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Discover a battle plan to cross the bridge from exhausted bootstrapper to high-functioning CEO. For ambitious entrepreneurs, the greatest threat isnt market competition or fundingits the systemic inefficiency draining their growth potential. Your capacity is directly correlated to the strength of your systems.Celebrated business leader and speaker Dustin Hillis reveals five essential pillars that allow for sustainable scaling: Executive Strategy, Business Development Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Financial Strategy, and Legal Strategy. Drawing from over two decades of experience scaling companies across 10 countries and transforming early-stage start-ups into multimillion-dollar enterprises, Hillis provides a comprehensive blueprint to help you: Build robust systems that free you from day-to-day operations while dramatically increasing your companys growth potential Transform your role from overworked doer-of-all-things into a true CEO leading a high-performing executive team Master the specific strategies within each pillar that unlock exponential growth and prevent costly mistakes Ultimately reach Optimal Capacityso that all areas of your life, professional and personal, flourish and work in balance with one another Whether youre struggling to break through your current ceiling or aiming to scale your successful business to new heights, Capacity is your field guide to build a business thats truly bigger than yourself.

Twenty years of marriage. One life-altering question. Natalie Daviss brave and candid memoir chronicles the transformation of her traditional monogamous marriage into a vibrant polyamorous lifestyle. When her husband suggests they have sex with strangers, Natalie is incredulous. Yet, in the aftermath of his infidelity and while battling the voice in her head urging her to leave him, she agrees to try non-monogamy. What follows surprises no one more than Nataliea soccer mom and lawyeras she embarks on a daring journey down the rabbit hole of polyamory. Fearing for her livelihood and community standing, Natalie must keep her new lifestyle secret. She navigates complex relationships, including increasing clashes with her boyfriends wife (her "metamour"), confronting a therapist who claims polyamory is abusive, and debating what to tell her family and friends. Along the way, she discovers her own bold sexuality, experiences the thrill of young lovers, finds empathy from her husbands experienced poly girlfriend, and learns to weather heartbreak and find bliss.Saying Yes offers an unvarnished look into Natalies world, as she explores excitement, intimacy, and connection in unexpected places, including a few stairwells. With humor, heart, and raw honesty, this memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered what might happen if we say yes to what lies beyond conventional relationships.

Best-selling author and clinical herbalist Maria Noel Groves offers a comprehensive guide to the best herbs and natural practices to boost your gut microbiome, decrease your risk of chronic disease, and alleviate conditions like SIBO, leaky gut, irritable bowel syndrome, and GERD. A healthy gut is the key to good overall healthboth physical and mentaland researchers are beginning to uncover the links between an unbalanced gut microbiome and chronic conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, and cancer. As a clinical herbalist with decades of experience, Maria Noel Groves has helped patients of all ages resolve their digestive complaints and related health issues by teaching them how to adopt healthier dietary habits, employ herbs to alleviate digestive issues and improve digestion, and incorporate balanced lifestyle practicesresolving their diseases and dramatically improving their quality of life. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

Discover how to harness your bodys innate healing mechanisms to recover faster and more completely from virtually any condition, from common colds to chronic disease, by the author of Be Fruitful and cohost of the Body of Wonder podcast, and in collaboration with the AARP.What if your body already has all the healing tools it needsand you just need to learn how to activate them? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Victoria Maizes, a pioneer of integrative medicine, reveals the remarkable power of what she calls the rapid recovery reflexyour bodys built-in ability to restore balance and heal from illness, injury, and stress. Drawing on forty years of medical experience and cutting-edge research, Dr. Maizes shows that complete recovery is possible for a wide range of conditions when you know how to support your bodys natural healing processes. From short-term ailmentslike colds and sprainsto chronic conditionslike asthma and diabetesto recovering from surgery, this book offers evidence-based strategies to heal faster and more completely.Inside youll discover: -Science-backed strategies that can speed up recovery from common ailments (like GERD, UTIs, anxiety, asthma, and eczema), chronic conditions, and even surgery. - Surprising reasons why you should sometimes let your bodys natural inflammatory response do its healing work. -A personalized Recovery Toolkit with essential supplements, practices, and remedies for different conditions. -Integrative tools that really work when managing mental health, stress, and anxiety.Rather than merely treating symptoms, Dr. Maizes shows how to address the root causes of illness while providing practical tools for activating your rapid recovery reflex. This comprehensive guide empowers you to take charge of your health and tap into your bodys remarkable ability to heal itself.

