Maggie Montgomery is happy and content with her life on her little ranch north of Reno, Nv. where she lives with her dog and an Arabian mare named, Dancer. Then one stormy, spring night a stranger knocks on her door and her is changed forever. Trying to help her sister's failing marriage, she finds herself on a rescue mission to save her niece from a kidnapper and her sister from a sinister murder plot. Traveling deep into the Mexican desert, Maggie finds herself in a life and death situation with the two men who are trying to help her. In the dangerous adventure south of the border, she finally finds love and redemption.

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue " Algorithms for Scheduling Problems" that was published in Algorithms

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2014, held on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, in December 2014. The 56 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. Topics covered include classic combinatorial optimization; geometric optimization; network optimization; optimization in graphs; applied optimization; CSoNet; and complexity, cryptography, and games.

Building a peak performing organization is not easy or else everybody would be achieving this goal. Organizations today are facing heightened challenges in remaining competitive in a more demanding global business environment. New technology, customer expectation, outsourcing, low cost competitors and needs for both higher performance and more innovation from employees are only a few of these. In this book Burke and Cooper present an international collection of current research and new perspectives, examining why people and human resource management matter to the success of organizations and presenting examples of efforts to build more satisfying and effective organizations that have worked. The book includes chapters on organizational processes as well as organizational strategies and design. The former includes performance management, building employee engagement, developing psychological capital (e.g., resilience, self-esteem), managing talent, supporting teams and inspiring leaders at all levels of the organization. The latter tackles how to develop and sustain an ethical organizational culture, fostering the ability to cork across cultures (cultural agility), employer branding, the sustainable organization and improving corporate governance practices. These chapters offer suggestions as to how organizations can embrace the need for continual change.