De ervaringen van de auteur tijdens het proces waarin hij zijn slechte gewoontes aflegt teneinde gezond en slank door het leven te gaan.

Debt of Honor ended with Tom Clancy's most shocking conclusion ever: a joint session of Congress destroyed, the President dead, most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Supreme Court and Joint Chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President of the United States is told that he is now President. President John Patrick Ryan. And that is where Executive Orders begins. Ryan had agreed to accept the vice-presidency only as caretaker for a year, and now suddenly, an incalculable weight has fallen on his shoulders. How do you run a government without a government? Where do you even begin? With stunning force, Ryan's responsibilities crush in on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the skepticism of the world's leaders, conduct a swift investigation of the tragedy, and arrange a massive state funeral - all while attempting to reconstitute a Cabinet and a Congress with the greatest possible speed. But that is not all. Many eyes are on him now, and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, Tehran, and other world capitals, including Washington, D.C., there are those eager to take advantage where they may, some of whom bear a deep animus toward the United States - some of whom, from Ryan's past, harbor intense animosity toward the new President himself. Soon they will begin to move on their opportunities; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so great even he cannot imagine it.

The author describes and demonstrates his methods in oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, and charcoal.

Verhalen over gebeurtenissen in Nederland en zijn koloniën in de 17e eeuw van mensen uit die tijd.

Kritisch overzicht van de wantoestanden in de financiële wereld, met name op het gebied van (beleggings)adviezen, aangevuld met tips om onafhankelijk van financieel adviseurs te kunnen beslissen.

In SATYRICON, Eurydice embarks on a groundbreaking tour of the sexual landscape of contemporary society and transports us to the realms of dungeons,cross-dressing and bloodletting clubs. However, her most shocking discovery is that sexual deviance isn't deviant at all and that normalcy abides within such practices as necrophilia, sadomasochism and cybersex. SATYRICON rises above voyeurism, moral judgment and titillation and is a beautifully written and intelligent look at what really makes us tick.

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith's contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller. That edition sold out quickly and others followed. Today, Smith's Wealth of Nations rightfully claims a place in the Western intellectual canon.

It is the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. But it is much more than that. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, Smith mixed plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and much else. Few texts remind us so clearly that the Enlightenment was very much a lived experience, a concern with improving the human condition in practical ways for real people. A masterpiece by any measure, Wealth of Nations remains a classic of world literature to be usefully enjoyed by readers today.

De houding van de Duitse sociaal-democratische partij tegenover de revolutionaire tendenzen onder het Duitse volk.

Kritisch portret van de Russische president Vladimir Poetin.

BUSINESS AS USUAL? FUNK THAT

"The gospel of the new thinking is Funky Business" - Industry Standard "Funky Business is a better book than most novels but it is not for bedtime. It will jerk you out of your complacency and make you question your very existence. It will transform your brain." - Customer Management "... the duo launch into a poweful critique of new business realities. This is not what business people learned at Harvard Business School." "The launch of their book, Funky Business, may mark Nordstrum and Ridderstrale's promotion to the major guru league." Move it.In 1995, 1000 new soft drinks were launched on the Japanese market. A year later, 1% of them were still for sale. Move it fast. If you are driving a 1990 model car, approximately six years were spent developing it. Today, most companies do that job in two years. Move it faster. At Hewlett Packard, the majority revenues come from products that did not exist a year age. Move it now. In Tokyo, you can order a customized Toyota on Monday and be driving it on Friday. More products, more markets, more people, more competition. In a world of abundance and excess, competition is total and competition is personal. Difference rules.If you think about it, most of what your business does could be bought from someone else using the Yellow Pages or an Internet search engine. How are you going to be attractive? By being more efficient? By doing it cheaper? Come on! This is the age of time and talent, where we are selling time and talent, exploiting time and talent, hiring time and talent, packaging time and talent. Today, the "critical resources" wear shoes and walk out the door around 5.30pm every day. Karl Marx was right; the workers should own the critical means of production - it's small, gray and weighs about 1.3 kilograms. It will move markets and it will make capital dance. Only talent will allow you to be unique, to escape business as usual. In this world we need business as unusual. We need innovative business. We need unpredictable business. We need Funky Business. This is business book as unusual. "Funky Business gives a unique, informed and defiantly Funky perspective on the new world order. It is the antidote to bland writing and bland thinking." Tom Peters "Funky Business - the groovy bible of modern business philosophy" Red magazine

Vijf artikelen van enkele Russische literatuurtheoretici uit de jaren twintig, bekend als de formalisten

Een Amerikaanse tandarts laat na een aanklacht van een patiënt haar ongelukkige huwelijk achter zich en vlucht met haar jonge kinderen naar Alaska, waar ze op zoek gaat naar een nieuwe invulling van hun leven.

The world we inhabit is enchanted—every tree, rock, and star, and even "empty" space itself, is teeming with living energy and awareness. And it's all nearer to us than our own breath. Why, then, can't we see it? Because, according to Jeremy Hayward, we are taught not to. And because our cultural conditioning keeps us in denial about the fact that a strictly scientific worldview provides only a partial, and unsatisfactory, view of reality.

Letters to Vanessa is the guidebook for a generation caught in the crunch between the hard realities of science and the genuine yearning for an experience of the sacred. In a series of letters addressed to his teenage daughter, Dr. Hayward points the way past the limits of science and shows how we can connect with the magical, multidimensional universe of soul. Along the way he presents the most recent findings of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, new biology, and physics in a most engaging and understandable way. He also provides practical meditation instructions that will enable everyone to reconnect with the joyous reality of ordinary life.

