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'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries
and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg, bestselling author
of The Power of Habit The definitive inside story of WeWork, its
audacious founder, and the company's epic unravelling from the
journalists who first broke the story wide open. In 2001, Adam
Neumann arrived in New York after five years as a conscript in the
Israeli navy. Just over fifteen years later, he had transformed
himself into the charismatic CEO of a company worth $47 billion.
With his long hair and feel-good mantras, the six-foot-five Neumann
looked the part of a messianic Silicon Valley entrepreneur. The
vision he offered was mesmerizing: a radical reimagining of work
space for a new generation. He called it WeWork. As billions of
funding dollars poured in, Neumann's ambitions grew limitless.
WeWork wasn't just an office space provider; it would build
schools, create cities, even colonize Mars. In pursuit of its
founder's vision, the company spent money faster than it could
bring it in. From his private jet, sometimes clouded with marijuana
smoke, the CEO scoured the globe for more capital but in late 2019,
just weeks before WeWork's highly publicized IPO, everything fell
apart. Neumann was ousted from his company, but still was poised to
walk away a billionaire. Calling to mind the recent demise of
Theranos and the hubris of the dotcom era bust, WeWork's
extraordinary rise and staggering implosion were fueled by
disparate characters in a financial system blind to its risks. Why
did some of the biggest names in banking and venture capital buy
the hype? And what does the future hold for Silicon Valley
'unicorns'? Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen
Farrell explore these questions in this definitive, rollicking
account of WeWork's boom and bust.
The picturebook is now recognized as a sophisticated art form that
has provided a space for some of the most exciting innovations in
the field of children's literature. This book brings together the
work of expert scholars from the UK, the USA and Europe to present
original theoretical perspectives and new research on picturebooks
and their readers. The authors draw on a variety of disciplines
such as art and cultural history, semiotics, philosophy, cultural
geography, visual literacy, education and literary theory in order
to revisit the question of what a picturebook is, and how the best
authors and illustrators meet and exceed artistic, narrative and
cultural expectations. The book looks at the socio-historical
conditions of different times and countries in which a range of
picturebooks have been created, pointing out variations but also
highlighting commonalities. It also discusses what the stretching
of borders may mean for new generations of readers, and what
contemporary children themselves have to say about picturebooks.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the New
Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship.
The Thirteenth Member, first published in 1971, could be considered
a 'cross-over' novel between the historical and fantasy genres. The
subject matter is witchcraft and witch-hunts, which continued in
Scotland far beyond the rest of Britain, with the last prosecution
in Scotland in 1727. Mollie Hunter's work includes contemporary
fiction for children and young adults, historical fiction and
fantasy. Many critics regard her writing in the fantasy genre as
her strongest and most influential. With its roots in recorded
historical events and with the subject matter relating to the
supernatural - again a major pre-occupation of Scottish Literature
in general - the novel acts as a bridging text between these two
major genres in the Scottish corpus. Moreover, it is one of the
strongest and most unified of all Hunter's works in that it works
well at both the realistic and symbolic levels, while still
managing to incorporate themes of witchcraft, the supernatural,
political intrigue, dishonesty, entrapment and love. This reprint
includes an Afterword by Maureen Farrell.
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