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Strategy Power Success
What this book can do for you: You support certified climate protection projects, receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice proven in practice, which leads step by step to success - also thanks to add-on.
Because success in our well organized business world is the result of a well planned strategy. But there is a difference of opinion as to what the right strategy looks like. If you take a closer look at the strategies of successful companies, you will see that they are often the product of an optimal concept and the right decision. And yet, all too often decisions are made on the basis of gut instinct, rather than gathering important information or understanding how decision-making processes actually work. This book shows what really matters when it comes to conception and strategically important decisions.
We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process.
The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English.
Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Do what I want
This is what this book brings you: you support certified climate protection projects, quickly receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press comments in the book preview) as well as advice that has been tested in practice, which also leads to success step by step thanks to AddOn.
Because influencing has the worst possible reputation. Influence on other people is something that each of us uses every day, even if some people are clearly more skillful than others. But regardless of whether it's clumsy attempts at persuasion or rhetorical maneuvers of seduction, it's important to recognize, understand, and expose these interpersonal power games as well as other people's communicative tricks and tactics. After all, whoever has the power determines the direction of march and can enforce his goals, as Machiavelli already knew. Seeing through manipulative strategies therefore provides a considerable amount of personal freedom. And this book shows what is important.
We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process.
The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English.
Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Teamwork Psychology Development
What this book can do for you: You support certified climate protection projects, receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice proven in practice, which leads step by step to success - also thanks to add-on.
Because what is the secret of successful teams? The simple answer is: First of all it depends on the right composition. The fit of different characters and the team psychology are the real reason why some teams produce excellent results and many others fail. Team spirit is the magic word here. For a group of people to work together effectively as a team, a certain sense of belonging is necessary. And this does not come about by chance: team leaders, project managers and human resources managers must also be able to use their team effectively, develop it and lead it to success. This book reveals how to do this.
We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process.
The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English.
Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Fabric : The Hidden History of the Material World
'Subtle, compendious and rich ... an emotive and serious work of what you might call history on the distaff side' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times
'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration and an education' - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
'I am wildly impressed by the depth of her research and the stories she finds' - Alexandra Shulman, author of Clothes... And Other Things That Matter
How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest?
Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town?
How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe?
What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny?
In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it.
She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama - where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form.
She began her research just after the deaths of both her parents - and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. The book became her journey through grief and recovery. It is her own patchwork.
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Agile Leadership with Brain and New Authority
What this book can do for you: You support certified climate protection projects, receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice proven in practice, which leads step by step to success - also thanks to add-on.
Because digital change and transformation are on everyone's lips as leadership topics. However, if you take a closer look, you will quickly realize that only a small part of the managers in companies are mentally and emotionally able to understand the radical changes themselves and pass them on to their employees. However, our understanding of leadership is in the process of undergoing radical change. This book explains how the leaders of the future are preparing for this.
We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process.
The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English.
Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Overcoming a Financial Crisis
What this book can do for you: You support certified climate protection projects, quickly receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice tested in practice, which leads step by step to success - also thanks to add-on.
Because financial crises can be very frightening: In addition to the normal everyday worries, in crisis situations there is also the worry of what will become of the saved money and whether we will be able to put money aside at all. But the good news is: On the one hand, we can save a lot of money in everyday life with the right financial planning, on the other hand, everyone should urgently deal with the topic of investments and shares, after all, savings and thus the retirement provisions that are important for pensions are only destroyed by inflation.
We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process.
The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English.
Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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Leading in the Sandwich Position
What this book can do for you: You support certified climate protection projects, receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice proven in practice, which leads step by step to success - also thanks to add-on.
Because middle management has a particularly difficult time: torn between the demands of their own superiors and the requirements of leading teams efficiently and delegating unpleasant tasks, many of these managers are tired and helpless. For many of them, hectic pace and insecurity determine their everyday life and lead straight to resignation, depression and exhaustion. This book shows how they do justice to their leadership task and at the same time remain human and contact persons for their employees.
We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process.
The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English.
Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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The Power of Words
There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good'The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipulation of language by the powerful, the obligations of individuals to one another and the needs - for order, equality, liberty and truth - that make us human. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series.
This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Lacná kniha Dobrý člověk Ondřej Vetchý
Tygr a Býk. To není název nějakého akčního čínského filmu, ale vrozená dannost jednoho z našich nejlepších, nejobsazovanějších a nejuznávanějších herců střední generace Ondřeje Vetchého.
Jako Tygr je podle čínského zvěrokruhu bojovník, vznětlivý a spurný, vždy připravený na boj. Skutečnost? Od raného mládí se učil umění juda, japonskému bojovému stylu, který má v základu obranu, nikoliv útok. Proč mluvíme o bojovém umění, když je Ondřej Vetchý herec? Protože se v něm od dětství potýkala a dodnes potýká láska ke sportu jako k osudovému koníčku s herectvím jako jeho prací, povoláním, profesí a obživou. Dá se říci, že celý svůj život, který momentálně čítá 56 let (*16. května 1962), zasvětil boji.
