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Alex Callahan is als televisiecorrespondent in alle hoeken van de wereld geweest om verslag te doen van de vreselijkste rampen. Maar op een schijnbare rustige zomermiddag is hij miet langer alleen toeschouwer van de duistere kant van de wereld. Hij is met zijn zes jaar oude tweeling op een feest als de twee opeens verdwijnen. Ieder spoor ontbreekt tot Callahan een telefoontje krijgt. Aan de andere kant is een beklemmende stilte te horen, dan een langzame ademhaling, en een klagende, bekende kinderstem " papa? ". De nachtmerrie is voor Callahan nu compleet en hij stort zich in een wanhopige zoektocht naar zijn zoons.

Wannabe artist Miranda Blair is named the sole heir to the estate of her estranged grandmother, Gertrude, but as a prerequisite she must spend a hundred days at Gertrude's New England cottage. The handsome next-door neighbor seems determined to turn Miranda's resented countdown into a purpose- driven season of possibilities; will she discover her true colors and ensure a paint-worthy future?

Explains what business numbers mean and why they matter, and addresses issues that have become more important in recent years, including questions about the financial crisis and accounting literacy.

Companies expect managers to use financial data to allocate resources and run their departments. But many managers can't read a balance sheet, wouldn't recognize a liquidity ratio, and don't know how to calculate return on investment. Worse, they don't have any idea where the numbers come from or how reliable they really are. In "Financial Intelligence", Karen Berman and Joe Knight teach the basics of finance - but with a twist. Financial reporting, they argue, is as much art as science. Since nobody can quantify everything, accountants always rely on estimates, assumptions, and judgment calls. Savvy managers need to know how those sources of possible bias can affect the financials - and they need to know that sometimes the numbers can be challenged. While providing the foundation for a deep understanding of the financial side of business, the book also arms managers with practical strategies for improving their companies' performance - strategies such as "managing the balance sheet" that are well understood by financial professionals but rarely shared with their nonfinancial colleagues. Accessible, jargon-free, and filled with entertaining stories of real companies, "Financial Intelligence" will help nonfinancial managers be smarter and more confident in their everyday work

Open-book management transforms the workplace by engaging employees in the company's financial health, fostering motivation and accountability. John Case explores the shift from traditional management styles that treat workers as mere "hired hands" to a more inclusive approach that encourages collaboration and problem-solving. He analyzes the competitive landscape and critiques outdated management techniques, highlighting the need for a more responsible and informed workforce to thrive in today's global economy.

There's nothing in a glorious summer's day to suggest anything even remotely sinister. In fact, Alex Callahan, a news correspondent, surprises himself by enjoying the Renaissance Faire that his six-year-old twins, Kevin and Sean, have forced him to visit. The boys are delighted by the jugglers and magicians, jesters and foodmongers dressed in full Elizabethan costume. But it's the joust that the boys have really been waiting to see. Alex takes a break to watch, while keeping half an eye on the twins, but when he turns to see how they are enjoying themselves, they're nowhere to be seen. The perfect day has turned into every parent's nightmare. His sons have disappeared, and Alex is an immediate suspect. But no one can explain the bizarre origami figure he finds after he returns to his empty house. Or the bowl of water that has been left on the top shelf of the wardrobe. Or, the T-shirt soaked in blood... As police attention to the case wanes, Alex's own investigations uncover a sinister, underground world that he never dreamed existed. A world where reality is portrayed as illusion, and where the reason behind the twins' disappearance is more terrifying than anything Alex can imagine...

In a gripping thriller that delves into the intersection of science and the divine, Jane Jensen transports us into an unimaginable reality. Rabbi Aharon Handalman, skilled in Torah code, uncovers the name of Yosef Kobinski hidden within sacred text. Intrigued, Aharon embarks on an investigation into Kobinski, a Polish rabbi and brilliant physicist who may have authored a pivotal lost work in history. Meanwhile, in Seattle, Jill Talcott's research on energy wave equations connects her to the deceased Kobinski, who claimed to have discovered a physical law of good and evil. When her lab explodes, Jill realizes the danger of her findings and the powerful interests that threaten her. Along with her research partner and a writer captivated by Kobinski, they seek out Handalman in Poland, all eager to unravel the mystery. Their search leads them to a clearing near Auschwitz, where they confront the extraordinary: Kobinski's mysterious disappearance from the death camp in a blaze of fire, drawing on his unique blend of science and Kabbalah. As intelligence agents pursue them, the investigators must follow Kobinski to uncover the truth of his fate.

Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge . The confession belongs to the late Dr Franco Baresi, and concerns the work at his fertility clinic - a fertility clinic that Lassiter's sister attended and, as he horrifyingly discovers, all the other victims in a recent series of murders that have swept the world.

