Author: J. Annas Walker
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 162242882X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Scion's Avalon [House of Dracul 2]
Author: J. Annas Walker
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 162242882X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 162242882X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything
Author: Matthew E. May
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071795626
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Winner of a 2013 Small Business Book Award for Economics The world is more overwhelming than ever before. Our work is deeper and more demanding than ever. Our businesses are more complicated and difficult to manage than ever. Our economy is more uncertain than ever. Our resources are scarcer than ever. There is endless choice and feature overkill in all but the best experiences. Everybody knows everything about us. The simple life is a thing of the past. Everywhere, there's too much of the wrong stuff and not enough of the right. The noise is deafening, the signal weak. Everything is too complicated and time-sucking. Welcome to the age of excess everything. Success in this new age looks different and demands a new skill: Subtraction. Subtraction is defined simply as the art of removing anything excessive, confusing, wasteful, unnatural, hazardous, hard to use, or ugly . . . or the discipline to refrain from adding it in the first place. And if subtraction is the new skill to be acquired, we need a guide to developing it. Enter The Laws of Subtraction. Through a dozen of the most compelling stories of breakthrough innovation culled from 2,000 cases and bolstered by uniquely personal essays contributed by over 50 of the most creative minds in business today, The Laws of Subtraction outlines six simple rules for winning in the age of excess everything, and delivers a single yet powerful idea: When you remove just the right things in just the right way, something very good happens. The Laws of Subtraction features contributions by over 50 highly regarded thinkers, creatives, and executives. On Law #1: What Isn't There Can Often Trump What Is "When you reduce the number of doors that someone can walk through, more people walk through the one that you want them to walk through." -- SCOTT BELSKY, founder and CEO of Behance and author of Making Ideas Happen On Law #2: The Simplest Rules Create the Most Effective Experience "Keeping it simple isn't easy. By exploiting subtraction in innovation, we've been able to create an environment of freedom and creativity that allows us to thrive." -- BRAD SMITH, CEO, Intuit On Law #3: Limiting Information Engages the Imagination "Subtraction can mean the difference between a highly persuasive presentation and a long, convoluted, and confusing one. Why say more when you can say less?" -- CARMINE GALLO, author of The Apple Experience On Law #4: Creativity Thrives Under Intelligent Constraints "Here's the key to the conundrum for managers who want to stoke the innovation fire: That close cousin of scarcity, constraint, can indeed foster creativity." -- TERESA AMABILE, author of The Progress Principle On Law #5: Break Is the Important Part of Breakthrough "If you kill the butterflies in your stomach, you'll kill the dream. Embrace the feeling. Save the butterflies." -- JONATHAN FIELDS, author of Uncertainty On Law #6: Doing Something Isn't Always Better Than Doing Nothing "When we're faced with the greatest odds against us, often we need to edit rather than add." -- CHIP CONLEY, cofounder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Emotional Equations
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071795626
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Winner of a 2013 Small Business Book Award for Economics The world is more overwhelming than ever before. Our work is deeper and more demanding than ever. Our businesses are more complicated and difficult to manage than ever. Our economy is more uncertain than ever. Our resources are scarcer than ever. There is endless choice and feature overkill in all but the best experiences. Everybody knows everything about us. The simple life is a thing of the past. Everywhere, there's too much of the wrong stuff and not enough of the right. The noise is deafening, the signal weak. Everything is too complicated and time-sucking. Welcome to the age of excess everything. Success in this new age looks different and demands a new skill: Subtraction. Subtraction is defined simply as the art of removing anything excessive, confusing, wasteful, unnatural, hazardous, hard to use, or ugly . . . or the discipline to refrain from adding it in the first place. And if subtraction is the new skill to be acquired, we need a guide to developing it. Enter The Laws of Subtraction. Through a dozen of the most compelling stories of breakthrough innovation culled from 2,000 cases and bolstered by uniquely personal essays contributed by over 50 of the most creative minds in business today, The Laws of Subtraction outlines six simple rules for winning in the age of excess everything, and delivers a single yet powerful idea: When you remove just the right things in just the right way, something very good happens. The Laws of Subtraction features contributions by over 50 highly regarded thinkers, creatives, and executives. On Law #1: What Isn't There Can Often Trump What Is "When you reduce the number of doors that someone can walk through, more people walk through the one that you want them to walk through." -- SCOTT BELSKY, founder and CEO of Behance and author of Making Ideas Happen On Law #2: The Simplest Rules Create the Most Effective Experience "Keeping it