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One Tiny Bubble: The Story of Our Last Universal Common Ancestor
Par Karen Krossing. 2022
The graves are walking: The great famine and the saga of the irish people
Par John Kelly. 2012
It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children…
starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters in the nineteenth century-it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.Perhaps most important, this is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of exoneration.Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequencesBuilding a cyber risk management program: Evolving security for the digital age
Par Brian Allen. 2024
Cyber risk management is one of the most urgent issues facing enterprises today. This book presents a detailed framework for…
designing, developing, and implementing a cyber risk management program that addresses your company's specific needs. Ideal for corporate directors, senior executives, security risk practitioners, and auditors at many levels, this guide offers both the strategic insight and tactical guidance you're looking for. You'll learn how to define and establish a sustainable, defendable, cyber risk management program, and the benefits associated with proper implementation. Cyber risk management experts Brian Allen and Brandon Bapst, working with writer Terry Allan Hicks, also provide advice that goes beyond risk management. You'll discover ways to address your company's oversight obligations as defined by international standards, case law, regulation, and board-level guidance. This book helps you: understand the transformational changes digitalization is introducing, and new cyber risks that come with it; learn the key legal and regulatory drivers that make cyber risk management a mission-critical priority for enterprises; gain a complete understanding of four components that make up a formal cyber risk management program; and implement or provide guidance for a cyber risk management program within your enterpriseThe power of teamwork: How we can all work better together
Par Brian Goldman. 2022
The national bestseller from the host of CBC Radio's White Coat, Black Art — now in paperback! In the high-pressure…
and complex setting of health care, a new approach to teamwork is leading to healthier patients, happier staff and more efficient operations. Doctors are learning art appreciation to improve diagnostic skills. Hospitals are adopting airplane-style "black boxes" in operating rooms to reduce errors and create better teams. And lessons from the medical world are helping to build better teamwork outside hospitals. Through board games like Friday Night at the ER, Fortune 500 companies and other organizations are learning that running a busy emergency room provides valuable insight that can help anyone who is part of a team, or leads one, to be more effective. Although a group is not a team, any group can become a team. Drawing on groundbreaking research, including how to leverage the science of team building, Brian Goldman offers teachable strategies and examples from around the world that can make us all work better togetherNormal women: Nine hundred years of making history
Par Philippa Gregory. 2024
"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional…
narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart." —Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets "Stunning. . . . Full of surprises. . . . A brilliant, essential read." —The Independent (UK) The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history and "should be included in every history lesson" (Glamour UK) Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women—some fifty per cent of the population—center stage. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The "normal women" you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change—from 1066 to modern times—powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of womenEvery Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Par Jason Roberts. 2024
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific…
rivals and their race to survey all life on Earth.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing their work to be difficult, but not impossible—how could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species? Stunned by life's diversity, both fell far short of their goal. But in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, on humanity's role in shaping the fate of our planet and on humanity itself. The rivalry between these two unique, driven individuals created reverberations that still echo today. Linnaeus, with the help of acolyte explorers he called "apostles" (only half of whom returned alive), gave the world such concepts as mammal, primate and homo sapiens—but he also denied species change and promulgated racist pseudo-science. Buffon coined the term reproduction, formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, and argued passionately against prejudice. It was a clash that, during their lifetimes, Buffon seemed to be winning. But their posthumous fates would take a very different turn.With elegant, propulsive prose grounded in more than a decade of research, featuring appearances by Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin, bestselling author Jason Roberts tells an unforgettable true-life tale of intertwined lives and enduring legacies, tracing an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day.A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks
Par David Gibbins. 2024
The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The…
SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular discoveries excavating these sunken ships, their protective underwater cocoon keeping evidence of past civilizations preserved. World renowned maritime archeologist David Gibbins ties together the stories of some of the most significant shipwrecks in time to form a single overarching narrative of world history. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks is not just the story of those ships, the people who sailed on them, and the cargo and treasure they carried, but also the story of the spread of people, religion, and ideas around the world; it is a story of colonialism, migration, and the indominable human spirit that continues today. Drawing on decades of experience, Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past that tell a new story about the world and its underwater secretsCirque du Soleil: complicités innovantes : des joyeux lurons créent une multinationale du divertissement
Par Louis-Jacques Filion. 2023
Au moment de l'arrivée de la COVID-19 en mars 2020, plus de 200 millions de spectateurs avaient déjà assisté à…
un des milliers de spectacles présentés par le Cirque du Soleil dans plus de 450 villes situées dans une soixantaine de pays. À Las Vegas, sept spectacles permanents avaient contribué à transformer cette ville en capitale mondiale du divertissement pour les familles. Cette PME devenue une entreprise multi-nationale employait plus de 5 000 personnes. Les récits de vies et les témoignages décrits dans ce livre nous font découvrir la vie passionnante de ces artistes innovants et leurs collaborateurs qui ont créé ou contribué à développer cette entreprise unique en son genre dans l'histoire circassienneHistoire populaire de l'amour au Québec, de la Nouvelle-France à la Révolution tranquille: 3, 1860 à 1960
Par Jean-Sébastien Marsan. 2019
Le Québec des années 1860 à 1960 a connu une série d'évolutions, de crises et de tensions. La province s'industrialisation,…
s'urbanise et se bureaucratise. Elle connaît une forte émigration vers les États-Unis, les premières féministes remportent leurs premières batailles malgré la criminalisation de l'avortement, une guerre mondiale éclate, suivie de l'effervescence des Années folles, de la Grande Dépression et d'une autre guerre mondiale... Apparaissent alors les fameux enterrements de vie de garçon, les showers, la commercialisation du mariage et la popularisation de l'automobile, du cinéma, de la radio et la télévision. La société québécoise évolue et bénéficie de constant progrès en matière d'hygiène, de médecine et de moyens de contraception. À l'approche de la Révolution tranquille, le Québec subit un décalage de plus criant avec le discours de l'Église : la population aspire maintenant à autre choseThe cure for burnout: How to find balance and reclaim your life
Par Emily Ballesteros. 2024
&“An empowering guidebook to combatting burnout . . . Emily Ballesteros&’s advice is useful and practical, especially for young workers…
eager to reclaim their time and energy.&”—Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings and on weekends to catch up? Have you already beat burnout once, only to find it creeping back? If you answered yes to any of these, you&’re in need of a cure for burnout. In The Cure for Burnout , burnout management coach and TikTok influencer Emily Ballesteros combines scientific and cultural research, her expertise in organizational psychology, and the tried-and-true strategies she&’s successfully implemented with clients around the globe to demystify burnout for our post-pandemic world – and set you on a path toward a life of personal and professional balance. Ballesteros outlines five areas in which you can build healthy habits to combat burnout — mindset, personal care, time management, boundaries , and stress management . She offers clear, easy-to-implement tools to help you find greater balance, energy, and fulfillment, showing you how to: • break burnout habits that keep you in a pattern of chronic overwhelm • create sustainable work/life balance through predictable personal care • get more done in less time while creating forward momentum toward a meaningful life • identify and set your personal and professional limits , guilt-free • master your stress and detach from your stressors The Cure for Burnout provides a holistic method for burnout management to address the epidemic of our always-on, chronically overextended culture, empowering us to reclaim control of our own lives once and for allTony Robbins returns with the final book in his financial freedom trilogy by unveiling the power of alternative investments. Robbins,…