Dr. Jeff Duran suffers from severe panic attacks whenever he ventures outside his home office. And he is inexplicably haunted by mysterious memories. Then, after a troubled patient commits suicide-and her half sister, Adrienne Cope, blames Duran-his life spirals out of control.Suddenly targeted by unknown assassins, he and Adrienne must run for their very lives. Forced to trust each other, they must now work together to unlock the reason why one or both of them is marked for death. For beneath the intrigue lies a dark conspiracy that stretches halfway around the world-and a sinister plot that could change the course of history.

Reporter Frank Daly misses a scientific voyage to the Arctic. Catching up with the scientists on their return, he finds them reluctant to talk, and he probes until he discovers the shocking truth.

"And on the Seventh Day, He rested." --Genesis, 2:2-3 The EighthDay is an explosive, compulsively readable novel of suspense that plunges a clever young man into a web of mystery and international deceit, bringing him face to face with the ultimate evil. Danny Cray is a struggling 28 year-old sculptor and video artist who lives in Washington DC. To make ends meet, he does occasional freelance work as a researcher for a large firm of private detectives. When one of their most powerful clients approaches him with a job, the money is too good to resist. All he has to do is learn what a recently deceased university professor was working on when he died. But Danny stumbles on far more than he expected when he discovers that the professor was in touch with the Vatican about a remote tribe of Kurds who worship the Peacock Angel; Satan. After others connected to the professor start to disappear, Danny finds himself in great peril and must travel into the ancient land where this tribe still lives in order to discover what is truly at stake in his investigation. A mesmerising blend of science, religion, history and suspense, The Eighth Day confirms John Case's position as a master of intelligent commercial fiction.

From The Genesis Code to The Murder Artist, John Case has established himself as the master of unrelenting suspense. Now Case choreographs his most diabolically chilling novel to date, as the very fabric of civilisation threatens to come apa

Jack The Detective is back at it again looking into a senator's mistress hounded by a snake and a gorilla who really rather he didn't. He gets himslef involved with a red headed dancer whose name is Desiree but prefers to be called Dizzy as the two of them find themsleves caught betwen a rock and a hard place. Set in New Orleans Jack is in way over his head with his usual good luck trying to find a way out.

In 1951, John Case made his arrival as the fifth of six children born to an Irish Catholic mother and Marine Corps father. What he had no way of knowing was that his father had not wanted a fifth or sixth child and openly resented their presence. John would spend most of his childhood living in fear of a repeat of a terrifying display of anger that occurred when he was seven years old. That fear would continue until he reached a personal epiphany and escaped the constant state of implied threat that had defined his childhood in so many ways. His story also traces the ups and downs of his parent's relationship, and how the phases of that relationship impacted their parenting abilities, interest and competency. Set against the backdrop of 1950s and 60s middle class America, from California to Hawaii to Michigan, My Own Santini also reflects the changes in American culture from the relative calm of the post war years to the volatility of the late sixties. At times both heartbreaking and heartwarming, My Own Santini is the story of a personal journey that proves that one's past does not dictate one's future and, as importantly, even life lessons learned through pain and fear can be used to craft a positive result.

Kniha přináší překlady čtyř úspěšných románů se záhadnou nebo kriminální zápletkou od anglických a amerických autorů. / Druhá šance - Mary Higgins Clark / Chytač stínů - Michelle Paver / Iluzionista - John Case / Strážce - Nicholas Sparks

Španělská chřipka zabila 30 milionů lidí po celém světě v roce 1918. Teď, se historie ohrožení opakuje… Jedna vědecká expedice zatím směřuje k vzdálenému ostrovu v arktickém moři, aby nalezla vyhynulé druhy zhoubných virů uchovaných pod vrstvami z ledu… První jezdec Apokalypsy může opět povstat – jeho jméno je: MOR! V New Yorku neznámí pachatelé zavraždí muže a ženu. V Severní Koreji rozbombarduje vojenský letoun horskou vesnici. V norském moři si ledoborec probíjí cestu k opuštěnému ostrovu. Na palubě veze tým, který má exhumovat těla dávno zemřelých horníků. Tři odlišné události spojuje pavučina tajných akcí a protiakcí. Novinář Frank Daly má fantastický námět, na jaký se čeká celý život, ale narazí na bariéru zděšeného mlčení...

Klíč ke skutečné hodnotě čísel. Od manažerů se očekává, že budou sebevědomě ovládat finanční data a používat je. Někteří ovšem mohou mít s porozuměním těmto číslům problém a mohou mylně finanční data uctívat, místo aby je zpochybňovali a napadali. Kniha je určená především manažerům a majitelům podniků. Vysvětluje základy financí způsobem přístupným všem, a pomůže tak porozumět tokům peněz ve firmě a jejich vlivu na chod podnikání.