IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CHAIR. Recalibrate your work/life balance through the meditative process and mindful practice of making the objects in your life by hand. Make with your hands in the ways that humans have for millennia. Ancient humans made to survive. Reduce stress and banish anxiety when you return to a forgotten part of being a human on this planet by making your things with your hands. Modern humans make to thrive. Randy Gafner’s mindful journey of making a museum-worthy chair becomes an allegory for self-exploration and restoration ...

While most of the discourse on migration is centred on the Mediterranean, the aim is to highlight migration on the African continent, also called intra-African migration, which generally represents 80% of African migration flows. Also, the recent adhesion of almost all African states to the global pact on migration has only strengthened this cooperation focused on migration. The African Union, the African Regional Economic Communities, and the United Nations constitute the multilateral platforms par excellence where this migration policy is deployed. The ...

Shift Your Pricing Strategy from Guesswork to Framework There are many struggles in the SaaS world, but the biggest one is arguably the most important one: pricing. Leaving money on the table by charging too little or driving clients away with confusing plans is one of the many reasons why many SaaS companies fail.  Getting pricing right can be the difference between just getting by and high revenue growth. But don't get it twisted, this is not another book about pricing theory. After years of teaching B2B companies how to capture value and win ...

A shot! Someone’s fired a gun! Post-war life in Giles and Kate St. Clair's manor of Tremontaine, just a couple hours from London, is normally quiet for assistant cook Ellie Stone. When young John St. Clair returns unexpectedly from his American college the same week his father's business partner Martin Trevayn is visiting to conclude a business deal, though, tensions run high. Giles St. Clair takes out some of his stress on Ellie's girlfriend Abby, a housemaid, and in a flare of anger, Ellie wishes the head of the family dead. The ...

JAN WAHL grew up in North-West Ohio where as a child he played piano on a radio program called The Kiddies Karnival. Next came the creation of traveling magic and puppet shows and shadowplays. Once he appeared at the Toledo Town Hall with the legendary magician Harry Blackstone. At Cornell University he had the good fortune to take classes with Vladimir Nabokov. In Denmark while on a Fullbright scholarship he was invited by director Carl Theodor Dreyer to be part of the making of the now classic film Ordet. He returned to Denmark to act as scribe to Isak ...

This is a good book for anyone who is interested to get started with basics in R. The whole book is divided in 6 chapters. First chapter gives an insight of installation of R and basic commands in R. Second chapter describes packages in R. Next chapter covers operators in R followed by Decision making and looping, Sorting and Databases in R. The chapters have some preliminary exercises for any reader to test the knowledge acquired. Many examples and exercises will be interesting for any reader.

Como producto de la dinámica económica, existen diversas alternativas de financiación para las personas tanto naturales como jurídicas, y una de esas alternativas es el mercado de valores, el cual presenta opciones que permiten lograr el aumento de valor en los procesos económicos. Como consecuencia de la globalización de la economía, el acceso a los mercados de valores internacionales permite a los emisores locales la consecución de recursos provenientes del ahorro exterior, así como a los emisores ...

This book argues that popular repression and business domination are not the result of an authoritarian regression of U.S. politics but rather represent the continuation of an approach that came into existence during the age of the Founding Fathers intending to protect the properties, wealth, and privilege of economic elites.

Barriers which hinder career advancement of women are complex and varied. They have become top agenda items for most corporations and the gov-ernment. The 'glass ceiling' is a term that symbolizes a variety of barriers that prevent qualified individuals from advancing higher in their organization. Although many women hold management positions, few have made the breakthrough to top-level positions.   To determine what conditions are required for women to attain top executive positions, an ethnographic study was conducted at a hospital. The study was ...

Ортодонтические брекеты - это скобы, прикрепляемые к зубам, к которым крепятся проволоки зубных ...