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The Box How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author【電子書籍】[ Marc Levinson ]
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<p>In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. <em>The Box</em> tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.</p> <p>But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential.</p> <p>Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.</p> <p>Published in hardcover on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. Now with a new chapter, <em>The Box</em> tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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2,647円
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Addressing Urban Shrinkage in Small and Medium Sized Towns Shrink Smart and Re-grow Smaller【電子書籍】[ Hans Schlappa ]
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<p>In Europe and other developed countries, much of the population live in small and medium sized towns. For many such places the pursuit of growth is no longer a viable strategic option. As the ability of small towns to compete with larger cities for private investment and government support diminishes, the number trapped in a spiral of long-term decline grows.</p> <p>Beginning with a brief overview of the global context, highlighting that urban shrinkage and decline is a widespread problem, Schlappa and Nishino illustrate how small towns can generate sustainable forward strategies in contrasting institutional contexts by fostering co-production, adjusting public facilities and right sizing the urban area.</p> <p>The analytical tools and practical examples provided by Schlappa and Nishino are relevant for political and administrative decisionmakers, leaders of civil society and business organisations in developing locally appropriate, creative and robust strategies to shrink smart and re-grow smaller.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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8,357円
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Mini Habits Smaller Habits, Bigger Results【電子書籍】[ Stephen Guise ]
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<p><strong>Discover the Life-Changing Strategy of This Worldwide Bestseller in 17 Languages!</strong></p> <p><strong>Lasting Change For Early Quitters, Burnouts, The Unmotivated, And Everyone Else Too</strong></p> <p>When I decided to start exercising consistently 10 years ago, this is what actually happened:</p> <ul> <li>I tried "getting motivated." It worked sometimes.</li> <li>I tried setting audacious big goals. I almost always failed them.</li> <li>I tried to make changes last. They didn't.</li> </ul> <p><em>Like most people who try to change and fail, I assumed that I was the problem.</em></p> <p>Then one afternoon--after another failed attempt to get motivated to exercise--I (accidentally) started my first mini habit. I initially committed to do one push-up, and it turned into a full workout. I was shocked. This "stupid idea" wasn't supposed to work. I was shocked again when my success with this strategy continued for months (and to this day). I had to consider that maybe I wasn't the problem in those 10 years of mediocre results. Maybe it was my prior strategies that were ineffective, despite being oft-repeated as "the way to change" in countless books and blogs.</p> <p>I was right.</p> <p><strong>Is There A Scientific Explanation For This?</strong><br /> As I sought understanding, I found a plethora of scientific studies that had answers, with nobody to interpret them correctly. Based on the science--which you'll find peppered throughout Mini Habits--we've been doing it all wrong.</p> <p>You can succeed without the guilt, intimidation, and repeated failure associated with such strategies as "getting motivated," New Year's Resolutions, or even "just doing it." In fact, you need to stop using those strategies if they aren't giving you great results. They don't work because they all require you to fight against your subconscious brain (a fight not easily won). It's only when you start playing by your brain's rules and taking your human limitations seriously--as mini habits show you how to do--that you can achieve lasting change.</p> <p><strong>What's A Mini Habit?</strong><br /> A mini habit is a very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day; its "too small to fail" nature makes it weightless, deceptively powerful, and a superior habit-building strategy. You will have no choice but to believe in yourself when you're always moving forward. The barrier to the first step is so low that even depressed or "stuck" people can find early success and begin to reverse their lives right away. And if you think one push-up a day is too small to matter, I've got one heck of a story for you!</p> <p><strong>Aim For The First Step</strong><br /> They say when you aim for the moon, you'll land among the stars. Well, that doesn't make sense, as the moon is closer than the stars. I digress. The message is that you should aim very high and even if you fall short, you'll still get somewhere. I've found the opposite to be true in regards to productivity and healthy behaviors. When you aim for the moon, you'll won't shoot because it's too far away. But when you aim for the step in front of you, you might just keep going and reach the moon.</p> <p>I've used the Mini Habits strategy to get into the best shape of my life, read 10x more books, and write 4x as many words. It started from requiring one push-up from myself every day. How ridiculous is that? Not so ridiculous when you consider the science of the brain, habits, and willpower. The Mini Habits system works because it's how our brains are designed to change.</p> <p>I relished the opportunity to share this life-changing strategy with the world. I loved writing Mini Habits. You'll see my passion in the content as well as the overall quality and presentation of the book.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> This book isn't for eliminating bad habits (though some principles could be useful for breaking habits). Mini Habits is a strategy to create permanent healthy habits. Some categories include: exercise, writing, reading, thinking positively, meditating, drinking water, eating healthy foods, etc.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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1,159円
