Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common ...

蘋果、谷歌、YouTube 三巨頭CEO破天荒共同推薦！你可能沒聽過比爾．坎貝爾，但從蘋果到谷歌都聽他的。他是賈伯斯的商業教練，拯救貝佐斯走出逆境，從零培訓谷歌創辦人，他教練矽谷頂尖團隊的方法與心法原屬業內機密，首次完整解密。★版權售出20多國、亞洲已經超過10萬人共讀★長踞《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》、亞馬遜書店暢銷榜從球場到商場，超凡的高績效人士的身後，都有個教練。即使是身經百戰的戰將，也有連自己都不知道的潛力；面對沒有標準答案的選項，也需要指引，重新聚焦最重要的事！從蘋果的庫克、Alphabet的漢尼斯與皮查，到臉書的祖克柏與桑德伯格，當今許多頂尖創業家、CEO、高階主管心中有疑惑時，他們都去問比爾．坎貝爾。谷歌執行長皮查說︰「他總會適時協助我看清什麼才是最重要的事。」...

Eric is a little boy who sometimes gets things wrong. But Eric learns that while you can't be good at everything, sometimes it takes a little time to find out what you are good at. And when a huge monster stomps down the mountain to Eric's village, Eric just might have his chance to shine...

'A new breed of spy - yes, he's highly trained and proficient at killing people, but he's still a normal guy' EMPIRE'Olympic style, all-out espionage' DAILY EXPRESSUniversity professor David Webb - forever caught between two identities - is still haunted by the splintered nightmares of his former life as Jason Bourne.Soon he finds himself embroiled in a CIA operation to hunt down a terrorist organisation, and is plunged into the dea...

Pain burned through my veins like wildfire, electrifying each nerve ending and searing through every thought I had ever had. I was sure this was how I would die, and I wished it would hurry up. - Charles Walsh.Deep in the woods a darkness stirs and impossible, horrifying, creatures exist. Deputy Charles Walsh had always held a healthy level of skepticism. However, when he meets Eric Linnaeus, a man marked by the fae and trained to kill, he is forced to accept a new rea...

**2025 Oprah’s Book Club PickNew York Times Bestseller“Fresh, wise, funny, and compassionate…Cinematic from the outset, Dream State opens (just as if a circular lens were unscrewing) upon a beloved old family homestead, site of a doomed wedding—descriptions so warm and attentive, a reader can’t help falling in headfirst…a wonderful feast, and feat.”—The Boston Globe“A transporting wonder…Puchner’s final chapter is one of the most to...

Book one in the dark fantasy horror series Eric Linnaeus.Tropes: friends to enemies to lovers, possessive ml, multiple pov & unreliable narrators, cute side characters, strong mc, horror, fantasy, mm romance, angst.Synopsis:Pain burned through my veins like wildfire, electrifying each nerve ending and searing through every thought I had ever had. I was sure this was how I would die, and I wished it woul...

Jason Bourne is back!'Olympic style, all-out espionage' Daily Express'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesJason Bourne's nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a m...

Every Marine has a story about someone he couldn’t save, a face that would haunt him forever. When Command Sergeant Hal Tarra, one of Decker’s oldest friends, vanishes on the Commonwealth frontier shortly after taking early retirement from the Corps, Zack knows what memories are driving the former Pathfinder, because he sees the same face in his worst nightmares. Naval intelligence isn’t interested in resurrecting ancient history, especially the tale of a failed rescue aft...

This issue was not planned with a theme. Nor did we pick stories because they matched. In fact, no one even noticed until the stories were back from the proofreaders. Every single one answers the question, "Whatever happened to _____?"Twenty-five years ago, in Chapter 4 of 1632, Balthazar and Rebecca Abrabanel's carriage driver fled. David Hankins tells the driver's story in "The Abrabanel Rescue." This is David' Hankins first 1632 story. Dominik Wagner, a simple coachman, must fin...

Zack Decker wanted one thing: to fight as a Marine Pathfinder. He got it. Then he lost it. Temper. Hatred of brass. Career over. Wife gone. Friends gone. Nothing left but a bottle and a string of planets he barely remembered.Then an old Marine buddy pulled him out of the gutter. Offered him a job. Decker took it. He was already running—cop dead, militia hunting him. No place to hide.The job was dirty. Security on a starship with owners who stank of trouble and a crew just a...

Un réchauffement climatique suivi de sécheresse et de famines, des séismes, des guerres civiles, de gigantesques mouvements de populations fuyant leurs terres d'origine, des risques systémiques pour les échanges internationaux... Nous ne sommes pas au XXIe siècle, mais bien au XIIe siècle avant J.-C. ! Toutes les civilisations de Méditerranée grecque et orientale (de la Crète à l'Égypte, de Canaan à Babylone, etc.) se sont effondrées presque simultanément, il y a plus de trois mille ans. C...