How long does it take to buy a loaf of bread? A pair of shoes? A car?These are trick questions. Imagine a hundred potential customers in the same store, each holding a stopwatch. Some of their stopwatches are ticking very fast (grabbing a bottle of wine before a party), some glacially slow (agonizing over the perfect bottle for a first date). Some, in fact, aren’t ticking at all.For today’s savvy marketers understanding how much time and energy consumers are willing to spen...

Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty of Canada’s most prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who defended or prosecuted them? We’ve all lamented the fate of a person who we think was wrongfully accused, but who better to explain wha...

By all appearances, John Lennon was working on a tell-all memoir in the final years of his life. Every day he poured into diaries his raw thoughts and feelings—about his jealous rivalry with Paul McCartney; his tumultuous marriage to Yoko Ono; his love for his sons, Julian and Sean; his hatred of the music business; his escape into programmed dreams; his acerbic opinions of England and America.Written by one of the few people to have read those diaries, and based on decades of rese...

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen breathes new life into the political tales first published in British workers' magazinesWith additional narration by Lisa Coleman, Ric Jerrom, Peter Kenny, Miriam Margolyes, John Telfer, and Samuel WestIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditional literary forms appeared frequently in socialist-leaning British periodicals, such as the Clarion

The trials and tribulations of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be confusing, embarrassing, and impact your mental and physical well-being. As the indispensable and definitive guide to understanding and managing IBS, Gut Goals will empower you with knowledge, restore your dignity, and help you finally control your gut health journey.With a revolutionary approach, Gut Goals not only dismantles the barriers of misinformation surrounding IBS but also addresses the ...

Escrito por una de las pocas personas, fuera del círculo interno de John Lennon, que han leído sus diarios personales, Nowhere Man revela una verdad emocional sobre el ex-Beatle, que no se puede encontrar en ninguna de las, aproximadamente, 400 otras biografías de Lennon actualmente impresas. Quince años después de su publicación, el libro es un clásico de culto reconocido en los E.U. y el Reino Unido. Ha sido traducido a seis lenguas, y la revista web española iLeon lo ha elegido, como un...

George Rosen's wide-ranging account of public health's long and fascinating history is an indispensable classic.Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great figures. He considers such co...

This book provides a practical, detailed guide to making acquisitions in ESOP companies. Such companies have been extremely active in the merger and acquisition market in recent years. For instance, in 2021, more than 400,000 new participants were added to ESOP companies, about 70% of whom came from acquisitions by ESOP companies of other companies. There are many reasons for this, but the most important is that after ESOP companies have paid off their acquisition debt, they often accumula...

《學界藥品開發實用指南：SPARK方法論》並非是一本教讀者「如何製藥」的操作手冊，而是集結「史丹佛大學SPARK計畫」十餘年來的轉譯研究產學實務，試圖闢出一條「扭轉學界思維、活用業界實務」的藥品研發之路。「SPARK計畫」的特色在於匯集化學、生物學、藥理學、毒理學、醫學、法規科學、統計學、創投、商業等各領域專家擔任業師群，讓學界研究人員與業界專家得以在研發過程持續交流學習，進而提高轉譯成功率。關於SPARK Taiwan計畫臺灣自2012年導入美國史丹佛大學「Stanford SPARK計畫」，並由科技部生命科學發展司與國家實驗研究院科技政策研究與資訊中心共同成立「SPARK Taiwan 計畫」並推動「生醫與醫材轉譯加值人才培訓計畫」。此計畫希望借鏡史丹佛大學的成功經驗，協助臺灣學術研究機構建立校內輔導轉譯商品化機制、同時培育生醫產業人才，以期縮短學術研發成果與業界商品開發之間的落差，並彌補生醫產業人才的缺口。SPARK Taiwan計畫至今已培訓超過300個學術研究團隊、直接／間接輔導新創公司成立約50件、技術移轉30件、...

How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs to belligerent birds, the stories in this collection enter the rabbit hole to explore its hidden corners and winding ways. Through all the variety, what they have in common is originality, creativ...

Winner of the William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize from the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit SharingEmployee ownership creates stronger companies, helps workers build wealth, and fosters a fairer, more stable society. In this book, two leading experts show how it works-and how it can be greatly expanded.Why are wages stagnant and wealth inequality increasing? One factor has inexplicably been left out: who owns the companies th...

In this provocative reassessment of science, a physicist questions whether it can ever fully comprehend the entire material universe.There is no question that modern science has radically advanced our understanding of nature, the universe, and even reality itself. But in Lawless Universe, theoretical physicist Joe Rosen takes the scientific method down a peg. In his estimation, people like Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins are wrong to declare that scienc...