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An Experiential View of Conflict in the Local Church: Focusing on Smaller and Medium-Sized Protestant Churches【電子書籍】[ Cleon E. Spencer ]
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There are several other books on the topic of conflict in the local congregation. They all make their contribution towards solutions to this problem. However, this brief work zeros in on specific happenings, how they affected the congregation and/or the minister, and are then followed by a denouement of each case. This book also suggests that in many cases there are practical remedies that from experience can be shown to work. Also included in this writing there are some general suggestions on how to approach the overall problem of such conflict in any church in which it may occur. As stated in the book, people are people. And as long as there are people there will be problems. But informed and fair handling can nearly always bring remedy or improvement. Even declaring a type of conflict unresolvable, and one party or the other walking away from it, is an improvement over continuous quarreling. Names of people and places are not used out of respect for the privacy of all concerned. About the Author: The author, Cleon Spencer, has had a varied experience with people, both within and outside the church. So with a people oriented mindset, he seeks, in this his third book, to bring his experiences to a unique focus on trouble spots that frequently exist in the administration area of a local church. Hopefully the authors descriptions of these troubles will help bring about understanding of them, which in turn will make the troubles more treatable. This being so, the local church thus treated, will be more likely to go on to become a successful congregation; which is the goal and purpose of the book. It is the authors sincere desire that this book will be effective in the above stated manner.画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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657円
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A Smaller History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest【電子書籍】[ William Smith ]
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<p>Greece is the southern portion of a great peninsula of Europe, washed on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded on the north by the Cambunian mountains, which separate it from Macedonia. It extends from the fortieth degree of latitude to the thirty-sixth, its greatest length being not more than 250 English miles, and its greatest breadth only 180. Its surface is considerably less than that of Portugal. This small area was divided among a number of independent states, many of them containing a territory of only a few square miles, and none of them larger than an English county. But the heroism and genius of the Greeks have given an interest to the insignificant spot of earth bearing their name, which the vastest empires have never equalled. The name of Greece was not used by the inhabitants of the country. They called their land HELLAS, and themselves HELLENES. At first the word HELLAS signified only a small district in Thessaly, from which the Hellenes gradually spread over the whole country. The names of GREECE and GREEKS come to us from the Romans, who gave the name of GRAECIA to the country and of GRAECI to the inhabitants. The two northerly provinces of Greece are THESSALY and EPIRUS, separated from each other by Mount Pindus. Thessaly is a fertile plain enclosed by lofty mountains, and drained by the river Peneus, which finds its way into the sea through the celebrated Vale of Tempe. Epirus is covered by rugged ranges of mountains running from north to south, through which the Achelous the largest river of Greece, flows towards the Corinthian gulf. In entering central Greece from Thessaly the road runs along the coast through the narrow pass of Thermopylae, between the sea and a lofty range of mountains. The district along the coast was inhabited by the EASTERN LOCRIANS, while to their west were DORIS and PHOCIS, the greater part of the latter being occupied by Mount Parnassus, the abode of the Muses, upon the slopes of which lay the town of Delphi with its celebrated oracle of Apollo. South of Phocis is Boeotia, which is a large hollow basin, enclosed on every side by mountains, which prevent the waters from flowing into the sea. Hence the atmosphere was damp and thick, to which circumstance the witty Athenians attributed the dullness of the inhabitants. Thebes was the chief city of Boeotia. South of Boeotia lies ATTICA, which is in the form of a triangle, having two of its sides washed by the sea and its base united to the land. Its soil is light and dry and is better adapted for the growth of fruit than of corn. It was particularly celebrated for its olives, which were regarded as the gift of Athena (Minerva), and were always under the care of that goddess. Athens was on the western coast, between four and five miles from its port, Piraeus. West of Attica, towards the isthmus, is the small district of MEGARIS.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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1,200円
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Smaller is Better【電子書籍】[ John McCutcheon ]
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<p>Much of the 20th and 21st Century has been about "Bigger is Better" or "Get Big or Get Out". All well and good for the top 5% but how has it worked out at the grassroots level.</p> <p>I consider there is a human limit to organizations, be they public, private or socially orientated, being managed in a efficient and effective manner. The late 20th century and early 21st is littered with large corporations either stagnating or folding like General Motors. The old USSR.</p> <p>I started writing this book in the 1980's. Then the Berlin Wall came down and it was meant to be a brave new world, and I dropped the uncompleted book. Globalization, Corporatization, and Crony Capitalization are going gang busters. Mum and Pop stores shut, small and medium towns economically shrink while distribution centers are created on a Global distribution basis. I restarted “Smaller is Better” again, was surprised at how little I wanted to change, and now finished.</p> <p>My book "Smaller is Better" is not a prescription on how to cure the world's ills, it is intended to prompt people to ask the right questions and figure out the solution to meet their particular social and economic needs and aspirations.</p> <p>My Contact - smallerisbetter@bigpond.com</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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734円
