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Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics - and the arbitrariness - behind the business of glamour.

An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives - evolutionary, ecological, and cultural - this examination shows how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems.

La gentillesse et la bienveillance n'ont pas forcément bonne presse en ce monde de "méchants". Pourtant, depuis toujours, cette forme d'altruisme est la base de la réussite de tous types de projets collectifs et permet l'épanouissement individuel. La bienveillance est le ciment essentiel du changement. Nous vivons dans un monde de vrais sadiques, de violents, de pervers - de pervers narcissiques même ! -, de nocifs et de toxiques.

Comment donner envie à vos collaborateurs de soulever des montagnes ? Résultat d'une alchimie délicate et instable, la confiance est la base de la performance durable. Qu'elle soit individuelle ou collective, elle ne se décrète pas : elle se construit chaque jour. Comment établir la confiance ou rétablir la confiance ? Comment avoir confiance et donner confiance, en son manager, en la mission, en l'entreprise ?

The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, they fall from great heights to a tragic demise.

Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it's a stand-alone start-up or a venture inside a larger corporation. But the most important and least understood of these factors is the personality of the entrepreneur - the particular combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. And your builder personality is the one resource you can directly control in growing a business that wins. Simply put, who you are shapes how you build for growth.

Caradonna's unique and concise history broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy. For anyone seeking understand the history of those striving to make the world a better place to live, here's a place to start.

So You Want to Be a Lawyer takes you through the process of becoming a lawyer, examining each phase in a helpful and easy-to-understand narrative. Find out what practicing law is like before you step into your first law school class! Practice solving legal problems as law students would in law school, and lawyers might in an actual courtroom.

Strategy-to-performance gaps foster a culture of under-performance. Unrealistic plans create the expectation throughout the organisation that plans simply will not be fulfilled. This book shows how to overcome such failings and implement strategy effectively.

★☆★反響続々！！★☆★「ドラッカーは難しそうだと思ってたけど、物語形式だからすんなり読めた！」「ストーリーがしっかりしてておもしろい！」「これは一読の価値あり！」

★自分だけのブレない強みが見つかる一冊★「どうしてこんなに、つまらないんだ!?」→本書がその「言葉にできないモヤモヤ」に【答え】を出す！次のうち、何個当てはまりますか？

Um audiolivro sobre amor, coragem, sabedoria e disciplina. Se você perguntasse aos antigos filósofos estoicos como viver uma vida boa, a resposta seria “com areté”, palavra grega que significa “virtude” ou “excelência”. Este audiolivro integra essa sabedoria antiga com as descobertas da psicologia positiva para que você possa florescer e expressar a melhor versão de si mesmo. Em capítulos curtos e objetivos, Brian Johnson reúne valiosas ideias de importantes pensadores e dicas práticas para criar uma vida altamente gratificante e significativa.

Un livre audio éclairant et un guide pratique pour révéler son leadership et changer son monde pour changer le monde. Le monde d'aujourd'hui est complexe et évolue de façon multidimensionnelle. Pour l'améliorer, quelques soit le spectre visé, il faut du leadership. Le leadership est l'art de mener des idées, des combats, amener des changements pour une transformation positive. C'est aussi l'art de réussir sa vie comme on l'entend, en phase avec ses valeurs et ses rêves. L'intelligence est l'art de transformer un problème en solution.

The only guide you need to stop wasting your potential and create a kickass career you care about. Daniel DiPiazza, the young founder of the massively popular Rich20Something.com, was once a typical 20-something, logging mind-numbing hours at low-paying jobs in hopes of moving up. Then it hit him: This doesn't have to be my life. Now 28, DiPiazza has launched multiple successful businesses with zero start-up capital - simply by identifying and monetizing his skills into a career and life he loves.

So You Want to Start a Brewery? is the first-person account of Tony Magee's gut-wrenching challenges and heart-warming successes in founding Lagunitas Brewing Company. In just 20 years, the company has grown from a seat-of-the-pants, one-man operation to be the fifth largest--and the fastest growing--craft brewer in the United States.

Thomas Dolby's hit songs "She Blinded Me with Science" and "Hyperactive!" catapulted him to international fame in the early '80s. A pioneer of New Wave and Electronica, Thomas combined a love for invention with a passion for music, and the result was a new sound that defined an era of revolutionary music. But as record company politics overshadow the joy of performing, Thomas finds a surprising second act.

Andrew Smart wants you to sit and do nothing much more often - and he has the science to explain why. At every turn we’re pushed to do more, faster, and more efficiently: That drumbeat resounds throughout our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not only a virtue, it’s a necessity. But Andrew Smart argues that slackers may have the last laugh. The latest neuroscience shows that the “culture of effectiveness” is not only ineffective, it can be harmful to your well-being.

In this ground-breaking book, Ben Ramalingam shows that the linear, mechanistic models and assumptions on which foreign aid is built would be more at home in early-20th-century factory floors than in the dynamic, complex world we face today. All around us, we can see the costs and limitations of dealing economies and societies as if they are analogous to machines. The reality is that such social systems have far more in common with ecosystems: They are complex, dynamic, diverse, and unpredictable.

In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates - two men and one woman - turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By their 10-year reunion, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They'd made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs and left their mark on the world. The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells the compelling and instructive story of how these three young founders did it.

Un ancien industriel de l'agroalimentaire vous aide à faire les bons choix. Trois ans après le succès de son best-seller, "Vous êtes fous d'avaler ça !", Christophe Brusset poursuit son combat contre les dérives du food-business. Avec le même sens de l'humour et des anecdotes toujours aussi étonnantes, il dénonce la généralisation de la malbouffe industrielle ainsi que les dégâts provoqués en termes de santé publique. Fort de son expertise, il vous explique comment éviter les principaux pièges tendus par les fabricants et leurs lobbies, mais aussi par la grande distribution et ses as du marketing.