and renowned investor Christopher Zook, take you on a journey to interview a dozen of the world's most successful investors in private equity, private credit, private real estate, and venture capital. They share their favorite strategies and insights in this practical guidebook. For decades, trillions of dollars in "smart money" has been making outsized returns using private equity, private credit, venture capital and other alternative investments. Robbins teams up with renowned private equity investor Christopher Zook, founder of CAZ Investments, to sit down with more than a dozen of the world's greatest alternative investment managers, collectively managing over half a trillion dollars on behalf of investors. Names like... Robert F. Smith – Founder of Vista Equity Partners, Smith is the considered the most successful enterprise software investor of all time. Vinod Khosla – Founder of Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla is considered a legend in Venture Capital. He is famous for turning a $4 million investment into a $7 billion windfall for his investors. Michael B. Kim – The "Godfather of Private Equity" in Asia, Kim has created the largest private equity firm in Asia. His astounding success for investors has also made him South Korea's wealthiest man. And many more! In The Holy Grail of Investing , you'll discover: -How to take advantage of the trillions flowing into private equity by becoming an owner of firms that actually manage the assets and share in the revenue they generate -How to take advantage of the two to three times higher returns of private credit as an alternative (or compliment) to bonds -How new rule changes allow individual investors to own a piece of the major professional sports teams (MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS) and benefit from this fanatically driven asset class -How to invest in the energy evolution and ride the wave of trillions in global investments -How investments in private real estate can work as an inflationary hedge and source of tax efficient income -How many of the world's greatest investors thrive in good times and badLe sucre rouge de Duplessis
Par Stéphane Lussier Johnson. 2023
Jamais un Premier Ministre québécois n'a suscité autant d'intérêt que Maurice Duplessis. Son règne a été étudié, analysé, raconté de…
long en large, immortalisé dans des publications écrites par des historiens, des journalistes, des collaborateurs, des opposants, des amis, des ennemis. Mais jusqu'à maintenant, personne ne s'était penché sur son rôle dans l'industrie du sucre au Québec, ni sur la manière dont il a délibérément réussi à la saboter. Alors que l'inflation fait un bond de 60% entre 1946 et 1962, cette industrie aurait pu à elle-seule assurer la prospérité de la province dans cette période où elle en avait tant besoin. Du moins, en théorie. Mais à cause de manigances et politicailleries de l'Union Nationale, nous ne le saurons jamais. Rencontrez Louis Pasquier. Ingénieur agronome français que l'on fait venir au Québec dans le but de sauver l'industrie du sucre de betteraves. Et que l'on détruisit ensuite pour avoir commis le crime d'y être parvenuUne histoire d'amour-haine: l'Empire britannique en Amérique du Nord (Essai)
Par Gilles Bibeau. 2023
Après Les Autochtones, la part effacée du Québec, l'anthropologue Gilles Bibeau raconte la genèse de l'Empire britannique qui s'est imposé…
aux Autochtones et aux descendants de la Nouvelle-France. Pour les Britanniques, le rêve de dominer le monde passait par la conquête de l'ArctiqueTax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations, 2024 Cumulative Supplement: 2016 Cumulative Supplement (Wiley Nonprofit Authority Ser. #239)
Par Jody Blazek, Jane M. Searing. 2024
An essential resource for the legal and finance professionals serving US-based tax-exempt organizations In the 2024 Cumulative Supplement to the…