simple isn't easy. By exploiting subtraction in innovation, we've been able to create an environment of freedom and creativity that allows us to thrive." -- BRAD SMITH, CEO, Intuit On Law #3: Limiting Information Engages the Imagination "Subtraction can mean the difference between a highly persuasive presentation and a long, convoluted, and confusing one. Why say more when you can say less?" -- CARMINE GALLO, author of The Apple Experience On Law #4: Creativity Thrives Under Intelligent Constraints "Here's the key to the conundrum for managers who want to stoke the innovation fire: That close cousin of scarcity, constraint, can indeed foster creativity." -- TERESA AMABILE, author of The Progress Principle On Law #5: Break Is the Important Part of Breakthrough "If you kill the butterflies in your stomach, you'll kill the dream. Embrace the feeling. Save the butterflies." -- JONATHAN FIELDS, author of Uncertainty On Law #6: Doing Something Isn't Always Better Than Doing Nothing "When we're faced with the greatest odds against us, often we need to edit rather than add." -- CHIP CONLEY, cofounder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Emotional Equations
The Menorah
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
History of the French Protestant Refugees, from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to Our Own Days
Author: Charles Weiss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Edict of Scion
Author: Erin Madison
Publisher: Thumbtack Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Maia hasn’t told anyone she’s the long-lost princess betrothed to Prince Connor. She especially can’t tell them now that she’s used her secret magic to ingrain herself into his elite school.She desperately wants to meet him, just once... But her romantic hopes are crushed when she finds out that he’s immune to her magic... He actually hates her. He hates everyone. And NO ONE hates Maia. It’s impossible... But it won’t last too much longer. Soon she’ll have to leave before she is hunted again, before her true identity is revealed. For now she can be a normal kid and enjoy having a secret crush. Until her magic backfires and she is forced to play matchmaker for her soul mate… Now Connor hates her even more, and she can’t blame him. But Connor needs her special skills when two intruders enter the school and corner them. Maia knows they’re not looking for Prince Connor. They have magic and know her name, her true name... (Free Book, Free book High School, Free book Magic, free book royal, free book young adult, royal heir, academy books, academy enemies to lovers, academy fantasy, fantasy thriller, royal urban fantasy, royal bully)
Publisher: Thumbtack Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Maia hasn’t told anyone she’s the long-lost princess betrothed to Prince Connor. She especially can’t tell them now that she’s used her secret magic to ingrain herself into his elite school.She desperately wants to meet him, just once... But her romantic hopes are crushed when she finds out that he’s immune to her magic... He actually hates her. He hates everyone. And NO ONE hates Maia. It’s impossible... But it won’t last too much longer. Soon she’ll have to leave before she is hunted again, before her true identity is revealed. For now she can be a normal kid and enjoy having a secret crush. Until her magic backfires and she is forced to play matchmaker for her soul mate… Now Connor hates her even more, and she can’t blame him. But Connor needs her special skills when two intruders enter the school and corner them. Maia knows they’re not looking for Prince Connor. They have magic and know her name, her true name... (Free Book, Free book High School, Free book Magic, free book royal, free book young adult, royal heir, academy books, academy enemies to lovers, academy fantasy, fantasy thriller, royal urban fantasy, royal bully)
The Inman Diary
Author: Arthur Crew Inman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674454453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
Between 1919 and his death by suicide in 1963, Arthur Crew Inman wrote what is surely one of the fullest diaries ever kept by any American. Convinced that his bid for immortality required complete candor, he held nothing back. This abridgment of the original 155 volumes is at once autobiography, social chronicle, and an apologia addressed to unborn readers. Into this fascinating record Inman poured memories of a privileged Atlanta childhood, disastrous prep-school years, a nervous collapse in college followed by a bizarre life of self-diagnosed invalidism. Confined to a darkened room in his Boston apartment, he lived vicariously: through newspaper advertisements he hired "talkers" to tell him the stories of their lives, and he wove their strange histories into the diary. Young women in particular fascinated him. He studied their moods, bought them clothes, fondled them, and counseled them on their love affairs. His marriage in 1923 to Evelyn Yates, the heroine of the diary, survived a series of melodramatic episodes. While reflecting on national politics, waifs and revolutions, Inman speaks directly about his fears, compulsions, fantasies, and nightmares, coaxing the reader into intimacy with him. Despite his shocking self-disclosures he emerges as an oddly impressive figure. This compelling work is many things: a case history of a deeply troubled man; the story of a transplanted and self-conscious southerner; a historical overview of Boston illuminated with striking cityscapes; an odd sort of American social history. But chiefly it is, as Inman himself came to see, a gigantic nonfiction novel, a new literary form. As it moves inexorably toward a powerful denouement, The Inman Diary is an addictive narrative.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674454453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