Vivid and intriguing...Evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat. The New York TimesFrom National Book Awardwinning Elisa Shua Dusapin, a subtle yet powerful portrayal of family, secrets, and silence set against the backdrop of a crumbling house in the French countrysideperfect for readers of Katie Kitamura and Elena Ferrante.A bewitching meditation on tenderness and violence, intimacy and estrangement, The Old Fire will transport you to an ancient and wild place, immersing you in its temperatures and rainfalls, its grief and grace and sound and silence. You wont be the same when you leave it. Tess Gunty, National Book Awardwinning author of The Rabbit HutchThrough the window, I can see a light inside. Agathe leaves New York and returns to her home in the French countryside, after fifteen years away. She and her sister Vera have not seen each other in all those years, and they carry the weight of their own complicated lives. But now their father has died, and they must confront their childhood home on the outskirts of a country estate ravaged by a nearby fire before it is knocked down. They have nine days to empty it. As the pair clean and sift through a lifetimes worth of belongings, old memories, and resentments surface. Tender and tense, haunting and evocative, The Old Fire is Elisa Shua Dusapins most personal and moving novel yet. An exploration of time and memory, of family and belonging, it is also a graceful and profound look at the unsaid and the unanswered, the secrets that remain, and whether you can ever really go home again. A touching, mysterious novel, imbued with the beauty and strangeness of a fairy tale. Aysegul Savas, author of The Anthropologists Dusapin has a rare and ferocious gift for pinning the quick, slippery, liveness of feeling to the page: Her talent is a thrill to behold. Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

Blunt, irreverent, and at times wittily subversive, Opera Wars spotlights operas colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic future.Drawing on interviews with dozens of opera insidersas well as her own experience as an award-winning librettist, trained vocalist, opera company director, and arts commentatorCaitlin Vincent deftly unravels cliches and presumptions, exposing such debates as how much fidelity is owed to long-dead opera composers whose plots often stir racial and gender sensitivities, whether theres any cure for typecasting that leaves talented performers out of work and other performers chained to the same roles, and what explains the bizarre kowtowing of opera companies to the demands of traditionalist patrons. Vincent never shrinks from depicting the industrys top-to-bottom messiness and its stubborn resistance to change. Yet, like a lover who cant quite break away, she always comes back to her veneration for the artform and in these pages stirringly evokes those moments on stage that can be counted on to make ardent fans of the most skeptical.

Burch is the Jane Goodall of complex litigation. . . . For an expert in such an unlikable form of litigation, Burch is remarkably likable. She is quick to answer questions and quick-witted as well, a purveyor of analogies and metaphors to explicate arcane legal concepts and a walking archive of legal minutiae going back to the origins of product-liability lawthe kind of professor a student hopes to find. . . . . Burchs book cannot make this right, but it at least provides an account far more accessible and comprehensible than any case record, and no less appalling.Casey Cep, The New YorkerSelling the Dream meets Empire of Pain in this shocking, never-told-before story of three women caught in a web of telemarketing scammers, shady doctors, and profit-hungry lawyers who turned fears surrounding a faulty medical device affecting millions of women into a goldmine.For decades, late-night television has blared a familiar refrain: If you or a loved one has been injured by X productBut behind those ads lies a lesser-known world where elaborate scams revictimize the injured. Why else would thousands of women with health insurance take out loans with astronomical interest rates and fly to south Florida to have their pelvic mesh surgically removed at a chiropractors clinic? The Pain Brokers, by law professor Elizabeth Burch, is a damning investigation of a scheme made possible by a medical and legal complex that too often views womens bodies as cash machines and fails to take their pain seriously. As Burch unfurls each level to the scheme, we meet an enthralling cast of characters, from a world class scam artist who reaped tens of millions of dollars at a south Florida call center, to the ultimate white shoe power lawyer who defended Big Pharma but became an unlikely hero, to a newly minted small-town Arkansas attorney who advocated for the unseen and unheard. But at the center are three women, Jerri, Barb, and Sharon, whose lives were upended by the very procedure they were told would save them. A page-turning, urgently necessary work of public service journalism, The Pain Brokers is not only a chilling expose of a legal system gone awry, but a wake-up call to the ways in which it harms those it is meant to help.

