![]() ![]() ![]() ***It is not necessary to read The Clipped Wings series or the Pucked Series prior to reading this novella. Don't miss the resulting action and insights in this Pucked series and Clipped Wings crossover novella. Worlds collide when the hockey boys pay a visit to Inked Armor, the renowned Chicago tattoo studio where master artists Hayden Stryker and Chris Zelter ply their trade. Ink cherries will be popped, cupcakes will be consumed, and the hazards and enhancements of boob bling will be pondered. Don't miss these other titles from NEW YORKTIMES bestselling author HELENA HUNTING Shacking Up Hooking Up THE PUCKED SERIES Pucked Pucked Up Pucked Over. When the itch for new ink takes over, NHL star Randy Ballistic commissions his trusted tattoo artist to design a new sleeve, and the rest of the PUCKED boys decide it's time to commemorate their love of hockey with a team tattoo.īut it can't just be about the boys-the PUCKED girls want in on the action, too. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ravasi and Schultz (2006) characterise organizational culture as a set of shared assumptions that guide behaviors. The study concerned itself with the description, analysis, and development of corporate group behaviours. The "case" involved a publicly-held British company engaged principally in the manufacture, sale, and servicing of metal bearings. The book was a published report of "a case study of developments in the social life of one industrial community between April, 1948 and November 1950". Elliott Jaques first introduced the concept of culture in the organizational context in his 1951 book The Changing Culture of a Factory. Edgar Schein, a leading researcher in this field, defined "organizational culture" as comprising a number of features, including a shared "pattern of basic assumptions" which group members have acquired over time as they learn to successfully cope with internal and external organizationally relevant problems. Historically there have been differences among investigators regarding the definition of organizational culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() Have you delivered a speech at a wedding and lived to tell the tale? Tell us how you did it! You might also like In a reversal from YOUR responsibilities I had a heterosexual wedding I'm the female half of that with a gay best man. So respect the limit, aim for a bit under your limit to allow for laughter on the day, and practise your speech in front of a supportive but brutally honest person. This can, however, lead to more and more people giving speeches, which I think is a totally good thing, but timings become more important because if everyone goes over by a bit, that adds up to a whole chunk of behind-schedule-ness in the day. Ignore this one at your peril, my friend! Stick to your time limit. ![]() Just make fun of your best friend and be happy that they are marrying the love of their life. Again, there are no special rules for you at a gay wedding. No idea why - they just say so when they call us. ![]() ezik, iqi, afaz The best man or woman often feels under particular pressure at gay wedding. So if you are both going to speak, compare notes or at least headings. ![]() ![]() No one expects him to succeed, Griffin least of all. Straight out of school, Griffin, a junior Investigations agent for the North American Trade Union, is put on the case: Find and close the illegal crèches. Fletcher’s Ghosts of Tomorrow.Īnd someone is turning them into highly trained killing machines. When you’re living disembodied in a 24/7 hyperviolent simulation, then you’re how do you distinguish right from wrong?Īnd here starts Michael R. Where reality and existence are one step removed from whatever came before, however real or existent that might have been. ![]() Let’s raise it in a world where killscores mean more than lives because lives mean nothing – because you have no attachment to them. Let’s take all of the energy and passion of youth and let it loose on a digital playground. ![]() Imagine a future where brains can be scanned, where personalities and consciousness become simulacra. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Any trepidation I had about the sequel was proven to be fully unfounded. My wait was cut in half when I got my greedy little hands on an arc of Only Ashes Remain, the second in the Market of Monsters trilogy, at the end of May…and devoured it in just a few days. I devoured it in two days-an impressive feat for me-and I immediately wanted more. It’s the dark, twisted, gory, relevant urban fantasy that my black little heart had been craving. If you’ve been following the blog (or my bookstagram) for any length of time, you already know of my deep love for Rebecca Schaeffer’s debut Not Even Bones. Now caught in a game of kill or be killed, Nita will do whatever it takes to win. But killing Fabricio is harder than Nita thought it would be, even with Kovit by her side. ![]() And the best way to start building her reputation? Take her revenge on Fabricio, the boy who sold Nita to her kidnappers. Nita must make herself so feared that no one would ever dare come after her again. There’s only one way to keep herself safe. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she’s still a prime target on the black market. After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. ![]() ![]() ![]() They may also contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The stories in this collection may contain sexually explicit content and are intended for adult readers. Nearly 190 stories were submitted and have now been published as a twelve volume set with two additional bonus volumes, titled Love Has No Boundaries. The result was an outpouring of creativity that shone a spotlight on the special bond between M/M romance writers and the people who love what they produce. ![]() ![]() The Goodreads M/M Romance Group invited members to choose a photo and pen a letter asking for a short M/M romance story inspired by the image authors from the group were then encouraged to select a letter and write an original tale. They are a product of the Love Has No Boundaries promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group, and each anthology is published as a gift to you. The stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. ![]() ![]() ![]() He breaks down the importance of financial milestones like "Diddy Revealed as the Buyer of Kerry James Marshall's Record-Breaking $21 Million Painting." Stories include, dealers like Alitash Kebebe, round out some of the spotlights on the what it was like in the 80s and 90s for the art market of Black artists. Moore agrees but encourages collectors to understand the economics of owning art. "Buy what you love," is often the advice given to would-be collectors. His revelations provide the blueprint to entering the elitist's world of art galleries, art museums, art auctions, and art fairs. ![]() Moore encourages collecting books, visiting exhibitions, and learning about art and culture before starting a collection. Charles Moore's brilliant blueprint reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated moiety that make up the Black artists in the contemporary art world. ![]() ![]() But you don’t need to be intimately acquainted with the Greek myths to thoroughly enjoy Ariadne. She also centers this story on the women often left behind, letting them weave their own tapestry. You might encounter characters you’ve heard of before, but in Jennifer Saint’s hands, they feel fully embodied-flesh and blood, with desires and faults all their own. ![]() The book itself reads like a delightful labyrinth of Greek myths. ![]() What transpires is a story of abandonment, sacrifice, and motherhood. But it seems the Fates have something else in mind. ![]() When Theseus, Prince of Athens, comes to slaughter the beast, Ariadne falls in love and betrays her family to help him, placing her trust in their future together. They live at the mercy of their cruel father, and beneath their home lurks their blood-thirsty brother, the Minotaur, locked in his labyrinth. But in a different sense, the two sisters have grown up in a prison. Rejoice, friends: Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne is the book for us.Īriadne, Princess of Crete, comes of age in a gorgeous palace with her younger sister, Phaedra. Lucky for us, there is no shortage of creative reimaginings! If you’re anything like me, you grew up on the adventures of Percy Jackson and you admire the way Madeline Miller culls a new feminist story in Circe. There are always new threads to pull at every time we revisit an old tale. We are never done with the stories of the Greek gods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. ![]() After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death - and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain. Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl" - both with the team and with Addy herself. Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls - until the young new coach arrives. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. ![]() From the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand : the searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as " Lord of the Flies set in a high-school cheerleading squad.Tense, dark, and beautifully written." Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. ![]() ![]() ![]() The work also represents the depth to which Marx had developed his theories by the late 1840s. The theory of surplus value explained the poverty experienced by the working class. It would suggest that class rule of the bourgeoisie in capitalist society rests on the wage slavery of the workers. The lecture and newspaper articles were meant to be a "popular" presentation of the economic relations under capitalism and the material basis for class struggle. In 1893, an updated English translation from the 1891 German edition was published in London. The German edition was revised by Friedrich Engels in 1891 and published by Vorwärts after the Anti-Socialist Laws had lapsed the previous year. An 1885 pamphlet based on the newspaper articles was published in Hottingen-Zürich without Marx's knowledge and with a brief introduction by Engels. ![]() In 1885, a pamphlet version was first published as an English translation. In 1883, a Russian translation was published as a book and included an excerpt from Capital volume 1 in the appendix, chapter 23 on Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation. It is commonly paired with Marx's 1865 speech Value, Price and Profit. It is widely considered the precursor to Marx’s influential treatise Das Kapital. ![]() " Wage Labour and Capital" (German: Lohnarbeit und Kapital) was an 1847 lecture by the critic of political economy and philosopher Karl Marx, first published as articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. ![]() |