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Bucking Trends

Author : Terry Frost
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469127407
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Bucking Trends written by Terry Frost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannon Hill, Arkansas was a small community nestled in the Ozark Mountains. Two multi-billion dollar corporations, their families, and their corporate headquarters called Cannon Hill home. One of those corporations became the number one retail giant in the world. Before he became a person beloved by his fellow Americans and considered by millions to be a hero he was just Rudy Trend. Rudy was born in 1954 and raised by his widowed mother. Meager, would be descriptive of how the Trends struggled in a community of billionaires. At the age of sixteen he became best friends with a boy named Evan Wilson. Evan was the only son of the Director of Operations for the retail giant. The friendship that bonded two teenage boys existing in a world of the haves and have nots, set in motion, the most improbable future for Rudy. Bucking Trends is an epic tale filled with fevered anticipation, emotion, humor, tragedy, political satire, and unwavering patriotism. Follow the events that cause a young boy to evolve into one of the most influential and powerful men of a modern day America.

Advertising

Author : Iain MacRury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134530501
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Advertising written by Iain MacRury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an accessible and interesting style this book presents a clear and easy guide to the main approaches to advertising, and explores how advertising can be studied as a cultural industry.

Teen Spirit

Author : Paul Howe
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749838
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Teen Spirit written by Paul Howe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil. Award-winning author Paul Howe argues it's because a teenage mentality has slowly gripped the adult world. Howe contends that many features of how we live today—some regrettable, others beneficial—can be traced to the emergence of a more defined adolescent stage of life in the early twentieth century, when young people started spending their formative, developmental years with peers, particularly in formal school settings. He shows how adolescent qualities have slowly seeped upward, where they have gradually reshaped the norms and habits of adulthood. The effects over the long haul, Howe contends, have been profound, in both the private realm and in the public arena of political, economic, and social interaction. Our teenage traits remain part of us as we move into adulthood, so much so that some now need instruction manuals for adulting. Teen Spirit challenges our assumptions about the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood. Yet despite a cultural system that seems to be built on the ethos of Generation Me, it's not all bad. In fact, there has been an equally impressive rise in creativity, diversity, and tolerance within society: all traits stemming from core components of the adolescent character. Howe's bold and suggestive approach to analyzing the teen in all of us helps make sense of the impulsivity driving society and encourages us to think anew about civic reengagement.

Tree Harvesting Techniques

Author : A. Staaf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401735921
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Tree Harvesting Techniques written by A. Staaf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of chain saws and tractors in the early 1950's marked the beginning of a change in tree harvesting techniques from the old manual methods to mechanized operations. It was followed by a rapid evolution both technically and systematically. Hence, the requirements for improved know ledge of operational efficiency also increased. Changing relations between Man, machines and environment brought about new experiences and awareness of a physiological and ergonomic nature. Improved knowledge of both machine technology and planning of work on a small or large scale has grown increa singly important for an efficient utilization of expensive machines and other equipment. The need for a textbook on tree harvesting techniques including expe riences made in recent years is enhanced. The book presented here is prima rily based on lectures given on the subject of Forest Techniques at the Faculty of Forestry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and after modifications also at the University of Nairobi (Kenya). Thus, the book is written primarily for students at the faculties and institutes of forestry. However, it is also useful for persons actively occupied in forest operations. The presentation of this book in its original Swedish version in 1972 created a considerable interest in the preparation of a condensed edition in English. Thus interest has been expressed in Finland, Norway, Holland, Canada, U.S.A., Brazil, Japan, Poland, Scotland and Yugoslavia.

Interdimensional Travel While Impaired

Author : Kenneth Roland
Publisher : Rebaken Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1777913780
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Interdimensional Travel While Impaired written by Kenneth Roland and published by Rebaken Enterprises. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every major decision creates a new world for every possible outcome. Sarah, a comic shop employee, discovers that she has never made a large enough decision to create a world of its own. With her best friend, an interdimensional traveler, and a strange government agent, Sarah sets out to change the world she lives in. While attempting to stop the Illuminati from removing decision making from the citizens of earth, they uncover a much larger plot to eliminate all of the other worlds and reset reality. Just reading this blurb has caused a world to be spawned where you purchased this book. Do you want your alternative self to have all the joy of reading it?