La nouvelle romance de lautrice à succès, SJ Sylvis, dans le même univers que All The Little Lies.English Prep. Le lycée le plus snob de tout Pike Valley. Ici, tout est une question de hiérarchie. Et

New York Times BestsellerWe. Do. Not. Care.Hop aboard the Hot Mess Express, Sisters, and welcome to the club!Do you wake up with night sweats at 3:26 a.m., overstimulated, mad at anything breathing, and ready to put the world on notice?Do you forget the words you are saying as you are saying them?If you have a she-shed and no longer care about clothes that fit or cellulite on your legs (legs is legs!), then welcome to the clubthe We Do Not Care Club (WDNC). Youre now a card-carrying member with an exclusive invite to the biggest hormonal party in town.This club is for all of our Sisters in perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause who are over it. Here is a list* of things We Do Not Care about today: Shaving our legs. Thats on our summer bucket list. Winter is here. Plucking our chin hair. If we cant see it, neither can you. Wearing bras. Be happy we have a shirt on. Wearing PJs all day. Clothes is clothes. Being on time. Be happy that I showed up -- I dont even want to be here. Cancelled plans. We didnt want to go anywhere anyway. If youre cold. Dont even think about touching that thermostat. *partial and incompleteMelani Sanders, founding member of the WDNC, is here to tell you that its okay not to care. Youre not alone. This book is your life raft. Lets hold on for dear lifeand get through this together.

**THE UNPUTDOWNABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRST LIE WINS***AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*The story spins and twists towards the perfect endAndrea MaraYou wont be able to put this down until THE FINAL SHOCKING PAGEMegan MirandaTaut and addictiveAshley AudrainTwo women. One dead husband. And only one alibi...Camille Bayliss suspects her husband Ben hides a dark secret. But as he tracks her every move, she cannot prove it.Aubrey Price believes lawyer Ben Bayliss knows the truth about the night that wrecked her life a decade ago. But she needs a way in.When Camille and Aubrey meet, they hatch a plan.For twelve hours, Aubrey will take Camilles place. Ben will track the wrong woman, Camille can spy on Ben, and both women will get their answers.Except the next morning, Ben is found murdered.Two women need an airtight alibi, but only one of them has it. And one false step is all it takes for everything to come undone...Praise for ANATOMY OF AN ALIBI:Grippingly intricateThe TimesWill blow readers away Mary KubicaTense, smart and relentlessly suspensefulJulie ClarkElston knows how to tighten the screws of suspenseLisa UngerCompletely addictiveJenny JacksonMore praise for Ashley Elston:RivetingLucy FoleyI did NOT expect that endingReese WitherspoonIm still breathless Lisa Garder

Rich with accessible, no-nonsense wisdom, this invaluable guide shows women how to utilize their leadership ability and maximize their potential in all areas of their life.As mentors in your pocket, three successful Black women executivesElaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, and Rhonda Joy McLeanshare their strategies for playing, and ultimately winning, the power game in corporate America. This updated edition of their 2009 classic The Little Black Book of Success offers all corporate professionalsfrom college students to entry level employees, senior executives to global leadersacross all industries advice to help them find success. Covering topics like navigating unconscious biases and microaggressions, managing a global workforce, returning to the office after years of remote work, and the importance of self-care, this edition has been optimized for todays culturally and politically complex world.Anchored in the wisdom of experiencenavigating their own transitions from high-powered corporate jobs to becoming entrepreneurs, authors, public speakers, and community leadersBrown, Haygood, and McLean share all they have learned (and wish they had known), so future generations of professionals can benefit and flourish at work and beyond.

