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In my career as a purchasing professional, I had to resort to publications on Corporate Purchasing, but the ones I consulted did not address several important subjects.Hence the motivation to write The Ultimate Guide of Purchaser, with over 30,000 copies sold. Nevertheless, renewing the book is indispensable; several new topics are in this edition.Purchasing areas evolve quickly. Decades ago, tools were simple, with almost no electronic resources, and it took days to receive proposals. The focus was on Sales, without valuing Purchases, as if it were possible to survive without competitive costs!Organizational transformations, the reduction of structures, and the change of paradigms require different skills from purchasers to succeed.They participate in defining the purchasing strategy, develop tools to evaluate the supplier's performance, and are vital in implementing Strategic Sourcing and Global Sourcing, for example.When buying a good or service, the purchaser must assess the impact on other processes in the organization's production or operational chain. A company's profits depend on selling well and buying well. Knowing how to negotiate, purchase, and differentiate opportunities from pitfalls are skills that reduce costs and increase earnings.The Ultimate Guide of Purchaser analyzes industrial, service, and commercial acquisitions, and it is worth highlighting how the backbone of procurement procedures is similar in different branches. The book offers valuable insights and serves beginners and those with years in the field.The Ultimate Guide of Purchaser is also helpful for students to learn how to work in purchasing or logistics.Progressing in your career requires adapting to new challenges, and such a task is practically unfeasible without theoretical and practical support, and offering such resources is our modest intention.The development and updating of the book took years, aiming to provide qualified and beneficial information for you, reader!

Alexandra White is a beautiful blonde woman who is very head strong, extremely intelligent, and talented with a mind of her own, even at the tender age of twenty-two. She is the only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, England in eighteen hundred and twenty. She had all the opportunities attributed to her because of her royal lineage. Fortunately, she did not think like the other high-bred royals, who thought they deserved to be treated better than the lower classes. She wanted to help those who had less and needed so much more. Going against her parents' wishes, she proceeded down a different path to a future which led her into perilous situations. She managed to have the wits and talent which made her a true heroine to the poor, almost losing her own life many times over. She was pursued by a handsome captain of a three masted schooner constantly, who wanted to make her his own forever. She thought if he caught her, she would be killed or forced to take her own life, so the fight was on.

Nelson Riverdale, author of Across the Sands of Time, is back with his second book, Poems from a Broken Heart, a true story of his wife, Merlene Ann Martin, and his 30-year marriage to her. Nelson and Merlene knew of each other from Love Gospel Assembly, the Bronx church in NY they attended, but in a congregation of well over 350 people, the two never connected. It wasn't until he unexpectedly saw her at a Christian singles party that their relationship blossomed, and three years later, they were married. In his book, Poems of a Broken Heart, Nelson Riverdale recounts his life with Merlene, her many health issues, and her ultimate passing. In this intimately written story, the author shares his unending love for his wife through the dozens of poems he personally penned. He also opens up about the monstrous grief that brought him into a deep, dark valley of depression, which he called the "death zone." Poems of a Broken Heart is the extraordinary story of a wonderful marriage that ended suddenly but continues on through the many heartfelt poems written by Nelson Riverdale.--------Advance Praise for Poem from a Broken Heart"A journey through grief much like my own when I was hanging from a thread."-LGA Minister Larry Galloway, widower"Nelson Riverdale's up-close and deeply personal journey into the depth of grief is a must-read for pastors, medical professionals, educators, life coaches, and those who are grieving. A literary anointing oil for recovery."-Pastor Chelli Jackson, former Equity SAG-AFTRA professional performer, director of the audiovisual department & LGA Church Administrator

"Heart Ablaze" The new believers journey to seeking the heart of God.This book is a powerful NEXT STEP tool intended for new believers looking to increase their faith and find true purpose in their search for God. In this book we look at the life and conversion of Paul from a murderer of Christians to a powerful leader of the early church. My prayer is for this very book to be given out at Churches, FCA clubs, first priority clubs, youth camps, conferences and schools around the nation to youth AND adults searching for their next steps in their faith journey.--I'm so excited to have Jemal King "The 9 to 5 Millionaire" forward this book. For those of you who don't know, Jemal has a powerful view on faith and is using his own story of strength and perseverance to impact MILLIONS....Lesss gooo!!

