How to blow away the competition by being the only competition -- in this step-by-step guide to creating and dominating new markets. Many executives and managers want to create and then dominate new markets. The rewards include unmatched brand awareness, the luxurious financial position of having no competition, and the exhilaration of building something completely new. Creating and Dominating New Markets shows managers, executives, and business owners how to emulate the remarkable success of savvy market creators such as Microsoft, FedEx, and AOL. The book delivers specific success strategies on how to: * Identify the right market to create * Use common denominators for success * Avoid common and costly pitfalls that can easily derail efforts * Find funding to support a new market * Make the best use of time, money, people, and technology. Packed with instructive examples and entertaining stories, the book teaches readers new skills -- or helps them re-tool old skills -- for jumping ahead of the competition and building an exciting, profitable venture."

The study of biology and politics examines the linkage between the life sciences (broadly defined) and politics. Among biological areas from which these linkages are drawn include: human ethology; socio-biology; ethology; genetics; evolutionary theory; neurosciences; biotechnology; and, bioethics, amongst others. These knowledge arenas are used to illuminate policy choices (biopolicy), political behaviour, leadership behaviour, international politics, and political philosophy, amongst others.

The world is full of brilliant people whose ideas are never heard. This book is designed to make sure that you're not one of them.
Even for the most self-confident among us, public speaking can be a nerve-racking ordeal. Whether you are speaking to a large audience, within a group, or in a oneon- one conversation, the way in which you communicate ideas, as much as the ideas themselves, can determine success or failure.
In this invaluable guide from two of today's most sought-after communication experts, you'll learn to master three core principles that you can apply in a wide variety of situations:
Content: Construct a clear and lucid architecture of ideas that will lead your listener through a memorable emotional experience.
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Accessible, inspiring, and laden with useful tips, "As We Speak "will help you discover your authentic voice and learn to convey your ideas in the most powerful and unforgettable way possible.

What really wows iPad fans is when their touchscreen does what's impossible on other gadgets: the finger-painting app that turns a cross-country flight into a moving art class, the mini music studio (two-dozen instruments strong, each with motion-induced warble effects), and the portable fireworks display that you sculpt by swiping.

Problem is, with tens of thousands of apps available for your iPad, who knows what to download? You can try to sort through a gazillion customer reviews with a mix of 5- and 1-star ratings, but that's a head-hurting time-waster. The stakes are getting higher, too: instead of freebies and 99-cent trinkets, the price of iPad apps is steadily creeping up and beyond their iPhone predecessors.

"Best iPad Apps" guides you to the hidden treasures in the App Store's crowded aisles. Author Peter Meyers stress-tested thousands of options to put together this irresistible, page-turner of a catalog. Inside these pages, you'll find apps as magical as the iPad itself.

Flip through the book for app suggestions, or head directly to one of several categories we've loaded up with "best of" selections to help you: Get work done Manipulate photos Make movies Create comics Browse the Web better Take notes Outline ideas Track your health Explore the world

No matter how you use your iPad, "Best iPad Apps" will help you find the real gems among the rubble -- so you make the most of your glossy gadget.

Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have suggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. The New Evolutionary Social Science challenges this view by building on Stephen K. Sanderson's 'Darwinian conflict theory' which sets out to synthesise sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm. Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. The New Evolutionary Social Science develops a new basis for understanding social change and the world's future through a better integration of the natural and social sciences.

Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have suggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. The New Evolutionary Social Science challenges this view by building on Stephen K. Sanderson's 'Darwinian conflict theory' which sets out to synthesise sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm. Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. The New Evolutionary Social Science develops a new basis for understanding social change and the world's future through a better integration of the natural and social sciences.

The submersed cultivation of organisms in sterile containments or fermenters has become the standard manufacturing procedure, and will remain the gold standard for some time to come. This book thus addresses submersed cell culture and fermentation and its importance for the manufacturing industry. It goes beyond expression systems and integrally investigates all those factors relevant for manufacturing using suspension cultures. In so doing, the contributions cover all industrial cultivation methods in a comprehensive and comparative manner, with most of the authors coming from the industry itself. Depending on the maturity of the technology, the chapters address in turn the expression system, basic process design, key factors affecting process economics, plant and bioreactor design, and regulatory aspects.

