Today, everything and everyone is a brand. If you want to develop your personal brand, but can’t afford the fees of a branding firm, this book provides access and insights into a thought-leading mind.For entrepreneurs and professionals looking to manage their business career, it’s more than just theory. It’s part step-by-step guide, part story-sharing written to inspire and help bring your own brand to life. Here, branding expert Henry Wong shares his process to he...

How can you Keep Taxes Away from your wealth?There are only two fundamental guarantees in life, death and taxes. Your proverbialnest egg is not a guarantee. But, what if you could have greater control over yourmoney? What if you could protect more of what you earn from being taxed away fromyou? Would you want to know how? For most, taxes are seen as part of life andaccepted as another governmental control to live with. We are here to...

Threads are essential to Java programming, but learning to use them effectively is a nontrivial task. This new edition of the classic Java Threads shows you how to take full advantage of Java's threading facilities and brings you up-to-date with the watershed changes in Java 2 Standard Edition version 5.0 (J2SE 5.0). It provides a thorough, step-by-step approach to threads programming.Java's threading system is simple relative to other threading systems. In earlier versions of Jav...

Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes), satellite broadcasting, digital downloads, and streaming. The introductory chapter by the volume editors develops two framing metaphors: “traveling musics” and “making waves.” The wave-making meta...

Reviews latest research on crop physiology and genetic diversityDetailed coverage of key advances in breeding and their application to produce more resilient drought, salt and cold-tolerant varieties of soybeanSummarises good agricultural practices to optimise crop cultivation and make it more sustainable

Shanghai is regarded the Oriental Pearl in the Far East. With a history of about 1500 years up until the present day, Shanghai has firmly established itself as a vibrant and exciting international metropolis. As China’s financial, trade and shipping center, Shanghai has become a popular destination for international visitors who seek business or job opportunities as well as spectacular sightseeing opportunities. This e-book is designed to be informative, concise, practical and yet easy to ...

Uniting the key organic topics of total synthesis and efficient synthetic methodologies, this book clearly overviews synthetic strategies and tactics applied in total synthesis, demonstrating how the total synthesis of natural products enables scientific and drug discovery.• Focuses on efficiency, a fundamental and important issue in natural products synthesis that makes natural product synthesis a powerful tool in biological and pharmaceutical science• Describes new methods...

This book gathers the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Geomechanics and Geoenvironmental Engineering (iCGMGE), held in Sydney, Australia, on November 26–28, 2025. Contributions include a wide range of topics in geomechanics such as soil and rock testing and investigation, shallow and deep foundations, retaining structures, offshore geotechnics, tunnels and underground works, earthen constructions, constitutive and multi-physics modelling of soil and rock, geosynthetics an...

On a hot summer day, a little girl finds ways to entertain herself and stay cool. She catches a butterfly, sips lemonade, jumps in a pool, and goes on a picnic. At night, she sees an owl in a tree and a frog in a pond, and hears leaves rustling. Before long, she's fast asleep, dreaming about more summer days and summer nights.As with his earlier books featuring this spunky little girl, Wong Herbert Yee's focus is on appreciating the small but special details that define a season.

Crisp air and gray skies beckon a little girl to thoroughly investigate the outside world: chipmunks, squirrels, insects, and fallen leaves all hint that a change of season is coming. Young readers can explore the signs of autumn along with the adventurous child narrator in this charming conclusion to Wong Herbert Yee's series on the seasons (Tracks in the Snow, Who Likes Rain? and Summer Days and Nights).

A well-known story of holiday generosity and true love, The Gift of the Magi has long been a Christmas classic.Husband and wife Jim and Della want to give each other beautiful gifts for the holiday, but they have very little money. On Christmas Eve, each of them makes a bold sacrifice to give the other something truly special.First published in 1905 in The New York Sunday World, O. Henry’s tale is just as relevant and touching now as ever.

This proceedings volume for the 4th international conference CIGOS 2017 (Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages - Structures) presents novel technologies, solutions and research advances, making it an excellent guide in civil engineering for researchers, students, and professional engineers alike.Since 2010, CIGOS has become a vital forum for international scientific exchange on civil engineering. It aims to promote beneficial economic partnerships and technology exchange...