Paint Wondrous Worlds in Five Easy StepsArtist’s block, begone! Embark on an adventure of epic proportions with this accessible watercolor guide. Filled with dreamy nautical creatures and storybook scenes, each completed in just five steps, this book will make your watercolor fantasies a reality in no time!With easy-tear, traceable templates to kick-start your process, it’s never been easier to begin painting uniquely beautiful pieces. And because you can t...

Beschaffungsanalyse, Absatzplanung, Kundenorientierung, Markenpflege – der Kunstmarkt verändert sich so rasant wie nie zuvor. Für Kunstwerke erzielte Preise beeinflussen deren Einordnung in den kunstgeschichtlichen Kanon. Auktionshäuser haben sich neben Kunstmessen, Galerien und Kunsthandel als dominante Distributionsform etabliert. Dabei gleicht die rituelle Dramaturgie der Auktion bis heute einem archaischen Wettstreit: Sie verschlägt Mitwirkenden die Sprache und zieht Unbeteiligte in ih...

Procurement analysis, sales planning, customer orientation, brand management—the art market is changing more rapidly than ever before. The price that a work of art commands influences its place in the art-historical canon. Auction houses have become dominant avenues of distribution, as have art fairs, galleries, and art dealers. Even today the ritual dramaturgy of the auction resembles an archaic competition, which can leave participants speechless and captivate bystanders. At the center o...

Discover the leadership strengths of world-class mountain guides and see how developing and applying these principles can help you reach for the highest summits in work—and in life.This intriguing approach to business and personal success introduces six leadership strengths of world-class mountain guides: demonstrating social intelligence; adopting a flexible leadership style; empowering others; facilitating the development of trust; managing risk in an environment...

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of c...

What happens when a political comeback becomes a turning point for a nation?HE’S BACK: Remember When 2025 — 365 Days That Shook the Global Order examines the year that reshaped American governance and forced institutions, markets, and allies around the world to recalibrate. Following Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, this audiobook traces the first twelve months of a second administration defined not by restoration, but by confrontation between executive authority a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The 12 Steps of The Mystical Hero's Journey is a soul-level guide for those feeling the quiet ache that life is meant to be more than survival. With wisdom, clarity, and fierce compassion, it reframes the classic hero's arc into a deeply personal, mystical path of awakening—not through conquest, but through conscious transformation.This isn't about slaying dragons. It's about meeting yourself.Each step o...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Make life's challenges your playground for genius thinking. Everyday problem solving packs critical thinking for teens, creative minds, and innovation at any age into a toolbox anyone can use. This book unlocks brain boosters, storytelling, and real-life tactics for quick decisions and smarter habits, at home, school, work, and everywhere in between.Discover easy strategies for creativity, research tips that spa...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Discipline to DONE: The Complete Productivity System for High Achievers Who Want to Actually Finish What They StartHere's the uncomfortable truth most productivity experts won't tell you: You don't have an organization problem. You have a completion problem. You're drowning in half-finished projects, abandoned goals, and brilliant ideas that never see the light of day.This isn't another time management r...

The president of Princeton, a constitutional scholar, reveals how colleges are getting free speech on campuses right and how they can do better to nurture civil discourse and foster mutual respectConversations about higher education teem with accusations that American colleges and universities are betraying free speech, indoctrinating students with left-wing dogma, and censoring civil discussions. But these complaints are badly misguided.In Terms of Res...

Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and powerIn the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence. Today, he is revered as a powerful symbol of Q’eqchi’ identity. Aj Poop B’atz’ is only one of many indigenous heroes who...

Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil WarIn December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the capital during and after the Civil War “cornerstone contributions.”In The Buried Cause, historians, curators, p...