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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Wenn man so will, lässt sich so ziemlich alles, was wir um uns herum sehen, auf physikalische Phänomene zurückführen. Wilhelm Kulisch erklärt Ihnen von der Warte eines Physikers die Dinge, die Ihnen in Ihrem Alltag begegnen. Seien es nun Auto und Fahrrad, Mikrowelle und Kühlschrank, Blitz und Regenbogen und vieles mehr. Kurz und knapp beschreibt er, was es hierzu zu wissen gibt, und ermöglicht Ihnen so eine andere Sicht auf die Dinge, die Sie vielleicht sonst als alltäglich kaum wahrgenommen haben oder bei denen Sie sich schon immer gefragt haben, was denn da wohl dahinter steckt.Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, 69469 Weinheim 254 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Haben Sie Schwierigkeiten, die vielen verschiedenen Begriffe rund um den Computer zu verstehen In diesem Buch erklären Dan und Sandra Gookin leicht verständlich und auf den Punkt gebracht Begriffe aus der IT-Sprache, von A wie abbrechen bis Z wie Zwischenablage. Das Buch enthält alle neuen Begriffe, die die rasante IT-Entwicklung der letzten Jahre mit sich gebracht hat.Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, 69469 Weinheim 309 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Haben Sie auch schon einmal das Gefühl gehabt, an Ihrem Gesprächspartner vorbeizureden, ihn sozusagen auf dem falschen Fuß zu erwischen Paul Gamber zeigt auf, wie mit den Werkzeugen der Transaktionsanalyse eine bessere Kommunikation möglich ist. Er erläutert, wie Sie positive Beziehungen aufbauen und pflegen, wie Sie destruktive Psychospiele durchschauen und vermeiden, wie Sie Glaubenssätze hinterfragen und verändern können. Sie erfahren, wie die Transaktionsanalyse in Erziehung und Unterricht, Coaching und Supervision, in der Psychotherapie und in Management und Menschführung eingesetzt wird, um sich selbst und andere besser zu verstehen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hack into the secret power of your brainYour Brain100 Billion Neurons100 Trillion ConnectionsAnd you only command 5% of it.Now it's time to take back control!In Brainhack, creativity coach Neil Pavitt gives you tips and tricks to re-programme your brain, developing the skills and insights that can transform how you think, solve problems and make decisions.This book will help you:\* Learn to think smarter\* Become more focused\* Discover creative approaches to problem-solving\* Generate ideas with innovative techniques\* Unlock your brain blocks.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Be bold. Be brave. Embrace your ambition.Ever have that nagging feeling that you are better than the sum of your current achievements Do you have a secret desire to be achieving much more, to change the world or to reach the top of your game Then it is time to use your ambition to your advantage. It has been proven that ambitious people achieve greater levels of success, whether that be a higher level of education, a more prestigious job, a higher income or more satisfaction in life. Grounded in scientific research and with contributions from people at the height of their success in business, music, the arts and sport, Ambition will help you to harness your aspirations to achieve your lifetime goals. It will give you practical insights into how to use your talents and learn from others who have done it before, so that you can get to where you want to be.If you want to get that promotion, achieve that big life-changing goal, start your own successful business, receive that distinctive acclaim, or make a positive difference to the world, then the good news is that you already have the fuel of ambition in you. This book will show you how to use it to drive your success.\* Reveals how you can do more than you think with what you've already got\* Helps discover your true motivation using a psychology model and shows you how to use that as the fuel for greater success\* Contains insights from successful people in all fields including John Torode, Myleene Klass, Will Greenwood, Katie Hopkins and Gavin Patterson\* Shows that the world is an exciting place and you can do anything if you use your ambition to help you.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues.\* Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific developments\* Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of artificial intelligence\* Features numerous updates to the popular and highly acclaimed first edition, including new chapters addressing the cutting-edge topic of the technological singularity\* Draws on a broad range of science fiction's more familiar novels, films, and TV series, including I, Robot, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, and Brave New World\* Provides a gateway into classic philosophical puzzles and topics informed by the latest technology.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leverage your authentic self into a valuable leadership strategyThe Art of Authenticity is a guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations. This book will show you how to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself. Dr. Karissa Thacker is the management psychologist called on by over two hundred Fortune 500 companies to work with high potential leaders. This book provides you with her expert guidance, based on validated psychological research and artful application of psychological principles to actual business situations, to help you become an authentic leader. You'll learn how to lead through reflection, action, and conscious choice, and how to maintain your guiding principles while effectively leading your team. By replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones, you'll find that you're modeling good behavior and effective decision-making--and that authenticity is contagious. This guide equips you with the tools and skills you need to be the catalyst of positive change your organization needs.How do you remain authentic while being an effective leader This book argues that the question isn't a duality. Authenticity is the best way to lead, and the only way to maintain sustainable success as an organization. This insightful guide shows you how to find your authentic self, and leverage that into an effective, executable leadership strategy.