centralization and decentralization in shaping the workplace.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
On May 5, 2016, author Lorine Hargrave experienced one of the most difficult days of her life, as her husband transitioned to heaven three days shy of their sixty-second wedding anniversary. Devastated and searching for answers, Lorine never imagined that God would transform this tragic event into the opportunity to become a beacon of light to those around her. As time passed, God began to replace Lorine's anger, depression, and confusion with peace, purpose, and a new understanding of His love. One night in a dream, God told her, "Write the book. It will be for your healing from grief." So with obedience in her heart and pen in hand, Lorine started a journey of restoration and freedom while sharing the joy and influence of her husband. The Life and Legacy of Pastor Superintendent Douglas Ray Hargrave is Lorine's way of honoring her husband's memory, as much as it is her own path to healing. In this moving work filled with life-changing testimony, powerful moments, and timeless truths, Lorine remembers the impact and encouragement her husband passed on to others, while offering hope to those who have lost loved ones in their own lives. Although Lorine dearly misses her wonderful, loving husband, she has chosen to go on with her life, watching God use her story to help others along the way. She continues to keep the doors of her church, Greater Cornerstone Church of God in Christ, open as God allows the legacy of Superintendent Douglas Ray Hargrave to inspire all who enter. Lorine hopes that this book will help you through the loss of those you have held close, as well as remind you of God's infinite grace and mercy. May He bless you every step of your walk with Him, even in the most challenging seasons.
Do you want to learn R? This book is built on the premise that anyone with a bit of free time and a healthy curiosity can learn to use R in their studies or at work. The authors focus on using R to do useful things like writing reports, creating data and graphs, accessing datasets collected by others, preparing data, and conducting simple data analysis. In this book you’ll learn how to: install R and RStudio®, and set up an RStudio® project and folders; write an essay with graphs based on simple real-world data using R Markdown; create variables from everyday numeric information and visualize data through five types of charts—bar plot, histogram, pie chart, scatter plot, and time series line plot—to identify patterns in the data; write and run R programs, and prepare your data following the tidyverse approach; import external datasets into R, install R data packages, and carry out initial data validity checks; conduct exploratory data analysis through three exercises involving data on voting outcomes, natural resource consumption, and gross domestic product (GDP) via data visualization, correlation coefficient, and simple regression; and write a research paper on the impact of GDP per capita on life expectancy using R Markdown. Student-friendly language and examples (such as binge-watched shows on Netflix, and the top 5 songs on Spotify), cumulative learning, and practice exercises make this a must-have guide for a variety of courses where data are used and reports need to be written. Code and datasets used to carry out the examples in the book are available on an accompanying website.
This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern 'Greek' provinces in the first and second centuries A.D. - the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show how the local elite classes appropriated and manipulated mythic and religious images and practices to establish and consolidate their social, political, and economic power. Edwards considers both archaeological and literary evidence. He examines coins, epigraphs, statuary, building complexes, mosaics, and paintings from across Asia Minor and Syria-Palestine looking for evidence of sponsorship by local elites and the meaning of such sponsorship. On the literary side, Edwards selects one representative figure from each of the three major religio-cultural traditions: the Greek writer, Chariton of Aphrodisias; the Jewish historian, Josephus; and the Christian evangelist, the author of Luke Acts. He illustrates how each writer's use of religion reflects the interaction of local elite groups with the 'web of power' that existed in political, cultural, and social spheres of the Roman Empire.
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with the cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighting to make the young nation fulfill its republican slogans. Although this struggle often unfolded in the corridors of power, Egerton pays special attention to what black Americans did for themselves in these decades, and his narrative brims with compelling portraits of forgotten figures such as Quok Walker, a Massachusetts runaway who took his master to court and thereby helped end slavery in that state; Absalom Jones, a Delaware house slave who bought his freedom and later formed the Free African Society; and Gabriel, a young Virginia artisan who was hanged for plotting to seize Richmond and hold James Monroe hostage. Egerton argues that the Founders lacked the courage to move decisively against slavery despite the real possibility of peaceful, if gradual, emancipation. Battling huge odds, African American activists and rebels succeeded in finding liberty--if never equality--only in northern states. Canvassing every colony and state, as well as incorporating the wider Atlantic world, Death or Liberty offers a lively and comprehensive account of black Americans and the Revolutionary era in America. "Now, for the first time, the scores of recent investigations of black participation in the American Revolution have been synthesized into an elegant and seamless narrative. In Death or Liberty...Douglas Egerton shows that African Americans not only extracted the most liberty from the Revolutionary experience but also paid the highest price for it." --Woody Holton, author of Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
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