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Raymond Chandler murdered more people than Dashiell Hammett did - and he murdered them brilliantly. Dismissed from his job with an oil company because of heavy drinking, Chandler did not begin to write detective fiction until he was forty-four; yet within a few years he published The Big Sleep and created in Philip Marlowe one of the century's most popular and durable heroes. Marlowe's exploits were filmed; Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, Elliott Gould, and Robert Mitchum have been among the actors to protray him. Chandler himself went to Hollywood as a scriptwriter and rose to international acclaim as the author of Farewell, My Lovely: The Long Goodbye; and The Little Sister, his novel about Hollywood. Drawing on Chandler's voluminous yet lively correspondence and on conversations with members of his circle, Frank MacShane has given us the first - the definitive - account of the life and times of this unique literary figure

This book describes how one Silicon Valley insider has blazed a path of professional - and personal - success playing the game by his own rules. Silicon Valley is filled with garage-to-riches stories and hot young entrepreneurs with big ideas. Yet even in this place where the exceptional is common, Randy Komisar is a breed apart. Currently a "Virtual CEO" who provides "leadership on demand" for several renowned companies, Komisar was recently described by the "Washington Post" as a "combined professional mentor, minister without portfolio, in-your-face investor, trouble-shooter and door opener." But even more interesting than what he does is how - and why - he does it. Komisar has found a way to turn an ambitious and challenging work life into his life's work."The Monk and the Riddle" is unlike any other business book you've read. Transcending the typical "leadership book" model of lists and frameworks on how to succeed in business, "The Monk and the Riddle" is instead a lively and humorous narrative about the education of a unique Valley insider. It unfolds over the course of an ongoing dialogue between Komisar and would-be entrepreneurs, "Lenny and Allison," and is at once a portal into the inner workings of Silicon Valley - from how startups get launched to how venture capitalists do their deals to how plans get prepared and pitched - and a deeply personal account of how one mover and shaker found fulfillment, not in work's rewards but in work itself.As the narrative follows Komisar through meetings with venture capitalists and eager entrepreneurs, and as his conversations with Lenny evolve toward a resolution, "The Monk and the Riddle" imparts invaluable lessons about the differences between leadership and management and passion and drive, and about the meaning of professional and personal success. "When all is said and done," writes Komisar, "the journey is the reward."

Formulating a strategy is one of the most important but also one of the most difficult challenges faced by businesses: How may one translate a concern into a structured issue and the hypotheses for addressing that issue? How should one approach the designing and executing of the analyses through which these hypotheses can be tested, thus creating the insights from which new strategic options can be developed? And how can one identify the “best bets” from among the many different strategic options available, and determine how these may be translated into a coherent business strategy that the organization and its stakeholders can buy into?

This book helps to answer these questions for the senior manager responsible for company strategy; the project manager who’s been asked to chart and defend a new strategic course of action; and the student wishing to “learn the ropes” of strategy-creation. This book offers no theoretical strategy “frameworks”. Nor does it propagate a specific strategy of any kind. It is, quite simply, a “cook book” describing a step-by-step, focused and fast approach for creating a new strategy at medium-sized and large businesses. It is a proven method used by top management consultants to help clients develop new strategies.

The Craft of Strategy Formation provides a crisp account of the consecutive steps to take (and pitfalls to watch out for) when typically vague business concerns need to be translated into actionable strategy fast. Featuring the tried-and-tested analytical and organizational approach of top management consultants, this integral account of how strategy is crafted in practice offers a welcome break from traditional handbooks featuring largely isolated frameworks, tools and cases; highly theoretical academic treatises; and largely anecdotal “infotainment” books for the general reader.

Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?

Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres shows how today's best and brightest organizations are analyzing massive databases at lightening speed to provide greater insights into human behavior. They are the Super Crunchers. From internet sites like Google and Amazon that know your tastes better than you do, to a physician's diagnosis and your child's education, to boardrooms and government agencies, this new breed of decision makers are calling the shots. And they are delivering staggeringly accurate results. How can a football coach evaluate a player without ever seeing him play? Want to know whether the price of an airline ticket will go up or down before you buy? How can a formula outpredict wine experts in determining the best vintages? Super crunchers have the answers. In this brave new world of equation versus expertise, Ayres shows us the benefits and risks, who loses and who wins, and how super crunching can be used to help, not manipulate us.

