Rick Smith, "The Great Disruption: Competing and Surviving in the Second Wave of the Industrial Revolution"
English | ISBN: 125009142X | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1226 KB
The Great Disruption reveals how 3D printing manufacturing will transform the world in the same way that Henry Ford's Model T upended transportation or Gutenberg's printing press started an information revolution. It traces both the impact of this disruption as it rapidly spreads around the world and affects every kind of industry imaginable, while detailing specific steps that can and should be taken right now to prepare.
Michael Loewe, "The Government of the Qin and Han Empires: 221 BCE - 220 CE"
English | 2006 | pages: 250 | ISBN: 0872208184, 0872208192 | PDF | 2,1 mb
In this concise volume, Michael Loewe provides an engaging overview of the government of the early empires of China. Topics discussed are: the seat of supreme authority; the structure of central government; provincial and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire; control of the people and the land; controversies; and problems and weaknesses of the imperial system. Enhanced by details from recently discovered manuscripts, relevant citations from official documents, maps, a chronology of relevant events, and suggestions for further reading keyed to each topic, this work is an ideal introduction to the ways in which China's first emperors governed.
Holly Woods PhD, "The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life"
English | ISBN: 1641375027 | 2020 | 408 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Purpose serves as your GPS, guiding your life trajectory, whether you listen or not. It can help you reach for the seemingly unattainable and stop compromising who you are and were meant to be. The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life demonstrates, through hard data alongside expert and client stories, that knowing and living your purpose will positively affect every facet of your life. You'll also learn how your purpose shows up uniquely at different stages of life (related to Stage of Consciousness), and is related to your childhood wounding, both of which are reasons you can't see your purpose so clearly. This book helps you make sense of your life and will answer the questions:What is purpose and why do I need to know it?How do I find my purpose?How does the GPS of my purpose pull me forward? How does purpose show up differently over my life span?And more...In The Golden Thread, Holly Woods, PhD shows readers that their own nuanced one-of-a-kind purpose is right there in front of them, waiting to be discovered. Listen to its whispers and let it guide you to a more fulfilling and impactful life.
Rose B., "The Gift of Sobriety: A Spiritual Transformation Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1774190346 | 2020 | 110 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous. In that tradition, the author has decided to withhold her last name on this book which chronicles her gradual spiritual transformation from the first day she walked into an AA meeting until nine months later. It includes dreams, personal accounts of spiritual experiences, and reflections on topics discussed in AA as well as in books that the author found helpful in her spiritual quest that began well before AA. This sensitive account is meaningful to anyone who may have deep spiritual longing. The author gradually moves from feeling totally broken to a life of renewal and hope. It includes practical tools for living such as blessing others and asking God for personal change in the face of troubling personal relationships. It is hoped that it will help you along your own personal spiritual path.
The Geography of Uzbekistan: At the Crossroads of the Silk Road (World Regional Geography Book Series) by Lola Gulyamova
English | December 3, 2022 | ISBN: 3031078721 | True EPUB | 301 pages | 249 MB
This book describes the geography of Uzbekistan and its unique history and culture. It focuses on the development of Uzbekistan as a result of its location on the crossroads of the Silk Road. The influence of global and regional environmental challenges on the current landscape and similar issues are discussed and analyzed from a historical perspective. Contemporary tensions and reforms in social, economical and cultural life are described with the aim to draw a picture of modern paths to transformation and development.
The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England By Anna Suranyi
2008 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0874139988 | PDF | 7 MB
Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how emerging concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings. Using insights from a variety of scholarly fields such as history, anthropology, and literary studies, Dr. Suranyi analyzes recurrent cultural stereotypes used by English travelers to describe continental Europe, Ireland, and the Ottoman Empire. For such writers, the most important criteria for evaluating countries were civility and barbarism. These were represented through depictions of cultural traits such as foodways, cleanliness, the roles of women, or even the ascription of gender to countries. This book will contribute to the growing interest in travel and ethnographic literature and in the intersection of cultures. In addition, this study presents new evidence for the emergence of nationalism in the early modern world.
Lina Bolzoni, Jeremy Parzen, "The Gallery of Memory: Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of the Printing Press"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0802043305 | PDF | pages: 367 | 21.1 mb
Lina Bolzoni's impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original incarnation as La stanza della memoria: Modelli letterari e iconografici nell'età della stampa, published by Einaudi of Torino in 1995, Bolzoni's study has been praised by critics and ranked with the classic texts in its field - those by Paolo Rossi, Frances Yates and Mary Carruthers.
The Future of Executive Development by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
English | November 30, 2021 | ISBN: 1503628728 | 197 pages | PDF | 3.75 Mb
Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations demand and those provided by their executive programs. This work delves into the objective functions of the executive development space, analyzes the demand characteristics of the learners and the organizations that pay for the programs, and the ways in which business schools and other providers deliver (or not) on the promises they make regarding skill development and the continued value of learning to the organization. They show how a trio of disruptive forces (disintermediation, disaggregation and decoupling) which have figured prominently in industries disrupted by digitalization,are reshaping the structure of demand for executive development. The authors look at the future of executive development in the era of self-refining algorithms (aka machine learning) and wearable sensors and computers, and offer a compass for making the right choice for CEOs and CLOs who are guiding executive program design. Ultimately, they offer a guide for to optimize the learning production function for both skill acquisition and skill transfer - the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for any educational enterprise.
National Guardianship Association, "The Fundamentals of Guardianship: What Every Guardian Should Know"
English | ISBN: 1634257219 | 2016 | 168 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Serving as guardian is never simple or easy. Having the responsibility to make major life decisions for another is much more difficult than making decisions for oneself. This book thoroughly explains the roles and responsibilities of a guardian and provides a step-by-step guide through the process of how to make responsible and ethical decisions, prudently manage another person's resources, avoid conflicts of interest, and involve the person under guardianship in the decision process. The book is written by guardians with decades of experience and members of the
The Fourth Dimension: Enigma of Time
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1599426226 | 265 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3 MB
Einstein shocked the world by revealing that time can be different for different observers. This book offers a possible explanation of why it is so. It offers a never-attempted-before approach to understand the secret of time. As we all know, there is an intimate relationship between time and age of objects. But what is this relationship? The author dives deep into the possible relationships between time and age of objects- animate or inanimate- and, in turn, emerges with a novel concept of time- time is a measurement of age. The book proposes that time is acquired by age, not required for it; and thus, time is an acquired property of objects. The author also proposes that just as length, width and height are the measurements of physical extensions of objects (their three spatial dimensions) and not any independent entities; time too, being the measurement of their age, is not independent of objects. In this sense, time seems to be the fourth dimension of objects instead of space. The book attempts to justify its hypothesis by testing its compatibility with Theory of Relativity. Also discussed is the meaning of the so called passage of time and the arrow of time on the basis of the model of time proposed here. The meaning of the much debated concept of time-travel is thoroughly discussed here and it is proposed that this concept, in the sense that we usually take, is a myth. Even if you can manage to reach your future by overcoming all technological limitations (as we all know, theory of relativity allows it), all your friends will be there with you, witnessing the same future. The only difference will be- your clocks will not agree with those of your friends.