The riveting new book on the momentous year, campaign, and election that shaped American history.

It’s January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers readers a front-row seat to history. From the challenge of primary battles in a nation that had never elected a Catholic president, to the intense machinations of the national conventions—where JFK chose Lyndon Johnson as his running mate over the impassioned objections of his brother Bobby—this is a nonfiction political thriller filled with intrigue, cinematic action, and fresh reporting. Like with many popular histories, readers may be familiar with the story, but few will know the behind-the-scenes details, told here with gripping effect.

Featuring some of history’s most remarkable characters, page-turning action, and vivid details, Countdown 1960 follows a group of extraordinary politicians, civil rights leaders, Hollywood stars, labor bosses, and mobsters during a pivotal year in American history. The election of 1960 ushered in the modern era of presidential politics, with televised debates, private planes, and slick advertising. In fact, television played a massive role. More than 70 million Americans watched one or all four debates. The public turned to television to watch campaign rallies. And on the night of the election, the contest between Kennedy and Nixon was so close that Americans were glued to their televisions long after dawn to see who won.

The election of 1960 holds stunning parallels to our current political climate. There were—potentially valid—claims of voter fraud and a stolen election. There was also a presidential candidate faced with the decision of whether to contest the result or honor the peaceful transfer of power.

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve.

For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable.

As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as:

• Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better.
• It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them.
• The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
• A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.

Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.

Tobie vind uit sy beste maat gaan trek. Dit voel asof ’n olifant op hom geval het.

Alles gaan aaklig wees sonder Lennie. Hulle bly al van kleins af langs mekaar. Hulle is albei mal oor krieket. Hulle lag vir dieselfde grappe. Hulle albei hou van pizza sonder pynappel. Waar gaan hy weer ’n maat soos Lennie kry?

Tobie besluit om ’n plan te maak – ’n plan wat iemand die horriepiep gaan gee!

Toby’s best friend is moving to another town. It feels as if an elephant has fallen on him.

Everything is going to be horrible without Lenny. They’ve been neighbours since they were little. They’re both crazy about cricket. They laugh at the same jokes. They both love pizza without pineapple. Where will he find a friend like Lenny again?

Toby decides to make a plan … a plan that’s going to give someone the heebie-jeebies!

Cities bring together masses of people, allow them to communicate and hide, and to transform private grievances into political causes, often erupting in urban protests that can destroy regimes. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shaped urbanization via migration restrictions and redistributive policy since 1949 in ways that help account for the regime's endurance, China's surprising comparative lack of slums, and its curious moves away from urban bias over the past decade. Cities and Stability details the threats that cities pose for authoritarian regimes, regime responses to those threats, and how those responses can backfire by exacerbating the growth of slums and cities. Cross-national analyses of nondemocratic regime survival link larger cities to shorter regimes. To compensate for the threat urban threat, many regimes, including the CCP, favor cities in their policy-making. Cities and Stability shows this urban bias to be a Faustian Bargain, stabilizing large cities today but encouraging their growth and concentration over time. While attempting to industrialize, the Chinese regime created a household registration (hukou) system to restrict internal movement, separating urban and rural areas. China's hukou system served as a loophole, allowing urbanites to be favored but keeping farmers in the countryside. As these barriers eroded with economic reforms, the regime began to replace repression-based restrictions with economic incentives to avoid slums by improving economic opportunities in the interior and the countryside. Yet during the global Great Recession of 2008-09, the political value of the hukou system emerged as migrant workers, by the tens of millions, left coastal cities and dispersed across China's interior villages, counties, and cities. The government's stimulus policies, a combination of urban loans for immediate relief and long-term infrastructure aimed at the interior, reduced discontent to manageable levels and locales.

This issue will deal with "Heel Pathology" and focus on topics such as: Tarsal Tunnel; Calcaneal Osteomyelitis; Plantar Fasciitis; Exostoses of the Calcaneus; Systemic Disorders affecting the Heel; Sports Injuries of the Heel;Calcaneal Fractures.

Jason wil graag eendag 'n fyngebaksjef word. Hy en sy twee beste maats, Tando en Claudia, neem saam bakklasse en besluit om in te skryf vir ​Bohaai​! 'n bakkompetisie wat op TV uitgesaai word.

Maar gaan Minette, Jason se grootste kompetisie, ook deelneem? Wie moet hy kies om in sy span te wees? Hoe gaan hy keer dat Minette wen? Veral as hy met goed soos deegmonsters, stink koekies en resepte in vreemde tale te doen kry?

* Focuses on key areas highlighted by industry leaders as lacking in today's spa managers/directors * Provides practical spa management guidance, in an 'easy to read' style, covering the most important areas essential in operating any spa facility successfully * Based on hands-on experience of fitness, spa, beauty and medical rehabilitation centre operations, in addition to the opinions of over 40 spa experts * Covers not just beauty and wellness spa operations, but also medical rehabilitation (hot spring/Balneotherapy) spas The Spa Manager's Essential Guide contains all the basic day to day information on how to run a wellness, beauty or thermal spa operation successfully. It focuses on those areas that industry leaders have identified as critical and missing in today's spa leaders, combined with advice from over 40 spa experts. It takes the reader through essential spa management tools and systems, giving recommendations on how spa managers should present and manage themselves and their teams to operate a spa facility of any size successfully. All of the most important aspects of spa management are delivered in a concise, understandable format - this guide provides: * Practical management information on how to manage day to day spa operations * Personal skills and knowledge required for building a successful spa team * Essential information on the most common range of health spa and wellbeing products and services and how they connect and interrelate with each other There are no other text books on the market that contain as much spa product knowledge and operational management advice based on such a wide range of experience in just one book. This is an essential core text for all students on spa management education programmes or related modules, as well as for existing and aspiring spa managers.

