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Their ‘no strings’ affair is about to get complicated.The Sequel to ANYTHING BUT VANILLA.One disastrous marriage was all it took for Ric Liddell to give up on commitment, so when his ‘no strings’ arrangement withZach Blackwater and Kara North hits the rocks due to a plague of interfering busybodies, he retreats to what feels safe – sex, filthy sex, and even more filthy sex, in no particular order.Zach wants Ric, and not just for their connection in the sack. When his lover hurts him, he’s willing to look elsewhere for the stability he craves – and he doesn’t have to look far, because Kara’s right there.The guys are hot, and the sex is dirty, but for Kara, caught in the middle of Zach and Ric’s emotional absurdity, it’s painfully clear their threesome just can’t last. Unless they can somehow set their fears aside and accept they need one another to be whole.

The secret to finding out anything you want to know is amazingly simple: Ask good questions. Most people trip through life asking bad questions – of teachers, friends, coworkers, clients, prospects, experts, and suspects. Even people trained in questioning, such as journalists and lawyers, commonly ask questions that get partial or misleading answers. People in any profession will immediately benefit by developing the skill and art of good questioning. Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime will give you the power to: • Identify and practice good questioning techniques • Recognize types of questions to avoid • Know the questions required when hearing unconfirmed reports or gossip • Practice good listening techniques and exploit all leads • Determine when and how to control the conversation • Gain real expertise fast Within professional interrogation circles, Pyle is known as a strategic debriefer – meaning there is no one around him more skilled at asking questions and getting answers. He has been training other interrogators in questioning techniques since 1989.

Vivienne was a just a normal housewife from a little suburb on Australia’s Gold Coast until a near disastrous accident uncovered some latent powers that she’d never known was within her. The Police can’t catch her so they invite a living legend from The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation to help. Unfortunately, a serial killer also learns about her and wants Vivienne and her power. Everybody wants her. What does Vivienne want? Just to be normal again…

The invaluable companion to the new edition of the bestselling How to Measure Anything This companion workbook to the new edition of the insightful and eloquent How to Measure Anything walks readers through sample problems and exercises in which they can master and apply the methods discussed in the book. The book explains practical methods for measuring a variety of intangibles, including approaches to measuring customer satisfaction, organizational flexibility, technology risk, technology ROI, and other problems in business, government, and not-for-profits. Companion to the revision of the bestselling How to Measure Anything Provides chapter-by-chapter exercises Written by industry leader Douglas Hubbard Written by recognized expert Douglas Hubbard—creator of Applied Information Economics—How to Measure Anything Workbook illustrates how the author has used his approach across various industries and how any problem, no matter how difficult, ill defined, or uncertain can lend itself to measurement using proven methods.

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