"I have loved and lost many times in my life," writes author M. Lucia Frangiosa. After the pain of a heart-wrenching divorce and the devastating loss of her second husband inch-by-inch to a horrible death, Frangiosa found that after going through the grief, "when you feel you cannot breathe, eat, sleep, or live without him, when you feel the flames of life within you have gone out" there are still embers glowing within, a flicker of life fueling the...

Learning how to fly stole my childhood, and accomplishing my dreams took my parents. After my parents' death, taking care of my little brother and running my dance studio are the only things I've got time for in my hectic life. Until Declan Sinclair. As the number one draft pick for the Philadelphia Kings, he's not afraid of putting in a little hard work to get what he wants. And he wants me. I don't know if my heart can survive falling in love. All...

Everyone knows UK general elections aren't what they used to be. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system and other wrong-turns have created a deeply disillusioned electorate. Enter Real Alternative, a bold new party with a youthful, charismatic leader and a radical manifesto. True, it stands to win very few seats, but what really matters is that...

The Wolf Strikes Back In the simple town of Vadovara, a peaceful heaven of Gujarat State of India, a farmer's family lives. Like every other family, Ratan lives with his wife Ramila and his small daughter in a dignified way. Though he earns a meagre wage, he is content to live a simple life, often helping his community at large. The rich landlord of the community, Chainrai Mody, boasts of his "higher connections" and cajoles the lower working people...

It was just supposed to be another boring shift at the hospital. One minute I'm watching the seconds tick by, the next I get a call from the local prison telling me that they're about to bring in an injured prisoner. I still don't quite understand how I ended up running from the cops that night. Well... at least I have a hot as hell convict in tow. "I should probably take them off then," I manage to say. The words come out more like a breath than...

While witnessing unprecedented increases in autism among young children, an internationally revered medical doctor finds his retirement troublesome. Dr. Jeremiah Trent is convinced that a mercury-based vaccine preservative, similar to one he helped create while a young university chemist, could be the catalyst behind a rampantly spreading malady that had no recorded history before 1945. Trent moves forward quickly, forming an unlikely alliance with...

Most of the startups crash. But many of these errors are preventable. Lean Startup is a new approach that is being implemented across the globe, changing the way businesses are being developed and new products are being introduced. Eric Ries describes a start-up as an entity committed to creating something new under conditions of intense uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in the garage or a group of experienced professionals in the Fortune...

A story of ground combat, as viewed from the level of combat command, The Price of Courage is written-as it should be-by a man who has himself led infantry forces in battle during the Korean War, where combat reduced itself daily to the awful task of getting one man at a time around one rock at a time in the face of fierce, inch-by-inch resistance. Eric Holloway is assigned command of George Company on a cold and barren mountain when he least expects...

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune

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How did the son of a small college football coach become a highly successful CEO of multi-billion-dollar corporations? How did he become a sought-after business turnaround specialist and a highly regarded adviser/mentor to entrepreneurs and business leaders? The answers may be found in The Dunlap Rules, a unique set of approaches that can create winning cultures and lead to personal, business and financial success for those who apply them. The author's...