In this book, I respond to the need for explanations of UAPs/UFOs, as presented by the Report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. I work within the Framework of the Pentagon's statement that UAPs are real objects with advanced intelligently controlled technologies, which are not ours (US). I present explanations of the Physics of UFOs/UAPs and how they work. I analyze and explain UAPs' flight characteristics. I present explanations for the observables listed by the National Intelligence Director's Report. I address and refute the hypothesis that UAPs are advanced hypersonic drones from Russia or China. I review and address the National Security as well as air safety concerns. I present case evidence and historical data supporting the hypothesis that some UFOs/UAPs are advanced technologies that do not seem to originate from Earth. It is evidence that may be conducive to the discovery, the realization that we are not alone in the Universe. This book is also intended to be used for additional reading in Astronomy and Physics classes.

A sophisticated starship travels from a faraway galaxy to a planet capable of sustaining life. The vessel's inhabitants have undergone millennia of careful genetic selection, resulting in supreme intelligence. Due to their highly advanced technology, their lifespans have been extended to eternity. The objective is to perform an experiment at a planetary scale: The Earth Experiment. Their mission is to create intelligent life forms - beginning only with inorganic matter and without physically intervening on the planet - evolution must occur naturally. They face many unexpected complications over the course of the experiment as they use the ability to travel using the star gates technology. All is described in a highly entertaining context, spiced with conflicts between the characters. The book describes the formation of life on earth, extinctions at planetary scale, evolution from algae to intelligent human beings, the effects of alien intervention on the planet, building of pyramids, appearance of God-based religions, and so on. The reader has the opportunity to witness The Earth Experiment as if watching the earth's evolution over millennia through video cameras. Patrick Vaitus is a Canadian author. He is also the author of the book Near Dracula's Castle.

This book equates leadership with problem-solving. Don proves this with 30 years tutoring experience and by the rationale (and examples) in the written pages. Leaders solve problems.Don's book shows the methodology of collaboration, i.e. how-to collaborate. The initial section depicts collaboration as facilitated by a third party. It recommends this as a learning tool before engaging in deliberations where the facilitator "owns" a stake in the problem. A follow-up section discusses collaborating amid anger, hidden agenda and two-party collaboration. In other words, when a stakeholder and facilitator are one. In this manner, learning is incremental, develop-mental; knowledge is added to what has already been learned. A Handbook for Collaborative Leaders: Millennials Assess the Workplace of Today introduces a twin-poled leader model to replace the Situational Leadership of Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. It argues that H/B's accepted model, now some 60 years in use, misidentifies the situation as revolving around internal measures such as knowledge, trust, and closeness. Rather, the actual situation must be defined by external measures -- chiefly, what is confronting workers and what problem does this situation present. Bi-Polar leading reconciles authority-based leading with participatory models as challenged by jurist Michael Josephson in 1989. Until now, that challenge has gone unanswered.Throughout the book, readers will find a sense of supervisors and the rank-and-file bonding into something greater than themselves. Examples of such are found in the case studies, all written not by Don, but by his former students. Without a one-size-fits-all, workshop participants design their unique leader template, one which offers a menu of more than 24 intervention styles.

In light of the authors first novel, ''The Curse of Blackbeard's Ghost'', comes his latest, ''A New Collection of Short Stories''. A useful addition to any library.

This book will take you on a journey of how you can change your life, thoughts, and decisions by making the right choices and deciding to start a plant-based lifestyle. We will dive into the pain, struggle, progress and finally to a life of abundance as we go through what led me to write this book and how I went from the plane to the planet.

The young reader will appreciate the wonderful world of mermaids, sea creatures. Sea wizards and sailors of the seven seas; and how all these elements interrelate into an understanding of the life of mermaids , the sea, the sea creatures, and the sailors with whom they are intertwined.

Insightful and common sense ideas explored and overlaid with the wonderment of mystery and paradox. Why are we here, where did we come from, where are we headed as we live out our days in the goodness of America. We need to reclaim common sense while speaking against all absurdities.

This book was written to inform the reader that a few selected far left ideas of today's Democratic Political Party is simply poison for America or any nation for that matter. As it leads to mass demonstrations and active shooter situations that are horrible in today's society - in the mind of the author. Hopefully the reading of this book will turn one's mind away from the far left back to the moderate right and rational sanity, smaller Federal government, and peace and tranquility for the American people.