\* Become authentic in a way that befits your values\* Show loyalty, honesty, ethics, and consideration\* Maintain authenticity in leadership roles\* Make conscious choices instead of blind reactionsSome are born to lead, other must be taught, but all leaders must work to retain their own values and basic sense of self. A simple pause can mean the difference between a knee-jerk reaction and an authentic decision, and the effects ripple throughout your organization. The Art of Authenticity is your guidebook to finding the true authentic leader within, and leading from the inside out for the long haul.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover your leadership voice and unlock your potential to influence others5 Voices is the code for unlocking your capacity to have honest conversations and build deeper, more authentic relationships with your teams, your families and your friends. In order to lead others effectively, we need a true understanding of ourselves, our natural tendencies and patterns of behavior. In learning what your leadership voice sounds like to others, you will discover what it feels like to be on the other side of your personality, as well as how to hear and value others' voices, namely the Pioneer, the Connector, the Creative, the Guardian, and the Nurturer. Once you understand your own leadership voice, you'll discover how best to communicate with each of the other voices, which will transform your communication at every level of relationship, both personal and professional. In mastering the 5 Voices of leadership, you will increase your emotional intelligence, allowing you to gain a competitive advantage as a leader. You will also be equipped with a simple, easy to remember vocabulary that, when shared, has a track record for decreasing the drama, misunderstanding and miscommunication in all spheres of influence.Are you focused on relationships, values, and people Or are you oriented more toward tradition, money, and resources Do you know how others hear your voice Do you appreciate the contributions of others on your team This book will help you identify your natural leadership style, and give you a framework for leveraging your strengths.\* Find your foundational leadership voice\* Learn to hear and value the voices of others\* Know yourself before leading others\* Connect and communicate well with team, family and friendsAll five leadership voices come with their own particular set of strengths, and all have areas for growth. Understanding both sides of the equation is the key to taking your leadership to the next level and is the secret to increasing your ability to influence your team, family and friends. 5 Voices is a simple key which unlocks complicated relational dynamics and improves the health and alignment of all your relationships.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Take your productivity to the next level and make the most of your time!Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it Don't we all! Productivity For Dummies shows you how to overcome this common problem by tackling key issues that are preventing you from remaining focused and making the most of your time. This insightful text gets to the root of the problem, and shows you how to identify and analyse the items on your to-do list to deliver on deadlines and maximise your schedule. Numerous techniques and technologies have been developed to address productivity needs, and this resource shows you which will work for your situation.Productivity is crucial to your success - whether you want to find a new job, earn a promotion you've had your eye on, or generally progress in your career, understanding how to improve your productivity is essential in increasing the value you bring to your organisation. At the very least, increased productivity means that you get things done faster--which translates into fewer overtime hours and more time concentrating on the things that are most important to you.\* Eliminate procrastination and laziness from your daily routine\* Organise your work environment to create a space conducive to productivity\* Increase your concentration and stay focused on the task at hand\* Make decisions quickly, and stay cool, calm, and collected no matter what the situation isProductivity For Dummies helps you solve the age-old problem of having too much to do and not enough time to do it.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - > ROBERT P. MILES author of The Warren Buffett CEO 'There are many outstanding Australian value investors. Michael Kemp is one of the best.' ROBERT P. MILES, author of The Warren Buffett CEO 'This book will ensure that you'll never look at charting, market timing or stock valuation the same way again.' SCOTT PAPE, author of The Barefoot Investor 'Michael Kemp is one of Australia's most talented and insightful investment authors.' TONY FEATHERSTONE, former managing editor of BRW and Shares magazines.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Apply software-inspired management concepts to accelerate modern marketingIn many ways, modern marketing has more in common with the software profession than it does with classic marketing management. As surprising as that may sound, it's the natural result of the world going digital. Marketing must move faster, adapt more quickly to market feedback, and manage an increasingly complex set of customer experience touchpoints. All of these challenges are shaped by the dynamics of software--from the growing number of technologies in our own organizations to the global forces of the Internet at large.But you can turn that to your advantage. And you don't need to be technical to do it.Hacking Marketing will show you how to conquer those challenges by adapting successful management frameworks from the software industry to the practice of marketing for any business in a digital world. You'll learn about agile and lean management methodologies, innovation techniques used by high-growth technology companies that any organization can apply, pragmatic approaches for scaling up marketing in a fragmented and constantly shifting environment, and strategies to unleash the full potential of talent in a digital age.Marketing responsibilities and tactics have changed dramatically over the past decade. This book now updates marketing management to better serve this rapidly evolving discipline.