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Cyber Security Policy Guidebook

by Jennifer L. Bayuk, Jason Healey, Paul Rohmeyer, Marcus H. Sachs, Jeffrey Schmidt, Joseph Weiss ...

Drawing upon a wealth of experience from academia, industry, and government service, Cyber Security Policy Guidebook details and dissects, in simple language, current organizational cyber security policy issues on a global scale—taking great care to educate readers on the history and current approaches to the security of cyberspace. It includes thorough descriptions—as well as the pros and cons—of ... Read more

$91.00 USD

Drawing upon a wealth of experience from academia, industry, and government service, Cyber Security Policy Guidebook details and dissects, in simple language, current organizational cyber security policy issues on a global scale—taking great care to educate readers on the history and current approaches to the security of cyberspace. It includes thorough descriptions—as well as the pros and cons—of
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Audiobook

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach

by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, Janmejaya Sinha ...

Narrated by Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Unabridged

6 hours 52 min

Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you aim to be big or fast? Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win—or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether? In a business environment that is changing faster and becoming more uncertain ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you aim to be big or fast? Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win—or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether? In a business environment that is changing faster and becoming more uncertain
... Read more
Shapers of Worlds Volume II

More science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

by Edward Willett, Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Garth Nix, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jeremy Szal, Jeffrey A. Carver, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David D. Levine, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Helen Dale, Adria Laycraft, Edward Savio, Lisa Kessler, Ira Nayman, Carrie Vaughn, Nancy Kress, James Alan Gardner, Tim Pratt, Barbara Hambly, S.M. Stirling ...

Series Book 2 - Shapers of Worlds
Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see ... Read more

$6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see
... Read more
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Simply Effective

How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done

by Ron Ashkenas ...

Narrated by Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Unabridged

6 hours 6 min

The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering—and it's only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it's impossible to get things done. And in today's hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal.Yet complexity doesn't happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions. ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering—and it's only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it's impossible to get things done. And in today's hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal.Yet complexity doesn't happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions.
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Here Today

Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting against the Odds

by Jeffrey B. Schmidt ...

The history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even before then—readable in the traces of bygone days, if you know what to look for. In Here Today, Jeffrey B. Schmidt conducts readers, armchair travelers and adventurers alike, through places that tell Oklahoma’s story: towns all but disappeared, waning, or persisting despite the odds. Part ... Read more

$15.89 USD

The history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even before then—readable in the traces of bygone days, if you know what to look for. In Here Today, Jeffrey B. Schmidt conducts readers, armchair travelers and adventurers alike, through places that tell Oklahoma’s story: towns all but disappeared, waning, or persisting despite the odds. Part
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The Normans In European History (Unabridged)

by CHARLES HOMER HASKINS ...

Narrated by Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

Wherever their ships took them, the Normans were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle the achievements of these descendants of the Vikings, whose genius for assimilation transformed them into French, English, and Sicilian citizens of well-run states. Haskins discusses the great ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Wherever their ships took them, the Normans were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle the achievements of these descendants of the Vikings, whose genius for assimilation transformed them into French, English, and Sicilian citizens of well-run states. Haskins discusses the great
... Read more
Audiobook

The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself: Apollo Quartet Book 2

by Ian Sales ...

Narrated by Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Unabridged

2 hours 1 min

For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity’s only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it should be able to. So the US has sent Brigadier Colonel Bradley Elliott, USAF, to investigate. Twenty years before, Elliott was the first, and to date only, ... Read more

$8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity’s only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it should be able to. So the US has sent Brigadier Colonel Bradley Elliott, USAF, to investigate. Twenty years before, Elliott was the first, and to date only,
... Read more
Audiobook

Adrift on the Sea of Rains: Apollo Quartet Book 1 {Booktrack Soundtrack Edition}

by Ian Sales ...

Narrated by Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Unabridged

1 hour 54 min

This edition of Adrift on the Sea of Rains is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to ... Read more

$10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This edition of Adrift on the Sea of Rains is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to
... Read more
Audiobook

Adrift on the Sea of Rains: Apollo Quartet Book 1

by Ian Sales ...

Narrated by Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Unabridged

1 hour 55 min

WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return home? They have a ... Read more

$8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return home? They have a
... Read more
Audiobook

The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself: Apollo Quartet Book 2 {Booktrack Soundtrack Edition}

by Ian Sales ...

Narrated by Jeffrey Schmidt ...

Unabridged

2 hours 1 min

This edition of The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity’s only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it ... Read more

$10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This edition of The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience!For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity’s only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it
... Read more
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

by Garth Nix ...

A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extendedfamily of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World ofEngland when it intrudes on the modern world. From the bestselling master of teen fantasy, Garth Nix.In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but ... Read more

$10.49 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extendedfamily of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World ofEngland when it intrudes on the modern world. From the bestselling master of teen fantasy, Garth Nix.In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Shapers of Worlds

Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

by Edward Willett, Tanya Huff, John Scalzi, John C. Wright, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Julie E. Czerneda, Shelley Adina, Derek Künsken, Thoraiya Dyer, Gareth L. Powell, Seanan McGuire, Fonda Lee, Christopher Ruocchio, David Brin, D. J. Butler, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, David Weber, Joe Haldeman ...

Series Book 1 - Shapers of Worlds
Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association ... Read more

$6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association
... Read more