The Green Red Green

Author : Red Green
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385678592
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Green Red Green written by Red Green and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Green was recycling material long before the green revolution got underway. Look at the autmobiles he's driven over the years. Many of those were assembled using the same basic method employed for The Green Red Green: by welding together the surviving bits of some old wrecks. In this case, we're talking about the three Red Geen books published long ago by other, inferior publishers: Duct Tape Is Not Enough, a collection of newspaper columns by Red Green's alter-ego Steve Smith on surviving middle age; Red Green Talks Cars; and Red's literary debut The Red Green Book, a souvenir of the TV show. The selection for his best-of pretty much made itself. Out went the Steve Smith columns with once-topical references; out went the material from The Red Green Book that was in the voices of the other characters (he's been carrying those bums for too long) and out went very little from the perenially hilarious Cars. The resulting mass of pieces have been well-shaken into a new mix; re-edited to new levels of sharpness and hilarity, and updated so that, for example, jokes about hairstyles now feature Russell Brand and not Rod Stewart. And the perfectly competent illustrations from the previous books have been replaced by much better, incompetent ones by the author, so that the look of this book very much resembles How to Do Everything.

Contemporary Research on Intertextuality in Video Games

Author : Duret, Christophe
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522504788
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Research on Intertextuality in Video Games written by Duret, Christophe and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is dependent upon intertextuality to fuel the consumption and production of new media. The notion of intertextuality has gone through many iterations, but what remains constant is its stalwart application to bring to light what audiences value through the marriages of disparate ideology and references. Videogames, in particular, have a longstanding tradition of weaving texts together in multimedia formats that interact directly with players. Contemporary Research on Intertextuality in Video Games brings together game scholars to analyze the impact of video games through the lenses of transmediality, intermediality, hypertextuality, architextuality, and paratextuality. Unique in its endeavor, this publication discusses the vast web of interconnected texts that feed into digital games and their players. This book is essential reading for game theorists, designers, sociologists, and researchers in the fields of communication sciences, literature, and media studies.

Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II

Author : Richard H. Thaler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691121753
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II by : Richard H. Thaler

Download or read book Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II written by Richard H. Thaler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioural finance over the past ten years. This second volume presents twenty recent papers by leading specialists that illustrate the abiding power of behavioural finance.

The Science of Sci-Fi Cinema

Author : Vincent Piturro
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641234
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Sci-Fi Cinema written by Vincent Piturro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction films present hypothetical futures, featuring imagined technological advancements--not yet realized but perhaps (more or less) plausible. Yet how much of what audiences see is within the bounds of possibility? Can we really envision what a black hole looks like? Can dinosaurs really be genetically re-engineered? Originating from an annual Science Fiction Film Series in Denver, Colorado, this volume of essays examines 10 films, with a focus on discerning the possible, the unlikely, and the purely science fictional. With essays by scientists in relevant fields, chapters provide analyses of the movies themselves, along with examination of the actual science (or lack thereof) in each film.

