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UnNecessary Pain : Erica Nobles
An honest and introspective account on how trusting and therefore choosing the wrong person to love can have painful and unnecessary consequences.
How this unwise decision can cause consequences that try to change the path that God has for your life.
Yet, even in the wake of those consequences, God will still use the very thing that was sent to destroy you, to be the very thing used to make you.
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Interpretation of the Book of Revelation : Apostolos Makrakis and Jonathan Photius
“(…) in a time of times and a half of a time, when the dispersion hath been consummated, all these things shall become known.” – Daniel 12:7
Many Dispensationalist and Preterist scholars have sought to interpret the Apocalypse, but they have obscured rather than unveiled the mysterious secret of the book.
This is primarily because they have misunderstood the “times” for when the divine truths were to be revealed, in accordance with the conditions set forth in Daniel 12:7: “…when the dispersion hath been consummated, all these things will become known.”
This time having been fulfilled, starting with the end of the Jewish Diaspora and the First Aliyah in the year 1882, the meaning and true interpretation of Revelation was simultaneously brought to light by Makrakis that very same year.
Makrakis is considered to be the “Father of the Neo-Historicist method” of prophetic interpretation of the scriptures, as he was the first to reinterpret the Apocalypse through a newer Eastern Orthodox perspective on the history of Christianity.
Thus, Makrakis breathes new life into the long-forgotten Classical Historicist method for interpreting biblical prophecies, which viewed prophecies as a continuous fulfillment of events throughout history until the second coming.
All of the important questions and answers have been brought forward for the first time by this largest-ever Eastern Orthodox commentary on the Apocalypse.
According to the interpretation advanced by Makrakis, many prophecies have been fulfilled with precision and accuracy, with a never-before-seen Christological emphasis on key events described through the history of the Church including the rise of every major heresy for the last 2000 years.
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The General Won’t Wait : Caroline Swan
A new baby calls the shots at home as his anxious dad tries to keep up.
New parents don’t have to be officers in the military to identify with Lieutenant Mudge and understand who is really in charge.
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Corporate Crap: Lessons Learned from 40 Years in Corporate America : Howard Harrison
Takes a humorous look at the business practices that cause employees to look for new employment.
There are the obvious things like meetings, performance reviews, downsizing and bosses from hell. But it’s also esteem-sapping exercises like competing for wall offices or asking if it’s okay to leave early; dress codes, task forces, brainstorming and engagement surveys; flip charts, org charts, hard stops, and hard-ons.
Each chapter of Corporate Crap combines personal anecdotes, quotes from business experts, and the latest research to answer the question: If companies truly believe employees are their most valuable resource, why do they treat them like crap?
Corporate Crap will entertain and inform anyone who has ever worked for a large organization. In Corporate Crap, readers will learn:
• How companies are trying to shorten meetings by making everyone stand and other forms of torture.
• Why the founder of Second City Works calls Tina Fey “a genius boss.”
• How the author burned his first professional bridge in his first-ever exit interview.
• Why 700 million vacation days went unused last year. (What is wrong with you people?)
• The roots of “at the end of the day” and other common expressions.
• Why companies don’t call employees “employees” anymore – and how it can backfire on them.
• How hiring managers are affected by stereotypes – and not always how you’d think.
• Why companies’ obsession with labeling employees as introverts or extroverts is a complete waste of time.
• The biggest problem companies have firing people.
• Why the idea that “no idea is a bad idea” is a bad idea.
• What people really do during conference calls.
There are lessons to be learned here: lessons learned from 40 years of corporate crap!
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The Digital Transformation Success Formula : M. Nadia Vincent
Digital transformation is business transformation for greater performance, using the latest digital technologies and strategic business innovation approach.
The Digital Transformation Success Formula by M. Nadia Vincent, foreword by David A. Maynard, is a professional and practical guide for leaders such as CIOs, IT managers, business executives and digital transformation leaders alike as they implement digital transformation in their organizations or businesses.
The Digital Transformation Success Formula is about:
- Facilitating self-transformation for leaders so they inspire individual transformations in their organizations.
- Creating environments that are efficient and promote business innovation and disruption.
- Empowering leaders with a progressive mindset that embraces change so that they make better personal, business and digital choices.
- Digitally enabling organizations for faster deliveries and increased business performance.
- Reducing risks in the implementation of digital transformation.
- Increasing employee engagement so that organizations are strengthened in the digital market.
- Converting digital transformation and innovation into a lucrative investment for increased ROI.
The book is a solution-oriented, straight to the point read; yet written in a warm tone. It addresses points that sometimes we managers may not be comfortable speaking about, but are present and impactful in our everyday work.
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Engaging, insightful, brilliantly written and transformative! In her introduction Nadia speaks of having learned multiple languages through her international consulting career; In this book, she creates a whole new language for the rest of us to learn – that of digital transformation leadership. Consider this book your Rosetta Stone on how to become a true digital transformation leader. It’s an honor and a privilege to consider Nadia a friend and mentor.
