Are you missing opportunities for growth that are right in front of you?In today’s volatile economic environment, filled with uncertainty and sudden change, the forces pushing you to stay focused on the core business are extremely powerful. Profiting from the core is crucial, but the danger is that overfocus on the core can blind companies. Scanning the horizon for new markets and new products can also be tempting, but risky. Fixating too much on either strategy ca...

Driving With No Brakes is the entire story of the Lewis' wild ride—including a time when Alan literally drove without brakes in Costa Rica. In honor of the 25th anniversary of their ownership of the company, Alan and Harriet recount the story of Grand Circle and their dream to build a company that would allow active, mature Americans to explore the world, and help change people's lives.

Zoroastrianism is the major spiritual faith of ancient Persia. It was founded by the Prophet Zarathushtra Spitama (Zoroaster), author of The Gathas, or Divine Songs. The Gathas is the oldest surviving literature known to humanity attributed to a single author. The religion of Zoroastrianism co-existed alongside Iranian Mithraism and heavily influenced the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Avesta is the holiest book of Zoroastrianism and is similar to the Bible in m...

Recent archaeological discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library have revealed a larger than previously known body of Christian and Messianic literature. For many, these and other findings lead us to wanting to learn more about the Holy Bible and related events. Since much of Christianity's early church history and spiritual literature seems to have been ignored or even condescended by religious gatekeepers, we are still left wanting to know more. There is a saying, "W...

Early Christianity Unveiled is an anthology of nine rare works radiating loving light to humanity. This book offers an elemental key to the door of Heaven, which presents spiritual knowledge of God's love and care for His Creation. The texts in this volume are as follows: Four Different Versions of How Paul Became a Christian; The Pastor of Hermas; Life of Saint Antony; The Letter of Yeremiyah; Valis the Essene; Yahushuah the Essene by E. Planta Nesbit; The Two Witnesses; Essene Apocalypse...

Musical Shadows is an alpha-numeric collection of grammatical songs by Alan Lewis Silva, comprising his songwriting from years 2001 to 2016. Have you wondered what life would look like through the eyes of youth? What do we express in our needs, attentions, and desires? What is the Fountain of Folly? Who are the Millennials? Read about these matters and more in the pages of this special collection of Alan Lewis Silva's musical shadows. Alan Lewis Silva is an original California author and f...

Psychologists have been observing and interpreting economic behaviour for at least fifty years, and the last decade, in particular, has seen an escalated interest in the interface between psychology and economics. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour is a valuable reference resource dedicated to improving our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour. Employing empirical methods – including laboratory experiments, field experiments, observations, ques...

Comprising a selection of contemporary state of the art research that focuses on psychological type, religion, and culture, this book can be divided into two particular areas of research. The first section focuses on the religion and psychological type of Church leaders, while the second section reports on Church members, their religion, and their psychological type.The book attests to the importance of Jungian Psychological Type theory in understanding individual...

Assessment of mental health, religion and culture: The development and examination of psychometric measures focuses on questionnaires that are of practical value for researchers interested in examining the relationship between the constructs of mental health, religion, and culture.Three particular areas of development and evaluation are represented within this volume: firstly, the psychometric properties of recently developed new questionnaires; secondly, the psychometric ...

There has recently been an escalated interest in the interface between psychology and economics. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour is a valuable reference dedicated to improving our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour. Employing empirical methods - including laboratory and field experiments, observations, questionnaires and interviews - the Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of theory and method, financial and consumer behaviour, the en...

This dictionary includes every area of agriculture, from traditional farming to the latest techniques in biotechnology and genetics. The dictionary provides standardized definitions that establish common ground between the various types of practitioners involved in agriculture. It defines terminology in areas such as agricultural economics and business, agroecology, agronomy, animal science, aquaculture, botany, conservation, dairy science, entomology, food science, forestry, horticulture,...

This text is a vital resource for those with little or no prior knowledge of computing or statistics to aid in the development of reliable and valid tests and scales for assessment or research purposes. It serves as a clear, concise and jargon-free primer for all those embarking in fieldwork or research analysis.The book contains detailed guidelines for locating and constructing psychological measures, including descriptions of popular psychological measures and step-by-step instru...