Nous sommes désolés! L'éditeur ou l'auteur a retiré ce livre de notre catalogue. Mais ne vous inquiétez pas, vous pouvez toujours choisir les livres que vous souhaitez parmi plus de 500 000 titres!
Maison d'édition: Lulu.com
This could potentially help you think about money and investing
Discover the true story behind America’s first chocolate company, formed in pre-Revolutionary New England. In 1765, the story goes, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester, Massachusetts, stumbled upon a penniless Irish immigrant named John Hannon, who was crying on the banks of the mighty Neponset River. Hannon possessed the rare skills required to create chocolate—a delicacy exclusive to Europe—but had no way of putting this knowledge to use. Baker, with pockets bursting, wished to make a name for himself—and the two men would become America’s first manufacturers of this rich treat, using a mill powered by the same river upon which they met. Local historian Anthony Sammarco details the delicious saga of Massachusetts’s Baker Chocolate Company, from Hannon’s mysterious disappearance and the famed La Belle Chocolatiere advertising campaign to cacao bean smuggling sparked by Revolutionary War blockades. Both bitter and sweet, this tale is sure to tickle your taste buds.Voir livre
Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world—some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America’s Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years—a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital—and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.Voir livre
Marianne Broadbent is a leadership and executive search consultant who works every day with women and men making career decisions and life choices. She provides sharp and informed insights, through her work with organisations and teams, to build and sustain great talent. She shares her personal experiences of taking career risks, making multiple choices and managing a 'blended life' in our new modern paradigm where careers aren't as linear as they once were. She complements this with the thoughts and words of 20 executives who willingly provide their personal and career perspectives on their own trade-offs and 'getting on with it.'Voir livre
Peter Bregman, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes, offers strategies to replace energy-wasting, counter-productive habits that commonly derail us with truly effective ones. The things we want most-peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work-are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds-the length of a deep breath-allowing us to make intentional and tactical choices that lead to better outcomes. Four Seconds reveals: Why listening-not arguing-is the best strategy for changing someone's mind Why setting goals can actually harm performance How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower How taking responsibility for someone else's failure can actually help your team Practical and insightful, Four Seconds provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress.Voir livre
Overcoming typical sales objections have changed. New demands for cross cultural negotiation skills have created a new skill set in the world of selling. Learn how to use technology as an aid in the selling process, even if your forte is face to face selling. In our fast paced society, cross-cultural selling has become a fundamental requirement for success. With this audio program, you will arrive with comfort and confidence to any negotiation.Voir livre
American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News by James O'Keeefe—Book Summary—Abbey Beathan (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book.) Read all about Project Veritas, a haven of journalism where they find out and report the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We are on an era that has all kind of new and beautiful things, a time of innovation and unstoppable technological evolution. However, journalism has been on the decline for quite a while and instead of improving over time like many things in this age, it's getting more corrupted by the minute. Journalism has been filled with fake news that have clouded the judgement of American folks and it isn't showing any sign of improvement. Is there anything we can do to make journalism a medium where you are certain you are being told the facts and nothing else? (Note: This summary is wholly written and published by Abbey Beathan. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way) "The left makes huge claims about government and its capabilities. Those who manage the government and other publicly funded social services all too often persuade themselves of their virtuousness, even if their virtue is subsidized with other people's money."—James O'Keefe Controversial journalist James O'Keefe has had enough of the lies we are being fed everyday so he decided to start Project Veritas, an independent news organization dedicated to tell the unabridged truth without being afraid of the consequences. Conformed by a team of journalist who have a respect for the job, they infiltrate political campaigns, unmask lies that are being told in the news and expose voter fraud. It acts like a superhero organization but instead of fighting an specific bad guy, they fight against lies and in this book, you'll read all about Project Veritas. It's time to learn about the organization dedicated to make journalism something pure that we trust instead of a political tool.Voir livre
