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Entrepreneurs play a vital role in economic development as key
contributors to technological innovation and new job growth. We
discovered that many people, just like you, have the urge to create
an enterprise; to help themselves and to make a difference in this
world. While successful entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Bill
Gates are well publicized, the harsh reality is that most new
businesses are prone to failure because they don't have access to
accurate information about the entrepreneurial process. This book
is a "word map" for guiding you through that process, from refining
your business idea and securing capital to a successful launch into
the marketplace. There are many types of business ideas to pursue
and you are probably better educated than many historic
entrepreneurs - both Thomas Edison and Ray Kroc being high school
dropouts and both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates being college dropouts.
If you hunger to be your own boss and to make a contribution to
society with your ideas, then Business Alchemy: Turning Ideas into
Gold has the information for which you have been searching.
Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox: culture flows
across borders with unprecedented ease while consumers demand the
real thing like never before. This collection examines how
authenticity relates to cultural products under globalization,
looking closely at how a cuisine, musical genre, or artifact
attains its aura of genuineness, of originality, when almost all
traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and
place. The contributors in this volume identify how the aura - the
authority of the original object - is generated in the first place.
The methodologies and disciplines come from a variety of sources:
cultural studies, qualitative sociology, musicology, literary
studies, and beyond.
The principal differences between the contemporary philosophic
traditions which have come to be known loosely as analytic
philosophy and phenomenology are all related to the central issue
of the interplay between predication and perception. Frege's
critique of psychologism has led to the conviction within the
analytic tradition that philosophy may best defend rationality from
relativism by detaching logic and semantics from all dependence on
subjective intuitions. On this interpretation, logical analysis
must account for the relationship of sense to reference without
having recourse to a description of how we identify particulars
through their perceived features. Husserl' s emphasis on the
priority and objective import of perception, and on the continuity
between predicative articulations and perceptual discriminations,
has yielded the conviction within the phenomenological tradition
that logical analysis should always be comple mented by description
of pre-predicative intuitions. These methodological differences are
related to broader differences in the philosophic projects of
analysis and phenomenology. The two traditions have adopted
markedly divergent positions in reaction to the critique of ancient
and medieval philosophy initiated by Bacon, Descartes, and Hobbes
at the beginning of the modern era. The analytic approach generally
endorses the modern preference for calculative rationality and
remains suspicious of pre-modern categories, such as formal
causality and eidetic intuition. Its goal is to give an account of
human intelligence that is compatible with the modern
interpretation of nature as an ensemble of quantifiable entities
and relations."
Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection
examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking
closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular
music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of
originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in
a certain time and place.
The principal differences between the contemporary philosophic
traditions which have come to be known loosely as analytic
philosophy and phenomenology are all related to the central issue
of the interplay between predication and perception. Frege's
critique of psychologism has led to the conviction within the
analytic tradition that philosophy may best defend rationality from
relativism by detaching logic and semantics from all dependence on
subjective intuitions. On this interpretation, logical analysis
must account for the relationship of sense to reference without
having recourse to a description of how we identify particulars
through their perceived features. Husserl' s emphasis on the
priority and objective import of perception, and on the continuity
between predicative articulations and perceptual discriminations,
has yielded the conviction within the phenomenological tradition
that logical analysis should always be comple mented by description
of pre-predicative intuitions. These methodological differences are
related to broader differences in the philosophic projects of
analysis and phenomenology. The two traditions have adopted
markedly divergent positions in reaction to the critique of ancient
and medieval philosophy initiated by Bacon, Descartes, and Hobbes
at the beginning of the modern era. The analytic approach generally
endorses the modern preference for calculative rationality and
remains suspicious of pre-modern categories, such as formal
causality and eidetic intuition. Its goal is to give an account of
human intelligence that is compatible with the modern
interpretation of nature as an ensemble of quantifiable entities
and relations."
This volume describes the ways Native American populations
accommodated and resisted the encroachment of European powers in
southeastern North America from the arrival of Spaniards in the
sixteenth century to the first decades of the American Republic.
Tracing changes to the region's natural, cultural, social, and
political environments, Charles Cobb provides an unprecedented
survey of the landscape histories of Indigenous groups across this
critically important area and time period.
Entrepreneurs play a vital role in economic development as key
contributors to technological innovation and new job growth. We
discovered that many people, just like you, have the urge to create
an enterprise; to help themselves and to make a difference in this
world. While successful entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Bill
Gates are well publicized, the harsh reality is that most new
businesses are prone to failure because they don't have access to
accurate information about the entrepreneurial process. This book
is a "word map" for guiding you through that process, from refining
your business idea and securing capital to a successful launch into
the marketplace. There are many types of business ideas to pursue
and you are probably better educated than many historic
entrepreneurs - both Thomas Edison and Ray Kroc being high school
dropouts and both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates being college dropouts.
If you hunger to be your own boss and to make a contribution to
society with your ideas, then Business Alchemy: Turning Ideas into
Gold has the information for which you have been searching.
In view of continuing growth in air refuelable fighters and the
likely shortfall in tanker aircraft during large- scale conflict,
the United States Air Force should reexamine its current policy of
refueling tactical fighters with the boom and receptacle system
only. At the present time, all modern Air Force fighters must use
the same single boom and receptacle system employed by bomber and
airlift aircraft, a system that allows the tanker to service only
one aircraft at a time. Because of budget constraints on tanker
procurement as well as wartime operational demands on tactical
fighters, we must find a more efficient means of employing these
vital defense assets.
By the summer of 1920, Babe Ruth had attained a degree of celebrity
beyond that of any other player in baseball history. Traded by the
Red Sox for the unheard-of sum of $125,000, the Bambino was on a
tear, breaking his own records and drawing legions of fans into
Yankee Stadium. The" Atlanta Constitution" fed the growing interest
in New York's newest player with a twelve-part series of articles
in which Ruth reminisced about his rough-and-tumble childhood as
well as his life in the big leagues. He also commented on the
current season, including the 1920 pennant race and World
Series.
Although doubtless shaped by a ghostwriter, it is clear that these
are Ruth's own thoughts, opinions, and recollections. The first
contemporary account of the famed player's early years, these
articles have long been available only to researchers and history
buffs. Thirty historic photographs complement this original
edition, along with an Introduction by sports historian Paul
Dickson.
By the time of his retirement in 1928, Ty Cobb had set ninety major
league baseball records, many of which--including twelve batting
titles and a .367 lifetime batting average--remain unsurpassed to
this day. He was also a member of the first group of legends
inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fiercely competitive and
aggressive in his play, Cobb attracted controversy throughout his
career. In this memoir, he reflects on a tumultuous era in baseball
history as he recounts highlights from his twenty seasons with the
Detroit Tigers.
The baseball legend offers observations and advice to players on
hitting, stealing signs, base running, and other aspects of the
game, along with assessments of his teammates and other
contemporaries. Cobb's candid reminiscences address his reputation
for spiking opponents on the base paths and his suspension for
attacking an abusive fan, an incident that led to the first
professional baseball strike and the formation of the earliest
players' union. Unlike the usual ghostwritten sports
autobiographies, this narrative consists of Cobb's own words. Each
chapter originally appeared as part of a newspaper serial in 1925,
while the author was an active player. A rediscovered gem of sports
history, this edition is the first commercial publication of Cobb's
recollections in book form.
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