Gone are the days of solely relying on intuition to make decisions. No businessperson, consumer, or student who wants to stay ahead of the curve should make another keystroke without reading Super Crunchers.

Indigenous societies today face difficult choices: can they develop, modernize, and advance without endangering their sacred traditions and communal identity? Specifically, can their communities benefit from national education while resisting the tendency of state-imposed programs to undermine their cultural sovereignty, language, and traditions? According to Lois Meyer and Benjamín Maldonado, these are among the core questions being faced by indigenous societies whose comunalidad—or communal way of life—is at odds with the dictates of big business and the social programs of the state.

To explore these issues in depth, Meyer and Maldonado conducted a series of dialogues with Noam Chomsky, and invited numerous organizers and intellectuals from indigenous communities of resistance to comment. In three in-depth conversations, Chomsky offers poignant lessons from his vast knowledge of world history, linguistics, economics, anti-authoritarian philosophy and personal experience, and traces numerous parallels with other peoples who have resisted state power while attempting to modernize, develop, survive, and sustain their unique community identity and tradition. Following the interviews are commentaries from more than a dozen activists and intellectuals from the Americas, who speak from their on-the-ground experiences and work with indigenous communities in Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru.

Born in the gutter, raised in a brothel, Edith Piaf took the world by storm and survived to become a legend. Met fotokatern. 

This text discusses such conundrums as how life began, whether the brain works like a computer, why most animals and plants reproduce sexually, and how social behaviour evolved out of the context of natural selection - a process which would seem to favour selfishness.

W.E.G.-cahier 3.

The Crusades, as Zoe Oldenbourg describes them, were not simply a religious phenomenon, nor were they motivated by pure aggression. They were the result of an emotional climate which led people from all walks of life - rich and poor, saints and sinners - to leave their homes and follow the unattainable ideal of a heavenly Jerusalem here on earth.Zoe Oldenbourg evokes the whole structure of feudal society and reveals the remarkable vitality and ingenuity of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, one of the more sophisticated achievements of the Middle Ages. Peopled with the great personalities behind the Crusades - Bohemond, Tancred, Peter the Hermit, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard the Lionheart and Saladin.

Biografie van de Oostenrijkse psychiater en grondlegger van de psycho-analyse (1856-1939).

Het historisch oeuvre van Ad van der Woude is zeer veelzijdig. Als historicus heeft hij onderwerpen uit de vijftiende tot en met de twintigste eeuw behandeld op een altijd even wetenschappelijke als uitdagende manier. Bij zijn afscheid als hoogleraar van de Wageningen Universiteit is een ruime keuze uit zijn veelbesproken werk gemaakt. Leven met geschiedenis is een toonbeeld van gepassioneerd bezig zijn met geschiedenis en dwingt de lezer telkens tot nadenken.

Dit boek is een presentatie van een joods egodocument, waarbij de massale omvang van de ondergang van het joodse volk door middel van beelden enigszins inzichtelijk en navoelbaar is gemaakt. Behalve de afbeeldingen van de kunstwerken is in het kort het verhaal van het joodse leven voor en in de Tweede Wereldoorlog opgetekend, aangevuld met unieke foto’s en het persoonlijk verhaal van Marc de Klijn.

Kerstfeest in de Middeleeuwen schetst de intrigerende evolutie van oud heidendom tot moderne kerstdevotie in literatuur en schilderkunst. Een boeiende historische verkenning met unieke afbeeldingen. Het kerstgeschenk bij uitstek!

Wie was Stalin, de dictator, de massamoordenaar? Wie was de mens Stalin? Wat speelde zich af binnen de muren van het Kremlin tijdens zijn regime? Wie waren de mannen en vrouwen die het stalinistische hof vormden? Tot in detail wordt het persoonlijke en politieke leven van Stalin beschreven: van zijn mislukte
huwelijk tot zijn identificatie met de tsaren, van zijn minnaressen tot het besluit de koelakken uit te moorden. Even nauwgezet laat Montefiore zien hoe de kliek rond Stalin de tirannie steunde; hoe de hooggeplaatste partijleden, zoals Beria en Molotov, politiek bedreven, met elkaar aten, feestvierden, trouwden, en elkaar vermoordden.

