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An autobiography from one of the biggest figures in motor racing. 'It's pretty rare to come across a motor racing book that tempts you to read the thing in one sitting but "Prof" Watkins has produced a gem ... [he] is a superb raconteur, not afraid to speak him mind yet peppering the gravity with occasionally side-splitting humour. No true motorsport fan should be without this book.' Autosport Grand Prix racing has undergone sweeping changes in the last thirty years. Many of these involve safety and medical rescue. The man behind them - a champion in the racing world although he has never won a race - is the eminent neurosurgeon Sid Watkins. Life at the Limit is his remarkable story. It span...
Gnosticism was for C.G. jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. In this volume Robert Segal, an authority on theories of myth and Gnosticism, has searched the Jungian corpus for Jung's main discussions of this ancient form of spirituality. The progression in Gnosticism from sheer bodily existence to the release of the immaterial spark imprisoned in the body - and the reunion of that spark with the godhead - represents for Jung the psychological progression from ego consciousness to the ego's rediscovery of the unconscious, and the ego's integration with the unconscious to forge the self. Included in this volume are both Jung's sole work devoted entirely to Gnosticism, "Gno...
In the years since Sid Watkins' first bestselling book of Formula One memoirs, Life at the Limit, was published the sport has seen enormous changes. The FIA's President, Max Mosley, has launched a zero option policy with the goal of zero mortality and much research and development has gone into technical changes to the cars, circuit design, safety barrier development and personal protection in the cockpit. The Prof has been intimately involved with this work, and discusses it in detail here, but as he knows only too well, uncertainty and unpredictability provide the thrills both the fans and the drivers crave. In Beyond the Limit, Watkins also looks at some of the extraordinary Grands Prix t...
The J.R. Watkins Company began in a back room of a small house in Plainview, Minnesota, in 1868. Through direct selling and innovative ideas like placing "Trial Marks" on bottles and offering money-back guarantees, Watkins grew from a one-man company into the world's largest direct selling company, an international corporation spanning North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and England. Today, the company is still in business selling the liniment that founder J.R. Watkins first bottled in 1868. With the help of nearly 40,000 sales associates worldwide, the Watkins name and its quality products are instantly recognizable to customers across the globe.
Many people joining the scientific brain drain from Britain are disappearing off the face of the Earth. The super-powers are co-operating in space on a plan to preserve a tiny nucleus of human survivors. It's part of a conspiracy so monstrous that the human mind can scarcely grasp its enormity.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Bert was promoted to lead the plastic resins unit of BSC Chemicals, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. He had 12 years of experience with the company, and was asked to join its corporate human resources organization. #2 The new leader, Bert, was surprised by the scope and complexity of the problems he was faced with. He was not sure how to allocate his time, and he felt overloaded. He needed to delegate more, but he wasn’t clear about which tasks he could safely leave to others. #3 The promotion challenge is to figure out what it takes to excel in your new role, how to exceed the expectations of those who promoted you, and how to position yourself for still-greater things. To meet this challenge, you must distinguish between common promotion challenges and those specific to your level. #4 As you move up in an organization, the impact horizon, or the range of issues and challenges you have a direct hand in addressing, broadens. The complexity and ambiguity of what you have to deal with increases.
Few women have had a more significant impact on the development and growth of Lawrence, Kansas, and the University of Kansas than Elizabeth Miller Watkins. Elizabeth Josephine Miller was born in Ohio in 1861 and moved with her family to Lawrence when she was a child. She attended the University of Kansas’s preparatory school in the 1870s but could not complete her education when a family financial crisis forced her to seek employment. She started working at the J. B. Watkins Land and Mortgage Company in 1887 as a secretary and in 1909 she married the company’s founder and owner, Jabez Watkins. Together the Watkinses dedicated themselves to philanthropy and were committed to giving all th...