Between 1919 and his death by suicide in 1963, Arthur Crew Inman wrote what is surely one of the fullest diaries ever kept by any American. Convinced that his bid for immortality required complete candor, he held nothing back. This abridgment of the original 155 volumes is at once autobiography, social chronicle, and an apologia addressed to unborn readers. Into this fascinating record Inman poured memories of a privileged Atlanta childhood, disastrous prep-school years, a nervous collapse in college followed by a bizarre life of self-diagnosed invalidism. Confined to a darkened room in his Boston apartment, he lived vicariously: through newspaper advertisements he hired "talkers" to tell him the stories of their lives, and he wove their strange histories into the diary. Young women in particular fascinated him. He studied their moods, bought them clothes, fondled them, and counseled them on their love affairs. His marriage in 1923 to Evelyn Yates, the heroine of the diary, survived a series of melodramatic episodes. While reflecting on national politics, waifs and revolutions, Inman speaks directly about his fears, compulsions, fantasies, and nightmares, coaxing the reader into intimacy with him. Despite his shocking self-disclosures he emerges as an oddly impressive figure. This compelling work is many things: a case history of a deeply troubled man; the story of a transplanted and self-conscious southerner; a historical overview of Boston illuminated with striking cityscapes; an odd sort of American social history. But chiefly it is, as Inman himself came to see, a gigantic nonfiction novel, a new literary form. As it moves inexorably toward a powerful denouement, The Inman Diary is an addictive narrative.
The Annexation of Texas
Author: Justin Harvey Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII
Author: Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253049172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
This volume is part of the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), one of the most important narratives in traditional China. Compiled by Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c. 86 B.C.), it draws upon most major early historical works and was the foremost model for style and genre in Chinese history and literature through the eleventh century A. D., and through the early twentieth century for some genres. Volume 7, The Memoirs of Pre_Han China, translates twenty-eight Lieh-chuan or "memoirs" which depict more than a hundred men and women: sages and scholars, recluses and rhetoricians, persuaders and politicians, commandants and cutthroats of the Ch'in and earlier dynasties. Although the memoirs also begin with what is now often considered myth—an account of the renowned recluses Po Yi and Shu Ch'i—the emphasis in these texts is on the fate of various states and power centers as seen through the biographies of key individuals from the seventh to the third centuries B. C.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253049172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
This volume is part of the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), one of the most important narratives in traditional China. Compiled by Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c. 86 B.C.), it draws upon most major early historical works and was the foremost model for style and genre in Chinese history and literature through the eleventh century A. D., and through the early twentieth century for some genres. Volume 7, The Memoirs of Pre_Han China, translates twenty-eight Lieh-chuan or "memoirs" which depict more than a hundred men and women: sages and scholars, recluses and rhetoricians, persuaders and politicians, commandants and cutthroats of the Ch'in and earlier dynasties. Although the memoirs also begin with what is now often considered myth—an account of the renowned recluses Po Yi and Shu Ch'i—the emphasis in these texts is on the fate of various states and power centers as seen through the biographies of key individuals from the seventh to the third centuries B. C.
The Rebbe's Daughter
Author: Malkah Shapiro
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 9780827607255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The memoir of an eleven year old girl awakening to physical maturity, religious consciousness and an intense curiosity about the mysteries of hasidic spirituality and Kabbalah. It is a rare window into the world of a hasidic girl in pre-World War I Eastern Europe.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 9780827607255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The memoir of an eleven year old girl awakening to physical maturity, religious consciousness and an intense curiosity about the mysteries of hasidic spirituality and Kabbalah. It is a rare window into the world of a hasidic girl in pre-World War I Eastern Europe.
A Vanished World
Author: Chris Lowney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195311914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Are Muslims, Christians, and Jews forever locked in a cycle of violence and resentment? This work answers this question by chronicling medieval Spain's impossibly panoramic history."--Publisher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195311914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Are Muslims, Christians, and Jews forever locked in a cycle of violence and resentment? This work answers this question by chronicling medieval Spain's impossibly panoramic history."--Publisher.