Geschiedenis van de Amerikaanse Vrijheidsoorlog, met als uitgangspunt het saluutschot dat de gouverneur van het Nederlandse eiland St. Eustatius op 16 nov. 1776 aan de Amerikaanse vlag liet brengen en daarmee de Amerikaanse rebellen als eerste erkende.

Leiderschap verandert en het aantal managers neemt af. Wat zijn banen van de toekomst? Welke branches verdwijnen en welke nieuwe ontstaan er? Welke toekomst hebben organisaties in het MKB en multinationals? Hoe worden we straks beoordeeld en beloond voor werk? Hoe worden we gemotiveerd? Hoe vindt werving van personeel plaats? Waardoor wordt straks je promotie bepaald?

Er komt een andere toekomst voor sociale zekerheid; vakbonden en werkgeversorganisaties eroderen. Leren wordt anders. Welke toekomst hebben freelancers? Hoe organiseer je je arbeidzame leven als je 120 jaar oud wordt in perfecte conditie? Komen gilden terug? Technologie verandert werk ingrijpend, bijvoorbeeld de baan van de secretaresse, maar ook in fabrieken werken straks meer robots dan mensen. De snelheid van veranderen groeit. Hoe word je employee of choice in deze nieuwe tijd? Hoe verlopen twee carrieres in een huwelijk straks? Hoe functioneert de expat van de toekomst?

In dit boeiende nieuwe boek, met een aantal zelftests, bundelen trendwatcher Adjiedj Bakas en HR-professional Martijn van der Woude acht megatrends over de toekomst van werk. Met een agenda voor de toekomst: waar moet je morgen aan beginnen om klaar te zijn voor de toekomst?

Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as a much more homogeneous entity than it had been in its multi-ethnic past. This book outlines Poland's turbulent and complex history, from its medieval Christian origins to the reassertion of that Christian and European heritage after forty-five years of communism. It describes Poland's transformation since 1989, and explains how Poland navigated its way into a new Commonwealth of Nations in the European Union. Recent years have witnessed significant changes within Poland, Eastern Europe and the wider world. This new edition reflects on these changes, and examines the current issues facing a Poland which some would accuse of being out of touch with 'European values'.

In search of a fresh perspective on the modern economy, Extreme Economies takes the reader off the beaten path, introducing people living at the world's margins. From disaster zones and displaced societies to failed states and hidden rainforest communities, the lives of people who inhabit these little-known places tend to be ignored by economists and policy makers. Leading economist Richard Davies argues that this is a mistake, and explains why the world's overlooked extremes offer a glimpse of the forces that underlie human resilience, help markets to function and cause them to fail, and will come to shape our collective future. Whether trekking with Punjabi migrants through the lawless Panamanian jungle or revealing the clever trick Syrians use to underpin trade in the world's most entrepreneurial refugee camp, Richard Davies brings a storyteller's eye to places where the economy has been destroyed, distorted, and even turbocharged. In adapting to circumstances that would be unimaginable to most of us, the people he encounters have become economic pioneers whose lives help us reflect on our own. At once intimate and analytical, Extreme Economies draws the lines between personal narratives and global trends, shedding light on today's biggest economic questions and providing vital lessons for our turbulent future.

We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalization, tackles Third World Debt as a situation that must be resolved if we are ever to see global stability.

For every $1 the West gives to developing countries in aid, developing countries pay the West $9 in debt service.

At the beginning of the new millennium we are witnessing a global debt crisis of unprecedented size. Sub-Saharan Africa owes $200 billion, Brazil $223.8 billion, Argentina $155 billion. Why does this matter? In this shocking, ground-breaking book, Noreena Hertz shows that these numbers matter because they account for millions of people dying of AIDS; for the rainforests being cut down; for poverty, illiteracy, terrorism and war. These numbers matter because they will affect all of our lives if the balance is not redressed.

'IOU' is a story of avarice but also of vulnerability; of power asymmetries and misuse of influence; of corrupt dictators and careless lenders; of Cold War interests and Wall Street pressure; of third world governments who get given it, and third world people who have no access to it. Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalisation, argues that this is not an issue of left or right: it is an issue of right versus wrong, of peace versus war. It must be addressed now.