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Paris, 1663. King Louis XIV sanctions a program to send destitute women to Quebec to settle his new colony. They are called, "Daughters of the King." Jeanne Denot is one of them. Of noble birth, she assumes a false identity and boards a ship to Canada, narrowly escaping death at the hands of those closest to her. But when Jeanne encounters a mysterious stranger onboard, the course of her life is altered forever. After braving turbulent seas and hardship in the New World, she decides to risk everything to reclaim what is rightfully hers.
By 1298 the iron sword of English oppression has sunk deep into the heart and soul of the Scottish populace. Deputy Kyle Shaw is not surprised when an English nobleman is murdered in a Scottish tavern. Was the man's death part of a rebel plot or was he killed for a more sinister reason? When Kyle comes across another murdered English nobleman, he begins to wonder if a seer's prediction may hold the key to the untimely deaths. And a possible plan to assassinate the king.
Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.
Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library under the title Complete dictionary of scientific biography.
Do you want to achieve startup speed at enterprise scale? Growth. It's what every company strives for. But it's become more and more elusive as companies struggle to hit their projected growth rates in an increasingly competitive market. While zero-based budgeting (ZBB) has been wielded for decades to cut costs, it falls short when it comes to spurring growth. But a zero-based mindset (ZBx) does that and more. ZBx facilitates forensic oversight into resource allocation that funnels savings back into growth initiatives and encourages new sources of innovation. The Big Zero shows how a ZBx approach focuses on agility over austerity, visibility over guesswork and the future over the past to fuel growth and competitiveness.
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"A Souvenier of the North High School has long been desired by its Alumni and friends. The object of the present effort is to give a complete narrative of the educational work, social events, and athletics of the school. We shall treat, of its progress as an educational institution and of the Alumni as a factor in business, social, professional and public life." - Excerpt from foreword.
Un dato è incontrovertibile: le risorse della terra sono limitate. Se le pratiche attuali continueranno, il forte incremento demografico, abbinato al boom della domanda di beni e servizi, le sfrutterà fino al punto di rottura. a peggiorare le cose, l’attuale modello di crescita lineare considera l’impatto dello spreco come una questione che «qualcun altro» dovrà risolvere – e nel frattempo la capacità del pianeta di assorbire e smaltire i rifiuti diminuisce ogni anno. È evidente che bisogna fare qualcosa. Non si tratta soltanto di reinserire nel ciclo produttivo gli sprechi intesi nel senso tradizionale di rifiuti, ma anche di porre rimedio all’enorme sottoutilizzazione di ris...
Award winning Swedish photographer Per-Anders Pettersson shows a new and unexpected side of the African continent as he examines the fast growing fashion industry in Africa. This book is the first time the emerging African fashion industry has been documented in exclusive behind the scenes photographs. The series was taken in 15 countries around Africa from 2010-2015 and celebrates a new, vibrant, colourful and unexpected view of the African continent.