Xlibris jun 2007 (50 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - My husband's aspirations in the Army are as high as the moon some days and deep into the sea the next. He loves it, I know it, but he doesn't like having to be away from us. It's hard to explain to people that your husband wants to go to war, but he does. He wants the experience. That is what he is trained to do. He feels as though he can't really know how long he wants to be in the Army until he has that experience behind him. I want what is best for him. I fear the danger of war, but I know he will not feel complete doing time in the Army until he sets foot on foreign soil. I am afraid, but I have to have a peace about it, because if I don't, I won't survive if he doesn't return. We have a peace that, whether together or apart, we are a family, always. I don't know exactly how or why I feel this way. Maybe, it's because my husband has been a Christian all his life. I can't put into words what type of peace that brings. Death, injury, or deployment, we are a family. I will always stand by my soldier and I will always stand by my husband.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Roxanne Chapman the mother of two girls who eventually married Tom Atkins, and shocking relationship, violent and abusive. This is documented through her debut work in Twelve and a Half Years. While in prison Tom Atkins a pseudonym still protecting her and her family. Tom writes of his love for her that once again turned abusive in a love/hate relationship. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's 1975 and Cassidy Brookes is stuck in a dead-end job at a Hollywood movie studio. A testy encounter with A-list director Jeff McConnell provokes her into dusting off her ambitions to become a writer. Taunted by McConnell, Cassie decides to write a screenplay to show him what she can do-but she is at a loss for a story.While shopping at an antiques fair, Cassie buys a jeweled brooch containing a rare Imperial Topaz. She learns the brooch was once owned by a mysterious red-haired woman who lived in Ouro Preto, a fabled eighteenth-century city in Brazil, known for its Topaz mines and rivers of gold. As Cassie fingers the brooch, she feels a powerful connection to the red-haired woman, who lived half a century before. So great is her obsession with the story, Cassie quits her job and abandons McConnell, with whom she is falling in love.After traveling to Brazil, Cassie arrives in Ouro Preto to track down the clues which lead to Amanda Savage. A child of two continents and a jazz-age rebel, Amanda proved to be a formidable activist in her day, as she challenged the aristocracy and their treatment of the local miners.Amanda's courage blossoms in Cassie who is driven to solve the riddle of Amanda's death and bring the legendary tale of the Topaz Woman to light. How Cassie writes the story of Amanda Savage, battles the studio and Jeff McConnell, brings this romantic adventure to its exciting conclusion.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-six-year-old urban professional Gypsy Smith appears to have it all. A beautiful, articulate, and witty full-figured African American woman, she has a thriving career as part owner of a travel agency in Southern California. Her success has provided her with sports cars, a designer wardrobe, and an expensive loft in Long Beach just blocks from the beach. But what's not obvious to outsiders is how hard Gypsy struggles daily with her secret sexual desires.Paris Morgan, a charming, intelligent, and romantic thirty-three-year-old African American man is nice almost to a fault. This quality earns him abuse and rejection from the women he lets into his life. But after meeting Gypsy, Paris feels like he's found all he desires. Yet Paris has secrets too.Lacking in self-esteem, Gypsy often makes bad decisions when it comes to men. But because of Paris, she eventually begins to see that she is the cause of most of the drama in her life-and she has planted the seeds for its growth. Only time will tell whether Gypsy and Paris can overcome their personal faults or whether those imperfections will force them apart forever.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Corporate America is faced with a challenge today, a challenge unprecedented in our history. It has become a national imperative that corporations create audit programs and infrastructures to achieve audit readiness and guarantee the accuracy of corporate records. Executives should not and can not depend entirely on external audit reviews and recommendations. They must create internal audit programs and infrastructures to regain credibility and the confidence of shareholders. Meeting this challenge is critical to the survival and success of many business enterprises.The federal government and leaders of our country are serious today in facing the challenges of corporate behavior and the dangers that have evolved, evidenced by the passing of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. The Act requires the certification by CEOs and CFOs regarding the accuracy of their financial statements and requires independent outside audit attestation of the operating effectiveness of controls and control structure over financial reporting. It imposes associated penalties for failure to comply. Pro-active