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We Don't Make Ourselves Smaller Here The empowering new book from bestselling author of Body Positive Power【電子書籍】[ Megan Jayne Crabbe ]
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<p>'An <strong>insightful</strong> and <strong>empowering</strong> guide' - Emily Clarkson and Alex Light, <em>You Should Delete That</em></p> <p>'[Megan] is the <strong>needed</strong> voice of this generation' - Jameela Jamil</p> <p>'<strong>[This book] is like having a big sister reach inside your brain</strong> and hold your hand through all your self doubt, insecurities and conundrums.' - Venetia La Manna</p> <p>'It's <strong>honest</strong>, <strong>empowering</strong> and exactly what I hope all of my girlfriends find themselves reading when struggling to love themselves in the way I think they should.' - Mahalia</p> <p>**********************************</p> <p><strong>'It's time we come home to ourselves, and realise we were always meant to be more.'</strong></p> <p>Bestselling author Megan Jayne Crabbe lays bare all the ways we shrink ourselves in today's world, and how to break free.</p> <p>From body ideals to bad break ups, sexual shame to toxic productivity, Megan interrogates how cultural and internal narratives diminish us and explores what we can do to ditch social pressures and live life as our fullest and boldest selves.</p> <p>Candid, empowering and insightful, We Don't Make Ourselves Smaller Here is a powerful rallying cry for embracing authenticity in all areas of our lives. It is an invitation to revisit the places where parts of us were lost, taken or given away, and to reclaim them.</p> <p>Parts include:</p> <p>〓BODY<br /> 〓HEART<br /> 〓SEXUALITY<br /> 〓LIFE<br /> 〓SELF</p> <p>What readers are saying:</p> <p>'Beautifully written...and made me realise things about myself that even years of therapy couldn't figure out.' Reader review ?????</p> <p>'Megan writes from her heart - you can feel her honesty and care, her truth, and it makes you reflect and think about your own experiences.' Reader review ?????</p> <p>'The most beautiful, honest and moving book.' Reader review ?????</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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2,917円
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Frustrated Majorities How Issue Intensity Enables Smaller Groups of Voters to Get What They Want【電子書籍】[ Seth J. Hill ]
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<p>Democratic elections do not always deliver what majorities want. Many conclude from frustrated majorities a failure of democracy. This book argues the opposite may be true ? that politicians who represent their constituents sometimes frustrate majorities. A theory of issue intensity explains how the intensity with which different voters care about political issues drives key features of elections, political participation, representation, and public policy. Because candidates for office are more certain of winning the votes of those who care intensely, they sometimes side with an intense minority over a less intense majority. Voters who care intensely communicate their intensity by taking political action: volunteering, contributing, and speaking out. From questions like whose voices should matter in a democracy to whose voices actually matter, this rigorous book blends ideas from democratic theory and formal political economy with new empirical evidence to tackle a topic of central importance to American politics.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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4,908円
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A Smaller I: Conception to Birth【電子書籍】[ Richard Dryden ]
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<p>This is a brief illustrated summary of how a baby develops before birth. Beginning with fertilisation of the ovum by a sperm, the three main periods of prenatal development are shown: the pre-implantation period lasting for 7 days after conception, the embryonic period lasting for the next 7 weeks, and the fetal period lasting for 7 months up to the time of birth. The changing external appearances of the embryo, fetus and supporting membranes are clearly shown in the drawings, together with their relationship with maternal tissues, and the accompanying text highlights the key events at each stage. This book gives an ideal starting point for someone beginning a study of human embryology, for example a student of medicine, midwifery, or nursing, and will also be of interest to anyone curious about how a baby develops before birth.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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505円
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Spirit Made Smaller【電子書籍】[ Phillip Douglas ]
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<p>When his wife suddenly leaves, Gharrett Graywood’s devotion to their one-year-old son, Bobby, only increases. Friends in his Anchorage communityーfellow instructors, medical professionals, aviators, and parentsーhelp round out his extended family. But they can do little beyond support when Bobby’s ADHD becomes compounded with increasing seizures of unknown origin. Desperate for his son to have a normal life, Graywood searches for the cause of Bobby’s mysterious disease.<br /> Centered in Alaska, Spirit Made Smaller explores spiritual themes against the harsh backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness as Graywood searches within and without for clues to help himself and his son cope. Discussions with Monroe Bearhead, Bobby’s godfather of Athabaskan and South Korean descent, take Graywood to new territory, sometimes hard to accept. A calming presence, Bearhead also challenges conformity and advises against holding to a closed-in perspective where spirit is made smaller.<br /> In the end, author Phillip Douglas challenges us: At what cost truth? Graywood does discover the cause of his son’s disease … where he never expected to find it.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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1,657円
