This book presents key insights about the challenges and the approaches they applied. All companies are featured in 15 teachable case studies – ready to use in entrepreneurship and strategy courses – that represent a broad level of diversity with regard to countries, industries, topics, growth phases, challenges and internationalization strategies.

Blowup, says Armando Prats, is one of the necessary movies. It is a "living expression of the transition into the new narrative domains" in terms of man's "new vision of himself as a narrative creature in a world whose very essense is cinematic narration." Prats' work on the new humanism inherent in postwar filmmaking is a rewarding work with implications for the fields of esthetics and axiology as well as film criticism. In his analyses of four films by three directors—Fellini's ...

This is the first atlas to depict in high-resolution images the fine structure of the spinal canal, the nervous plexuses, and the peripheral nerves in relation to clinical practice. The Atlas of Functional Anatomy for Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine contains more than 1500 images of unsurpassed quality, most of which have never been published, including scanning electron microscopy images of neuronal ultrastructures, macroscopic sectional anatomy, and three-dimensional image...

Mountains have long held an appeal for people around the world. This book focusses on the diversity of perspectives, interaction and role of tourism within these areas. Providing a vital update to the current literature, it considers the interdisciplinary context of communities, the creation of mountain tourism experiences and the impacts tourism has on these environments. Including authors from Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America, the development, planning and governance issues are als...

For nearly two decades, the Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions has served as a valuable resource for students and scholars of religion in Japan. This exciting update expands the audience to include non-specialists of Japan while also complicating the notions of “Japan” and “religion.” Asking the provocative question “why study Japanese religions?” the editors argue that studying Japan is vital for the academic study of religion writ large and make a case for the continued importan...

From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what’s average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us.With style and wit, Chantel Prat takes us on a tour of the meaningful ways that our brains are dissimilar from one anothe...

This book is dedicated to all Coffee Lovers that love to enjoy the beautiful taste of coffee.The recipes are all delicious, tasty and most of them are really easy to make. You can find a variety of recipes from well-known cappuccinos, or iced coffe milkshakes, to more exotic recipes such as arabic coffee, "café mexicano" or "café au lait".Hope you enjoy this book and the coffee recipes you will find in it.

From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what’s average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us.With style and wit, Chantel Prat takes us on a tour of the meaningful ways that our brains are dissimilar from one anothe...

"The Doors of Ayahuasca" is, in the deepest sense, an invitation to see fear and pain in a different light.An individual rational and zealous of controlling their actions decides, at a moment in their life, to approach ayahuasca. This is a mixture of herbs that, in ritual ceremonies as an element of psycho-spiritual healing and contact with the Beyond, certain Amazonian peoples have been consuming for millennia.He undergoes, then, three successive experiences of ingesting t...

A 1638 work of erotic fiction features nun-to-nun dialogues in the sexual arts "Is it right that a girl so accomplished be secluded as you are? No, no, my child, I want to share with you my most secret habits, and to give you a true notion of the deeds of a wise nun." This landmark erotic novel salaciously presents the education, one might say indoctrination, of green Catholic nun Sister Agnes at the hands of her more experienced cohort Sister Angelique. Religious demystification coincides...

About 5,000 years ago, people were not that different from us. Looking at things this way probably would bring us too close to contemplating the tininess of this slice of time and universe we occupy. Even creating a past filled with myths, dragons and fantastic populations and societies helps ward off such painful awareness. None of that here.About 5,000 years ago, people were moving around.About 5,000 years ago in Northern Europe, where the story starts, agriculture was ga...