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Purpose is an active expression of our values and our compassion for others—it makes us want to get up in the morning and add value to the world. The Power of Purpose details a graceful, practical, and ultimately spiritual process for making it central to your life. This revitalized guide will help you integrate it into everything you do. This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated. With a new co-author, new stories and examples and resources, it taps into the broader need for purpose in our post-pandemic world. With more than 40% new content, readers will discover new insights on purpose, a new chapter on Becoming a Purposeful Leader, and The Purpose Formula which includes mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose and to live a life of meaning and fulfillment.

Why is it so hard to stand up to authority, even when we know something’s wrong? Many of us comply much more than we realize. How many times have you wanted to object, disagree, or opt out of something but ended up swallowing your words, shaking your head, and just going along? Analyzing cases ranging from corporate corruption and sexual abuse to everyday acquiescence at work, the doctor’s office, and in our personal lives, award-winning organizational psychologist Dr. Sunita Sah delves deep into why the pressure to comply is a corrosive and often invisible force in our society. With her own revelatory research, she radically transforms our idea of defiance from a misunderstood negative trait into a crucial, positive force for personal and societal change. Taking us through her five stages of defiance, Dr. Sah equips readers with simple tools to make decisions that align with their values. Defy is the essential playbook for how to speak up and act when it matters most.

Song of great sorrow. Even greater love. Lost between the timeless lines of Homer’s epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you’ve never encountered, and it will change the fate of Troy forever. Andromache has proven herself a capable leader, but can she maintain that hard-won status now that she is the mother to the city’s long-awaited heir? With enemies closing in, Andromache must bring together a divided city in time to make a final stand. Rhea is a Trojan spy, but she never expected to find love in the enemy camp. When the final battle lines are drawn, Rhea must decide where her loyalties lie and how much she is willing to lose. Helen is no longer the same broken woman first brought to Troy as a captive. Given a second chance at life, she must cast off her shroud of grief and use her healing gifts to save Troy’s greatest hope. Cassandra has seen Troy’s fate. But she knows the truth is only as valuable as the person who tells it . . . and few in Troy value her. All that is about to change. One hero will rise, another will fall . . . and this time, Cassandra will have her say.

Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine’s main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia’s hackles, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhem. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead after a breakfast of poisonous mushrooms, suspicion falls on the de Luce family’s longtime cook, Mrs. Mullet. After all, wasn’t it she who’d picked the mushrooms, cooked the omelet, and served it to Greyleigh moments before his death? “I have to admit,” says Flavia, an expert in the chemical nature of poisons, “that I’d been praying to God for a jolly good old-fashioned mushroom poisoning. Not that I wanted anyone to die, but why give a girl a gift such as mine without giving her the opportunity to use it?”

Al acercarse la Navidad, una ola de terror recorre Suiza. Un asesino organiza una macabra búsqueda del tesoro enviando por todo el país unos paquetes que gotean sangre. ¿Su firma? Sellos de piel humana. Los medios de comunicación apodan inmediatamente al artífice del horror "el Filatelista". Ana Bartomeu, inspectora de la Policía Judicial de Ginebra, divorciada y con una grave depresión, es la encargada de solucionar el caso junto con un improvisado colega con problemas de alcoholismo. Al mismo tiempo, una pareja es torturada y asesinada en una cueva en algún punto desconocido de Suiza por un hombre que se hace llamar Sam. La investigación llevará a Ana desde los elegantes barrios de Ginebra hasta las calles de Onex, una pequeña localidad de los bosques del Jura .

Un gran amor prohibido, drama y secretos en el Bilbao de principios del siglo XX. "Una deliciosa y apasionante historia que seduce al lector".Celia Santos Bilbao, 1914. Amelia Eguren, hija de una familia ilustre, está a punto de casarse con un hombre al que apenas conoce. Tras su compromiso se esconden muchos intereses, algunos que ella ni siquiera sospecha. Mientras que el es el dueño de uno de los negocios más prósperos de la ciudad, Amelia dirige en la sombra la fábrica de gaseosa La Blanca, así que esta alianza podría brindarle todo aquello por lo que ella siempre ha luchado. Sin embargo, cuando Irune, una humilde limpiadora, entra a trabajar en la fábrica, su percepción sobre el mundo cambia, y entre ambas aflora un inesperado vínculo por encima de los prejuicios. A lo largo de cuatro decadas, estas dos mujeres lucharán por sobrevivir y se aferrarán al amor en un tiempo convulso en el que las guerras, la enfermedad y la lucha por la libertad sacudirán sus hogares. Con una narrativa envolvente y llena de emoción, Elena Peña nos traslada a un bullicioso Bilbao en los albores del siglo xx perfilando dos protagonistas inolvidables.