\* Increase the tempo of marketing's responsiveness without chaos or burnout\* Design 'continuous' marketing programs and campaigns that constantly evolve\* Drive growth with more marketing experiments while actually reducing risk\* Architect marketing capabilities in layers to better scale and adapt to change\* Balance strategic focus with the ability to harness emergent opportunitiesAs a marketer and a manager, Hacking Marketing will expand your mental models for how to lead marketing in a digital world where everything--including marketing--flows with the speed and adaptability of software.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Retirement planning is difficult enough without having to contend with misinformation. Unfortunately, much of the advice that is dispensed is either unsubstantiated or betrays a strong vested interest. In The Essential Retirement Guide, Frederick Vettese analyses the most fundamental questions of retirement planning and offers some startling insights. The book finds, for example that:\* Saving 10 percent a year is not a bad rule of thumb if you could follow it, but there will be times when you cannot do so and it might not even be advisable to try.\* Most people never spend more than 50 percent of their gross income on themselves before retirement; hence their retirement income target is usually much less than 70 percent.\* Interest rates will almost certainly stay low for the next 20 years, which will affect how much you need to save.\* Even in this low-interest environment, you can withdraw 5 percent or more of your retirement savings each year in retirement without running out of money.\* Your spending in retirement will almost certainly decline at a certain age so you may not need to save quite as much as you think.\* As people reach the later stages of retirement, they become less capable of managing their finances, even though they grow more confident of their ability to do so! Plan for this before it is too late.\* Annuities have become very expensive, but they still make sense for a host of reasons.In addition, The Essential Retirement Guide shows how you can estimate your own lifespan and helps you to understand the financial implications of long-term care. Most importantly, it reveals how you can calculate your personal wealth target - the amount of money you will need by the time you retire to live comfortably. The author uses his actuarial expertise to substantiate his findings but does so in a jargon-free way.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An action-based plan for building the career of your dreamsBest Job Ever! is the ultimate guide to creating your dream career and increasing your financial success by providing you with valuable and insightful career information, personal stories and examples of others who have successfully created their Best Job Ever! Written by a nationally recognized expert in career development, this book provides you with a concrete, step-by-step blueprint for revolutionizing your career and revamping your life. You'll find the motivation you need to climb out of your daily ruts as you dig deep to discover your personal motivation, financial needs, and career and life goals. This actionable guide gets you started right away as you explore various avenues for improvement--whether that means re-engaging with the job you have, getting that promotion or making a career change. You'll learn how to overcome career fear, beat job boredom, find and follow your passion while advancing your skill sets and building a career and life plan. The stories will help you decide when to forge ahead with your current career, when to change tracks entirely and how to increase your salary while doing it. If a career change is in the cards, you'll learn how to make the transition with minimal disruption to your finances and emotional well being so you can get quickly get back on track to achieving your dreams.Do you currently love your job Have you ever loved your job Whether you're in the wrong career or just lost the passion somewhere along the way, this book gives you a clear action plan with step by step guidance to help you build the career and life you want.\* Discover the principles of career development\* Create a job that is meaningful and fulfilling\* Increase Your Career Income\* Minimize the financial impact of changing careers/What to do when you get laid off or fired.\* Build the life and career you want and find happiness while doing itThe vast majority of employees feel disconnected from their careers and dread going to work. Life is short! Don't waste your days in unfulfilling career when there are options out there to create the Best Job Ever! and find meaningful, fulfilling and financially rewarding work.