Somewhere recently, a friend or a wealthy relative mentioned they're "an LP" in a venture fund. You nodded. You didn't ask what that meant, what they actually own, or when they get their money back.Venture capital has built some of the largest fortunes in modern finance. It hasn't built an instruction manual for the people funding it. Founders get accelerators and pitch coaches. Fund managers get conferences and trade press. The limited partners, the family offices, the angel inves...

Historic preservation law sits at the intersection of property, land use, environmental, constitutional, tax, and administrative law, yet it remains one of the most specialized and frequently misunderstood areas of legal practice. Historic Preservation Law provides practitioners, scholars, and students with a comprehensive introduction to the legal frameworks that protect the nation’s historic and cultural resources. From the evolution of preservation policy to the practical appli...

“There’s no use trying to escape. You’re miles from anywhere. You have no clothes, no food, no money... You’re dead, Mason.”As far as everyone else is concerned, Mason Bushing died over a year ago, but now he’s running from Dr. Harlow who is secretly conducting an unauthorized experiment for a drug he calls Purify. It saved Mason’s life, but Mason is focused on getting what he wants most—his old life back. His plans change when he realizes his wife is more interested in the insuran...

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in Blackface Nation, this struggle is especially evident in popular culture and the interplay between two specific strains of music: middle-class folk and blackface minstrelsy.The Hutchinson Family Singers, the Northeast's most popul...

Experience Raven-Symoné in a whole new way. This book is your ultimate resource for Raven-Symoné. Here you will find the most up-to-date 76 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Raven-Symoné's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: List of Raven-Symoné songs - Album songs, Raven-Symoné (album) - Thick Girls, Big Girls - EP, Raven-Symo...

**BUSTLE BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK PICKNAMED A BOOKSHOP.ORG RECOMMENDED READING OF THE SEASONIn this charming, deeply atmospheric novel set against the Amalfi Coast of the 1950s, two women form an intense and lasting friendship that embodies the paradoxes of Italian society.**Inspired by her own adventurous, unconventional life, actress and writer Goliarda Sapienza’s recently rediscovered novel takes the reader to the sun-drenched town of Positano in southern It...

Transport Technology is coming soon. Visions Corporation.After revealing a new technology that is capable of replacing current methods of transportation and eliminating the world’s dependencies on oil, David Sampson struggles with the decision to make his breakthrough public.There’s no turning back when Visions, a megacorporation, releases a device the size of a cellphone which is embedded with the technology. Many embrace the new method of transpo...

As relevant as it was at the time of publication, this landmark work remains timely and urgent in demonstrating how to examine questions of race, politics and crime in contemporary society. A formative text in cultural studies and criminology, it shows the relevance of conjunctural analysis to the current emergence of forms of authoritarian populist politics. Examining the crisis of the British state in the 1970s, the book explores how interacting economic, social and political conflicts a...

In Strategies of Genius Volume IV, Robert Dilts explores the architecture of human genius through the lives and work of four extraordinary innovators: Milton H. Erickson, Gregory Bateson, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Gabrielle Roth. Although each worked in a different field-psychotherapy, systems theory, movement education, and expressive dance-they shared a remarkable capacity to facilitate change that was natural, ecological a...

**A breathtakingly beautiful novel about the first 4 years and last 4 months of a great love, by a “lacerating, luminous” Italian author (Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Interpreter of Maladies)Perfect for fans of short, razor-sharp modern literary classics like Annie Ernaux and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking**Upon the death of her husband, Innocenzo Monti, Lalla Romano sought to distil the essence of their long life together. The result was In Fa...

This edited volume is part of the Information Age Publishing (IAP) Series on Family, School and Community Partnerships. This book addresses the ways families and communities engage with an increasingly common feature of the American public education landscape: charter schools. Family and Community Engagement in Charter Schools contains seven chapters examining this emerging field of study authored by both established and emerging scholars. Chapters examine how charter schools, the policy l...

"Just think of it as a bad haircut." Hubert watched the surgeon hold up a sterile bag of circumcision tools. "A week from now you won't feel a thing." For geeky teenager, Hubert Pubes Rawlings, his new job as a shopping center food court cleaner is one thing, but a picture with the hot cleaning crew exposing him as the only cleaner who's uncut is too much, too fast. When his obscure mother stresses over his nightly dream adventures then catches his father in a s...