Embark on your startup journey with this indispensable guide. With practical advice and actionable insights, this book helps startup founders avoid common pitfalls and make informed decisions across the three, initial startup phases of:The IdeaBusiness PlanningUp & RunningAcross its 120 pages, the book breaks down overwhelming tasks into manageable steps, this step-by-step guide is everything you need to take your big idea to launch....

From idea to launch, make every decision count with the Startup Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Founders. This book is a comprehensive guide that assists entrepreneurs and business owners navigate the complex journey of establishing a new business venture and bringing a new product or service to the market.The Startup Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Founders takes aspiring entrepreneurs, founders and business owners through the first three stages of the startup lifecycle: The I...

This book is specifically designed as a companion volume to Australia's Defence: Towards a New Era? The Australia-United States Alliance has been critical to Australian foreign and defence policy since the ANZUS Treaty was signed in 1951. For 63 years it has been an enduring feature of Australian defence planning, yet the contemporary alliance is, arguably, in one of the more important phases of reinterpretation in its long history. While the Alliance by its very nature is a bi-lateral rel...

In this book, the authors integrate the three dominant approaches to organizational development-learning, performance, and change-to create a dynamic lens through which to analyze any HRD program or initiative.

Almost half a century ago, the Australian National University's TB Millar penned a seminal book on Australian defence policy in the lead up to the Vietnam War. Today, Australia's defence forces are returning from long conflicts overseas, while the rise of China and the economic integration in the Indo-Pacific presents a complex mix of challenges and opportunities.Drawing inspiration from Millar's original volume, Australia's Defence: Towards a New Era? brings together leadi...

No radio distress call ever crackled from the submarine USS Grunion. In 1942, under the fog of World War II, the vessel simply vanished without a trace. For nearly sixty-five years, only a dead silence lingered regarding the fate of the sub and its seventy-man crew—until now. Here author Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the Grunion—as well as the navy's shocking and willful cover-up of the submarine's baffling disappear...

Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the $560 million rig would be indispensable in helping to solve the ongoing energy crisis.Then, on April 20, 2010, BP’s dismal safety record came home to roost. An explosion followed by a massive fireball resulted in eleven lives lost, the sinking of the rig, and the release of millions of barrels of crude oil into one of the world’s prim...

It is not fun being the plain one of the family. But being the plain one of twins is a wretched position. That's why parables about grains of mustard seed, which grew up and startled everybody by their magnificence, did Pauline good.Petronella and Pauline Lane are 17-year-old twins, but not identical. "Peter", kind but utterly self-absorbed, is ravishingly beautiful while "Paul"-practical, sensitive, and loved by all-tends to slip through the cracks. Their father is the lo...

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Pete...

In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best––actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists––shared stories of their first-person experiences with him in interviews and in the articles and autobiographies they wrote. Their recollections of Dean became lost in fragile back issues of movie magazines and newspapers and in out-of-print books that are extremely hard to find. Until now.The Real James Dean...

For over seventy years the 'Lucky Country's strategic position had been anchored by the US-led international order that has been in place since the ending of the Second World War. But that order is now under strain due to a confluence of forces, including US President Donald Trump's 'America first' policies, increasingly assertive authoritarian regimes in China and Russia, and the rise of new powers - such as India and Indonesia - as more powerful international players. In this new era, be...

In "Peter Simpel" entführt Frederick Marryat seine Leser in die maritimen Abenteuer des titelgebenden Protagonisten, eines schüchternen und ungeschickten Jungen, der sich in die Weiten der Seefahrt wagt. Marryats Erzählstil, geprägt von einer Mischung aus humorvoller Ironie und traumhaften Seefahrt-Episoden, ist sowohl unterhaltsam als auch lehrreich. Das Werk spiegelt die zeitgenössische englische Gesellschaft der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wider und thematisiert den Wunsch nach F...