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Smaller Sister【電子書籍】[ Maggie Edkins Willis ]
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<p><strong>A moving, relatable middle grade graphic novel about the everlasting bond of sisterhood, perfect for fans of <em>Real Friends</em>, <em>Squished,</em> <em>Invisible Emmie</em>, and <em>Allergic</em>.</strong></p> <p>Lucy's always looked up to her big sister, Olivia, even though the two are polar opposites. But then, Lucy notices Olivia starts to change. Olivia doesn't want to play with Lucy anymore, she's unhappy with the way she looks, and she's refusing to eat her dinner. Finally, Lucy discovers that her sister is not just growing up: Olivia is also struggling with an eating disorder.</p> <p>While her family is focused on her sister's recovery, Lucy is left alone to navigate school and friendships. Lucy feels lonely and like she's always on the verge of messing up.</p> <p>But with time, work, and self-love, both sisters begin to heal. Soon enough, Olivia and Lucy find their way back to each otherーbecause sisters are forever.</p> <p>Writing from personal experience, debut author Maggie Edkins Willis delivers a thoughtful, sensitive, and universally relatable story in <em>Smaller Sister</em>. Sure to resonate with fans of <em>Nat Enough</em> and <em>Click</em>.</p> <p><strong>A Texas Little Mavericks 2023 Graphic Novel Reading List Selection<br /> A School Library Journal Best Book of 2022</strong></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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1,691円
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Smaller Cities in a World of Competitiveness【電子書籍】[ Peter Karl Kresl ]
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<p>Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the ‘global city’ but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities, with populations in excess of 10 million. This analysis has begged the question of the optimal size for a city ? is larger always better?</p> <p>Smaller Cities explores the advantages and disadvantages of different sized cities, trying to determine their place in the global economy and hierarchy. How can smaller cities gain or retain their competitiveness in a world of large cities? In a globalized world, the nation has perhaps been diminished as an economic actor, with fiscal shortcomings and political gridlock leaving cities more or less on their own in the task of enhancing their competitiveness and improving the economic lives of their residents. This book argues that smaller cities of varying population can be important actors in competitiveness and aims to bring attention to an area often overlooked by researchers. In short, are Pittsburgh, San Diego and Austin less competitive than London and Mumbai?</p> <p>This volume will be of interest to students, researchers, and city professionals who work in urban economy and urban geography.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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9,948円
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China on Video Smaller-Screen Realities【電子書籍】[ Paola Voci ]
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<p><em>China On Video</em> is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplinesーfilm, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and politically critical "China on video", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surrounding both auteur cinema and digital art.</p> <p>By describing smaller-screen movies, moviemaking and viewing as <em>light</em> realities, Voci points to their "insignificant" weight in terms of production costs, distribution size, profit gains, intellectual or artistic ambitions, but also their deep meaning in defining an alternative way of seeing and understanding the world. The author proposes that <em>lightness</em> is a concept that can usefully be deployed to describe the moving image, beyond the specificity of recent new media developments and which can, in fact, help us rethink previous cinematic practices in broad terms both spatially and temporally.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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10,280円
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The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am【電子書籍】[ Kjersti A. Skomsvold ]
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<p>Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she is now. Afraid that her life will be over before anyone knows that she lived, Mathea digs out her old wedding dress, bakes some sweet cakes, and heads out into the worldーto make her mark. She buries a time capsule out in the yard. (It gets dug up to make room for a flagpole.) She wears her late husband's watch and hopes people will ask her for the time. (They never do.) Is it really possible for a woman to disappear so completely that the world won't notice her passing? <em>The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am</em> is a macabre twist on the notion that life "must be lived to the fullest."</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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1,858円
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Budget Superpower How Russia Challenges the West with An Economy Smaller than Texas'【電子書籍】[ John Ruehl ]
