Starting a company is like entering a marathon after staking competitors to the first 20-miles. While speed favors the startup, it only matters if the race can be extended long enough to win.The mentality of the bootstrapper, whether you've taken capital or not, is needed to buy another day. It's that mindset that weighs options and sets priorities through the one filter that matters.Time.TimeStrapping gives you battle-tested advice on how to ...
Published to roars of outrage and laughter in 1905, this barbed satirical spray by Thistle Anderson reveals the City of Churches as 'less holy than might be supposed', with more opium dens and prostitutes per capita than Melbourne, and wines that are 'the worst ever made' (!). Thistle's fondness is r
De la Luna al Sol no es un libro para leer durante un fin de semana. Claro que ello es posible, pero no lo recomendamos. Más bien es un libro para transitar de a poco, paso a paso, ya que este nos propone un viaje de transformación. Recorrer el camino de la Luna al Sol implica movernos desde una energía conocida, segura, pero a la vez limitante, e ir hacia una energía que representa un punto de evolución en nosotros. Aquello que venimos a alca...
From one of modern literature's most exciting voices comes an "original and exceptionally well-executed"* debut novel that masterfully combines horror, fantasy and science fiction into an epic adventure. Set in a brilliantly conceived universe rivaling the legendary worlds of George R. R. Martin or Stephen King in detail and glorious possibility, Dreamland is a story of courage and redemption that invites readers to leave the ordinary far behi...
SONGS OF AUSTRALIA - A Poetic TrilogyBOOK ONESet in South Australia, 1884, this is an epic poem of three Afghan cameleers as they go about delivering supplies along the Birdsville Track. Follow Nak, Shir and Abdul on an adventure across outback Australia, where their pasts catch up to them in many ways. Individual feelings are tested to the limit, insecurities are measured by fear, and desire is outweighed by need. Angry and forgiving, tired a...
Erster Praxisguide für faire Führung Je diverser das Team, desto kontroverser die Meinungen und Bedürfnisse seiner Mitglieder. Umso größer aber auch die Erfolgsaussichten für das ganze Unternehmen! Führungskräfte stellt Vielfalt erstmal vor eine Herausforderung. Wie setzt man ein solches Team zusammen? Wie vermeidet man das gefürchtete Gruppendenken? Wie sorgt man dafür, dass nicht immer dieselben Leute die ungeliebten Aufgaben erledigen? Und ...
Lis Tentome hat so viel erlebt: Scheidung, künstliche Befruchtung, Sorgerechtsstreit, gläserne Decke, Immigration, alleinerziehende Mutter und Business School. Sie teilt ihre Erfahrungen mit uns und lässt uns an all ihren Erkenntnissen teilnehmen, so dass man beim Lesen mitfühlt und mitdenkt. Mit diesem Buch ist man fürs Leben vorbereitet.
This book is a significant novelty in the scientific and editorial landscape. Morphology is both an ancient and a new discipline that rests on Goethe's heritage and re-forms it in the present through the concepts of form and image. The latter are to be understood as structural elements of a new cultural grammar able to make the late modern world intelligible. In particular, compared to the original Goethean project, but also to C.P. Snow's ide...
There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity. Strong associations of foodways with culture are particularly characteristic of South American Andean cultures. Food and drink convey complex social and cultural meanings that can pro...
Long before humans wrote, we painted.From mud and ash to acrylic and computers, artists across the centuries have found countless inventive ways to explore and express some of life's biggest mysteries. Enter space art, a genre of artistic expression that strives to capture the wonders of our universe. This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable development of space art from a fledgling theme to a modern movement.In Part I, we trav...