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The Psychology of Tipping

Scientific Insights for Services Customers, Workers, and Managers

by Michael Lynn ...

Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
Consumers around the world often give voluntary sums of money (called tips) to service providers after those workers have served them. There are no good measures of how much is tipped worldwide, but total tips in the US food and beverage industry alone are estimated to exceed $45 billion a year. Thus, tips represent more than small change and their salience and importance have grown in recent ... Read more

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Consumers around the world often give voluntary sums of money (called tips) to service providers after those workers have served them. There are no good measures of how much is tipped worldwide, but total tips in the US food and beverage industry alone are estimated to exceed $45 billion a year. Thus, tips represent more than small change and their salience and importance have grown in recent
... Read more
Books Are Made Out of Books

A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

by Michael Lynn Crews ...

Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy was well aware of literary tradition and deliberately situating ... Read more

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Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy was well aware of literary tradition and deliberately situating
... Read more
Security Power Tools

by Bryan Burns, Dave Killion, Nicolas Beauchesne, Eric Moret, Julien Sobrier, Michael Lynn, Eric Markham, Chris Iezzoni, Philippe Biondi, Jennifer Stisa Granick, Steve Manzuik, Paul Guersch ...

What if you could sit down with some of the most talented security engineers in the world and ask any network security question you wanted? Security Power Tools lets you do exactly that! Members of Juniper Networks' Security Engineering team and a few guest experts reveal how to use, tweak, and push the most popular network security applications, utilities, and tools available using Windows, Linux ... Read more

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What if you could sit down with some of the most talented security engineers in the world and ask any network security question you wanted? Security Power Tools lets you do exactly that! Members of Juniper Networks' Security Engineering team and a few guest experts reveal how to use, tweak, and push the most popular network security applications, utilities, and tools available using Windows, Linux
... Read more
Uncanny Magazine Issue 62

January/February 2025

by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Scott Lynch, J.R. Dawson, Tia Tashiro, Tade Thompson, Mary Robinette Kowal, AnaMaria Curtis, Rati Mehrotra ...

Series Book 62 - Uncanny Magazine
The January/February 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Scott Lynch, J.R. Dawson, Tia Tashiro, Tade Thompson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rati Mehrotra, and AnaMaria Curtis. Essays by Nicholas Whyte, Ai Jiang, A.T. Greenblatt, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Kaliee Pedersen, Mari Ness, Shankar Narayan, and E. N. Díaz, interviews with Scott Lynch and Rati Mehotra by ... Read more

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The January/February 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Scott Lynch, J.R. Dawson, Tia Tashiro, Tade Thompson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rati Mehrotra, and AnaMaria Curtis. Essays by Nicholas Whyte, Ai Jiang, A.T. Greenblatt, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Kaliee Pedersen, Mari Ness, Shankar Narayan, and E. N. Díaz, interviews with Scott Lynch and Rati Mehotra by
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Devil's Contract

A Dark Billionaire Romance

by Alta Hensley, Livia Grant ...

Narrated by Lynn Barrington, Michael Gallagher ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Dark Pen
Unabridged

6 hours 31 min

She’ll regret the day she turned me into her enemy.She’s the princess of The Whitney, the premier hotel in New York City. Her empire is like a fairy tale. But there is no happily ever after in this story. For there are consequences for breaking a decade-old contract sealed with blood, and now she must pay the price.Because of my power, connections, and our past, the Manhattan royalty has no choice ... Read more

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She’ll regret the day she turned me into her enemy.She’s the princess of The Whitney, the premier hotel in New York City. Her empire is like a fairy tale. But there is no happily ever after in this story. For there are consequences for breaking a decade-old contract sealed with blood, and now she must pay the price.Because of my power, connections, and our past, the Manhattan royalty has no choice
... Read more
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Do You Understand

by Mel Dau ...

Narrated by Anna Lynn Wright, Midnite Michael ...

Unabridged

6 hours 41 min

Taelyn Astoria Smith is the baby girl of the Washington, Christianson, Smith dynasty.Sheltered living and timid decision-making have caused her to put herself in harm's way. After a traumatizing incident, will she ever gain the true understanding of who she is to understand how it feels to be loved by a man? What happens when a journey of mental wellness turns into a pleasurable ride of love ... Read more

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Taelyn Astoria Smith is the baby girl of the Washington, Christianson, Smith dynasty.Sheltered living and timid decision-making have caused her to put herself in harm's way. After a traumatizing incident, will she ever gain the true understanding of who she is to understand how it feels to be loved by a man? What happens when a journey of mental wellness turns into a pleasurable ride of love
... Read more
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Money and Life'S Energies

by Lynne Twist ...