—Lawrence Cooper (Larry)The Agility Series Facilitator, Digital Transformer, and Author – Canada
As someone who has practiced digital transformation projects for nearly four decades, the premise of the success formula and the problems caused by fear are so important to recognize. Nadia takes us through a roadmap to digital transformation success through the recognition of the need to treat digital transformation as a project and to apply the soft skills needed to manage change and transformation. A very important book for someone undertaking a digital transformation project without the necessary foundation in place.
– Ray W. Frohnhoefer PMP, Managing Director, PPC Group, LLC – USA
“Fear” as the division in Nadia’s success formula is genuine. That part alone is worth getting this book.
Nadia and I met at PMI Global Congress where a client of my company, the Department of Treasury, was presenting an enterprise project & portfolio management system we implemented. From my experiences working with large organizations, Nadia’s unique angel and comprehensive approach for people planning and executing corporate change is invaluable. This book discusses a holistic approach-the mind, heart and muscles of digital transformation.
—Sophia Zhou CEO EPM Solutions, Author of I Can and I Will – USA
Nadia Vincent has encapsulated years of experience into a guide with the missing ingredient of most digital transformation projects – Great Leadership. Forget technology, only by leading an organisation through transformation, by instilling in your organisation the mindset required for continuous change, and overcoming the fear of the future, can you bring successful digital transformation to a business.
The Digital Transformation Success Formula provides a roadmap for technology and business leaders to ready their business for the future of constant change.
—Andrew Pryor Director CIO Watercooler – England
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Roger the Rabbit Racer : Gary Foster
Roger was a rabbit, a really remarkable rabbit, for Roger was a rabbit racer. Roger was rather good at racing, as he could rapidly run round and round the race track.
Have a really refreshingly relaxing read, reading about Roger’s big race.
“A fantastic story for parents to read as a bedtime story to young kids or a great ‘read by themselves’ book for older kids”
Roger was a rabbit, a really remarkable rabbit, for Roger was a rabbit racer. Roger was rather good at racing, as he could rapidly run round and round the race track.
Every day Roger would race on the road, right up to the roundabout and then return, but rarely when it was raining.
Roger had a really important race coming up, so Roger was running regularly.
Fudge and Smudge: Pet Detectives, Kirsty and the Tree, and James and the Mountain by Gary Foster are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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In the Groove : Thomas M. Kinslow
Dewey is faced with a depression from losing a big basketball game.
His friends help him overcome this challenge together with his new neighbor, Clyde (also known as Big C., Clyde or Big Bang) who is a musician and is bigger than most of the kids of his age.
Dewey’s adventure with his friends continues in the second book with a story that draws readers in as Cooper and Kinslow keep their interest piqued all throughout the story.
In the Groove is the second book in the “Heroes Start as Kids” series.
First Day and The Comeback of the “Heroes Start as Kids” series by Thomas M. Kinslow are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Stone Obsession : Julie Morgan
Stone Obsession
Dark magic doesn’t die easily. Luckily, neither does she.
In a world racing toward extinction, the Siren Amaryah fights for survival. Under the plagued waters of Antarctica, she faces sea creatures mutated into predators by an old, dark magic. The frozen lands above are riddled with danger, as well, where Pirates, Magicians, and Islanders all vie for power.
A single Legacy Stone could change all that—it could bring back the world Amaryah lost. And she plans to find it. After all, if there’s nothing left to live for, she has nothing left to lose. Or so she thinks.
Dark magics have ways of fighting back, and she’ll face more threats than ever before—not least of all the possibility of a long-forbidden love.
A love she may have to sacrifice in order to save her world.
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A Game of Survival : T.R. Tells
A Game of Survival
“A Game of Survival” is a coming of age story about a girl whose life is shattered and ripped away from her.
At a young age, she’s thrown into a world of discrimination, inner demons, and violence in a male-dominated society.
Thea finds herself being used over and over by men who want to exploit the powers she has and barely understands.
She is unaware that she’s a pawn in a much larger game, that’s being played by gods and demons for the future of the world.
An evil is lurking in the shadows, feeding on negativity and sin as it tries to control her and the world with humanities own corruption.
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Gem of Silence : André Consciência
Gem of Silence (The Odur-u Chronicles)
Fantasy often tells us of faeries, gnomes, salamanders, mermaids and the enchanted nobility of the human soul as we learned it from Paracelsus.
For the fantasy genre there is no dead nature, everything lives. But despite of it’s animistic aspects, not often did it chose the perspective of the magic being, and not once, an approach to it’s proper language, a language of the elements.
This book is it’s spelling, and a voyage trough the imaginary realm of the four philosophical dimensions, an adventure in the fashion of Dante’s Divine Comedy.