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The one habit that can improve almost every leadership skillThere is a simple practice that can improve nearly every component of leadership excellence and it doesn't require adding anything to your busy schedule. In The Mindfulness Edge, you'll discover how a subtle inner shift, called mindfulness, can transform things that you already do every day into opportunities to become a better leader. Author Matt Tenney has trained leaders around the world in the practice of mindfulness. In this book, he partners with neuroscientist Tim Gard, PhD, to offer step-by-step, practical guidance for quickly and seamlessly integrating mindfulness training into your daily life--rewiring your brain in ways that improve both the 'hard' and 'soft' skills of leadership.In this book, you'll learn how mindfulness training helps you:\* Quickly improve business acumen and your impact on the bottom line\* Become more innovative and attract/retain innovative team members\* Develop the emotional intelligence essential for creating and sustaining a winning culture\* Realize the extraordinary leadership presence that inspires greatness in othersThe authors make a compelling case for why mindfulness training may be the 'ultimate success habit.' In addition to helping you improve the most essential elements of highly effective leadership, mindfulness training can help you discover unconditional happiness and realize incredible meaning--professionally and personally.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Add value with every decision using a simple yet powerful frameworkFew things are as valuable in business, and in life, as the ability to make good decisions. Can you imagine how much more rewarding your life and your business would be if every decision you made were the best it could be Decision Quality empowers you to make the best possible choice and get more of what you truly want from every decision.Dr. Carl Spetzler is a leader in the field of decision science and has worked with organizations across industries to improve their decision-making capabilities. He and his co-authors, all experienced consultants and educators in this field, show you how to frame a problem or opportunity, create a set of attractive alternatives, identify relevant uncertain information, clarify the values that are important in the decision, apply tools of analysis, and develop buy-in among stakeholders. Their straightforward approach is elegantly simple, yet practical and powerful. It can be applied to all types of decisions.Our business and our personal lives are marked by a stream of decisions. Some are small. Some are large. Some are life-altering or strategic. How well we make those decisions truly matters. This book gives you a framework and thinking tools that will help you to improve the odds of getting more of what you value from every choice. You will learn:\* The six requirements for decision quality, and how to apply them\* The difference between a good decision and a good outcome\* Why a decision can only be as good as the best of the available alternatives\* Methods for making both 'significant' and strategic decisions\* The mental traps that undermine decision quality and how to avoid them\* How to deal with uncertainty--a factor in every important choice\* How to judge the quality of a decision at the time you're making it\* How organizations have benefited from building quality into their decisions.Many people are satisfied with 'good enough' when making important decisions. This book provides a method that will take you and your co-workers beyond 'good enough' to true Decision Quality.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Develop the qualities of strategic leadership and become an active contributor to the short- and long-term success of your organizationToday's organizations face two daunting challenges: 1. How to create new sources of competitive advantage to sustain long-term growth, and 2. How to engage leaders at every level of the organization so that they are more proactive and forward-looking in their area of responsibility. The Art of Strategic Leadership uses a unique approach to examine what it means to be a strategic leader. Instead of focusing on the skills, behaviors, and tools found in typical books on strategic leadership, the authors shed light on the attributes and qualities necessary to lead strategic change and help transform a business. Strategic leadership is what modern leadership is all about. Organizations expect leaders to anticipate and be proactive more than ever before. In this book, the authors draw on their vast experience working directly with leaders at all levels and use an intriguing narrative to explain this inside-out approach to understanding strategic leadership. The narrative follows the journey of how one manager discovered these critically important qualities. You will experience first-hand how these values and attributes manifest in the lives of realistic leaders; how they orchestrate long-term strategic change needed for the organization to compete and survive and actively shape the future while delivering short-term results.The Art of Strategic Leadership provides the content that will help you informally assess and reflect on your own strategic leadership qualities--those that are strengths and those that indicate areas you need to develop. It will guide you as you incorporate these values and qualities into your own leadership style and become a more effective catalyst for change. This book will help you in the following ways:\* Develop a more proactive, forward-thinking approach to leadership\* Approach strategy from both short- and long-term perspectives\* Adopt the core values and principles of a strategic leader\* Model the qualities exhibited by powerful leadersStrategic leaders serve as powerful examples to others in the organization. Their qualities and traits spread rapidly to those around them, empowering people at every level to take a more active role in meeting the demands of the future. The Art of Strategic Leadership will help you deepen and broaden your understanding of the core qualities of strategic leadership, leaving you better equipped to lead yourself and your team to a better place and create greater value for customers, owners, and employees.