Narrated by Michael Toms ...

Unabridged

57 min

In these transitional times, money concerns most of the population at some level. This is why what Lynne Twist has to tell us is so relevant and important. She provides valuable insights and tools to enable anyone to be more awake and effective with money in daily living. ... Read more

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In these transitional times, money concerns most of the population at some level. This is why what Lynne Twist has to tell us is so relevant and important. She provides valuable insights and tools to enable anyone to be more awake and effective with money in daily living.
... Read more
Once Struck

by Lynn Michaels ...

Nebraska, 1873Peach MaCauley has only 49 acrees of wheat standing between her and becoming a poor relation. On the eve of the harvest a storm threatens her crop--and her independence.Only one mans steps forward to help her. A man she isn't sure she should trust.Kit Taggart is no longer the dirt poor boy with soulful brown eyes who kissed her behind the church at the Fourth of July social. Now he's ... Read more

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Nebraska, 1873Peach MaCauley has only 49 acrees of wheat standing between her and becoming a poor relation. On the eve of the harvest a storm threatens her crop--and her independence.Only one mans steps forward to help her. A man she isn't sure she should trust.Kit Taggart is no longer the dirt poor boy with soulful brown eyes who kissed her behind the church at the Fourth of July social. Now he's
... Read more
Remembrance

by Lynn Michaels ...

Is he a scoundrel or a spirit?Cathy Martin arrives on Martha's Vineyard to help her grandmother, Cat Lindsay, a revered Broadway actress, write her memoirs. Eight other writers have already fled the island and soon, Cathy, too, is questioning the strange noises at night--and the motives of Fin McGraw.Fin, the embodiment of her grandfather as a young man, has become the constant companion of her ... Read more

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Is he a scoundrel or a spirit?Cathy Martin arrives on Martha's Vineyard to help her grandmother, Cat Lindsay, a revered Broadway actress, write her memoirs. Eight other writers have already fled the island and soon, Cathy, too, is questioning the strange noises at night--and the motives of Fin McGraw.Fin, the embodiment of her grandfather as a young man, has become the constant companion of her
... Read more
Molly and the Phantom

by Lynn Michaels ...

Chase Sanquist: Gorgeous. Charming. Jewel thief.Molly Savard: Beautiful. Cultured. Princess.Princess Molly needs the dashing, devil-may-care Chase Sanquist's help. He intends to steal the Phantom, the centerpiece of her crown jewels--and she wants him to do just that. It's part of her secret plan to gain her throne. What she didn't plan on is the sizzling chemistry between her and Chase.Hot ice vs ... Read more

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Chase Sanquist: Gorgeous. Charming. Jewel thief.Molly Savard: Beautiful. Cultured. Princess.Princess Molly needs the dashing, devil-may-care Chase Sanquist's help. He intends to steal the Phantom, the centerpiece of her crown jewels--and she wants him to do just that. It's part of her secret plan to gain her throne. What she didn't plan on is the sizzling chemistry between her and Chase.Hot ice vs
... Read more
Uncanny Magazine Issue 45

March/April 2022

by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Chimedum Ohaegbu, Meg Elison, Maureen McHugh, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Carlos Hernandez, Stephen Graham Jones, Margaret Dunlap ...

Series Book 45 - Uncanny Magazine
The March/April 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Maureen McHugh, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Shaoni C. White, Carlos Hernandez, Emma Törzs, Stephen Graham Jones, and Margaret Dunlap. Reprint fiction by Richard Butner. Essays by Jo Wu, Rebecca Romney, Elsa Sjunneson, and Sarah Gailey, poetry by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, Praise Osawaru, Mary Soon Lee, and Nnadi ... Read more

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The March/April 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Maureen McHugh, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Shaoni C. White, Carlos Hernandez, Emma Törzs, Stephen Graham Jones, and Margaret Dunlap. Reprint fiction by Richard Butner. Essays by Jo Wu, Rebecca Romney, Elsa Sjunneson, and Sarah Gailey, poetry by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, Praise Osawaru, Mary Soon Lee, and Nnadi
... Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-12: The Wonders of Gaia: Nature is Symbiotic

by Wade Davis Ph.D., Paul Stamets, Lynn Margulis ...

Narrated by Michael Toms ...

Unabridged

29 min

Why do a garden if you can put the green organism to work for you in your body? This is one of the mind-bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest scientists, fertile cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant intelligence like the Hat Thrower Mushroom and animals that ... Read more

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Why do a garden if you can put the green organism to work for you in your body? This is one of the mind-bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest scientists, fertile cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant intelligence like the Hat Thrower Mushroom and animals that
... Read more

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