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This ground-breaking book portrays an emerging global culture. It offers the experiences and perspectives of 31 top executives from 15 countries in 6 continents. These are business people who express from first-hand experience what it is like to lead a business from a spiritual basis.
"Splendid" —New York Times "Mind-bending." —Wall Street Journal "Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." —Salman Rushdie A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn. The poet and the artist battle it out in Rome before a crowd that includes Galileo, a Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw the world into flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII execute Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her ...
Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.
Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives of new readers around the world. How did One Hundred Years of Solitude achieve this unlikely success? And what does its trajectory tell us about how a work of art becomes a classic? Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the mome...
The elusive Sivon Callous, nicknamed "The Dark Man," is known around the world as an evil monster. As rumors of his cruelty and strength circulate, it is no secret that Sivon is looked upon as a hated man--and as a mistake of nature. Callous is convinced that he must merge the established religions of the world into one organized following. Considering himself a modern messiah, he begins a worldwide empire with the goal of monopolizing every industry, but soon becomes bored with his growing legacy. Callous is used to satisfying his every whim--even if it means murdering wealthy aristocrats and famous criminals. Deciding to create a vicious contest for his own amusement, he recruits his most powerful rivals to create an inner-circle--The Legion Of Rogues. On an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean, the latest Rogue Warfare is set to begin, and its outcome will either be deadly or lucrative to the six Rogues who have accepted the invitation from The Dark Man. In Rogue Warfare, revenge knows no limits. Who will win the lethal challenge and who will lose everything?
With a focus on modified gravity this book presents a review of the recent developments in the fields of gravity and cosmology, presenting the state of the art, high-lighting the open problems, and outlining the directions of future research. General Relativity and the ΛCDM framework are currently the standard lore and constitute the concordance paradigm of cosmology. Nevertheless, long-standing open theoretical issues, as well as possible new observational ones arising from the explosive development of cosmology in the last two decades, offer the motivation and lead a large amount of research to be devoted in constructing various extensions and modifications. In this review all extended th...