John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern whichbrought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.

Gray wrote Enlightenment’s Wakein 1995 – six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, trumpeting 'the end of history' and the supposedly unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray’s was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised here would lead ultimately to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem obvious to all, but as this edition of Enlightenment’s Wakeshows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years – the rest of us are only now catching up with him.

Pleidooi voor milieubewuste marketing, waarbij nieuwe normen van consumeren, het delen van verantwoordelijkheid en innovatie worden bevorderd.

Decisive Action Now Can Build a WinWin Global Economy

Beschouwingen over toekomstige ontwikkelingen in de technologie en de maatschappelijke impact daarvan.

Visual messages are omnipresent in our daily life. They are constantly attempting to persuade us to buy, learn, and act. Some are more successful than others in influencing our behavior and choices. What is the secret power of these messages? How do they succeed in changing our behavior?

This book explains the psychology behind fifty effective influence techniques of visual persuasion and how to apply them. The techniques range from influence essentials to more obscure and insidious methods. The reader will gain deep insights into how visual means are constructed to influence behavior and decision making on an unconscious level. All techniques are supported by rich visual references and additional information on the psychology of behavior change. This publication is not just an eye-opener for professionals and students in the communication and design fields, but also for anybody who wants to understand how our behavior is influenced unconsciously by advertising, social campaigns, and government messages.

The book is co-authored by leading figures in social influence and visual persuasion. It is designed as an accessible modern reference book for creating and understanding persuasive visual imagery.

Het bedenken van succesvolle nieuwe producten of diensten is lastig. Slechts een op de zes innovatieprojecten haalt de markt. Omdat de klant er niet op zit te wachten, het intern aan draagvlak ontbreekt of omdat het technisch niet haalbaar is. Daarom is de VOORT innovatiemethode ontwikkeld. Met een intern team bedenk je in vijf stappen concrete nieuwe producten, diensten of businessmodellen. In een gestructureerd creatief proces keer je terug met drie tot vijf mini new business cases, vijftien weken na de kick-off. De methode is succesvol omdat je start met een innovatieopdracht, je zelf klantfricties ontdekt, de klant nauw betrokken is, je terugkeert met concrete business cases en je het gezamenlijk met een team doet. Dit zorgt voor intern draagvlak. De VOORT innovatiemethode is voor iedereen bruikbaar. Zowel voor diensten als producten en in business-to-business-of in business-to-consumermarkten. Meer dan dertig bedrijven en organisaties passen de methode toe. Sanoma Media heeft met deze methode de Libelle Academy en Work4Women bedacht en succesvol geïntroduceerd. Deze praktijkcase komt uitgebreid aan bod. Dit boek is een werkboek, bedoeld om de VOORT innovatiemethode zelf toe te passen. Het staat boordevol praktische inspiratie en bruikbare formats. Het bevat ook 35 creatieve technieken om zelf in het ideationproces te gebruiken. Over de auteurs Gijs van Wulfen, grondlegger van de VOORT innovatiemethode, is bedrijfseconoom, marketeer en innovatiefacilitator. Hij werkte in de foodsector en adviseerde bij achtereenvolgens Ernst & Young en Boer & Croon. Eind 2002 startte hij zijn eigen innovatieorganisatie die zich richt op opleiden, en het verspreiden en faciliteren van de VOORT innovatiemethode. Hij is een veelgevraagd spreker over innovatie op internationale congressen, seminars en workshops. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Artikelen over de verdere ruimtelijke, economische en bestuurlijke ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse doorvoerhavens, zoals de Rotterdamse haven en Schiphol.

Uitleg van de opeenvolgende fasen in een organisatie-adviesproces aan de hand van het klassieke drama "King Lear" van Shakespeare.

All organizations recognise the importance of strategy creation and execution: strategy is the process of developing the corporate future. Unfortunately, it often doesn't generate the required results. This book presents a new 8-step process for creating a strategy that really delivers. For each step, the book describes the key parts of the process, shows how to avoid the potential pitfalls, and points to the most useful strategic models and frameworks. Readers can see the process in action by following the intriguing case study that unfolds throughout the book. One of the critical determinants of strategic success is to see strategy not just as planning but as a process that involves dialogues with multiple stakeholders, both within and outside the company. This concept is integrated into every phase of the 8-step approach and is at the heart of its effectiveness in creating strategy that delivers in practice.

Genomineerd voor Managementboek van het jaar 2005! Ondernemingen die het Amerikaanse model (gericht op aandeelhouderswaarde) hanteren, hebben het afgelopen decennium veel slechtere prestaties geleverd dan algemeen wordt aangenomen. Er zijn aanzienlijke onzichtbare commerciële en operationele kosten gemaakt; vele mogelijkheden tot expansie zijn onbenut gebleven. De oorzaken liggen in de hoog opgelopen spanningen tussen de onderneming en de financiële markten, en tussen de verschillende managementgeledingen binnen de onderneming. Het Amerikaanse model heeft voorts de sociale grondslagen voor samenwerking, vertrouwen en betrokkenheid ernstig aangetast. Onafhankelijkheid voor Europa is een origineel pleidooi voor een nieuw model, niet langer gericht op winst maar op de creatie van economische waarde door het lang verwaarloosde middenkader. Met andere toezichthouders, een bestuur met andere prioriteiten en andere middelen om de onderneming te sturen.' Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.