If you’re in college and broke… this is for you. Not the “manifest abundance” crowd. Not the “wait until you graduate” crowd. This is for the student who’s tired of checking their bank balance before ordering fries. Side Hustle Idea Playbook for College Students isn’t another fluffy “follow your passion” pep talk. It’s a field manual. A straight-talking, no-BS guide to finding, launching, and getting paid from side hustles that actually work while you’re juggling classes, exams, and a soci...

What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious – a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology – works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage with. Through a new collaboration between music theorist and philosopher, Smith and Overy present the long history of the unconscious and its related concepts, working systematically through philosophers such a...

Perspectivism: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences advances the philosophy of perspectivism, showing how its capacity to assess competing views of a particular concept by approaching them as different ‘sides’ of a multi-dimensional object supports a concept of ‘adequate’ rather than ‘absolute’ truth.Presenting four case studies – of the social scientific concepts of power, equality, crime, and sex and gender – Smith demonstrates the manner in which the ...

This book, first published in 1951, focuses on the hitherto ignored contemporary critics of Malthus, giving them the attention they so rightly deserve.Dr Smith traces the Malthusian controversy step by step, from 1798, the date of the First Essay, to the death of Malthus in 1834. Investigating the precursors of Malthus and the genesis of the Malthusian Theory of Population, the book subjects the theory to a searching analysis in the light of not only contemporary criticism, but als...

If you work in a start-up or are planning to launch a new venture and need to get market traction, this guidebook gives you the steps you need to build a sustainable revenue capture process that will build sales and attract investors.The most important measure of a successful commercial innovation is revenue traction. Operations requires it and VCs & Angels often demand it before engaging. Yet many innovator's efforts end at the point of marketing. Completing the revenue capture pr...

Seize the competitive advantage with today’s most powerful strategic tool—M&A“Given the influence of technology, globalization, and regulatory change, M&A will continue to shape our industries. For most companies, therefore, the consideration of M&A in strategy is now fundamental.”–from the Introduction to Part IThe Art of M&A Strategy is exactly what you need to build mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures into your overall busine...

Wizards. Prisoners. Preachers. And robots!They stick out. They change the conversation. They challenge the traditional narrative. They are Outcasts—isolated, different, misunderstood. Being normal is nice. But being outcast is a real part of the human experience.Have you have ever had the feeling of being alone in some way, of being on the outside looking in? If so, then the characters in these short stories will move you--sometimes by their depravity, sometimes by their so...

As the Germans blitz Poland in 1939, a young fighter pilot finds his way to France and ultimately England where he distinguishes himself in the Battle of Britain. He meets a woman and falls in love and so does she over time. He crashes in the English Channel and ultimately is captured. After escaping he seeks to return to his love and tries to cross the Pyrenees but is captured again where he is imprisoned until the end of the war nears. He then learns his love was a spy working for her fa...

Accounting expert Steven Bragg equips you with a working knowledge of the complete M&A process throughout Mergers and Acquisitions: A Condensed Practitioner's Guide, with comprehensive, reader-friendly, and straightforward advice on principal business terms, as well as the due diligence process, the customary contractual provisions, legal background, and how-to's applicable to business acquisitions. Destined to become a well-thumbed addition to every manager's library, this essent...

Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. By the time the workday wraps up, we’re so exhausted and defeated that any motivation to accomplish something in th...

The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter of the following titles:CAPITAL - A Critique of Political Economy: Volume One – Karl MarxMANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY – Karl MarxTwo of the most important works of modern history, as well as two of the most influential, Capital and The Communist Manifesto are critique of private property and the social relations it generates.Marx and Engels presented an analytical ...

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common ...