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In an era of evidence-based inquiry, people need to be able to measure their success. In their new book, Patti Phillips and Jack Phillips aim to help listeners see the value of their work and then share it with others. The Show the Value process involves connecting projects with a business measure, collecting and analyzing data to track progress, and presenting the results to the right audiences. Listeners will learn how to keep their work relevant, their careers on track, and their organizations healthy. 

Beauty comes at a price. And no one knows that better than Ebenezer Tweezer, who has stayed beautiful for 511 years. How, you may wonder? Ebenezer simply has to feed the beast in the attic of his mansion. In return for meals of performing monkeys, statues of Winston Churchill, and the occasional cactus, Ebenezer gets potions that keep him young and beautiful, as well as other presents. But the beast grows ever greedier with each meal, and one day he announces that he’d like to eat a nice, juicy child next. Ebenezer has never done anything quite this terrible.

Nachdem sie das Biest mit vereinten Kräften verjagt haben, leben Bethany und Ebenezer ihr bestes bestienfreies Leben! In Miss Muddles Süßigkeitenladen stellt Bethany allerlei süße Kreationen her und Ebenezer betreibt nun einen Wohltätigkeitsverein, obgleich er immer noch nicht besonders gut darin ist, so richtig gut zu sein. Aber da das Biest nie dazu bestimmt war, lange eingesperrt zu bleiben, taucht es urplötzlich wieder auf! Bethany und Ebenezer erleben ihre bisher schlimmste Überraschung.

Das Biest scheint besiegt zu sein und Bethany und Ebenezer sind wahre Freunde geworden. Ende gut, alles gut - oder? Von wegen! Von nun an wollen die beiden "gute Menschen" werden und alle Spuren des Biests beseitigen. Im Rahmen der großen Entbiesterung werden die vielen glamourösen Geschenke des Biests kurzerhand für kleines Geld an die Nachbarschaft verkauft. Weg mit den schlimmen Erinnerungen! Doch Ebenezer vermisst seinen luxuriösen Lebensstil schnell und auch Bethany fehlen ihre fiesen Streiche.

Traditionally, human resources has focused on recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. These functions remain essential. But to be successful in turbulent times like ours, human capital strategy needs to be broader and much more far reaching.

Whenever a soldier slides into his BDUs and shoulders an M16, there is another man looking to take both off. Special Forces is set in the heat of battle, where fear, urgency, and uncertainty lead to unexpected intimacy and release. The seasoned authors here, some of whom have served in the military themselves, do not shy away from the hard realities of the fight. They know how anger and terror can fuel desire and attraction.

Schönheit und Unsterblichkeit haben ihren Preis. Der gutaussehende Ebenezer Tweezer wirkt zwar überaus jugendlich, ist aber schon 511 Jahre alt. Sein düsteres Geheimnis: Auf dem Dachboden hält er sich - gut versteckt hinter einem bodenlangen roten Samtvorhang - ein Biest, mit dem er einen ungeheuerlichen Pakt geschlossen hat. Das Biest bekommt was auch immer es fressen will und im Gegenzug erhält Ebenezer, das wonach er verzweifelt verlangt - einen Trank, der ihm ewige Jugend und Unsterblichkeit verspricht.

Why not just make the cake? That's a question countless people across the country started asking in 2012, when Jack Phillips told two men who walked into his Masterpiece Cakeshop that he couldn't create a custom cake for their same-sex wedding. And the question only grew more urgent as Phillips had to defend himself first before the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and then numerous courts - losing at every step of the way until the US Supreme Court ruled in his favor in June 2018.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

The once star profiler for the FBI, Doug ONeal, who has been able to capture the greatest of serial killers, rapists, and criminals, comes back to San Francisco to find the worst of them. Because of this killer's background, the FBI has never even known he existed. Doug has only suspected that he exists. The FBI puts together a task force with the San Francisco police, Anne Borges, and Jeff Shinn to hunt down this suspect to prevent more deaths. The police are always looking for the suspect, but are they looking in the right place?