Bojuje za slušnost v chování mezi lidmi, za toleranci, pochopení, vstřícnost, proti bezpráví, rasismu, xenofobii, za ekologické myšlení, proti plýtvání, za třídění odpadků. Kdysi by se řeklo, že je angažovaný, dnes řekneme, že není lhostejný ke světu, v němž žije a v němž žijí i jeho děti, které - jím vychovány - také nesou a jednou ponesou hodnoty demokracie, svobody, zodpovědnosti a občanské společnosti, a to i přes její dnešní devastaci a znevažování některými současnými politiky. Střet bojovníka a komedianta v osobnosti Ondřeje Vetchého je pro něj osudový, ale přitom bolestný, protože mu přináší neustálou konfrontaci potřeby vnitřního klidu bojovníka a nutnosti vnějšího pozlátka popularity oblíbeného herce. On s ním podle svých slov celý život bojuje. Bojí se fotografů, bojí se publicity, nesnáší rozhovory. Pokud někomu něco řekne, tak jen lidem, které zná a kterým důvěřuje. Z charakteristik znamení Býka na něj sedí, že je workoholik, protože když se pro nějaký projekt rozhodne, jde do něj s býčí zatvrzelostí, urputností a snahou splnit úkol na maximální možnou míru co nejlépe. S tím se pojí zodpovědnost, poctivost, spolehlivost. Ondřej má také dobré srdce, což se projevuje v jeho obraně slabších a ohrožovaných i v účasti na mnoha charitativních projektech. Je otevřený všem slušným lidem, vůči těm neslušným se v něm okamžitě nastartuje bojovník. K životu potřebuje svobodu a volnost, což se projevuje zejména v práci. Roli nevytváří na základě textu, scénáře, ale na základě svého vnitřního svobodného pochopení charakteru postavy, jejího chování, myšlení, jednání. Tím se řadí k největším mistrům svého oboru.
Jeho životním číslem je trojka, která je charakteristická činorodou myslí, tvořivostí, originálností, velkou obrazotvorností a velkým osobním kouzlem a vtipem. To všechno v sobě Ondřej má a jistě i pro tento nevšední koktejl vlastností, schopností, charakteru, talentu a mužného vzhledu patří ve své generaci k hercům s největším charismatem.
Kdo by si ho nepamatoval jako čerta Janka s hodností Vraníka v kultovní pohádce S čerty nejsou žerty? Jako pilota RAF Františka Slámu z nejdražšího tuzemského velkofilmu Tmavomodrý svět? Jako tatínka z Vieweghových Báječných let pod psa? Jako neúplatného novináře Kadlece ze seriálů Místo nahoře a Místo v životě? Jako zaníceného fotbalového kapitána Jirku Luňáka z Okresního přeboru? Jako spravedlivého loupežníka Karabu z pohádky Tajemství staré bambitky s Tomášem Klusem v roli prince? Jako tatínka v nostalgickém svěrákovském leporelu Po strništi bos? Jako Jeronýma Pražského v televizním dokudramatu?
Rolí, filmů, seriálů a inscenací bylo bezpočet... Z jejich výčtu je zřejmé, že jeho založení bojovníka za čest, slušnost, pravdu a lásku ho vedlo k přijímání rolí v projektech z naší dávné i nedávné historie, mapujících často těžká, přelomová období či události, nebo v dílech, která řeší zlomové okamžiky v lidském životě. To však nic nemění na tom, že Ondřej Vetchý je také vtipný a veselý člověk, který má rád humor a umí perfektně vystřihnout i komediální role. Předvedl to nejen na plátně a televizní obrazovce, ale i na divadelních prknech, zejména na scéně slavného Činoherního divadla, kde působí od roku 1989.
A tak se společně začtěme do poutavého příběhu skvělého herce a dobrého člověka.
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'Ethan Hawke is a true writer and his duality as an artist is skilfully reflected in A Bright Ray of Darkness. Hawke circles, descends, and crawls into his characters skin. Grimy shadows pass over the footlights, into the bowels of the theatre, where a struggling actor, perhaps mirroring the writer, seeks the vine of redemption, and claws his way into becoming. Bright Ray is a riveting work.' PATTI SMITH
The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director, A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak -- a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut just as his marriage implodes.
A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter to the world of theatre, A Bright Ray of Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's gifts as a novelist as never before.
Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whisky and sex. What saves him is the theatre: in particular, the challenge of performing Shakespeare in his Broadway debut under the leadership of a brilliant director. Searing, raw, and utterly transfixing, A Bright Ray of Darkness is a novel about shame and beauty and faith, and the moral power of art.
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15,15 €
15,95 €
My Encyclopedia of Very Important Oceans
This exciting introduction to oceans will take curious minds on incredible adventures across the seven seas!
This charming children's encyclopedia is full to the brim with fascinating facts about life on and under the waves. Little learners can dive in and learn the most important things about the curious creatures that call the oceans home, their habitats and how to conserve them.
Inside the pages of this ocean encyclopedia, you'll find:
- A vibrant encyclopedia for curious 5-9-year-olds filled with fun facts about weird and wonderful ocean creatures, unbelievable deep-sea adventures, essential conservation efforts, and much more!
- The perfect balance between text and images while seamlessly blending photography with illustration
- Content that is comprehensive, detailed, and educational written in a friendly, witty, and fun manner accessible to young readers but doesn't talk down to them
From the birds that fly high about the sea down to the tiny creatures lurking on the ocean floor, this sea book for children will take kids on an adventure into the great unknown! My Encyclopedia of Very Important Oceans is an exciting introduction to life in earth's oceans. Little adventurers can explore forgotten shipwrecks, swim with fabulous fish and other weird and wonderful underwater animals!
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18,00 €
18,95 €