Twelve thousand contacts. Nobody to sign the form.Beatriz Portela opens doors for half of Europe. She isforty-seven, she is excellent at her profession, and on themorning she needed one person to sign her hospital dischargepapers she made five phone calls, found no one, and hired astranger at seventy-five euros a shift.The stranger gave her a card with a name on it.What followed was twenty-two conversations of fifteen minuteseach —...

Vítor Sobral is thirty-six, third generation, and runs the shoe factory that carries his surname in two-metre letters on the front of the building. He speaks well, decides fast and is respected in a town where a surname is worth something. He was never humiliated, never betrayed, never broke. He is, by his own account, a man with no problem.Then he watches a video of the speech he gave at the company's sixtieth-anniversary party and counts nine gestures that are not his and seven l...

YOUR TESTS CAME BACK CLEAN. SO WHY ARE YOU STILL SICK?Gabriel Fontes is forty-one, a sales director, three consecutive record years. On a Thursday afternoon, on slide 22 of 40, his chest tightens in front of six directors.Every test comes back perfect. The cardiologist looks at the flawless results and says the sentence that starts everything: "Your heart is fine. It's your mind that's infarcting."Then he hands over a plain card with no logo, a name and a phone numb...

Six forty-five in the morning. Fifteen minutes. Every day.Rian Radeon was 23 years old, with an almost-finished degree in International Relations, a brand-new analyst's badge and a credit card debt he knew less well than Indonesia's trade balance. He could negotiate in three languages; he couldn't negotiate with his own bank manager.That's when Pietro Martan, a coach he was ready to ridicule, made a strange proposal: fifteen minutes a day, by video call, un...

WHAT IS THE PRICE OF YOUR "NOT YET"?Marina Caldera has a stable job, a good marriage, and a perfect plan: one hundred and twelve pages, handwritten, locked in a drawer for seven years. She knows every line by heart. She just doesn't know why she's never had the courage to live a single one of them.Then a stranger in a coffee line hands her the card of a coach who answers nothing — he only asks. And Pietro Martan's first question dismantles, in seconds, what seven years of p...

The revolution of honest markets is expanding globally, yet the "gold rush" has severely punished operators who neglected their back-end operations.If you believe managing a network of independent mini-markets is simply about installing shelves and stocking products, this book will be a wake-up call. It breaks away from superficial entrepreneurial approaches and presents, for the first time, a robust Operational Engineering methodology focused on transforming conve...

The 4th International Conference on Selenium in the Environment and Human Health was held 18-21 October 2015 in S�Paulo, Brazil. This conference provided an effective scientific communication platform for researchers in different disciplines worldwide to elucidate and better understand those complex roles of Se as both essential nutrient and enviro

In this fabulous and funny introduction to how elections work, the animals decide they are tired of their king and that it is time to vote for a president.Lion may be King of the jungle, but lately he only seems to care about himself. His subjects are fed up, so they decide to try something new--hold an election! Once Owl explains the rules, the fun begins, and Snake, Sloth, and Monkey all announce they will be candidates. But oh no, Lion is going to run too! It's ...

As the medicinal plant industry blooms into a billion dollar business, it reaches beyond collection, propagation, harvesting and sale of crude vegetal drugs into product formulation, packaging and dispensing of sophisticated phyto-pharmaceuticals and herbal preparations. The scientific study of these medicines and the systematic uplifting of the industry to preserve the ancient and serve the modern, is now a global challenge. The Medicinal Plant Industry puts together the various facets of...

An Integration of Phycoremediation Processes in Wastewater Treatment reviews the potential of microalgae to treat wastewater containing highly recalcitrant compounds whose degradation is not achieved by the conventional existing treatments. In addition, the book describes how the microalgae collected after wastewater treatment can be used for obtaining added-value products, hence closing the loop and contributing to a circular economy. Finally, the technoeconomical aspects of this green te...

The information contained in "Stress Relief in Easy Steps" is a collection of proven strategies that may help you in getting cured of anxiety and stress in a short period of time.While stress cannot be avoided completely, we must be careful so that living a stressful life does not become a habit. Chronic stress may lead to health and social problems, and can be detrimental to our health.

This book addresses the most innovative topics on silicon to ensure sustainability in agriculture, including advances in nanotechnology and the impact on human health. It provides innovative information on the mineral nutrition of plants with a focus on the beneficial element silicon that has attracted the attention and interest of researchers. This is happening because silicon is the only element in plant nutrition that is capable of mitigating the greatest number of stressful events duri...