latest edition of Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations, a team of dedicated legal and accounting professionals delivers a timely and current discussion of the latest rules, pronouncements, legislation, and regulations affecting tax-exempt entities. In this Supplement, you'll discover clear and fully cited and supported descriptions of the requirements for a variety of categories of tax-exempt organizations, including public charities, private foundations, civic associations, business leagues, and social clubs. In this update, you'll find: Coverage of every relevant and significant change to the taxation law governing tax-exempt organizations Various sample documents and practice aids to save time and energy in the preparation of this year's financial documents Practical guidance on the potential for income tax on revenue-producing enterprises Perfect for accountants, lawyers, executives, directors, and volunteers serving one of the many tax-exempt entities in the United States, Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations: 2024 Cumulative Supplement is also an essential resource for consultants, managers, and other professionals working in or for tax-exempt organizations.How to Breathe While Suffocating: A Story Of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering From Trauma, and Healing My Soul
Par Bruce W. Brackett. 2024
Let go of negativity, rediscover your inherent worth, and unlock your true potential How To Breathe While Suffocating is your…
antidote to the all-too-common tendency to surrender, giving up on your life’s ambitions. You don’t have to give up! For anyone who has gotten caught in the trap of “I can’t do it,” this book reminds you that you are enough, you possess value, and your unique ability to engage with the world can and will get you to where you want to be. Through simple positive affirmations, unflinching first-person stories, and insightful analysis, author Bruce W. Brackett helps you focus on the positive and keep moving forward. Society today is experiencing a hidden pandemic of loneliness, disconnection, and resistance to recovery. After the life-altering shutdowns of COVID-19, many of us have simply remained in shutdown mode. This book uses universal concepts, expressed through engaging narrative, to help you grapple with issues like mental health, isolation, gender identity, disconnection, and the overwhelming sense of negativity for our collective future. By the end, you’ll learn to turn it around and get back to the business of living. The message of How to Breathe When Suffocating is simple—spread love, inhabit joy, and embrace the power of positivity. · Gain the inspiration you need to seize your potential, find confidence, and step into your authentic self · Change your outlook on life with simple slogans and mantras for developing a healthier, more positive attitude · Realize that you aren’t alone in your struggle, and see how others are finding the strength to move forward in difficult times · Read the compelling story of one man who overcame insurmountable odds and found salvation from negativity and self-doubt After a two-decade healing journey of intensive trauma therapy, psychiatric treatment, and rehab, Bruce W. Brackett has emerged a survivor. Anyone in the midst of their own healing journey will resonate with benefit from his lived experience, portrayed here with intimate vulnerability and universal appeal.Nachhaltige Unternehmensstrategien für Dummies (Für Dummies)
Par Meike Lerner. 2024
Mit der richtigen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie auf Erfolgskurs Es gibt viele Gründe für Unternehmen, Nachhaltigkeit strategisch zu implementieren. Nicht nur Kunden, Mitarbeiter…
und Partner legen zunehmend Wert auf nachhaltiges Wirtschaften. Auch viele gesetzliche Vorgaben verlangen von Unternehmen ein nachhaltiges Handeln ? etwa die EU-Taxonomie-Verordnung, das Lieferkettensorgfaltsgesetz oder die Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Und schlie?lich blicken auch Geldgeber im Rahmen ihrer Risikoanalyse sehr genau auf die Nachhaltigkeitsbemühungen von Unternehmen. Wie Ihr Unternehmen Schritt für Schritt auf allen Ebenen nachhaltiger wird und Sie die gesetzlichen Anforderungen einhalten, erfahren Sie in diesem Buch. Sie erfahren Wie Sie die Sustainable Development Goals strategisch setzen Wie Sie eine gesetzeskonforme Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung installieren Wie Sie ein nachhaltiges Beschaffungswesen etablieren Wie Sie ein Green Office einrichtenManga for Success - Meetings und Teams führen
Par Masumi Tani. 2024
Lerne, produktive Meetings zu moderieren und leistungsstarke Teams aufzubauen! Shigeo, der für ein Unternehmen arbeitet, das Baumaterialien herstellt, wird in…
ein regionales Büro geschickt, um den Umsatz zu steigern. Stattdessen stößt er auf Schwierigkeiten bei der Zusammenarbeit mit dem örtlichen Team der Arbeiter. Er versucht, sich aktiv an den internen Besprechungen zu beteiligen, wird aber ignoriert. Dann trifft Shigeo auf Mayumi, eine Expertin für Moderation, und lernt mit ihrer Hilfe alle notwendigen Moderationsfähigkeiten. Langsam gelingt es ihm so, die Mitglieder für sich zu gewinnen, die Motivation des Teams zu steigern und erfolgreich neue Geschäftsprojekte zu leiten. In diesem Manga für Success erfährst du mehr darüber, wie: - man ein effektives Meeting durchführt, - man eine Vielzahl von Meeting-Tools produktiv einsetzt, - fruchtbare Brainstorming-Sitzungen moderiert, - mit effektiver Kommunikation das eigene Team zum Erfolg führt. Dieser neue Manga ist ein praxisnahes Buch, das einen Platz in den Bücherregalen von Managern, Führungskräften und Berufseinsteigern überall auf der Welt verdient.The Innovative Seller: Keeping Pace in an AI and Customer-Centric World