Selbst ein mit bestem Wissen durchgefuhrter Eingriff ist bei komplexen Ellenbogenlasionen keine Garantie fur den Erfolg. Bei uber einem Drittel der hier vorgestellten Ellenbogenlasionen musste nach der Erstbehandlung nochmals eine operative Revision durchgefuhrt werden. Die Komplexitat dieser Verletzungen ist in dem Buch illustriert. Die Fallbeispiele sollen ellenbogenchirurgisch interessierte AErzte fur moegliche Verlaufe sensibilisieren und zeigen notwendig werdende Reinterventionen auf.

In recent years several different gene silencing phenomena have been discovered in plants. The book summarizes the most recent data on gene silencing phenomena such as trans-, inactivation, paramutation and co-suppression. Plant researchers will find this edition a valuable help in differentiating between a number of puzzling and partly contradictory gene silencing events. Those not familiar with plant molecular biology are introduced into the relevant methods and scientific models. In addition examples and models of gene silencing in flamentous fungi, Drosophila and mammalian systems are presented. By providing a comparative update on gene silencing effects in different eukaryotes, this book should stimulate communication among scientists working in diverse areas of eukaryotic gene regulation.

This book is mainly concerned with the theory of Banach lattices and with linear operators defined on, or with values in Banach lattices. Moreover we will always consider more general classes of Riesz spaces so long as this does not involve more complicated constructions or proofs. In particular, we will not treat any phenomena which occur only in the non-Banach lattice situation. Riesz spaces, also called vector lattices, K-lineals, are linear lattices which were first considered by F. Riesz, 1. Kantorovic, and H. Freudenthal. Subse- quently other important contributions came from the Soviet Union (L.V. Kan- torovic, A.J. Judin, A.G. Pinsker, and B.Z. Vulikh), Japan (H. Nakano, T. Oga- sawara, and K. Yosida), and the United States (G. Birkhoff, H.F. Bohnenblust, S. Kakutani, and M.l\f. Stone). In the last twenty-five years the theory rapidly increased. Important con- tributions came from the Dutch school (W.A.J. Luxemburg, A.C. Zaanen) and the Tiibinger school (lI.lI. Schaefer). In the middle seventies the research on this subject was essentially influenced by the books of H.H. Schaefer (1974) and W.A.J. Luxemburg and A.C. Zaanen (1971). More recently other impor- tant books concerning this subject appeared, A.C. Zaanen (1983), H.U. Schwarz (1984), and C.D. Aliprantis and O. Burkinshaw (1985).

Amazon's Kindle Fire HD combines the most popular e-reader and tablet features in one sleek package, and with this entertaining guide, you'll master everything the Fire has to offer. With loads of illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and savvy tips, you'll learn how to manage your media library in the cloud, find the coolest apps, and make the most of your Kindle Fire experience - no matter which model you choose. The important stuff you need to know: Read all about it. Find ebooks and newspapers in the Kindle Store, and add your own books and magazines. Use great new features. Discover Amazon's X-Ray service, and parental controls for individual users. Take in a show. Watch movies and TV series, and display your photos and videos. Go online. Browse the Web and manage email with Wi-Fi and 4D LTE. Fill up your jukebox. Listen to your favorite music from Amazon and iTunes. Load up on apps. Get popular games, guides, and references with Amazon's Apps for Android. Get to work. Read PDFs, Word files, Excel spreadsheets, and other docs.

Original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej Klimowski Two of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for Édith Piaf. The other five were written for Cocteau’s friend, the celebrated actor Jean Marais, to perform on radio. Although perhaps a minor part of Cocteau’s output of films, plays, poems and ballet scenarios, these exquisite miniatures remain a fascinating form of his dramatic expression. Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) is best known for his enduring farces, such as A Flea In Her Ear, yet he wrote over 20 monologues for actors to perform at charity concerts and in fashionable drawing rooms. The six included in this volume were written over a period of 16 years from 1882. Peter Meyer’s translations of eleven of these monologues were commissioned by the BBC and performed on radio by leading actors including Eileen Atkins, Jill Bennett, Richard Briers, Judi Dench, Alec McCowan and Timothy West. The Liar and I Lost Her have been newly translated for this volume.