Buddhism in Mongolia explores the unique historical and cultural elements of Mongolian Buddhism while challenging its stereotyped image as a mere replica of Tibetan Buddhism. Vesna A. Wallace brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to explore the interaction between the Mongolian indigenous culture and Buddhism, the features that Buddhism acquired through its adaptation to the Mongolian cultural sphere, and the ways Mongols have been constructing their Mongolian Buddhist identity. In a collection of fifteen chapters, the book illuminates the historical, social, and cultural contexts within which Buddhism has operated as a major social and cultural force among various groups Mongolian ethnic groups. The volume covers an array of topics pertaining to the important historical events, social and political conditions, and influential personages in Mongolian Buddhism from the sixteenth century to the present. It shows how Buddhism underwent a series of transformations, adapting itself to the social, political, and nomadic cultures of the Mongols. The contributors demonstrate the ways that Buddhism retained unique Mongolian features through Qing and Mongol support. Most chapters bring to light the ways in which Mongolian Buddhists saw Buddhism as inseparable form "Mongolness". They posit that by being greatly supported by Mongol and Qing empires, suppressed by the communist governments, and experiencing revitalization facilitated by democratization and challenged posed by modernity, Buddhism underwent a series of transformations, while retaining unique Mongolian features. Wallace covers historical events, social and political conditions, and influential personages in Mongolian Buddhism from the sixteenth century to the present. Buddhism in Mongolia also addresses the artistic and literary expressions of Mongolian Buddhism and various Mongolian Buddhist practices and beliefs.

Tito is a young tapir whose spots and stripes help him in the wild. What will happen to his spots and stripes when he grows up? Introduce the concepts of growth and change to students with this beautifully illustrated picture book. Early readers can follow the simple story and bright illustrations as they learn that our differences are what make us special. With pre-reading questions, this fiction book is ideal for guided reading and builds early literacy skills.

Vir sy 10de verjaardag wens Jaco net vir een ding: 'n hond! En hy wil 'n hondepartytjie hê, met hondekolwyntjies.

Maar gaan sy ouers vir hom die geskenk van sy drome gee? Sal sy gunsteling-sanggroep, Wagter en die waghonde, by sy partytjie kan wees? En wie moet hy nooi: net sy maats wat van honde hou of almal in sy klas? En wat moet hy doen as sy partytjie skielik heeltemal skeef loop, of as die hond wat hy kry in iets eienaardigs verander?

'n Storie propvol kinkels en keuses!

Based upon a wealth of primary sources and a life of research in the field, this history provides a fascinating discussion of the development of the House of Commons during the early years of Stuart rule. Mr. Notestein was completing work on the manuscript at his death in 1969. The basic issues characterizing the confrontations between James I and the Commons are examined, including the matters of royal prerogatives that were increasingly questioned by the Commons in the period 1604-1610. To these are added the awkward problems attendant upon the prospective Union of England and Scotland under a monarch of Scottish origins. Mr. Notestein makes it clear that the Commons, following the age of Elizabeth, was consciously searching out a new sense of itself and its powers; neither James nor the House of Lords was able to appreciate fully the trends accompanying the Commons' quest for a broadened role in national affairs. Mr. Notestein's work is a superb narrative constantly enriched by in-depth research and enlivened by an impressive mixture of analytical commentary and personalized speculation.

Animated children's feature about the bears with the mission to care for others. Tenderheart Bear (voiced by David Lodge), Wonderheart Bear (Michaela Dean), Harmony Bear (Nayo Wallace) and Funshine Bear (Michael Sinterniklaas) along with the rest of the gang set out to ride the colourful rainbow to the town of Care-a-lot where they go on magical adventures to help bears in need.

Horror in which a clinical trial at a remote facility goes terribly wrong. Among those who sign up to test ProSyntrex's latest drug Pro9 are Adam (Aneurin Barnard), Joni (Alex Reid), Carmen (Skye Lourie) and Jed (Oliver Coleman). The trial is highly secret, with no-one, including the staff who administer injections, aware of who is receiving the drug and who is in the placebo group. Shortly after the trial begins it becomes clear that something has gone wrong. There are unexplained disappearances, bizarre silhouettes and screaming from behind locked doors. Locked inside the facility, unaware of the true nature of events, the surviving patients and staff must band together to try and find a way out of the nightmare.

All 24 episodes from the ninth season of the US drama series following a passionate team of forensic investigators who work the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas Criminalistics Bureau. Their job is to find the missing pieces at the scene that will help to solve the crime and vindicate those who often cannot speak for themselves: the victims. Episodes are: 'For Warrick', 'The Happy Place', 'Art Imitates Life', 'Let It Bleed', 'Leave Out All the Rest', 'Say Uncle', 'Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda', 'Young Man With a Horn', '19 Down', 'One to Go', 'The Grave Shift', 'Disarmed and Dangerous', 'Deep Fried and Minty Fresh', 'Miscarriage of Justice', 'Kill Me If You Can', 'Turn, Turn, Turn', 'No Way Out', 'Mascara', 'The Descent of Man', 'A Space Oddity', 'If I Had a Hammer...', 'The Gone Dead Train', 'Hog Heaven' and 'All In'.

In this powerful second poetry collection, award-winning South African poet Jeannie Wallace McKeown maps the landscape of loss with unflinching honesty and lyrical grace.

Set against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, these poems navigate the intimate terrain of grief following the death of her parents, transforming everyday moments—from morning tea to grocery shopping—into profound meditations on love and survival. With clear-eyed precision and without descending into sentimentality, McKeown reminds us that in our shared vulnerability lies our deepest connection to life itself.

These are poems that demand to be felt, understood, and returned to again and again.