Candace Carpenter, a bashful social worker comes to find her true calling in a world filled with needless, gratuitous crime. Her hearts compassion shines like a beacon of light towards abused children. At first, crime is forbidden and despised through her eyes, but later it becomes her main attraction. Candace isn't your ordinary human, she is Arcturus, the fourth brightest star of the Constellation Bootes. One gloomy night, Arcturus descends from the galaxy to earth and blends in with the humans. After answering her calling, she starts to confront crime with a vengeance. Her killer instincts conflicts with her obligation to save the innocent. She battles with discernment about good versus evil and begins to questions her own motives to help a world that she once saw as troubled and now she too, amongst child abusers and crooks, can't decide which one is she.

A sailor from earth's distant past must join with the Ancient Warrior's Wild Stars companions to help them navigate the great gulfs of space, free Phaedra from her black-hole prison, and stop the extra-dimensional squids that could destroy the universe if they can meet up and mate!

Ten new puppet plays about the adventures of the well-known German puppet, Casper. Includes notes on making puppets and staging the plays.

Keeping in view the requirement of various management schools and professionals, this book presents dynamically changing policies, strategies, business models, frameworks and practices of corporate enterprises in India and abroad in an interesting and stimulating manner. The concepts are structured around the decision making process with suitable examples to enlighten students and managers with practices and techniques of making business strategies in today’s competitive environment. The book includes 13 real-life Indian cases to provide an invaluable opportunity to the readers to apply their theoretical knowledge in solving business problems by analysing strategic issues of specific organizations. Besides management studies, the text will also prove useful to the students of commerce and allied areas. KEY FEATURES : Discusses new paradigms of managing challenges in corporate enterprises. Includes a separate chapter on strategies of Mergers and Acquisitions. Highlights strategy execution and implementation factors. Emphasizes organizational culture and its relevance in organizational effectiveness.

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This reference work, updated since the 1997 edition, provides comprehensive information on the major professional leagues in North America--baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer. Arranged chronologically, the entries for each league in each sport include individual statistical leaders, championship results, major rules changes, winners of major awards, and hall of fame inductees.