Raising Smart Kids For Dummies

Author : Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118068688
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Raising Smart Kids For Dummies written by Marlene Targ Brill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you wanna turn Junior into a smarty-pants? What parent doesn't? Thing is, kids nowadays are more independent than ever and aren't always receptive to what parents want. In fact, if you tell your kids that studying is "good for them," they're more than likely to mumble, "Yeah, sure," in your general direction and head off to do something "fun." Sharpening the minds of your youngsters presents more challenges than climbing Mt. Everest, and the responsibility of making your kids use more of their brain cells can be overwhelming – even when you don't encounter resistance. Raising smart kids requires long-term commitment, sacrifice, and diligence – not to mention the patience of a saint. And as long as you don't obsess about being the perfect parent, you will be able to enjoy your kids' journey of self-discovery right along with them. But how do you accomplish this? How do you overcome the resistance? How do you tackle the overwhelming task of not only helping your children succeed in school, but also increasing their ability to make their own way in the world? That's where Raising Smart Kids For Dummies steps in to help. Written in easy-to-understand terms (and absolutely no slick psycho-babble), this book gives you sound advice on encouraging your kids to set their sights high and achieve success, whether at school, with friends, or in your community. And you don't have to be a new parent to gain insight from this book; experienced parents can reap rewards with the help of this book in their effort to raise fulfilled children. Here's just a sampling of what you'll find in Raising Smart Kids For Dummies: Recognizing the characteristics of smart kids Knowing when to push – and when not to Disciplining your kids in a positive way Growing smarter kids from healthier bodies Planning the development of your kids' brains: From newborns to teenagers Taking your smart kids beyond high school Eliminating brain drain from school-skipping, drug abuse, and raging hormones Top Ten lists of family characteristics that nurture smart kids, what smart kids read, and resources for bolstering parents' confidence You've heard it said a thousand times: The children are the future. Children have such potential, but rarely live up to it. Why take this chance with your own kids? Make the commitment to prepare your kids for life on their own. With Raising Smart Kids For Dummies, you, too, can achieve success – and have a little fun along the way!

Malcolm Morley

Author : Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861890832
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Malcolm Morley by : Jean-Claude Lebensztejn

Download or read book Malcolm Morley written by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductions mostly of Morley's paintings grouped in 7 categories.

The Politics of Expertise

Author : Matthew Hilton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191636916
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Expertise written by Matthew Hilton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Expertise offers a challenging new interpretation of politics in contemporary Britain, through an examination of non-governmental organisations. Using specific case studies of the homelessness, environment, and international aid and development sectors, it demonstrates how politics and political activism has changed over the last half century. NGOs have contributed enormously to a professionalization and a privatization of politics, emerging as a new form of expert knowledge and political participation. They have been led by a new breed of non-party politician, working in collaboration and in competition with government. Skilful navigators of the modern technocratic state, they have brought expertise to expertise and, in so doing, have changed the nature of grassroots activism. As affluent citizens have felt marginalised by the increasingly complex nature of many policy solutions, they have made the rational calculation to support NGOs, the professionalism and resources of which make them better able to tackle complex problems. Yet in doing so, support rather than participation becomes the more appropriate way to describe the relationship of the public to NGOs. As voter turnout has declined, membership and trust in NGOs has increased. But NGOs are very different types of organisations from the classic democratic institutions of political parties and the labour movement. They maintain different and varied relationships with the publics they seek to represent. Attracting mass support has provided them with the resources and the legitimacy to speak to power on a bewildering range of issues, yet perhaps the ultimate victors in this new form of politics are the NGOs themselves.

The Metaverse Economy

Author : Arunkumar Krishnakumar
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398610577
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The Metaverse Economy written by Arunkumar Krishnakumar and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaverse Economy equips fintech professionals with an in-depth understanding of the emergent economic models in the Metaverse and across Web3. In this book, fintech and metaverse experts Arun Krishnakumar and Theodora Lau help technology and financial services professionals prepare for the convergence of several technology paradigms: Web3, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), game and finance (GameFi) and the Metaverse. The Metaverse Economy provides an overview of the types of economic models that companies can use to scale business in Web3. Offering balanced insight into the complex world of the Metaverse, the book demystifies the technology and economic paradigms that have triggered the rise of the Metaverse. The book also focuses on the convergence of these economic models into a unified system that competes directly with traditional frameworks. The authors break down the new qualitative and quantitative attributes professionals must consider to capture the opportunities of the market. The Metaverse Economy tackles popular questions many financial services professionals have about market shares, value permanence, the ownership economy and play-to-earn models. Packed with case studies from some of the biggest brands in blockchain, DeFi, NFTs and gaming, the book helps finance professionals understand the risks associated with the Metaverse and prepare for what lies ahead.

