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Over the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for soccer’s next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who hel

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Innovation at Work contains worksheets, questions, and case studies to inspire discussion as well as assessments for determining managers’ openness to innovation. Innovation isn’t just about the next

In this graphic novel, more in love with the alluring properties of cement than he is with his girlfriend, Frunz’s overriding ambition is to become the next legendary architect. If only life was that

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power, computers, th

London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city's tumult w

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In the 1960s, a new addiction-treatment industry arose in America in response to an epidemic of drug use. Over the next five decades, its leaders made a relentless push to rehabilitate the casualties

Robert Crumb’s first great character — in fact, his second-best-known character next to Mr. Natural — was Fritz the Cat, the horny, hip-talking feline whose success (especially after the release of th

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In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chuemon left his old life behind. Chuemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next four

Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos of the protests online, full of hope for justice and democracy. A father of two named Mohammad, secretly radicalized and newly released from prison, saw a darker opportunity in the unrest. When violence broke out in Homs, a poet named Abu Azzam became an unlikely commander in a Free Syrian Army militia. The regime's brutal response disrupted a family in Idlib province, where a nine-year-old girl opened the door to a military raid that caused her father to flee. As the bombings increased and roads grew more dangerous, these people's lives intertwined in unexpected ways.Rania Abouzeid brings readers deep inside Assad's prisons, to covert meetings where foreign states and organizations manipulated the r

杜拉克以其獨特的洞察力，用最平實的語言，針對各種議題，提出最具批判性的見解。面對20世紀後半頁的動盪，在世局渾沌不明、波濤洶湧的背景下，彼得‧杜拉克試圖為世人點亮一盞明燈，指引方向！本書為彼得‧杜拉克於1972年至1980年間所撰寫，有關商業、管理、經濟與社會的論文集。內容反映了國際觀點，並與杜拉克所稱的「社會生態學」有關，特別是關於各式機構組織，如政府機構或是科學組織、工商企業或各類學校。本書亦

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本書是蘇珊．凱帝的開創性之作，是第一本針對純露寫成的專書，並因此建立了一種新的療癒方式，將原本的廢棄產物，轉變成了一個全世界通用的療癒資源。雖身為精油在蒸餾過程中的副產物，純露在植物醫學中，一直具有重要的地位。它嶄新又源自於古老，溫和卻有令人振奮的療效。這種神奇的療癒之水，為芳療注入新的活力，擁有重啟身心覺知的力量，幫助我們與生命的本質連結。從芳香療法的角度，來為植物的純露下定義:「純露是植物為了

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如何幫助孩子成為終身的耶穌門徒？如何運用家庭和教會之間的合作潛力？如何幫助孩子獨立學習作耶穌門徒？智慧引導、具體策略、共同成長，這是期望幫助孩子認識、熱愛，進而成為耶穌門徒的父母與老師必須閱讀的書。本書為培養兒童在基督裡有卓越的信心，提供實用的導引策略。從禱告與查經到發揮屬靈恩賜，讓父母和兒童事工服事者，看見如何以「門徒訓練」作為指導孩子的關鍵要素，以同心協力幫助兒童熱愛耶穌，樂意終身成為基督的跟

全球暢銷書《區塊鏈革命》作者新作《華爾街日報》、《環球郵報》暢銷書對網路有貢獻的人，都能獲得獎勵我們使用網路、在全球資訊網中寫入資料，都在創造價值，但訂定規則和從中獲利的，卻是商業巨頭。我們提供隱私與個資、購買虛擬商品或數位資產、參與網路社群的活動，讓網路產生經濟效益，被平臺剝削而不自知。如今，規則即將改變在Web3時代，每個人都能夠擁有數位產權，任何「可消費的」的內容都會轉變為「資產」，帶來龐大的市場與機會。使用產品和服務的人會成為「擁有者」，平臺產生的經濟效益將由使用者共創、共享。換句話說，Web3將重新定義網路商業模式，所以微軟和臉書等大型科技公司都積極布局，萬士達卡和威士卡也不落人後。在本書中，泰普史考特探討Web3的發展趨勢，並分析Web3將如何影響全世界的各種產業，帶來數兆美元的價值。他也透過許多Web3先行者的觀點，闡明這個產業的願景與挑戰。本書針對Web3，為個人、組織、企業領袖提出建言，讓我們能以正確的態度和方式來因應新時代的來臨。

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