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Facebook Ads Unlocked: A Beginner's Guide to Targeting and Selling
A Step-by-Step Guide
2026
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You don't need a big budget to make Facebook work-you need a small, repeatable system. This guide is the field manual for facebook ads for beginners who want clarity, speed, and control. In plain English, it shows facebook targeting basics, how to shape creative that converts, and how to set up facebook pixel so every click tells you something useful. You'll learn budget control for facebook ads with simple guardrails, threshold rules, and pacing-perfect for low budget facebook advertising...
Making Common Sense
On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI
2026
EN
Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been difficult to say what kind of sense common sense is. Making Common Sense is an historical account of attempts, from antiquity to the present, to solve this puzzle. The ambiguity began centuries ago with the merger of the common sense, the sensorium commune, a kind of sixth s...
From the North Sea to the Baltic
Essays in Commercial, Monetary and Agrarian History, 1500–1800
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- Variorum Collected Studies
2024
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The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became integrated into the international division of labour and the emerging world economy. The volume opens with a new introductory essay, and the first section then focuses on commodities exported to Western Europe - grain, timber, flax, hemp and other raw materials. The following studies examine how th...
The Baltic
A History
- Translated by
- Kenneth Kronenberg
2015
EN
In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A History transforms the way we think about a body of water too often ignored in studies...
Novelty
A History of the New
2013
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If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new—new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from something, how can anything truly new emerge? Is novelty even possible?In Novelty, Michael North takes us on a dazzling tour of more than two millennia of thinking about the problem of the new, from the puzzles of t...
New England Rocks
Historic Geological Wonders
2017
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New England is a rocky, rugged region. Its towns are marked by stone walls and its cities anchored by native granite and marble buildings. Historically significant boulders, many with Native American as well as colonial and neo-pagan origins, attract tourists from around the world. Some are formations that are complex in shape, form and significance, while others contain enigmatic messages, meanings and intriguing characteristics. Learn more about the famous sites like Plymouth Rock, the O...
Scaling Without Chaos
How to Grow Without Breaking Your Business - Practical scaling steps
2026
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Growth should feel smoother, not louder. If your weeks are busy yet strangely unproductive, this book shows why-and what to change. It treats your company like a flow system, revealing where work stalls, where decisions sit too long, and how tiny frictions compound into missed goals.Across clear models and field-tested practices, you will learn how to use **scaling operations** to increase finished work, not just motion; design an **operating cadence** that protects maker time; app...
At the Apron
A Night at the Fights
2011
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Mike Norths true loves are boxing and photography. But, a Missourian in Los Angeles, he has only managed to live his dreams through being an amateur boxing official and a wedding photographer. Then he meets David, the skilled journalist and retired British midshipman, and together they navigate the hard-hitting, complex, and exciting world of boxing in its heyday. AT THE APRON: A NIGHT AT THE FIGHTS brings us right up to ringside to witness the thrilling, true-tolife experiences o...
2018
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A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present—what it is and what it means—is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics argue that people today spend far too much time in the here and now—but how can we tell without first knowing what the here and now actually is? ...
2013
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Michael's Gemstone Dictionary Part 2 is a guidebook that identifies some of the most popular (and common) gemstones and their energetic characteristics. The alphabetical layout offers easy to understand information for selecting gemstones to achieve desired results, such as intellectual clarity, emotional strength and spiritual awareness.This ebook is about the earth's oldest solid form – stones, crystals, and minerals. It explains colors, stages of refinement (raw, natural, polish...
2017
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A thorough understanding of stereochemistry is essential for the comprehension of almost all aspects of modern organic chemistry. It is also of great significance in many biochemical and medicinal disciplines, since the stereoisomers of a compound can have dramatically different biological properties. This text explains how the different properties of stereoisomers of a compound arise, and what processes can be used to prepare and analyze stereoisomerically pure compounds. It also presents...
The Baltic
A History
- Translated by
- Kenneth Kronenberg
2015
EN
In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A History transforms the way we think about a body of water too often ignored in studies...