Channel of The Council Sara Landons next book shows you how to discover your unique spiritual role in this life, helping you determine and sharpen your life purpose and understand why you are on Earth at this time.Many people feel called to some greater purpose in life but struggle to discover what that purpose is or even where to begin. Others know they have a gift but are unclear how to develop or articulate that gift. The 11 Spiritual Roles of the Soul, by celebrated author and channel Sara Landon, offers readers a profound and life-changing perspective on why we are here on Earth at this time.In this book, The Councilan energetic presence of non-physical beingsreveals the 11 spiritual roles of the soul: healer, messenger, seer, transformer, dreamer, visualizer, wayshower, connector, uplifter, coder, and guide. After understanding their spiritual role, readers will learn: How the 11 spiritual roles relate to their lifes purpose How to use their spiritual gifts to enhance and expand every area of their lives Why stepping into their spiritual role right now is so important How they fit into the Great Awakening of humanity occurring at this time Daily practices for embodying their spiritual roles By aligning with their spiritual roles, individuals can uncover their true purpose, develop confidence in their unique gifts, and navigate their path with renewed clarity and joy.

A sobering investigation of the rush for lithium for electric vehicles, the problematic history of lithium mining, and the consequences for sustainability.Consumers today are buying electric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries motivated by the belief that they are doing good and decarbonizing society. But is sustainable lithium extraction possible? In Living Minerals, Javiera Barandiaran examines the history of lithium mining and uses during the twentieth century, with a specific focus on the two oldest brine-lithium mines: Silver Peak, Nevada, and Salar de Atacama, Chile, where lithium is found as one more element in a liquid mix of salts, minerals, and organisms.For six decades, mining experts have failed to ask about water usage, about waste or brine leakage, and about the ecosystem impacts in delicate deserts. Instead, they have relied on various fictions about the size of reserves, the fate of leaked brine, or the value of waste in facilitating mine development. These fictions, rooted in brine-lithiums material qualities, could be sustained thanks to powerful mining memories that celebrated resource nationalism. Unique in its historical and multidimensional approach to minerals and mining, based on the novel Rights of Nature paradigm, and using new archival materials from both Chile and the US, the book argues that decarbonizing society requires that we reckon with these realitiesor risk deepening our dependency on an unsustainable mining industry.

For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, an essential new look at the roots of American inequalityand the seeds of its transformationOnce the powerhouse of a fledgling countrys economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often faulted for the sins of the South, portrayed as a regional backwater that willfully cleaved itself from the modern world. But buried beneath the weight of good ol boy politics and white-washed histories lies the Deltas true story.Mississippi native and award-winning writer W. Ralph Eubanks unearths the regions buried history, revealing a microcosm of economic oppression in the US. He traverses the Delta, examining its bellwether efforts to combat income inequality through vivid portraits of key figures likeTheodore G. Bilbo and William Whittington, segregationist congressmen who sabotaged federal reparations for former sharecroppers in the 1940s and 50s Gloria Carter Dickerson, founder of the Emmett Till Academy, whose parents were instrumental in desegregating schools in Drew, MS, where Till was murdered Calvin Head, a community organizer who runs a farming co-op in Mileston, who revived the legacy of his hometown, the only Black resettlement community in Mississippi Eubanks delivers a powerful and insightful examination of how racism and economic instability have shaped life in the Mississippi Delta. He traces the enduring consequences of political decisions that have entrenched inequality across generations. At the same time, he brings attention to the resilience of local communities and the grassroots movements working toward meaningful change. The book offers a thoughtful framework for policy reform and community investment, underscoring the need to support those who have long sustained the region through their labor and lived experience.

