Collection: Adult

Being busy is no longer a sign of effectiveness. Its often a sign of unclear thinking. In today's workplace, calendars are full, decisions are slow and outcomes suffer. Meetings multiply, urgency dominates, and focus disappears - leaving capable professionals exhausted but unfulfilled. Busy is a state of mind challenges the modern obsession with busyness and introduces a practical leadership framework to move from constant motion to meaningful outcome. Rather than working longer hours or adopting more tools, this book shows how clarity of thought, disciplined planning intentional communication and focused execution drives efficiency

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel, a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports--seeking to decode how and why leaders matter.

Can one person change the world?

In his acclaimed and influential books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings, he studies leaders throughout time to answer the question: do the actions of individuals truly influence history? Or is humanity subject to larger historical, technological, cultural, geographical forces, far beyond the influence of individuals, no matter how powerful they may seem?

On 13 March 1930, a truck sped into an intersection, headed straight for another car's right front door. The passenger of this chauffeur-driven car happened to be Adolf Hitler. If the truck had hit the door, Hitler would have been crushed and killed. But the chauffeur managed to accelerate, and Hitler survived. Would tens of millions of people have died in the Holocaust and World War Two if the chauffeur had been slower to react? Some believe Hitler was unique in his evil abilities, while others think the war was guaranteed by the harsh conditions imposed on Germany post-war.

Do leaders like Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, Genghis Khan, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Belichick, or Christ really change our world? If yes, what qualities and circumstances are required of a leader to make their mark?

Drawing on his deep study of the life and career of a diverse cast of leaders famous and obscure- from Botswana president Seretse Khama, to environmentalist Rachel Carson, to legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden-Diamond reveals how leadership effectiveness is determined by a range of complex interrelated factors. Understanding these successes and failures and the opportunities leaders did (or did not) seize illuminates the influence of today's leaders and helps us to reflect on the value of our votes, our faith, our passions, and the people who happen to steer our ship.

With the same remarkable scope of Diamond's classic bestsellers, Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings takes readers on a rich journey through the lives of humanity's most well-known characters to reveal how time, place, and person can come together to change the course of history.

A Smart, Witty Historical Mystery Set Against the Golden Age of Egyptian Archaeology

1924, Egypt. Dr. Clarissa Bell has built her reputation on meticulous scholarship and scientific precision. As an American archaeologist specializing in ancient pigments, she's more comfortable with pottery shards than corpses.

But when she's mysteriously invited aboard a luxury Nile steamship to authenticate a collection of rare lapis lazuli artifacts, her peaceful academic life explodes into murder, conspiracy, and international intrigue.

And if that's not enough, there's another complication: Benedict Quinn, the devastatingly charming Brit who needs Clarissa to pose as his fiancée to infiltrate the conspiracy-and who's far too good at making their fake relationship feel dangerously real.

Two Bodies. One Fake Engagement. Secrets That Could Rewrite History.

MORE IS IN YOU THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE.

Most Christians today aren't rejecting God, they're longing for something real. They love Jesus, value Scripture, and show up faithfully, yet quietly wonder why their faith often feels thin, dry, or incomplete. Surrounded by religious noise, polished performances, and spiritual substitutes, many sense there must be more than this. There is more.

Some believers were taught to chase emotional experiences. Others learned to avoid them altogether. Some perform. Others play it safe. But neither path leads to the vibrant, Spirit-filled life Jesus promised.

In Superbloom, Jeff Jenkins invites readers beyond shallow religion and spiritual survival into a grounded awakening of what God has already planted within them. Drawing from Scripture, personal story, and decades of pastoral leadership, Jenkins shows how the Word of God and the Spirit of God work together to bring dormant faith, joy, and power to life.

This book isn't about striving for a new experience or manufacturing a spiritual moment. It's about real rain falling on living seed. As the Holy Spirit awakens what has been buried, authentic fruit begins to grow; fruit marked by peace, joy, courage, and lasting transformation.

More is in you than you can imagine-because the Spirit of God is already at work within you.

Ready to transform government from the inside out? It's easy to complain about government bureaucracy and transportation in large American cities, but what if you could actually improve them instead?

That's exactly what the authors of New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies set out to do in the Office of Extraordinary Innovation at Los Angeles Metro, a transportation agency with a $9.5 billion annual budget in a county larger than 40 states. Now you can learn from their hard-earned successes, and valuable mistakes, as they provide helpful lessons learned for anyone looking to make change in public agencies.

You'll learn how to:

• Navigate internal resistance
• Build coalitions and fix processes
• Recognize impenetrable fiefdoms
• Pick your battles and win them

Using amusing behind-the-scenes stories, New Tricks presents a pragmatic playbook for those who want to deliver lasting government reform, and an outright nerd-fest for anyone working in public transportation!

Ciudadanía Americana 2026 y 2027: Guía de preparación con 128 preguntas para el examen de naturalización en inglés y español [US Citizenship Spanish Guide]

Prepararse para su prueba no debería ser más difícil que la prueba en sí. Con ese fin, nuestro equipo de APEX prepara nuestras guías con todo lo que necesita.

