Olivia Osborne left the FBI to escape the monsters, but when her friend Sergeant Mark Austin calls, she can’t say no. She and Mark are bound by the loss of someone they both cared about. The monsters stole him. Now she is standing in a blood-soaked field sifting through the echoes of death all while the thin veil between this world and the other beckons her. “Come closer.” Olivia is torn between darkness and light. Life and death. Good and evil. There is nowhere she can run where the monsters won’t follow. With a bloodthirsty killer in their midst, Olivia is back in the hunt. This evil is a familiar one, and she knows it won’t stop until someone stops it. That someone is her.
In a futuristic world of constant surveillance, seventeen-year-old Mila is hunted by government agents. She has only one advantage: a seven second delay on her monitored video feed. In just seven seconds, she can fake one direction and take off in the next. As she runs, the government positions Mila as a dangerous terrorist in the media. Soon the entire nation is watching her feed. When innocent civilians get hurt in the wake of Mila's path, the public wants her dead. Mila must use her seven seconds wisely to prevent a nationwide disaster--and to save her own life.
A military study of the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan—the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems. Fought over the course of forty-four days, the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war resulted in a decisive military victory for Azerbaijan. Armenia lost even though they controlled the high ground in a mountainous region that favored traditional defense. In 7 Seconds to Die, military consultant and historian John Antal examines the decisive factors of the war and their implications for the future of armed conflict. The fact that Azerbaijan won the war is not extraordinary, considering the correlation of forces arrayed against Armenia. What is exceptional is that this was the first modern war primarily decided by unmanned weapons. The Turkish-made BAYRAKTAR TB2 Unmanned Air Combat Vehicle (UCAV) and the Israeli-made HAROP Loitering Munition (LM) dominated the fighting and provided Azerbaijan with a war-winning advantage.
Seven Seconds or Less is a book about applied intuition for mergers and partnerships, human resource management, new product development, and other important aspects of business. Companies and leaders have relied on intuition or “gut feeling” since the beginning of time. The proper use of intuition is a liberal art, not an occult one. This book demystifies the process of learning to use intuition on demand in the world of business. Through the use of intuitive techniques and qualified professionals, companies can have the benefit of hindsight now. They can find out in advance how actual or potential decisions play out in the future and adjust those decisions to avoid undesirable outcomes, while increasing desirable ones. The result is greater productivity, higher morale, lower costs, and better service! The techniques are lighthearted and fun, and yet the implications are significant. Decision making in seven seconds or less may signal a new era in business development.
"It will never happen here." It's what we all think until the unthinkable presents itself and everything changes in a heartbeat. Forty-Seven Seconds, by mark Williams, is a common sense resource for educators, administrators, anyone who works at a school. Because any school can be a target. It is also for those who work anywhere that might be thought of as vulnerable to attack-anyplace where lives of those working could be at risk. the author's years in law enforcement, as well as his experiences as an educator have provided him with a unique perspective into the problem of what to do when face with the 47 seconds that could determine your survival in a crisis-and the survival of those around you.
Seven Seconds or Less is a book about applied intuition for mergers and partnerships, human resource management, new product development, and other important aspects of business. Companies and leaders have relied on intuition or “gut feeling” since the beginning of time. The proper use of intuition is a liberal art, not an occult one. This book demystifies the process of learning to use intuition on demand in the world of business. Through the use of intuitive techniques and qualified professionals, companies can have the benefit of hindsight now. They can find out in advance how actual or potential decisions play out in the future and adjust those decisions to avoid undesirable outcomes, while increasing desirable ones. The result is greater productivity, higher morale, lower costs, and better service! The techniques are lighthearted and fun, and yet the implications are significant. Decision making in seven seconds or less may signal a new era in business development.
Success depends on making a great impression and effectively relating to people. Those first few seconds with someone can make all the difference. Bestselling author Bob Phillips and leadership expert Gary Coffey have distilled the essential skills of reading and understanding people into easy-to-remember principles. Readers will discover the best ways to relate to and connect with individuals, including how to: identify the best approaches to create good will know how to communicate with all personality types spark and keep people's interest 7 Seconds to Success provides the tools necessary to improve people skills and garner trust. Every interaction can be positive and rewarding!
Ivy sees 7 Seconds of her future - and the Guild is coming for her. To everyone else, it appears as if IVY LEIF suffers from random 7 second petit-mal seizures. But what really happens is that her consciousness drifts into her future for that 7 seconds. While 7 seconds is time enough to wrap a car around a tree, it's not nearly long enough to gather enough information to make any life-altering decisions. Everything changes, though, when Ivy learns that the mysterious blue-eyed boy, who has haunted her drifts from her childhood, can travel to her drifts in his past and bring her messages from herself in her future-if she trusts this boy that she's never met in the flesh, that is. Her drifts turn ominous when she begins meddling with the future and alerts the Guild to her existence. The Guild and its competitor, the Cult, are mega-corporations that kidnap children with neurological anomalies, like Ivy's, and exploit them brutally for huge profits and power. With the help of the blue-eyed boy, Ivy risks her life and freedom to stop the exploitation and liberate the other children from an experimental research facility.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Judging You, a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear--that everlasting hater--and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreams Luvvie Ajayi Jones is known for her trademark wit, warmth, and perpetual truth-telling. But even she's been challenged by the enemy of progress known as fear. She was once afraid to call herself a writer, and nearly skipped out on doing a TED talk that changed her life because of imposter syndrome. As she shares in Professional Troublemaker, she's not alone. We're all afraid. We're afraid of asking for what we want because we're afraid of hearing "no." We're afraid of being different, of being too much or not enough. We're afraid of leaving behind the known for the unknown. But in order to do the things that will truly, meaningfully change our lives, we have to become professional troublemakers: people who are committed to not letting fear talk them out of the things they need to do or say to live free. With humor and honesty, and guided by the influence of her professional troublemaking Nigerian grandmother, Funmilayo Faloyin, Luvvie walks us through what we must get right within ourselves before we can do the things that scare us; how to use our voice for a greater good; and how to put movement to the voice we've been silencing--because truth-telling is a muscle. The point is not to be fearless, but to know we are afraid and charge forward regardless. It is to recognize that the things we must do are more significant than our fears. This book is about how to live boldly in spite of all the reasons we have to cower. Let's go!
