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In The Startup Story: An Entrepreneur’s Journey from Idea to
Exit, renowned serial entrepreneur Martin Warner takes a fledgling
company all the way from zero to hero, selling it for $50 million
after a mere 17 months. It’s a memoir of whirlwind
entrepreneurial success, a nonfiction narrative that puts the
reader in the CEO’s seat, giving readers the feel of what it’s
really like to steer a company around the toughest of tracks and
come out with a massive payday. A mix of Wolf of Wall Street, The
Big Short, and The Art of the Start, A Startup Story reads like a
novel but is a true story packed with entrepreneurial insights. It
is a rollercoaster ride through the heaven and hell of the tech
business world, populated by geeks, pirates, conmen, tycoons,
geniuses, and fools. Driven, destined, desperate, and doing
everything at warp speed, Warner chucks all the accumulated wisdom
of his own Entrepreneur Seminar out of the window on his way to a
holy grail exit. And (contrary to the opinions of trolls, rivals
and skeptics) it was all perfectly legal. Barely. Along the way,
readers piece together an entrepreneurial how-to (and how-not-to)
manual, with each chapter traversing the highs and the lows of
founding a growing company. It shows the reader how to build a tech
company out of pure desire and dogged willpower, combined with a
dash of expertise. The short, hilarious and hair-raising history of
Warner and his company, botObjects, provides a parable of the
quintessential business experience packed with entrepreneurial
insights and lessons to be learned.
Presenting new opportunities in the dialogue between philosophy and
theology, this interdisciplinary text addresses the contemporary
reshaping of intellectual boundaries. Exploring human experience in
a 'post-Christian' era, the distinguished contributors bring to
bear what have been traditionally seen as theological resources
while drawing on contemporary developments in philosophy, both
'continental' and 'analytic'. Set in the context of two
complementary narratives - one philosophical concerning secularity,
the other theological about the question of God - the authors point
to ways of reconfiguring both traditional reason / faith
oppositions and those between interpretation / text and language /
experience. Contributors: David Brown, Philip Clayton, Chris
Firestone, Grace Jantzen, Nicholas Lash, George Pattison, Dan
Stiver, Charles Taylor, Kevin Vanhoozer, Graham Ward, Martin
Warner.
Presenting new opportunities in the dialogue between philosophy and
theology, this interdisciplinary text addresses the contemporary
reshaping of intellectual boundaries. Exploring human experience in
a 'post-Christian' era, the distinguished contributors bring to
bear what have been traditionally seen as theological resources
while drawing on contemporary developments in philosophy, both
'continental' and 'analytic'. Set in the context of two
complementary narratives - one philosophical concerning secularity,
the other theological about the question of God - the authors point
to ways of reconfiguring both traditional reason / faith
oppositions and those between interpretation / text and language /
experience. Contributors: David Brown, Philip Clayton, Chris
Firestone, Grace Jantzen, Nicholas Lash, George Pattison, Dan
Stiver, Charles Taylor, Kevin Vanhoozer, Graham Ward, Martin
Warner.
This book puts forward an interpretation of rationality which is
much broader than the one underlying the current polarity between
analytic and continental philosophy. It will help to reaffirm a
range of ideas which have long been pushed to the sidelines by the
dominance of the geometric model of philosophical argument.
Descartes's dream of attaining a `certitude equal to the
demonstrations of Arithmetic and Geometry' reinforced the
assumption that rationality must be assessed in terms of logical
structure. Against this, Pascal invoked the notion of `finesse',
and Warner extends Pascal's usage in this book to specify a related
set of informal but legitimate styles of argument.
Argument and imagination are often interdependent. The Aesthetics
of Argument is concerned with how this relationship may bear on
argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion, and with the
enhancement of understanding such interdependence may bring. The
rationality of argument, conceived as the advancement of reasons
for or against a claim, is not simply a matter of deductive
validity. Whether arguments are relevant, have force, or look
foolish-or whether an example is telling or merely
illustrative-cannot always be assessed in these terms. Martin
Warner presents a series of case studies which explore how analogy,
metaphor, narrative, image, and symbol can be used in different
ways to frame one domain in terms of another, severally or in
various combinations, and how criteria drawn from the study of
imaginative literature may have a bearing on their truth-aptness.
Such framing can be particularly effective in argumentative roles
which invite self-interrogation, as Plato saw long ago. Narrative
in such cases may be fictional, whether parabolic or dramatic,
autobiographical or biographical, and in certain cases may seek to
show how standard conceptualizations are inadequate. Beyond this,
whether in poetry or prose and not only with respect to narrative,
the "logic" of imagery enables us to make principled sense of our
capacity to grasp imagistically elements of our experience through
words whose use at the imaginative level has transformed their
standard conceptual relationships, and hence judge the credibility
of associated arguments. Assessment of the argumentative
imagination requires criteria drawn not only from dialectic and
rhetoric, but also from poetics.
The subject of this book by one of the Church of England's most
respected Anglo-Catholic priests could hardly be more central. The
rekindling of devotion to Mary has been one of the many gifts of
the Catholic movement to the Church of England, and there are few
better exponents of it than Roger Greenacre. He was keen to foster
a greater appreciation of Mary among Anglicans, as part of a
renewed emphasis on the Church of England's catholic identity and
relationship with the wider Church. He traces the way that Mary has
been perceived throughout Anglican history, from patterns of Marian
devotion in the Middle Ages to her portrayal in today's liturgical
texts, and examines her role in ecumenical dialogue. In a selection
of homilies he presents Mary to an Anglican and ecumenical
audience. The book opens with a biographical account of Roger
Greenacre's life and work by his literary executor, Colin Podmore.
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