Esto incluye consejos de prueba, instrucciones sencillas, material completo, preguntas de práctica y explicaciones detalladas de las respuestas. Todos estos se utilizan para ayudar a estudiar para el examen de ciudadanía estadounidense.

Queremos que tenga éxito. Obtenga nuestras preguntas del examen de ciudadanía APEX y la guía de estudio para obtener:

• Consejos para tomar exámenes: podemos ayudarlo a reducir su ansiedad ante los exámenes. Puede pasar con confianza. Estos consejos de APEX lo ayudan a saber cómo funciona la prueba.

• Instrucción sencilla: el material de ciudadanía estadounidense de APEX es fácil de entender. También tenemos información sobre la prueba en sí.

• Material completo: Nuestro equipo APEX tiene toda la información que podría estar en su examen en esta guía. Estará preparado para cualquier pregunta.

• Preguntas de prueba de práctica de ciudadanía estadounidense: pruebe sus habilidades.

Ponga a los expertos de APEX de su lado. No se pierda esta guía de primer nivel.

Educator and neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath reveals why digital tools in school consistently undermine learning--and what parents, teachers, and schools can do to push back with purpose.

Our children are struggling.

Schools, once alive with human connection, are now dominated by screens and digital tools. The result is unmistakable: declining performance, fractured attention, and the slow erosion of rigorous thought. For the first time in recent history, children are falling behind previous generations on many key measures of cognitive development.

In The Digital Delusion, neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath reveals how the widespread use of laptops, tablets, and classroom software is undermining how children learn and develop. Drawing on decades of research, he provides practical tools for families to reassess device use at home, equips educators with the means to restore attention-rich learning environments, and helps schools make smarter decisions about technology. He exposes and dismantles the central myths driving the EdTech movement and lays out a clear path for putting people--not programs--back at the center of education. This is not a call to reject technology.

It's a call to reclaim real learning.

A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death and human connection--an unprecedented collaboration between the globally acclaimed author of bestselling love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense.

When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend's summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia's deathbed revelation--that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family--sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world.

Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wren's idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom. Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out . . . a quest that will make him doubt whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and the laws that govern our existence. Love--while transformative--can sometimes be frightening.

A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all: Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from the boundaries of life and death?

Nach ihren ersten zwei Wochen als neuer CEO von DecisionTech fragte sich Kathryn Petersen angesichts der dortigen Probleme, ob es wirklich richtig gewesen war, den Job anzunehmen. Sie war eigentlich froh über die neue Aufgabe gewesen. Doch hatte sie nicht ahnen können, dass ihr Team so fürchterlich dysfunktional war und die Teammitglieder sie vor eine Herausforderung stellen würden, die sie niemals zuvor so erlebt hatte ...

In "Die 5 Dyfunktionen eines Teams" begibt sich Patrick Lencioni in die faszinierende und komplexe Welt von Teams. In seiner Leadership-Fabel folgt der Leser der Geschichte von Kathryn Petersen, die sich mit der ultimativen Führungskrise konfrontiert sieht: die Einigung eines Teams, das sich in einer solchen Unordnung befindet, dass es den Erfolg und das Überleben des gesamten Unternehmens gefährdet.
Im Verlauf der Geschichte enthüllt Lencioni die fünf entscheidenden Dysfunktionen, die oft dazu führen, dass Teams scheitern. Er stellt ein Modell und umsetzbare Schritte vor, die zu einem effektiven Team führen und die fünf Dysfunktionen beheben. Diese Dysfunktionen sind:
- Fehlendes Vertrauen,
- Scheu vor Konflikten,
- Fehlendes Engagement,
- Scheu vor Verantwortung,
- Fehlende Ergebnis-Orientierung.

Wie in seinen anderen Büchern hat Patrick Lencioni eine fesselnde Fabel geschrieben, die eine wichtige Botschaft für alle enthält, die danach streben, außergewöhnliche Teamleiter und Führungskräfte zu werden.

There is so much more to grief than just stages. Grief is an awkward, painful, and chaotic journey through an emotional, spiritual, psychological, physical, and intellectual roller coaster that can take us to places within our interior that we didn't know even existed. So often we feel lost, not only from trying to cope with the loss of a loved one, abilities, or lifestyle but struggle to find the best way to maneuver through all the side effects, complications and emotional turmoil inside the grief journey.

Grieving with God offers a spiritual pathway through the journey of grief by exploring those moments that erupt during the grief experience and how to work through them by offering helpful advice, insight, wisdom, and interventions that are meant to bring comfort. The deeper hope is your recovery from the pain of loss through God's grace and God's word and that you experience the fullness of healing through God's compassion and love.

If you don't believe in God, this book may not be for you. But then and again, the topics addressing issues that arise during grief might be helpful and a source of comfort to you in a humanistic way. For those of you who are not sure about where God is in your grief journey, or you are mad at God and question why God took your loved one or why you are lost, you are offered a different perspective. For those of you who believe in a compassionate and loving God, you will find comfort in these pages. At the end of each chapter, a verse in Scripture is provided, offering God's own handwritten assurance that God is present and is with you every step of the way.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)

Hope looked up at Gus, his fingers linked with hers as he smiled down at her. The wind whipped at her hair, cool against her skin, but all she cared about was the man standing in front of her. 'I choose you, Hope, ' he whispered. 'A thousand times over, I choose you.'

