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To succeed in the global economy, students need to function as entrepreneurs: resourceful, flexible and creative. Researcher and Professor Yong Zhao unlocks the secrets to cultivating independent thinkers who are willing and able to create jobs and contribute positively to the globalized society. This book shows how teachers, administrators and even parents can understand the entrepreneurial spirit and harness it, foster student autonomy and leadership, champion inventive learners with necessary resources, and develop global partners and resources.

Selling or buying a business can be a lucrative but risky transaction. It's all too easy to sell yourself short or to overpay as the buyer. If you want to avoid the costly mistakes that many business owners make in M&A transactions, this book is for you. It provides valuable guidance on how to prepare for and negotiate your deal, and how to leave the bargaining table with more money in your pocket!

Do you work with anyone who thinks or acts differently than you? Would you like to understand why they think and act that way? Would you like to have THE answer for how to build more productive relationships with your coworkers (including your boss)? If so, number one Amazon best seller Solving the People Problem is for you.

Immanuel Velikovsky called this book the "fulfillment of his oath of Hippocrates - to serve humanity." In this book, he returns to his roots as a psychologist and psychoanalytical therapist, yet not with a single person as his patient but with humanity as a whole.

Over thirty years, San Francisco's underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, impossible, life-changing experiences. Today big corporations are trying to figure out how to spend millions of dollars to do what these artists and anti-artists did using nothing but time, space, and imagination. It was "a movement without a manifesto," with people discovering how it worked through trial and error. Very little was written down—until now. Caveat Magister has written this book to explain what these experiences were, why they worked, and how you can create your own.

For more than a century, plane crashes have been among the scariest catastrophes imaginable. The toll on human life is devastating. Yet, as this fascinating book reveals, there are some who defy the odds and survive the unsurvivable. In this riveting collection of true stories from sole survivors, we get an inside look at their harrowing ordeal that changed their lives forever. We get a glimpse of their lives before and after the accident, explore the possible causes of their plane crash, and dive into the haunting yet fascinating details of the fateful day they fell from the sky.

This audiobook will empower you to prioritize your time more efficiently through several proven techniques. It will provide you with a structured but flexible framework you can use to manage your time and ensure you achieve your goals and objectives.

According to the Journal of Marketing Research, “Airbnb has served more than 50 million guests since it was founded in 2008 and has a market capitalization eclipsing $30 billion”. Furthermore, Fortune's website states that Airbnb profits will top $3 billion by 2020. And, finally, eMarketer suggests that Airbnb will continue to grow US users through 2019 and that 36.8 million adults in the United States will use Airbnb this year, an increase of 21.2 percent over 2016.

Recognize profitable trading opportunities. Gain a better understanding of the different types of options. Learn long-term and short-term strategies. Tried-and-true trading options for any market. Increase your profit potential while reducing risk of losses. Earn in rising, falling, or sideways markets. Design strategies to profit from future events. Determine and manage your risk. What stock options are in simple terms! The various types of options and the common terms used in options trading. And much more!

After the untimely death of his mentor, Berkeley physicist Joshua Andrews has dedicated himself to finishing his mentor’s life work: Creating entangled particles that can communicate faster than light. When scientific journalist Rachael Miller comes to interview him at his lab, they make an astounding discovery, one as ancient as the universe itself. During the early moments of the Big Bang, entangled particles were created that spread with the expansion of the universe creating a subatomic communication network - a network that Joshua and Rachael have accidentally tapped into.

Discover how to make $5,000 a week by investing in the trucking business - even if you have zero experience. Are you done with tolerating lengthy hours and lonely trips as a truck driver, longing to work on your own terms? Do you have an eye for the trucking business but don’t know where to start because the whole process seems complicated? This guide is your cheat sheet, telling you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about running a profitable trucking business.

The Peter Kropotkin Anthology includes The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, Appeal to the Young, and an original biography of Kropotkin titled The Life of Kropotkin. Kropotkin was a thought leader in communist anarchism and tirelessly approached a cause which he believed would benefit humanity and continued to inspire his fellow countrymen to join the movement until his death in 1921.

On February 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Late the following day, rescuers carried her frozen body out of the mountains amid some of the worst weather ever recorded on these deceptively rugged slopes. At thirty-two, Matrosova was healthy and had already summited much larger mountains. What went wrong? Where You'll Find Me offers possible answers to that question.

At the height of World War II, a B-24 Liberator bomber vanished with its crew while on a training mission over upstate New York. The final hours and ultimate resting place of pilot Keith Ponder and seven other US aviators aboard the plane remain mysteries to this day. The tale is at once a compelling instance of loss on the World War II American home front and a more extensive, largely unreported history.

The Mass may seem routine, and it may be the common property of millions of Catholics, but much lies beneath. Mike Aquilina not only answers practical questions about this central act of Catholic worship, but also walks you through the Mass, explaining the meaning behind the prayers and practices.

In this book, evolutionary psychologist Dennis Krebs explains how virtuous behaviors such as altruism, justice, honesty, loyalty, self-control, purity, and respect for authority, have evolved in humans and other species. He argues that the key to solving puzzles of morality—such as what it is, how we acquire moral traits, why we sometimes behave badly, and how we make moral decisions—lies in figuring out what adaptive functions moral traits served in early human environments and how they are influenced by social learning, culture, and strategic social interactions in the modern world.

This book is a workbook for people who have been physically, emotionally, and spiritually affected by the incidence of the coronavirus pandemic. If you find yourself feeling mentally stuck or struggling to navigate life during this pandemic, this book will guide you on how to cope with any life changes you have experienced because of the pandemic. We are conditioned to “suck it up” and soldier on regardless of the change, but this book will remind you that it is okay to take a step back.

The workforce is evolving rapidly and with an almost reckless abandon. Demand for professional expertise in techspace and computer technology is growing rapidly, as every company wants and needs each essential part of their business, including commerce, human resources, point of sale, and pricing systems to be reliable and secure. CompTIA is one of the few reliable and trusted information technology supportive resources that enable fledgling professionals to achieve professional success within the industry without necessarily requiring a degree.

Chipper, patient, and courteous, Canada has pursued an improbable destiny as a splendid nation of relatively good and ably self-governing people, but most would agree we have not realized our true potential. Canada's main chance, writes Black, is now before it...and it is not in the usual realms of military or economic dominance. With the rest of the West engaged in a sterile left-right tug of war, Canada has the opportunity to lead the world to its next stage of development in the arts of government.

An unknown virus sweeps across the globe seemingly overnight. The virus decimates the human population while mutating some into grotesque mutants. Dillon Thompson awakens to the dawn of a newer, more violent world. He must navigate the dangers of this new world along with local gang leaders turned warlords. He fights to protect those close to him and get the answers he desires. Can he confront the sins of his past and embrace them, or will he fall victim to the world descending into chaos?