In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal worldwide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians). Now these remarkable boo...

Twenty-one years after selling the company that I founded, Com Tech Communications, for an enterprise value of over $1 billion - arguably Australia's first tech unicorn - I decided to write a book. Drawing on over three decades of experience - gee I'm getting old - and sharing some lessons that I hope will provide valuable advice to anyone looking to start a company or manage a good business. Since 1987 I have hired hundreds of outstanding people, knowing that if I paid well, listened to t...

Providing a solid foundation in clinical medicine for optometrists and optometry students, Clinical Medicine for Optometrists covers the systemic medical conditions that have serious impacts on ocular health and function, as well as the ocular exam findings that may be an early indication of significant systemic disease. This unique text explains important medical considerations for optometric practice, meeting the needs of clinical medicine courses in optometry programs, and also serving ...

Becoming a Successful School Leader critically considers what leaders need to help them support their schools and communities with the challenges and demands of learning. It presents readers with opportunities to develop their thinking and to generate personal strategies to manage situations through a series of structured exercises and tasks.Drawing on a range of accounts from professionals, case studies and reflective questions, this accessible text allows leaders to conf...

Love and Respect: The Ultimate Guide to Love and Relationships. Discover How to Cultivate Your Relationships So You Could Learn and Grow MoreHuman relationships are an enormous source of learning and growth. Our biggest rewards in life develop there, as do our most intriguing problems. Relationships may be complicated and perplexing at times, but as you'll soon learn reality, affection, and might bring an elegant simplicity to the picture, helping us build witting, loving associations.Our ...

For Dexter the penguin and Jax the lava lizard, life on the Galapagos island is filled with one lazy day after the next. Dexter wants more, and when he finds an egg on the beach, he is ready to claim it as his own. The prospect of being an “uncle” fills him with excitement he can’t contain, so he convinces his best friend Jax to help him. So when the egg hatches and a tortoise emerges, the pair are at first shocked, then smitten with their hatchling. Dexter lovingly names him Silas.

"Like Elatsoe, Sheine Lende is much more chill than your typical YA fantasy or YA mystery. The stakes are high, but it never feels stressful. There is little on-the-page violence, and even when things get heavy or dangerous, the reader always feels safe. Little Badger guides the reader through a fascinating world."— LOCUSShane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can’t afford to ...

Love is the Way Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: What Makes Love Last? and Love and RespectRelationships can be beautiful things that bring us much joy and pleasure in our lives. Human relationships are an enormous source of learning and growth. Our biggest rewards in life develop there, as do our most intriguing problems. Relationships may be complicated and perplexing at times, but as you'll soon learn reality, affection, and might bring an elegant simplicity to the picture, helping us build witti...

El escenarioShein, el ecommerce chino de la moda, fundado en 2008, ha desafiado desde su nacimiento a los grandes gigantes del sector. Sus grandes competidores, Inditex a la cabeza, han sido sus grandes aliados en términos de conocimiento de mercado y experiencia internacional con sus clientes, lo cual ha servido para que Shein copie sus claves del éxito. En lugar de lanzar colecciones cada 2-3 semanas, son capaces de lanzarlas cada 3-7 días1, ofreciendo la promesa de estar siempre a la mo...

Dhanka Shein's long-awaited follow-up to her debut volume, Atonal Minor, adds to the image of this writer's integrity with its strong sonic qualities and extravagant, but never indulgent, verse architectures in the service of serious intellectual concerns. By turns as machine-gun witted and caustic as one of her dedicatees, Lenny Bruce, then as vulnerable and fluid as the writings of O'Har, Shein also manages the turn from the personal to the civic.Each of the poems are pe...

Claire Monroe’s dreams of becoming a celebrated writer seem out of reach—until she inherits an isolated cottage and the literary estate of her mysterious Aunt Eleanor, a reclusive author who perished under strange circumstances. But as Claire digs into Eleanor’s final, unfinished manuscript, she unearths far more than words on a page. The cottage itself harbors an ancient malevolence, a presence that haunts her every move, twisting her thoughts and consuming her creative energy. Trapped wi...

Step inside the astonishing rise of the fashion phenomenon that transformed online shopping and redefined the future of global retail. This captivating journey reveals how data-driven innovation, lightning-fast production, and digital marketing mastery turned a fast-growing brand into one of the most talked-about forces in the fashion industry. Discover the strategies behind dominating the world of fast fashion, social commerce, influencer marketing, and e-commerce expansion. Learn...