This book is written for the person who has gained workplace experience and is thinking about striking out on his or her own as a consultant or a service-based entrepreneur.The reader is taken through the steps of deciding on whether they have the tools to start a new business and what they need to do before making the leap.The author focuses on the major steps of a start-up consulting practice, including business formation decisions, verbalizing the busine...

In this exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi, a team of authors trace its role in early texts and contemporary neuroscience to show how it continues to be relevant beyond China.As life-long scholars of qi related practices, Adam Frank, Nancy Chen, and Stephen Field offer new insights into the significance of qi in the current Anthropocene. They connect Daoist studies, Chinese medicine, martial arts, popular culture, and historical phenomenology to exami...

In this memoir, Field reflects on the challenges and opportunities faced by early settlers, providing detailed descriptions of the landscape, social dynamics, and the diverse array of characters who populated the region. His narrative captures the spirit of adventure and determination that characterized this era, as people flocked to California in search of fortune and a new beginning.In addition to Field's personal recollections, the book includes sketches and insights from George C. Gorh...

It was a crazy, wacky year for four New York City bachelors who were fast approaching their late twenties. After lucking out on a one-year sublease of a spectacular Italian-style villa in upstate Neckaneck Township, Waldo, Mendel Jr., Monte, and Ricky enter the social whirl of suburbia. Waldo Flanken, a gangly, six-foot, uncoordinated college dropout, provides countless episodes of fun and mishaps as he stumbles through life. His three villa-mates are not far behind in a madcap journey thr...

Murder At Seagull BeachA seaside murder mystery where secrets crash harder than the waves.When Lance Spadina stumbles upon a body in the surf, his peaceful beach town becomes the scene of a chilling investigation. What begins as a simple discovery soon spirals into a layered murder mystery with multiple suspects, cryptic clues, and old grudges that won't stay buried.Detective Dakota Sterling leads the case, but it's Lance—the town's...

There are many books that describe how to market your company. This is not one of those books. Instead this work proves a case for why marketing is a critical element for managing a successful business.  It helps you to understand the real value of marketing for your company, regardless of whether it is big or small, new or established, private or public. Many people think they are correctly marketing their capabilities and abilities, but they are not.  They do not really...

Pistols in the Park is the second murder mystery for Kathy Chatsworth reporter and Sandy Brampton Detective in tracking down the truth behind one dead body and too many bullets.Kathy chides herself for wondering, "what did he do to deserve being shot? Shot twice?" But as she learns more about the victim, that question doesn't sound so unreasonable.Several potential murderers appear. The ex-wife a lawyer who shot him. The socialite with a secret not to be shared or her marri...

A green gemstone dating from the Crusades, embedded in the handle of a beautiful old dagger, draws Kathy Chatsworth into a dangerous family tradition fuelled by pride and passion ... and now murder again.Kathy is a journalist with the instincts of a detective. Sandy Brampton is a detective with a soft spot for Kathy. Together they tackle the mystery of the bloody dagger she found hidden in the hedge near a dying victim.Suspects in the murder include the hapless owner of the...

Stephen Fry narrates this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the famous Victorian comic novel.Orphan Becky Sharp and wealthy Amelia Sedley are best friends at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. On leaving school, ambitious, social-climbing Becky looks for a rich man to support her, while the sweet-natured Amelia meets her old friend Dobbin, who is instantly captivated.Becky takes a job in the service of Sir Pitt Crawley, and uses her charm to hook his dashing so...

Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.

If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how an...

Five BBC Radio adaptations of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray - plus bonus featuresBest known today for his comic masterpiece, Vanity Fair, W. M. Thackeray was regarded in his time as the only rival to his contemporary, Charles Dickens. This collection includes a selection of his finest satirical fiction, as well as two fascinating programmes exploring his life and writings.Vanity Fair - Set against the backdrop o...