The Dead Side: Fight brings the Dead Side trilogy to its exciting conclusion as Sam and Sarah carry the fight to The Enemy. In The Dead Side, they with others escape a brutal dystopian world in America, fleeing to the East Coast and only reaching safety after a series of battles with an Enemy whose only goal is their destruction. Their escape continues in Flight when the sail in a ship they built to escape the Enemy, nearly drowning in a gale in the Atlantic. Rescued by a British ship, they rebuild their lives in England. Sam joins the Royal Marines, while Sarah becomes a civil engineer and an officer in the Royal Army Engineers Reserve. In Fight, Sam leads the Royal Marines onto the Continent to destroy the Enemy, with Sarah's engineers providing support. Their journey comes full circle when they return to America to help liberate the continent.

Yesterday's Falcon opens as Gawain collapses at the portals of an isolated castle in the midst of a terrible snowstorm. He is taken in by Rhiannon, a striking young Druid who has been living alone since the murder of her husband. In order to heal the ailing knight, Rhiannon decides to take him to the Terran Stone, an ancient monolith left behind by the Far Druids before they disappeared. The mystical Stone stands on a small island in the center of the Natal Lake - a lake fed by waters flowing south from the ruinous wastelands. If Rhiannon is to find redemption and Gawain the answers he seeks, they must look to each other on the harrowing journey, for somewhere there lies hope and love in a dying world.

This book is the second of the series about the imperatives for the search for new psychiatry. As stated in my recent 2021 book about: The Search for New Psychiatry, current psychiatric practices have failed many: patients and their families, their doctors and the society at large. That was the end of the 2021 book and the beginning of this book as a follow up in search for pathways to a new and more effective science-based practice Based on its major contributions to the recent successful and expedient development of the Covid 19 vaccines, I am proposing the same pathway of using the new revolution in informatics as the way to save and secure the future of psychiatry and that is what I am recommending in this book reaping the benefit of AI and Big Data Analytics but with a wide open eye on its limits, reliability, risks, unforeseen or unintentional harms.Part Two of the book deals with a number of perineal and also new challenges that continue to require better understanding and resolution. Among the phenomenological and nosological challenges, the recent development by Neurology of its subspeciality of Behavioral Neurology in competition to Neuropsychiatry, is reviewed in terms of an opportunity for integration of the tow subspecialities towards the creation of a new third field of "Clinical Neurosciences". Other challenges included are: The Subjective /Objective Dichotomy, Lunacy and the Moon- reflections on the interactions of the brain and environment and Woke Psychiatry, what is it?Several other clinical challenges include: The Past is Coming Back as The Future -The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Psychedelics, Loneliness as the silent disorder and several other challenges. At the end, a postscript has been hastily added in memory of a close friend, a pioneering psychopharmacologist but above all an empathic humanist, Professor Thomas Arthur Ban or as he always preferred, Tom.

Consolidating and expanding upon the ideas from his previous works (Autistic Symphony, Autistic Songs, and Concerto for Intelligence), Griswold's Autistic Rhapsody offers a unique and innovative perspective upon the events of the human revolution, including a compelling explanation for the origin of human behavioral modernity.Drawing on the notion of Big History for context and perspective, and challenging the conventional wisdom regarding such topics as human evolution, the Flynn effect and autism, Autistic Rhapsody celebrates human history by offering new insights into how that history has unfolded.

Rev. Dr. Ron Hobden over the years has learned through his many experiences andactivities the joy of allowing God to take complete control in every situation. This approach has served as the foundation for his future entry through the Gate of Glory.

This book was created for every child that loves a great birthday party.

Where's Jesus? a metaphysical mystery is about Madam President of Switzerland, Pope Philip Neri, Schatzi a short-legged, low-bellied dachshund and others looking for Jesus in the flesh on earth now. Wicked White Warlock, Lucy Lucifer, and their ilk would of course do their damndest to prevent this.

Manfred Wolf, a longtime bold, original thinker, returns with a new collection of fearless, entertaining and often contrarian essays on a multitude of subjects. From the personal to the political, from "the righteousness mob" to the ramifications of giving advice, from our current cultural divide to the constantly evolving landscape of the way we speak now-Wolf examines each topic with his fierce, unique perspective, going beyond the easy clichés of conventional wisdom, whether it comes from the Left or the Right. Few readers will find their minds completely unchanged by these compelling and appealing explorations.

Lebron is on the adventure of a lifetime... his first trip to North Nyes Pond. The pond is a magical place, a place where dreams and imagination come to life. The pond is also a place where fears are confronted with the help of friends.