Roy & Al is the first English-language book by Europe’s most popular gay cartoonist, Germany’s Ralf König, whose collections have sold over 250,000 copies and have been translated into five languages. Roy & Al is a hilarious, erotically charged series of gay comics starring two dogs whose owners are dating. Al, a purebred, is rather fey, and treats the unsophisticated with disdain, while Roy, a mongrel, is coarser and more down-to-earth (and a tad overweight). Any similar...

In a working life of 35 years, a manager can expect to make at least 10 job changes - or transitions - where the demands for rapid business delivery and effective leadership will only increase with each new job. According to recent research, over 25 per cent of new leaders appointed from within fail within 18 months; the figure is closer to 40 per cent for new leaders appointed externally. The cost of this rate of failure is high, ranging from financial to performance to organizational dis...

This research-based book takes an organization-wide perspective to describe the governance and governmentality for projects in organizations. Governance of projects defines and directs the ways managers of projects, programs, and project portfolios carry out their work. Governmentality is the way the managers of these managers present themselves to those they lead.Governance and Governmentality for Projects starts with introducing existing theories, models and paradigms for governa...

A gripping thriller, The Nazi Hunter mixes fierce partisan Washington politics, the search for ex-Nazi criminals, and a crazed, right-wing militia intent on bringing down the government. Nicknamed the Nazi Hunter,” Marek Cain, deputy director of the Office of Special Investigations at the Justice Department, has for ten years been the point man for tracking down ex-Nazis who have fraudulently entered the United States since World War II and bringing them to justice.One la...

A true story about a German soldier who endured the extreme conditions of the Gulag system in Siberia after the Second World War. These are his recollections and memories, written shortly after his return home.

Even a hero from the Far West needs a vacation from time to time, and looking after a few Swiss cows seems like the perfect opportunity for Lucky Luke. These milk cows happen to produce the precious substance necessary for the production of authentic Swiss chocolate! The West has just discovered cocoa, and chocolate should soon be a commodity in all mouths. And yet... between vicious autograph hounds, the chief of the Chicoree tribe, and two cowboys whose frustrated love leads to even more...

Master the capabilities of Qlik Sense to design and deploy solutions that address all the Business Intelligence needs of your organizationKey FeaturesCreate compelling dashboards and visualizations with your data by leveraging Qlik Sense's self-service modelPerform data loading and model efficient solutions with faster performance and better governanceMaster Qlik Sense’s APIs and develop powerful mashups and fantastic extensions for visualizati...

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma.Addressing such problems as how saints are made, t...

This textbook provides readers with an interesting overview of the field of corporate valuation in a quick and easy way. For the second edition, the authors have added a new 9th chapter devoted to valuations and the use of argumentation values in negotiation situations. The book includes a number of self-test questions with answers. The contents: Introduction / Discounted Cash Flow Valuation (DCF Valuation) / Comparable Companies Analysis / Precedent Transactions Analysis / Further Valuati...

Poetry, a small summary of a soul's reflection. A soul in the change of man and nature. A soul in past and present. A soul in danger and life. In the fast-moving time humanely provided with words. Man is whole the reflection of his soul.

Set up, maintain, and secure a small office email serverKey FeaturesCovers all the information you need to easily set up your own Linux email serverLearn how to provide web access to email, virus and spam protection, and moreThoroughly covers open source tools like PostFix, Courier, SpamAssassin, and ProcMailA step-by-step approach where the reader is taken through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate le...

Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement. Revered by such gay icons as Christopher Isherwood and Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, Hirschfeld’s legacy resonates throughout the twentieth-century and around the world. Guided by his motto “Through Science Toward Justice,” Hirschfeld helped found the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in Germany to defend the rights of homosexuals and develop a scientific framework for sexual e...