What does it mean to be a business analyst? What would you do every day? How will you bring value to your clients? And most importantly, what makes a business analyst exceptional?This book will answer your questions about this challenging career choice through the prism of the business analyst mindset — a concept developed by the author, and its twelve principles demonstrated through many case study examples."Business analyst: a profession and a mindset" is a structurally r...

**“Outstanding... Yakovleva perfectly balances evoking the terror of living in a police state with her whodunit plotline. Fans will hope to see much more of Zaitsev.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review)The debut of the ultimate noir detective series: set in Stalinist Russia, riddled with corruption, informers, and purges that takes paranoia to the next levelPerfect for readers of John Banville, Philip Kerr, and Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept, and for...

**"Yakovleva pick[s] up the torch from Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series”. — The New York Times“A superb read, with some unexpected turns right at the end." — Crime Book of the Month, The Critic"Fascinating reading. . . This series has legs!" — Publishers WeeklyOn the eve of Soviet purges, Detective Zaitsev returns to solve the murder of a Red Army horseman — the second installment in the ultimate noir detective seriesPerfect for...

From choosing and using to programming, charging and cleansing, Crystals is a modern guide to enhancing your life with these enchanting stones.Often referred to as ‘wisdom keepers’, crystals hold millions of years of the Earth’s history within them. Through emitting steady vibrations, they will help you to become more centered and balanced, creating spaces of Zen around you and your home.Featuring 60 of the most common and interesting crystals, thi...

"Hyaluron Pen Course Training" by Yulia Makarova offers an in-depth guide to mastering the Hyaluron Pen, a revolutionary needle-free device for cosmetic treatments. The book covers the device's structure, operation principles, and compatible products, providing detailed instructions on dosage and administration for various treatments. It emphasizes the importance of proper training and adherence to safety protocols. This comprehensive manual is essential for professionals seeking to enhanc...

This Introductory Book, part of my Series on Viennese café culture, explores the Slavonic-framed joy de vivre (in everyday life), foregrounding the historic-contemporary sociocultural context of the Viennese coffeehouse. I address landmark heritage cafés, discursive to Unesco’s (2011) official recognition of the Viennese coffeehouse as ‘intangible cultural heritage’ to Austria, and indeed, the world (Ashby et al. 2013; Haine et al. 2016; Elbendary and Mostafa 2020; Austrian Unesco Commissi...

A memoir of a graduate of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School and her experience during World War II.Yulia Zhukova was a dedicated member of the Soviet communist youth organization, the Komsomol, and her parents worked for Russia's secret police, the NKVD. Yulia started at the sniper school near Podolsk in western Russian and eventually became a valued soldier during operations against Prussia. In this powerful account, she shares firsthand knowledge of the mach...

What if the smallest things we ignore are hiding the biggest secret of all?Sari Saraswati is running the perfect scam. A mangrove restoration project in Indonesia, European clients buying carbon offsets, and a tidy commission flowing directly into her pocket. The auditors never visit. The trees grow anyway.Then she notices the ants.They're carrying emerald crystals into the mud. Building structures deep underground. And the phosphorus in her soil is...

Quantitative NMR (qNMR) has been around for a long time, but also has great potential to solve future problems in any quantitative analysis. As a primary method, it differs fundamentally from chromatographic methods: it is better described as a quantum mechanical balance. Successful implementation of qNMR requires certain attention to detail. 'qNMR - the handbook' is intended to be a guide for analysts to help understand the fundamental principles of NMR and the significant points relating...

Russia in 1938 is a place of great terror. Joseph Stalin is in charge. His Secret Police are everywhere, searching for anyone who might be his enemy. People have no idea who they can trust.Seven-year-old Shura doesn't know about any of this. He's happy in his little home in Leningrad going to school in the mornings, playing with his best friend in the afternoon, fighting with his big sister, spending time with his Mama, Papa and baby brother Bobka.Until one day everything c...

Financial Privacy is dead. There is no bank secret anymore. Your bank account information is exchanged automatically with reporting mechanisms like FATCA and CRS. Offshore companies are useless in 2020. Even Panama exchanges your bank details.The European Union introduced the MDR - Mandatory Disclosure Rules for intermediaries. That means that intermediaries (tax lawyers, accountants, service providers) now have to report clients that inquire about aggressive tax structures.Y...

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as constructed and concrete.In the mid-sixteenth century, when the first mechanical clocks arrived in Japan from Europe, the Japanese found them interesting but useless, because they failed t...