Par Jake Dunlap. 2024
Practical and straightforward solutions to everyday sales challenges In The Innovative Seller: Keeping Pace In An AI and Customer-Centric World,…
veteran sales leader and trainer Jake Dunlap delivers an expert playbook for sales that offers out-of-the-box and creative answers for the problems and questions that salespeople face every day. Fun and motivational, the book walks you through effective strategies for dealing with common challenges, like LinkedIn prospecting, sales transparency, cold calling, and others. The author has included a comprehensive tactical appendix, so you can easily identify and locate the exact solution you need when you encounter a specific problem. You’ll also find: Proven, grounded, and actionable techniques you can apply immediately to improve your sales performance Instructive stories and anecdotes drawn from Dunlap’s decades of sales and sales training experience Insightful discussions of how the typical sales process and model has changed over the years and how to adapt to the new realities of the disciplineAn engaging and eye-opening resource for early- and mid-career sales professionals, as well as business development and customer success practitioners, The Innovative Seller will also prove invaluable to managers and executives at quickly growing companies who seek to optimize their firms’ sales processes and results.BWL-Formeln für Dummies (Für Dummies)
Par Tobias Amely. 2024
Formeln und Kennzahlen verstehen, berechnen und interpretieren. Sind betriebswirtschaftliche Formeln für Sie ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln? Das lässt sich…
ändern! Tobias Amely bietet Ihnen einen verständlichen und kompakten Überblick über die wichtigsten Formeln und Kennzahlen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre. Praktische Beispiele und Tipps helfen Ihnen, den Zusammenhang zu verstehen, in dem die Formel jeweils verwendet wird. So bleibt es nicht beim theoretischen Wissen allein, sondern Sie können die Formeln auch praktisch anwenden. Sie erfahren Wie Sie die Produktion optimieren Wie Sie lohnende Investitionen erkennen Wie Sie Finanzierungskosten minimieren Welche Kennzahlen die Bonität eines Unternehmens ausmachenData Science Fundamentals with R, Python, and Open Data
Par Marco Cremonini. 2024
Data Science Fundamentals with R, Python, and Open Data Introduction to essential concepts and techniques of the fundamentals of R…
and Python needed to start data science projects Organized with a strong focus on open data, Data Science Fundamentals with R, Python, and Open Data discusses concepts, techniques, tools, and first steps to carry out data science projects, with a focus on Python and RStudio, reflecting a clear industry trend emerging towards the integration of the two. The text examines intricacies and inconsistencies often found in real data, explaining how to recognize them and guiding readers through possible solutions, and enables readers to handle real data confidently and apply transformations to reorganize, indexing, aggregate, and elaborate. This book is full of reader interactivity, with a companion website hosting supplementary material including datasets used in the examples and complete running code (R scripts and Jupyter notebooks) of all examples. Exam-style questions are implemented and multiple choice questions to support the readers’ active learning. Each chapter presents one or more case studies. Written by a highly qualified academic, Data Science Fundamentals with R, Python, and Open Data discuss sample topics such as: Data organization and operations on data frames, covering reading CSV dataset and common errors, and slicing, creating, and deleting columns in R Logical conditions and row selection, covering selection of rows with logical condition and operations on dates, strings, and missing values Pivoting operations and wide form-long form transformations, indexing by groups with multiple variables, and indexing by group and aggregations Conditional statements and iterations, multicolumn functions and operations, data frame joins, and handling data in list/dictionary format Data Science Fundamentals with R, Python, and Open Data is a highly accessible learning resource for students from heterogeneous disciplines where Data Science and quantitative, computational methods are gaining popularity, along with hard sciences not closely related to computer science, and medical fields using stochastic and quantitative models.