"Born in Russia, Arthur Adamov was educated in Geneva and Paris and wrote in French. His avant-garde and often political plays were grouped with the Theatre of the Absurd, but he felt that they were about life, and that life, while often difficult, was never absurd. This volume brings together his two major works in stunning translations by Peter Meyer, originally commissioned by BBC Radio. Dead Souls is Adamov's dramatisation of Gogol's blackly comic novel. Mysterious entrepreneur Tchitchikov approaches the landowners and bureaucrats of a provincial town with the proposal that he will buy the 'dead souls' of deceased peasants, and in the process exposes a society filled with paranoia and corruption. Motivated in part by his own communist sympathies, Spring '71 reflects Adamov's view of the Paris Commune in 1871. A rich and complex depiction of a city in the throes of major upheaval, it interweaves satire, history and tragedy to show how the stories of normal people influence - and are influenced by - the onward march of history."

Die "OEkologische Krise" ist zugleich auch eine Krise in der Beziehung des Menschen zu seiner naturlichen und gesellschaftlichen Umwelt. Das Buch untersucht diese Problemstellung aus der Perspektive verschiedener sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen - von der evolutionstheoretisch fundierten Gesellschaftstheorie uber die Umweltasthetik und sozialwissenschaftliche Risikoforschung bis hin zur OEkologischen Psychologie. In der Auseinandersetzung mit den naturlichen und kulturellen, gesellschaftlichen und individuellen Wurzeln der Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehung macht die vorliegende Einfuhrung deutlich, dass allein in einem historischen, freilich immer nur vorlaufigen sozialen Lernprozess eine Antwort auf die oekologische Krise erarbeitet werden kann.

Additional Author Nicholas Sylvain. Preface By Morris Fine.

Additional Author Nicholas Sylvain. Preface By Morris Fine.

For more than a century, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance has been a central part of the American Experience. And perhaps because of its ubiquity, this simple flag salute has served not only as a unifying ritual but also as a lightning rod for bitter controversy.

Congress's 1954 decision to add "under God" to the Pledge has made it the focus of three U.S. Supreme Court cases and at least one other landmark appellate decision. The debate continues today, but along with it exists a widely held admiration and support for this simple affirmation of our shared patriotism.

As Jeffrey Owen Jones and Peter Meyer show in their illuminating history, this brief salute to the flag has had an almost magical power to galvanize people's deepest feelings and beliefs about who we are and ought to be as a nation. In that sense, the story of the Pledge of Allegiance is the story of America and the American people.

"Marianne, Fantasio, Don't Trifle With Love, The Candlestick, A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut, You Can't Think of Everything The seven plays in this collection share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness. In Marianne, a confirmed cynic intercedes with a married woman on behalf of his best friend. In the eponymous hero of the modern 'fairy tale' Fantasio, by turns imaginative, abrupt and perceptive, Musset provides us with a compelling self-portrait. Don't Trifle with Love shows the dangerous strategems of two childhood sweethearts, supposedly destined for marriage. In The Candlestick, an infatuated clerk is set up as a decoy by his employer's young wife and her lover. The one-act plays A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut and You Can't Think of Everything deal, in witty, epigrammatic style, with various aspects of romance: a wife and her friend test her husband's fidelity, or lack of it; a man wants to propose to his bantering, blase hostess; and a couple in love, one absent-minded, the other forgetful, tries to concentrate long enough to get married."

"Georges Feydeau, once considered as purveyor of slapstick farces, is now accepted as France's best comic dramatist since Moliere. He once said that to make people laugh you have to place your cast in a dramatic situation and then observe them from a comic angle, but they must never do or say anything which is not strictly demanded, first by their character and secondly by the plot. This collection of farces includes the plays Fitting for Ladies, A Close Shave and Sauce for the Goose, all translated by Peter Meyer. In Fitting for Ladies, a man on the look-out for a new romantic rendezvous is mistaken for a dressmaker...In A Close Shave, a woman's would-be lover has to assume the identity of her artist husband, who is about to be called up for military service. In Sauce for the Goose, a man discovers that the woman he is pursuing is the wife of an old friend..."

