Self Mastery is the most elusive of all human quests. A lifetime is never sufficient for most people. Learning to be the best that you can ever become demands the full faculties of the brain, the heart and the spirit. This search for the ultimate self begins with learning to think, using both rational, analytical and critical mind and the associative, creative, systemic and integrative mind. It then conjures that other way of knowing without knowing why you know. This is learning to intuit...

Acclaimed Argentine thriller writer Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya (The Sanctuary) returns with a harrowing tale of society in decay. After a five-year-old girl disappears under mysterious circumstances, Federico " El Pampa" Bazá n, a sub-inspector with the Federal Police, is tasked with tracking her down. A man of devious talents and numerous nicknames, Pampa is a lone wolf who' s used to getting his hands dirty, but nothing has prepared him for this descent into a hellish underworld of corrupt...

Including more than four hundred species from all seven recognized biological families, a beautiful visual celebration of bee species the world over.The honeycombs, hives, dancing, and royalty of bee colonies have long captured the public’s imagination, but there’s far more to these insects. There are over 20,000 bee species, but only a handful have colonies approaching the organization of the familiar western honeybee. The typical bee, if there is one, is solitary...

Book One, Preparing for Entrepreneurship, opens the curtains on A Trilogy on Entrepreneurship. As the title proclaims, Book One endeavors to take the entrepreneur through the step-by-step process of Opportunity Seeking, Opportunity Screening and Opportunity Seizing. The first step allows the entrepreneur to unravel the myriad possibilities in finding a good business venture by following any one of several proven methodologies. This is a creative and divergent thinking process. The second s...

Book Three, Growing the Enterprise, nurtures and propagates the business venture. The first chapter documents the formation and evolution of three entrepreneurs and their enterprises. Lessons from the three case studies are abstracted into general guidelines for the gestation of enterprises into robust corporations. This is supported by a framework on the Enterprise Life Cycle and Life Forces originated by the author. The next four chapters of Book Three immerse the entrepreneur in the fou...

Book Two, Creating the Enterprise, commits the entrepreneur to establishing a new business venture. The organizational, legal, technical and managerial elements of putting an enterprise together are complemented by the writing and submission of a business plan for the eyes and ears of investors, financiers, partners and managers. The book takes the entrepreneur through the art and science of Investing and Financing. For entrepreneurs considering the acquisition (or disposition) of existing...

Business Decision Making is not just about sharpening the manager's tools and techniques in defining, evaluating and making decisions. It is also about stretching the mind to think better. That means being able to tap into the brain's patterns of thought, sequencing of ideas and creation of insights. That means being able to see both the big picture by zooming out and the small picture by zooming in. That means being able to ferret out what is relevant, important, urgent, doable, and big e...

Could digital platforms be more than just apps for short-term gigs and on-demand jobs?This book shows how the digital solidarity economy offers a bold alternative, where cooperation, fairness, and sustainability reshape work and technology.Through Latin American case studies, it uncovers innovative business models, governance structures, and regulatory experiments, revealing how grassroots initiatives challenge inequalities and environmental pressures. Drawing on rich dialo...

This book explores instances of language contact between two major Ibero-Romance languages (Spanish and Portuguese) and the two major Jewish languages (Hebrew and Yiddish).It examines the emergence of dialects of Judeo-Ibero-Romance in the Sephardic diaspora, as well as the creation of a variety of Hebrew-influenced Spanish in Argentina (Spanbrew) and the acquisition, loss, and re-acquisition of Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew in Israel and the United State...

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five cen...

"Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and occasional humor, Galea...

T ithing and offerings are extremely important subjects, and very poorly understood within the church of Christ. I do not intend to spark controversy here or to discredit other teachers who have already spoken on the subject. The interest here is to help as many people as possible understand the matter in a simple, accessible way for all. May the Creator allow me to be an instrument of His, for the edification of lives. I will not begin where most do, from the text of Malachi. We will spea...