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<p>The Kremlin’s ability to shape global affairs appeared decimated following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Coupled with the internal instability that gripped Russia in the 1990s, Moscow struggled to develop a coherent and effective foreign policy for almost a decade. But under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has steadily reemerged as one of the most significant countries in the worldーand one that is increasingly willing to challenge the United States.<br /> In Budget Superpower, geopolitics journalist John P. Ruehl explores how Russia has achieved this feat, despite its relatively limited economic strength. The book is divided into eight chapters, each exploring a tool or approach of the Kremlin’s and how and where it has used this method to maximize Russia’s influence. Each chapter also analyzes the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of Russia’s strategies, as well as cautious predictions for how they may evolve in the future.<br /> Russia’s determination to confront the United States has become increasingly apparent over the last decade, culminating in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In addition to demonstrating how Russia has effectively undermined the American-led global order, Budget Superpower will help readers understand why Russia has committed to this policy in the face of increasing push back and globally destabilizing consequences.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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12,639円
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The Foreign Policy of Smaller Gulf States Size, Power, and Regime Stability in the Middle East【電子書籍】[ M?t? Szalai ]
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<p>This book studies how smaller Gulf states managed to increase their influence in the Middle East, oftentimes capitalising on their smallness as a foreign policy tool. By establishing a novel theoretical framework (the complex model of size), this study identifies specific ways in which material and perceptual smallness affect power, identity, regime stability, and leverage in international politics.</p> <p>The small states of the Gulf (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates) managed to build up considerable influence in regional politics over the last decade, although their size is still considered an essential, irresolvable weakness, which makes them secondary actors to great powers such as Saudi Arabia or Iran. Breaking down explicit and implicit biases towards largeness, the book examines specific case studies related to foreign and security policy behaviour, including the Gulf wars, the Arab Uprisings, the Gulf rift, and the Abraham Accords.</p> <p>Analysing the often-neglected small Gulf states, the volume is an important contribution to international relations theory, making it a key resource for students and academics interested in Small State Studies, Gulf studies, and the political science of the Middle East.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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9,948円
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Risk and Trading on London's Alternative Investment Market The Stock Market for Smaller and Growing Companies【電子書籍】[ J. Board ]
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<p>The alternative investment market (AIM) has seen rapid growth over its 19 years, and has emerged as the market of choice for smaller, newer companies, both in the UK and abroad. However, it has often had a volatile reputation among investors, who have commonly perceived stock in the AIM as more risky than the main market. In this book, a group of leading financial analysts conduct an extensive empirical study to compare the relative volatility of two UK equity markets run by the London Stock Exchange, over a ten year period. They analyse the comparative risks involved in the alternative investment market, the market of growing companies, and the 'main market', the market for more established companies. This book analyses the volatility of the alternative investment market, using a variety of techniques and approaches. It compares the volatility of stocks in the markets, exploring variables such as size, industry, age and market switches. Using refined methods to focus on the difference between the markets, the authors provide a convincing study to challenge the idea that the alternative investment market is higher risk than the main market.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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6,076円
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Smaller Hearts【電子書籍】[ Ulf Wolf ]
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<p>Harry felt fractional: part man, part air.</p> <p>His flesh-and-bone part was squashed to four feet three inches by a fate and gravity too cruel to forgive, and the remaining two feetーhe saw himself, his real self, as six foot three, not an inch shorterーsee-through dream.</p> <p>Just his luck to have overshot the medical definition of dwarf by a solitary inch (which denied him certain medical benefits along with some extra helpings of sympathy), yet he was one, both in his own as well as others' eyes.</p> <p>Had he been larger, he would have been ugly. As it stood, he was cute. Though no less ill-intended, for the feeling that fate had dealt him a spiteful hand never strayed far and, at thirty-two, he was still looking for someone to blame.</p> <p>"You have no idea," he explained to a colleague once in an inebriated moment of weakness, "how it feels to always be looked down upon. How it feels to always look up at." Even sitting down, bar stool to bar stool, the height his eyes had to scale to reach those of his colleague was well over a foot, and he felt like a servile dog looking up at his master, dog eyes always looking up, looking up. Always climbing that foot, that forever intervening, forever excluding, forever humiliating, foot.</p> <p>"Can't be all that bad," said the normally sized man, slurring slightly as he was now on his fourth drink, looking down at Harry. Then he belched rather loudly. "Sorry."</p> <p>"It is all that bad," said Harry, who almost gagged on the fumes. "Trust me," while turning quickly the other way for some fresher air. That misty mix of pizza, peanuts and beer belched in his direction was not pleasant.