corporations must establish the discipline of rigorous audit readiness programs and must ensure their continued successful execution. It is essential that internal audit committees take measures to install checks and balances and self-policing practices to ensure integrity within their corporations. This is not optional. CEOs today are legally responsible for the correctness of their financial statements.IT Governance: The Only Thing Worse Than No Control Is The Illusion of Control focuses on a unique organizational structure and the mechanics of establishing an effective internal independent audit organization. It proposes the structure of an independent internal auditing group headed by a Chief Governance Officer (CGO) or Chief Accounting Executive (CAE) who reports directly to an audit committee, comprised of Board of Director members, who themselves must be totally independent. Independence is the most critical element in the success of this new audit approach and can not be emphasized enough. This will require an organizational change in most corporations and a revolutionary approach. Old paradigms in which the audit organization reported to the CEO or CFO will be discarded. These internal audit groups must serve as the eyes and ears for the public and Board of Directors. They will provide early warnings of inappropriate, fraudulent or ineffective practices and will report noncompliance with accepted basic control fundamentals and ethical behavior; they must do so without fear of reprisal.Not only is it the responsibility of the Audit Committee to provide direction, but it is essential that every executive officer and their staffs be on board and be fully supportive of the internal audit infrastructure. It is the synergy of these organizations working together that is required to prepare us for successful audits and to improve business controls.Education is critical and should be of paramount importance in addressing this problem. IT Governance: The Only Thing Worse Than No Control Is The Illusion of Control addresses the establishment of effective corporate governance, describes how to install a sound audit governance infrastructure, and describes how to establish effective IT controls. We have an opportunity to do better and we should. This book addresses not only how to comply with legislative mandates, but it also provides a roadmap, detailing steps on how to establish an infrastructure and audit readiness program to achieve compliance. In addition, there is a realization now by many corporations that the effectiveness of their business process controls is heavily dependent on the adequacy of their IT controls; this book focuses on the integration of business processes with IT controls.This book addresses many facets of IT controls, from the formation of an effective audit infrastru. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the end, we are all affected by pollution, no one person is affected by it. It was already clear that because world climate was warmer, land can also be contaminated on a large scale by damaging irrigation practices. In very day areas, farmland is soaked in water from rivers to grow crops. Because the weather is hot, the water evaporates quickly leaving behind tiny quantities of salt. The government's in poorer countries worry that the demands to preserve their environment made by the richer industrial countries will prevent economic development in the electricity generating business, burning coal rather than gas produces 30 percent more carbon dioxide to provide the same amount of power it can be hard for people to change, eventhough they may want a clean environment, drivers in the united states buy gas at about a quarter of the price as those in europe. The world's fi rst nuclear power station opened in britain in 1956. Within 20 years hundreds were being built across the world at the time it was believed that atomic energy would be so cheap it could replace coal and oil as the world's major energy.In my home island, Trinidad, rising sea levels has changed the landscape I group with nature, we all most respect nature, man is but a grain of salt in the universe. When your son or daughter ask you twenty years from now, 'What did you do to help make the world better ' What will be you answer.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Journey Through Time in a collection of three novellas that will takeyou through time and around the globe.First journey to present day France in 'Only Time Will Tell' where Marie Sinclair sets off for a new life when she moves to Paris after graduating as an art major in the states. Unsure of what she'd like to do she comes across an advertisement for an art restoration expert needed at a chateau near the Loire Valley. She travels there and finds a dashing but very wild young man, Pierre, who is restoring his families' chateau. Over time she builds a deep dislike for Pierre even though he does everything to win her purely because she is the one woman he can't have.Pierre and Marie soon have a huge disagreement resulting in Marie leaving for a much needed break, where she meets Basil St. James a historian from London. After touring the chateau of the Loire together Marie returns to Pierre's chateau and continues to be courted by Basil. This of course causes Pierre to be