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does it mean for students to be truly educated in a rapidly changing, technology-driven, and globally interconnected 21st century world How can we ensure that every student receives a challenging, rigorous, engaging, and personalized learning experience throughout their elementary, middle, and high school years This book explores the meaning of and a possible future direction for education in the 21st century--an education that transcends the archaic factory model of teaching and learning to which most students in public schools are still exposed.Personalizing 21st Century Education begins with a manifesto for change, emphasizing the significance of true personalization for every learner. Next, it describes classroom, school, and system-level performance indicators that suggest that personalization is alive and well. The authors examine the historical origins of most modern school cultures--i.e., a commitment to standardization, depersonalization, and test-driven metrics that ignore the complexity and totality of the whole child. Throughout the are success stories showcasing schools and districts that are currently 'beating the odds' and providing a truly personalized learning environment for their students. The authors outline key components of a personalized learning system, including:\* state-of-the-art curriculum\* balanced and authentic assessment\* integrated and student-focused technology\* rigorous and engaging instruction\* personalized approaches to learning\* addressing the needs of diverse student populations, including English Language Learners, special needs students, socio-economically disadvantaged, and transient/highly mobile learners\* effective and sustained social and psychological services\* active parent and community involvement\* creative and productive cross-institutional partnershipsFor leaders, teachers, and other stakeholders, Personalizing 21st Century Education presents a vision for an individualized educational system that transcends current factory models and prepares students to be competitive in tomorrow's global economy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Build high-performing teams with an evidence-based framework that delivers resultsCommitted is a practical handbook for building great teams. Based on research from Wharton's Executive Development Program (EDP), this concise guide identifies the common challenges that arise when people work together as a group and provides key guidance on breaking through the barriers to peak performance. Committed draws its insights from the EDP's living lab: an intensive two-week simulation during which executive-level participants run complex global businesses. The authors have observed over 100 teams collaborating and competing for over 100 combined years in this intense environment. It has yielded fundamental insights about teamwork: what usually goes wrong, what frequently goes right, and the methods and techniques that will help you access your team's full potential. These insights have been distilled into a simple, repeatable process that you can start applying today.Getting teams engaged and aligned is hard. Committed will give you the tools you need to deal with all of the familiar teamwork challenges that get in the way: organizational politics, delegation, coordination, and aligning skills and motivation. Using vivid stories and examples from the worlds of business, sports, and non-profits, it will teach you how to:\* Understand the dynamics of successful teams\* Achieve peak performance using a research-backed methodology\* Gain expert insight into why most teams underperform\* Learn the critical points common to all great teamsCommitted gives you the perspective you need to combine the right people with the right way of collaborating to achieve extraordinary results.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An updated examination of what's weakening the U.S. economy, and how to fix itThe Committee to Destroy the World: Inside the Plot to Unleash a Super Crash on the Global Economy is a passionate and informed analysis of the struggling global economy. In this masterfully conceived and executed work, Michael Lewitt, one of Wall Street's most respected market strategists and money managers, updates his groundbreaking examination of the causes of the 2008 crisis and argues that economic and geopolitical conditions are even more unstable today. His analysis arrives in time for the impending economic and geopolitical debates of the 2016 election season. Lewitt explains in detail how debt has now overrun the world's capacity, how federal policies of the past few decades have created a downward vortex sapping growth and vitality from the American economy, and how greed and corruption are preventing reform.The financial crisis created tens of trillions of debt, leaving investors to pay a huge price for these policy failures:\* The highest asset inflation we've seen in our lifetimes, although the government claims there isn't enough inflation\* More than $2 trillion of stock buybacks funded with low cost debt that are artificially inflating stock prices\* The Federal Reserve and other global central banks becoming the largest buyers of government debt in order to suppress interest rates\* An M&A boom resulting from companies needing to find growth outside of their core businessesWhile the financial media misses the story, Lewitt pulls no punches explaining how all of these trends are leading to the brink of another crisis.Lewitt lays out a survival plan for the average investor to protect their assets when the debt bubble bursts. The first edition of this book expressed hope that policymakers would not let the financial crisis go to waste. This book urges investors to learn from the crushed hope and take action before the next crisis.