London, Present day: Mia clutches the last remaining box found at Hope's House in her hands. For months she has been determined to reunite every box with its rightful owner. But now it's time for her to discover Hope's own heartbreaking story.

France 1938: When Hope meets Gus in the lively streets of Paris, she finally feels that she has met her kindred spirit. But as they plan their dream future together it is clear that Gus's father will never allow their romance to develop. Defying his wishes, Gus promises Hope that they will be together after his army training.

But with France on the brink of war, Hope travels back to London for safety, cradling a life-changing secret. Then devastating news arrives which threatens Hope's future and shatters her heart. In the darkest days of war, will Hope find the courage to give others the chance of a brighter future? And will her own story of strength inspire Mia to follow her heart?

The utterly gorgeous and heartbreaking final novel in the Lost Daughters series will leave you spellbound and is the perfect read for fans of Santa Montefiore, Lucinda Riley and Victoria Hislop.

What readers are saying about Soraya Lane:

'AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING MUST READ!!... I loved every page... A true page-turning, perfect romance that will sweep you off your feet.' Bookworm86, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Absolutely love... Pull[s] on the heartstrings!... A real page-turner... Beautiful... Incredibly moving and my heart really broke... I loved this novel so much... Wonderful... Gorgeous... Heartbreaking... Will make you cry (both sad and happy tears)... Mesmerising.' Cindy L Spear, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

In a world often overwhelmed by negativity and division, Kindness Heroes offers something we all need: hope. This powerful and heartwarming collection shares true stories of ordinary people who choose to care, show up, and create positive ripples in their communities.

These aren't celebrities or billionaires, they're students, teachers, parents, and neighbors who saw a need and chose to act. These stories feature Matt's Kindness Ripples On (MKRO) grant and award recipients, people whose generosity and courage are transforming lives and communities in meaningful ways.

Rooted in the legacy of Matt Kurtz, a young man who believed deeply in the power of kindness, this book was born from grief transformed into purpose. Through Matt's Kindness Ripples On, his family honors his memory by uplifting stories that inspire hope and human connection.

Whether you're feeling discouraged, wondering how to make a difference, or simply needing a reminder of the good in humanity, Kindness Heroes will resonate deeply. More than a collection of stories, it's an invitation, a gentle nudge to believe that what you do matters and that every ripple begins with one small act.

What if everything we think we know about America's health crisis is wrong?

Hidden in government data lies a shocking discovery: childhood trauma is responsible for 1,401 American deaths every single day-more than tobacco, accidents, or stroke. Among the 11.4 million Americans who experienced severe childhood trauma, every one will die 24 years too soon. Nearly 90% of teen suicide attempts trace back to adverse childhood experiences. And this epidemic costs America $14 trillion annually-roughly 60% of our entire GDP.

We've been counting the bodies wrong. When someone with severe childhood trauma dies of a heart attack at 55 instead of 75, we record it as heart disease. When they overdose, it's addiction. When they take their own life, it's suicide. But these aren't separate epidemics-they're symptoms of the same hidden crisis that's been destroying lives for generations.

Michael J. Menard knows this crisis firsthand. Growing up one of fourteen children in a 900-square-foot home below the poverty line, he watched childhood trauma ripple through his family-claiming two brothers to addiction and leaving invisible wounds across generations. Yet from these origins, Menard rose to become a world-renowned inventor with fourteen patents, advising NASA and the United Nations, and serving as Vice President of Worldwide Engineering at Johnson & Johnson.

Greater Than Gravity isn't just another trauma book. It's a meticulously researched exposé that connects dots no one else has connected-revealing how childhood trauma alters brain development, ravages the immune system, and creates cascading destruction across mental, physical, spiritual, and social dimensions of life. Menard brings his engineer's mind to humanity's greatest unaddressed public health crisis, transforming cold statistics into compelling human stories while offering concrete pathways to healing.

With endorsements from leading trauma experts including Dr. Glenn Schiraldi, this groundbreaking work serves three audiences: survivors seeking hope and healing, loved ones who want to understand, and anyone ready to join a movement to end this epidemic.

The numbers are irrefutable. The suffering is real. The time for action is now.

The Drive Within is a raw and insightful exploration of the primal instincts that shape the behavior, performance, and loyalty of working dogs. Written by a seasoned K-9 handler and law enforcement officer, this book bridges the gap between training and emotional connection, revealing what truly drives a dog to serve, protect, and follow.

Through real-life deployments, field-tested philosophies, and a deep understanding of canine psychology, the author unpacks key instinctual forces-prey, defense, pack, play, and more-and shows how these natural drives can be harnessed with respect, purpose, and leadership.

Far more than a training manual, The Drive Within is a story of trust, resilience, and the silent bond forged between handler and dog. Whether you're a new police dog's handler, an officer, or simply someone who loves and respects dogs, this book will change the way you see them, forever.