What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world.The Hundred Years War (1337–1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways the war affected different groups, a...

Effectively and ethically leveraging people data to deliver real business value is what sets the best HR leaders and teams apart. Excellence in People Analytics provides business and human resources leaders with everything they need to know about creating value from people analytics.Written by two leading experts in the field, this practical guide outlines how to create sustainable business value with people analytics and develop a data-driven culture in H...

Conventional leadership wisdom says Hobby Lobby shouldn't work. So why does it?David Green, the founder of Hobby Lobby and an unlikely leader, grew his company from a $600 start-up to an $8 billion company that gives 50 percent of its profits away to fund initiatives all over the world. He blazed his own path in business, drawn not from business gurus but from the pages of Scripture.To raise up and encourage the next generation of leaders, David Green share...

Al abrir este libro prepárate para adentrarte en un abismo que te confrontará con tu propia insignificancia. Los ecos del infinito resuenan en estas páginas, invitándote a explorar los límites de la cordura, a mirar cara a cara a lo inefable y aceptar que, quizás, hay secretos que es mejor no desvelar. Este es el espíritu de “Grimorio cósmico: Ecos del infinito”: un viaje por lo desconocido que, aunque aterrador, resulta imposible de resistir.El terror cósmico, popularizado por H.P...

A Book About YOU offers a powerful approach for anyone seeking to discover their true self.Within A Book About YOU, David Green describes how different personality types interact with each other and the world around them. His methods help readers to understand their strengths and weaknesses, as well as how to become more understanding of others.With resources to guide readers as they make difficult life decisions, A Book About YOU explains which career path matches an indiv...

A Book About YOU offers a powerful approach for anyone seeking to discover their true self.Within A Book About YOU, David Green describes how different personality types interact with each other and the world around them. His methods help readers to understand their strengths and weaknesses, as well as how to become more understanding of others.With resources to guide readers as they make difficult life decisions, A Book About YOU...

While there have been quite a few attempts to get JavaScript working as a server-side language, Node.js (frequently just called Node) has been the first environment that's gained any traction. It's now used by companies such as Netflix, Uber and Paypal to power their web apps. Node allows for blazingly fast performance; thanks to its event loop model, common tasks like network connection and database I/O can be executed very quickly indeed.From a beginner's point of view, one of No...

There's no doubt that the JavaScript ecosystem changes fast. Not only are new tools and frameworks introduced and developed at a rapid rate, the language itself has undergone big changes with the introduction of ES2015 (aka ES6). Understandably, many articles have been written complaining about how difficult it is to learn modern JavaScript development these days. We're aiming to minimize that confusion with this set of books on modern JavaScript.This book presents modern JavaScrip...

Why should you use Scrum in your web projects? Simply put, it'll enable your team to get more done in less time.Scrum is the most popular agile project management methodology used in web projects today. While most Scrum books tend to be lengthy textbooks that cover every detail of Scrum for all types of organizations, this highly practical book concentrates solely on how best to apply Scrum in web and mobile development projects. In it, you'll learn:An overview of Scr...

When Jack Allman is almost mauled to death at a crime scene, he awakes to find himself with a telepathic link to a werewolf.Jack has to use his mental connection to help solve a series of grisly murders and discover how they are linked to a forty-year-old conspiracy.Meanwhile, he must come to terms with the consequences of his own physical transformation.However, all is not what it seems, and Jack is soon embroiled in a present-day international plot organised by a ...

This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama. Situating these works against the backdrop of the Thirty Years’ War, the Spanish Match, and growing domestic anxiety over foreign policy and confessional identity, the study demonstrates how Middleton used the commercial stage to exploit public political knowle...

If we desire to honor God in all we do, we need to be in his Book every day. Through the Bible, God offers us so much more wisdom for living and leading--and for every domain of life--than anything this world can ever give us.That's why Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green wrote The Leader's Devotional. By sharing the biblical principles that are the foundation of his life and leadership, he challenges and encourages each of us to seek God's guidance for our lives, for ...