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A deeply insightful guide to goal-based financial planning and wealth managementPlanning a Successful Future empowers advisors and clients to take control of their money and manage their income to achieve their financial goals. Written by the father of fee-only financial planning, this book features real-life stories and examples from over three decades in the industry to illustrate how financial planning works and the best way to create your strategy. You'll learn how to identify and prioritize your goals, and why they're important--and how to get where you need to be for retirement, education, home ownership, and more. Practical exercises get you started on the right track, and useful checklists keep you organized and focused along the way. You'll get expert insight on risk management, allocation, tax reduction, estate planning, and more, as you develop your strategy and put it into action.The financial services industry undergoes frequent changes, and financial planning specifically is affected to a high degree. Keeping up with the latest news and distinguishing trend from legitimate methodology can itself be a fulltime job. This book gives you the background you need to create a plan, and make the smart choices that will help you grow and protect your wealth.\* Create a realistic and goal-based financial plan\* Take a more proactive approach to your finances\* Identify your goals and how to achieve them\* Allocate investments appropriately for your situationFinancial planning is complex, with many variables to analyze and outside forces that can derail even the best laid plans. Planning a Successful Future gives you the information, tools, strategies, and insight you need to make the best decisions for your financial future.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This innovative new volume offers an in-depth exploration of scale, one of the most crucial elements in the creation and reception of art.\* Illustrates how scale has compelled audiences to rethink the significance and importance of specific works of art\* Takes a comparative art historical approach exploring issues of scale in an array of forms, from Islamic architecture to contemporary photography\* A global consideration of scale, with examples of work from ancient Egypt, eighteenth-century Korea, and contemporary Europe\* The newest addition to the Art History Special Issue Book Series.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Law's Metaphors: Interrogating Languages of Law, Justice and Legitimacy presents a series of essays that reveal how metaphors for terms relating to the theory and practice of law are utilized in legal texts, literary works, and in our popular imagination.\* Represents an innovative approach to interdisciplinary legal scholarship\* Features new developments in theorizing law's relations with language, society, and culture\* Includes contributions from European and North American scholars across several relevant disciplines\* Reveals the prevalence and power of the use of metaphors in the legal profession and in the popular imagination.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leverage the framework of visionaries to innovate, disrupt, and ultimately succeed as an entrepreneurThe Lean Entrepreneur, Second Edition banishes the 'Myth of the Visionary' and shows you how you can implement proven, actionable techniques to create products and disrupt existing markets on your way to entrepreneurial success. The follow-up to the New York Times bestseller, this great guide combines the concepts of customer insight, rapid experimentation, and actionable data from the Lean Startup methodology to allow individuals, teams, or even entire companies to solve problems, create value, and ramp up their vision quickly and efficiently.The belief that innovative outliers like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have some super-human ability to envision the future and build innovative products to meet needs that have yet to arise is a fallacy that too many fall prey to. This 'Myth of the Visionary' does nothing but get in the way of talented managers, investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Taking a proven, measured approach, The Lean Entrepreneur will have you engaging customers, reducing time to market and budgets, and stressing your organization's focus on the power of loyal customers to build powerhouse new products and companies. This guide will show you how to:\* Apply actionable tips and tricks from successful lean entrepreneurs with proven track records\* Leverage the Innovation Spectrum to disrupt markets and create altogether new markets\* Use minimum viable products to drive strategy and conduct efficient market testing\* Quickly develop cross-functional innovation teams to overcome typical startup roadblocksThe Lean Entrepreneur is your complete guide to getting your startup moving in the right direction quickly and hyper-efficiently.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The traditional veneration of architecture for its monumental and enduring qualities seems to be changing. Architects and other designers are moving away from seeking permanence towards a more open, creative use of what time has to offer. This is revealed in new approaches to historic preservation, the proliferation of temporary structures, concerns regarding sustainability, and the employment of time-efficient processes. Architecture Timed explores the role of ideas about time in the design inclinations and choices of contemporary designers of the environment. Contributors consider how the new can be incorporated into the old; how designing for the very short term has significant advantages; how what is temporary can be re-used; and how the design of materials, buildings and landscapes can improve sustainability and enhance experiences of time passing. Many designers have replaced the ideal of 'timelessness' and the view of time as a series of singular, static moments with an enriched and more nuanced perspective, treating time as a source of inspiration to be embraced, not a condition to be defended against.Contributors include: Juhani Pallasmaa, Brian McGrath, Federica Goffi, Jill Stoner, Richard Garber and Eric Parry.Designers featured include: Agence Ter, Shigeru Ban, BanG Studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, EMF Landscape Architects, Gluck+, GRO Architects, Interboro Partners, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Enric Miralles, Eric Parry Architects, Carlo Scarpa, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, UNStudio and Peter Zumthor.