Trapped In Between is about the global realities in managing projects. It is about people trying to understand what makes their project works or makes it worse! Project managers discovered that, attempting to balance projects purely on technical and financial viabilities were never good enough and has often led to many disappointments. The “circus of project failures” demanded that somebody or something to take the fall. Set against a typical major global company in Malaysia, this book amplifies the underlying realities that affect projects and project management as a whole. It is about the “DOPer Syndrome” that suffered by many “fresh blood” induced into the company and the realities of project’s politics that has long rooted within many organisations. If juggling the projects basing on just technical and financial realities are project managers’ nightmares, inclusion of political realities will make any project manager delusional!
Twelve-year-old Jordan is becoming dangerously involved with a street gang when he is suddenly transported through time to become a slave on the plantation of his ancestors
Louisa hates Ash Springs more than anything. She dreams of escaping the tiny village in the Nevada desert, of finding excitement and adventure. On a camping trip to Sequoia National Park with her four brothers, she meets the mysterious Brendan, and her life takes a dramatic turn... because for Brendan, it's not a chance encounter at all. He's been meticulously planning every step of Louisa's abduction. Brendan whisks her away to the Canadian wilderness, an endless expanse of spruce trees and blue sky, populated only by wolves and ermines. He tells her she's the light in his darkness. As her days of imprisonment turn to weeks, Louisa is forced to confront not only her own desperate terror, but Brendan's traumatic past as well. Soon he becomes more to her than just her captor, which throws Louisa into a maelstrom of conflicting emotions: sympathy, need, even... love?Can she love her kidnapper?And just how dangerous is Brendan? "A fascinating mixture of dark romance, crime thriller, and coming-of-age story, highly atmospheric and full of ominous intensity [...]. Trapped: Until you love me is about kidnapping, stalking, and love, but above all, it is an authentic psychological exploration of the grey areas between strength and weakness, between good and evil." (Petra Ottkowski, creative writing professor)Trapped: Until you love me (original title: Entführt: bis du mich liebst) was one of Amazon Germany's top ten E-books of 2016, with nearly a quarter of a million copies sold, and spent more than six months on the BILD Magazine bestseller list.
The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive. . . .Scotty and his friends Pete and Jason are among the last seven kids at their high school waiting to get picked up that day, and they soon realize that no one is coming for them. Still, it doesn't seem so bad to spend the night at school, especially when distractingly hot Krista and Julie are sleeping just down the hall. But then the power goes out, then the heat. The pipes freeze, and the roof shudders. As the days add up, the snow piles higher, and the empty halls grow colder and darker, the mounting pressure forces a devastating decision. . . .Michael Northrop is the New York Times bestselling author of TombQuest, an epic book and game adventure series featuring the magic of ancient Egypt. He is also the author of Trapped, an Indie Next List Selection, and Plunked, a New York Public Library best book of the year and an NPR Backseat Book Club selection. An editor at Sports Illustrated Kids for many years, he now writes full-time from his home in New York City. Learn more at www.michaelnorthrop.net.
Jesse Rigsby hates video games—and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of vaporizing man-size praying mantis while cruising around by jet pack. But pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they can't leave the game. If they don't figure out what's going on fast, they'll be trapped for good! With black-and-white illustrations throughout and a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter, this is a great series for kids who think they don’t like to read!