This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), one of France's best-known dramatists, includes some of his most enduring work: "The Rehearsal" ("quintessential Anouilh,"" Herald Tribune"); "Becket," which focuses on the relationship between Becket and Henry II; and "The Orchestra," "A Play Within a Concert," all translated by Jeremy Sams; together with "Eurydice," an ironic modern reworking of the myth ("a fascinating piece," "Financial Times"), translated by Peter Meyer.

"Becket": "Witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence ... it can hold an audience spellbound."--"Financial Times"

"The Rehearsal": "Jeremy Sams has translated impeccably."--"Observer"

German description: 14 prominente TheologInnen der Gegenwart stellen ihr Predigtkonzept vor. Anhand eigener Arbeitsproben erlautern sie, worauf es ankommt, wie es gemacht wird und was das fur die Theologie als Ganze bedeutet. Die homiletische Forschungslandschaft ist - nach dem Abschied von den grossen theologischen Schulen - unubersichtlich geworden. Nicht nur Berufsanfanger finden es schwer, inmitten des grossen Angebots hilfreiche Trends fur die eigene Praxis zu entdecken. Uso notwendiger ist es, das breite Angebot zu sichten und fur die Predigt fruchtbar zu machen. Das Studienbuch bietet hierfur eine gut strukturierte, anschauliche Basis. Die vierzehn Beispiele sind unter den Stichworten Auf die Gegenwart hin, Dem Vollzug nach und Von den Aufgaben her gebundelt und setzen eigene Akzente. Dialogische Strukturen ermoglichen es den Nutzern, in die Diskussion einzutreten, sei es mit Martin Nicol, Manfred Josuttis oder Isolde Karle.

The sculptures of Peter Meyers are not what we would call 'beauty for beauty's sake'. Not the perfect creature, not the perfect ballerina, not the clone, we don't see them here. The sculptures of Peter Meyers show the figures as they are. Not only the outer body but also the inner body - their soul. The sculptures show the emotion and the tension of the figures. The essence of the figure is analysed and translated into a sculpture by the artist in the most skilful way. The body language, the personality, everything is here in metal sheets, you just forget about it, so subjective are the sculptures. Not only is the metal form subjective but also the spaces in between. The metal form creates that impression.

Anfang Mai 1945. Der 2. Weltkrieg ist zu Ende. Deutschland kapituliert, halb Europa liegt in Trummern. Ein U-Boot verlasst mitten in der Nacht vollig unbehelligt den zerstorten Kieler Hafen. Unthinkable. Navigiert wird es von Korvettenkapitan Erwin von Putlitz. Die Mannschaft besteht aus SS-Schergen und Marinesoldaten. Von Putlitz, bis dahin pflichtreuer deutscher Soldat und stummer Diener der Nazi-Herrschaft, wird unter grauenhaften Bedingungen gezwungen, das U-Boot zu einem ungewissen Ziel namens Ultima Thule zu steuern. Jetzt endlich versucht er, sich zu wehren, die geheimnisvollen politischen Verstrickungen und die wahren Hintergrunde der Nazi-Ideologie zu entratseln. Operation Unthinkable (Operation Undenkbar) war der Name eines im Mai 1945 vom britischen Premierminister Winston Churchill in Auftrag gegebenen Kriegsplans, der die militarische Unterwerfung der damaligen Sowjetunion durch Grossbritannien und die USA zum Ziel hatte. Aufgrund der hohen zahlenmassigen Uberlegenheit der Roten Armee beabsichtigte man ausserdem die Wiederbewaffnung von ca. 100.000 Soldaten der besiegten deutschen Wehrmacht. Der Plan wurde vom britischen Chiefs of Staff Committee als militarisch undurchfuhrbar eingestuft und daher letztlich fallen gelassen. Der als streng geheim eingestufte Plan wurde 1998 der Offentlichkeit zuganglich gemacht. Quelle: Wikipe