Growth unleashes benefits beyond the economic. It revitalizes organizations and invigorates the people in them, creating energy, a sense of purpose, and the glow of being on a winning team. Like the alchemy of old, it seeks to transform the everyday into the exalted by means that seem little short of magical. Yet growth is often elusive, achieved at unacceptable costs, or managed in fits and starts. Based on over three years of research and application at high-performing companies around the world, The Alchemy of Growth is a comprehensive, practical approach to initiating, achieving,...

Everyone thought that the Lord of Terror known as Fantomas had perished aboard the Titanic in April 1912, but they were wrong Fantomas returns in 1917 New York, on the eve of America entering the Great War. His diabolical plot: to capture Professor Harrington, the only man to know the secret of Eldorado and gold-making. His goal: to rule the New World. His method: to spread terror The only man who stands in his way: Detective Frederick Dickson. This original Fantomas novel by David White is inspired from the long-lost 1920 American Fantomas serial written by Edward Sedwick & George...

Dorf is the rather humorous story of a young dwarf. Nathaniel Dorf, a man who cannot even reach the top of most tables, will undertake a journey involving courage, wizards, magic, trolls, a talking parrot and a discovery that changes his life and the lives of many others throughout the world. And no, the parrot doesn't just beg for crackers.

Instant Notes in Human Physiology will be valuable to students in whatever context they are studying physiology. It explainsfundamental concepts andthe major physiological systems, showing how they are integrated, withoutoverloading the reader with information.

key selling features:

Explains physiology inthe light of advances in molecular biology andcellular biology.
Shows how the major physiological systems are integrated.
Approaches physiology from the view that the purpose of life is to reproduce.