The Magic of Astrology

Author : Sasha Fenton
Publisher : Collins & Brown
ISBN 13 : 1911670069
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Astrology written by Sasha Fenton and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you an emotional Scorpio who needs to pour out your latest drama to your friends and relatives? Perhaps you’re an uptight Capricorn who keeps all your feeling to yourself? Are you a flirtatious Libran, a brave but thoughtless Arian or a careful Cancerian? Whatever your characteristics are, The Magic of Astrology will help explain the unexplainable in your life, give advice on your relationships, careers and much, much more. Since the dawn of humanity, we have always looked up to the stars for guidance, whether we are lost at sea or lost in life. Astrology is an ancient science, with tried and tested advice from various cultures all across the world over thousands of years. Are you anxious in a new relationship? Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job? Has an opportunity arisen, but you find it hard to make a decision? Astrology can show you the way. This book shows you how you can unlock your hidden potential and reveal your true personality. It offers an engaging, in-depth analysis of every zodiac sign, so you can compare with your friends and family, and it also explains how astrology can influence and improve every area of your life. Packed with detailed compatibility charts and advice, this practical guide channels the secret of the starts to help you to live life to the fullest.

Writing Successful Grant Proposals

Author : Ellen W. Gorsevski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463003908
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Writing Successful Grant Proposals written by Ellen W. Gorsevski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Teaching Writing series publishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. Most grants books—often hundreds of pages long—make grant writing seem too intimidating, but Gorsevski gets to the heart of the process. In simple steps, Writing Successful Grant Proposals highlights key things savvy proposal writers do to attract and secure prospective funders. With clear, concise instructions, this book demystifies grant proposal writing, from the initial development phase, to the writing and submissions phase, to the grant award phase, to the final delivery of project results phase. This small but mighty guide shares with readers effective strategies for adapting proposals to meet diversity, digital, and other evolving 21st Century constraints of grant review, offering pointers for staying on-task, getting the proposed project done on time and under budget, plus many other insider tips for smoothly navigating through the grants process. This handy guidebook is designed to help academics, non-profits, ‘creatives,’ and entrepreneurs to write successful grant proposals. “This little book gets quickly to the important points. Even better, Dr. Gorsevski has been around the grant-writing block a few times herself. She's giving honest answers and pragmatic advice. This is all the stuff you really need to know!” – Dale Cyphert, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Northern Iowa “Finally! A savvy book on grants that speaks to large social concerns of peace, environment, justice and multiple audiences. Gorsevski's book is a much needed resource for agency, academic and volunteer leaders alike regarding the do's and don'ts of dealing with diverse donors and RFPs.” – George A. Lopez, Hesburgh Professor of Peace Studies Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, and former Vice-President of the US Institute of Peace/div /divEllen W. Gorsevski, Ph.D., shares her experience in writing successful grant proposals in private sector think tanks and contracting firms and in public sector teaching and research. She is author of books on persuasive communication, including Peaceful Persuasion: The Geopolitics of Nonviolent Rhetoric (SUNY Press, 2004) and Dangerous Women: The Rhetoric of the Women Nobel Peace Laureates (Troubador Publishing, Ltd, 2014)./div

Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism

Author : I. Whelehan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137376538
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism written by I. Whelehan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration.

Fashioning Indie

Author : Rachel Lifter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350126330
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Fashioning Indie written by Rachel Lifter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their unwashed appearance captured widespread attention, propelling the British indie music scene and its signature look-slender bodies clad in skinny jeans-to the center of popular fashion. Using this fashionable watershed as a launching point, Fashioning Indie narrates indie's evolution: from a 1980s British music subculture into a 21st-century international fashion phenomenon. It explores the lucrative transformation of indie style, first into high concept menswear and later into “festival fashion”-a womenswear phenomenon that remade what indie looked like and provided a launching point to reimagine who the ideal subject of indie could be. Fashioning Indie is essential reading for academic and popular audiences, offering an original account of what happens when a subculture is incorporated into the commercial fashion system. As the music and fashions of festivals face increasing scrutiny in debates about diversity and inclusion, and the transformations of indie style coincide with the global expansion of the second-hand retail sector, the book offers also essential insights into the broader culture of popular fashion in the 21st century and the values that inform it.