</p> <p>On paper, the medically authentic dwarf is ill proportioned, some body part or other too big, too small, too long, too short, too fat, too thin, what have you (or some combination thereof). Not so Harry (which definitionally speaking made him a midget): all parts of him perfectly sized and proportioned, only he was built to scaleー1:1.5. An inch of him measured an inch and a half of a real man, he used to say. He'd also make the joke sometimes, usually in equally inebriated circumstances, that some mad model railroad engineer had put him together in his basement to run his engines, or as a ticket collector, something like that, only he got the scale screwed up, took 1:150 to mean 1:1.50, ha, ha. One tiny error, and there you have him: Harry. No one even remotely sober ever thought that funny, but laughed nonethelessーconsidering the source. Those nowhere near sober shrieked with glee and ordered another round (go easy on the little one, bartender).</p> <p>Well proportioned. Yes, he was that. He had even made sure of that, had measured everything and compared the result to encyclopedia dimensions of real people, or grown-ups (as he thought of those who so effortlessly rose above him). Had measured everything and confirmed it: yes, 1:1.5, in every way. Still, pretty safe from circus recruiters, he figured (something he told himself often, sardonically); not grotesque (a circus requirement), just small, and, apparently, cute.</p> <p>But it was a sham, good-for-nothing cuteness that never had bought him anything. He was cute the way a grizzly cub, or a small dolphin, or a baby turtle was cute. Something you'd pat with daring fascination, but never bed. Not on your life, mister. And in his own mean little heart he had to admit that he would never stoop to seeking out company his own size.</p> <p>So he wasn't getting any.</p> <p>Yet, it did have its advantages. ...</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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300円
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Green Metropolis Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability【電子書籍】[ David Owen ]
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<p><strong>Look out for David Owen's next book, <em>Where the Water Goes.</em></strong></p> <p><strong>A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future.</strong></p> <p>Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattanーthe most densely populated place in North Americaーrank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn’t matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation.</p> <p>These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn’t reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world’s nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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Tiny Living: 20 Smaller House Living Ideas, Built to Maximize Space, Declutter, and Get Organized Frugal Living & Homesteading【電子書籍】[ Terry Parks ]
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<p>Tiny House Living:</p> <p><em>20 Smaller House Living Ideas, Built to Maximize Space, Declutter & Get Organized</em></p> <p>You’ve seen them, the tiny sometimes portable little homes that people are living in, economizing their living costs so they can pursue their other dreams. If you are wanting to become a part of the most fascinating new trends, you will want to get this book.</p> <p>Perhaps you have some small spaces, where you’d love to get more use out of the area, or are looking for ways to economize your living even in your current home. This is the kind of book you have been looking for. Even if all you are wanting are tips on how to make the most of what you have, these tips are just what you have been looking for.</p> <p>Inside You Will Learn:</p> <p>・ The Value of Repurposing</p> <p>・ Using Less Space to Save Time</p> <p>・ Make the Most out of your Current Space</p> <p>・ What Works in Miniature, and What Doesn’t</p> <p>・ How Small Means More Value</p> <p>・ And Much More</p> <p>Saving space can mean saving money, and certainly can mean saving time. Keeping efficiency at the basis for your actions can not only make your everyday life better, it will make you better.</p> <p>Don’t wait another minute. Learn how these twenty ideas will revolutionize you and your home.</p> <p>Don’t Delay. Download This Book Now.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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the book of smaller【電子書籍】[ rob mclennan ]
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<p>Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, <em>the book of smaller</em> is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems challenge the possibilities of language in very small spaces.</p> <p>Each poem is a still moment, a memory, a burst of observation, suspended outside time and held up to the light as the world whirls around it. Some are intimate, some are public, all are grounded personal, domestic space. With trademark intelligence and daring, rob mclennan uses radical structures to express the concision and disorientation, jumps in sense and mood, the collapse of time and duration, the shattering joy and powerful fears, of full-person, full-time parenthood.</p> <p>With an unparalleled knowledge of modern poetry and poetic evolution, mclennan breaks the sentence into its most vital pieces, then breaks it further, smashes punctuation out of the expected into spaces of risk and uncertainty, pushing conventions to the edge and then beyond to challenge what writing is, and what a reader can be.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller【電子書籍】[ Jeff Rubin ]
