Startup Rising presents a surprising look at the surge of entrepreneurship that accompanied the uprisings in the Middle East, and why it's the new best place for Western investment and opportunity.Despite the world's elation at the Arab Spring, shockingly little has changed politically in the Middle East; even frontliners Egypt and Tunisia continue to suffer repression, fixed elections, and bombings, while Syria descends into civil war. But in the midst of...

USA TODAY BEST-SELLER. An urgent and practical book that helps parents and their boys navigate important topics like sex, drugs, bullying, power, consent, and more in a way that helps them grow their emotional intelligence, while also building connection and a closeness that can last a lifetime.Talk to your Boys is a practical guide to communicating with your tween and teen boy with the goal of raising young men who care about themselves a...

Ao ler este resumo, o senhor vai descobrir o Oriente Médio de uma perspectiva que talvez não tenha suspeitado. Christopher Schroeder, com sua experiência como empresário, o apresenta ao mundo empresarial de uma região do mundo conhecida mais por sua instabilidade política do que por seu dinamismo econômico. No entanto, ele mostra que essa região não tem nada a invejar ao resto do mundo quando se trata de empreendedorismo e inovação.O senhor também aprenderá:que o empreended...

An urgent and practical book that helps parents and their boys navigate important topics like sex, drugs, bullying, power, consent, and more in a way that helps them grow their emotional intelligence, while also building connection and a closeness that can last a lifetime.Talk to your Boys is a practical guide to communicating with your tween and teen boy with the goal of raising young men who care about themselves and others. The book focuses on 16 essent...

The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been instrumental in creating and shaping CBNRM describe their model programs; the countermapping movement and colle...

Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed a...

This book helps readers maximize effectiveness in all facets of highway engineering including planning, design, operations, safety, and geotechnical engineering. Highway Engineering: Planning, Design, and Operations features a seven part treatment, beginning with a clear and rigorous exposition of highway engineering concepts. These include project development, and the relationship between planning, operations, safety, and highway types (functional classification). Planning concepts and a ...

Commemorating the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, this volume offers an original examination of the enduring impact of the single most famous gathering of Christians since the apostolic ageDespite the longstanding historical and theological study of the Council of Nicaea, several central questions remain. Was Nicaea a theological event or a political one? What does it mean if it was both? Was Constantine’s intervention without precedent, or was he simp...

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health information to provide estimates and projections for more than 350 diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 195 countries. Its results are a critical tool informing researchers, policy-makers, and others working to promote health around the globe. A study like the GBD is, of course, extremely complex from an empirical perspective. But it also raise...

Verfasst im nüchternen "No Frills"-Stil des klassischen Hardboiled-Krimis, erzählt "Wie Ein Licht Im Dunkeln" die Geschichte des Auftragskillers Lennart de Luca alias Kissinger. Dieser findet sich unverhofft in einer Gefängniszelle wieder und kann nicht verhindern, dass sein Bruder Rico – schwer misshandelt – Feinsteins Organisation den Rücken kehrt und außer Kontrolle gerät. Als Kissinger herausfindet, wer dafür verantwortlich ist, macht er einen Deal mit den Behörden und beginnt nach sei...

Der Band thematisiert die besonderen Bedingungen des deutsch-polnischen Sprachkontakts auf deutscher und polnischer Seite. Dieser Spezifik entsprechend ist das Buch gegliedert in die thematischen Schwerpunkte «Potenzial von Zweisprachigkeit und Einstellungen zur Zweisprachigkeit, Linguistische Untersuchungen zur Zweisprachigkeit und Grenzregion und Mehrsprachigkeit».Das Buchprojekt ist in Kooperation deutscher und polnischer Linguisten entstanden und geht auf eine Sektionentagung d...