Hunter and Clewe are back in the third Hunter and Clewe mystery, from acclaimed author Victoria Gilbert, when a closed case is reopened after another member of a prominent family is murdered.Cameron Clewe and Jane Hunter, lovers of all things bookish, are slowly cataloging Cams private collection of first edition books acquired from the deceased patriarch of the wealthy Stewart family. When Jane finds a note from Kimberly Stewart Ward, one of the daughters of the Stewart patriarchwho supposedly committed suicideshe discovers someone was actually targeting her with the intention of killing her. Jane and Cam decide to look into the supposedly closed case, but their investigation becomes urgent when another member of the Stewart family is found dead from a drug overdose. The victims friends claim hed been clean and sober for years and refuse to accept the cause of death. Believing both cases to be connected, Jane and Cam are determined to solve them before any other direct heirs of the family are targeted.

From the author of the critically acclaimed Nayra and the Djinn comes a stunning graphic novel about a girl who must uncover the truth behind her strange visions.For as long as Marlena can remember, she has seen flowers growing on everyone she meets: personalized poppies and daisies and roses of every color that give away what their owners truly feel. Invisible to the rest of the world, the flowers have always felt too overwhelming, too much for Marlena to take in when they dont always match what their owner shows. Shes long since given up convincing anyone else that theyre there.Until she meets Ashe, a charming transfer student who can somehow see these mysterious flowers, too. Unfortunately for Marlena, Ashe wants nothing to do with her. But as their thorny connection blooms, so do hidden secrets buried years ago. In this stunning graphic novel where dreams are woven into reality and not everything is as it seems, Marlena and Ashe must unfold the truth together, no matter where it may lead.

Third-grader Amina Banana is back in book three of this chapter book series, navigating new responsibilities at home and growing financial stresses, from National Book Award winner Shifa Safadi.When Aminas family hits hard times, and her dad has been gone working more, she is determined to help her family out. Using her math skills, she develops a new formula.Find a way to make groceries cheaper? + make money (how) + what else? = us being happyFrom clipping coupons to selling zaatar sandwiches and morewill her formula to make money work?

A Kids Indie Next PickWith lyrical verse and dazzling illustrations, this joyful ode to Black hair will empower readers ages 48 to celebrate the historical, cultural, and emotional significance of their natural hair.From the intricate coils of kings and queens to the cornrowed maps to freedom of African Americans, This Hair Belongs is a heartfelt poetic tribute to Black hair throughout history. Told through powerful verse, stunning illustrations, and fascinating back matter, this Black history picture book pays tribute to the African origins of Black hairstyles and will remind young Black readers that their hair is magical and beautiful and belongs. JaNay Brown-Wood and Erin K. Robinson deftly weave African and American history into this powerful childrens picture book about Black hair, making it an essential nonfiction title honoring Black cultural heritage.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Newbery Honorwinning author of Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All explores the way growing up, finding friends, and discovering who you are can be both awkward and empowering in this heartfelt middle school novel. "Genuine and poignant; has the makings of a modern classic. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)At the beginning of seventh grade, Luna knows who she is: an observant, quiet girl who loves writing and making zines with her best friend, Scott. But when one of their zines takes off, Luna is somehow swept up into the popular group and learns just how much of herself shes going to have to compromise to stay there. Will she give up her writing? Her best friend? What about her own beliefs about who she is and what she stands for?Featuring author-illustrator Chanel Millers signature line drawings, The Moon Without Stars is a deeply personal and often funny novel about what it means to lose and then find yourself again during the vulnerable, life-changing years of middle school.

"[An] exquisite balance between contentment and foreboding, tranquility and chaos." VogueIn this gripping tale of contemporary Russia, a young filmmaker and her friends run afoul of a government that ruthlessly oppresses artists who dare to satirize the regime . . .When Maya, a young Russian filmmaker, makes a low-budget horror movie with her friends, it seems like a promising start to a career in indie film. Little does she know that her jokey lo-fi film will soon attract the attention of the autocratic censors at the highest levels of the Russian police state.What follows is a propulsive narrative of an artist being crushed by state power, and the choices that one makes within a system where free expression is literally illegal. Written with the undeniable voice of a emigre from Putins Russia, The Undead is a tense, piercing story that serves as a parable, and a warning, about political oppression.