miserable.However after Pierre is injured in an accident Marie finds that she has feelings for him, but they are both too stubborn to be the first to admit it. It's only after Basil proposes that Pierre at last reveals his true feelings, but is it too late Only Time Will Tell.Then journey back through time to WWII Northern Ireland where Alexander Campbell is injured when he plane goes down between England and Nazi controled France during the height of WWII. He losses his memory and much more. While recovering in a London hospital he is flooded with memories, and struggles to piece together the fragmented pieces of his past. All dreams seem to lead to one thing, a woman that he is unable to remember who comes to him only in his dreams.When he is at last identified he is sent home to Belfast where he comes face to face with the very woman he thought he had merely imagined, Brooke Hamilton. He soon finds that they were more than mere acquaintances, they had been betrothed! Thinking him dead Brooke had been forced to agree to marry another to save her family from losing their land. Alexander becomes determined to win her back, but will he be too late Finally travel for an adventure in 1850's Australia in 'Destination Unknown'. Never would Andrew Thomason have expected what lay in store when the fates dealt him the hand of being shanghaied on a pirate ship that would leave him on the shores of the wild and untamed continent of Australia. Reunited with a long-lost brother, Lawrence they strike out on their own to make a life for themselves only to be sepearted once again. Love then finds its way to both young men in the gold fields of Victoria and in the port town of Adeliade. Hardship and redemption at every turn the brother's struggle to make their lives their own. Will any good come from this Destination Unknown.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Lighthearted, whimsical and inspirational describes the easy reading collection of prose about life's experiences. It appeals to both young and old readers alike. Once you've read her poems, you will fall in love with poetry.' Love Nothing can ever separate the bond of love not in fl esh nor in spirit Love is endless Love is priceless Love is forever There is nothing as wonderful or as intense or as forgiving Without love the heart is empty the soul cries Love and be loved For love is the measure of life.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wrightales are original fairy tales written by Lisa Wright for grownups who have never quite grown up. They take a whimsical, once-upon-a-time view of life's quandaries and travails. The search for happiness and fulfillment is explored with humor and imagination. This collection of nine tales includes the story of a dream deferred, a fable about the search for the secret of happiness, and a Solstice story to chase the dark away. There are wizards and dragons, wild geese and small white dogs, magic and trickery, and all varieties of love.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Love Nots! introduces Miranda, an evasive, charming model with an offending yen for instant gratification and enough opportunity to screw up anyone's calendar! Through the hope of understanding and unpredictable shocks of reality Miranda battles the world with stilettos, Kleenex, and laughter, while trying to find someone who will love her. Before this impetuous model can find true love, she must first figure out what love really means and why so many people seem to get it wrong all the time! Deliciously taboo, Love Nots! entertains its readers as it demands that they probe for deeper understanding, urging them to have courage in a sometimes lonely world. Guidara's modern voice blends raw emotional and often sassy dialog with an exciting contemporary backdrop questioned by traditional values, embracing the 'bling' and the bland of two very different worlds. Love Nots! is unapologetic, yet compassionate, telling the truth about love every young woman is searching to know. and has no idea how to find.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The government finally commits to a manned mission to Mars. Options are debated and unexpected controversial decisions are made as the expedition turns from a scientific voyage to colonization. The program becomes a second space race as a second county tries to reach Mars first and stake their claim. Competition to be the first on Mars goes right done to the wire. Travel to Mars and its exploration is full of dangers and surprises with the travelers experience their share. The conclusion of the race is one no one expected.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Sage of Aquarius This tale begins tomorrow. The over-populated and ravaged earth is gasping for breaths while corporations and criminals dominate the earth's scant resources and its troubled humans. When a quirky prodigy builds a computer that communicates with the metaphysical realm he inadvertently sets a chain of corrective measures into motion. An improbable family of diverse renegades forms for a globe-wide race to escape a power-mad lunatic and their own dark pasts. Our survivors, guided by the planets, discover that love really does heal the past. Mother Nature, however, has her own agenda.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.