In the celestial realm, a fierce battle erupted between the seventh and fifth heavens, shattering the tranquility among angelic beings. At the center of this cosmic conflict stood Raphael, a formidable angel known as "The Shining One Who Heals," chosen to be a messenger of truth and protector of the Tree of Life. However, fate had other plans for him. Cast out from the seventh heavens, Raphael plummeted to Earth, stripped of his wings and immortality. Now a mortal angel, he must confront his deepest fears and embrace his newfound vulnerability. A chance encounter leads him to Lilith, a charismatic outcast from the fifth heavens whose powers were stolen by pagan gods. Bound by their shared exile and enmity with fiery serpent angels, Raphael and Lilith discover an unexpected kinship. United by their common struggle, they embark on a journey through ancient utopias like Atlantis, Ancient Crete, and Egypt-each adorned with breathtaking architecture and advanced water management systems. Navigating a world of hidden prophecies and divine intervention, Raphael and Lilith become entwined in a greater cosmic plan. A prophetic vision intertwines their destinies as they decipher its meaning to confront the darkness threatening both earthly and heavenly realms. In this world governed by forces from the fifth heavens, someone had to pay the price. The enigmatic outer gods orchestrated a malicious game designed to sow suffering and division. Their objective: conquer Earth by subdividing humanity into two factions - a superior class loyal to the fifth heavens, and an inferior class subjected to unmitigated oppression. Enjoying deep bonds and financial rewards from the fifth heavens, the superior class flourished despite their hardship. Trapped Between Two Worlds: The Angel Without Wings is an enthralling tale of redemption, resilience, and the unyielding power of love. Join Raphael and Lilith as they rise above their pasts to unite against forces aiming to destroy them and restore harmony in heaven and on Earth. Will they fulfill their roles as healers and guardians or be consumed by chaos? The fate of both worlds hangs in the balance as they undertake a quest redefining the very essence of angels and celestial order. In ancient Egyptian history, this period fashioned the Eighteenth Dynasty. With influences from Crete's Minoans and the Israelites, the empire underwent revitalization during the New Kingdom era and introduced remarkable personalities. The era of the Eighteenth Dynasty, part of the New Kingdom, is considered to have produced some of the greatest rulers who reunified Egypt under native rule. The epidemic brought Egypt, the most powerful nation in the world during this era, to its knees. Some of the most extraordinary characters appeared in the New Kingdom on the African coast and throughout the Nile Delta. There was the radical Akhenaten and his mysterious wife, Queen Nefertiti, who captivated the heart of the empire with charisma and beauty, to his son, one of the most famous pharaohs, King Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut. There was also Prince Moses, born of Israelite blood but raised as an Egyptian, who followed a path to worship his one and only God at a time when polytheistic deities overran the nation. His complexion was dark, resembling the Egyptians, due to living in the dry heat of the Mediterranean.
Trapped in a Maze provides a window into families' lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.
The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Chloe Moretz! In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heartwrenchingly beautiful, this will change the way you look at life, love, and family. Now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia's story will stay with you for a long, long time.
“Relax, Eden. Open the box, hand over the contents, and everyone will be fine.” Even with a mask on, I can tell this robber isn’t your typical criminal. There’s something about him that makes my body respond… that makes me want him to take me instead. *** Eden Smith’s normal life as a bank teller is interrupted the day the Golden brothers walk. Dante and Ryder have been watching the bank, and Eden, for weeks. Eden is taken a hostage. When she has a chance to escape, finds she is tired of her abusive boyfriend and normal life. With the Golden brothers, that could all change. All it takes is one look from the brothers for her to find herself doing things she never would’ve dreamed imaginable! Will Eden leave or will the brothers claim her? Eden must decide if she will go back to bank telling or dive into the Golden brothers’ lifestyle luxurious, steamy—but dangerous—lifestyle. Trapped Between the Mafia Brothers is created by Scarlett Rossi, an EGlobal Creative Publishing author.
Good and evil are as old as ethics or morality itself. For without an understanding of religious or philosophical ethics, the moral existence of good and evil would be impossible to comprehend; the term good, for example, would be exclusively a matter of subjective personal likes and dislikes in other words, a mere matter of taste, differing from individual to individual with no real obligation to the public good or safety. As it currently stands in philosophy, for instance, the term good may be understood as engaging in righteous conduct; the term good may also be understood as an object that corresponds and fulfills natural needs inherent in human nature. These natural needs, for example, which are deeply, rooted in human nature, manifest themselves in our human desire for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, among other things. In these two senses, the term good is an objective universal value, based on the reality of man (by man I mean human beings everywhere, of course). From natural needs, we derive the doctrine of human rights. It logically follows that the things we have a natural human need for, we as human beings also have a natural right to. This idea is not only used in the real world that you and I live in; it is also used in the storyteller's world of fiction or imaginary literature. Anything working to defeat or frustrate the good in the real world or in the storyteller's world is judged evil. This is of the utmost importance to those who believe in right and wrong. For right and wrong always follow good and evil. Society can never know what right or wrong is in the domain of social human affairs, without first knowing what is good and what is evil, and what makes it so. In Trapped Between the Extremes of Good and Evil, we enter a fictional world and explore the phenomenon of good and evil through the actions of an international serial killer, angels and demons, one twin brother's hatred of the other, and a San Francisco detective caught in the middle of it all.