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<p>What do subprime mortgages, Atlantic salmon dinners, SUVs and globalization have in common?</p> <p>They all depend on cheap oil. And in a world of dwindling oil supplies and steadily mounting demand around the world, there is no such thing as cheap oil. Oil might be less expensive in the middle of a recession, but it will never be cheap again.</p> <p>Take away cheap oil, and the global economy is getting the shock of its life.</p> <p>From the ageing oilfields of Saudi Arabia and the United States to the Canadian tar sands, from the shopping malls of Dubai to the shuttered auto plants of North America and Europe, from the made-in-China products on the shelves of the Wal-Mart down the road to the collapse of Wall Street giants, everything is connected to the price of oil</p> <p>Interest rates, carbon trading, inflation, farmers’ markets and the wave of trade protectionism washing up all over the world in the wake of various economic stimulus and bailout packages ? they all hinge on the new realities of a world where demand for oil eventually outstrips supply.</p> <p>According to maverick economist Jeff Rubin, there will be no energy bailout. The global economy has suffered oil crises in the past, but this time around the rules have changed. And that means the future is not going to be a continuation of the past. For generations we have built wealth by burning more and more oil. Our cars, our homes, our whole world has been getting bigger in the cheap-oil era. Now it is about to get smaller.</p> <p>There will be winners as well as losers as the age of globalization comes to an end. The auto industry will never recover from this oil-induced recession, but other manufacturers will be opening up mothballed factories. Distance will soon cost money, and so will burning carbon ? both will bring long-lost jobs back home. We may not see the kind of economic growth that globalization has brought, but local economies will be revitalized, as will our cities and neighborhoods.</p> <p>Whether we like it or not, our world is about to get a whole lot smaller.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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Read 31 Smaller Books of the Bible in 31 Days Reading 31 Smaller Books in 31 Days【電子書籍】[ Florence Mutambanengwe ]
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<p><strong>READ 31 SMALLER BOOKS OF THE BIBLE IN 31 DAYS****SUMMARY</strong></p> <p>After I wrote my first book I Gave You My Son, I was compelled to read the Smaller Books of the Bible within a specific time.I am pleased to say that I read these in thirty-one days.</p> <p>Then the idea came to me to put these books together and read them as a separate book.I then proceeded to do that.The idea is for the reader to read and learn more about the word of God.This was more fascinating as I began to learn new things from these books.</p> <p>Then the idea that as you read you could make some notes just to remind yourself about what you read about came to me.Then I began to make the notes.</p> <p>I came up with seven headings under which the reader could make some notes on and these are:</p> <p>![*][Image 1]About the book</p> <p>![*][Image 1]Relate the book to our current situation</p> <p>![*][Image 1]Mark your progress</p> <p>![*][Image 1]Reading time</p> <p>![*][Image 1]My key verse</p> <p>![*][Image 1]</p> <p>[Image 1]:</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller Oil and the End of Globalization【電子書籍】[ Jeff Rubin ]
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<p>An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American?a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. <strong>Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller</strong> is a powerful and provocative book that explores what the new global economy will look like and what it will mean for all of us.</p> <p>In a compelling and accessible style, Jeff Rubin reveals that despite the recent recessionary dip, oil prices will skyrocket again once the economy recovers. The fact is, worldwide oil reserves are disappearing for good. Consequently, the amount of food and other goods we get from abroad will be curtailed; long-distance driving will become a luxury and international travel rare. Globalization as we know it will reverse. The near future will be a time that, in its physical limits, may resemble the distant past.</p> <p>But <strong>Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller</strong> is a hopeful work about how we can benefit?personally, politically, and economically?from this new reality. American industries such as steel and agriculture, for instance, will be revitalized. As well, Rubin prescribes priorities for President Obama and other leaders, from imposing carbon tariffs that will increase competition and productivity, to investing in mass transit instead of car-clogged highways, to forging “green” alliances between labor and management that will be good for both business and the air we breathe.</p> <p>Most passionately, Rubin recommends ways every citizen can secure this better life for himself, actions that will end our enslavement to chain-store taste and strengthen our communities and timeless human values.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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In the Smaller Scope of Conscience The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986?1990【電子書籍】[ C. Timothy McKeown ]
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<p>In 1989, The National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) was successfully passed after a long and intense struggle. One year later, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) followed. These federal repatriation statutesーarguably some of the most important laws in the history of anthropology, museology, and American Indian rightsーenabled Native Americans to reclaim human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony.</p> <p>Twenty years later, the controversy instigated by the creation of NMAIA and NAGPRA continues to simmer. <em>In the Smaller Scope of Conscience</em> is a thoughtful and detailed study of the ins and outs of the four-year process behind these laws. It is a singular contribution to the history of these issues, with the potential to help mediate the ongoing debate by encouraging all sides to retrace the steps of the legislators responsible for the acts.</p> <p>Few works are as detailed as McKeown’s account, which looks into bills that came prior to NMAIA and NAGPRA and combs the legislative history for relevant reports and correspondence. Testimonies, documents, and interviews from the primary players of this legislative process are cited to offer insights into the drafting and political processes that shaped NMAIA and NAGPRA.</p> <p>Above all else, this landmark work distinguishes itself from earlier legislative histories with the quality of its analysis. Invested and yet evenhanded in his narrative, McKeown ensures that this journey through historyーthrough the strategies and struggles of different actors to effect change through federal legislationーis not only accurate but eminently intriguing.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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Next Level Human Relations for Smaller Manufacturers Mastering Culture, Dispute Resolution, and Union Avoidance【電子書籍】[ Bill Smith ]
