World-over, the employment landscape is changing, and its not any more a world where life time employment or even employment for say 5 to 10 years is an established norm. Thanks to factors like automation and AI, almost on an unprecedented scale than ever before, workplaces are changing, and the workers are staring unemployment, more than ever before. Job losses aka pink slips will be more a norm, than an exception in the coming days. That moment we face a loss of job, known as the proverbial pink slip, it’s like a huge thunderbolt hit us. More than what in reality has happened – owing to external circumstances, and extraneous factors, what takes a toll is the way once reacts, when faced with a pink slip situation. This e-book is meant to be a good and thought helping companion when you think you are down! You are down, but that’s because of anything else BUT you. The book is intended, not only for those who are in the midst of such an event, but also to everyone who wishes to be mentally prepared, just in case they will something akin to a pink slip. Job losses aka pink slips are here to stay on. They will not just be a western or IT sector specific phenomenon, but with the world shrinking the way businesses operate, every other industry could be a victim of pink slips. Our ability to face them off squarely and emerge stronger will count, more that how competent and skilled we were. Not much has been written as to how the softer side of job losses are to be handled, by those who face such an unfortunate situation. From a time when this was a rarity, and pink slips resorted to only when there was a discipline or absolute non-performance, now organizations vanish in this air, due to some change which hits from some corner of the globe - throwing entire work-forces out of gear. The pages of this book are meant to mentally prepare individuals, equip them to handle pink-slips with grace, and face life with more confidence and renewed vigor, and make them more able and agile in handling the harsh reality of a job loss, just in case it happens. Read on. Be better equipped to beat the pink-slip.

Destoni Rain started out as a young misguided teenage girl, born into a life of lies, deception, and greed. She tries to find love and acceptance in all the wrong places, only to find that she is all alone. She eventually tries to change for the better, but always seems to find herself down a path that’s deeper and darker than the one before.

Axel is an adrenaline junkie with a strong craving for anything fast—fast bikes, fast cars, fast living. His reputation as an all-around bad boy is as notorious as his reputation in the street-racing game. Then he meets Savannah: sexy, savvy and the only woman Axel has ever met who is capable of beating him in a race. The two go head-to-head and tensions—and passions—flare. When Axel just barely beats Savannah in a race, he knows he has met his match. . .in more ways than one. Savannah is the woman of his dreams. That is, until she disappears without a trace. Axel spends the next few years trying to erase the painful memories of Savannah, and kill his secret dreams of what they could have built together if only she had stayed. But when Savannah returns six years later, she's not alone. Standing beside her is a little boy who bears a startling resemblance to Axel. . . .

Road Kill: Quest for Freedom bores a window back through time illuminating an era gone by. The story focuses on a place, and the events of a single Motorcycle Club during a period many call The Golden Age of Motorcycle Clubs. The Vietnam War was not the only war fought by these young men. Road Kill fought another war, one that germinated deep inside his soul. This war was spawned by a quest he never fulfills. A Quest for Freedom and in the end, as this Club looks back, many older members tell their younger Brothers, Its easy to see this was the most phenomenal period in our Clubs long history.

The Crispus Attucks High School basketball teams of 1955 and 1956 made Indiana basketball history as the first all-black team to win a state championship and then as the first undefeated team ever to win the championship. The story of Oscar Robertson’s dedication to the game and of the unforgettable Attucks’s teams of the 1950s are told in this inspiring book that brings together race, joy, and achievement during a critical time in Indiana and American history. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

In this blistering thriller by New York Times bestselling author and “king of high-concept political intrigue” (Dan Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author), CIA operative Mitch Rapp becomes a target of bloodthirsty vengeance for a deceased terrorist’s father. For more than a decade, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp has been on the front line of the war on terror. Now, he’s on a race against time to save one more life—his own—in this “fast, fun read” (People). The influential father of a slain terrorist demands retribution for the death of his son at Rapp’s hands. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage there are those, even among America’s allies, who feel Mitch Rapp has grown too effective at his deadly job. They have been looking for an excuse to eliminate the number one counterterrorism operative, and they are determined to seize the chance with an explosive international conspiracy. Now the hunter is the hunted, and Rapp must rely on his razor-sharp instincts for survival—and justice—as he unleashes his fury on those who have betrayed him.

The team at www.historyofwrestling.co.uk are back with the eighth in their series documenting every episode of WWF Monday Night Raw, year by year. We cover every angle, segment and match in detail, and offer plenty of thoughts and facts along the way. The book is written and presented in the usual HOW style, with various awards, match lists and a host of star ratings for fans to debate at will. FEATURING: The debut of The Radicalz The return of The Undertaker Commissioner Foley ""Who ran over Steve Austin?"" The Stephanie-Angle-Triple H love triangle Chris Jericho's ""stricken"" title win And much more! As usual, every single segment is covered in detail, with witty comment and analysis throughout. Fans of the series won't be disappointed, and once again the tome clocks in at a monster 160,000 words! It is our biggest Raw book ever! A must have have all wrestling fans.

Gretchen, and her stepbrother, Clark hate staying at their grandparents' house. Grandpa Eddie is totally deaf. And all Grandma Rose wants to do is bake. Plus, they live right in the middle of a dark, muddy swamp.Things couldn't get any worse, right? WRONG.Because there's something really weird about Grandma and Grandpa's house. Something odd about that room upstairs. The one that's locked. The one with the strange noises coming from it.Strange growling noises...

She's been handed her walking papers. Jane McGregor has just been laid off from her job designing pink slips for an office supply company. The irony is not lost on her. She's a twenty-eight-year-old art major whose last major career accomplishment was being propositioned by the company vice president. Desperate to maintain her freedom from her oddball parents, tyrannical older brother, and slacker ex-boyfriend, Jane starts sending out resumes. So what if some of them aren't exactly, well, true. She's taking the future in stride. When Jane's dad, a staunchly conservative believer in the corporate dream, loses his job, and her mom goes to work for a trendy dot com, Jane discovers that the family she's taken for granted is unraveling. After a fellow lay-off victim hatches a plot to seek revenge on the office supply company, Jane must choose between living in the past and seeking out a new future. To her surprise, that future might involve a most unlikely partner in crime -- handsome, funny Kyle Burton -- and maybe, just maybe, a new job, too.