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 Rosalind A. Bergemann, "An Asperger's Guide to Entrepreneurship: Setting Up Your Own Business for Leaders With Autism Spectrum Disorder " English | ISBN: 1849055092 | 2014 | 232 pages | EPUB | 624 KB Entrepreneurship can be an ideal career option for enterprising individuals with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and this detailed guide explains how to tell if being self-employed is right for you and how to go about starting and growing your own business. Written by a successful entrepreneur and business consultant with Asperger Syndrome, this book provides all the guidance you need on the practicalities of starting up a company. The unique strengths that Asperger leaders can bring to a new business venture are highlighted and solutions are offered for elements of entrepreneurship that can create stumbling blocks such as developing working relationships within your company, marketing yourself and your business, managing finances, networking and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Full of pragmatic advice, case studies from established business owners with Asperger Syndrome and practical tools for professional development, this is an essential startup handbook for anyone on the spectrum considering making the leap to becoming an entrepreneur.  American Graffiti: George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation English | 2023 | ISBN: 1138681911 | 131 Pages | PDF (True) | 4.2 MB Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Peter Kramer explains how American Graffiti came into existence, paying close attention to the small-town upbringing and previous films of its director George Lucas. The book also explores the film's story, style and themes; its marketing, critical reception, commercial success and cultural impact in the United States; and relates all of this both to the transformation of American cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and to the impact of the postwar baby-boom on American culture and society.  Kevin Phillips, "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush" English | 2004 | ISBN: 0670032646, 071399746X, 0143034316 | 405 pages | EPUB | 2.6 MB An acerbic, withering account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power for democracy in America. With an unerring instinct for fakery and humbug,Phillips traces the convoluted trail of Bush mendacity through three generations. The picture he paints of a family willing to do ANYTHING to hold power and a country so craven as to vote for it is both very funny and completely dismaying in equal measure.  American Aesthetics: Theory and Practice By Walter B. Gulick (editor), Gary Slater (editor) 2020 | 428 Pages | ISBN: 1438478577 | PDF | 3 MB Proposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.Although there are distinctly American artists―Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example―very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition, and a collection of essays exploring particular examples from a variety of angles. Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience. Other essays examine the place of American aesthetics in relation to such particular forms of art as painting, literature, music, and film. Three essays attend to the aesthetic aspects of a flourishing life. In each of the essays, American aesthetics is understood to arise out of deeply felt personal, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Consequently, not only are such relatively abstract notions as harmony, fit, elegance, proportion, and the like involved in aesthetic judgment, but also religious, political, and social factors become embroiled in aesthetic discernment. Thus the ongoing pattern of American aesthetics is shown to be distinguishable from such other varieties of aesthetic thought as analytic aesthetics, New Criticism, and postmodern approaches to aesthetics.  American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry By Daniel E. Bender 2009 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0801445981 | PDF | 20 MB At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources―eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen―to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered terms as the product of evolution and as the highest expression of civilization. Their discussions, he notes, are echoed today by the use of such terms as the "developed" and "developing" worlds. American industry was contrasted with the supposed savagery and primitivism discovered in tropical colonies, but observers who made those claims worried that industrialization, by encouraging immigration, child and women's labor, and large families, was reversing natural selection. Factories appeared to favor the most unfit. There was a disturbing tendency for such expressions of fear to favor eugenicist "remedies."Bender delves deeply into the culture and politics of the age of industry. Linking urban slum tourism and imperial science with immigrant better-baby contests and hoboes, American Abyss uncovers the complex interactions of turn-of-the-century ideas about race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Moreover, at a time when immigration again lies at the center of American economy and society, this book offers an alarming and pointed historical perspective on contemporary fears of immigrant laborers.  Alton's Paradox: Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Cinema in Latin America By Nicolas Poppe 2021 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1438485034 | PDF | 10 MB Uses extensive archival research to explore the manifold contributions of foreign film workers to emerging film industries in Latin America from the 1930s to early 1940s.  Alexandra Hawkins, "All Afternoon with a Scandalous Marquess: A Lords of Vice Novel " English | ISBN: 1250001374 | 2012 | 320 pages | EPUB | 650 KB Alexandra Hawkins  Gilles Kepel, Jean-Pierre Milelli, Pascale Ghazaleh, "Al Qaeda in Its Own Words" English | 2010 | pages: 379 | ISBN: 0674034740, 067402804X | PDF | 4,8 mb Despite the frequent appearances of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on television screens worldwide, Al Qaeda remains an elusive entity. As the world has grown increasingly familiar with the spectacle of Islamist terrorism, Al Qaeda's essential worldview has remained bewilderingly opaque. To reveal its inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium.  Airplane Performance on Grass Airfields by Jaroslaw A. Pytka English | 2023 | ISBN: 1000877248 | 152 pages | True PDF | 14.62 MB  Air Cargo Management; Air Freight and the Global Supply Chain by Michael Sales English | 2023 | ISBN: 036776489X | 257 pages | True PDF | 14.04 MB |
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