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<p>This book, written by an experienced Human Resources and Manufacturing leader, is designed with the intent to equipping a small manufacturing entrepreneur and less experienced HR person with the basics of culture design, dispute resolution, and union avoidance. My experience indicated often smaller organizations don’t have the resources to employ consultants and attorneys to design their businesses. They are often left to their devices to manage the operation. That is the purpose of this treatise, to provide they reader of this book many does and don’ts and how the organization will be enhanced or destroyed based on those decisions. My experiences are discussed in detail in this book and clearly demonstrate that customs often destroy the organization and do great harm to a culture. My experience aptly demonstrated that because of custom, the organization continued to make the same mistakes that put organizations in difficulty and put the future of the operation in peril. These failures of custom are clearly illustrated in union relations. Conversely, successes in culture as outlined in the book solidified the organization and insured it viability and long-term growth.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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562円
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Smaller is Better: Using Small Autonomous Teams to Drive the Future of Enterprise【電子書籍】[ Brady Brim-DeForest ]
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<p>Small is the next big thing.</p> <p>When working for a large organization, weeks can pass before leadership makes important decisions that affect you and your team. Meanwhile, you're on the hook to deliver products that don't actually serve the customerーproducts you know you could improve, if given the opportunity.</p> <p>After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the drawbacks of working in giant, siloed environments. His book, <em>Smaller is Better,</em> shows you how to use the small, empowered teams model to radically recharge your workplace, make better products, and deliver a phenomenal customer experience. All with better employee engagement and retention!</p> <p><em>Smaller is Better</em> uses real-world examples of companies who have saved billions and shaved years off their development cycles through small teams. Discover how to form nimble, autonomous teams, optimize them for mission, and scale across your organization. Improve both innovation and delivery while amping up customer satisfaction. Best of all, learn ways to get full buy-in from company leadersーand how you can "start small" <em>today</em>, with or without C-suite support.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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The End of the Beginning Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)【電子書籍】[ Avi ]
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<p><strong>Small steps lead to big adventures for a pair of unlikely friends in this "charming modern fable" by the Newbery Medal-winning author of <em>Crispin</em> ( <em>Booklist</em>).</strong></p> <p>Avon the snail has never had an adventure. And adventure, he has heard, is the key to a happy life. So he sets out on an exciting journey with his new pal, Edward, a thoughtful but misinformed ant. Together they meet all manner of wise, weird, and intriguing creaturesーincluding a dragon!ーand discover that even tiny adventures can broaden your view of the world.</p> <p><strong>"This finely-spun fantasy…features ingenious wordplay and heartfelt proof of friendship's rewards."ー <em>Parenting</em> magazine</strong></p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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595円
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Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business? Concepts, Applications and Markets for Micro/Nanosatellites in a New Information World【電子書籍】
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<p>Y. Fujimori, Symposium Programme Committee Chair, and Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: fujimori@isu.isunet.edu M.Rycroft, Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: rycroft@isu.isunet.edu N. Crosby, International Space University e-mail: norma@bock-crosby.fsbusines.co.uk For the sixth annual ISU Symposium the theme was "Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business? Concepts, Applications and Markets for Micro/Nanosatellites in a New Information World". Thus, the Symposium addressed the crucial question: are small satellites the saviour of space programmes around the world It did this from the unique perspective of the International Space today? University - the interdisciplinary, international and intercultural perspective. This Symposium brought together a variety of people working on small satellites - engineers, scientists, planners, providers, operators, policy makers and business executives, together with representatives from regulatory bodies, from national and international organizations, and from the finance sector, and also entrepreneurs. Discussion and debate were encouraged, based on the papers presented and those published here.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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Indispensable Guide for Smaller Churches【電子書籍】[ David R. Ray ]
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<p>This book complements the author's earlier titles from The Pilgrim Press, "The Big Small Church Book, and "Wonderful Worship in Smaller Churches". Ray expands on the earlier works by treating such subjects as communal theology, theories, and tools for understanding smaller churches, worship, education, and finance. His vision is to lead even smaller churches toward the year 2030.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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